A storm-damaged yard becomes a vivid canvas for outdoor living.

Viewing Dixie Friend Gay’s new works I feel as though I have fallen through Alice’s tunnel and inhabited the White Rabbit’s body. I truly think I know what Grace Slick was trying to tell me all those years ago about one pill making me larger and one pill making me small and the doormouse saying “Feed your Head, Feed your Head.”

The artist and environmental activist Allan Gussow thinks of landscape painting as "pieces of the whole environment that have been claimed by feelings". Dixie Friend Gay’s landscapes are this and more ...

Dixie Friend Gay has mastered her craft from pencil to paintbrush by never shying away from different strokes.

My first meeting with Dixie Friend Gay was in 1989 at Houston’s Lawndale Annex, where she had donated an icon painting of the Greek god Pan for an auction. Since then...

Thanks to the Civic Arts Program, an initiative of the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County, 1.75 percent of the budget for eligible public projects is now earmarked for art. This has provided unparalleled opportunities for local artists. At George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston artist Dixie Friend Gay, working with Rey de la Reza Architects, is among those who have realized large-scale, high-budget projects in high profile public spaces...

While clouds can be soothing, getting among them can be stressful, especially at busy George Bush Intercontinental Airport, which had 43 million passengers last year. But thanks to new nature-themed artwork, the pressures of arrival and departure are eased by a dip in a sea of tranquility...

Images of the frightening, the monstrous, and otherworldly dominate the spiritual imagery of every civilization and probably constitute the source of their raison d’être. If you think of the global history of art, much of its subject matter its based on a range of suppositions that deal with the most profound questions of life...

Alerted by a message from fellow JSCAS member Dennis Webb on the list server, Lisa and I were reminded that the up-coming Winter Solstice could be observed at the central plaza of the Sylvan Rodriguez park ...

It was certainly dramatic. This show, taken as a whole, formed a visually powerful totality, what with the dozen or so life-sized spectral sentries...