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semigloss. Magazine was a Texas-based arts publication founded by Sally Glass and Bradly Brown in 2012. The magazine highlighted international artists and writers and produced content that ranged from editorial and theoretical essays to interactive installations and vinyl records. Each issue focused on a certain concept or theme within the context of contemporary art thought and practice. Published from 2012 to 2016, semigloss was intended to operate as a physical archive of the artistic idea but quickly expanded beyond the publication.
In 2016, the last issue, “Sound”, was released as a vinyl record with a corresponding immersive installation at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and B4BEL4B in Oakland, as well as a listening event at the James Turrell Twilight Epiphany Skyspace at Rice University.
About semigloss. Magazine
semigloss. Magazine was conceived as an exhibition in print. The idea grew out of conversations at Radical Regionalism, a panel on North Texas art held at CentralTrak in Dallas, and from its first issue the magazine treated each edition as a themed exhibition that complemented the others. Issues combined constructed images, critical and theoretical essays, artist projects, sculptural inserts, and vinyl records, putting artists and writers from North Texas in conversation with an international group of contributors.
Founding editor-in-chief Sally Glass and co-founder and art director Bradly Brown produced six issues across two volumes between 2012 and 2016: PLACE, EPHEMERA, FAILURE, FUTURE, DB14 (a collaboration with the 2014 Dallas Biennial), and SOUND. Contributors included Kenneth Goldsmith, Adrian Piper, Brad Troemel, Morehshin Allahyari, Kim Asendorf, Asger Carlsen, Tom Lawson, Noah Simblist, Christina Rees, Lucia Simek, Margaret Meehan, Stephen Lapthisophon, Jesse Morgan Barnett, and Michael Mazurek.
The Issues
- PLACE — Volume I, Issue I
- EPHEMERA — Volume I, Issue II
- FAILURE — Volume I, Issue III
- FUTURE — Volume I, Issue IV
- DB14 — Volume II, Issue I, with the Dallas Biennial
- SOUND — Volume II, Issue II, released as a vinyl record
Partners and Venues
Over its run, semigloss. worked with CentralTrak, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Goss-Michael Foundation, The Reading Room, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, the Texas Theatre, Conduit Gallery, Oliver Francis Gallery, Oil and Cotton, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, David Shelton Gallery, That That, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Menil Collection, James Turrell’s Twilight Epiphany Skyspace at Rice University, B4BEL4B in Oakland, and Printed Matter in New York, and appeared at art book and print fairs in the US and abroad.