Lucia's writing has appeared in THE Magazine and People Newspapers, and her art has shown at Craighead Green, 500X, and Zephyr Gallery in Los Angeles. A recovering prop designer, she studied painting at the University of Dallas. Married to the most excellent Peter Simek, they raise basil plants, fire ants, and the jubilant Eva and Felicity in Oak Cliff.
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Primal Score
By Lucia Simek
Posted in Art, Reviews, Visual Art on 25 June 2009
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Art Review
Heyd Fontenot’s figures in the show Get Your Wood On at the Conduit Gallery play an interesting card: they are entirely self-absorbed, not in it for the pleasure of the act so much as the
gaze of an audience.

Dallas Parks: Lake Cliff Park
By Lucia Simek
Posted in Parks on 16 June 2009
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Once an urban resort and amusement park, Lake Cliff Park retains only remnants of its former glory. But the still-standing pavilions, echoes of once extensive Japanese Gardens, and the calm of the lake make coming here a pleasure.

In Delicate Balance
By Lucia Simek
Posted in Art, Ideas, Visual Art on 12 June 2009
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If D Magazine Publisher Wick Allison finds I took his editorial about D Art Slam personally, it was only insofar as I am sensitive to the delicate balance that exists between art-making and art-selling and the strange complexities that marry the two.

Talking Without Talking
By Lucia Simek
Posted in Art, Visual Art on 10 June 2009
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Wide-ranging in theme, an exhibit displaying contemporary work recently acquired by the DMA taps into similarities between multi-national artists who are linked only by the time in which they live.

Crash Bam Slam
By Lucia Simek
Posted in -, Art, Ideas, Visual Art on 3 June 2009
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D Magazine Publisher Wick Allison suggests to his readers that the successes in local art are happening in spite of – not because of – the city’s galleries and the artists they represent. It is precisely because D Magazine’s foray into the local art scene has the potential to reach a new and moneyed audience that this attitude is counterproductive – if not divisive and dangerous.

Striking Out At Pretentions
By Lucia Simek
Posted in Art, Reviews, Visual Art on 1 June 2009
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ART REVIEW
The work of Mexican artist Armando Romero, on view at the MAC through June 20, sabotages his own traditionally rendered figure paintings and sculptures with scribbled graffiti and bright, hand-painted sticker-like emblems of retro cartoon characters and pop culture.

Dallas Parks: Trammell Crow Lake
By Lucia Simek
Posted in Parks on 24 May 2009
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The manmade lake here is odd, but not nearly as odd as the four or five stone cattle that stand eating grass or lounging about, all named, I guess, after the Trammell Crow family women: Ruth, Lucy, Annette, and Margaret. Strange, but wonderful and hilarious.

Dallas Parks: Kidd Springs
By Lucia Simek
Posted in Parks on 18 May 2009
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Pry your kids away from the recreational delights, and head west across the grass and into the woods beyond, and you find yourself in an arboreal paradise - a small, treed hill that overlooks the spring-fed lake at Kidd Springs.

Wordsmith
By Lucia Simek
Posted in Art, Reviews, Visual Art on 10 May 2009
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In Linda Ridgway’s current show A Boy’s Will at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, lacey bronze sculptures and drawings catalogue the artist’s poetic inspirations.

The Renegade’s Guide to Dallas Parks
By Lucia Simek
Posted in Lives, Parks, Urban Planning, _ on 10 May 2009
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We’d like to know what parks you love – why you love them, how you use them and how they could be better. Tell us where you congregate. No space is too small.