Ben Lima reviews our current exhibition "Assumptions Abide" in print on October 18th, 2026
For its final showing in its Design District gallery before moving to a yet-to-be-revealed location, Keijsers Koning presents a bold pairing of two different takes on the human figure as filtered through art history, spanning painting and sculpture, the U.S. and Europe.
The Belgian sculptor Johan Tahon shows three stoneware figures, partially coated with a glaze that drips down the side, and a single, life-size figure of plaster and wood. Their distortions and fragmentations, similar to those in the modernist works of Giacometti and Rodin, suggest a sense of heroic struggle, as the artist wrestles with his materials. It is difficult to repress the urge to touch their gorgeously rough surfaces.
“Assumptions Abide: Johan Tahon and Natalie Westbrook” continues through Oct. 24 at Keijsers Koning, 150 Manufacturing St., Suite 201, Dallas. Free. Open Thursday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. keijserskoning.com.
Benjamin Lima is a Dallas-based art historian and the editor of Athenaeum Review, the University of Texas at Dallas journal of arts and ideas.
