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Francis Chung has reviewed 'Earthlicker', a two-person exhibition at Nature of Things in Dallas featuring works by Ellen Khansefid and Clint Bargers. The review, published by Glasstire, places the artists in conversation through their shared use of series and their differing approaches to the body as a site of identity.
According to the source material, Khansefid and Bargers both work in series, but they divide the question of identity along distinct visual lines. Khansefid approaches identity through the face and direct gaze, while Bargers shifts attention toward the body, its markings, and the forces acting upon it. That contrast provides the framework for Chung’s review of the show, which focuses on how each artist develops a sustained visual language across multiple works.
The exhibition is presented at Nature of Things, a Dallas venue named in the review and in the source pages. The organization field attached to this item is Nature in Art in the United Kingdom, but the verified material for this story concerns the Dallas exhibition and does not establish any connection between the organization and the venue. For that reason, the article is limited to the exhibition details explicitly supported by the source.
The review appears in a Glasstire newsletter that also points readers to other recent and upcoming coverage, including an interview about disaster preparedness for collections, exhibition previews for Central and North Texas, and dispatches from the 2026 Venice Biennale. Those items are separate from the main subject of Chung’s review and do not alter the verified facts about 'Earthlicker'.
What the source does confirm is the core artistic premise of the exhibition: both Khansefid and Bargers treat the body as a field of identity, though they emphasize different registers of that field. Khansefid’s focus on the face and gaze suggests a direct encounter with the viewer, while Bargers’s attention to bodily markings and external forces points toward the body as something shaped, read, and acted upon.
No opening dates, closing dates, or additional exhibition program details are given in the verified material provided here. The available source supports only the identification of 'Earthlicker' as a two-person show in Dallas, the names of the participating artists, and the review’s framing of their work around identity, the face, and the body.
