Jammie Holmes on Painting His Hurt and His Hope

Mementos in Jammie Holmes’s Dallas studio, in memory of his cousins Dantrell Anderson and Tyrone Anderson.
Just west of downtown Dallas is the city’s former industrial district, which was until recently one of the few places in town to rent a cheap studio or run an exhibition space. These days, the Dallas Contemporary museum plus several galleries—Conduit, Craighead Green, and Barry Whistler—are among the few remaining art venues there, now that the neighborhood’s m