Work by: Chas Bowie, Kelli Connell, Brian Dick, David Fulton, Rene Gabri, Jessica Halonen, Rebecca Holland, Sean Horton, C G Markello, Heather McDonough, Jesse Meraz, Heather Willems.

Something sweet in the state of Texas

Inaugural weekend saw the launch of Daze, at the University of Texas, Dallas. Work by twelve artists sharing the theme of the Everyday occupies the light and expansive Art Department exhibition space. A sub-theme of confectionery is soon apparent as the unmistakable smell of bubble gum, here moulded into perfect spheres suspended over a mirror as some kind of fruity astrolabe (Jesse Meraz), mingles agreeably with the scent of icing sugar wafting from the row of brightly coloured squares of taffy on an adjacent wall. Creator of the icing squares, Sean Horton, predicts the soft, sweet, candy will shift under the heat of the lights, reaching the floor as a curtain of dripping beads "in about a fortnight". On the opposite wall Jessica Halonen presents a long row of enormous sugar cubes, each perched on its own steel shelf, and positioned according to her daily attempt to balance her carbohydrate and insulin intake, and coloured according to the physiological effect of the effort. The result is a visual music, a bright, sweet, bouncing melody a little like a piano roll or a score, and, like much of the work, good enough to eat. Along another wall, David Fulton's Soap Strata rescues shards of used-up soap bars, stacked into precious, semi-concealed Perspex boxes. Rebecca Holland has created a wrapping of dental floss, a whispering, shimmering silk square. Back in the kitchen, a highlight of the show: an enormous white fridge freezer bedecked with countless magnetic photographs. Each small image, a snapshot of Heather McDonough's life, draws the viewer in closer and closer to the ultimate mundane-ness of the business of daily living. A shoe, a window, the back of a neck, plastic flowers, frogspawn ­ discarded moments that resonate with us all. McDonough is a lone British representative in what is otherwise a show of American artists. She explains: "this piece is a self-sufficient, inter-dependent collection of images brought together in a manner which reflects the strong narrative formed in my life between seemingly unrelated incidents, people and places". Kelli Connell, whose own work explores the flotsam and jetsam of daily life in a series of small plastic pouches each containing a little piece of junk, has curated a wonderful show that brings together apparently unrelated work in a humorous, sensitive, cohesive whole.

David Harrison.