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 Exquisite Visions of JapanTuesday 07/01 (06:00PM) - Wednesday 08/27 @ Blanton Museum of Art (Campus to 183)Be the first to submit a review! Add Review Ukiyo-e, or images of the 'floating world,' are Japanese woodblock prints...read more 2 People and 1 All-Star Like this Event. So do I! |
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Artist's MarketEvery Saturday 10:00AM @ Mother Egan's Irish Pub (West Sixth)12 People and 2 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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B scene - DecemberFriday 12/07 (06:00PM) @ Blanton Museum of Art (Campus to 183)Tickets: $10/General Admission, $5/Members Email for More InfoDates: December 7, 2007 Times: Friday 6:00pm-11:00pm 5 People and 2 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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B scene - NovemberFriday 11/02 (06:00PM) @ Blanton Museum of Art (Campus to 183)Come visit the Blanton Museum of Art for a happening night of live music, art activities, gallery tours, cash bar, light refr...read more 1 Person Likes this Event. So do I! |
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Shannon Soule Photographs @ Austin Figurative Gallery
Congrats Shannon! We are looking forward to the show.
Posted about 1 year ago.New American Talent: The Twenty-Second Exhibition @ Arthouse at the Jones Center
New American Talent: A New Commitment to Photography
Posted about 1 year ago.by Andrew Long
August 2007
A noticeable shift in this year’s New American Talent (NAT) exhibition, at Arthouse in Austin through August, is the curator’s exacting attention to photography. Digital technology is increasing the amount of photography being created and presented today.
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Dave Woody
Amelia
2006
Digital print
38×30 inches
While photography is intermittently included in survey exhibitions, NAT would suggest that the kids are now being allowed to sit at the grown-ups’ (i.e., the painters’) table. Although the photography in NAT often feels like an afterthought, curator Anne Ellegood of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., has made a bold move in bringing the medium front and center. The overall quality of the photographic works from the 850 applicants is surprising, given that many photographers are reluctant to apply to this annual juried exhibition due to its exclusion of this medium in past years.
The major weakness of NAT is the presentation of too many subsections, resulting in the feeling of a clump of work here, a clump of work there. This is true of theme (race and alienation), medium (ink, found materials and works on paper) and style (juxtaposition, overlay and sparseness). The unifying factor is the very lack of resonance — not one part jumps out or tends to be all that exciting.
NAT artists ask more questions than they provide answers to the exhibition’s question of what is new. To paraphrase choreographer Martha Graham, You can’t make up work, you have to discover it. But it seems as if many of the artists are mimicking one another’s styles rather then forging new ground. (This may simply reflect a national trend as more and more artists are graduating from MFA programs.) What you get here is fewer tour de force, whizbang pieces and more of a slow burn. While the former can sometimes be too much sugar, not enough substance, there are several exceptions.
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Mark Schatz
Moving Gehry
2007
Cardboard Installation
Dimensions vary
Dave Woody’s large, meditative photographic portraits are a rare treat. Their power lies in their simplicity: you carry away only what is present. With so much recent attention garnered by European photographers like Rineke Dijkstra and Thomas Ruff, the portrait is hard to make fresh. But Woody conveys a newness through a reduced color palette and the positioning of his subject, thus encouraging us to look full on. Allison Wermager’s BEEEEP, a sound installation of found answering machines, is perfectly done. Most of the messages are trivial and inconsequential, lacking any real interpersonal connection, although at times a more emotional message surfaces. Wermager serves up these vestiges of late technology in a huge jumbled pile, where distorted voices, power cords, and telephone wires have been preserved in a bizarre chasm of posterity. Roberto Bellini’s video work Landscape Theory captures the artist at work attempting to tape a horde of black grackles gathering at sunset. An older man approaches off-camera and warns Bellini at garrulous length that he can’t tape the birds: “People are on edge. Looks like you’re videotaping that overpass. The police have been making arrests for things like that.” The whole interaction is heard as a voiceover to other sunset images. Normally difficult to pull off, Bellini’s post-9/11 discourse speaks brilliantly to our collective loss of innocence and public space.
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Rebecca Rothfus
Untitled (highway one)
2006
Gouache, pencil and paper on panel
14×11 inches
The setup to Damien Gilley’s Parking Lot Miracle video piece starts off predictably –– a man walks across a deserted parking lot, sees a boombox on the ground, then continues on. Seconds later he returns to look around, and realizing he is alone, he presses play and begins to dance. The payoff to this short video is a memorable section halfway through: As the dancer is in the middle of a midair barrel turn, Gilley suspends the tape and jogs the frame back and forth a number of times, mimicking the break-beat scratching of a cheesy Casio keyboard loop. The gravity-defying choreography is charming and humorous and fresh even upon multiple viewings. Equally engaging is Elizabeth Axtman’s video American Classic, which effectively moves the race discussion forward in a cunning, yet direct manner. Framed by her hair, Axtman faces the camera directly and lip-syncs lines lifted from old movies about racial passing. Although we see her underlying torment, Axtman could also break out laughing at any moment as the joke is on the viewer, or at least on those viewers with bigoted perceptions. There are several other strong race-based works present, including Sonseree Verdise Gibson’s Let’s Discuss the Word “Nigger” and Brad Farwell’s An African Mask Looks at Sites of American Blackness: New Orleans Superdome.
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William Hundley
Checkers
2006
Digital print mounted on Plexiglas
22 1/2×30 inches
Several works of note for their material investigation include William Hundley’s photographs of suspended fabrics; Jonathon Durham’s Foreskin, composed of tobacco, oil clay and a remote control helicopter; Suzanne Wright’s large-scale colorful drawing “Rainbow Highway” (G.W.B.); Wonjung Choi’s delightful mixed-media installation evoking a kindred spirit to the fish imagery of Lee Bontecou; and Ansen Seale’s crafted screenprint Oil for Food, with its purposeful substitution of the artist’s blood for ink.
Relational works in NAT abound: Jenene Nagy’s topologically themed sculptures; Joseph Phillips’ works on paper; Miguel-Angel Avila and Michael Cambre’s use of collaged imagery; the sparse nature of both Jennifer Nelson and Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s works on paper; Felice Grodin and Elwyn Palmerton’s migrating Mylar ink drawings; and the organized line qualities of work by Tom Mueske and Kirk Stoller.
On first view, NAT seemed exciting in its new commitment to photography, but subsequent viewing revealed an overall palette that felt gray, both in tone and vision. But this is the current state of the union, is it not?
Zilker Summer Musical – "My Favorite Year" @ Zilker Hillside Theater
Come and support an long standing Austin tradition. And the best thing about it – is its FREE!!!
Posted about 1 year ago.B scene - First Friday Party @ Blanton Museum of Art
This is always a great event! Look at art. Meet new people.
Posted about 1 year ago.Downtown Art Night - Every Third Thursday @ Galleries around downtown Austin
HI – All I just ran across this little diddy. I know that it might be a little late on notice but the best thing is this happens every third Thursday – so make sure you check it out!
Posted about 1 year ago.The Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures @ Austin Museum of Art (Downtown location)
Will van Overbeek’s photos from Barton Springs are going to be showing in the front gallery. This link is to a KUT blog. There is an audio link at the bottom of the page.
Posted about 1 year ago.http://www.kut.org/items/show/8335
Artists Talk: Ann Conner @ Flatbed Press
There are some samples of Ann’s work at http://www.flatbedpress.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=480
Posted about 1 year ago.Downtown Art Night @ Downtown Austin
Hope to see all of you Austin art lovers out at this Thursday. Too bad the new AMOA show won’t be up by this week.
Posted about 1 year ago.Ketchup Loves Hotdog @ Gallery Lombardi
Matthew Rodriguez does great work! I’m excited to see his commentary on Hotdog and Ketchup.
Posted about 1 year ago.New work from Sun McColgin and Ryah Christensen. @ Bolm Studio
He Explores, She Explores
Posted about 1 year ago.The different and yet similar work of wife-and-husband artists Ryah Christensen and Sun McColgin
BY RACHEL KOPER
Dervish by Sun McColgin
Artists Ryah Christensen and Sun McColgin titled their new exhibition “Two Paths on the Same Journey” to reflect their creative approach. The couple shares an interest in ancient cultures and artifacts, but they explore it independently. Christensen’s paintings and murals tend to develop rather epic narratives within their boisterous size. Her stories are oriented toward Mayan myths, family history, and her own recent experiences, as in the painting Wailing Wall, which recalls a time when she allowed some disruptive students in a youth art program to do anything they wanted on a large red sheet of paper. The painting features three girls in adorable mermaid dresses facing a red painting with stick-figure devils on it; “shut up” is written out in various forms, and the canvas is torn. Christensen laughed as she recalled the cathartic effect that the wall had on the frustrated girls. She also said, “My work, more and more, focuses on the space between despair and hope.”
Does the Light Go Out When You Close the Door? by Ryah Christensen
McColgin’s art is primarily abstract sculpture. He uses stacked steel forms, repeating similar modules but adding a delicate tilt here, an oddly shaved angle there, and a shaped hole or transparent punctures. These forms – typically smaller than 6 feet in any dimension – change as you move around them. They seem like perhaps they shouldn’t stay upright, the open windows usually highlighting the farthest depths of the piece.
When I ask him what is new about his art this year, McColgin says, “The themes of balance and transparency are integral to my work. I want the viewers to question their own sense of stasis and motion in the world. Things that seem to be solid and secure could fall and shatter at any time. I have begun using sparkly automotive finishes on my pieces – in really loud palettes that change color as you move around them. This is different from past pieces that looked like steel. The bright-hued finishes in a way mask the medium and contribute to the sense of motion that I am trying to achieve.”
I ask Christensen which piece in the show has the most potential to influence her future work. “The fridge piece,” she replies. “Does the Light Go Out When You Close the Door? most represents the direction I am heading in, combining the different mediums of painting, mosaic, and wood cutouts in an interactive piece that literally changes when you touch it. For me this is a continuation of a motive I’ve always had that my audience is not a passive onlooker, but a character in the drama they are witnessing. Making a piece actually respond to physical touch just reiterates the idea that all art changes when the audience looks at it or thinks about it. With this piece I hope that you actually feel your own presence when you open the door.”
This show is an eyeful. Christensen’s big character-based paintings can make you think a bit, and I like that her stories change from piece to piece, effectively hitting several different emotional pitches. McColgin’s new work is sweetly minimal and cerebral, but it’s now even better with more glitter and shine. I enjoy the powder-coated look. Its clean highlights effectively put to rest all the dirty grinding that goes into forming the pieces. end story
Joseph Phillips & Jared Theis: New Work @ d berman gallery
Joseph Phillips work in this show is great! There are only a few days left to see the show so stop by soon.
Posted about 1 year ago.A Century of Grace: 19th Century Masterworks @ Blanton Museum of Art
There are many great events in conjunction with this opening. To find out more about them visit http://blantonmuseum.org/works_of_art/exhibitions/a_century_of_grace/programs_and_events.cfm
Posted about 1 year ago.Kate Breakey @ Stephen Clark Gallery
Kate Breakey’s photographs are stunning! The ones I’ve seen before at Stephen Clark were breath taking.
Posted about 1 year ago.Art in Action: Fundraiser for Texas Teens' Peace Corps Work in Ghana @ The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Mansion
This is going to be a great event! If you are looking for something worth while to do please stop by.
Posted about 1 year ago.No Restraint - New work by Forrest Elliot @ Bolm Studio
The closing for this show will be May 10 7-10pm.
Posted about 1 year ago.Do512 VIP BBQ & Beer @ Scott's House
I will try and make it….Will be at the Austin Fine Arts Festival this weekend as well :)
Posted about 1 year ago.Austin Metamorphosis Dance Ensemble presents The Hotel @ George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
Opening Night…..Whoo-hoooo
Posted about 1 year ago.Come check it out!
The Cost of Not Buying Art presented by the Austin Fine Arts Alliance @ Design Within Reach
This is the first session that kicks off the Austin Fine Arts Alliance conversation series. Check it out…
Posted about 1 year ago.Obama visits Austin @ Auditorium Shores
He is an excellent speaker – if you have missed his other recent trips to Austin (most recently Texas Book Festival) than don’t miss this event….
Posted about 1 year ago.Austin Metamorphosis Dance Ensemble presents The Hotel @ George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
Please check out this event – the film sequences are amazing and the dancing ain’t that bad either!
Posted about 1 year ago.Austin Fine Arts Alliance presents Night in the Galleries @ Galleries across Austin
This is a great event – happening this weekend. There is going to be a special show curated by Till Richter that features artists chosen to be in this year’s Austin Fine Arts Festival.
Posted about 1 year ago.This special showing takes place at AMOA downtown during Night in the Galleries.
Austin Metamorphosis Dance Ensemble presents The Hotel @ George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
Can’t wait!!
Posted about 1 year ago.Austin Fine Arts Alliance presents Austin Fine Arts Festival @ Republic Square Park
Check it out – a fun family festival…
Posted about 1 year ago.Austin Fine Arts Alliance presents Art after Dark @ Downtown Austin
This is great art buying event – if you love art, are a collector, or just want to mingle with art crowd than this event is definitely for you!
Posted about 1 year ago.