AA-S Best Bet: "Interchange: An Exhibition in Three Parts" presents work from 15 master of fine arts candidates from the University of Texas. The show is curated by six art history graduate students. The current part of the exhibition is "Part II: Ignis Fatuus and Problematizing Representation," which runs through Aug. 4. The themes explored during the exhibition include history, time, process and fantasy, and the works include painting, photography, video and sculpture. Exhibitions of student artwork are provided year-round by the laboratory.
— Ameera Butt

From the promoter:
Opening Saturday, June 30th, the Creative Research Laboratory presents 'Interchange: An Exhibition in Three Parts,' introducing work by 15 Master of Fine Arts candidates curated by six Art History graduate students. The first of three receptions will take place 6 to 9 p.m. at Creative Research Laboratory, located at 2832 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Austin. The first part of the exhibition runs through July 14.

For the sixth consecutive year, students in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin collaborate on summer exhibitions at the CRL. This year the featured artists are Alec Appl, Jani Benjamins, Bonnie Gammill, Peter Johansen, Anna Krachey, Christa Mares, Kurt Dominick Mueller, Jill Pangallo, Karri Paul, Cecelia Phillips, Laura Turner, Joshua Welker, Joseph Winchester, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, and Virginia Yount. The curators are Lynn Boland, Amanda Douberley, Kathryn Hixson, Katja Rivera, Deborah Spivak, and Edwin Stirman. The artwork seen in studio visits with the M.F.A. students led the curatorial team to devise a strategy for an exhibition that articulates a web of associations connecting this constellation of work.

Interchange establishes a flexible curatorial framework to investigate the ways in which artworks evoke multiple meanings. The exhibition is divided into three parts, each of which will organize works into two curatorial themes. These six themes explore history, time, fantasy, representation, process, and disruption through artworks in the media of painting, photography, video, and sculpture. Each thematic grouping expresses a single curatorial premise that is intentionally disrupted by points of overlap between the two themes presented in each part of the show. These "hinge" artworks underscore the extent to which a single work can contain or allow for diverse, and sometimes contrasting, associations.

Connections between each part of the show are mapped further by the reappearance of individual artworks in different thematic groups. Over the course of the exhibition, some work will be traded out of the gallery, while other works will remain. Through this process of addition and subtraction, surprising correlations may come to the fore. Why, for example, do half of the artists whose work is positioned as expressing The Burden of History reappear in Ignis Fatuus, a theme addressing fantasy? How does a curatorial context shape the interpretation of a given artwork?

A speculative project with open-ended results, Interchange posits the gallery as a site of convergence for both art works and ideas.

A catalogue featuring essays by the curators about the work of each artist as well as each theme will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Part I: The Burden of History and The Eternal Moment opens with a reception on June 30 and runs through July 14. A reception for Part II: Ignis Fatuus and Problematizing Representation will take place July 21 and run until August 4th. Part III: Add and Subtract and Discordance opens August 11, with a closing reception on August 25.

Info:	(512) 322-2099
Cost:	Free