Exhibitions
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Austin Openings
Stupid Answers to Snappy Questions: Justin Goldwater
Domy Books
Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 8 from 7:00-9:00 pm
Justin Goldwater’s exhibition Stupid Answers to Snappy Questions is a collection of drawings that are fragments of narratives, bungled chunks of autobiography, and attempts at visual humor. As the artist puts it, “I don't have any snappy answers, but I have a lot of stupid questions and my artwork is a storage system for them.”
Amuse Bouche
Creative Research Lab
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 19 from 6:00-9:00 pm
Amuse Bouche features the work of eight Master of Fine Arts Studio Art candidates curated by eight Art History graduate students, all from the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Cut The Cord! From Up Here Everything Makes Sense!
okay mountain
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 16 from 7:00-10:00 pm
This group show is centered around the medium of video art. The videos will be shown in the screening format, one played after the other. There is no specific theme, rather the videos are put together as one would put together a mixed tape, allowing for a natural flow to form as one work leads into the next.
Jess Butcher: We're All in Love with Dying and We're Doing it in Texas
Mass Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 2 from 8:00-10:00 pm
Butcher's works examine the repercussions of modern masculinity in the male psyche. The artifacts and images are tangible reflections of physical, emotional or metaphoric wounds. The iconography acts as a catalyst for the modern males "walkabout" to discover a more substantial sense of meaning and purpose. The personal mythologies explore the psychological hinterland at the core of a fear based culture where instability, exploitation and violence are ever present.
Erotica 2008
Gallery Lombardi
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 2 from 7:00-11:00 pm
Juried by Ron Prince and Rachel Koper, the Erotica 2008 show contains a range of work dedicated to the theme of erotica. Several artists will also present performances at the opening.
Changarrito en su Casa at Co-Lab
Co-Lab
Unveiling: Sunday, July 20 from 5:00-10:00 pm
On July 20th Co-Lab unveils the Austin incarnation of the Argentine artist, Maximo Gonzalez’s, Changarrito. After a successful debut at Fuse Box festival 2008, the Changarrito became a venue for local artists to show new work, and art collectors to find emerging talent. The Austin Changarrito will reside permanently at Co-Lab, allowing artists to continually show their work within a community-oriented framework. Paired with appearances at local events, the Austin Changarrito will continually allow artists to break out of the traditional gallery model where art is more accessible, experimental and open to a larger audience.
Houston Openings
Sam Taylor-Wood
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Preview Reception: Friday, August 1 at 9:00 pm
A leading artist of her generation, Sam Taylor-Wood came to prominence in the mid-1990s as one of the YBA’s (Young British Artists), the British art movement that propelled the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin to celebrity status for their provocative and sensational works. Taylor-Wood has since become renowned for deftly manipulating the signature media of our age—photography, film, and video—into compelling psychological portraits that tap into the ethos of our times. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, this is the first major museum exhibition of Taylor-Wood’s work in the United States.
Houston Collects: African American Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
On view August 3- October 26, 2008
Houston Collects: African American Art showcases the institutional and private efforts to collect, document, and preserve African American art in Houston during the 20th and 21st centuries. Approximately 120 works, many of which have never before been exhibited to the public, illustrate themes that encompass early crafts, self-taught artists, Southern academic circles (including the publication of Black Art in Houston by the McAshan Foundation), the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights movement, abstraction, photography, Houston masters and the New School.
Dallas Openings
Sehnsucht (Aspiration)
Light & Sie
July 31-September 6, 2008
Sehnsucht (Aspiration) is a group exhibition of paintings, photographs, video and works on paper organized by Georges Armaos. The works selected are a mix of emerging and well established international artists. Contemporary abstract painting is approached through works by Ingrid Calame, David Reed and Dan Walsh. Photography is represented with works by Vanessa Beecroft, Todd Eberle, Thomas Ruff, Hedi Slimane and Jeremy Cost while two important projections by Kimsooja and Joseph Dadoune complete the exhibition.
New York On View
Sharon Engelstein:Blow Job
Sunday
On view through August 10, 2008
Blowjob is the first New York solo exhibition by Houston-based artist Sharon Engelstein. Blowjob presents a selection of the sculptor's work that she does not make by hand. A large-scale inflatable, three midsize "rapid prototypes" and a selection of drawings are variously created by different outputting technologies from computer files designed, assembled and perfected in cyberspace rather than in her studio.
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