Exhibitions
Austin Openings
31K Project
Mexic-Arte
Opening Friday, January 27
Diego Huerta’s 31K project represents the over 31,000 people killed throughout the ongoing drug wars in Mexico. In the photography, there is no distinction between the sitter’s color of skin, social status, religion or political beliefs. Diego Huerta and project partner Daniela Gutiérrez have traveled throughout Mexico and arrived at cities like Guadalajara, Campeche, Tamaulipas, Michoacán, Ciudad de México, Mazatlan, and Baja California.
Diana Al-Hadid
Visual Arts Center
Opening Reception: Friday, January 27, 6-9pm
Sculptor Diana Al-Hadid constructs forms that are a baroque complex of architectural structures and figurative allusions, which appear to be in a state between construction and deconstruction.
Justin Boyd
Visual Arts Center
Opening Reception: Friday, January 27, 6-9 pm
In his site-specific exhibition, Dubforms, San Antonio-based artist Justin Boyd re-articulates the space of The Arcade by responding to its most striking element: a pair of floor-to-ceiling bay windows.
Max Marshall and Andrea Nguyen
Red Space
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 28, 7-10 pm
In the series Disambiguation, artists Andrea Nguyen and Max Marshall construct experiments based on scientific concepts and principles. The work explores a photograph’s ability to display a complex theory. Images are found and curated from Wikipedia’s archive, then re-photographed by the artists.
Jonathan Sanders and David Lujan
Gallery Black Lagoon
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 7-10 pm
New sculptural works by recent San Diego transplant Jonathan Sanders explore the possibilities of found object construction while Austin native David Lujan raises questions about the convention of printed and drawn media.
Collected Works: Group Show
B. Hollyman Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 4, 6-8pm
Featuring the work of the gallery's photographers: Walker Pickering, Jo Ann Santangelo, Beau Comeaux, Alberto Mena, Loli Kantor, the late Thomas Benton Hollyman, Leon Alesi, David Johndrow, Tami Bone, and many others from the gallery collection.
Loring Baker
Co-Lab Space
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 4, 7-11pm
"This body of work is an investigation into my mind as a single mother. I use drawing as my main mode of exploration throughout all the facets of the work. The honest, crunchy, tactility of pencil on paper is something that speaks very clearly to me." -Artist Statement
Elaine I-Ling Shen
Blackbox
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11, 6-9pm
Everything Is Possible Again, an exhibition of photographs and sculptures by artist Elaine I-Ling Shen that explores the complex nature of childhood and human impulse.
Martin Sztyk
Big Medium
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11, 7–10pm
Martin Sztyk’s show, Narratives, will include work from several series he has been working on, including Urban Forest, Empty City, and New London Stock Exchange. Sztyk says: “My work is heavily narrative-based. I tend to depict scenes of crude inhabitation within vast landscapes as a way to investigate spatial experience. The representation of the built environment through detritus and derelict structures brings forth images of current and possible future realities. In other instances, I fabricate narratives from what I think I learn from history mixed with my daily observations into environmental impossibilities only realized through the lens of digital construction and collage.”
Austin on View
Robert Jackson Harrington
Co-Lab Space
Through January 28
"My work centers on the concept of potential. The possibility of what could be as opposed to what is." -Artist statement
Mads Lynnerup
Lora Reynolds Gallery
Through February 4
New York based artist Mads Lynnerup will be performing at the gallery on December 3rd followed b a public talk that evening. Lynnerup's work wryly engages and analyzes built environments and the widely accepted social behavior inherent in them in order to get at larger issues of alienation and perversity.
Buster Graybill
AMOA Arthouse
Through February 19
The southern colloquial term “tush hog” is a name for a tusked feral hog, and sometimes for tough people who behave like them. Graybill’s Progeny of Tush Hog is a breed of sculptures that retains some Minimalist formal traits while also functioning as wild game feeders. It is as if the contemporary aesthetics of a Donald Judd sculpture escaped Marfa, TX and crossbred with the rural functionality of a deer feeder in the nearby rural landscape.
Lauren Fensterstock and Steve Wiman
AMOA Arthouse
Through February 19
Responding to the unique natural, architectural, and historical features of Laguna Gloria, sculptors Lauren Fensterstock and Steve Wiman create site-specific installations throughout the Driscoll Villa.
Paul Beck, Allen Brewer & Pat Snow
Gray Duck Gallery
Through February 19
True Story explores the purity of perception, the accuracy of memory, and the truth of desires. This exhibition features paintings from Paul Beck and Allen Brewer and watercolor mixed media works from Pat Snow.
Daniel Heidkamp
Champion
Through February 25
Daniel Heidkamp's solo exhibit: Glow Drops At The Chill Spot.
Evidence of Houdini’s Return
AMOA Arthouse
Through March 4
Through the creation of complex visual narratives, the international artists in this exhibition present provocative abstract forms that investigate art’s potential to interrupt and/or reconstruct elements of everyday life: Sterling Allen, Facundo Argañaraz, Strauss Bourque LaFrance, Katja Mater, Christopher Samuels, Justin Swinburne, and J. Parker Valentine. Each artists test the boundaries of working abstractly, with found objects and images, reformed digital technologies, as well as reference traditional techniques. While exploring the potential of objects in space, their ideas coalesce around an opposition to fixed forms.
Jill Magid
AMOA Arthouse
Through March 4
On January 21, 2010, 24-year-old Fausto Cardenas fired six shots from a small caliber handgun into the air from the steps of the Texas State Capitol, just blocks from the site of this exhibition. Coincidentally, Jill Magid was present as a witness. In Failed States, Magid draws connections between Fausto’s futile and tragic act and Goethe’s nineteenth-century epic poem, Faust. Magid mines Faust for thematic connections and develops a means of performative exhibition, treating the gallery as a stage to be studied.
Niklas Goldbach
AMOA Arthouse
Through March 4
Niklas Goldbach’s video HABITAT C3B explores a nearly deserted urban environment populated only by a handful of identical men engaging in an unknown mission. The clone-like characters chase one man that breaks from the group, recalling stock plot twists from science fiction.
Laurie Frick
Women and Their Work
Through March 10
Laurie Frick draws from neuroscience to construct intricately hand-built work and installations that explore the nature of pattern and the mind. Using her background in engineering and technology she explores self-tracking and compulsive organization. She creates life's most basic patterns as color coded charts. Steps walked, calories expended, weight, sleep, time-online, gps location, daily mood as color, micro-journal of food ingested are all part of her daily tracking. She collects personal data using gadgets that point toward a time where complete self-surveillance will be the norm.
Miguel Andrade Valdez
AMOA Arthouse
Through March 25
Andrade Valdez’s video Monumento Lima is a chaotic, rapid-fire visual compendium of the monuments that occupy Lima’s traffic circles and pedestrian malls. They range from the forgotten to the futurist, the Spanish Mediterranean to the brutal, as well as the Modernist. In the video, the trapezoid emerges as a very popular shape due to its common motif in pre-Columbian Peruvian architecture.
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani
AMOA Arthouse
Through April 22
In Toute la mémoire du monde – The world’s knowledge, Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani reinterpret French director Alain Resnais’ similarly titled 1956 film. Resnais’ twenty three-minute documentary sweeps through the historic French Bibliothèque Nationale on Rue de Richelieu in Paris, exposing how the library functions as a storehouse of all the world’s knowledge.
Lee Lozano
Visual Arts Center
Through April 22
Curated by Katie Geha and presented in partnership with The Blanton Museum of Art, Pun Value: 4 Works by Lee Lozano is a case study of works by Lee Lozano from The Blanton collection, which will examine the artist’s process and influence on the art world of the 1960s.
Austin Closings
Henry Horenstein
B. Hollyman Gallery
Through January 31
In collaboration with Austin Center for Photography (ACP), B. Hollyman Gallery will be exhibiting Henry Horenstein’s series Animalia, a collection of intimate and intriguing portraits of land and sea creatures made between 1995 and 2001. These portraits are at once abstract and telling. Horenstein shoots with a balanced uniqueness, experimenting with view, angle, and perspective.
Austin Events
Diana Al-Hadid
Visual Arts Center
Monday, January 23, 6:30pm
Join Diana Al-Hadid for an Artist Talk in the Art Building, University of Texas at Austin.
Fade In: Hans Richter, Rhythm 21
Visual Arts Center
Friday, January 27, 9pm
In his solo exhibition, Dubforms, Justin Boyd references his history of experimentation and exemplifies the intuitive and site-specific nature of his practice. For the VAC, Boyd rearticulates the space of The Arcade by responding to its most striking element: a pair of floor-to-ceiling bay windows. By creating two separate site-derived sculptural augmentations, Boyd explores the interstitial space of The Arcade by morphing its geometry into something unfamiliar.
Matrices & Entropy: music for percussion & electronics by Cage, Pluta, and Vinjar featuring Line Upon Line percussion with composer/performer Sam Pluta (NYC)
Austin Museum of Digital Art
Saturday, January 28, 8-10pm
Join the AMODA for an exciting program featuring finely honed performances on metal, wood, skin, re-purposed consumer electronics, live video, and state of the art signal processing.
An Audioguide of Light
Visual Arts Center
Sunday, January 29, 1pm
In conjunction with the Center Space exhibition, (Im)possibilities, New York-based artist Patrick Resing will lead a tour of light through The University of Texas at Austin campus. Each participant will wear a customized set of headphones that transform light waves into stereo sound. Each tour will be limited to 15 participants and will last approximately 20 minutes. Reserve your spot by emailing xochisolis@utvac.org.
San Antonio Openings
Steve Wiman
Sala Diaz
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 3, 7–11pm
"My personal compulsions to save and collect veer dangerously close to hoarding, but, I am not a hoarder, I'm a collector. I collect because I see beauty in the worn patina of the discarded. I collect because objects stir my memories and emotions. I collect because nostalgia and sentimentality are valuable healers. I collect because there is great pleasure in doing so." - Artist statement
Issac Julien
Linda Pace Foundation
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 6pm
TEN THOUSAND WAVES was filmed on location in China and poetically weaves together stories linking China’s ancient past and present. The work explores the movement of people across countries and continents and meditates on unfinished journeys. Conceived and created over four years, Julien collaborated with some of China’s leading artistic voices
San Antonio on View
Harold Wood
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
Through February 12
"Levelland Points of Scale is the ambiguity between landscape and abstraction." - Artist Statement
Philip John Evett
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
Through February 12
Phillip John Evett is a British gentleman and fine artist who currently resides and works at his studio in Blanco, Texas. His figurative and sensually abstracted forms have captivated both the San Antonio and international art scenes over a lengthy and accomplished career.
Phillip King
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
Through February 12
Four Decades with Colour celebrates the career of Phillip King, one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. This exhibition will feature more than 20 sculptural and print works, dating from 1963 through 2011.
Sonya Clark
Southwest School of Art
Through February 12
Sonya Clark examines her African-American identity in a solo exhibition currently on display at the SSA, which centers around the symbolism carried in everyday objects and their interface with that most elementary material, hair. Exhibited works include large sculptures, photos, and mixed media objects that connect cloth, combs or woven hair with her personal narrative, as well as within the context of African-American women’s history.
Convergences: The Sculpture of Larry Graeber and Jessica Ramirez
Unit B
Through March 3
Convergences: The Sculpture of Larry Graeber and Jessica Ramirez, curated by Richard Teitz.
San Antonio Events
Martin Miller
McNay Art Museum
Thursday, February 2, 6:30pm
In The Memorial in the Age of Warhol, Martin Filler, architecture critic for the New York Review of Books, focuses on contemporary monuments that shift away from memorializing a person to remembering events and cultural phenomena.
TEN THOUSAND WAVES Inauguration
Linda Pace Foundation
Friday, February 17, 6pm
The Linda Pace Foundation announces the presentation of a special three-screen edition of TEN THOUSAND WAVES by Isaac Julien. The work was co-commissioned by the Foundation in 2009, and its presentation continues the organization’s mission to support the work of contemporary artists. The presentation will be inaugurated with a special event, a conversation between Julien and Steven Evans, Executive Director and Curator of the Linda Pace Foundation
Houston on View
Andrei Molodkin
Station Museum of Contemporary Art
Through February 12
Andrei Molodkin is an internationally recognized contemporary Russian artist engaged in deconstructing the economic realities of geopolitical praxis. Consisting of his monumental ballpoint-pen drawings and his three-dimensional constructions filled with crude oil, Molodkin’s exhibition CRUDE effectively articulates the space between people’s peaceful, democratic aspirations and the unending conflicts perpetuated by oil-politics.
Carlos Rosales-Silva
Lawndale Art Center
Through February 25
Unfadeable So Please Don’t Try To Fade Me features all new work by Texas-based artist Carlos Rosales-Silva. Through varied formal languages the work reflects the absorption and appropriation of minority culture by mainstream American society.
Jade Walker
Lawndale Art Center
Through February 25
CONTACT, features an array of characters – some fictional and some real – permeated by physical breakdown. Jade Walker's exhibition includes several sculptures and sculpture-based installations that are inspired by the physical repercussions of trauma on the human body.
Luminous
Box 13
Through February 25
Artists Kristen Beal, Tobias Fike, Chris Lavery, Stephen V. Martonis, Rick Silva, Annie Strader and Matthew C. Weedman show how light remains a consistent source for artistic inspiration.
This Weird Place
Lawndale Art Center
Through February 25
In This Weird Place, all six artists engage the unsteady ground between figuration and abstraction using diverse, unique means: Lane Hagood, Alika Herreshoff, Cody Ledvina, Lee Piechocki, Anthony Record, and Eric Shaw.
TJ Hunt
Lawndale Art Center
Through February 25
For Breaking Ground, Hunt’s subversive and humorous gestures against boundaries in the physical landscape become a vehicle for exploring ideas of ownership—physical or otherwise—and appropriation. The resulting installation relies on the gallery as contextual site for the relocation of materials, addressing these ideas through a visual language that is at once ironically familiar and absurdly self-reflexive.
Zoe/Juniper
Diverseworks Art Space
Through February 25
In another large performance installation, Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey will create an immersive environment of video, dance, photography and installation that extends and expands upon their touring dance work "A Crack in Everything." Zoe/Juniper use the Greek Tragedy "The Oresteia" as a lens to explore the emotional spectrum of justice and retaliation.
unBlocked: performance based video
Aurora Picture Show
Through February 25
DiverseWorks is a non-profit art center dedicated to presenting new visual, performing, and literary art. For each DiverseWorks exhibition, Aurora curates a screening installation that takes place in the private screening room known as Flickerlounge. Blurring the distinction between performance, video art and body art, these young artists from the University of Houston combine media, personal narrative and social commentary in their works.
Michael Kennaugh
Moody Gallery
Through March 3
Zero Road is a series of new oil paintings and mixed media drawings by artist Michael Kennaugh.
Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion
Contempoary Art Museum of Houston
Through April 1
Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion is the Houston debut for this Chicago-based, mid-career painter and the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. For this exhibition, Binion has created a new body of work that extends his visual narrative through color and geometric form. Decidedly minimal, Binion’s work embodies a strong intellect rooted in the expressive capabilities of color and abstraction.
The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991
Contempoary Art Museum of Houston
Through April 15
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991, a survey of leading women artists that examines the crucial feminist contribution to the development of deconstructivism in the 1970s and ’80s. This exhibition is organized by Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York.
David Anguilu
Lawndale Art Center
Through June 2012
Daniel Anguilu transformed Lawndale's north exterior wall into a mural. Anguilu’s work can be found throughout Houston, including locations in the East End and most recently on Midtown’s MHMRA building. Anguilu’s style is deeply inspired by his Mexican heritage, and mostly manifests itself as large-scale murals.
Houston Closings
Spirit of Modernism
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Through January 29
The Spirit of Modernism pays tribute to the entrepreneurial spirit of businessman and art collector John R. Eckel, Jr. The friendship between John Eckel and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, lasted only five years before his untimely death in 2009. His art collection, now known as the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Gift, lives on at the MFAH as an enduring legacy comprising 75 examples of Modernist American painting and sculpture, photography, and contemporary arts and design.
Dallas Openings
Elliott Hundley
Nasher Sculpture Center
Opening Saturday, January 28
Elliott Hundley's The Bacchae featuring 11 recent medium- to large-scale wall-mounted and free-standing constructions highlights his investigations of the ancient Greek tragedy The Bacchae (ca. 406 BC) by Euripides. Encompassing a variety of media including assemblage, theatrical staging, and photography, this exhibition continues the Nasher’s exploration of sculpture’s rich and myriad possibilities.
Dallas on View
Edward Ruiz
Conduit Gallery
Through February 10
Visual artist Edward Ruiz couples his current artistic interests in digital video mapping and real time sound analysis to seamlessly marry geometric sculpture, music, and mathematic technology as a means to create all encompassing sensory installations of sight, movement, and sound.
Steven Miller
Conduit Gallery
Through February 10
Steven J. Miller’s small-scale acrylic paintings are straight landscape paintings of an imagined, not too distant future in a world that may or may not be our own. The familiar objects and places (cities, trains and houses) in the paintings are integrated with the unfamiliar (islands shaped like thumbs and fantastical twenty-third century architecture.)
John Randall Nelson
Conduit Gallery
Through February 10
In Fraught, Simply Fraught with Narrative..., John Randall Nelson embraces the concept of artist as story teller and mystic.
Sarah Williams
Marty Walker Gallery
Through February 11
Marty Walker Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Sarah Williams' new urban landscapes of industrial American roadsides: NIGHTFALL. Draped in the shadows of night, buzzing electric lights from commercial structures penetrate the
scene.
Eric Eley
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary
Through February 18
Coincident Disruption, a large scale installation by Dallas based artist Eric Eley, employs historical camouflage strategies and impromptu construction techniques to create an aerial landscape. The installation is an investigation of concealment and explores hiding as an act of avoidance rather than ambiguous visibility.
Marilyn Jolly, Melba Northum, Susan Sitzes
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary
Through February 18
Transience: Imperfect, Impermanent, Incomplete, an exhibition of work by Marilyn Jolly, Melba Northum and Susan Sitzes, exemplifies each artist’s close affinity for found and collected materials that reflect a sense of time. The mixed media of two-dimensional and sculptural works directly reflects the artists’ alignment with the Japanese worldview and aesthetic of Wabi-sabi.
Walter Nelson
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary
Through February 18
Graffiti on Aspen Trees – Nature vs. Man, an exhibition of photographs by Walter Nelson, investigates man’s presence and effect on nature.
Kyle Confehr
The Public Trust
Through February 18
Kyle Confehr primarily creates ink on paper drawings focusing on the absurdity of brand allegiance, irony, consumerism, social media, the notion of an “in” crowd and many other facets of modern culture. Breaking Rad will feature new and recent works on paper as well as a collaborative site specific painting installation with Favio Moreno of The Bodega Negra.
Nigel Cooke
The Goss-Michael Foundation
Through February 18
The show consists mainly of works that belong to the Goss-Michael collection and local collectors. The exhibition has been created in close collaboration with the artist and, is in fact, one of the most comprehensive shows of Nigel Cooke’s work, covering all series of his work up to the present.
Print Sweet: New Editions
The Public Trust
Through February 18
Featuring new editions by Bodega Negra, Willie Binnie, Kyle Confehr, Blakely Dadson, Heyd Fontenot, Brian Gibb, Letecia Gomez, Steven Hopwood-Lewis, Tania Kaufmann, Taro-Kun, Lawrence Lee, Magnificent Beard, Mylan Nguyen, Brent Ozaeta, Brendan Polk, Jeremy Smith, Sour Grapes & Billy Zinser. Each artist’s piece was produced in an edition of 10. The works range from $75-$250.
Fort Worth on View
KAWS
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Through February 19
The work of Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly, who makes his art under the moniker “KAWS,” is the subject of the first Focus exhibition for the 2011–2012 season. KAWS’s vast body of work includes graffiti (early in his career), murals, paintings, and sculpture. Following along the continuum of Pop art, his work critiques contemporary consumer culture, blurring the boundaries between it and the art world.
Dallas on View
Circle Werk
Centraltrak: University of Texas at Dallas Artists Residency
Through March 3
Curated by Heyd Fontenot, CircleWerk will be a cooperative/collaborative experiment in video production. During the course of this exhibition, the gallery will be used as a film-making studio by a number of artists interpreting stories from the Old Testament. This group endeavor brings together a variety of designers, painters, sculptors, performers and filmmakers working together for the first time.
David Jablonowski
Dallas Contemporary
Through March 18
David Jablonowski’s first North American solo exhibition entitled, Many to Many (Stone Carving High Performance), challenges the traditional “one to many” relationship between the artist and the public advocating instead the “many to many” dialogs of multi-layered voices.
FAILURE
Dallas Contemporary
Through March 18
Austin-based artist FAILURE will present his first major institutional exhibition at Dallas Contemporary. FAILURE has been painting graffiti outdoors since 1993 and began with the FAILURE poster imagery in the early 2000’s in Houston. He will present an exhibition of wheat paste posters with spray paint and collage.
Rob Pruitt
Dallas Contemporary
Through March 18
Pruitt’s interests lie in creating environments where participants feel free to improvise and experiment outside of their comfort zones. In his signature style, Pruitt’s installation of glitter panda paintings has never before been shown and is the largest number of panda paintings to be shown together.
Benjamin Terry and Giovanni Valderas
Lago Vista Gallery
Through March 29
Richland College presents Fragment, new art installations by artists Benjamin Terry and Giovanni Valderas. Expanding their unique styles of painting and figure/ground abstraction the artists embrace the challenge of working on two curved walls in the Lago Vista Gallery. Both artists currently explore notions of loss and erasure through layering, providing persistent figurative content as a platform for conceptual and formal inquiry.
Mark Manders
Dallas Museum of Art
Through April 15
The first major North American exhibition of work by acclaimed Dutch artist Mark Manders, Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments features a body of new sculptures and works on paper created specifically for it. This nationally touring exhibition includes roughly fifteen new sculptural works and three loaned works, one of which is from The Pinnell Collection of Dallas.
Rebecca Carter, Terri Thornton and Sally Warren
Free Museum of Dallas
A text, a photograph, a rock, a narrative, a person, a memory, a place, a trauma: any number of things may enter within close proximity, coming close enough to be "held," intimately handled and unquestioned, preserved without understanding. The act of holding bears testament to their meaning in Things Held and Never Understood.
Marfa on View
AutoBody Featuring North of South, West of East
Ballroom Marfa
Through February 12
Neville Wakefield (Curator), Meredith Danluck, Liz Cohen, Matthew Day Jackson, and Jonathan Schipper.
Wimberly Closings
Lance Letscher
d berman gallery
Through January 28
D Berman Gallery is pleased to present Lance Letscher: Work from the middle ages, a collection of new collages. Fresh from his successful exhibition in Paris (France), now in Wimberley (Texas), Letscher continues to utilize the paper scraps of our culture to create his particular worlds.
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