Exhibitions
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Austin Openings
Lisi Raskin
Blanton Museum of Art
March 6 – June 21, 2009
Lisi Raskin explores our culture of anxiety, which is rooted in the Cold War and resonates with our current cultural and political climate, in Armada. This exhibit includes sculptures based on the forms she found at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), a storage facility for military airplanes and aerospace crafts located at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Arizona.
Texas Biennial: Wide Open Group Show
Women and Their Work
March 6, 2009, 6-8pm
Thirty-one artists present an array of artworks, from installations to paintings, for the Texas Biennial. Exciting and Eclectic.
Texas Biennial Solo Shows:
William Cannings, Lee Baxter Davis, Jayne Lawrence, Kelli Vance
Okay Mountain, Big Medium, Pump Project & MASS Gallery
March 7, 12-5pm
William Cannings explores the effects of compressed air on permanent materials, such as aluminum and steel in his sensuous sculptures at Okay Mountain. Lee Baxter Davis's prints and drawings are intricate explorations of, to use his words, "the conflict between observed biological facts and certain metaphysical models of paradise, or the reality of death and concept of immortality." Jayne Lawrence's creatures at MASS are somehow magical in quality. And Kelli Vance's oils on canvas are erotically forboding.
PLUS go see the temporary outdoor projects installed around town.
Otis Lucas
SOFA Gallery
March 8, 12-4pm
The collaborative artist duo, Otis Lucas (Patrick Xavier Bresnan and Ivete Lucas), documents in a multitude of media the recuperative efforts to rebuild a community after the devastation of catastrophe. The artists spent a month in Cameron, Louisiana working with the Mennonite Disaster Service to rebuild homes for victims of Hurricane Ike. The photographs, sound pieces, and videos detail with startling frankness the post-disaster landscape, and provide an intimate view into a Mennonite community of rebuilding volunteers.
Creative Pollution
Dougherty Arts Center
March 10, 2009, 6-8pm
In this group show, artists reinvent direct marketing schemes, such as advertisements on billboards, television, and readio, to create interactive, visually stunning, and captivating works that repurposes the mundaniety of daily visual pollution.
Jennifer Remenchik: Autolove
Co-Lab
March 1, 2009, 7-11 PM
Do you love your car? Do you love it as much as artist Jennifer Remenchik loves hers? In Autolove Remenchik explores her love for and dependence on her car on an emotional and tactile level.
Caroline Wright: I Do Not Know What it is I am Like
Bay6 Gallery
March 7, 2009, 7-10 pm
Borrowing from the title of a Bill Viola film, I Do Not Know What it is I am Like features a variety of new works by Austin-based artist Caroline Wright. The line got stuck in the artist's head and became the underlying theme to a variety of works exploring the emotional qualities of landscape and the non-linearity of the working process.
Austin on View
Leslie Mutchler
d berman gallery
Through April 11, 2009
Leslie Mutchler's collages, digital drawings, recycled paper and coroplast installations investigate consumer desire for an organized lifestyle. Using catalogue glossies from Crate & Barrel, Ikea, Pottery Barn, and others, she creates a hybrid-form of organization.
Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury
The Blanton Museum of Art
On view until May 17, 2009
The Blanton Museum of Art presents Birth of the Cool, a blockbuster show encompassing the painting, architecture, furniture design, decorative and graphic arts, film, and music that launched mid–century modernism in the United States and established Los Angeles as a major American cultural center.
Lordy Rodriguez: States of America
Austin Museum of Art
On view until May 17, 2009
Take a road trip with Lordy Rodriguez and witness his remapping of America. Rodriguez's decade-long project explores the addition of five new states that have saturated our geography--the Internet, Hollywood, Monopoly, Disney, and Territory. States of America is curated by Eva Buttacavoli, Director of Exhibitions and Education at the Austin Museum of Art.
Dallas Openings
Todd Eberle: America
Light & Sie
February 28, 5-8pm
The exhibition begins with the American flag and presents an image of Eberle’s grandparents next to a full scale mock-up of the Oval Office created for the Clinton Library in Little Rock, AR and a picture of a lunch plate from inside Air Force One. The exhibition ends with three images: a pastoral landscape from Connecticut, a bronze statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse and Wynton Marsalis playing his horn with a surreal New York City Landscape as a backdrop. How does Eberle get from here to there? You'll have to go find out.
Dallas on View
Richard Patterson
Goss-Michael Foundation
On view until April 30, 2009
YBA Richard Patterson currently lives and works in Dallas. While it's beyond us why anyone would move from London to Dallas, we feel blessed to have Patterson around.
Mike Osborne: On Location Beijing
Holly Johnson Gallery
On view until March 21, 2009
Mike Osborne’s new photographs present Beijing’s transformation in almost theatrical terms focusing on the city in the final months before the Olympic Games.
Olin Travis: People, Places and Vision
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary
On view until March 28, 2009
People, Places and Visions explores four decades of Olin Travis' paintings beginning in 1916. Olin Travis, who was Dallas’ first artist to complete his degree at a major art institute and founded two art schools, made artworks that investigate nature and the self through a variety of mediums and genres.
Houston Openings
Solution
Diverse Works
March 6, 2009, 6-8pm
In this group show, artists present artworks that interpret the warning signs that signaled the demise of previous cilizations, addressing our relationships with process and change.
Pioneers of Contemporary Glass: Highlights from the Barbara and Dennis DuBois Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
March 7, 2009
This exhibition explores the origins of the studio glass movement through works by its innovators from the United States, the Czech Republic, Germany, Australia, Italy, Finland, and Sweden. Pioneers of Contemporary Glass will reinforce the idea of international artistic collaboration and community, as well as educate viewers about the diverse artistic possibilities of this unconventional medium.
Houston on View
Claire Fontaine: Call + 972 2 5 839 749
galería perdida
On view until March 22, 2009
Claire Fontaine is a politically-charged Paris-based art collective who claims that love, love as found in a collective, allows us to unite and rise against fear and governmental terror. Through Claire Fontaine's works of appropriated and altered found objects and visual culture, they hope to simultaneously subvert and call attention to these cultural and political realities of today.
San Antonio on View
Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar
Artpace
On view until May 3, 2009
In The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar, Artpace showcases nine paintings by Kehinda Wiley that place everyday people into pictorial conventions found in Western art history. Wiley represents persons in poses based on public sculptures that celebrate Nigerian and Senegalese independence from colonial rule and uses patterns based on traditional clothing worn by West African women.
Jon Lee: JL050209
Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
On view until March 1, 2009
Artist Jon Lee presents minimalistic prints and works on paper.
50 Years of Print Masterpieces
McNay Art Museum
On view until June 7, 2009
Prints by big-shots, including 19th century artists such as Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Renoir, and Winslow Homer, and 20th century iconic prints by Jim Dine, Ed Ruscha, and Richard Diebenkorn.
San Antonio Openings
Apparatus
UTSA Satellite Space @ Blue Star
March 6, 6-9pm
Apparatus brings together the work of three artists, Dylan Collins, Andries Fourie and Donald Henson, who explore the correspondences between mechanical systems and the human body's operations.
San Marcos Opening
What isn’t it
Texas State University Gallery
March 10, 5 - 7pm
Alyson Fox, Mimi Kato and Misako Inaoka, three artists whose work addresses issues of identity and culture, come together to exhibit sculpture, drawings, paintings and photographs that artfully blur the lines between their artistic studio practices. The gallery doesn't have a website, but you can find it on campus in the Joann Cole Mitte building.
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