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Austin Openings
My Wicked Twisted Sense of Love
Women and Their Work
Through January 7, 2010
The invitations for My Wicked Twisted Sense of Love were love letters and break-up letters, drawing the recipient into the exhibition's exploration of intimacy and relationship before he or she has even set foot in the gallery. As curator Leslie Moody Castro said recently, imagine a person getting a break-up letter from Women & Their Work in the mail and then showing up at the opening anyway. Ouch!
David Bates
Austin Museum of Art
Opens November 21
David Bates since 1982: From the Everyday to the Epic opens with the wit and honesty of Bates' early narrative paintings. His stunning landscapes and still lives are an inventive synthesis of approaches from sources as diverse as folk art and modern masters. The bold recent work confronts personal loss and the human toll of Hurricane Katrina. (from the press release)
Jade Walker
Austin Museum of Art
November 21, 2009 - January 31, 2010
The first in AMOA’s New Works exhibition series, Jade Walker transforms a gallery into a strange kind of sports stadium.
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Noriko Ambe
Lora Reynolds Gallery
November 7 – December 31, 2009
Look forward to a review in our next issue.
No Lone Zone
Creative Research Lab
Through December 19
By definition a no-lone-zone is a military term often used in nuclear sites describing an area where individuals must be in visual contact with each other and with the object requiring a no-lone-zone area designation. During the exhibition's run, the CRL is in a state of constant flux as participating artists manipulate, perform and transform the gallery into their own concept of a charged territory. (from the press release)
Sam Sanford
MASS Gallery
Through December 12
In order to work directly with the red, green, and blue information encoded in digital source images, Sanford paints with only cyan, magenta, and yellow paint, applied in successive transparent layers. By interfering with the normal functioning of the three-color system - selectively displacing, distorting, and deleting information - the artist brings the color system itself to the foreground, exposing its limitations and undermining its claim to represent reality while revealing new formal possibilities and layers of meaning. (from the press release)
ONE on ONE on ONE
Art Palace
Through December 5
ONE on ONE on ONE is a fitting swan-song for Art Palace because it is a return to the gallery’s scrappy roots. Arturo Palacios, the gallery's founder and director, gave each of nine artists one week and one wall to present new work or re-contextualize old. Read more about the exhibition from the last issue of ...might be good.
Anne Ashley & Nate Ronniger
Wally Workman
November 7 - November 28, 2009
Keenly playing on both minimalist and mass consumerist sentiments, the neon work of Anne Ashley and the hyper-realist oils of Nate Ronniger come together in this dual show to provide a vibrant and playful visual feast.
San Antonio Openings
Diamond Life
Unit B
Opening Reception: November 20, 6:30 - 10pm
Jillian Conrad and Moo Kwon Han create idealized spaces, fictive structures of time and place through which we are invited to reconsider on our relationship to the real. Drawings are sculpted, calligraphic poems are performed, and the world is revealed as a multi-faceted prospect: still-forming. (from the press release)
New Works: 09.3
Artpace
November 19, 2009–January 10, 2010
Native Los Angelino Mario Ybarra, Jr. creates artworks that can be considered historical and anthropological in nature. Adriana Lara is a Mexico City-based artist and co-founder of the curatorial collective Perros Negros. Her practice de-emphasizes object making in favor of a conceptual reimagining of artistic production and the exhibition space. El Paso artist Adrian Esparza produces artworks from low-cost and recycled materials such as t-shirts, serapes, posters and ceramic figurines.
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