Exhibitions
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Austin Openings
Christine Gray
Okay Mountain Gallery
Opening January 16, 7 - 10pm
Christine Gray's Into The Light marks her second solo exhibition at Okay Mountain. With Into The Light, Gray continues to explore the frenetic play between real and unreal created using sculptural arrangements as the basis for her paintings. This new body of work takes it's inspiration from American mythological tropes, often revealing surreal landscapes, crude shelters and objects suggestive of rituals with mystical significance. From the press release.
Kia Neill
Women & Their Work
Opening Reception January 16, 6-8pm
Kia Neill's new installation, Terrain, a landscape that is both naturalistic and fantastic, will not be unlike her previous installation Grotto at Lawndale Art Center in Houston. This time, however, Neill focuses not on the walls and ceiling, but rather on the very ground on which the viewer stands.
Jim Torok
Lora Reynolds Gallery
Opening Reception January 16, 6-8pm
Jim Torok's Clowns and Portraits explores the fertile, if much traversed, image of the clown and continues the artist's exploration of the portrait.
Alyssa Taylor Wendt
Co-Lab
January 21 - 23, noon-6pm
Warning: requires viewer participation in an elaborate game of telephone. Wendt's installation explores instability of communication and information through a participatory project in which visitors may listen to and then retell a fable into a recording device.
Ideas of Mountains
Creative Research Laboratory
Opening Reception January 23, 6 - 9pm
Composed of 11 site-specific projects, Ideas of Mountains explores the unique atmosphere of the CRL as a malleable artist space and incubator for the creative process. The exhibition features artists living and working in Austin, as well as students and alumni of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. From the press release.
Give Up
Domy Books Austin
Opening Reception January 30, 7-9pm
Give Up's large-scale screen prints are designed using photos, paper, scissors and a photocopy machine. Give Up calls the method "the cut'n'paste manner of old punk and hard core fliers." Sounds right for Austin.
Desire
The Blanton Museum of Art
Opening February 5
Of Desire, the Blanton's press release pretty much says it all with the statement, "how fascinating, evocative and familiar." The exhibition explores the idea/emotion/nature of desire through the work of such artists as Marilyn Minter, Glenn Ligon and Tracey Emin.
San Antonio Openings
Alejandro Cesarco
Artpace
January 14 - May 2
Alejandro Cesarco brings together Index, a series of works that represent the indexes of unwritten books, for the first time, and exhibits a new film, The Two Stories. Look for a review of the exhibition in our next issue of ...might be good.
Animalities
Unit B Gallery
Opening Reception January 15, 6:30-10pm
Ever wonder what it's like to be an animal other than a human? In this exhibition Emily Landon and Chris Wildrick explore just that.
Katie Pell
Sala Diaz
Opening Reception Janurary 15, 7-11pm
Katie Pell's installation Intractable Chatter is about the distances between us (and those between us and ourselves).
Fred Sandback
Lawrence Markey
January 26 - March 5
Minimalist and Conceptual artist Fred Sandback's yarn construction Untitled (Four-part Vertical Construction in Two Colors) from 1987 will grace Lawrence Markey's gallery.
San Marcos Opening
Okay Mountain Collective
Texas State Gallery
Opening Reception January 21, 5-7pm
Okay Mountain's Big Strange Mystery lies somewhere between a natural history museum and a U.F.O. museum. Sounds like a trip.
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