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Austin Openings
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.
Leslie Mutchler
Courtyard Gallery
Opening Reception February 4, 4-6pm
In her most recent large-scale PhotoShop collages, Mutchler fashions landscapes and space-scapes out of images from IKEA, Pottery Barn and Crate & Barrel catalogs. It's like bringing modern mass-market design full-circle back to its referents in the landscape and our vision of the future.
Travis Kent
SOFA Gallery
Opening Reception: January 31, 2-4pm
Travis Kent takes pictures of things—two identical shirts on a clothesline, potted plants, a girl’s fuzzy head against a desert landscape. The photographs are matter-of-fact in their presentation. With a slight hint of nostalgia, they describe the sites, objects and people that Kent seemingly happens upon. Placing the artificial against the natural, the works in Hope You’re Well act as indices of a more expansive experience, one that is transitory and ethereal. From the press release
Give Up
Domy Books
Opening Reception January 30, 7-9pm
Here's a YouTube video of Give Up doing what Give Up does at the Xerox machine, in the print studio, on street corners and on billboards.
Austin on View
Jim Torok
Lora Reynolds Gallery
Through March 13
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.
Austin Closings
Christine Gray
Okay Mountain Gallery
Through February 13
With Into The Light, Christine 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.
Ideas of Mountains
Creative Research Laboratory
Through February 6
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.
San Antonio on View
Fred Sandback
Lawrence Markey Gallery
Through March 5
Minimalist and Conceptual artist Fred Sandback's yarn construction Untitled (Four-part Vertical Construction in Two Colors) from 1987 graces Lawrence Markey's gallery.
Animalities
Unit B Gallery
Through March 6
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.
San Antonio Closings
Katie Pell
Sala Diaz
Closing February 14
Katie Pell's installation Intractable Chatter is about the distances between us (and those between us and ourselves).
San Marcos on View
Okay Mountain
Texas State University Gallery
Through February 26
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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