Exhibitions
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Austin Openings
Eric Zimmerman: Atlas
Art Palace
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 1 from 8 -10 pm
Atlas presents Eric Zimmerman's most recent body of work, a series of graphite drawings that derive their imagery from topographical maps, visionary architecture, astronomical illustration and the natural world, from forests to icebergs and glaciers. Zimmerman's work investigates the concept of intermediary space—the space between here and there, then and now and the real and the imaginary.
Wheelchair Epidemic
Gallery Lombardi
Opening Reception: Saturday March 1, 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Wheelchair Epidemic takes its name from the 1980s song by The Dicks and this exhibition presents a range of work by artists who are either current or former members of influential punk or rock and roll bands. Wheelchair Epidemic includes The Dicks band members Gary Floyd and Buxf Parrot, former Big Boys member Tim Kerr and STB band member Ian Schults.
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Katy Heinlein: Unknown Pleasures
Women & Their Work
On view through March 29, 2008
Women & Their Work presents Unknown Pleasures, a solo exhibition by Houston-based artist Katy Heinlein. Using sinuous folds of draped fabric as her medium, Heinlein creates surprising structures full of elegance and moxie that invite the viewer to look beneath the surface. Swathed around hidden buttresses and assuming shapes ranging from quirky to austere, Heinlein’s work challenges our perceptions of traditional sculpture. Fabric is deeply rooted in our lives as it both adorns and conceals, and Heinlein’s sumptuous materials, bunched-and-gathered shapes and flirtatious jolts of color playfully navigate the line between preserving mystery and revealing unknown pleasures.
Jess: To and From the Printed Page
Harry Ransom Center
On view through April 6, 2008
Jess: To and From The Printed Page was organized by the Independent Curators International, New York, and was curated by Ingrid Schaffner, the Senior Curator at Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia (and future testsite 08.2 collaborator). The exhibition features more than 50 original works of art, a 16mm film transferred to DVD and a sound recording by the artist “Jess” (Burgess Collins, 1923-2004) whose work developed in 1950s San Francisco from within the context of Beat literary culture.
San Antonio Openings
Art & Persuasion: Feminine in Flux
Central Library
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 6 from 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Presented in honor of Women’s History Month, Art & Persuasion: Feminine in Flux was inspired by the work of San Antonio-based, female artists who use their work to investigate the current state of feminine identity. In conjunction with this exhibition, seven library branches will showcase the individual artists’ work at the following locations: Maverick Library, Great Northwest Library, Cody Library, Forest Hills Library, Guerra Library, Memorial Library and Brook Hollow Library. The artists include: Lili Dyer Pena, Adriana García, Gisela Girard, Elizabeth Goode, Mira Hnatyshyn-Hudson, Vikky Jones, Anna-Marie López de León and Marie Jassie Ríos.
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And so the story goes…
Unit B Gallery
On view through March 7
And so the story goes... brings together the tall-tales and humorous yarns of three emerging artists who explore the darker side of visual stories. Artists Duncan Anderson and Damon Bishop are based in
Frozen Music II: The Architecture of Ricardo Legorreta
Bluestar Contemporary Art Center
On view through March 23, 2008
Curated by Bill FitzGibbons, this exhibition showcases the original drawings of internationally acclaimed architect Ricardo Legorreta.
Dominick Lombardi: The Post Apocalyptic Tattoo: A Ten Year Survey
Bluestar Contemporary Art Center
On view through March 23, 2008
Dominick Lombardi has been working on his Post Apocalyptic Tattoo Series for the past ten years. Through a comic book and tattoo aesthetic, he creates individuals who might survive the apocalypse.
Kate Gilmore: Girl Fight
Hudson (Show) Room, Artpace
On view through April 20, 2008
Girl Fight, curated by Artpace Executive Director Matthew Drutt, includes nearly a dozen videos by Kate Gilmore. The exhibition is the debut of Girl Fight, a video documenting Gilmore’s attempt to pile a motley collection of furniture in Artpace’s ground-floor courtyard. Once the colorful mountain of discarded sofas, chairs and dressers reaches the second-story ledge, she ascends the precarious tower dressed in a ball gown and wearing high heels, and enters her exhibition space via a red-carpeted ramp. During the run of the exhibition, only the video and piled furniture will remain as evidence of her Sisyphean task.
Houston Opening
Demetrius Oliver: Firmament
Inman Gallery
February 29 - April 5, 2008
Demetrius Oliver: Firmament contains a series of works the artist created during his residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Oliver's impressive resume includes solo shows at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Atlanta Contemporary, P.S.1 MoMA and Inman gallery, as well as group exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem. He was also a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Glassell School.
William Christenberry
Moody Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 23, from 1:00-5:00 pm
This exhibition of work by the venerable photographer William Christenberry's includes Palmist Building, Havana Junction, Alabama," a suite of 20 photographs from 1961-1988 as well as four new drawings.
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Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space
Blaffer Gallery
On view through March 29, 2008
See Clare Elliott's review in issue #92
Charlie Roberts: Mambo Jambo: Gallery of the Cosmos
Rice Gallery
On view through March 2
At Rice Gallery, Charlie Roberts combines painting and sculpture to create his first site-specific installation. Inside the gallery, a colossal wooden cabinet reaches almost to the ceiling. Roberts has filled the cabinet with wooden sculptures built on site, while the doors are covered with almost 200 of his detailed paintings. The installation is inspired by Roberts’s 2006 painting, Mystery Cabinet, a take-off on the cabinets of curiosities in which wealthy Europeans displayed their art collections and souvenirs of the natural world.
Nan Goldin: Stories Retold
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
On view through March 30, 2008
In two room-sized installations, Stories Retold brings together three bodies of work originally exhibited at separate times in the artist’s career and now rewoven to tell a story of the artist’s life. Goldin’s work, which has evolved from the informality and directness of snapshots, breaks down the traditional barriers between photography, cinema and installation art.
Design Life Now: National Design Triennial
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
On view through April 20, 2008
Design Life Now: National Design Triennial presents the experimental projects, emerging ideas, major buildings, new products and media that were at the center of contemporary culture from 2003 to 2006. Inaugurated in 2000, the Triennial seeks out and presents the most innovative American designs from the prior three years in a variety of fields including product design, architecture, furniture, film, graphics, new technologies, animation, science, medicine and fashion. The exhibition presents the work of 87 designers and firms from established design leaders such as Apple, architect Santiago Calatrava, and Nike, Inc., to emerging designers like Joshua Davis, Jason Miller and David Wiseman.
Dallas On View
Show #14: Kristin Lucas
and/or gallery
On view through March 1, 2008
In this exhibition, internationally acclaimed artist Kristin Lucas presents two recent bodies of work: Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive (2007) and Refresh (2007). In the three channel video installation, Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive, Lucas assumes the role of a retired bingo caller suffering from a horrific rash.
Collecting & Collectivity
Conduit Gallery
On view through March 22, 2008
Curators Noah Simblist and Charissa Terranova have created an exhibition about two seemingly opposite ideas. Politically, collecting—the gathering of objects—is associated with capitalism and collectivity—the gathering of people—with communism. The exhibition asks: Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, has a new paradigm for collectivism developed that has been informed by collecting? And how independent is the avant-garde, a force seemingly driven by an independent spirit, from the market?
Damien Hirst
Goss Michael Foundation
On view through April 2008
The Goss Michael Foundation is a new (as of June 2007) and welcome addition to the
Real Time: Live Streaming Video
Dallas Contemporary
On view through May 10, 2008
The art of the mobile phone is the art of the hurried, the time starved, the always on. It is the art snapped while waiting in lines; art captured while sitting in traffic and mind numbing meetings. It is the art of the exhausted, overworked American. Real Time collects these fleeting images to reveal a larger reflection of our overworked society.
Forth Worth Openings
Martin Puryear
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
February 24 - May 18, 2008
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents a major exhibition of the sculpture of the acclaimed American artist Martin Puryear (b.1941) organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The retrospective features approximately 45 sculptures and follows the development of Puryear's artistic career over the last 30 years. Puryear's works, often deceptively simple, can be associated with the sentiments of his Minimalist contemporaries, but his supremely quiet, poignant forms continually defy further categorization and reflect his own unique style. These often monumental sculptures are distinctly sophisticated, especially in regard to the artist’s skills as a woodworker. Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington, 1996, in the Modern's permanent collection, is a visitor favorite.
Forth Worth On View
Joshua Mosley
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
On view through February 24, 2008
Part of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s FOCUS series, this exhibition features Joshua Mosley’s high-definition animation short and sculpture installation titled A Vue, 2004. “A vue ”is a French rock-climbing term meaning a clean ascent with no knowledge of the route. Like much of his work, A Vue addresses Mosley’s interest in the complex nature of balancing the personal with societal responsibility. The animation combines digitally photographed stop-motion puppets, a 24-inch-high bronze monument and ink-wash painted environments.
Openings Elsewhere
Setareh Shahbazi: Why Not Bazar
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Opening Reception Saturday March 1, 6-8:00 pm
If you find yourself in
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In Katrina’s Wake
WorkSpace Gallery, Blanton Museum of Art
On view through May 25, 2008
How do artists respond to calamity? In New Orleans, many resident artists and a number of those observing from outside have been moved by the need for community relief, healing, and support and have directed their work to address these immediate social and spiritual concerns. This group exhibition —the result of a year's research by curator Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, a former resident of the city — will feature film and video, drawings, photographs, and mixed media works by artists including Willie Birch (
Fritz Haeg: Attack on the Front Lawn
Arthouse
On view through March 16, 2008; Sundown Schoolhouse Workshops every Saturday from 3-5pm through March 8
Fritz Haeg: Attack on the Front Lawn surveys a number of ecological initiatives recently completed by the Los Angeles-based artist and architect known for his socially-responsive and community-oriented practice. This exhibition brings together photographic and video documentation from Haeg’s ongoing Edible Estates project (Regional Prototype Garden #5 will be planted in Austin from March 14-16, 2008) along with ephemeral items and site-specific elements created by the artist for Arthouse’s space that relate to gardening and sustainable food production in Austin. Sundown Schoolhouse Workshops: How to Eat Austin, a weekly series of free workshops related to the cycle of food production and consumption, take place at Arthouse every Saturday, 3-5 pm, through March 8, 2008.
San Antonio On View
Terry Karson
Sala Diaz
On view through March 16, 2008
Inspired by his travels to
Austin On View
Jorge Macchi: The Anatomy of Melancholy
Blanton Museum of Art
On view through March 16, 2008
See Andrea Giunta's review in this issue.Hills Snyder: All Good Children (dedicated to Linda Pace)
Gallery 68, Flatbed Press
On view through February 24, 2008
After a lengthy manhunt and speedy trial, Hills Snyder's date with eternity came to pass at 8:30 pm, January 19, 2008, at Gallery 68 in Austin,Texas. Snyder's list of victims is long and includes Regine Basha, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Mike Casey, Frances Colpitt, Anjali Gupta, Laurence Miller, Cynthia Toles and Catherine Walworth. The prisoner was delivered to the chair personally by arresting officer, Elaine Wolff. The execution was performed on January 19 by "head" Curator, Nate Cassie.
New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch
Austin Museum of Art
On view through May 11, 2008
New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch introduces emerging and lesser-known artists from
Austin Openings
Senior Art Exhibition 2008
Creative Research Laboratory
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 23 from 6-9 pm
Each year roughly 160 students graduate with a B.A. or B.F.A. from the Studio Art Division or a B.F.A. in Visual Arts Studies Division in the Department of Art and Art History. Senior Art Exhibition 2008 presents the work of Austin's most exciting young emerging visual artists. This year's juror, Clint Willour, curator at the Galveston Art Center, has compiled an exhibition representing a full range of media from drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, metals, prints and photographs, to video and performance.
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Mads Lynnerup: If You See Anything Interesting Please Let Someone Know Immediately
lora reynolds gallery
On view through March 1, 2008
See Kate Watson's ...might be good recommends in issue #92.
Ryan Lauderdale and Michael Berryhill: Greetings from Berrydale
okay mountain
On view through March 15, 2008
Michael Berryhill and Ryan Lauderdale create works about the ephemeral nature of memory and personal history. Berryhill is currently based in
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