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Austin Openings
Ali Fitzgerald: Swan School; The Matriculation
Art Palace
Friday, April 18 from 8:00-10:00 pm
Swan School; The Matriculation is Ali Fitzgerald's second solo exhibition at Art Palace. Fitzgerald's current body of work explores victimization and violence within a forged adolescent caste-system. Through drawing based sculptures, dioramas and site-specific installations Fitzgerald surveys a dystopian boarding school complex, within whose misleading facades, we see residue of girlhood gone awry.
Austin Closings
It's About Time
L_M_N_L gallery (305B E. 5th Street)
Closing Reception: Saturday, April 5 from 6:00-11:00 pm
For some reason, an elaborate assortment of objects have been constructed and/or assembled in a room located at 305B E. 5th Street. It's not what you expect from a gallery, it's better. And this is the last show in this physical location, so come be a part of history.
Excess (Installation Overload)
Salvage Vanguard Gallery (2803 East Manor Road)
Closing Reception: Saturday, April 12 from 6:00-9:00 pm
Produced by Cantanker Magazine and curated by Christinia Hiet, this exhibition invesitgates excess. The closing reception doubles as a release party for Cantanker's latest issue which also focuses on excess and its ramifications. Beginning at 7:00 pm, there will be performances by Amelia Winger Bearskin, Sean Ripple, Michael Anthony Garcia, Mark P. Hensel aka the Mizzzard, Jak Cardini, and Dr. Chuch of the Gold County Papermill.
Austin On View
Wheelchair Epidemic
Gallery Lombardi
On view through April 5, 2008
Wheelchair Epidemic takes its name from the 1980s song by punk band The Dicks and it features work by artists who are either current or former members of influential punk or rock and roll bands. Artists include The Dicks band members Gary Floyd and Buxf Parrot, former Big Boys member Tim Kerr, The Ends band member Ian Schults and Sharon Tate's Baby band members Brian Curley and Andrew Feutsch.
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 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.
Ewan Gibbs: Pictures of Pitchers
lora reynolds gallery
On view through April 19, 2008
Lora Reynolds Gallery presents its second solo exhibition by British artist Ewan Gibbs. Entitled Pictures of Pitchers, the exhibition includes eight new graphite drawings; the subject of each is a baseball pitcher captured at the moment just after the release of the ball.
We've Got Tissues
okay mountain
On view through April 19, 2008
We’ve Got Tissues features the individual works of Jesse Greenberg, Lizzie Fitch, Brian McKelligott and the Austin premiere of Ryan Trecartin’s I-Be Area. Of the exhibition, the four artists write. "The work should be viewed like a venn diagram with the overlapping content being a natural effect of our shared experiences, with all of the intimacy and drama of a really realistic theatrical put-on that is actually happening in real time.”
Yoon Cho: Nothing Lasts Forever
Women & Their Work Gallery
On view through May 10, 2008
Women & Their Work proudly presents Nothing Lasts Forever, a solo multimedia exhibition by Austin-based artist Yoon Cho. Recently named by the Austin Museum of Art as one of Austin’s “20 to Watch,” Cho uses video and digital photography to examine the ways we constantly create and re-create our identities. Utilizing blurring, pattern overlay, image insertion and other digital techniques to manipulate photography and video installations, Cho trains a sly and poignant lens on the ephemeral and ever-shifting nature of human persona.
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 (New Orleans), Paul Chan (New York), Dawn Dedeaux (New Orleans), Jana Napoli (New Orleans), Cauleen Smith (Boston) and others.
Benito Huerta: Intermezzo
The Mexican American Cultural Center (600 River Street)
On view through August 31, 2008
In this exhibition, the artist Benito Huerta uses the intermezzo—a short movement separating the major section of a symphonic work—to confront contemporary issues such as the economy, immigration, and natural disasters, either directly or in a more poetic form. A recipient of of Dallas Center for Contemporary Art’s 2002 Legend of the Year Award, Huerta's work is in several museum and corporate collections through the United Stated and Huerta's work was recently presented in Soundings: Benito Huerta 1992 – 2005 at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi and the El Paso Museum.
San Antonio Openings
Candace Briceno: Wonderment
Cactus Bra
Opening Reception: Friday, April 4 from 6:00-9:00 pm
Wonderment, a solo show by Austin-based artist Candace Briceño, presents Briceño's narrative reinterpretation of landscape. She translates her observations of landscape into soft sculpture vignettes that are hand sewn and hand dyed. Her dying process incorporates her painting background with her fascination to further explore abstracted forms of landscape, shadows, and colors with the integration of drawing, painting and sewing.
San Antonio On View
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.
Goin' Mobile
Blue Star Contempary Art Center
On view through June 8, 2008
Inspired by The Who song of the same name Goin’ Mobile is an on-the-road inspired traveling exhibition that investigates the literal sense of travel. Artists include:Adam Blumberg (New York, NY); Min-Tse Chen (Beijing, China); Mark Hogensen (San Antonio, TX); Michele Monseau (San Antonio, TX); Tao Rey (Miami, FL); Mark Schatz (Houston, TX); Ethel Shipton (San Antonio, TX).
Julieta Aranda: You Had No 9th of May!
Sala Diaz
On view through April 27, 2008
Sala Diaz is pleased to present a new work by Julieta Aranda, organized in conjunction with guest-curator (and Fluent~Collaborative founder) Regine Basha. Though we are conditioned to experience ‘time’ or the immaterial concept of time, as a linear passage –measured conveniently by clocks, calendars, and other devices, isn’t it possible that the markers that we use to signal it: ‘yesterday’, ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’ are an imposition ? Can’t we instead be the arbiters of our own experience of time? Can time be bent, sliced, poked through, stretched, flashed, and collapsed?
Unfurnished Room
Unit B
On view through May 2, 2008
Inspired by the idea of an emptied suburban house functioning as a gallery, Unfurnished Room brings together a group of artworks that mark or inscribe presence. Curated by Jacob Robichaux, the exhibition includes artists Josh Blackwell, Rachel Foullon, Sam Gordon, Barbara Hatfield, Jamie Isenstein, Matt Keegan, Siobhan Liddell, Peter Mandradjieff, Adam Putnam and Sara Saltzman.
Dallas On View
Sterling Allen, Peat Duggins & Ali Fitzgerald:Palace Does Dallas
Road Agent
On view through April 12
Road Agent is pleased to announce the three-person exhibition, Palace Does Dallas, part of the gallery’s ongoing exchange with Austin gallery Art Palace. This show features new work by Austin-based, Art Palace artists Sterling Allen, Peat Duggins, and Ali Fitzgerald.
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.
Fort Worth On View
Martin Puryear
Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth
On view through May 18, 2008
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Houston Openings
Dario Robleto: Oh Those Mirrors with Memory (Actions 1996-1998)
Inman Gallery
April 11-May 24, 2008
First included in the 6th Mercosul Biennial curated by Gabriel Perrez Barreiro, this series of text pieces by Robleto read both as object labels and small poems.
Houston On View
2008 Core Artists in Residence Exhibition
Museum of Fine Arts
On view through April 18, 2008
Each year the Museum of Fine Art's Glassel School provides residencies to a group of emerging artists through its Core Program. Go see work made by this year's participants: Mequitta Ahuja, William Cordova, Kara Hearn, Andres Janacua Lauren Kelley, Nicholas Kersulis, Sergio Torres-Torres and Jeff Williams.
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.
Jay DeFeo: Where the Swan Flies
Moody Gallery
On view through April 26, 2008
Although artist Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) is well known for her epic painting The Rose, much of her work remains little known. This exhibition offers a fresh view of DeFeo's artistic practice, presenting some of her works on paper.
Dawoud Bey: Perspectives 160
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
On view through May 11, 2008
Since 1992 Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey has been working exclusively on large-scale portraits of American teenagers. In his recent work—portraits of teenagers taken in high schools around the country—Bey has included texts that the subjects have written about themsleves. For Bey, the creation and presentation of these portraits and texts allows for a more complex and nuanced representation than the photographic portrait alone.
How Artists Draw: Toward The Menil Institute and Study Center
The Menil Collection
On view through May 18, 2008
Celebrating the strength and diversity of the museum’s drawing collection, which includes gouaches, sketches, watercolors, and collage, How Artists Draw: Toward the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center presents a selection of The Menil Collection’s most significant drawings in combination with exceptional works on paper from private collections.
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