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      Exhibitions

      Austin Openings

      Ewan Gibbs: Pictures of Pitchers

      lora reynolds gallery
      March 8 - April 19, 2008; Reception and Artist's Talk March 22 6-8pm

      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.

      It's About Time

      L_M_N_L gallery (305B E. 5th Street)
      Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8 from 7:00-10:00 pm

      A collaborative art environment created by Amanda Jones, a local artist and curator, and Collector Rert, an Austin based collective, It’s About Time touches on a wide array of themes including science, domesticity, personal narrative and nature.

      We've Got Tissues

      okay mountain
      Opening Reception: Saturday March 22 from 7:00-10:00 pm

      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.

      Intermezzo: Recent Works by Benita Huerta

      The Mexican American Cultural Center (600 River Street)
      Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8 from 1:00-5:00 pm; Artist's Talk at 3:00 pm

      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.

      Cult of Color: Call to Color - Notes on a Collaboration

      Arthouse
      March 22 - April 27, 2008

      The exhibition is presented in conjunction with Cult of Color: Call to Color a new ballet commissioned by Ballet Austin and created by visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, choreographer Stephen Mills and composer Graham Reynolds. The exhibition traces various aspects of this cross-disciplinary collaboration among the three artists. It will include four environmental installations derived from ballet scenes as well as Hancock’s paintings, notes, drawings, sketches and other art works that informed the production’s concept and inspired the backdrop curtains, stage props and costumes. Reynolds’ entire score will be available and Mills’ working process will be represented digitally via computers and video collage. For further information about the ballet, please click here.

      Austin On View

      Fritz Haeg: Attack on the Front Lawn

      Arthouse
      On view through March 16, 2008; Final Sundown Schoolhouse Workshops on Saturday, March 8 from 3:00-5:00 pm

      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. The final Sundown Schoolhouse Workshop will be devoted to marketing opportunities for backyard gardeners and will be led by Andrew Smiley of the Sustainable Food Center.

      Jorge Macchi: The Anatomy of Melancholy

      Blanton Museum of Art
      On view through March 16, 2008

      See Andrea Giunta's review in issue #93

      Ryan Lauderdale and Michael Berryhill: Greetings from Berrydale

      okay mountain
      On view through March 15, 2008

      See Katie Geha's review in this issue.

      In Katrina’s Wake

      WorkSpace Gallery, Blanton Museum of Art
      On view through March 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.

      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.

      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 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.

      Eric Zimmerman: Atlas

      Art Palace
      On view through April 9, 2008

      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.

      20 to Watch: New Art in Austin

      Austin Museum of Art
      On view through May 11, 2008
      See Kate Green's interview with Dana Friis-Hansen and Claire Ruud's review in this issue.

      San Antonio Openings

      Chad Erpelding: Merge

      Cactus Bra
      Opening Reception: Friday, March 7 from 6:00-9:00 pm

      Chad Erpelding’s work investigates global networks by looking at international business organizations, political systems, urban/suburban development, and personal experiences. Through researching the detailed ways various groups view and experience the world, Erpelding creates visually complex and conceptually disorienting pieces. Merge is a combination of two pieces. 20 Miles weaves together hundreds of strips of muslin, each painted to resemble a highway. G8 is a video animation that investigates the Group of Eight through images of the member countries and their leaders. Viewed together, the pieces look at both physical and political constructs and the resulting blurring of boundaries and place.

      New Works: 08.1 Regina José Galindo, Rodney McMillian and Margarita Cabrera

      artpace
      Opening Reception and Arists' Dialogue: Thursday, March 13 from 6:00-8:00 pm

      Curated by Franklin Sirmans,Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Menil Collection, this exhibition presents new works created by Regina José Galindo (Guatemala City, Guatemala), Rodney McMillian (Los Angeles, CA) and Margarita Cabrera (El Paso, TX)—the latest round of artists in residence at artpace.

      Unfurnished Room

      Unit B Gallery
      Opening Reception: Friday, March 14 from 6:30-10:00 pm

      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. Participating artists include: Josh Blackwell, Rachel Foullon, Sam Gordon, Barbara Hatfield, Jamie Isenstein, Matt Keegan, Siobhan Liddell, Peter Mandradjieff, Adam Putnam and Sara Saltzman.

      San Antonio On View

      Terry Karson

      Sala Diaz
      On view through March 16, 2008

      Inspired by his travels to Turkey in recent years, Montana artist Terry Karson has moved from the natural history themes of his previous work to something more archaeological in nature. Making use of recycled cardboard packaging, Terry distresses and scrambles the lingering logos and texts in a cadence falling between recognition and obscurity.

      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 Openings

      Kurt Stallmann & Alfred Guzzetti: Breaking Earth and Zoe Crosher: One Year Later

      DiverseWorks
      Opening Reception: Friday, March 7 from 6:00 -8:00 pm

      Diverseworks presents two projectsKurt Stallman and Alfred Guzzetti: Breaking Earth and Zoe Crosher: One Year Laterwhich both open on Friday, March 7. A five screen installation with multiple audio channels, Breaking Earth presents a palette of images, sounds and spaces created by composer Alfred Guzzetti and filmaker Kurt Stallmann. To create telling and insightful portraits for One Year Later, photographer Zoe Crosher trained her lens on young women in the small towns and big cities of America.

      San Antonio On View

      Nate Cassie: For You

      Three Walls-Blue Star Art Complex
      On view through March 31, 2008

      This exhibition documents a mail art project initiated by Nate Cassie in which he sent 55 artists two sheets of paper and an invitation to email him drawings of birdhouses and beehives. In return, the artists received a print done by Hare and Hound Press in San Antonio. In this exhibition, Cassie presents the drawings of the artists who chose to participate, the print he sent in return and the first edition of the book documenting the entire process.

      Houston Openings

      Hana Hillerova: Transfigurations, Chuy Benitez: Houston Cultura, Adam Schreiber: Reverent Estimations and William Stewart: Broken Dreams

      Lawndale Art Center:
      Opening Reception: Friday, March 7 from 6:30-8:30 pm

      Lawndale Art Center presents a suite of exhibitions organized in conjunction with FOTOFEST 2008. The new sculptures by Hana Hillerova in Transfigurations change the direction of the light in the room instead of claiming a sculptural space of their own. The digital panoramic photographs by Chuy Benitez in Houston Cultura document the Mexican American community in Houston. The photographs by Adam Schreiber in Reverent Estimations are meditations on the architecture of relics, technology and the marginal spaces in between. And in Broken Dreams, William Stewart chronicles Houston's old Third Ward and nearby neighborhoods.

      Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: Habitat 7

      Houston Center for Photography
      March 8 - April 20, 2008

      A series of photographs by New York based artist Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao that document the series of communities located near the tracks of New York City's 7 train.

       

      Dawoud Bey: Perspectives 160

      Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
      March 14 – May 11

      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.

      Houston On View

      Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space

      Blaffer Gallery
      On view through March 29, 2008

      See Clare Elliott's review in issue #92

      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.

      Demetrius Oliver: Firmament

      Inman Gallery
      On view through 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 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.

      2008 Core Artists in Residence Exhibition

      Museum of Fine Arts Houston
      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.

      William Christenberry

      Moody Gallery
      On view through May 5, 2008

      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.

      Dallas On View

      Collecting & Collectivity

      Conduit Gallery
      On view through March 22, 2008
      See Allison Hearst's review in this issue.

      Dallas Openings

      Palace Does Dallas: Sterling Allen, Peat Duggins & Ali Fitzgerald

      Road Agent
      Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8 from 6:00-8:00 pm

      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.

      Dallas On View

      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 Dallas art scene. Longtime collectors George Michael and Kenny Goss established the Foundation to share their collection with the public and increase the appreciation of contemporary art, specifically in the Dallas area. Their current exhibition showcases works by internationally recognized British artist Damien Hirst. Hirst’s visceral installations, sculptures, paintings and drawings challenge the boundaries between art, science and popular culture. His work explores such themes as life, death, loyalty and betrayal.

      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

      Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
      On view through May 18, 2008

      The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents a major exhibition of the sculpture by 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.

      On View Elsewhere

      Setareh Shahbazi: Why Not Bazar

      Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
      On view through May 11, 2008

      If you find yourself in Santa Barbara this month, go check out Why Not Bazar, the first United States solo exhibition of Iranian-born and Berlin-based artist Setareh Shahbazi. Curated by Fluent~Collaborative founder Regine Basha, Why Not Bazar presents Shahbazi’s two and three dimensional collages. Containing images culled from a variety of sources including advertisements, magazines and postcards, Shahbazi uses these collages as a vehicle through which to investigate cultural collision and intersection.

      Openings Elsewhere

      The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image Part I: Dreams

      Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
      On view through May 11, 2008

      This two-part exhibition features moving-image artworks by a range of influential and emerging international artistsincluding the Austin based Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchlerwhose works use film language and technology to explore the ever-increasing impact of the cinematic on our perceptions and the ways in which the very boundaries between “real life” and make-believe have become at least blurred, if not indecipherable.