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James Ciosek: Human Hamster Wheel

James Ciosek: Human Hamster Wheel

Ever  noticed the habitual, repetitive, sometimes futile, nature of human psychologies and activities which expend vast amounts of energy but, in the end, go nowhere?

Peter Lucas: Voyager Found

Peter Lucas: Voyager Found

In 1977, Astronomer Carl Sagan and colleagues assembled a collection of diagrams, greetings, photographs, and recorded sounds and music as a “message in a bottle” [...]

Jane Eifler: Travelogue

Jane Eifler: Travelogue

Collages made primarily while traveling on long car trips, at home watching movies and during her free time.

Laura Nicole Kante: Fibers of Being

Laura Nicole Kante: Fibers of Being

An installation of crochet lace that consumes the wall and organically responds to the architecture of the gallery; sculptural wall pieces in which woven forms [...]

Staring at the Wall: The Art of Boredom

Staring at the Wall: The Art of Boredom

Boredom is a powerful state of mind; it often plays a significant role in the process of art-making and viewing. Work by Chris Akin, Seth [...]

Dallas Architecture Forum Lecture: Michael Lehrer

Dallas Architecture Forum Lecture: Michael Lehrer

Michael Lehrer founded his practice in Los Angeles in 1985. His work ranges from the intimate to the monumental, carefully incorporating concepts of light and [...]

Shawn Camp, Beili Liu, and Sandra Pratt: Post Linear

Shawn Camp, Beili Liu, and Sandra Pratt: Post Linear

Noted Austin artists working on the fringes of landscape.

Jerry E. Smith: In the Spirit of the Moment: A Mixed Media Installation

Jerry E. Smith: In the Spirit of the Moment: A Mixed Media Installation

The taboo polemics of religion, art and politics (along with a bit of self reflection and depreciation).  Telephone poles becoming crosses, palettes become devils.

HCC Central 2012 Fall Juried Student Art Exhibit

HCC Central 2012 Fall Juried Student Art Exhibit

Sixto Wagan, artistic director of DiverseWorks, will choose outstanding student work in various media, such as painting, digital art, jewelry and sculpture, for awards totaling [...]

Continuum Live Art Series – Opening Night

Continuum Live Art Series – Opening Night

Houston performance art group Continuum their six-month residency at AvantGarden with cutting edge performance art from Julia Wallace, Jonatan Lopez, Unna Bettie, Hilary Scullane, Koomah, [...]

Austin’s Mexico: A Forgotten Downtown Neighborhood

Austin’s Mexico: A Forgotten Downtown Neighborhood

Photos from the Library’s Austin History Center depict Austin’s early Mexican and Mexican American business and cultural community downtown between Congress Avenue and the banks [...]