Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography
McNay Art Museum
September 28 - January 15, 2017
Benjamin Rasmussen & Michael Friberg: By the Olive Trees
San Antonio
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Wednesday, September 28
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McNay Art Museum
10 am – 4 pm
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Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography
McNay Art Museum
10 am – 4 pm
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Joshua McDevitt: Orientation: Unsure
Last Chance - September 9 through 30, 2016
An exhibition of works by Joshua McDevitt. In the show, McDevitt explores "western societal mores and expectations such as gender roles, heteronormativity, masculinity in boys, and femininity in girls."
Scott Mueller: Nick Bottom and the Dark Gloomy Vegetables
Last Chance - September 10 through 30, 2016
An exhibition of gum oil photographic prints by Scott Mueller. The works in the show are inspired by William Shakespeare's Mid-Summer Nights Dream.
Laura Blair Bodden: Thresholds
Last Chance - September 2 through 30, 2016
An exhibition of works by artist Laura Blair Bodden. To create her photographs, Bodden constructs miniature landscapes in her studio that play with perception and reality.
Luis M. Garza: Unrivaled: The Land Will Remain After the Last of Us
Last Chance - September 10 through 30, 2016
An exhibition of landscape photographs by Luis M. Garza.
Allison Valdivia: Family Happiness
Last Chance - September 10 through 30, 2016
An exhibition of works by San Antonio-based artist Allison Valdivia. "By viewing old family photos as artifacts, Valdivia creates her own stories, projecting hidden philosophies based on personal experience, on what she sees in the object before her, and from the lack of family history shared with her."
Daniela Riojas
Last Chance - September 12 through October 1, 2016
An exhibition of works by Daniela Riojas.
Lisa McPike Smith: Fishing for Big Dreams
Last Chance - September 2 through October 1, 2016
An exhibition of ceramics and found object assemblages by Lisa McPike Smith.
Daniela Cavazos Madrigal: Evaporandome Lentamente (Slowly Evaporating)
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
August 12 through October 8, 2016
An exhibition of works by Daniela Cavazos Madrigal. In the show, Madrigal uses repurposed materials to communicate their personal narrative.
Jenelle Esparza
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
August 12 through October 8, 2016
An exhibition of works by Jenelle Esparza. The show uses photography and sculpture to explore "cotton production and the predominately Latino labor force in cotton manufacturing along the US/ Mexico border."
Thomas Cummins: Broken Lens
Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
August 4 through October 9, 2016
An exhibition of works by winter 2015 Blue Star Contemporary Berlin Resident Thomas Cummins. Cummins on his work: "By framing the self within architecture, I ultimately explore how individuals begin to define themselves throughout surrounding social structures."Note: this show is held at Blue Star's temporary location at 112 Blue Star.
Kirsten Reynolds: Splitsplice
Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
August 4 through October 9, 2016
An exhibition of works by Newmarket, New Hampshire-based artist Kirsten Reynolds. In her work, Reynolds uses humor centered around architecture and language to undermine the seriousness usually associated with her subjects.Note: this show is held at Blue Star's temporary location at 112 Blue Star.
Sabine Senft: Borderland
August 25 through October 9, 2016
An exhibition of sculpture, paintings and photographs by Sabine Senft. In their work, the artist uses their experience as a child in 1980s Germany as an entry point to explore the "harsh realities faced by immigrants at the US/Mexico border."
Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See
September 8 through October 15, 2016
An exhibition of photography by Graciela Iturbide. In her art, Iturbide explores the male gaze and the power and dignity of women. The works in this show are taken from the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, one of the largest archives of modern and contemporary imagery from Mexico in the United States.
Buster Graybill: Recreational Modernism
September 9 through October 15, 2016
A show of works by UTSA assistant professor Buster Graybill. For this exhibition, Graybill has created sculptures using everyday, discarded objects. "Exploring Modernist tendencies through a rural working class perspective, the work challenges perceived notions of value and hierarchies imposed on objects of “high” and “low” culture."
Patrik Elgström: Obstacle
September 8 through October 15, 2016
An exhibition of works by Patrik Elgström. Elgström uses photographs to explore "narrative, philosophy, politics, ideology, and psychological expression."
SURVEY: Texas Sculpture Group
The University Galleries at Texas State University | Joann Cole Mitte Building
September 19 through October 20, 2016
An exhibition highlighting works by six members of the Texas Sculpture Group. The show is curated by Chad Dawkins.
Billy L. Keen: Retrospective
September 11 through October 23, 2016
An exhibition celebrating 2016 San Antonio Art League Artist of the Year Billy L. Keen. Keen is deeply inspired by nature and the Texas landscape.
Al Rendon: Stories & Metaphors
September 17 through October 24, 2016
An exhibition of photographs by Al Rendon.
Kent Rush: 46 Years of Photography
September 3 through October 28, 2016
An exhibition of works by San Antonio-based artist Kent Rush. In his work, Rush looks to photograph mundane objects as well as textures from urban and suburban landscapes.
Scott Stephen Ball : Loud and Clear
September 10 through October 29, 2016
Scott Stephen Ball is a photojournalist and documentary photographer based in San Antonio Texas. His work centers around the relationships humans have with religion, native wildlife, and the environment in which they live.
Seth Orion Schwaiger: Complex 2
Southwest School of Art Russell Hill Rogers Gallery- Navarro Campus
September 1 through October 30, 2016
An exhibition by Austin artist Seth Orion Schwaiger. This show is an extension of Schwaiger's COMPLEX, which was exhibited at Pump Project in Austin in spring of 2016. The show is immersive and requires the viewer to engage with it and activate its works.
Will Henry: Remote Viewing
Southwest School of Art Russell Hill Rogers Gallery- Navarro Campus
September 1 through October 30, 2016
An exhibition of works by Will Henry. The show contains paintings that can be viewed as landscapes, though the artist does not think of himself as a landscape painter: "Henry uses the paintings to analogize the viewer’s experience in the exhibition to his experience in his studio practice, not working from sources or plein air painting, but rather painting recalled and imagined landscapes, therefore practicing the act of remote viewing."
Walker Pickering: Esprit de Corps
Southwest School of Art Express-News Photography Gallery
September 1 through October 30, 2016
An exhibition of works by Nebraska-based artist Walker Pickering. For this series of works Pickering draws on his personal experiences of paying in a marching band to capture intimate images associated with the preparation and performances of college and high school bands.
Elizabeth Chiles: On My Mind, Again
Southwest School of Art Ursuline Hall Gallery - Ursuline Campus
September 1 through October 30, 2016
An exhibition of works by Elizabeth Chiles. The photographs in the show are "abstract meditations on the human perception surrounding nature."
Raul Gonzalez: Werds & Places
September 7 through November 7, 2016
An exhibition by San Antonio-based artist Raul Gonzalez. The show features paintings and drawings comprised of words, architectural lines, and shapes. For the opening, Gonzalez will do a performance reading of select works.
2016 Rooftop Jazz Concert Series
June 17 through November 18, 2016
A concert series presented by Artpace and KRTU Jazz 91.7.
Objectives
September 22 through November 19, 2016
An exhibition curated by Denise Markonish, Fall 2016 Artpace Guest Curator and curator of MASS MoCA, and featuring works by Jessica Halonen (Austin, TX), Ryder Richards (Dallas, TX), and Kamila Szczesna (Galveston, TX).
Window Works: Emily Fleisher
September 22 through November 19, 2016
A new immersive sculpture by San Antonio artist Emily Fleisher.
Katherine Brown: Compositions of A Found Mind
San Antonio College Moody Learning Center
September 15 through December 2, 2016
An exhibition of works by San Antonio artist Katherine Brown. Her work is largely inspired by "her experiences living in Florence, times gone by, religion and the elements of language."
Jim Dine: Salome Reimagined
August 31 through December 24, 2016
In 1987, the Houston Grand Opera invited Jim Dine to execute set and costume design for Richard Strauss’s opera Salome. This exhibition features 30 pastel drawings created by Dine during his design process. The show also features documents and photographs from Houston Grand Opera's archive.
Orientalism: The Middle East Onstage
August 31 through December 24, 2016
An exhibition exploring how "the Orient" was perceived in western theatre and opera from the 1600s to the 1900s.
Jennifer Steinkamp: Botanic 3
August 30, 2016 through January 8, 2017
An exhibition of works by Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp. Botanic 3 was created in 2015 and features animated flowering plants that are being blown by un unseen force.
Carlos Merida: Selections From the Permanent Collection
July 8, 2016 through January 29, 2017
An exhibition of works by artist Carlos Merida. Merida worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera and studied in Paris where he was influenced by the art of Modigliani and Picasso. He went on to be come one of Mexico's first successful abstract artists.
Parlour Games: Ruloff Kip’s Toy Theatre
July 6, 2016 through February 6, 2017
On display is a large toy theatre created in 1919 by Ruloff Kip. Features of the assemblage include moving mechanisms, several working lighting schemes, and an array of set drops and cut-out characters, based on Kip’s house and family members.
Gallery Talks with Curators
September 16, 2016 through February 17, 2017
Curators from the San Antonio Museum of Art talk about objects from the museum's collection.
Art in the Garden: Scattering Screen
June 30, 2016 through April 30, 2017
An installation by Brooklyn-based artist Alyson Shotz. Shotz's site-specific installation Scattering Screen encourages visitors to interact with the garden and notice particularities in the garden's landscape.
Rivane Neuenschwander: Secondary Stories
April 30, 2016 through July 29, 2017
The Texas debut of Secondary Stories, a room-sized installation by Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander. The artist's works address "language, nature, social interactions and the passing of time."
AT&T Lobby Installation: Leigh Anne Lester
August 4, 2016 through July 30, 2017
An installation by San Antonio-based artist Leigh Anne Lester. The work is inspired by science, botany, and genetic modification.
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