Cody Ledvina and Shane Tolbert: No Shitsky
Domy Books Austin
April 28 through May 24, 2012
Austin
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Cody Ledvina and Shane Tolbert: No Shitsky
Last Chance - April 28 through May 24, 2012
Cody Ledvina and Shane Tolbert collaborate around a central formal element, the half circle.
Leonard Lehrer
Last Chance - April 20 through May 26, 2012
Lehrer grew up in Philadelphia's Strawberry Mansion neighborhood. He has fond memories of his life there and says his first two true passions were art and baseball. While his baseball career didn't exactly pan-out, after taking art classes at the age of 12 at the Philadelphia Museum he was hooked.
New Works by America Martin
Last Chance - May 5 through 26, 2012
Decorative work evoking early modern art by a Los Angeles based artist who has a very professionally put-together artist website.
All_Over: Ben Brandt
Last Chance - May 19 through 26, 2012
A contemporary iteration of an ancient form, the grotto via the often-overlooked grotto-like domestic spaces of the attic and basement crawlspaces. On view by appointment only through May 26.
The Surrealist Influence on Contemporary Photography
May 5 through June 2, 2012
Works from 20+ photographers from Austin and elsewhere in the country.
Heather Tolleson: Spiral Plexus
March 11 through June 9, 2012
2,000 shiny metallic wind spinners, viewable at GSD&M, located at 828 West 6th Street, Austin. Created to bring wonder and surprise by Heather Tolleson, Austin's emerging artist of the year for 2009.
Fugue States: Collaborative works by Hector Hernandez and William Hundley
May 11 through June 10, 2012
The two artists contine their collaboration that began with Identity Crisis (2011, grayDUCK Gallery).
Mark Johnson: Row Home
May 19 through June 14, 2012
Paintings, drawings and media that invade the viewers space with fragmented conversations. Open hours during the West Austin Studio Tour, May 19th and 20th, 11am-6pm.
LIFT Projects: Julia Oschatz
AMOA-Arthouse at The Jones Center
May 5 through June 17, 2012
Julia Oschatz's video Odds and Ends: Venus explores the odyssey undertaken by a lone figure in the process of an infinite, Sisyphean journey.
Ana Fernandez: Real Estates and Other Fictions
May 10 through June 21, 2012
Eerie large scale home portraits by a regional artist also known for her food trailer, ChiliQueens, parked in downtown San Antonio.
New Works: Big Skies, Textural Curiosities And Sculptural Elegance
May 19 through June 23, 2012
Art by Caprice Pierucci, Philip Durst, Joseph Hammer, Chris De Dier and William Wahlgren.
Miguel Aragón: Fractured Memories, Assembled Trauma
May 5 through July 18, 2012
Printmaker Miguel Aragón transforms images of drug-cartel related deaths from Mexican newspapepr clippings. $10 admission to the opening.
Arturo García Bustos: La imagen del México Postrevolucionario
May 5 through July 18, 2012
In 1983, Arturo García Bustos generously donated several artworks to the bourgeoning Mexic–Arte Museum; these prints, as well as loaned artworks from Mexico’s Museo de la Estampa will be on display. $10 admission to the opening.
2012 Texas Prize Exhibition
AMOA-Arthouse at The Jones Center
May 5 through July 22, 2012
Will Henry, Jamal Cyrus, and Jeff Williams duke it out for the $30,000 AMOA-Arthouse Texas Prize.
Amie Siegel: Black Moon
AMOA-Arthouse at The Jones Center
May 5 through July 22, 2012
A present-day, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction film featuring a band of armed female revolutionaries.
Collection Selections: The Barrett Collection
AMOA-Arthouse at Laguna Gloria
March 9 through August 19, 2012
Showcases pieces from AMOA-Arthouse’s newly-acquired Barrett Collection of work by Texas artists.
The People's Gallery 2012
February 24, 2012 through January 1, 2013
Over 150 artworks from Austin-area artists, displayed throughout the first three floors of City Hall. Including a special exhibit of Rino Pizzi's The Mona Lisa Project. The People's Choice Award ceremony will begin at 6:30 p.m. Short films from the Faces of Austin collection will screen at 7 p.m.
Recents Posts
Gray Matter
The surfaces of Ben Brandt‘s sculptures are covered in gray. The objects look like they’re a thousand years old, as if they’d just been pulled from some long-ago construction site, waiting to be carefully brushed off and examined. His process of covering things with cement mixture, or in the case of his Co-Lab show that [...]
Found Art: Serbian Groom Trolls for Bride
The image above and those below were pasted in a document that opened with the following (loosely translated) text: “To all unmarried ones who would like to spend their life by my side and within all the beauties of my home. Please look below at all the magic of my home that I have decorated [...]
Interview with Waltercio Caldas
Portrait of Waltercio Caldas, image from http://blogs.elpais.com/el_rincon_del_distraido/2011/02/levedad-y-exactitud.html Waltercio Caldas is one of Brazil’s leading contemporary artists. His work is often linked to Neo-Concretism, a movement in Rio de Janerio in the 1960s that included artists such as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Caldas is currently planning a retrospective spanning four decades of his work to [...]
90s Nostalgia: Lamenting the loss of the mega bookstore while loving the iPad
During the 90s, I worked at Hastings. Similar to other major retail entertainment chains (Borders, Blockbuster, Tower, etc.), Hastings sells just about every form of consumable media, and can be found in mid-size cities and suburbs across the country. Going there as a kid (the nearest one being a half hour’s drive) was an important [...]
