Elaine I-Ling Shen: Everything Is Possible Again
Blackbox
February 11 through March 10, 2012
Austin
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Laurie Frick: Quantify Me
Last Chance - January 12 through February 23, 2012
Frick hand-builds rhythmic works and installations from modest materials that stimulate the neural processing of memory. Recycled cardboard, hand towels, junk mail, gallery cards, old paper-back book covers, found wood – each registers as familiar texture we’ve all touched and experienced. The work pulls from Frick's background in engineering and high-technology to explore science, human pattern and compulsive organization.
Jacques Louis Vidal: Free Range Sculpture
Last Chance - January 26 through February 25, 2012
Carved wooden sculptures atop a wide, low plinth engage in various surreal dramas: two heads are connected by a nose, a form in a cage entangles itself, a hand emerges from a top hat.
Daniel Heidkamp: Glow Drops At The Chill Spot
Last Chance - January 26 through February 25, 2012
Plein air + impasto by a Brooklyn painter.
Ian Shults: New Works
Last Chance - February 4 through 25, 2012
Vintage reprobates and swingers, all mid-century seersucker and clandestine hanky-panky, rendered in stunning acrylics by Austin painter Ian Shults.
Collected Works: Group Show
Last Chance - February 4 through 25, 2012
B. Hollyman Gallery celebrates the New Year with an exhibit featuring a variety of works from the gallery’s photographers.
Making Do with Little: Cotton Sacks and Cotton Sack Quilts
Winedale Historical Complex- UT Briscoe Center for American History
Last Chance - February 12 through 25, 2012
Cotton Sack Quilts in the Winedale Historic Quilt Collection.
Jamie Panzer: Bullshit Detector
Last Chance - February 18 through 25, 2012
The schematic for this ancient apparatus was unearthed one day when I was digging for loose coins in the dirt. I’ve reconstructed a prototype using modern materials as best I could. It’s monolithic pylons serve as support for the mechanism, forming a tetrahedron, which defines the purest geometric shape in the known universe. Through restistance and impedance, bullshit is attracted, absorbed and disintagrated.
Jennifer Harrison: Fresh Paintings
Last Chance - February 4 through 26, 2012
Nova Scotia artist Jennifer Harrison attempts to abbreviate houses, garages and sheds to their simplest recognizable forms. With the people, cars and greenery removed, the buildings become a strange mix of cheerful hues and haunting vacancy.
Wide Open
Last Chance - February 11 through 29, 2012
A juried show featuring works by artists Carol Hayman, Cheri Merrifield, Chrys Grummert, Elena Knapp, John Stekl, Leslie Kell, Linda Sheppard, Lori LeJeune, Lucian Richards, Martha Kull, NJ Weaver, Paul McGuire, Robert Schoolar, and Sergio Rosas.
Joshua Saunders: Crip/Blood
January 14 through March 1, 2012
Saunders foregrounds incendiary elements within the threadbare discourses of race, sex, gender, and violence. How does what started in Compton in ’69 amongst a definable, interrelated, if highly conflictive, group become currency for a heterogeneous zoo of characters—from rich white boys to barrio youth—who happen to drink from the same mass media watering holes?
Even Hublein: Hell Yeah/Hell Nah
Big Medium (formerly Bolm Studios)
February 4 through March 2, 2012
It's about decision making and your guts. More importantly, it is about a certain uneasy feeling in your guts when choices are made.
Martin Sztyk: Narratives
Big Medium (formerly Bolm Studios)
February 11 through March 2, 2012
Scenes of crude inhabitation within vast derelict landscapes from Sztyk's Urban Forest, Empty City, and New London Stock Exchange series.
Niklas Goldbach: HABITAT C3B
January 14 through March 4, 2012
Niklas Goldbach’s video HABITAT C3B explores a nearly deserted urban environment populated only by a handful of identical men engaging in an unknown mission. The clone-like characters chase one man that breaks from the group. Filmed at the main site of Georges Pompidou’s failed gentrification in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, the video chronicles the implied protagonist’s journey through barren 1970s architecture.
Jill Magid: Failed States
January 14 through March 4, 2012
In 2010, 24-year-old Fausto Cardenas fired six shots from a handgun into the air from the steps of the Texas State Capitol. Coincidentally, NY artist Jill Magid was present as a witness, and mines the coincidence for her performative exhibition, drawing connections between Fausto’s futile and tragic act and Goethe’s nineteenth-century epic poem, Faust. In conjunction with the show at Arthouse, Magid's armored family car will be parked near the Texas Capitol, and she will publish something in the February issue of the Texas Observer.
Evidence of Houdini’s Return
January 14 through March 4, 2012
Provocative abstract forms that investigate art’s potential to interrupt and/or reconstruct elements of everyday life. Featuring Sterling Allen, Facundo Argañaraz, Strauss Bourque LaFrance, Katja Mater, Christopher Samuels, Justin Swinburne, and J. Parker Valentine
Justin Boyd: Dubforms
January 27 through March 10, 2012
San Antonio-based artist Justin Boyd's multidisciplinary response to the Arcade gallery's most striking element: a pair of floor-to-ceiling bay windows. Two separate site-derived, sculptural augmentations, and a sound piece.
Diana Al-Hadid
January 27 through March 10, 2012
NY Sculptor Al-Hadid constructs forms that are a baroque complex of architectural structures and figurative allusions, which appear to be in a state between construction and deconstruction.
Across the Divide
January 27 through March 10, 2012
25 contemporary Chinese artists who are currently working in academia across the United States, organized by the Crossman Gallery at The University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and presented in partnership with UT's Center for Asian American Studies.
(Im)possibilities
January 27 through March 10, 2012
Using probability theory, linguistics, mathematics, radar imaging, robotics, fortunetelling, and even a yo-yo, four New york artists and a Berliner question the limits of knowledge. Featuring Erica Baum, Ellie Ga, Birgit Rathsmann, Patrick Resing, and Michael Stevenson and curated by C.C. Marsh.
New Prints 2011
January 27 through March 10, 2012
Sixty-seven prints by fifty-one artists, New Prints 2011 is the fortieth presentation of the International Print Center New York’s (IPCNY) New Prints Program. Sponsored by Printmaking Convergence, a program of the UT Department of Art in collaboration with IPCNY.
Elaine I-Ling Shen: Everything Is Possible Again
February 11 through March 10, 2012
Photographs and sculptures by Austin artist Elaine I-Ling Shen that explore the complex nature of childhood and human impulse at the inaugural exhibition at Blackbox, a new art space located in central Austin.
Larry Rand: Motion in Time
February 20 through March 16, 2012
Abstract oil paintings with videos of the objects in the paintings in motion. influenced by Mark Rothko, John Walker, Georgia O'Keeffe and Howard Hodgkin.
Barrio Scenes: Works by Roy Medrano
The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center
January 20 through March 24, 2012
Born in 1950 and raised in East Austin, Medrano missed much of his education because he was a migrant worker. He writes, "I started the series Barrio Scenes so that my grandchildren could see what East Austin used to look like . . . hopefully through my art people will remember the struggle our raza went through. I have a lot more to paint."
Fingerprints of Reality: Photojournalism by Carlos H. Lozano
The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center
January 20 through March 24, 2012
Photos that recreate the daily life of the immigrant who works in both urban and rural arenas, and builds his future based on strong family ties.
Miguel Andrade Valdez: Monumento Lima
January 9 through March 25, 2012
Peruvian artist Miguel Andrade Valdez’s video Monumento Lima is a chaotic, rapid-fire visual compendium of the monuments that occupy Lima’s traffic circles and pedestrian malls. Will be Arthouse's new Screen Project, projected over Congress avenue.
Diego Huerta: 31K Portraits for Peace
January 27 through April 1, 2012
When Mexican photographer Diego Huerta started this project, more than 31,000 deaths had taken place in Mexico due to the ongoing drug wars, so he made it his mission to photograph 31,000 people, each holding a blue paper dove. This project will be Mexic-Arte Museum's contribution to a collaborative promotional effort with Ballet Austin known as the Light/The Holocaust and Humanity Project.
Tom Molloy: New World
February 11 through April 14, 2012
Nine different LP sleeves from recordings of Dvořák's New World Symphony whose text has been painted to blend in with the cover image. As with much of the Irish artist's work, the gesture of New World is clear but its implications remain enigmatic.
Pun Value: 4 Works by Lee Lozano
December 3, 2011 through April 22, 2012
A case study of works by sensationalized, transgressive, feminist artist Lee Lozano from The Blanton collection, curated by Katie Geha examines the artist’s process and influence on the art world of the 1960s.
Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani: Toute la mémoire du monde
January 14 through April 22, 2012
In Toute la mémoire du monde – The world’s knowledge, Berlin artists Fischer and el Sani reinterpret French director Alain Resnais’ similarly titled 1956 film, juxtposing resnais' jam-packed old Bibliothèque Nationale with the deserted stacks of the building today. This is their first solo exhibition in the United States.
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