Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves
Linda Pace Foundation
February 17 through June 30, 2012
San Antonio
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Julie Shipp: New Paintings
Last Chance - February 2 through 29, 2012
Amalgamations of color and swirling gyres of paint influenced by the sublime forces of nature.
Gwynn Griffith: Shoe Sale
February 11 through March 1, 2012
Inspiration from the closet: oil paintings of shoes for Griffith's first solo show.
Ron & Larry
January 13 through March 2, 2012
The fantasy and practicality of Berlin hotel decor in photographs by Ron Binks; Elemental sigularities"without multitudinous manifestations" in phptos by Larry Leissner on of binks former students.
Convergences: The Sculpture of Larry Graeber and Jessica Ramirez
January 20 through March 3, 2012
Recent geometric sculpture by painter Larry Graeber using tubing, wires, foam core board, and wooden scraps paired with Jessica Ramirez's fiberglass and vinyl pieces suggesting giant insects or crustaceans, curated by Richard Teitz.
Four Emerging San Antonio Artists
January 21 through March 4, 2012
Works by four emerging San Antonio artists: painters Esteban Delgado and Enrique Gutierrez, sculptor Ernesto Ibañez, and painter/classical violinist Mark Cheikhet.
Steve Wiman: There's More Where That Came From
February 3 through March 4, 2012
Says Austin artist Steve Wiman: "My personal compulsions to save and collect veer dangerously close to hoarding, but, I am not a hoarder, I'm a collector."
New Works on Paper
February 16 through March 17, 2012
Featuring Jonathan Faber, Sara Frantz, Kelly O’Connor, Dan Sutherland, and Vincent Valdez
Shifting of Views: The Art of Bernice A. Appelin-Williams
San Antonio College Moody Learning Center
February 8 through March 30, 2012
Mixed media works by San Antonio artist Bernice A. Appelin-Williams. Ms. Williams collects discarded items and photographs and recreates a new experience of them in her collages and mixed media creations, exploring stereotypes of women.
Out of the Vault: Celebrating 85 Years of Collecting
September 16, 2011 through April 29, 2012
Some of the best artifacts drawn from the vast Witte collections amassed since 1926 including natural history, art, military, arms and armor, anthropology, archives and history.
Tony Feher
January 12 through April 29, 2012
Feher's witty sculptures made from functional objects such as soda bottles, plastic bags, and blue masking tape.
Judith Cottrell
January 12 through April 29, 2012
Delicately layered monochromatic drawings and paintings that evoke natural forms such as sea shells, bubbles, and clouds. Cottrell's recent works have a translucent quality reminiscent of sun prints or X-rays; no wonder: by day she's a surgical technician at South Texas Veterinary Specialists, where radiological examinations inform the treatment of ill animals.
San Antonio Collects: African American Artists
January 17 through May 6, 2012
Works from the Harriet and Harmon Kelley and Irene and Leo Edwards Collections, covering 200 years of African American art. It's the first of three shows planned for 2012 that focus on San Antonio collectors organized by the museums gung-ho new director, Katie Luber.
Adolf Dehn’s Tales of Guy de Maupassant
January 25 through May 6, 2012
In 1945, Random House commissioned Adolf Dehn to illustrate a new authoritative edition of Guy de Maupassant’s most famous short stories. The 20 prints in this exhibition are the original lithographs used to create the images for the book and are recent gifts of Janet and Joe Westheimer.
Drawn Forth: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection
February 1 through May 6, 2012
Recently acquired drawings from the McNay's collection by Leonardo Drew, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Joan Snyder, Richard Stankiewicz, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and Jack Youngerman.
Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune
February 1 through May 20, 2012
A look at Warhol's lifelong obsession with both celebrity and disaster. This exhibition, exclusive to the McNay, (and with a $15 special admission fee!) is drawn from the collections of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA and organized by the McNay's Chief Curator and Curator of Art after 1945, René Paul Barilleaux.
Chris Sauter: Empire
February 1 through May 20, 2012
Chris Sauter’s eight-hour video homage to Andy Warhol’s film substitutes San Antonio’s Southtown iconic Pioneer Flour Mills grain elevator for the Empire State Building.
Baroque to Bauhaus: Designs from the Tobin Collection
January 18 through June 10, 2012
Contrasting aproaches to theater design in two antithetical styles: the spare, clean lines of the Bauhaus challenging the painterly illusionism of the Baroque.
The Chinese Art of Cricket Keeping: The Ernest K.H. Lee Collection
December 23, 2011 through June 15, 2012
Crickets have been kept as pets in China for at least 1,000 years. Dr. Ernest Lee'S large, diverse, and impressive collection of cricket cages and implements in gourd, tortoiseshell, jade, ivory, cloisonné, silver, Peking glass, porcelain, and even coconut. Other cricket-keeping objects include agitators used to prepare crickets for fighting, cricket-catchers, fighting arenas, cricket coffins, and even cricket beds – don't miss it!
Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves
February 17 through June 30, 2012
A presentation of Julien's 2009 work, co-comissioned by the Linda Pace Foundation. Ten Thousand Waves was filmed on location in China and poetically weaves together stories linking China’s ancient past and present. The work explores the movement of people across countries and continents and meditates on unfinished journeys.
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