August 1 - September 28, 2024
From Hangar Art Studios:
“Since 2012, Jason Webb has been documenting and painting Austin’s residential bulk trash as part of an ongoing series titled ‘Discard Piles’. For a few hours each week he drives the region’s neighborhood streets searching for the crème de la crème of trash piles. Select piles are photographed exactly as found without alteration to their arrangement. Back in his studio, they are intricately painted using water-thinned acrylics against empty white backgrounds. Collectively and individually, these paintings hold open space for contemplating the unknown stories of other people’s lives; the power and seeming necessity of purging; the environmental impact of disposable culture; and the uncanny beauty of dereliction.”
Reception: August 1, 2024 | 7–9 pm
3625 Menchaca Road
Austin, 78704 TX
512.253.2211
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