These stories, and those that follow, paint a picture of an artist-run-space of humble beginnings — grass roots that will never harden into an institutional surface.
"Hills Snyder"
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At this strange moment in history, Hills Snyder asks members of our creative community: What is at the top of your mind? What is in the bottom of your heart?
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(Note: This is the eighth installment in a series of stories published in conjunction with the traveling project ‘Altered States’ which opened November 2016 and is still on the move. For Part One, go here. For Part Two, go…
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Artists, musicians, and other creative people are leaving Austin for smaller towns in the Hill Country.
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"We love this work and are trying to figure out how to manifest more hours in the day."
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“Gallery Sonja Roesch is pleased to announce an Accrochage featuring the work of 21 different artists. The work included in this exhibition exemplifies the vision of Gallery Sonja Roesch, which…
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"BASEBALL IS BORING BUT SO IS ART."
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I continue to drive down the highways and back roads, as if they are the pages of a book, reading America one town at a time.
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One of the joys of living in Texas is that the state’s mythology and presence looms so large that it often inspires visiting artists to make works specifically in response to the Lone Star State.
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Review
No Necessary Time Axis on Evolutionary Novelties: Leigh Anne Lester’s Cut Copies
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoLester uses blind contour — the act of drawing an object without looking at the paper — to physicalize the inherent impossibility of a perfect copy in the propagation of life.
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Christina Rees and Neil Fauerso on the beauty of Grand Central Terminal, the endurance of Co-Lab Projects, and one longtime festival’s determination to keep Austin’s freak flag flying.
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A solo show of works by Olive Ayhens. Curated by Hills Snyder.
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News
Preview the Art Auction for Glasstire’s 2019 Fundraising Party in Houston
by Glasstireby GlasstireWhile the actual 2019 Glasstire Party is scheduled for January 18 at The Space HTX, a new event space on Commerce Street in Houston's East End, Glasstire is hosting an art auction preview at Sloan/Hall (2620 Westheimer Rd) from 2-8PM on January 9.
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This is the sixth installment in a series of stories published by artist Hills Snyder in conjunction with his traveling project ‘Altered States’ which opened November 2016 and is still on the move.
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This year, Sculpture Month Houston returns with related programming at more than 40 spaces across the city, including museums, commercial galleries, non-profit art spaces, and special Sculpture Month-organized shows.
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Peak Shift is Sculpture Month Houston’s exhibition at SITE Gallery Houston, inside the old rice silos at Sawyer Yards. “This title refers to a psychological phenomenon that propels an individual to…
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New Mexico is the inscrutable blank expression of a Kachina Doll, a white fade under a big sky. It’s chiller, sparser, more silent than either of its neighbors, and there’s reason why if you’re rich and need to dry out your family will probably send you to a “spa” called Desert Sage in New Mexico.
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Magdaelana is a place where people collect many things — telescopes, printing presses, rocks, scrap metal, sound installation pieces — and all seem to have a deep and proud knowledge of their possessions. The desert is a good place to store objects — it’s dry and the light is keen to lay things out in.
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“This is the 4th edition of Patent Pending, an invitational group exhibition, imagined and organized by accomplished artist Jon Whitfill. The show includes over 50 artists from all across the…
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"The relentless stress of working unstable and underpaid jobs is not ennobling or creatively inspiring. I don’t think it builds character. I think it kills your soul."