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Melany Jean’s Top 10 Fine Art Moments of 2018
Unforgettably textured sculptures, unsettling exhibitions, and unusual spaces made for a memorable year in art
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“Annie Miller: I see london, I see france” at MoHA
This show in the Cage Match Project series casts the viewer as peeping Tom, looking through holes in a boarded-up trailer to view art
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MASS Gallery’s “Staycation: thresholds”
The gallery’s first exhibit in its new home invites viewers into the private self and into the stretching of one’s limits
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East Austin Studio Tour 2018: Recapping Weekend 1
Take MoHA’s selfie challenge? Bathe in the forest? Do it all!
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Immersive, Interactive, Intriguing EAST
Melany Jean’s five recommended stops for the East Austin Studio Tour 2018
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“Steve Parker: War Tuba” at Big Medium
In exploring sound’s relationship to conflict and use in it, the artist fuses past and present, melody and discord, into a remixed reveille
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ICOSA’s “Chiaroscuro: probing mystery, seeking clarity”
The first group show in the collective’s new home shows its members stretching themselves and embracing change
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“Shanie Tommasini: Slippery Clump” at the Umlauf
The Umlauf Prize-winning artist uses big, playful shapes and environmental manipulation to look at art, nature, and conservation
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“Ed Ruscha: Archaeology and Romance” at the Ransom Center
This evocative excavation into the artist’s process of creating art and making books reveals the work of art is the completed book itself
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“Ana Esteve Llorens: Correspondence” at Las Cruxes
The textiles in this solo show map a negotiation between the weaver and her surroundings, a lattice charting stretch and slack over time
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“Shawn Camp: Equivocation” at Northern-Southern
In this three-part installation, the artist plays with light to creates work that is atmospheric and at times beautifully contemplative
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“Matt Rebholz and Rachel Wolfson Smith: We Can See Through Time” at ICOSA
Drawings in red and blue ink, intended to be viewed through 3-D glasses, pull the viewer in to landscapes that make the familiar look alien