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“Ann Wood: Quick and Quiet” at Big Medium
The artist’s solo show is like a large-scale, experiential temporary memorial, with fake flowers rotting in a gloomy exuberance
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“Vincent Valdez: The City” at the Blanton
The artist’s epic portrait of Klanspeople is all the more frightening for the mundane character of its subjects
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“ANGRY CLOUD + DESCND: Return of the Litvak”
The clouds are angry in this solo installation, but the spirit of the show is doggedly hopeful, fresh, and invigorating
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“The Indigo Show” at Recspec Gallery
This group show is appealing for the ways in which it showcases this most intense, moody, serene, and opulent of all the blues
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Review: “Young Latinx Artists 23”
This year’s group show at Mexic-Arte shows the border as scar
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“Xavier Schipani: Chasing Desire” at Lora Reynolds Gallery
The artist probes the history and crisis of masculinity by placing beefy men in salacious tangles, exposed and unashamed
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“Margaux Crump: The Lure” at Women & Their Work
Juxtaposing natural and synthetic materials through the metaphor of the hunt, the artist blurs lines between lust and danger, the repellent and the seductive
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“Jonathan Muzacz: Stained Slabs” at the Butridge
With his solo show, the artist revs up the gallery by bringing in the street in eye-catching style
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“…of Warp and Weft” at Davis Gallery
Using wood and cheesecloth, Caprice Pierucci and Charles Heppner’s mutation of form and fiber is beautiful even as it is foreboding
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“Regional Fictions” at MASS Gallery
This thought-provoking show takes on the educational system’s traditional narratives by juxtaposing the familiar with images that challenge it
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“Michael Anthony García: Continental Divide” at St. Edward’s
Layered photographs and images of empty garments across Austin allude to spaces of equality and disruption
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“Krista Steinke: Good Luck With the Sun” at W&TW
These spectacular images of the sun and sky captured with homemade pinhole cameras reveal more about us than celestial objects