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Silverado: Artisan Showcase
This fundraiser to benefit Alzheimer's Texas presents a silent auction of artwork, accompanied by live music, by the memory care residents at Silverado Onion Creek.Thu., Aug. 17, 4-7pm. Free.11330 Farrah.
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Art.Science.Gallery.: The Birds
This exhibition features new work in multiple media, work that explores topics of bird migration, communication, taxonomy, feeding behavior, natural history, flight behavior, bird diversity, and conservation. Artists Carol Cunningham, Carrie Carlson, Emily Coleman, Kim Heise, Lauren Rochell, Lisa Rawlinson, Pat Falconer, Zoë Trautz, Rachel Ramirez, and Sarah St. Laurent bring the ornithological wonders.Through Oct. 1 -
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Big Medium: Sunbathers
The Brooklyn-based Ellen Siebers presents a series of paintings inspired by confined spaces. The surfaces she covers are birch panel, the edges beveled in at 45 degrees; the gesso she applies is made from rabbit skin glue, water, and powdered marble, mimicking the surface of plaster.Through Aug. 19 -
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Blanton Museum: Epic Tales From India
Now here's one of the world's most comprehensive collections of South Asian paintings outside of India, right there in the gorgeous venue on MLK. See for yourself these "dynamic images originally associated with important literary and religious texts, organized according to thematic narratives."Through Oct. 1. $9 (free, Thursdays). -
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Blanton Museum: Giant
In their three-channel film installation, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler present a decaying movie set just outside Marfa, left behind after the 1956 filming of Giant.Through Oct. 1 -
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Camiba Art: Studio Scene Seen
In addition to the gallery spaces, Camiba Art also leads guided art tours locally and around the world. This summer, for the first time, they've have brought back examples from just five of the dozens of artist studios visited. Featuring works by Julio Alba, Leonardo Diaz, Roman Eguia, Alejandra Mendoza, and Manuel Mugica.Through Sept. 9 -
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Co-Lab Projects: Expedition Batikback
And here six artists from Austin and two artists from the Netherlands have created works in the traditional Indonesian technique known as Batik. Curated by Steef Crombach and hanging from the ceiling of that rough raw space Downtown.Through Aug. 26DEMO Gallery, 721 Congress. -
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Davis Gallery: Radiant
This annual group show at the Davis focuses on radial compositions, luminescent surfaces, circular shapes, and all things radiant. As David Leonard, Randall Reid, Jan Heaton, Gladys Poorte, and Faustinus Deraet are among the artists represented here, they could've called it "Glorious" and still been right. Recommended.Through Aug. 19 -
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Flatbed Press: Texas Bird Project
Frank X Tolbert 2 has explored the birds of Texas in large-scale paintings, etchings, and drawings, transforming the feathered creatures into darkly familiar personalities. Now see the results take odd and papery wing on the walls of this excellent venue.Through Oct. 7 -
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grayDUCK Gallery: Crit Group 2017
The Contemporary Austin teams up with that excellent grayDUCK to present the results of a seven-month group-critique program, curated by Sterling Allen, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, and Andrea Mellard, and featuring work by Sandy Carson, Jonas Criscoe, Calder Kamin, Dameon Lester, Deborah Mersky, Steve Parker, Amy Scofield, and Sara Vanderbeek.Through Sept. 3 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Time
This is the gallery's first exhibition of sculpture and painting by Catherine Lee, featuring work in bronze, iron, glass, and ceramic. The gathered array displays three-dimensional objects that resemble pottery shards, knife blades, arrow heads, and amphorae; and the accompanying "Quanta" paintings obliquely record the passage of time. Bonus: "Remnants, Relics, and Incidentals," an exhibition of new work by Jessica Halonen, in the adjoining Project Room.Through Sept. 9 -
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MACC: The Last Exhibit for the 20th Century
This show in the Coronado Gallery at the Mexican American Cultural Center features the paintings, prints, and sketches of Mexic-Arte founder Pio Pulido, rich with big solitary symbols of mystic realism. And, in the Community Gallery, "Home Is Where the Heart Is: Voices From Within," a photo exhibit chronicling the contributions of Mexican American residents of Austin, curated by Gloria Espitia.Through Aug. 26 -
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Mexic-Arte Museum: Capricho
This is a project by the Borderland Collective's Mark Menjivar that activates the archives of his late grandfather, Joe Font.Through Aug. 27 -
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Old Bakery Gallery: Austin Pastel Over 50
Select segments from the storied history of the Austin Pastel Society, displayed on these Capitol-adjacent walls.Through Sept. 3 -
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Pong to Pokémon: The Evolution of Electronic Gaming
This immersive and interactive exhibit at the Texas State History Museum explores the past and future of electronic gaming through the player's experience – with dozens of rare artifacts, brought together for the first time from extensive collections across the globe.Through March 18. $9-13. -
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SouthPop: 50 Over 50
This exhibition accompanies the venue's oral history project from 50 artists over the age of 50 who have played pivotal roles in the evolution of Austin from a sleepy Texas town to the Live Music Capital of the World.Through Sept. 30 -
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Texas Folklife: Hand-Painted Envelopes
This exhibition of envelope work from the 1930s and 1940s highlights a folk-art tradition enhanced by the five Texas artists represented here: Gladys Adler, Florene Edmiston O’Neill, R.H. Swartz, Lonnie Smith, and Dr. Charles Martin.Through Oct. 6 -
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The Contemporary Austin: Garth Weiser and Mark Lewis
TCA presents the first monographic museum survey of Weiser's stunning abstract paintings. And "Galveston" by the London-based Lewis, who makes non-narrative films about modern urban environments.Through Aug. 27 -
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The Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata
This place, ah, it's one of our favorite places in the entire city; and of course they're properly corona-closed. But check 'em out online right now – it's a rich, wonder-filled website – to whet your appetite for when things get back to … uh … are we still calling it "normal," these days? -
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Umlauf Sculpture Garden: Mentoring a Muse
Check out this first-ever exhibition of works from former UT art student Farrah Fawcett and her mentor, professor and sculptor Charles Umlauf.Through Aug. 20 -
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Women & Their Work: Pure Imagination
Here's a new exhibition based on Dutch photographer Micky Hoogendijk's first book, featuring portraiture reflecting the concealed vulnerability and beauty of her subjects.Through Sept. 7 -
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Yard Dog: Southern Folk Art from the Vaults
Below the Mason-Dixon, below the highbrow radar, yes; but above and beyond the call of mark-making duty, there's a plethora of downhome beauty on display here.Through Aug. 29 -
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Young Latino Artists 22: ¡Ahora!
Here's the the 22nd installment of the Latinx artist exhibition series at Mexic-Arte Museum, curated by Alana Coates, featuring works by eight emerging artists.Through Aug. 27
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Your Portrait By That Fancy Tom!
Here's a creative opportunity for you: Be the art. Because local artist Tom Britton, known to some as Fancy Tom and known to even more as "Whoa, man, your skills are amazing!" is working toward an exhibition of portraits to be displayed at Lustre Pearl in October. And he's planning on showing, like, a fuck-ton of portraits there, and so he needs citizens (like you, yes) to stop by his studio for a couple of hours, to be added to the collection he's creating.Free.
