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    Fright Gallery: Horror and Dark Art Show

    There are more than 25 rooms of doom in this horror-themed facility, with visual art and film installations, with a welcoming DJ and authors and vendors and all manner of creeptastic embellishments paving the blood-spattered way, the psycho path, to Halloween.
    Sat., Sept. 16, 5-10pm. $5.  
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    Mosaic Sound Collective, 6400 FM 969.

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    The Blanton Museum: Aruna Kharod

    The Blanton's artist-in-residence Kharod performs stories and bharatanatyam classical dances related to the paintings in the current "Epic Tales From Ancient India: Paintings From the San Diego Museum of Art" exhibition.
    Sat., Sept. 30, 1-4pm. Included with museum admission.
    The Blanton Museum of Art

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    The Creatives Meet Business Experience

    CMBXP "provides local artists, creatives, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and side hustlers with the tools, resources, and relationships needed to become more sustainable in their practices." And they've joined forces with Learnshop, General Assembly, and Story Bar for this three-day conference, to provide useful, practical solutions to the eternal problem of how-do-I-actually-make-this-work? Might be worth looking into, citizen, to put yourself on a less harrowing path toward creative fulfillment. See website for extensive schedule of programs.
    Sept. 14-16. $100.

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    Trash Makeover Challenge

    This distinctly non-trashy soirée benefits the Texas Campaign for the Environment and features a high-fashion runway show with a theme of “Living Masterpieces,” in which an array of designers have used recycled materials to recreate famous works of art on their models. Also, silent auction and cocktails and noms, noms, noms.
    Sat., Sept. 16, 7pm. $50.  
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    601 Rio Grande.
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    La Peña Gallery: Amado Peña

    Here's a robust collection of the renowned artist’s early work, featuring drawings, paintings, and graphics from 1970-79. Reception:
    Through Oct. 16
    La Peña Gallery

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    Mexic-Arte Museum: Diego and Frida

    Mexic-Arte celebrates the 110th anniversary of Frida Kahlo’s birth with "A Smile in the Middle of the Way," an exhibition that takes an intimate look at the relationship between Kahlo and Diego Rivera, as seen through the lens of notable photographers of that time, including images by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Ansel Adams, Guillermo Kahlo, Leo Matiz, Nickolas Muray, Edward Weston, and Guillermo Zamora.
    Through Nov. 26. $5 ($4, senior citizens, students).
    Mexic-Arte Museum
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    Butridge Gallery: Approaching Crossover

    In which the artist Gary Anderson explores and, with a variety of materials, creates "artifacts from worlds that dwell within."
    Through Sept. 16
    Dougherty Arts Center

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    ICOSA: Checked Out

    And here's a two-person exhibition in which the artists engage sorrow from various points of view. Featuring video, sculpture, photography, performance, and installation by Bug Davidson and Amanda McInerney.
    Through Sept. 16
    702 Shady #190.
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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
    Art.Science.Gallery.

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    ATM Gallery: Congénitale

    Filmmaker Gabrielle Daubourg's work explores the nature of trauma and anxiety, taking the form of video and audio, operating as narrative interviews or cinematic essays. See them presented here.
    Through Oct. 1
    Bolm Studios

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    Austin Art Space: AVAA Members Show

    Here's the 39th annual exhibition from the Austin Visual Artists Association.
    7739 Northcross.

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    Big Medium: Home Remedies for Cabin Fever

    Emily Peacock's new show – based on family history and relationships, domesticity, and personal loss and tragedy – explores the entanglements of intimacy via videos and photographs.
    Through Oct. 7
    Big Medium

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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).
    The Blanton Museum of Art

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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
    The Blanton Museum of Art

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    Blue Moon Glassworks

    Handmade glass art and jewelry.
    Blue Moon Glassworks

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    Camiba Art: Unearth

    William T. Carson, who grew up on an isolated cattle ranch in rural Montana, works two different but related processes to create his Erosion Drawings and Coal Paintings, both involving the use of coal to build up layers – one on a substrate of paper, the other on a substrate of wood panel.
    Through Oct. 14
    Flatbed Press

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    Co-Lab Projects: Timekeeper

    This is a retrospective of the life and works of Austin artist Claude van Lingen, born in Vereeniging, South Africa (1931), whose art displays the passage and contemplation of time in textural and sculptural ways that are irremovable from the pages of your memory.
    Through Sept. 30
    Co-Lab's DEMO Gallery, 721 Congress.

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    Davis Gallery: Elements: Rock, Steel, Felt, Wax

    We're getting goosebumps just writing this blurb, that's how gorgeous the work in the Davis Gallery's "Elements" exhibition is. Because the artists whose work is displayed here, each of them have created pieces representing one of the four materials noted in the show's title. And those artists are Giota Vorgia, Randall Reid, Barbara Attwell, and Annie Darling. And, Austinite, if you don't already know what those four names herald in the way of skill, mastery, and sublime visual impact of production … well, we envy you the introduction to this quartet of artmakers.
    Through Oct. 7
    Davis Gallery

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    Dimension Gallery: About Us

    Shea Little? Oh, just the guy who co-founded Bolm Studios, Big Medium, the East Austin Studio Tour, the West Austin Studio Tour, the Texas Biennial, and Cantanker magazine, that's all. Just one-third of the legendary Sodalitas trio of artists. Just a tall local feller with a complex creative agenda. Just taking a little break (Get it? A Little break?) from the relentless moving-and-shaking to present his first solo exhibition.
    Through Sept. 30
    Dimension Gallery

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    Elisabet Ney Museum: Dana Younger

    Like you need an excuse to witness the glory of historical sculpting genius Elisabet Ney's work? Well, then here you go: In the same storied venue, an exhibition of figurative sculpture by the contemporary artist (and Blue Genie dude) Dana Younger – who we won't call a "genius," but only because he's very much alive and would likely blush at the term. But, still, these two temporally divided local giants of three-dimensional, human-based art? What an excellent pairing with which to immerse your eyes in wonder. And this is what our reviewer thinks about the show.
    Through Nov. 5
    Elisabet Ney Museum

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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
    Flatbed Press

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    Gallery Shoal Creek: Karen Hawkins and Koichi Yamamoto

    Two solo exhibitions here, in which each artist has developed a highly personal visual language, exploring a singular medium with infinite variations. Deconstructed books and intaglio printing on kites? Strange and papery beauty thrills the air.
    Through Sept. 30
    Gallery Shoal Creek

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    Georgetown Art Center: Wide Open

    Ah, darn you to heck, Georgetown, the way you force an Austin-based journal to list something in your so-far-north venue – by featuring a show of gorgeous landscape work by Shawn Camp, Karen Maness, and Rebecca Bennett, artists whose creations we might, if we had to, drive all the way to goddamn Saskatchewan to see. Oh, the temerity!
    Through Sept. 24
    Georgetown Art Center

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    Harry Ransom Center: Mexico Modern

    The rise of modernism in Mexico was activated by artists, museum curators, gallery owners, journalists, and publishers both in Mexico and the United States. This exhibition explores two decades of dynamic cultural exchange between the two countries, featuring important artists such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Oroxco, and others.
    Through Jan. 1
    Harry Ransom Center

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    Not Gallery: The Rock That Owns Itself

    Virginia-based sculptor Perrin Turrin has spent the past six weeks transforming the Not Gallery space into "an inverted version of Georgia's Stone Mountain." See it revealed now!
    Through Oct. 1
    Bolm Studios

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    Prizer Gallery: Farmer as Artist

    This fifth annual show explores connections between farming and creativity and includes work from more than 20 artists who work in farming, featuring an array of new delights from the worthies of Boggy Creek Farm (that Carol Ann Sayle's work is pictured in this listing), Millberg Farm, Tecolote Farm, Urban Roots, Johnson’s Backyard Garden, Munkebo Farm, Farmshare Austin, Genesis Gardens, Agua Dulce, Texas Hill Country Olive Co., EllenMental Acres, Sand Holler Farm, and more.
    Through Sept. 23
    Prizer Gallery

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    Pump Project: We Were There

    There's photography, and then there's … photography. Especially these days where everybody's got some kind of camera on hand and, like, seven Instagram accounts, it takes a person of magisterial skill and raptor eye to capture the world in ways worth paying attention to. Sandy Carson, frequent Chronicle contributor, is who we're talking about – and this exhibition features a decade's worth of the man's images of Austin concert crowds from 2007 to 2017, shot from the pit, exploring the symbiotic relationship between rock concert fans, the bands, and the photographer at music festivals.
    Through Sept 23. free.
    Pump Project

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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
    South Austin Museum of Popular Culture

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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
    Texas Folklife House

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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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    Wally Workman Gallery: William Geisler + John Peralta

    Geisler works with encaustic and collage to manifest grids on a two-dimensional plane; Peralta scours estate sales for antique mechanical objects and reconstructs them on a three-dimensional plane. Here emerge pattern, structure, the near-architectural underpinnings of matter's elegance.
    Through Sept. 30
    Wally Workman Gallery

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    Yard Dog: Long Live Death

    Here's a group of newly painted meditations on life and death by Portland's Mike Egan, who found his calling while working as an undertaker in Pennsylvania.
    Through Oct. 5
    Yard Dog
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