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Co-Lab Projects Has Returned, Co-Lab Projects Has Fuckin' RETURNED!
But you knew that already, right? That Sean Gaulager's main curatorial project and long-missed gallery has finally made it through the grueling City of Austin permit process and all that rigmarole and is almost completely back to its former daunting schedule of exhibitions and community-based interactions and so on? In that Springdale General complex, no less. The current show, "Lines Composed During a Tour," featuring works by Sara Vanderbeek, Andy Coolquitt, Kristi Kongi, and Erin Curtis, and curated by Gaulager and Leslie Moody Castro, closes on Sat., March 30. Next up is Anika Cartterfield's "Grounded in Culver," which is opening on Sat., March 30, 5pm in the alternate Co-Lab venue at 5419 Glissman. And then, on April 6 – well, we'll be telling you about that soon enough. Shit is getting more real again; let's celebrate.Co-Lab, 1023 Springdale Ste. 1B -
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New Monuments for New Cities: Artist Talks
Hear participating artists and Austin community leaders and historians discuss the issues raised by the High Line Network Joint Art Initiative exhibition. This installment features artists Daniela Cavazos Madrigal, Teruko Nimura, and Denise Prince, moderated by Sightlines’ Jeanne Claire van Ryzin.Thu., March 28, 6pm. Free.
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Tony Marsh and Natalie Frank
This is the first Reynolds Gallery show for both of these artists, and we were all like, "Hey, Natalie Frank! With a Grimm exhibition just in time for Ballet Austin's Grimm Tales based on her fantastic works!" and we barely even made note of Mr. Marsh's part of this two-person display … until we saw some stunning images showing the gorgeous and fairly chthonic "Cauldrons and Crucibles" work the man does with ceramics small and large – and then we made damned good and sure our schedule was clear for an even longer visit to this excellent Downtown venue.Through June 8
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Cloud Tree Studios: Andy St. Martin
Austin-based abstract painter St. Martin's large creations and limited palettes "combine with his expressively edited gestures and general lust for life," as you can see in this new show curated by his longtime friend Brian David Johnson at Cloud Tree – featuring an overview of works that began in 1999.Closing reception: Thu., March 28, 6-9pm
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AARC: Let the Colors Speak
Rashmi Thakur and Supriya Kharod, both born in India and both proud Austinites now, document their individual journeys through watercolor and acrylic paintings, depicting the colorful traditions, vibrant life, and diverse culture found in the two communities they love.Through March 30 -
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ACAC Gallery: Rights of Passage
The Austin Creative Art Center presents this exhibition from Rejina Thomas – a show of paintings, architectural embellishments, and monumental glasswork "using geometric form and color to convey meaning and expression, reflecting the personal by removing the glamor to deconstruct racial history."Through May 311605 W. Sixth -
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AgavePrint: How Life Is
Graham Dickie’s photographs of hip-hop in rural Southeast Louisiana approach Southern rap with "a grassroots, humanistic perspective, focusing on aspiring artists and how their music relates to their communities and everyday lives."Through March 29 -
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Angela Shelf Medearis: Our People
During 2018, Medearis – known to millions as The Kitchen Diva – donated several books, manuscripts, photographs, awards, and research papers to the Carver Museum. Now, they’ve been curated and presented as this new exhibition.Through June 23 -
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Atelier 1205: Paper Fields
This show unites the work of Austin art educators Kiley Grantges and Jennifer Schroeder. Grantges elevates drinking straws and office copy paper into bas-relief arrays; Schroeder reconstitutes the exuberant mess resulting from her young students’ art explorations into paper mosaics.Closing reception: Sun., April 28, 2-5pm -
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Big Medium: No Me Olvides
The venerable anchor of Canopy presents a new show, curated by Fernando Muñoz, by eight local established Latino artists. Through art, music, poetry, and food, these stories build a narrative of happiness, melancholy, sadness, and hope. And these artists are Alejandra Almuelle, JC Amorrortu, Cecilia Colomé, Fidencio Durán, Carlos Lowry, Peter F. Ortiz, Elvira Sarmiento, and Liliana Wilson.Through March 30 -
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Butridge Gallery: Mayuko Ono Gray and Katy Schmader
Gray’s graphite drawings combine traditional Japanese calligraphy with Western drawing practices and aesthetic; Schmader’s abstract collages explore the connection between tactile traces of a physical environment and the historic system of landscape semiotics.Through May 3 -
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Carver Museum: Constant Escape
Founding members of the Austin-based Black Mountain Project – Adrian Aguilera, Betelhem Makonnen, and Tammie Rubin – debut a new body of work in sculpture, photography, text, and video. Also on display at the Carver: "Re-Membering Is the Responsibility of the Living," an installation by Taja Lindley.Through July 27 -
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Davis Gallery: A Shared Vision
There are about as many "shared visions" as there are pairs of eyeballs in this miserable world, of course, but this show's title is intended to embody the greater meaning of the phrase and – the important part, here – it titles a collection of artwork by Denise M. Fulton and Sam Yeates. The vision of either of those local artists, and the skill each exerts in rendering that vision visible to the rest of us, is nigh on incredible. And now here are new paintings from both of them, the modern fabulists Fulton and Yeates capturing – via oldschool tech like pigments and brushes, imagine that! – realities (and fantasies) sufficient to fuel immersive dreams for years to come.Through April 13 -
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Dimension Gallery: SWAARMS
This new body of work by Suzanne Wyss at Dimension is a protean body, a visual representation of working together to create something beautiful and bigger than the self, driven by an array of thread-growth machines that evolve their own structures, adding to and transforming the site all the way until the exhibition ends. (Admit it: You've been wondering what the artist would do next, ever since you saw the dank honey she visited upon Facebook Austin.) Did you catch the opening reception at this intimate venue, where Wyss' mechanisms were just beginning their complex industry? Come back this final weekend to witness the textile metamorphosis at its completion!Through April 7 -
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Elisabet Ney Museum: Women of Flatbed
This part of Print Austin features work by leading female figures from the past and future of Austin's own Flatbed Press, including Alice Leora Briggs, Suzi Davidoff, Sandra C. Fernández, Annalise Natasha Gratovich, Sandria Hu, Sharon Kopriva, Mary McCleary, Melissa Miller, Celia Munoz, Liliana Porter, Linda Ridgway, Julie Speed, Sydney Yeager, and more. And, oh look, our Robert Faires gives you a fine preview right here.Through April 28 -
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Generative Art Project: Representational Abstraction
This gallery, like an intimate slice of our most vivid future, presents work by Viktor Velikanov, James Pricer, and David Bennett: Three artists who transform physics, data, and algorithms via software into abstract generative videos and unique prints, the art visually merging the antithetical concepts of realism and abstraction without diluting the integrity of either.Through April 21 -
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grayDUCK Gallery: When They Appear
This new exhibition featuring works by Larry Graeber and Marilyn Jolly seeks to create a dialogue between the two artists and their relationship to time, space, and where we fit within it. The show includes sculpture, painting, and mixed-media collage.Through April 14 -
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Harry Ransom Center: The Rise of Everyday Design
Here's a new and detailed look at the history of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and America, showing how it transformed the homes and lives of ordinary people and how it continues to influence modern design.Through July 14 -
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La Peña Gallery: Mujeres De Luz
You're invited to celebrate International Women's Day with this group exhibition by women artists, featuring work by Alondra Acosta, Ana Borne, Cecilia Colomé, Veronica Castillo, Juanita Cole Towery, Naxieli Gomez Traub, Theresa Ibañez, Scherezade García, Iliana Emilia García, Mary Jane Garza, Yleana Martínez, Leticia Mosqueda, Farah Rivera, Victoria Rivero, Teresa Scott, Julia Santos Solomon, Elvira Sarmiento, Emily Socolov, Rama Tiru, Jackie Welch, and Terry Ybañez.Through April 10 -
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Mexic-Arte Museum: La Huella Magistral
Two new exhibitions are presented in this Downtown powerhouse of cultural expression, amplifying the inky might of PrintAustin. There's "La Huella Magistral: Homage to Master Printmakers," with a set of 19 prints paying tribute to master printmakers who inspired the artists of Consejo Gráfico, and "Mix 'n' Mash: Migration," new works by more than 200 artists. Bonus: John Patrick Cobb's "Chapel Shrine" paintings.Through June 3 -
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Neill-Cochran House: Joy and Delight
Lu Ann Barrow's artistic career has spanned seven decades from her 1956 MFA at UT through the present day, her paintings depicting the joys and sorrows of communal life in the south.Through April 28 -
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Stephen L. Clark Gallery: Flowers
In which acclaimed collagist Lance Letscher focuses his prodigious paper-manipulating skills on botanicals and the gallery's walls become a bright garden of delights. Our review? Our own, as it were, collage? Right here, citizen.Through April 13 -
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Texas State History Museum: Texas From Above
Here's an original exhibition featuring aerial images captured by photographer Jay B. Sauceda during a six-day flying journey around the state. This show highlights the beauty of Texas borderlands and explores the process of capturing the images.Through June 16 -
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The Blanton Museum: Zulu Time
This new solo exhibition of two-dimensional and sculptural works by Brooklyn native Kambui Olujimi, now on view in the Blanton's Contemporary Project gallery, will revitalize your awareness of what's coordinated and universal. And, listen, the Blanton now stays open until 8pm on Fridays – through July 26.Through July 13 -
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The Blanton: Copies, Fakes, and Reproductions
This exhibition, a Holly Borham-curated collection focused on printmaking in the Renaissance, presents works that showcase the various intentions behind copies, ranging from legit collaborations between designers and printmakers to the unauthorized copies of Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts (these resulted in a landmark legal decision against image piracy). And, listen, the Blanton now stays open until 8pm on Fridays – through July 26.Through June 16 -
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The Blanton: The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music
This film by The Propeller Group, an artist collective based in Vietnam and California, combines actual footage and staged portrayals of Vietnamese funeral rituals that shift dramatically from documentary to poetic. And, listen, the Blanton now stays open until 8pm on Fridays – through July 26.Through May 26 -
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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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The People's Gallery: Exhibition 2019
Here's the 15th annual exhibition at Austin City Hall, presenting a wide array of painting, sculpture, drawing, and other media by 113 local artists. This year, the exhibition includes a special selection of photographs: The Bold Beauty Project of Texas, featuring images of Texas women with disabilities taken by photographers from across the state. -
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Umlauf Sculpture Garden: With Out, With In
If you're standing at the crossroads of wood and sculpture, one of the talented giants you'll see landmarking that intersection is James Surls. If you're at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum for this new show, you'll be amazed by more than 30 of that maestro's works – his iconic, surrealistic wooden creations as well as a few of his giant steel and bronze structures. Note: This is, surprisingly, Surls' first solo exhibition of sculptures in Austin.Through Aug. 18 -
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Women & Their Work: Walk the Sky
Bumin Kim's thread and string become the media to explore many of the same questions usually investigated with paint, examining the nature of line beyond the two-dimensional surface into three-dimensional space.Through April 18 -
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Words/Matter: Latin American Art and Language
Drawn primarily from the Blanton’s extensive collection of Latin American art, this exhibition offers an innovative perspective on how artists of the region have explored the links between visual art and written language since the early decades of the twentieth century, with examples ranging from Alejandro Xul Solar and Joaquín Torres-García’s creation of alphabets and metaphysical signs, to the visual experiments of Brazilian concrete poets in the 1960s, and the political codification of language by conceptualists since the 1970s.Through May 26 -
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Yard Dog: City and Sky
The work of Chicago-based artist, illustrator, and muralist Nate Otto occupies its own lane somewhere in between the worlds of folk art, street art, lowbrow art, and contemporary fine art. And now a rich portion of it will occupy this popular South Congress gallery.Through April 14
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Atelier Dojo Teen Summer Camps
Austin-based professional art studio Atelier Dojo offers their rigorous training to young dedicated artists between 13-18 years old throughout summer 2019. Classes run June 3-7, July 15-19, and July 29-Aug. 2 at the Dojo studio at Canopy and will include drawing and painting. See website for details. -
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Call For Art: Veterans and Family Members
This is a national call for visual art by veterans and their family members, to be on exhibit during the Austin Veteran Arts Festival that will run from Oct. 18-Nov. 17.Submission deadline: April 1. $25.
