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Hops For HOPE
Street art forever! Also, tasty suds: This is Austin's largest art and beer exhibition, with 100% of donations supporting the HOPE Campaign and the HOPE Outdoor Gallery. This year's party features 17 visual artists bringing their best work, 17 local breweries bringing their liquid artistry, and a great lineup of local DJs. Imagine: A beat-driven heaven where paint caps never clog and at least one of the local gods is named Krylon.Sun., Sept. 29, 4-10pm. Free. -
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Landmarks Video: Children of Unquiet
The artist Mikhail Karikis' Children of Unquiet from 2014 gets the big screen treatment here, and you can watch: Videos are accessible to all and free to view.Through Sept. 30ART Building, 2301 San Jacinto
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Blanton Museum of Art: This Is the Day
This new show highlights new developments in Jeffrey Gibson’s genre-bridging practice, with 50 works made between 2014 and 2018 – including intricately beaded wall-hangings and punching bags, paintings, ceramics, garments, helmets, and a new video commissioned for this exhibition.Through Sept. 29 -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Cynosures
Austin-based artist Sarah Ferguson has experimented with the trifecta of light, color, and perception for two decades, creating vibrant and immersive experiences for the viewer. See this show and witness spectral manifestation as never before.Through Sept. 29
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Art for the People: Adventure, Fantasy, and Fun
Here's an exhibition – adventurous, fantastic, and let's not forget fun – by 57 Texas-based artists, featuring a diversity of styles and mediums.Through Oct. 5 -
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Carver Museum: Future Inhabitants
The willful self-destruction of humanity by Earth’s most formidable species – humans – is the topic of New Orleans-born and Dallas-raised photographer Tia Boyd. Through a series of portraits, Boyd reveals "a surviving race of godlike women warriors who have come to terraform the planet for future inhabitants." And here's our full review of the show.Through Jan. 11 -
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ContraCommon: Big Heads
The gallery's filled with many seven-foot-tall oil paintings tonight, oil paintings depicting colossal, bodiless faces, each rendered bright and starkly recognizable by Austin's own Owen Max Dodgen.Through Oct. 12ContraCommon, 12912 Hill Country Blvd. Ste. F-140 -
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Cowboys in Space and Fantastic Worlds
Yippee ki yay, space cadet, it's time to head 'em off at the Pass Nebula as the State History Museum presents an exhibition that spans more than 150 years of Western and science fiction history and features 100-plus artifacts (including props from Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, and other skiffy media fare). And our arch-geek himself, the estimable Richard Whittaker, also a part-time Sith Lord, reviews the show for you here.Through Dec. 1 -
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Dimension Gallery: Systema Praeternaturae
The show's name is a play on Systema Naturae, Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus' monumental work that documented the entire system of classification that's still in use for all biology. The show's creator is the man who, with his wife Moya, runs the gallery in which it's displayed; and who created The Resonant Lung; and who reformed, in discrete parts, the warped and buckled floor from an ancient warehouse into an abandoned Austin church; and who – well, it's Colin McIntyre, of course, with a series of works that explore imagined lifeforms with varied morphology, rendered via sinuous, flowing forms forged in steel and blazing with the liquid-metal sheen of nickel plate. And then there's that … viscous, pulsating abomination in the center of it all.Through Nov. 30 -
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grayDUCK Gallery: Secure the Perimeter
Some artists try to capture their city, their geographical region, and they succeed at it. Only the best will ever succeed as well as Austin's John Mulvany does in capturing his Eastside neighborhood. Listen: "Everything in life is present in the neighborhood," says the artist. "If you are inclined to walk around with your eyes and senses open, you notice things you might otherwise miss. A dead grackle in the road, the unkempt beauty of East Austin backyards, the violent magenta-pink veil of cherry blossom enveloping a vacant house, a cockroach carried away by ants. This exhibition is an invitation to look closer. The neighborhood, like the natural world, is in a constant state of creation, transformation and decay." And this is precisely what you'll see, in Mulvany's array of realist, atmosphere-haunted paintings on the familiar grayDUCK walls. (See Barbara Purcell's review of the show right here.)Through Oct. 20 -
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Link & Pin Gallery: Sketchings
Alicia Philley and Emily Hoyt-Weber present their new body of paintings and sculpture, created around conversations about color, light, and shadow, resulting in an exhibition in which Philley’s colorful compositions of curving linear elements serve as a counterpoint to Hoyt-Weber’s mathematically inspired line drawings.Through Oct. 13 -
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MASS Gallery: Rotten Little Fruits
The dark, celebratory, and comical work of Christine Garvey and Bonnie Staley has much in common with rotten little fruit – the outsider, problematic, misbehaving body – as both artists "reference the history, anatomy, pains, and joys of the female body to create objects that operate in a space between traditional classifications of painting, drawing, and sculpture."Through Oct. 19 -
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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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Vault Stone Shop: Flash Collection
The inaugural inaugural group show for this venue, curated by GD Wright and Meghan Shogan, represents more than 20 of the most beloved artists in Austin – we'll attest to that, sure 'nuff – and not one of the original paintings, sculpture, and or mixed-media artworks is priced over $200. Looking to start or maybe expand your collection? Get you a Saul Jerome San Juan, a Virginia Fleck, a Steef Crombach, an Alicia Philley, or – yeah, so many to choose among here.Through Oct. 6 -
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Visual Arts Center: Fall 2019
The fall array of exhibitions at UT's Visual Arts Center features Nikita Gale's "EASY LISTENING," Kenneth Tam's "Details," Maria Antelman's "Mechanisms of Affection," Saakred's "Sin Nombre, Sin Cuerpo," and more.
