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Art on 5th: Kenneth Tom Olsen
The Danish artist returns to Austin with his collection of spray paints, acrylics, and stencils, rendering new batches of works on the spot.Through Feb. 25
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Lewis Carnegie Gallery: Built Environments
He's such a solid part of Austin culture that photographer Sev Coursen almost counts as infrastructure himself. In this part of FotoATX, you can see what the man's captured of the Lone Star state with color, composition, and patience.Through Jan. 25
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Art.Science.Gallery.: SOLAR
The PrintAustin wonderments continue at this excellent venue, featuring prints about the sun or made by our sun (as in solar printmaking, cyanotyping, or printing with photosensitive inks) or for the sun (concerning sun- or star-related cultural and natural history). And, note, this Saturday is the last day before the gallery leaves Canopy forever.Through Feb. 24 -
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Austin Central Library: Portraits of the People Who Shape Our City
That magnificent new library Downtown hosts this portion of FotoATX, displaying George Brainard's photos of musicians, artists, journalists, and other icons that make Austin unique.Through Feb. 18 -
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Big Medium: For When the Leaves Grow Cold, but I Still Require Your Shoulder
This suite of paintings by Ricardo Vicente Ruiz is rooted in the history and folklore of harvesting seasons in the Southwest. Curated by Jeffrey Dell, it's the gallery's first exhibition of 2018.Through Feb. 17 -
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Billy Reid Austin: Porcelain Lounge
Here's a selection of new work from Keith Kreeger Studios, including unique porcelain pieces that were hand-thrown exclusively for this pop-up shop.Through Jan. 311122 W. Sixth -
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Camiba Art: The Allegory of Good and Bad Government
Zoë Shulman uses elaborate geometric symbols to express the virtues and vices of government, like something a more skilled and less gonzo John Dee might've come up with between bouts of angelic possession. The artist's new series of twenty hexagon-shaped artworks are presented as diptychs in a candle-lit gallery, and, listen, you really should see this, friend: It's phenomenal work and perfectly displayed.Through Feb. 10 -
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Carver Museum: Juntos/Together
This section of the comprehensive FotoATX program features vivid photo-documentation of "Black and Brown Activism in Austin from 1970 to 1983."Through April 11 -
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Carver Museum: State of Ascension
Mixed-media vessel works by Rejina Thomas, featuring art she created during the past two decades, with themes positioning the womb as a metaphorical looking glass from which viewers experience and understand the world.Through Feb. 28 -
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Elisabet Ney Museum: Austin Women by Austin Women
That excellent Hyde Park bastion of artistry celebrates the wealth of energy and spirit Austin women bring to both sides of the camera, through works by Ave Bonar, Amalia Diaz, Christa Blackwood, Hannah Neal, and Erica Wilkins that illuminate another section of the city's FotoATX festival.Artist talk: Sat., Jan. 27, 2pm. Free. -
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Flatbed Press: The Contemporary Print
Witness the vibrant, graphic diversity of PrintAustin's fifth annual juried exhibition – a survey of the traditions and the innovations of contemporary printmaking, including lithography, relief, intaglio, silkscreen, and monotype.Through Feb. 18 -
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Full Circle: The Art of Mila Sketch
"I show the whole through the fine details," says the artist. "I use subliminal manner of drawing and do not know where my own hand will lead me." Yeah, but where it winds up often looks real damned good. And, here, her works are surrounded by craft beer ready for the drinking.Through Jan. 30 -
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Gallery Shoal Creek: Strata
These prints – woodcut, intaglio – and drawings by New Mexico artist Karina Noel Hean explore her responses to the landscape, all containing "a layering of time, memory, and mark," and composing just one vivid part of this year's PrintAustin program.Through Feb. 17 -
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grayDUCK Gallery: Café Avatar
"As humanity enters a new graphic skin, how will we remember our physical selves – or are we becoming computational mochas? Where do our avatars hang out when not in use?" Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi's new show explores these questions with a playful collection of images and objects, both figurative and abstract.Through Feb. 18 -
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La Peña: Latino Artists in Printmaking
This part of PrintAustin features prints made by artists from Texas, Mexico, Peru, and Chile, including woodcuts, linocuts, serigraphs, printing on ceramics, fabrics, and more.Through Feb. 8 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: The Last Tree on the Planet
Jason Middlebrook’s new sculptures are black, powder-coated steel, isolating the bold designs he's painted on slabs of wood for the last ten years and making them into three-dimensional line drawings. Also, here's a big bonus: "Haaston Paradise," the latest ceramic and fiber works from those irrepressible Haas Brothers.Through Feb. 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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Slugfest: Misremembrance
Whether making intaglio plates with construction supplies or using prints as building materials in sculptural forms, the works of Silas Breaux are inspired by his observation of the relationship between natural and built environments. This part of PrintAustin is a perfect show for Slugfest, we reckon, the venue itself a lovely relationship between natural and built environment. Bonus: Cats, live ones, in the gallery.Through Feb. 17 -
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SouthPop: 40 Years of Esther's Follies
Four decades of the funniest topical sketches in the whole blamed city? That's exactly what Shannon Sedwick and Michael Shelton and their talented crowd of friends have brought to Esther's Follies, and now the history of those Follies – posters, prints, original artworks, doc-u-men-ta-tion of all kinds – are on display in this bastion of local goodness.Through Feb. 28 -
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Susanna Dickinson Museum: Historic Downtown
This segment of the FotoATX initiative features historical photographic images of Austin’s famous landmarks.Through Feb. 18411 E. FIfth -
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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 Museum: Flight and Fall
The popular venue offers a rich journey through classic archetypes as interpreted through Charles Umlauf’s sculptures and drawings.Through March 12 -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Juan Luis Jardi
Mark our words: You want to see what this talented man can do with oils on big swaths of canvas. Realism? Yes, but magical realism. Understated, quotidian, almost melancholy – except maybe there's been a quiet little rupture between this universe and another slightly different one, hasn't there?Through Jan. 27 -
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Weaver Gallery: Now & Then
And here's a show, among the other PrintAustin exhibitions packing Flatbed Press's array of galleries, of monotypes, collagraphs, and print collages by Catherine Small and N.J. Weaver.Closing reception: Fri., Feb. 16, 6-8pm -
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Women & Their Work: No Trace of Now Will Remain
Inspired by the writings of Rimbaud and Victorian mourning attire, Gail Chovan "gives exaggerated form to the long deceased by adorning apparitions in hyper-stylized garments and accessories from the past, using fragments and fabrication to enshroud memories, give form to absence, and celebrate remnants as potent vehicles for resuscitation." We excitedly await the opening of this new show of work from the queen of Blackmail.Through March 1 -
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Yard Dog: Small, Smaller, Smallest
In which Austin artist Deborah Mersky is joined by her Seattle compadres Julie Paschkis and Joe Max Emminger for a show of small paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture.Through Feb. 18
