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ArtStar Pottery: Studio Show
This 14th annual exhibition and sale features handcrafted ceramics by the talented claymonger Bob Swaffar, This 14th annual exhibition and sale features handcrafted ceramics by the talented claymonger Bob Swaffar, with an opening party on Friday night.Dec. 14-16. Friday: 7-10pm; Sat.-Sun., 10am-5pm,906 W. 17th -
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Collection Rert: Affordable Art Adoption
Enjoy the fruits of the collective's end-of-year decluttering and take home an array of original art and random fun junk at the Science Bear Arcade: No price tags, only donation jars! Bonus: It's the last day to see Palfloat's "Paper or Plastic" installation in the gallery.Sat., Dec. 15, noon-5pm -
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Recspec: Holiday Art Market
O sweet lick-a-tongue Krampus! This elegantly eclectic gallery inside Flatbed World Headquarters presents its usual stable of brilliants and some new friends to make your shopping life easier and your eyes just a bit more dazzled by the beauty of it all. Featuring unique jewelry and art by Gigi Grinstad, Katie Rylander-Cowden, Salted Teeth, Vy Ngo, and more. Bonus: The cocktail-fueled launch party for Eva Claycomb and Chelsea Jones' new Baubo line of jewelry kicks in at 5pm.Sat., Dec. 15, noon-7pm
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Northern-Southern: Insides
That fierce gallery on 12th is closing out the year with a new show – a pair of domestic dream-rooms – featuring furniture-art fusions by Jaime Zuverza and Transmountain in the front room and a complete takeover of the back room by Rachel Freeman. To hell with genre, and never mind the medium – drawing, painting, woodwork, design, installation, and curation are all put to use here.Reception: Sat., Dec. 15, 6-9pm -
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Ao5 Gallery: Light vs Darkness
Steven Lavaggi's large colorfield paintings "contain a spontaneous energy that captivates the imagination."Through Jan. 13. Free, but RSVP for the reception. -
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Gallery Lucid: Mindscapes
Elliot Rogers' first solo show offers "hypnotic spaces and surreal mindscapes which reflect his inner meditative visions and explore the connection between the self and the alien other." It's all trippy AF, in other words – and the closing party will be awash with live music and fancy libations.Closing reception: Sat., Jan. 5, 6pm
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Austin Art Space Gallery: 12 Buy 12
All the artwork in this show from the Austin Visual Arts Association is limited to the 12" x 12" format or smaller.Reception: Thu., Dec. 13, 5:30-7:30pm
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Art for the People: The Pink Parachute Project
Teodora Pogonat's provocative series of photography depicts women overcoming struggles, hardships, and setbacks through the use of a 30-pound pink military-grade parachute.Through Jan. 26 -
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Atelier 1205: Post-Apocalyptic Harvest
Three artists, three strong views of this complex life. And now our journo-about-town Brenner has reaped the visions that Erika Huddleston, Amy Scofield, and Tammy West have sown – and here's his report.Through Jan. 27. Artist talk with Tammy West: Sat., Jan. 26, 1pm -
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Big Medium: Annual Report
It really is a sort of annual report, visually, with this eight-person show featuring artists from Big Medium's wealth of programming in 2018 – including EAST, WEST, the Big Medium Gallery, and Canopy Studios. Witness here the marvels of R F Alvarez, David Amdur, Mimi Bardagjy, Jieun Beth, Santiago Escobedo, Bill Kolb, Ana Esteve Llorens, and Alyssa Taylor Wendt.Through Dec. 29 -
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Blanton Museum: Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design
This new exhibition, organized by the Vitra Design Museum and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, presents the work of more than 120 artists and designers, displaying sculpture, prints, fashion, furniture, film, photography, apps, maps, digital comics, and more to show how African design generates innovative design approaches and solutions with worldwide relevance.Through Jan. 6 -
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Comanche Motion: The Art of Eric Tippeconnic
This exhibition is enhanced with artifacts providing historical context for the paintings, rich with the unbroken connection the Comanche people have with their roots. Also, Rodeo: The Exhibition. Boy howdy, it's the history of the Texas rodeo – vibrant, interactive, and fully documented in this fine new show.Through Jan. 2. $9-13. -
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Gallery Shoal Creek: Odyssey Remembered
The colorful paintings of Peggy Weiss' "Odyssey Remembered" pay homage to both the ties that bind and the everlasting influence of nature on our psyche. Bonus: New works by photographer Kevin Greenblat and painter Erika Huddleston, too.Through Jan. 12 -
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Generative Art Project: Thoughts In Action
This bastion of the aesthetically brilliant possibilities of generative technology presents two new videos, a video slideshow, and five related prints by Alba Corral of Barcelona, Spain. Listen: "The notion that digital imagery is easy to make or merely a gimmick driven by software is wrong. The truth is generative artists, like those working in other media, must invent everything you see. The difference is their marks move through time, which adds to the complexity of their process." Corral’s style elegantly demonstrates her creativity in action. And Brenner tells you more about this new gallery right here.Through Dec. 30 -
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grayDUCK Gallery: Landfall
Multidisciplinary artist Suchitra Mattai presents installations, mixed media drawings and paintings, collages, and video in leveraging land as a catalyst for the exploration of identity. There's so much going on in each piece, a person can't really sum it in a simple blurb. (Pro tip: See our review this issue.)Through Dec. 23 -
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Guzu Gallery: Binge
That Vince Torres and his astonishing cohort of creatives have garnered more graphic goodness for those Guzu walls, with 26 artists paying tribute to shows from the small screen, with stylish renditions of characters and settings from television’s past and present. Featuring homages by Chet Phillips, Tessa Morrison, Killian Glenn, Half-Human, Nina Sanchez, and more. Where's your fandom at, baby? It's probably right here, right now.Through Jan. 7 -
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Harry Ransom Center: Archaeology and Romance
Ed Ruscha, anyone? We'll bet yes – we're big fans ourselves – and now here's a diverse selection of the celebrated American artist’s books, photographs, drawings, and pprints. With archival production materials, preliminary sketches, and studio notebooks; with more than 150 objects providing visitors an unprecedented look into Ruscha's creative process. And the Chronicle's Melany Jean tells more about this show right here.Through Jan. 6 -
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ICOSA: The Matter At Hand
This is a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Darcie Book and Sarah Hirneisen, in which the artists push the boundaries of traditional artmaking techniques. Book stretches the possibilities of painting by navigating between the two- and three-dimensional, while Hirneisen uses mold-making and casting to remake everyday objects into unexpected new forms. Note: You know that ICOSA is right down the Canopy hall from Atelier Dojo, right?Through Jan. 5 -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Erin Shirreff
Here's a new show of the New York-based artist's sculpture and photography, a body of work that "reflects an increasingly complicated world that requires a nuanced understanding of the potential of hybridity and pluralism." And this is our reviewer's reaction to the show.Through Jan. 12 -
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Mexic-Arte Museum: New Holiday Exhibitions
"Chapel Shrine" showcases the paintings of Austin artist John Patrick Cobb, whose works of Biblical imagery are inspired by the religious paintings he encountered in European chapels. "Nacimentos" features traditional Nativity scenes from Mexico.Through Jan. 8 -
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Old Bakery Gallery: Smiles of People and Nature
Paintings – beautiful paintings, we daresay – by Eva Sim-Zabka and Timothy Woolsey. And the photography of Chris Cina.Through Jan. 3 -
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Russell Collection: John Maisano
Lovely exhibition of wildlife sculpture and more by the renowned artist in this new show.Through Dec. 31 -
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The Contemporary Austin: Other Forms of Life
If someone's going to be presenting other forms of life, how lucky for those forms and for the viewers of those forms, that it's the New York–based artist Huma Bhabha, here offering an unforgettable array of human, alien, god, plant, animal, and machinelike entities, rendered in her unique combination of representation and abstraction, in two dimensions and three, in whatever media works best. Celebrated in professional art circles, welcomed with a mixture of wonder and fear by ordinary citizens with eyes to see, Bhabha's creations provide an infusion of transgenre brilliance and savagery that Austin, in particular, needs right about now.Through Jan. 13 -
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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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Umlaufs Unveiled: Recent Gifts and Unseen Umlaufs
This exhibition celebrates the museum’s recent receipt of major gifts and loans from private collectors that enhance the understanding of Charles Umlauf’s oeuvre.Through Jan. 27. $1-5. -
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VSA Texas: Holiday Art Show
Gifts and artwork from unique Texas artists – including cards, jewelry, prints, clothing, books, clayworks, and more.Through Dec. 22. Mon.-Sat., 10am-4pm -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Water & Fire
The artist Priscilla Robinson works with water and fiber (yucca, flax, abaca, kozo, and gampi) to create handmade paper – and fire and sand to make glass. These elements also inspire the shapes and compositions within her work, making the pieces not only about but also of the natural world.Through Dec. 23 -
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Women & Their Work: Everything You Ever
In this new show by Tammie Rubin, "the wispy tendrils of ball moss serve as a signifier of gathering chaos, conclave connections, concentrated confusion, a labyrinth of values, and growing will. Sculptures are constructed of knots and tangles of twine and rope, embedded with steel wool and cotton, and armatures of wire."Through Jan. 10 -
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Yard Dog: Birds, Bears, and Bones
In which the founding fathers of Austin punk get visual, as Jon Dee Graham, Jesse Sublett, and Larry Seaman present their unique visions of the world via canvas, paper, 3-D assemblages, and more.Through Dec. 31
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Butridge Gallery: 2020 Call For Artists
The Julia C. Butridge Gallery is now accepting exhibit proposals for 2020. Located at the Dougherty Arts Center in the heart of the arts district, the JCB Gallery is known for its diverse exhibitions of artists and their work.Deadline: Sun., Feb 17, 2019 -
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The Art of Ice Cream
This? Is one of those ooooh-this'll-look-great-on-Instagram pop-ups that all the like-hungry kids are flocking to, cameras at the ready, surfaces polished for posing. The venue's packed with a colorful array of ice-cream-themed environments, obvs, and so they'll offer you free samples of frozen confections, too. Note: See David Brendan Hall's photo gallery of the place right here.Through Dec. 30. Wed.-Mon., 11am-8pm. $15-25.3208 S. Congress
