Home Events Arts Visual Arts
All Events Visual Arts Theatre Comedy Books Dance Classical Music also: Arts News
Events
-
Arts
Visual Arts
PrintAustin
There’s one sure way for art to make a lasting impression: When the marks comprising a work are made transferable and forced into contact with another surface. Then, suddenly, look – born from an industrial matrix still wet with ink, it’s a print! It’s the product of a woodcut, an engraving, an etching. It manifests as a mezzotint, an aquatint, an image of drypoint. Hell, maybe it’s one of those screenprints that concert promoters use for pimping their bands, a bold AF poster created with the same sort of process that, when displayed in a Very Serious Museum, is called serigraphy.: There are so many different kinds of prints, we confess, that it’s better to direct you to Wikipedia for detailed background. But we wouldn’t be surprised if an eye-popping majority of those kinds – to say nothing of the abundance of subjects depicted, the profusion of styles engaged – were available for viewing during the sixth annual PrintAustin celebration.: This year’s iteration of PrintAustin runs from January 15 to February 15 and features a wide diversity of events throughout the city – including exhibitions, artist talks, demos, workshops, and more. We’ll be highlighting several of those in your Chronicle's visual arts listings as the fest continues, of course, so keep your eyes peeled this-a-way.Through Feb. 15 -
Arts
Visual Arts
Tammy West: Gathered In Oneness
Here's a talk by one of the three artists of Atelier 1205's current "Post-Apocalyptic Harvest" exhibition, illuminating us on the significance of her use of natural materials and their interface with select materials from the modern world.Sat., Jan. 26, 1pm -
Arts
Visual Arts
The Artscream Truck!
This refurbished ice cream truck, roving the city to provide art accessibility to all communities, presents a multifunction, music-jamming, pop-up art gallery, displaying original paintings, sculptures, and a dancing ice cream truck driver and artist.Sat., Jan. 26, 5-8pm. Free.The VORTEX
OPENING
-
Arts
Visual Arts
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 -
Arts
Visual Arts
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
CLOSING
-
Arts
Visual Arts
Wally Workman Gallery: Seeing Through Darkness
The Austin-based artist Eliza Thomas works with ink on kozo paper, exploring the beauty of decay. This results in a visual dynamic of strength and unexpected calm that dominates Thomas’ large-scale works.Through Jan. 26
ONGOING
-
Arts
Visual Arts
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 -
Arts
Visual Arts
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 -
Arts
Visual Arts
Big Medium: The Contemporary Print
The bright anchor of PrintAustin's inkstained vehicle of wonders is this exhibition of printmaking from 35 artists from around the world, juried by Anna Katherine Brodbeck of the Dallas Museum of Art. There's so much here that's so good, but, listen, there's also a new large work called Oversight by Art Werger – and that alone should be enough to draw you to Big Medium before the show ends.Through Feb. 16 -
Arts
Visual Arts
-
Arts
Visual Arts
Butridge Gallery: Despite It All
This is a solo show by the celebrated graphic designer Dave McClinton. Can faces, bodies, and historical references be used to tell stories? You bet your bold narrative hooks they can, citizen.Through Feb. 9 -
Arts
Visual Arts
Davis Gallery: Past and Present
It's no secret that Randall Reid's meticulous works – painstakingly constructed from shards of our commercial and natural past, perfectly displayed among the ruins of our present – are some of the rare objects on this planet that bring a deep joy to our eyes' sense of beauty and amplify any yearnings in the forlorn wasteland of our heart. So what can we tell you about the man's career retrospective at Davis Gallery right now? What can we tell you about four decades' worth of Reidian excellence on display, except that we recommend it highly? Let's hope that'll do – because you shouldn't miss this show.Through Feb. 23 -
Arts
Visual Arts
Dimension Gallery: Little Soldiers
Here's Part 1 of a two-part exhibition by Jade Walker, investigating the human body in collision with disease. The concept of healing runs deep through the installation, with each stitch connecting back to the body and how we as humans fight to heal, grow, and evolve.Through Feb. 16 -
Arts
Visual Arts
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 -
Arts
Visual Arts
Flatbed Goes South: Moving Show and Sale
Ah, Flatbed will be moving south in April of this year! Help them lighten the moving load by finding a framed or unframed print to add to your collection. The art will be hung in salon style, covering those already nostalgia-tinged walls, with more than 200 works – and most of 'em available at a discount. Illegitimi, we say, illegitimi non carborundum!Through Feb. 28 -
Arts
Visual Arts
grayDUCK Gallery: Amze Emmons and Yoonmi Nam
The wonders of PrintAustin are heralded in the excellent grayDUCK space, with Emmons presenting his records of informal temporary structures and ingenious vernacular designs, with Nam offering images of man-made environments and objects and cut flower arrangements, with a two-person show that complements and contrasts across the common ground of expert printmaking.Through Feb. 24 -
Arts
Visual Arts
ICOSA: When Everything’s Been Said
New works by Jonas Criscoe and Mark Johnson that "explore the illusion of direction and the indeterminacy of visual language, charting the cacophonous nature of our contemporary environment while reflecting upon the incoherent facets of information that saturate our daily lives." And this is what that Brenner has to say about it.Through Feb. 16 -
Arts
Visual Arts
La Peña Gallery: Latino Artists in Printmaking
Mas PrintAustin aqui? Indeed, as La Peña presents a group show of different themes and techniques, featuring work from artists in México, Chile, Perú, Guatemala, and Texas.Through Feb. 9 -
Arts
Visual Arts
Lora Reynolds Gallery: Listening Closely
Where do we come from? Where are we going? Is there a bigger something out there that will always be out of reach? (And what might it mean to try to connect with it?) The artists in this show listen closely to their materials, history, the land, and the stars – and often end up hearing things they did not expect. Bonus: New works by Jong Oh in the Project Room.Through March 23 -
Arts
Visual Arts
MASS Gallery: Interwoven
This is an exhibition featuring six contemporary artists who work in textiles, from traditional forms of artwork like Navajo weaving, natural dyes, embroidery, and chain stitching, to the more contemporary approaches of site-specific installation and free-standing sculptures. Including work by Melissa Cody, Orly Cogan, Fort Lonesome, Amada Miller, Haleh Pedram, and Suzanne Wyss. Ah, here's a slightly longer preview from Brenner for you.Through March 2 -
Arts
Visual Arts
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 -
Arts
Visual Arts
Northern-Southern: Insides
This is a complementary pair of domestic dream-rooms, with Jaime Zuverza and design duo Transmountain collaborating on calm and surreal furniture-art in the front gallery and Rachel Freeman creating an all-over installation of color blocks, reclaimed pipes, and precise Micron pen drawings to transform the adjoining room.Closing reception: Fri., Feb. 1, 6-8pm -
Arts
Visual Arts
Por Fin: Impresiónes y Expresiónes de México
Cat Quintanilla presents a solo exhibition of sculptures, photography, and block prints, reflecting the artist's focus for a future that is diverse and rich with her family’s Mexican culture.Through March 23 -
Arts
Visual Arts
Recspec Gallery: A Way Home
Kevin Muñoz and Graham Franciose come from opposite corners of the U.S. – with different backgrounds, upbringings, and artistic styles. Despite these differences, both they've found common ground through a shared outlook on life and collaborative works. Now see the results, another terrific part of PrintAustin, in this bright array of drawings, paintings, and prints.Through Feb. 16 -
Arts
Visual Arts
Sixth Street Gallery: Between
This excellent venue kicks off 2019 with a group show of seven local artists: Alicia Philley, GD Wright, Steven Eggert Rabbitt, Vy Ngo, Andrea Hyland, Carmen Izurieta, and Sarah Presson. -
Arts
Visual Arts
The Contemporary Austin: Paper Dance
This is both a dynamic retrospective spanning 30 years of photographs and sculptures by Janine Antoni and a solo dance performance by the artist developed collaboratively with pioneering dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin. Antoni performs 15 times throughout the exhibition for an intimate audience, exploring the materiality of brown paper and responding to her own artwork within the gallery. (Click here for schedule.) On view during museum hours, the artist and art handlers will pack, unpack, and reinstall the work, before and after performances.Through March 17 -
Arts
Visual Arts
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? -
Arts
Visual Arts
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. -
Arts
Visual Arts
Women & Their Work: If I Could, I Would Cover Everything With My Drawings
Hedwige Jacobs invites viewers into an almost meditative state of observation with her drawn surfaces, video installation, and cut patterns, in which "figures move about, hover on the edge of the impossible, and reconfigure themselves in endless variations drawn from everyday interactions."Drawing Games with the Artist: Mon., Feb. 28, 7pm -
Arts
Visual Arts
Yard Dog: 'Scuse Us While We Kiss the Sky
Here's a new show of art by brothers Jad & David Fair – you know, Half Japanese, right? – featuring Jad's cutout paintings of album covers and David's silly tribute paintings.Through Feb. 10
Creative Opportunities
-
Arts
Visual Arts
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 -
Arts
Visual Arts
Saturday Morning Drawing Salon
Elisabet Ney’s magnificent sculptural works can be your models, in her own historic artist studio, with each session hosted by museum educators – and all of the required materials provided. Note: This is free and open to everyone, regardless of age or level of experience.Through Jan. 26. Saturdays, 10am-noon. Free.
