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Landmarks: Self-Guided Walking Tour
Use your smartphone to access self-guided tours of the outdoor public art sited by UT's award-winning Landmarks program any time you feel like it. BONUS: There's also a free, docent-led tour starting at Marc Quinn's "Spiral of the Galaxy" (1501 Red River) on Sun., Jan. 8, 11am.
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Austin Central Library: Fagilee/Siwaju/Tunto
Austin's own Akirash presents his newest sculptural installation at the Austin Central Library. "As I built these mini grocery stores," says the artist, "I thought of the relationships we build and how Covid is pulling them down brick by brick. I thought of the hands and souls have touched the packages and mourned some of them who passed. The colors were arranged to invoke the ceaseless news and information flow on social media and the internet; the day-to-day report on the progress of finding a cure; of how many people are affected, infected, surviving, or dying all around the world; and the statistics of economies failing."Through Sept. 10 -
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Curiosity Cousins: Experiments In Art and Science
The founders of Collection Rert invited "artists and scientists who want to follow their curiosity and document their discoveries" to gather the objects in this new show. The opening reception will include a Q&A with the participants to allow for maximum understanding of their experiments. The curators note: "We'll be limiting the number of guests in the gallery to two at a time and ask that all guests wear masks to create a safe environment for everyone."Sat., Aug. 21, 2-5pm2608-B Rogers -
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Prizer Arts & Letters: A Specialization in Abstract Speed Painting
That is precisely what Austin's Carl Smith specializes in, yes, and here are the most recent abstract fruits of his painterly labors – displayed inside this intimate gallery on E. Cesar Chavez, but also, much of the work, viewable through the venue's big front windows (illuminated each night from 8:30-11:30pm).Through Aug. 29
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Art for the People Gallery: Lightful
Hallie Rae Ward's solo show "Lightful" is delightful, resplendent with the artist's polychrome, fiber-wrapped beams all lit from within and glowing out spectra of energy along the wall of this lively gallery (which currently hosts a group show, too) on South First.Through Sept. 4 -
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Art for the People Gallery: Thrive!
Here's a showcase of work by more than 40 Austinites who’ve created art with an exuberance of color and energy over the past 15 pandemic months.Through Sept. 30 -
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ArtUs Gallery: Introspection & Fortitude
This solo exhibition by Jacob Guzman features 17 large paintings that employ symbolism and abstracted portraiture to visualize "the emotional struggles and trauma the artist deals with in his daily life."Through Aug. 28ArtUs Co. Gallery, 10000 Research #118 -
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Bale Creek Allen Gallery: Stuff I've Made
In his 45 years as an artist, Gary Sweeney has established a body of artwork that is "as diverse in its media and presentation as it is singular in its wit and intelligence." Now witness the San Antonio-based maker's latest show in this excellent gallery at Big Medium's Canopy.Through Aug. 23 -
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Beyond Van Gogh
This traveling spectacle of art, a multimedia exhibition currently ensconced at the COTA, uses cutting-edge projection technology to create an engaging journey into the world of Vincent Van Gogh. Repurposing the artist's dreams, his thoughts, and his words to drive the experience as a narrative, this huge installation will move you along projection-swathed walls wrapped in light, colour, and shapes that swirl, dance and refocus into flowers, cafes and landscapes. As a certain Dude might comment, "This is extremely fuckin' trippy, man." Make your reservations now, citizen, and if the price seems a bit steep, hell, you can probably tap your brother Theo for a loaner, amirite?Through Sept. 5. Daily, 11am-9pm. $37 ($24, children). -
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Big Medium: Markers
Witness here the individual and collaborative work of Kel Brown, Russell Brxwn, and Emily Eisenhart, who explore the rhythmic language of lines, color, and minimal paint strokes, leaving their marks across the city, working on the sides of buildings, the surfaces of everyday functional objects, textiles, and more.Through Aug. 28 -
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Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used photography to popularize the political slogan "Black Is Beautiful." This exhibition, the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite’s remarkable career, reveals the story of this key figure of the second Harlem Renaissance – and the Chronicle's Robert Faires has a review of the show right here.Through Sept. 19 -
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Camiba Art: Synergy & Synthesis
Kate Bradshaw-David’s solo exhibit features works on wood panels and paper, the artist's careful use of gouache and acrylics creating artworks that immerse viewers in imaginary worlds of color, line, and visual texture.Through Aug. 28 -
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Cloud Tree: If These Walls Could Talk
Ah, this, citizen: This here is a seven-artist exhibition – featuring Tim Kerr, Niz, Jeremy Burks, Gayla Partridge, Kenneth Holland, Jeff Wheeler, and Win Wallace – curated by Rachel Koper and the abovenamed Wallace, that attempts to reincarnate those "punk creepy shows" (cf., "Hallowed Ground") that used to palpitate the creative hearts at Gallery Lombardi back in the day. You remember those glory years, right? And here, now, each artist brings their voice and style to plaster the Cloud Tree gallery walls with a diversity of figurative pieces. Bonus: Robert Faires reviews the show here.Through Aug. 29 -
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Contracommon Gallery: Untitled II
Amar Gupta and Brianna Vance create process-oriented abstract works. "Although their chosen mediums, photography and painting, may seem vastly different, both artists' works share similarities to Abstract Expressionism." Does that description leave you cold? These works won't: Damned good stuff, worth driving to see.Through Aug 27 -
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DAC: Luminous Mo:ments and River Story
In these new exhibitions at the Dougherty Arts Center, Sarah Luna's "Luminous Mo:ments" explores the inner life of ordinary materials as revealed through the photographic process and Michelle Gardella's "River Story" is an ongoing portrait series of women that spans twelve years and multiple rivers across the United States.Through Aug. 28. Mon.-Fri., 11am-5pm; Sat., 11am-3pm -
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Davis Gallery: Flora and Fauna
Right, so we're crazy excited about this show, because 1) we're all about the flora and the fauna; 2) the show includes new pieces by that relatively unsung genius of arcane sculptural work, Steve Brudniak; and 3) this is a group exhibition "focused on the depth and variety of Davis Gallery's family of artists." Yes! And if you don't already know how impressive, how basically aesthetically badass, that diversity of makers is, citizen, then this "Flora and Fauna" gig will be the perfect introduction for you.Through Sept. 25 -
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ICOSA: A Sharp Softness
This exhibition features new bodies of work by Mai Gutierrez and Suzanne Wyss, with both artists "exploring the reuse of materials in a nontraditional way, piercing the space to create movement and shadow through their use of dimensionality."Through Sept. 11 -
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Ivester Contemporary: Fortune Teller
This exhibition’s title was presented to a selection of Texas-based artists for their own interpretation. Those artists are Kalee Appleton, Claire Bresette, Jonas Criscoe, Ryan Thayer Davis, Juan de Dios Mora, Eli Durst, Alie Jackson, Tsz Kam, Calder Kamin, Bradley Kerl, Rachel Livedalen, Ysabel LeMay, Katy McCarthy, Dave McClinton, Cruz Ortiz, Nat Power, Natalia Rocafuerte, Tom Jean Webb, and Sydney Yeager – so we predict that your eyes and minds are in for a good time.Through Sept. 11 -
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Laguna Gloria
This local treasure of a venue, run by those Contemporary Austin folks who also bring us the Jones Center shows Downtown, is all about the outdoors – which is perfect for these trickily navigated times of ours, n'est-ce pas? Recommended: Stop by and breathe in the air, enjoy the lawns and gardens and the many examples of world-class sculpture arrayed across the property, and (as Frankie used to say) r-e-l-a-x.Thu.-Fri., 9am-noon; Sat.-Sun., 9am-3pm -
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Lora Reynolds Gallery: Hypocrisies, Accommodations, and Polite Twaddle
Colby Bird returns to Austin as artist-in-residence at this excellent Downtown gallery, to create an exhibition of new works that will be his sixth solo project here.Through Sept. 11 -
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Lydia Street Gallery: Zero to Sixty
"Are you prepared to scratch your head in wonderment?" this gallery asks. "Step right up into Steven Bernard Jones' world of radical acceptance and storytelling. 'Zero to Sixty' might feel fast – but as a 60-year-old artist, Jones is just warming up. It’s a journey of rage, turned on its head."Through Sept. 16 -
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MACC: Colores de Mi Alma
The Mexican American Cultural Center presents this: vibrant new show of works from Austin native Amado Castillo III.Through Sept. 4 -
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Martha's Contemporary: Hokey Pokey + What You See Is What You Get
Here's a two-person exhibition that features painting, installation, videography, and sculpture by Moll Brau and Wes Thompson. It's a deep dive into a pool of loneliness, triumph, and rebirth. It's a forest of mazes where fireflies provide the light. It's a show of creations from a pair of terrific, hardworking local artists and you don't want to miss it. -
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Martha's Contemporary: Tandem
This new show, curated by SAGE Studio, includes the work of 22 artists – 11 artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, paired with 11 neurotypical, Austin artists, and each artist of each pair creating a piece inspired by their partner.Through Aug. 28 -
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Mexic-Arte: Mexico, the Border, and Beyond
Mexic-Arte Museum presents selections from the Juan Antonio Sandoval Jr. Collection, one of the most important Latinx art collections in the U.S., representing much of the unique history and culture of the borderlands or la frontera.Through Aug. 22. $10. -
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Neill-Cochran House: The Struggle and the Glory
Cornelius Carter’s paintings capture the struggle and glory of African-Americans along with the artist’s faith in the dream of equality and opportunity for all – including portraits of Muhammed Ali, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.Through Sept. 5 -
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Recspec Gallery: If You Stay In a Place Like This
Alluringly weird new photographic works by Rosalie Anderson supercharge the wonderground that is this ongoing online gallery.Through Aug. 31 -
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The Blanton: From the Collection of Jack Shear
In 1999, the photographer and art collector Jack Shear co-organized an exhibition at New York’s Drawing Center: "Drawn from Artist’s Collections." This new show at the Blanton is curated by Shear "in an exploratory, free-flowing manner in which the forms, compositions and colors on the sheets respond to one another in a playful, non-traditional hang."Through Aug. 22 -
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The Blanton: Sedrick Huckaby
Texas-based artist Sedrick Huckaby explores psychology, community, and the human condition in his powerful portraits painted from life. The catalog notes say: "Through his virtuoso facility with oil paint, Huckaby utilizes texture, dimensionality, and intensely saturated colors to extraordinary expressive effect." Says the artist himself: "The African-American family and its heritage has been the content of my work for several years. In large-scale portraits of family and friends I try to aggrandize ordinary people by painting them on a monumental scale."Through Dec. 5 -
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The Bullock Museum: Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow
This powerful show, a traveling exhibition organized by the New-York Historical Society, explores the transformative years after the Civil War and the rise of Jim Crow, centering on stories of African Americans who pursued the ideals of Reconstruction and persevered in the face of a developing legal system promoting racial inequality.Through Nov. 28 -
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Austin: Midsummer Art Show
Featuring art by Peter Max, Ron Wood, and other international, national, and local artists.Through Aug. 29. Donations accepted.1638 E. Second #326 -
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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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Tiemann Art Gallery: Visions of Nature
Monica Puryear's "vibrant, surrealist artwork" adorns the walls of this gallery up Round Rock way.Through Oct. 231706 N. Mays, Round Rock -
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West Chelsea Contemporary: Street Kings: RISK + Blek le Rat
This new show highlights two graffiti masters who have catalyzed the movement worldwide.Through Aug. 22 -
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Women & Their Work: We Know Who We Are. We Know What We Want.
This initial exhibition in W&TW's new permanent space examines how the idea of feminism continues to be one that has many definitions, depending on the lens through which it is viewed. Curator Vicki Meek invited artists “whose artwork and lives intrigue me and who all take an unapologetic view of their world, to come together in a collective conversation around issues of feminism and humanism." Featuring art by Nida Bangash, Lauren Cross, Rehab El Sadek, Angela Faz, Pallavi Govindnathan, Lahib Jaddo, Pat Johnson, Lovie Olivia, and Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga.Through Sept. 21 -
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Wyld Gallery
This is Ray Donley's gallery of art by Native Americans, located in that company of artistic glory called Canopy and resplendent with creations from the original people of our struggling country.Call for appointment -
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Yard Dog: Camera-less Photography
Maine artist Michelle Hauser uses photochemistry in lieu of traditional pigments, painting with historic light-sensitive materials such as cyanotype directly onto rag paper in a darkened room. Once completely dry, the painted surface is exposed to sunlight; in a cool bath of water, the exposure is fixed and her marks turn blue.Through Aug. 29
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Atelier Dojo: Remote Studios
The local powerhouse of figurative painting, the art school that's the smart school for artists of all kinds, they've got a painting-along-at-home series going to help you keep your skills honed in these socially restrictive times, featuring live costumed models posing on camera and a thriving community of creatives rendering that lovely human biotecture from their separate studios. "Join us for a three-hour costumed-model drawing session. Use any supplies you wish, listen to music, share your work, chat with others. It’s a great way to stay connected with your art community!"Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30pm; Fridays, 6:30-9:30pm; Saturdays, 9:30-12:30pm. $5.