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    Artworks Gallery: Earth, Water, Sky

    This group show by Pastel Society artists Enid Wood, Nana Carrillo, and Nancy Lilly features more than 40 beautiful landscapes from the desert to the sea.
    Through March 26
    Artworks Gallery

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    Blanton Museum of Art: MemWars

    Many artists work in multiple mediums, but for Lubbock-raised Terry Allen, music, performance, writing, and visual artwork are truly all part of the same practice. As a visual artist, he often creates immersive sculptural installations with an aspect of performance, incorporated through projections and video. For this ninth installment in the Blanton’s Contemporary Project series, Allen reveals a three-channel video installation and a related group of drawings.
    Through July 10  
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    The Blanton Museum of Art

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    Camiba Gallery: Neuroplastic

    Zoë Shulman’s 'Neuroplastic' is a series of visionary paintings, drawings, metal prints, and: animations by the Austin-based artist, wielding geometric abstraction to explore the intersections between psychotherapy, psychedelic medicine, and art therapy. Note one: Shulman created these while undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy and clinical ketamine treatments. Note two: These are amazing works of art – the sort of painstakingly wrought abstractions that rely as much on craft as on cognition – and they're well worth your stopping-by time.
    Through Feb. 26
    Camiba Gallery

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    Carver Museum: Peace to the Queen

    The photographer, humanitarian, and educator Jamel Shabazz presents a career retrospective spanning four decades of work, featuring candid portraits of women of color – as curated by Ja’nell Ajani. "At a moment when Black and Brown women are more visibly leading the charge around movements for racial and economic justice, this exhibition has materialized and aligned at a critical moment in American history and Shabazz’s career."
    Through Sept. 17
    George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center

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    Cloud Tree: Earth Shift: She Will Have Her Way with You

    Valerie Fowler's newest Texas landscape paintings – including one of the largest she's ever done –: are sinuously complex, psychedelically polychrome, and rooted as much in local soil and flora as they are in the vast palette of color the artist wields to mesmerize. Fowler began this series at the start of the pandemic lockdown; now see what wonders she's wrought from months of solitude and pigment.
    Through March 13
    Cloud Tree

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    Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams

    The Contemporary Austin presents the first-ever museum survey of works by Daniel Johnston. "Step into the surreal universe of this visionary musician and artist, filled with love, loss, ghosts, aliens, superheroes, and the eternal battle between good and evil."
    Through March 20
    The Contemporary Austin

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    Davis Gallery: Paperback Rodeo

    A new show by Austin's B. Shawn Cox is always reason to celebrate, we say, and this latest one at Davis Gallery is a perfect corroboration of that statement. This is what happens when the artist explores subtext with polka-dotted domesticated florals that hide deconstructed cowboys, lenticular eye-candy featuring blended dualities of Western icons, and folded paper quilts incorporating text to supra any subtext. Bonus: New works by Dana Younger will be on display, too? You Davis people are trying to spoil us, is that it?
    Through Feb. 26. Free.  
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    Davis Gallery

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    Elisabet Ney Museum: Suspension

    This is an immersive print installation by Liv Monique Johnson that invites the viewer to "explore an outcropping of wilderness where the weird may take place." It's an interactive work right there on the edge of the park, a space where screenprinted elements are combined with a variety of materials to create a lush setting of colorful foliage.
    Through Feb. 27  
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    Elisabet Ney Museum

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    Flatbed Press: Temporalities

    Laura Crehuet Berman's new exhibition here brings together her recent monotypes and collages, in which the artist has created images that layer together time, space, form, and color.
    Through Feb. 26
    Flatbed Press

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    ICOSA: Window Dressing XVII

    The latest installment in this intriguing, ongoing series of front-window displays features Focusing Screen by Sarah Sudhoff, revealing the extraordinary artist's new VieVision mirror. "The device was created to facilitate the examination of one’s own vagina, perineum, and anus. The device – and in turn, the performance (Sun., Feb. 27, 6pm) – allows a moment to reclaim familiar knowledge of the most intimate parts of the human anatomy, anatomy that is more mysterious to oneself than it is to others, be they lovers or doctors." Note: Audience view of the performance will be slightly obstructed with the repetition of the mirror's pattern affixed across the gallery's three windows.
    Sun., Feb. 27, 6-7pm
    ICOSA

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    Ivester Contemporary: Digging for Daisies

    This solo exhibition of new paintings by Jaylen Pigford features a reoccurring lone figure which appears in each canvas, accompanied by scattered objects and varying settings "to indicate a prevalent sense of confusion and disorientation." Oh, baby, we totally feel that. Also: This guy's work is good, real damn good, and you'd be glad to see it.
    Through March 5
    Ivester Contemporary

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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
    Laguna Gloria Amphitheater

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    Link & Pin Gallery: Ääripää

    This PrintAustin Invitational exhibition showcases works by members of the Turku Printmakers Association, a regional artist organization in Southern Finland.
    Through March 5
    Link & Pin

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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.
    Martha's Contemporary

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    Mexic-Arte Museum: MX 21 – Resistance, Reaffirmation, and Resilience

    Throughout 2021, Mexico is commemorating major events in history: the falling of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán, the invasion by Spain, and the Independence of Mexico. Mexic-Arte Museum presents this vibrant group exhibition and programs in conjunction with Mexico’s 2021 events, reaffirming their common cultural history. Also: "Los Pueblos Originarios," featuring photos of continuing traditions by Mary J. Andrade; and Las Flores – La Vida, a new show displaying flower-themed art from more than 200 local and regional artists.
    Through Feb. 27. $7.  
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    Mexic-Arte Museum

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    Really Small Museum: Charles Heppner & Ric Nelson

    This is a rotating 12-month art installation in sister East Austin neighborhoods, dedicated to the idea of fun, creativity, arts, and community. Now showing the works of Charles Heppner at The 14th and Ric Nelson at The Banton. See website for details.
    Through Feb. 28  
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    The 14th (1311 Harvey); The Banton (3509 Banton)

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    RichesArt Gallery: American History

    RichesArt Gallery, the only Black-owned art gallery in town, launches an interactive exhibit to amplify the work of local Black artists – featuring work by DeLoné Osby, Xavier Alvarado, Lakeem Wilson, Chris Tobar, and more.
    Through Feb. 28
    RichesArt Gallery

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    The Blanton Museum: Invisibilia

    This is the first retrospective of Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz's work in the United States. The exhibition includes 40 exemplary works from his most evocative series created between the 1970s and today, wherein the artist has "turned photographic processes inside out to underscore the intrinsic fragility and transient nature of the image," revealing "how the act of opening the aperture to light instantaneously transforms the present into the past and life into memory."
    Through June 5
    The Blanton Museum of Art

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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 Sculpture Garden

    The Umlauf's famed Garden features expertly wrought sculptures, the bronze or stone cynosures from Charles Umlauf and others anchoring sight among the bright foliage and tree-towered paths. The current highlight is an exhibition of works by David Deming.
    Tue.-Fri., 10am-4pm; Sat.-Sun., 11am-4pm
    Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum

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    UT Idea Lab: The Way Back Home

    On display: Four distinct bodies of work that Austin-based video and mixed-media artist Ariel René Jackson has produced over the past five years.
    Through March 22
    210 W. 24th

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    UT Visual Arts Center: Cycles & Loops

    This is the first solo exhibition in Texas of the works of Bill Morrison, one of the most accomplished contemporary filmmakers in the nation, a man whose focus lies between the documentary nature of found footage and the chaotic intervention of nitrate film with its inclination for entropy.
    Through March 12
    Visual Arts Center

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    UT Visual Arts Center: Spring 2022

    In addition to the Bill Morrison film retrospective "Cycles & Loops," the VAC also presents "A Ground to Stand, A Place to Call," with works from the first-year MFA cohort of Sarah Chess, Gabrielle Constantine, Alex Freyre, Rowan Howe, and Jennifer Teresa Villanueva; and Corentin Canesson's "Sleep Spaces / Les Espaces du Sommeil;" and "Connective Tissues," which focuses on publications.
    Through March 12
    Visual Arts Center

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    Wally Workman Gallery: Walking

    Hard to believe that this is Molly Smith's first show with the elegant gallery that's right down Sixth from Whole Foods, but it's a doozy. Smith's intricate, realistic pencil drawings will awe you as she explores the complexity of nature in all its vibrant hues.
    Through Feb. 27
    Wally Workman Gallery

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    Women & Their Work: A Welcoming Place

    Ariel René Jackson's new show is a film-based exhibition that contemplates what it might look like to forecast the welcoming status of a place. The work on display weaves interviews, research, images, videos, animations, and sculpture to deliver a poetic visualization of shared knowledge about East Austin.
    Through March 3
    Women & Their Work

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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.
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    Wyld Gallery

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    Yard Dog: Dancing Nightly

    Bruce Lee, the longtime curator of Waxahachie's legendary Webb Gallery, fills the walls of Austin's premier folk art venue with his newest works – familiar subjects of country music and odd Americana, as painted on vintage cotton seed sacks, canvas bags, and journal and ledger paper.
    Through March 27
    Yard Dog
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