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    Flatbed Press: Edition Variables 2022

    Here's the first annual exhibition to showcase Austin’s new and upcoming printmakers, featuring work from students who are receiving their BFA, BA, BS, or MFA with a major or minor concentration in printmaking from an Austin area college or university.
    Through Aug. 27
    Flatbed Press

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    GrayDUCK Gallery: Animalia

    Says the photographer Henry Horenstein: "As subjects, animals are close to perfect for a photographer, especially if they live in zoos and aquariums. Animals give no attitude, and they also require no model releases. Actually, strictly speaking, animals (even domestic pets) do need to be model released if you’re using their image commercially, because the law considers them property." Right? So: "I never shot in a jungle or underwater. Only where there was a food court, bathrooms, and WiFi."
    Through Aug. 14  
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    Big Medium: The Lightning Can't Be Harnessed

    Xavier Schipani is an Austin-based transgender artist, who has focused his practice on creating large painting installations that explore the boundaries of gender, body politics, sexuality and queer identity. His unique voice and personal connection to the themes of his work create intimate experiences in combination with a larger than life scale to establish a contrast between the work and the viewer. He continues to investigate fear and anger, masculinity as performance, and the ambiguity of what makes a man.
    Through July 30. Thu.-Sat., noon-6pm
    Big Medium
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    Art for the People: Abundance

    This show is called "Abundance" because that's what it represents: an abundance of bright new works from a plethora of local artists.
    Through Aug. 26
    Art for the People

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    Artworks Gallery: In the Flesh

    The depiction of the human body in its purest form is challenging to capture in most media, but that's what Austin artist Arye Shapiro has been driven to do for the past 20 years – most recently focusing on painting the human figure in oil.
    Through Aug. 13
    Artworks Gallery

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    BANKSYLAND

    This multimedia art experience contains more than 100 authenticated works and installations examining the mystique and cultural impact of BANKSY. You know, right? B-A-N-K-S-Y? OK, then.
    Through July 31. Daily, noon-8pm. $29.
    800 Congress

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    Blue Moon Glassworks

    Handmade glass art and jewelry.
    Blue Moon Glassworks

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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: Mi Voz Más Clara

    René Alvarado's had 25 years as a full-time working artist, and by this point the figurative surrealism of the painter from San Angelo is breathtaking in its depth and emotion. Cloud Tree's been a full-time venue for six years now, and by this point we're getting used to checking out whatever's on the walls, maybe reeling a bit, and going "Wow … just wow, man."
    Through Aug. 6
    Cloud Tree

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    Elisabet Ney Museum: Secret Place

    The Ney Museum reveals a provocative new exhibition by multimedia artist Rehab El Sadek.
    Through July 31. Free.  
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    Elisabet Ney Museum

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    ICOSA: Spatial Harmony

    Here's a group exhibition featuring current members of the ICOSA collective. As that includes the likes of Leon Alesi, Darcie Book, Shawn Camp, Veronica Ceci, B. Shawn Cox, Jonas Criscoe, Erin Cunningham, Mai Gutierrez, Sarah Hirneisen, Madeline Irvine, Amanda Linn McInerney, John Mulvany, Vy Ngo, and even more; and as those are the artists whose works are on display here, we're highly recommending a visit to this Canopy-based wonderground.
    Through Aug. 6. Free.
    ICOSA

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    Ivester Contemporary: Dream Job

    This is a group show displaying sketches, maquettes, and digital renderings of the projects and ideas that the participating artists would pursue if money, time, knowledge, and space weren't in the way: twelve-foot-tall bronze and stained-glass outdoor sculpture, a playground in the shape of giant animal bust, and skyscrapers wrapped in custom vinyl designs. See the creatively imagined in proposal form; see parts of this world as they could be. Bonus: Accompanying show "Review" features six video artworks by seven artists: Andie Flores, Michael Anthony García, Ariel René Jackson, Renee Lai, Katy McCarthy, Natalia Rocafuerte, and VLM.
    Through Aug. 27
    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: Summer Strut

    Link & Pin presents a summer show featuring some of their favorite Austin artists; each artist (the amazing Leslie Kell among them) will have a work on display in the gallery, with additional pieces available online.
    Through Aug. 28
    Link & Pin

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    Lora Reynolds Gallery: Blow-Up

    Bing Wright's new pictures are enlargements of uncommonly tight crops from images of children at play on a seashore — an outstretched hand splashing water or carrying a beach bucket, liberal smears of sunscreen, fluorescent plastic hair clips, a foot dragging through burbling waves.
    Through Sept. 10
    Lora Reynolds Gallery

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    MACC: Sendas de Mi Vida

    This new exhibit includes paintings from the past two years, vibrant artworks by Blas E. Lopez only now revealed to the public.
    Through Aug. 27
    Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center

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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

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    Martha's Contemporary: Hot Concrete

    Recent paintings by Texas artist Calhan Hale. How can oil paint on linen embody everyday images that look so real, so arresting? How does this Hale know exactly when to add a frame, a spike, a touch of spray paint to seal her pictures of quotidian life into brilliance? Suggestion: See for yourself.
    Through Aug. 13
    Martha's

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    Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition

    "This special collection of the artist’s renowned ceiling frescoes from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is reproduced in a format that allows viewers to get face-to-face with the [copies of the] masterpieces." Note: See how the promotional image is of a person taking a photo of the reproduction of the famous artwork? Baudrillard, we reckon, wept. YMMV.
    Through Aug. 8. Tue.-Sun., 10am-6pm. $20.20 ($14.14 for kids).
    Circuit of the Americas

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    Neill-Cochran House: The Hope Suite

    Mark Smith’s The Hope Suite is a series of forty-four collages inspired by the theme of global unity. Each 24-by-18-inch work on paper consists of a background monoprint or a digital photoprint, overlaid with collage, calligraphy, and mixed media. Note: The originals are part of the permanent collection of the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago; the works on display here are limited-edition prints of those originals.
    Through Dec. 16. Free.  
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    Neill-Cochran House Museum

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    Prizer Arts & Letters: These Walls

    This is a collection of paintings, photograms, videos, books, and installation works from artists Mark Menjivar and Rickey Cummings. The two men have been working collaboratively for the past six years as Cummings fights for his freedom from Texas' death row.
    Through Aug. 20
    Prizer Gallery

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    Really Small Museum: The Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata

    And here the Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata, one of our favorite entities in the entire city, shares a traveling exhibit within the tiny walls of this neighborhood outdoor treasure. Recommendation: Just walk on up for a happy eyeful.
    Through July 31. Free.
    1311 Harvey

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    RSM: The Tee Hee Bee Quilt Show

    Ay-yi-yi, they're making hot even hotter with the Really Small Museum’s July installation. There will be a weekly rotation of sample quilts from the Tee Hee Bee on display at both RSM locations, featuring creations by Sara Newsom, Claudia Porter, Mary Ann Ricky, Carol Hastings, Danielle Mariani, and Sandra McCallum.
    Through July 31
    3509 Banton

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    The Blanton: Fantastically French! Design and Architecture In 16th- to 18-Century Prints

    Drawing primarily from the Blanton’s extensive holdings of French prints, this exhibition invites you to look closely at exquisite details, marvel at fantastic forms, and take delight in ornate embellishments that celebrate the creativity of imagination across three centuries.
    Through Aug. 14
    The Blanton Museum of Art

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    The Contemporary Austin: The Whisperers

    Tarek Atoui is a Paris-based artist and composer whose work explores the medium of sound through a highly collaborative process that generates networks of community involvement. The dynamic installations on view in this exhibition are both sound environments and spaces for activation through occasional live performances.
    Through Aug. 14
    The Contemporary Austin

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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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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being Stuffed

    Austin's own Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation presents a literary homage in which stuffed writers display original work and new takes on old classics. Savor flash fiction, essays, and poetry from some of "the most talented stuffed authors of this generation." For instance: Virginia Wolf. Yes, that's W-O-L-F.
    Through Aug. 28
    2825 Hancock #111

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    Wally Workman Gallery: Inked

    Skin? Yes, skin – and illustrations. In this new solo show by Germany-born artist Anne Siems – the fifth for her at this excellent gallery – the exposed female figures are marked with tattoos of fables, myths, and poems.
    Through July 31
    Wally Workman Gallery

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    Wild Basin: Encounters with Biodiversity

    In this immersive art event that mixes color, conversation, and endangered species, artist Juliet Whitsett invites attendees to become a part of her newest body of work, through a series of activations and interactive experiences.
    Through Aug. 20. $5 and up.  
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    Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve

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    Women & Their Work: One Bad Monkey

    Through soft sculptures and draping foam relief tapestries, Steef Crombach examines the secret life of local icons like the Wheatsville Raptor and the Big Star Bingo Gorilla and more, exploring each character’s evolution as its identity morphs over time and place.
    Through Aug. 4
    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.
    Call for appointment
    Wyld Gallery
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