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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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When Our Sun Rises
Local national-parks-inspired home décor brand Tawa Threads presents this exhibition of outdoor-centric artwork from 30+ BIPOC, queer, and disabled artists, all curated by Tawa founder Tabria Williford. Plus: a complimentary bar! food trucks! live painting! music on the lawn! a photo booth! and a plant workshop!Sat., Sept. 10, 5-10pm. $20 ($15, in advance).
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Austin Art Space: Artistic Intentions
Here's the new group show from the Austin Visual Arts Association.Through Oct. 1 -
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Collection Rert: Furly Art
Self-taught painter Furly Travis of San Marcos describes himself as a "schizophrenic delusional artist from alien Texas, manipulating colors into forms of reality." As one does.Closingreception: Sat., Sept. 17, 1-4pm. Free.2608-B Rogers -
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GrayDUCK Gallery: Delivered and Discarded
Yoonmi Nam, an artist born in Seoul, South Korea, works in traditional printmaking processes such as mokuhanga (Japanese-style water-based woodblock printing) and lithography to make imagery and explores other materials – clay, glass, and paper – to make three-dimensional still lifes. Well, to be precise, to make gorgeous three-dimensional still lifes.Through Oct. 16 -
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Prizer Arts & Letters: Wilhelmina Weber Furlong
Witness now the works of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878-1962), a German-American artist and teacher, the forerunner of modern impressionistic and expressionistic still life painting.Closing reception: Sat., Oct. 1, 6-9pm -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Monochromes
Carol Dawson draws inspiration from the natural world, exploring the life cycles of flowers from their buds, infancies, blooms, and deaths, allowing herself to use at most three pigments in her works.Through Oct. 30
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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 -
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Northern-Southern: Mice Elf, Again
The colorful creations of Drew Liverman supercharge this intimate powerhouse of a gallery Downtown, with paintings of "hot doom, the joys of love, bike rides, Olaf from Frozen, Goya's covens, and scraps of what could be something for a place to live, for a time."Through Sept. 10
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ACC Art Galleries: Quotations from Daily Life
This exhibition brings together the work of seven ACC Studio Art faculty members – Jill Bedgood, Jonas Criscoe, Melanie Hickerson, Brian Johnson, Haydeé Victoria Suescum, David Thornberry, and Gary Webernick – who work in a range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, assemblage art, and sculpture.Through Oct. 27 -
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Art for the People Gallery: Spectacular
New art, new artists, new show – a group exhibition (more than 30 local artists) supercharges the interior of this popular South First Street venue. Bonus: This is also the debut of curator Hallie Rae Ward's own "Classical POP" show.Through Oct. 21 -
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Artworks Gallery: Conjunctions
This is an exhibition of Les Satinover's "unapologetic" and monumental paintings that portray male figures in vast landscapes. While it may seem confrontationally nude, the artist assures us that the purpose here is to "produce an emotive sensual evocation of skin, muscle, and form with a subconscious connection to beauty as truth."Through Sept. 24 -
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Assemblage Contemporary Craftsman Gallery: A Sense of Place
Our own sense of place informs us that this venue's out in Buda, actually. But damned if a trip to the ACCG isn't always worthwhile – especially with the bold landscapes and botanicals of painter Debbie Carroll being celebrated there.Through Sept. 30306 S. Main #106, Buda -
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Big Medium: Yo Trabajo Con La Tierra/I Work With The Earth
This multimedia, multivalent, multifantastic exhibition features five women artists – Melissa Aguirre, Alexa Capareda, Paloma Mayorga, Virginia Lee Montgomery (VLM), and Alejandra Regalado – who explore movement and place in relation to landscape, geological bodies, and other nonhuman intelligences. Using their own bodies as medium, the artists share ecofeminist sensibilities through video, installation, sculpture, photography, and performance works.Through Sept. 24 -
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Camiba Gallery: Entangled
Collected and respected for her experimental approach to painting, Charlotte Smith is well established as royalty in Texas contemporary abstract art; this is an exhibition of her most recent paintings.Through Sept. 24 -
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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 -
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Cloud Tree: Plastered and Possessed
This is a two-woman exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Carly Weaver and Mariel Wilmoth.Through Sept. 11 -
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Dr. Seuss: Concept Drawings Tour
Ted Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss, of course) drew each page for every Dr. Seuss book published during his lifetime. For each final line drawing, he would create multiple concept drawings leading up to the final published image. See the man's creative process at work in this collection, currently on tour nationwide and now on display at Austin's own Ao5 Gallery.Through Sept. 11. Free. -
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Elisabet Ney Museum: Eve
This is a new exhibition by documentarian photographer Cindy Elizabeth, featuring an outdoor installation that is immersed within the museum’s native landscape. There are large-scale photographs inside the building, too, interwoven amongst Elisabet Ney's own neoclassical sculptures.Through Oct. 30. Free. -
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HPB&G: Wildlife and Honky Tonks
The walls of this popular neighborhood restaurant showcases works from three series by Juliet Whitsett.Through Sept. 17 -
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Hyde Park Grill: Ernie Gammage
The Austin-based author and musician displays his artwork on the walls of this popular eatery.Through Oct. 10 -
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ICOSA: Terra Firmament, Part 2
Here's the continuation of, the sequel to, Matt Rebholz and Jana Swec's exhibition from September 2021, the artists vividly manifesting their personal histories into emotionally charged landscapes steeped in narrative and individual mythology.Through Sept. 17 -
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Ivester Contemporary: Pulp Alchemy
This is a solo exhibition by Jenn Hassin – the artist’s first show of new work since completing her MFA at Columbia University. The work in "Pulp Alchemy" features military uniforms from all six branches of service, medical uniforms, children’s clothing, blue jeans, carved bone, and porcelain, meticulously transformed into beautiful, raw memorials to the survivors of trauma.Through Oct. 15 -
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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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Link & Pin Gallery: Beyond
This exhibition comprises new works by Rama Tiru and features digital, mostly surreal paintings, both full color and monochrome, with augmented reality elements added to some of the images.Through Oct. 1 -
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Lydia Street Gallery: Repairing Nature/Ribbon of Life
This is a powerful dual exhibition of works by Benné Rockett and Melanie Hickerson. Rockett's current body of work, "Repairing Nature," utilizes Japanese traditions for imbuing worn and broken objects new life. Hickerson's surreal narrative paintings in "Ribbon of Life" are rich with color and symbolism.Closing reception: Sun., Sept. 11, 3-5pm -
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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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MASS Gallery: Jonathan's
Listen: "Since the closing of Spegetto Warehouse, Jonathan’s has taken the lead to become the Men’s Warehouse of restaurants. For one night only, you’ll have a chance to see and taste it for yourself." Cooked up by Elissa Ussery and Nicole Levasseur – the creators of Chuggy’s Christmas, Monchichi in Space, Hellchug, Tassy’s bedroom bar, and Poachers Bar – chef prepped by FFTwin Beth Schindler – it's a sensational attempt to bring you the terrible but familiar hometown Italian restaurant experience.Through Sept. 24. Saturdays, 6-11pm -
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Modern Rocks Gallery: Fifty Years in Exile
This new exhibition reveals a collection of rare, previously unseen, and vintage photographs from The Rolling Stones’ 1972 session with legendary photographer Norman Seeff. Photos from the late-night shoot were ultimately used to produce the set of postcards included with the original pressing of the band’s masterpiece, Exile on Main St.Through Sept. 30. Free. -
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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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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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Tomboy Femme Art Show
Paper-folding artist Amanda Witucki of the this venue at least once.Through Sept. 30 -
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West Chelsea Contemporary: Street Kings
This show highlights two international graffiti masters: the French artist Blek le Rat and L.A. artist RISK.Through Sept. 18 -
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Women & Their Work: The Future Is Behind Us
Rachel Wolfson Smith focuses our attention on the essential and grounding effect of beauty in nature, portraying constructed, intricate, and imagined landscapes, creating "an antidote to the imbalance many of us experience as we lurch from impulse to impulse in our tech-laden, consumer-driven, modern existence." Yes – an antidote to that, and a paean to the possibilities of graphite wielded by a brilliant hand and mind.Through Sept. 29 -
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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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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.
