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Art & Parks Tour
This sweet opportunity comes to us from the Downtown Austin Alliance, the Pease Park Conservancy, and Ride Bikes Austin – so we know it's a damned good thing indeed. Take the self-guided Art & Parks Tour to explore the best of what Downtown Austin art and parks have to offer through this selection of curated murals, artworks, and green spaces. You can sign up anytime, so click that URL and get ready to learn the most vibrantly visual parts of your city soon – live and in person. -
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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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“Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy, 1924-2024”
Across politics and pop culture, depictions of queer Black life most often emphasize pain, if not patronization. “Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy,” a multimedia exhibition presented by UT-Austin’s Art Galleries at Black Studies, flips the script, offering a century’s worth of works that focus instead on Black joy. Organized around seven themes – Portraiture, Beyond Figuration, Dance and Movement, Spirituality, Sex and Sensuality, Black Queer Futures, and Altered States – the works of over four dozen artists remind us that even in the face of adversity, we can achieve transcendence. – Carys AndersonThrough May 9Christian-Green Gallery, 201 E. 21st St. & Idea Lab, 210 W. 24th St.
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Audrey Rodriguez & Slater Reid Sousley
What is a still life but a metaphorical blank canvas on which to paint the objects that make up your life? Two artists explore the still life’s limits at McLennon Pen Co.’s gallery: Audrey Rodriguez’s Levitation Series and the Americana and Camouflage Series from Slater Reid Sousley. These artists differ in their materials – oil on linen for Rodriguez and acrylic on canvas for Sousley – and their return addresses. Hailing from New York, Rodriguez delivers slices of modern life influenced by her Honduran and Mexican heritage that dazzle in primary colored hues. Sousley comes in from Kansas serving, well, Americana: red, white, and blue shades showing cultural markers familiar to the Texan sensibility with specific connections to the artist’s own family. Catch both shows opening this Friday. – James ScottThrough Feb. 1 -
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Irene Antonia Diane Reece: “Don’t Cry for Me When I’m Gone”
Forgotten histories, missed connections – there’s a distinct sense of grief only members of a diaspora can understand. Houston-born photographer and activist Irene Antonia Diane Reece concentrates on these phenomena in her work, capturing images of Black Americans in her attempts to protect Black history and decentralize whiteness in the artistic sphere and beyond. Layering text from Black Southern archives onto photos, her multimedia installation “Don’t Cry for Me When I’m Gone” highlights the weight of the loss that comes from the death of loved ones – and the importance of archivism in ensuring their memories live on. – Carys AndersonThrough March 6 -
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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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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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Museum of Illusions
Enter the fascinating world of illusions in this new venue that boasts a stunning array of intriguing visual, sensory, and educational experiences among new, unexplored optical wonderments.$20-24.11010 Domain #100 -
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Old Bakery Gallery: Fantastical Flora
This multimedia exhibition is a comprehensive exploration of the beauty of botanical forms, expressed realistically and in the abstract, featuring the work of local artist Francine Funke.Opening reception: Sat., Jan. 20, 1-4pm. Free. -
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Salvador Dalí: Masterpieces From the Argillet Collection Archives
Pierre Argillet befriended many futurists, surrealists, and Dadaists during his time as an art collector, photographer, and publisher, but Salvador Dalí remained his most famous collaborator. The French publisher and Spanish painter produced nearly 200 etchings and engravings from 1960 to 1974 – many of which have never been exhibited to the public. Now overseen by his daughter, Christine Argillet, this collection features hand-colored etchings by Dalí, plus works by avant-garde contemporaries like Hans Bellmer, Giorgio de Chirico, and Leonor Fini. – Carys AndersonThrough Feb. 2 -
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Shape Shift | Grids & Surfaces
The Eastside gallery brings two artists who, in turn, each combine two (often more) mediums into their works. Monica Mohnot combines traditional painting processes with textiles, creating a warped, visually kinetic effect that brings a sense of modern spirituality to the cultural tradition of weaving. Melding collage and sculpture, Juliette M. Miller Herrera Nickle updates a Bauhaus aesthetic using paper, grids, and much more to co-exist in two and three dimensions. Sound improbable? We recommend you see it in person and become a believer. – James RenovitchThrough Feb. 15 -
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Stephen L. Clark Gallery: Kate Breakey
This exhibition of new work by Kate Breakey showcases hand-colored photography of the natural world, particularly of Texan and Australian landscapes, animals, and insects. -
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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 Story I Tell at Parties
Fiction and memory exist in side-by-side apartments, easily confused by the mind whenever it misreads the building directory. Such is the subject of artist Candace Hicks’ new solo exhibition where, utilizing hand embroidery, she recounts experiences tiptoeing between real and unreal. These fabric and thread recollections weave in themes like “the cultural shift from VHS to DVD in the late 1990s and the anxiety surrounding Y2K” through crop circle imagery, Google searches, and Hicks’ first job. Decide for yourself whether Hicks’ threaded story is fact or fiction this Saturday, Jan. 18, at the show’s opening reception. – James ScottThrough Feb. 22 -
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Visualizing the Environment: Ansel Adams and His Legacy
Time to upgrade from your Ansel Adams wall calendar and instead appreciate the legendary landscape photographer’s black & white pictures of the American West where they belong – on a gallery wall.Aug. 31-Feb. 2 -
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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: Paul Rodriguez
Yard Dog presents the vibrant works of Paul Rodriguez, a printmaker from San Miguel de Allende. "And some very cool new paintings by Harry Underwood."Opening reception: Fri., Jan. 19, 7-9pm -
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“Refusing Erasure”
Carlos Barberena’s woodcut and linograph prints combine the ancient gravitas of biblical illumination with the visceral heartache of modern life. They show populations that exist, that defy attempts to be stamped out or glossed over, and elevate them to sacred scenes. His most familiar might be a print of George Floyd, the familiar portrait surrounded by decorative curls. But there’s similar defiance in all the prints – the refugee mother with a baby on her back in Exodus, nestled in leaves like a decorative seal. Or the obvious Pietà reference in Santo Pollero, sanctifying the act of sharing water in border crossings. Barbarena’s work does, indeed, refuse erasure. – Cat McCarreyThrough Feb. 9
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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.