Co-Lab Oration

Talking with community arts instigator Sean Gaulager

"...young, focused co-founder of Austin's Cantanker magazine – is Sean Gaulager...."

Jan. 21, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Co-Lab Projects' "Texas Toast" Dishes Up a Heapin’ Helping

This group exhibition looks at the food that means the most to us

"...has since been extended through Dec. 21.) Co-Lab Director Sean Gaulager and crew weren't sure what kind of response..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Touring the Tour

A very meta experience, guided by Heather Pesanti, senior curator of the Contemporary Austin

"...as a perfect touchstone for executive director and curator Sean Gaulager alongside board member and facility manager Chris Whiteburch...."

Nov. 21, 2014 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Park Benched

The Cost of Art, Part II: Without enough buyers for art, local galleries like Tiny Park can't make the rent

"...for-profit, I wouldn't give you long odds." Executive Director Sean Gaulager agrees, adding: "Hopefully that changes in the future,..."

March 28, 2014 Arts Feature by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Ink Tank Lab

The art collective take the gloom out of doomsday in 'Armageddon Outta Here'

"...[exhibition] is both fear and comfort simultaneously," says Co-Lab's Sean Gaulager. "Everything out there is scary, and the world..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

Meghan Shogan Carves a Career Path Through Solid Rock

With hammer, chisels, and steel brushes in hand, the Austin artist is on a trajectory in stone

"...I feel like I'm part of the community now. Sean Gaulager from Co-Lab has a barn out behind Callahan's..."

Sept. 17, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

"A Wished for and Welcome Guest" at Co-Lab Projects

The gallery has a new home, where it aims to make you feel like "A Wished for and Welcome Guest"

"...it when it closes. (Co-Lab co-founder and Executive Director Sean Gaulager's account of making these drawbridge doors fit will..."

April 23, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Co-Lab Projects: Video Open Call

Because sometimes we wake up screening

"...No, Sean Gaulager and the Co-Lab board will be reviewing all..."

May 12, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

"David Culpepper: That's Not Going Anywhere" at Co-Lab Projects

The show is welcome to hang around, but this artist is going places

"...Contemporary Austin, Laguna Gloria, and elsewhere – much as Sean Gaulager, Co-Lab's indefatigable jefe and curator, has done for..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Angelbert Metoyer: Life Machine" at the Canopy

For this Co-Lab Projects exhibit, a gallery at Canopy becomes a tomblike space for exploring religion

"...reveal now promised for 2016. Until then, Executive Director Sean Gaulager and crew have taken up residence in Canopy,..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

The Art of the Brew Will Quench Your Aesthetic Thirst

Co-Lab Projects' second annual celebration of beer and visual art

"...by Co-Lab Projects. "Come celebrate with us," says Co-Lab's Sean Gaulager, "with a tasting of brews on the lawn..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Studio Visits: Sam Sanford

This painter logs long hours at his easel in an open, airy space at the front of his apartment

"...space. I'll reuse the supports. One I gave to Sean [Gaulager, Co-Lab director], because even though I wanted to..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Arts Column by Andy Campbell

Top 10 Visual Arts of 2012

The emergence and re-emergence of arts spaces, events, venues, and museums dominated the year in Austin art

"...shows and supports an emergent local art scene like Sean Gaulager...."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

'The End'

'Cantanker' meets its end

"...Cantanker and, along with Debra Broz, John Mulvany, and Sean Gaulager, one of the jurors for "The End," remarked,..."

Dec. 14, 2012 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

'Row Home'/'Blood, Sweat, & Mostly Tears'

Co-Lab Projects' N Space and new HI5H Gallery are invigorating additions to the gallery scene Both highbrows and lowbrows will want to browse these new artspaces

"...from Johnson's paintings is as effective as the way Sean Gaulager's longtime Eastside space Co-Lab is branching out into..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Jamie Panzer: Bullshit Detector'

Panzer's tetrahedons are no bull

"...objects and presentations, the amount of work venue director Sean Gaulager and his friends put into the year's offerings...."

Feb. 24, 2012 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Arts Events of 2011 in No Particular Order

How festival goodness and powerful art exhibits made 2011 a year to remember

"...9) CO-LAB Run by the indefatigable Sean Gaulager, this Eastside gallery mounts a new show –..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'A Perfect Recipe' Awards

A bake sale yields $1,000 in minifellowships for three Austin artists

"...Simple, indeed, and swift. The awards went to Co-Lab's Sean Gaulager ($500), DiverseArts' Harold McMillan ($300), and Sodalitas, the..."

June 11, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cantanker/us

'Cantanker/us,' a show of artwork by the staff of the visual-arts magazine Cantanker, is a rare opportunity to consider both sides of each artist/staffer's practice

"...Stand, an installation made of fine-art packing materials by Sean Gaulager, looms overhead in a niche set within the..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Review by Amanda Douberley

Top 3 Visual-Arts Stories for 2007

Chronicle Arts writer Rachel Koper remembers 2007 in the visual arts

"...it to the next level Artists Xochi Solis and Sean Gaulager were thrown into their jobs as curators and..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

"Sanctum" Explores Ancestral Memories in Our DNA

Alyssa Taylor Wendt and five other artists look at inherited memory in this group show at Big Medium

"...a show called "Good Mourning Tis of Thee" with Sean Gaulager of Co-Lab Projects at DEMO Gallery Downtown, where..."

Sept. 6, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Seen / Soon, Nov. 24

"...Thee." Curators Alyssa Taylor Wendt and Co-Lab Artistic Director Sean Gaulager employ every inch of the space to present..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Arts Column

More Galleries Going, Going, …

Pump Project, HOPE, Co-Lab DEMO forced to move in 2018

"...be on hold for a few months while director Sean Gaulager empties out the DEMO Gallery and takes some..."

Nov. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Five Arty Things to Do: Nov. 17-19

AND YOU TOTALLY WON'T BELIEVE THE FOURTH ONE!

"...event’s a sweet Downtown fandango fomented up by that Sean Gaulager and Alyssa Taylor Wendt, and we promise that..."

Nov. 16, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Road-Tripping for the 2017 Texas Biennial

To curate this edition of the contemporary art survey, Leslie Moody Castro took an epic road trip across the Lone Star State

"...had a camera in my face the whole time. Sean Gaulager came with me, and he documented most of..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Q&A Hole: What’s Your Favorite Place in Austin?

Because you know that "cabin fever" is definitely a thing

"...Sean Gaulager, artist & curator: My favorite place to relax..."

May 29, 2017 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Q&A Hole: Why Didn't the World End?

With: John Erler, Annie La Ganga, Arcie Cola, Owen Egerton, and more

"...Sean Gaulager of Co-Lab Projects: The world as we knew..."

Dec. 24, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Who Says You Can't Do These Things If You Want To?

Not us, chief; contrariwise, this weekend.

"...venue for exhibitions, installations, and performances, right? Run by Sean Gaulager and his sharp new haircut?) An artist named..."

May 31, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

West Side Tour-y

Big Medium lets artists on the other side of I-35 in on the fun

"...converted into exhibition space that will be curated by Sean Gaulager's Co-Lab Projects. First up is "Row Home" by..."

May 18, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Jamie Panzer's Bullshit Detector

No, there's no app for this, you goddam hipster.

"...and presentations, the amount of work that venue director Sean Gaulager & his friends put into the year's schedule..."

Feb. 20, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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