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I had the privilege of meeting Jonathan Harris while he was living/working in Santa Fe, NM at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Harris has given talks at TED, and has been featured in numerous publications for his amazing developments in the arts. He synthesizes aesthetics with modernity, truly recreating our notion of art through technology. [...]
Giving collage new meaning, Letscher exhibited at D Berman Gallery this month; exhibition closed May 15th, 2010. D Berman Gallery is one of the quintessential contemporary art galleries in Austin. And, Letscher is a talented artist with a new take on the tradition of collaging. The artist’s pieces featured text, like school-book letters, and 50s [...]
I recently visited the Pump Project Art Complex on Austin’s east-side, featuring contemporary art exhibitions and projects. The current show challenges their audience to spontaneously play! Playing with marbles on the floor, rolling around in the dirt, or hammering on a table would have come naturally to us as children, but for adults it is [...]
Friend and artist Hoyun Son will be featured at The Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas for the “New Works for the Collection,” which opens this Friday (May 21, 2010) and will remain up through August 22nd. Son is currently residing in Santa Fe, NM during a residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute, where she [...]
Scott Eastwood and Skinner are in exhibition at Okay Mountain until May 29th. Attending the opening proved exciting, with a larger-than-life sculpture of “The Man,” which features music and a disco ball interior. Eastwood‘s sculpture allows viewers to enter the man, and experience his soul, perhaps. Skinner‘s paintings represent extremely detailed monsters, with landscapes like [...]
Domy Books opened “Study Hall Drawings” with a collection of works by Jenny Hart last Saturday. Hart reexamines her past by drawing portraits of members in her high school class back in Iowa. Her drawings reflect the era, as subject’s are accentuated with 80s hairstyles, T-shirts, and earrings. Also notable is the cross section of [...]
There are several progressions occurring in the Austin art scene. Not the least of which the Blanton Museum of Art‘s interest in contemporary art. Curator Annette DiMeo Carlozzi joins 32 international artists, who explore the topic of desire within their art. “Desire” consists of a variety of media, including an excellent representation of contemporary video [...]