As of 4:30 pm on April 19th, the University of Texas amassed its latest piece for Landmarks public art collection—Ben Rubin’s tribute to Walter Cronkite, who attended the University in the 1930s. Titled And That’s The Way It Is projects massively sized text onto the side of a building in the Walter Cronkite Plaza. Full [...]
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Irish artist Tom Molloy makes work that addresses current global affairs, collecting together and subtly altering political imagery. “Shake” stretches around a central wall in the gallery, featuring 59 black and white photographs of various world leaders — Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush included — shaking hands. Each photograph includes a handshake or [...]
Friday, February 17, 2012
When we think of murals on public walls, we might imagine childlike portraits stretched across city blocks—or, the popularized work of Shepard Fairey (currently in Dallas). But we might not imagine a mural which touts an anti-American slogan like, “Down with U.S.A.,” or depictions of the statue of liberty as a skeleton, which the Associated [...]
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Log cabins, pine trees, abandoned boat docks, and supernatural light might seem like hackneyed imagery. However Jonathan Faber, current painter in exhibition at Champion Gallery – Austin, loosely reconstructs such subjects from memory. Faber’s expressive brushwork, disorienting figure-ground relationships, jumbled compositions, and bizarre color palette, render these landscapes unusual. Like memories, Faber’s canvases are disjointed [...]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Firstly, I’d like to say congrats to one of my favorite art spaces in Austin, Co-Lab for successfully “kickstarting” their DVD catalog. Check out the video here–super. More about Co-Lab‘s project: As a prolific artist-run project space, Co-Lab has always had a strong focus on documentation. This year, Co-Lab set out to make documentaries for every exhibition/performance the [...]
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(Above: Image still from Michelle Handelman’s “Dorian, a Cinematic Perfume”) Panel discussion to coincide with the close of “Dorian, a Cinematic Perfume–” by artist Michelle Handelman. Thursday, March 24, 6:30 pm in the community room Moderated by Elizabeth Dunbar, Associate Director and Curator, Arthouse Panelists: Andy Cambell, Michelle Handelman, Rose Reyes, Ann Reynolds, kt shorb, and Noah Simblist FROM [...]
Contemplating the Austin craft scene, I’m reminded of a question my mom asked me once when discussing art. “What about functional art?” she asked. Immediately, I thought, “If the object is functional it ceases to be purely art, which is why we have categories like design and craft!!” Although, I am not espousing my statement [...]
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
“Titty Cloud” immediately caught my attention at the latest opening at Domy Books, Austin; “To Climb a Mountain On Top of a Tree” is the exhibition title, a series of drawings by young Austinite-transplant William Gaynor. There was something deadpan about Gaynor’s supernatural, heavily-outlined illustrations. Perhaps, unapologetic is the word, not deadpan. The delivery goes [...]
Meticulous, technical ability resounds in Gaynor’s work–a fantastic exhibition at Domy. Exhibition title “To Climb a Mountain on Top of a Tree,” is a must-see, open through October 21, 2010.
New York artist David Ellis stayed in Austin last summer, working on a new video, which debuted at the University of Texas/LANDMARKS last week. The film, called “Animal,” was prominently featured in conjunction with the unveiling of UT’s new art building, which has been expanded to include new gallery spaces and lecture space, movie viewing [...]