Monolith PassMASS Gallery Presents: An Installation of Drawings by Anthony W. Garza
Opening Reception: Friday, October 8th, 7-11PM
On View by Appointment Through Oct 15
Open Wednesday, October 13th, 6-8pm
Closing Reception: Friday, October 15th, 7-11PM
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Virginia Yount
Unsustainable Attainment
October 2 - November 11, 2010
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 2, 7 to 9pm
Yount's work describes imaginary architectures and landscapes comprised of such things as anxious piles of clutter, unread books, graffiti-covered land, discarded lottery tickets, paint piles, and the gathered remnants of a struggling society.
Simultaneously a vast, empty, lonely American landscape and an intimate and obsessively arranged space, Yount's paintings peer in and zoom out, shifting perspective. A hippie commune dome made from the artists own collection of unread books, a new-age beachhouse filled with prisms and paperweights, a copse of graffiti-covered trees spewing 'emotion' under watchful surveillance are some of the images that populate this world.
In addition to the paintings, Yount will present "Throw Cash into the Wind" a collection of several architectural structures arranged on a precarious floating trash-island environment. Meant to signify a kind of wishing fountain, her ecosystem takes on the question of a sustainable society based on the principals of excessive consumption and waste.
Through images of crisis and escapism, Yount investigates sustainability and failure to adapt to unstable and fast-changing surroundings. Environmental and economic collapse, surveillance/self-obsession, anxiety and hoarding/collecting are all a part of her works' conceptual and socio-political concerns
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Big Medium presents:
At Odds with My Principles
Ian M. O’Brien
Exhibition Dates: Friday, October 8th – November 5th, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, October 8th from 8:00 - 11:00pm
Please join Big Medium for At Odds with My Principles, an anthropological and archeological peek into the history of Grip River, a town founded, developed and solely-run by the artist, Ian O’Brien. Since cultivating this society in 2007, O’Brien has begun to excavate its significant history and founder, while comparing Grip River to some of the remarkable civilizations of ancient times. The viewer is invited to discover the artist’s findings, such as a giant pencil catapult, pencil spears and straw spit shooters, which expose the town’s battle-weary past, compelling leader and the society’s effect on world history.
Artist Statement:
In 2007, I founded the Town of Grip River, where I am the sole proprietor of a completely egocentric society. As the mayor, city council, newspaper editor, architect, contractor, construction worker, archeologist and army general, I do everything to keep the community running.
In 2008, I began to take a deeper look into Grip River’s past by excavating archeological sites, learning about its people, the Nuewhotu, their politics and how these early founders of Grip River society stack up against some of the greatest civilizations of the ancient world. After looking at historical frontrunners, such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Mayor O’Brien and so on, I discovered that all can be characterized as enigmatic, natural-born leaders, in command of powerful armies that helped them conquer vast territories, subjugate the weak and stamp their mark on the annuals of history.
Ancient lore, broken artifacts and a war-torn landscape are all that remain of the once proud Nuewhotu people. I invite you, the viewer, to learn about Grip River’s leader and history to decide for yourself where Grip River stands in comparison with the greatest civilizations of the ancient world.
Gallery hours: Monday, Thursday and Friday from 10:00 am-4:00 pm, or by appointment.
5305 Bolm Road #12
September 24, 2010 - December 18, 2010Ry Rocklen’s installation of sculptures seeks to venerate the everyday materials and objects of the urban landscape, transporting an investigation of discarded domestic detritus into a constructed space of exaltation within the Vaulted Gallery. The marriage of traditional arts materials, such as highly polished tile and a patchwork floor quilt constructed from locally discarded pieces of used carpet, display his innate interest in geometry and the domestic space. The grouping of sculptures reflects Rocklen’s artistic processing of found components of the city, incorporating elements of Thai Buddhism and mystic rituals to explore our contemporary connection to commonplace objects.
Ry Rocklen received his B.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001 and his M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 2006. His work has been featured in MoMA PS1 and the2008 Whitney Biennial, as well as numerous national and international solo exhibitions. Rocklen lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and is currently represented byMarc Jancou Contemporary in New York.
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Real life Realm
A multimedia collection of new work by Ryan Lauderdale
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 25, 7-11PM
On View By Appointment Only: September 26 - October 1
Closing Reception: Saturday, October 2, 7-11PM
In this new body of work by Ryan Lauderdale continues the artist’s regressive fascination with shared and personal histories, and the expanding perimeters of these histories within the digital realm. The mostly-analog results stand as frozen portals to explored/excavated spaces on and around an increasingly multi-layered and interconnected platform.
OK Mountain talk New Works introduces fresh contemporary art by local artists. The Okay Mountain collective makes murals, installations, drawings, and sculptures together, all while running a gallery in East Austin. For New Works, Okay Mountain collaborated on the video installation Water, Water Everywhere, So Let's All Have a Drink (2010), a satirical send-up of mass media. Artist collective Okay Mountain shares the inspirations and collaborative process for making the New Works video installation. Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
Domy Books, in association with Two Rogers, is pleased to present"This body of work is a personal narrative that attempts to capture the placidity of certain works of old masters while incorporating heavy use of symbolic and metaphorical imagery evocative of those older pieces to create a visual language of my own. Through this process I attempt to create an allegorical, canonical folk tale incorporating themes of isolation, self loathing and the humbleness of being while relying heavily on the absurd qualities of surrealism to evoke a feeling of mystery and absence of place. |
Michael Abelman / Three Wombs
For this site specific one man show Abelman resurrects three bodies of work. Triple-dealing on the meaning of life, death and the after life. (read more)
Open Reception:
Sunday, September 26th
6-9pm
1304 E. Cesar Chavez in Austin, TX 78702.
Mexico City 2010 Celebration and Art Tour
September 14-19, 2010
Austin Museum Day featuring completion of Federico Archuleta's outdoor mural
Sunday, September 19, 2010, 12:00 - 5:00 PM - FREE ADMISSION
Opening of Promises of Independence & Revolution: Artists Interpreting Mexico
Saturday, September 25, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Victor Torres Studio Visit
Sunday, September 26, 2010, 4:00 - 7:00 PM
The Mexican Concept of Death: Lecture by Florencio Lopez Moreno and
Oaxacan Folk Art Demonstration and Sale
Sunday, October 10, 2010, 2:00 - 4:30 PM
Book Reading & Signing by Dr. Cynthia E. Orozco, Dr. Emilio Zamora, and Dr. David Montejano
Friday, October 15, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Lecture by Dr. Raul Ramos: 2010 Imagery, Processions, and Icons Speaker Series
Saturday, October 16, 2010, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Viva la Vida Fest: Celebrating Dia de los Muertos
Saturday, October 23, 2010, 2:00 - 10:00 PM
Austin Chamber Music Dia de los Muertos Concert
Saturday, October 23, 2010, 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Lecture by Dr. Felix Almaraz: 2010 Imagery, Processions, and Icons Speaker Series
Saturday, November 6, 2010, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
 CAROL FLUECKIGER Examine Our Undergarments, latex paint, cyanotype, wood | Sept. 24–Oct. 14 Solar Powered Paper Dolls Gallery Talk: Thursday, Oct. 14, 5 p.m. Closing Reception: Thursday, Oct. 14, 6–8 p.m. Artist: Carol Flueckiger Using the blistering West Texas sun and cyanotype, an alternative photographic process, Carol Flueckiger “burns” vintage graphics, historic handwriting, clothing tags and leaves into painted panels and recycled clothing. Working with archives at Women’s Rights National Historical Park and American Antiquarian Society, her compositions use imagery from the early American feminist movement. |
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Austin, Texas 78704
| Sunday, September 19, 6-8pm September 19 - October 31, 2010 | ||
Accidental Pornographies: Lesson Plans 1-9 presents nine drawings by the artist that take this course as their jumping off point. Originally composed as lesson plans for a substitute-taught workshop at the Blanton Museum of Art, these drawings re-present the course material on oversized ledger paper, as if ripped from the pages of a massive record book. Text, images and erasures (in the form of blacked out portions of the page) appear in delicate etching, smudged charcoal and dripping black paint. The drawings, like the course itself, embody the complicated territory of the vagina as subject in a post-feminist, yet enduringly gendered, world. They present the vagina somewhere between language and the body, as both theoretical and corporeal entity. Here, it is assertive, even bawdy, yet tender, despondent yet eruptive, familiar yet utterly unfamiliar. Accompanying the drawings will be a video installation, Black Divine Light. The installation includes a stack of small hand-held black mirrors situated beside a small boulder upon which the viewer is seated. In this brief video, a hand-held camera makes record of a black mirror that is alternately reflecting a violent summer storm and the opening between a woman's legs. The mirror is a contemporary riff on the Claude Glass, an 18th century European framing device intended to concentrate one's gaze on the landscape. Mary Walling Blackburn is an artist and the founder of the experimental school for women, The Anhoek School. Walling Blackburn's writing has been published inAfterall, Aperture, Art in America, ArtForum, Brooklyn Rail, Cabinet Magazine, CTHEORY, lastperformance.org, loudpaper (architectural discourse), Paper Monument and Women and Performance. She is a visiting artist at the Cooper Union School of Art this fall. testsite | 502 West 33rd Street | Austin, Texas 78705 | ||
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