Over-Andrea Bonin, Ilea Avalos, Megan Kincheloe

From Mass Gallery's Website:

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, March 6th, 8-11 p.m
LIVE MUSIC AND ARTIST CONVERSATION: Saturday, March 13th, 2-5 p.m
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday 7-9 p.m, Saturday 12-5 p.m

To begin our 2010 season, MASS Gallery is pleased to present Over, a new collaborative installation created by Austin-based artists, Ilea Avalos, Andrea Bonin, and Megan Kincheloe.

Over is the group’s collective process of reconciliation between the desire to hold on to time, to remember, and time as an impersonal force. The artists use handmade plaster bricks to create larger structures that represent units of counting and the building blocks of memory. Avalos, Bonin, and Kincheloe share an aesthetic that involves both a sense of structuring as well as collapsing. The project is a meditation on the human process of resolving what ultimately might be loss.

Avalos, Bonin, and Kincheloe are all recent graduates of the University of Texas at Austin where they each received a B.F.A in Studio Art and began the early parts of their collaborative relationship. They each have shown work independently in various venues around Austin and this is their first full-scale project together.

Over will be on view from March 6th through March 27th. In addition to the opening reception, MASS invites the public to join us for a day of live music and informal conversation about Over on Saturday, March 13th from 2 – 5 p.m. More details to come, so please check our website for more information.

MASS is an independent, artist-run project space in East Austin committed to presenting compelling work by contemporary artists in a non-commercial setting. Brought together by a shared interest in site-specific and multi-disciplinary contemporary art practice, MASS encourages ambitious, experimental art and curating in film/video, social practice, music, painting, drawing and sculpture that otherwise would not have a voice or venue. MASS seeks to aid emerging artists from Austin, Texas and beyond during a crucial point in their careers, encouraging them to create projects that broaden the usual scope of their art making practice.

Founded in 2006 in a former auto body shop and the current Blue Theater complex, MASS is open to proposals from committed artists and curators.