New @ Domy Books

Domy Books, in association with Two Rogers, is pleased to present

To Climb A Mountain On Top Of A Tree
new work by William Gaynor

Saturday, September 18, 2010 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

Exhibition runs September 18–October 21, 2010

"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. My work is inherently inspired by the relationships of my past and present, both sexual and platonic, and the idea of no love lost. I enjoy reiterating moments of my past and juxtaposing them with themes and events of greater significance; sometimes personifying and prescribing them with a sense of ambiguity. My purpose of action is to create work that is innately personal, yet subjectively approachable and identifiable with the viewer." – W.G.

currently...

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.

Events this fall @ Mexic-Arte

Fall Calendar

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

Lecture by Luis Adrián Vargas Santiago: 2010 Imagery, Processions, and Icons Speaker Series
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 2:00 - 4:00 PM

Book Reading & Signing by Philip Russell: History of Mexico
Saturday, November 20, 2010, 2:00 - 3:00 PM

Opening of Mix'n'Mash and Trees of Life Exhibitions
Friday, December 3, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00 PM

Lecture by Priscilla Murr: Trees of Life, Trees of Eternity, Trees from the Flowery Realm
Saturday, December 4, 2010, 2:00 - 4:00 PM

Downtown Holiday Stroll featuring Lisa Orr's documentary film about Trees of Life
Saturday, December 4, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00 PM

CLICK HERE TO VIEW DETAILS OF ALL FALL EVENTS!

New @ The St. Edward's Gallery

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.

Fine Arts Gallery

Gallery Hours
Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

Address
ARTS Building (Need Directions?)
St. Edward’s University
3001 S. Congress
Austin, Texas 78704

New @ Testsite

Just Because 10.4 ~ Accidental Pornographies: Lesson Plans 1-9

Mary Walling Blackburn

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

New @ Mexic-Arte

Luche Libre @ Pump Project

Hosteria Verde Presents the 2nd Annual Lucha Libre Wrestling Match & Supper Club!
Saturday, September 25, 8 pm
In the eternal battle between going out and staying in, on September 25 there can only be one champion. The clear choice is to throw down for for a ticket to the 2nd Annual Lucha Libre Wrestling Match, presented by the Hosteria Verde Supper Club, for just $48. This benefit for the Pump Project Art Complex includes entrance to the main event, as well as art and photography exhibits from Amber Kappes, Daniel Gonazales, and Gerardo Arellano, music by DJ Aaron Montez, and authentic Mexican street food and beverages. Watch the rudos face — or should we say, mask — off against the técnicos in an epic battle of good versus evil, knowing that your support of a good cause puts you on the side of the good guys.

Tickets available only at www.hosteriaverde.com

Reservation required!

WE ARE LOCATED:
Pump Project Art Complex:
702 Shady Lane, near the intersection of East 7th St. & Airport Blvd & 183 [google map]

Pump Project Satellite:
1109 Shady Lane, neat the intersection of Bolm Rd and Airport Blvd