Talk @ D Berman

15 October - 24 November 2010*
Malcolm Bucknall: New Works

Please join us for a gallery talk with Malcolm Bucknall
on Saturday, November 6 at 1pm.

“All my works are essentially about magic and transformation—magic representing life’s mysteries and transformation being a way to exaggerate human qualities and interactions so that we recognize their commonality. In addition to the Elizabethan-themed works in this show, several ‘gothic’ subjects reflect current popular culture interests, some with humor. As always I am interested in technique and have continued a recent exploration of black and white oil paintings on archival board emulating photography. I’m never sure what direction the latest painting is pointing to, but in this case, the latest is Willie [Nelson], so I may be searching for other iconic figures. Have artistic license. Can time travel!” -- Malcolm Bucknall



Malcolm Bucknall
The Troubadour, 2010
Oil on Canvas
24 x 30 inches

MASS and Co-lab haunted house

Vortex Brainsaw Massacre

MASS Gallery Presents:

Vortex Brainsaw Massacre

a haunted house event of sorts

Scary Movie Nights: Thursday 21 and Thursday 28, after dark

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 30, 7PM-12AM

On Saturday, October 30 join MASS Gallery at the Vortex Brainsaw Massacre. Come see how MASS does nasty, gory, shocking, confusing, awesome, scary, hairy, D.A.R.E-y, brainy, Halloweeny insanity!!!!

Also come out to Co-Lab for Scary Movie night on the 21st and the 28th. Starts after dark!!

New @ Domy Books

Domy Books is pleased to present

Monster Show Five

Saturday, October 30, 2010 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

Exhibition runs October 30 – December 2, 2010
Above: Souther Salazar
Check out Monster Show 1-4

Upcoming @ The Dougherty

November 4 - 27

Steve Dubov, Shawn Camp and Heather Tolleson form this collective from Austin who’s work explores the compulsion to industrialize the organic.

Art is formed by intention, the intention to discover and reveal what is true to the artist and his perception. But man’s perception is limited, truncated, and confined. Out of necessity, man attempts to master himself and nature, to arbitrarily grid a fluid existence in order to categorize and understand. How do we control the uncontrollable and how does our interference shape, mar, or misperceive the human landscape?

With this body of work, each member of Telos seeks to study, synthesize, and scrutinize the place where man meets nature, himself, and the divine. Utilizing materials and processes unique to them - including thickly textured oil paint, recycled windshield glass, and free-pour bronze - these artists struggle with what it is to be human - as informer and informed.

RECEPTION
Thursday. November 4, 6 - 9pm

New @ SOFA

Keith Wilson

Hyde Park Apartments

October 31-December 3

Hyde Park Apartments is a visual taxonomy of the Austin neighborhood and its various apartment complexes. In Wilson’s wry examination of our built environment, everyday photographs of slightly run down stucco and brick structures are paired with fanciful titles such as “V.I.P,” “Spanish Trails” and “The Jacksonian.” Inspired by Ed Ruscha, Joe Deal, and Bernt and Hilla Becher, the series records ongoing attempts to evoke the ideal through aggrandized nomenclatures.

Wilson is pointing to sites that are often overlooked. “I wanted to encourage people to pay attention to what is around them,” Wilson explains. “It took me several months living in Hyde Park before I realized the bizarre names of these structures. Most people, myself included, drove, walked, biked, texted and iphoned by them without ever noticing.”

These ordinary, largely student filled apartments, with names that reference the pastoral or the historically important, create an uncanny disjunction between the actual and the imagined. Wilson plays off this disjunction through an accumulation of straightforward images that challenge the viewer to look more carefully.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Wilson will bring his famed Cave & Mountain Tour to the Hyde Park neighborhood on Tuesday, November 2 from 7 to 10pm. The walking tour will commence at SOFA and will explore the landscape surrounding the gallery. To sign-up (there is limited space) please email keith@wall-eye.com.

Keith Wilson is a San Francisco based filmmaker, photographer and performance artist. His films have screened at the Berlin, London, South by Southwest and New York Underground Film Festivals. His performance based Cave & Mountain Tours have occurred in San Francisco, Atlanta and throughout Texas including the Blanton Museum and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. He is originally from suburban Atlanta and has an MFA in film production from UT-Austin. This is his first solo photography show.

Cyprien Gaillard

Cities of Gold and Mirrors

October 27 - December 5

Film and Video Gallery

French-born, Berlin-based artist Cyprien Gaillard’s wide-reaching practice includes sculpture, painting, photography, video, performance, and large-scale public interventions. Inaugurating Arthouse’s Film and Video Gallery is Gaillard’s Cities of Gold and Mirrors (2009), a non-narrative 16 mm film that continues the artist’s investigation into built environments as sites of memory and loss, particularly as manifested in decaying postwar Modernist architecture. Cancún, Mexico provides the backdrop for the film and its anachronistic landscape of glass-veiled hotels adjacent to Mayan ruins binds the film. In five different chapters, the juxtaposition of modern hedonisms against the physical ruins of the once-mighty Mayan Empire creates an atmosphere of displacement and apprehension.

Mequitta Ahuja

Automythography II

October 27 - January 2

Mary Yancy Gallery (1st Floor)

Automythography II continues Mequitta Ahuja’s on-going artistic investigation into the construction of gender, cultural, and ethnic identities through self-portraiture. Referencing the term “biomythography” coined by black feminist author Audre Lorde, Ahuja combines history, myth, and personal narrative to create her own unique practice of visual autobiography. Beginning with private performances in front of the camera, Ahuja photographically documents herself using a remote shutter control. Then, through preparatory drawing as well as a lengthy process of making and revising marks and images made directly onto the canvas or paper, she develops the invented elements of the work. For this exhibition, the artist appears in multiple iterations and pictorial approaches within an imaginary, self-constructed world where figural forms and landscapes collide and intertwine.