Blanton Museum Announces New Board Chair
Collector, Writer, and Philanthropist Suzanne McFayden steps into top position on the Blanton National Leadership Board.
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The Blanton Museum of Art / September 22, 2021
Woman & Their Work’s “We Know Who We Are. We Know What We Want.”
In this inaugural exhibition at W&TW’s new permanent home, nine artists provide an inquiry of breadth and depth
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Robert Faires/ Austin Chronicle/ September 10, 2021
The Blanton Museum of Art Announces 2021-2022 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Recipients
The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the three recipients of their annual Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships — a prestigious curatorial training program generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2013: Aja Mujinga Sherrard, Christine Zepeda, and Lucy Quezada.
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UT Austin / The Blanton Museum of Art / September 8, 2021
Review: ‘Fortune Teller’ at Ivester Contemporary
This group exhibition has a loose message about the potential for personal and communal agency in times of uncertainty.
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Erin Keever/ Sightlines Magazine/ September 2, 2021
Eternal spring: Elizabeth Chiles at grayDUCK Gallery
Exploring impermanence through a gentle flux of light and dark.
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Who we are and what we want
With nine Texas female artists working across a kinetic panorama of mediums and cultures, the inaugural exhibition at the new and first permanent home of Women & Their Work is both elegant and subversive.
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“Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite” at the Blanton Museum of Art
Images from a decade of building Black identity and community say it loud.
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Robert Faires/ Austin Chronicle/ August 6, 2021
20 reasons to love the new Women & Their Work Gallery and its first show
Shout it from the rooftops: The new Women & Their Work gallery is smash hit.
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Michael Barnes / The Austin-American Statesman / August 2, 2021
Artist Calder Kamin Envisions “A World Without Waste”
With animals crafted from plastic bags, the Austin native turns our eyes to nature.
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Barbara Purcell / The Austin Chronicle / July 2, 2021
Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art to be 1st major U.S. museum with dedicated sound art space
The sound gallery will feature recordings of Texas wildlife and other natural elements organized by sound artist Bill Fontana.
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Michael Barnes / Austin American-Statesmen, Austin 360 / June 30, 2021
Two exhibits, ‘Black Is Beautiful’ and ‘Valley,’ make history at Blanton Museum of Art
Two exhibits are coming to the Blanton Museum of Art this summer, and both will make history.
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Ella Malena Feldman / Austin American-Statesmen, Austin 360 / June 26, 2021
The museum will open with “Reweave: 2021,” an exhibition by Austin artist Jade Walker, and a summer calendar of in-person free programs.
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Jeanne Claire / Sightlines Magazine / June 3, 2021
For the inaugural exhibition, a show curated by Vicki Meek features diverse artistic voices of Texas-based women.
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Jeanne Claire van Ryzin / Sightlines Magazine / June 1, 2021
The Contemporary Austin Presents New Outdoor Artwork, Little Man, Little Man by Deborah Roberts at the Jones Center on Congress Avenue
September 18, 2020
The Contemporary Austin Announces Tarek Atoui as the winner of the 2020 Suzanne Deal Booth / Flag Art Foundation Prize
August 7, 2020
The Contemporary Austin’s Upcoming Exhibition Deborah Roberts: I’m Receives 2020 Art Works Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
The Contemporary Austin announces that it has received a grant of $35,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of the upcoming exhibition Deborah Roberts: I’m, opening at the museum’s downtown Jones Center location on January 23, 2021.
June 10, 2020
Austin Artist Patrick Puckett on the pandemic, fatherhood and creative inspiration
Puckett has already gained a reputation locally for his large-scale oil figure paintings that frequently incorporate vibrant colors, as well as Southern and tropical imagery.
Kristen Finan / The Austin-American Statesman / May 29, 2020
Sharon Maidenberg Named Executive Director
2020-2021 Solo Exhibition Artists
Women & Their Work is pleased to announce the artists selected for our 2020-2021 solo exhibition series. Chosen from a recent call for entries, these 8 artists were selected from a field of nearly 300 entries sent in from across the state. Each artist will create a new body of work for her exhibition. Artists chosen: Alexandra Robinson, Ariel René Jackson, Janelle Esparza, Lindy Chambers, Melanie Clemmons, Rachel Wolfson Smith, Rehab El Sadek, Steef Crombach.
February 20, 2020
“Mihee Nahm: Soaked” at Women & Their Work
In this solo exhibition, the artist invites us to take a walk with her down memory lane
Cat McCarrey / The Austin Chronicle / February 14, 2020
The LINE Residency 2020 Artists
In partnership, Big Medium and The LINE Austin are proud to announce the recipients of The LINE Residency 2020. Chosen by a curatorial panel from both Big Medium and The LINE Austin, five local artists have been selected to take part in the second edition of the program, which will run from March through December of this year. Artists chosen for this year’s residency are Brooke Burnside, Alie Jackson, Natalia Rocafuerte, Saul Jerome San Juan, and Suzanne Wyss.
February 13, 2020
“The Pleasure of Making” makes Viewing a Pleasure
At ICOSA Collective, an exhibition spotlights the work hobbyists and crafters
Erin Keever / Sight Lines Magazine / February 6, 2020
Thirsty Planet EAST Artist Series 2020
You can now apply for the Thirsty Planet EAST Artist Series 2020, a program produced by Big Medium in partnership with Thirsty Planet Brewing Co. In collaboration with a Thirsty Planet brewer, one Austin based artist will create a concept beer based on their work as well as create artwork for the packaging and bottle label. This seasonal beer will launch and be widely available in retail locations across Austin during the East Austin Studio Tour. Applications will be accepted from February 11 through March 17, 2020.
“PrintAustin: The Contemporary Print” at Big Medium
To go or not to go: That’s ultimately a stupid question
Wayne Alan Brenner / The Austin Chronicle / January 24, 2020
No Linear Narrative: Ana Esteve Llorens
In a solo exhibition at Grayduck Gallery, Ana Esteve Llorens constructs an open-ended narrative through craft techniques and industrial processes
Mary K. Cantrell / Sight Lines Magazine / January 23, 2020
2020 Open Call at Ao5 Gallery
Ao5 Gallery is accepting Texas artist submissions now through Monday, February 17th for an upcoming group exhibition to be held this spring during the WEST Austin Studio Tour.
“The New Flesh” at ICOSA Gallery
It’s a body of work, but the anatomy isn’t necessarily of this Earth
Wayne Alan Brenner / The Austin Chronicle / January 3, 2020
“The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn”
This ambitious exhibition reveals inquiring anthropologists within today’s artists
Robert Faires / The Austin Chronicle / January 3, 2020
“Ashley Benton & Christopher Lee Gilmer” at Wally Workman Gallery
Art is, we’ll insist, transcendent when its foundation is skill and passion
Wayne Alan Brenner / The Austin Chronicle / December 27, 2019
“Jesse Narens: Creak, Crack, Creep” at Yard Dog Gallery
This Portland artist’s images of nature transmogrified are a perfect antidote to holiday overcheer
Wayne Alan Brenner / The Austin Chronicle / December 6, 2019
2020 Texas Biennial Open Call
The 2020 Texas Biennial Open Call is open to artists currently living and/or working in Texas, Texas natives/expats working anywhere in the world, and artists who have produced significant work in Texas over the last three years. Artists working in any media or discipline may apply online from December 2, 2019 – February 7, 2020.
THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN ANNOUNCES A MAJOR SCULPTURE BY SPANISH ARTIST JUAN MUÑOZ, NOW ON VIEW AT ITS LAGUNA GLORIA SCULPTURE PARK
Muñoz’s bronze work Last Conversation Piece, 1994–1995, is an ongoing loan from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Dougherty Arts Center: Call for Artists
Now accepting Exhibit Proposals for the 2021 Gallery Season!
The JCB Gallery celebrates a wide array of artists with diverse practices and strives to promote the livelihood of Austin’s vital art culture by offering as many opportunities as possible to both emerging and established local artists. The submission process includes an Artist Statement, display information, and images.
The deadline to submit has been extended to February 16, 2020!
“Will Klemm: Box of Light” at Wally Workman Gallery
The artist illuminates our world’s defining shadows with an oil-based glow
Wayne Alan Brenner / The Austin Chronicle / October 18, 2019
Eastside’s Past and Present Revealed in John Mulvany’s Latest Exhibit
“Secure the Perimeter” at grayDUCK Gallery asks, “What if the outside force is an inside job?”
Barbara Purcell / The Austin Chronicle / October 4, 2019
“Shana Hoehn: Hauntings” at Women & Their Work
Vintage hood ornaments are reimagined as sculptures that expose the historically distorted treatment of women’s bodies
Robert Faires / The Austin Chronicle / August 23, 2019
See this art: A 1910 phonograph is disassembled, then strung together
Some people take things apart. Others put them together. Then there are those who make rarified art by doing both.
Michael Barnes / Austin American-Statesman / August 14, 2019
“Jeffrey Gibson: This Is the Day” at The Blanton
The artist explores his indigenous roots and American identity in this solo exhibition
Barbara Purcell / The Austin Chronicle / August 9, 2019
Glasstire’s Live Podcast “On Location at Satellite Art Show”
Watch the full episode here.
Brandon Zech & Jill Schroeder / Glasstire / March 19, 2019
Five Skin Ten Skin
“The (art) here consists of one of those singular self-portraits separated into six works, realizing in sculptures his intense focus on eyes, pores, teeth, jaw. It’s work that is almost guaranteed to get under your skin, just as it does Ingram’s.”
Robert Faires / Austin Chronicle / November 9, 2018
“The more Ian Ingram explores the intimacy of the self-portrait the more he finds within and beyond the self.”
JOHN O” HERN / American Art Collector / November 2018
Mexic-Arte Museum’s “Fotografía y Nuevos Medios: Selections From the Permanent Collection”
The exhibition puts on view a treasure trove of images that have been in hiding for too long in the museum’s collections
MELANY JEAN / Austin Chronicle / February 9, 2018
“James Surls: Man on Edge” at Flatbed
The prints by this renowned Texas artist are like portals to other world, revealing rapturous visions and terrifying cosmic disturbances
MELANY JEAN / Austin Chronicle / February 2, 2018
“Andrew Blanchard / Jonas Criscoe: Call & Respond”
The two printmakers take familiar signage from rural roads and the small-town South and flatten them into one another
MELANY JEAN / Austin Chronicle / January 19, 2018
“Practical Acts of Perception” at grayDUCK Gallery
Cande Aguilar, Jorge Purón, and Mauricio Sáenz challenge what we see through shifts in scale and proportion
MELANY JEAN / Austin Chronicle / January 12, 2018
“Carl Block: Odd Pottery” at Yard Dog Gallery
Block’s ceramic monster-faced jugs with crooked teeth and varminty eyes are indeed odd but also colorful and delightful
WAYNE ALAN BRENNER / Austin Chronicle / December 29, 2017
“Keith Carter: Notes on the Universe” at Stephen L. Clark Gallery
This solo exhibition shows the photographer in pursuit of whatever unseen cosmic force animates us
ROBERT FAIRES / Austin Chronicle / December 29, 2017
“Rachel Stuckey: Good Days & Bad Days on the Internet” at Women & Their Work
The artist creates some genuinely geeky-cool stuff in this show that’s smart, funny, and fresh in its treatment of tech
MELANY JEAN / Austin Chronicle / December 15, 2017
“Light” at Wally Workman Gallery
Taking in all the varieties of gold in this polished group show is akin to basking in sunlight on a bleak winter’s day
MELANY JEAN / Austin Chronicle / December 8, 2017