Denise Elliott Jones: Does it Match the Sofa

Host: Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd.

Dates: February 13 – March 17, 2019

Artist Talk & Activity: February 27, 7pm

A lighthearted look at the relevance of art, how it tells a story, makes someone feel good, connects to a memory, or how it matches (or doesn’t!) the sofa.

Host: Women & Their Work, 1710 Lavaca St.

Date: February 28, 7p

Join exhibiting artist Hedwige Jacobs for an evening of collaborative drawing games and spirited conversation. Materials provided by Women & Their Work. Please bring any pattern-lined envelopes you have for the artist to use in later projects.

Host: Northern Southern, 1900-B East 12th St

Dates: February 28 – March 15, 2019

Opening Reception: February 28, 6-8p

Where is Here is an attempt to photograph at least one person of every age—newborn to the most senior—of the people who live, work, grew up in, are from, or frequent the thereabouts of East Austin around East 12th Street.

Host: Canopy, 916 Springdale Rd.

Date: March 1, 7-10p

No Me Olvides (Do Not Forget Me): Curated by Fernando Muñoz Host: Big Medium, 916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2, #101 Dates: March 1 – 30, 2019 Opening Reception: March 1, 7-10pm

No Me Olvides presents stories told by eight local established Latino artists. Through art, music, poetry, and food, these stories build a narrative of happiness, melancholy, sadness, and hope. Curated by Fernando Muñoz, No Me Olvides examines issues of migration, displacement, family, memories, and the importance of belonging. Featuring artists Alejandra Almuelle, JC Amorrortu, Cecilia Colomé, Fidencio Durán,Carlos Lowry, Peter F. Ortiz, Elvira Sarmiento, and Liliana Wilson.

Host: Bale Creek Allen Gallery, 916 Springdale Rd #103

Opening Reception: March 1, 7-9p

Driving South in a Mostly Straight Line Host: ICOSA, 916 Springdale Rd Dates: March 1 – 30, 2019 Opening Reception: March 1, 7-10p

Driving South in a Mostly Straight Line is the first phase of an art exchange between Rosalux Gallery , an art collective based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and ICOSA collective of Austin, Texas. Selected by Andrea Mellard, the exhibition introduces Austin to the 20 members of Rosalux. In turn, Rosalux will be presenting the work of ICOSA collective’s 20 members in Minneapolis in May. The first exhibition of this two-city art exchange is comprised of a diverse of artmaking practices including painting, mixed media sculpture, watercolor, photography, printmaking, drawing, and collage. While 1,176 miles separate the two artist collectives, the common goal to support their fellow artists and share their community’s creative output brings them together.

Ghost Pepper Glass at Artworks Host: Artworks, 1214 W. 6th Street 78703 Dates: February 1 – March 1, 2019

Closing Reception: March 1, 4-7p

Ghost Pepper Glass is a collective of glass blowing artisans that offer studio time, demonstrations, and classes for glass blowers of all levels from novices to professionals at their facility on the east side. We asked them to take some time out of their busy schedule to create some one-of-a-kind pieces to exhibit in our gallery, and WOW, did they deliver. Their art will be on display all month, and we will have a closing reception on Friday March 1st from 4pm-7pm to thank the artists for their beautiful work. The gallery and reception are open to the public.

Host: Department of Art & Art History, UT, 2301 San Jacinto Blvd, Rm 1.120

Artist talk: March 1, 2-3:30p

I’m a storyteller with many stories to tell: the story of the material and its cultural meaning; the story of how the object is made and its life in the world; and the story of my body in relation to objects and other bodies. From the beginning my body has been at the center of my work. It’s both my tool for making and the source from which meaning arises. I try to enter my objects while leaving traces of my interaction on their surface for others to discover. As I focus on my body, its gender becomes paramount. I am immediately aware that the world responds to me as a woman first, among all the other qualities that define me. In my work I embrace my female lineage both biologically, art historically, and politically. It is through the female lens that I explore themes of family, primal urges, consumption and embodiment. With sculpture and performance I carefully articulate my relationship to the world, giving rise to emotional states and a physicality which speaks to the viewer’s body. For the past ten years I have practiced various forms of somatic movement modalities to inform my sculpture. While my sculpture has allowed me to represent this experience, performance has pushed me to instantaneously expose the ideas arising from and through the body. Meeting Anna Halprin and engaging in her philosophy has not only opened up a whole new world to me it has also had a profound effect on how I view my own practice. I am excited to be showing our collaboration, Paper Dance at The Contemporary Austin (link is external) from January 23rd to March 17th.

Host: The Museum of Human Achievement

Date: March 1, 8-10p

I will perform as an alien DJ

In my performances, I wear 3D printed masks of the celebrities Scarlett Johansson and Elle Fanning who symbolize empty vessels that my alien, Sinusoidal, can enter. I contrast my body to the celebrities, and with the mask and costumes, relate my new body more directly to that of the cyborg. For Haraway, the cyborg disturbs mainstream dualisms by offering a body that cannot be fully one thing or the other as we are an amalgam of mediation, violence, and multiplicity.

Opening Celebration for New Monuments for New Cities Host: Waller Creen Conservancy, Date: March 2, 10a-1p

Join us for a free, family-friendly opening celebration of New Monuments for New Cities featuring artist-led walking tours of the exhibit, live music from Big Wy’s Brass Band , and hands-on activities with partner organizations – Anti-Defamation League of Austin, AIA Austin, Mexican American Cultural Center, and Austin History Center. At noon, hear remarks from Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art.

Host: Wally Workman Gallery, 1202 West 6th Street

Dates: March 2 – 31, 2019

Opening Reception: March 2, 4-7pm

Artist Talk: March 2, 4pm

On Saturday, March 2nd, Wally Workman Gallery will open their 3rd solo show with figurative painter Elizabeth Chapin. Chapin’s large scale works reference her Southern upbringing and the conflicted nostalgia surrounding the gentility and graciousness of the South. Chapin views much of this culture as made possible largely by graceless and dark systems. This obfuscation of ugliness and the worship of appearance is the theme that runs throughout her new body of work. Using the idea of lace as a metaphor for this experience and referencing historical religious painting, she explores beauty as safety for both the oppressed and the worshiped and idealized. Halos of fabric, acrylic and neon surround Chapin’s paintings. Some of the pieces are stuffed like giant decorative pillows, epitomizing the comfort of beauty. With these works, Chapin has exposed Southern portraiture as a pre-instagram status symbol and examines the pleasure and willful ignorance derived within it.

Scent Ceramic Pit Firing Host: MASS Gallery, Date: March 2, 4-7p MASS Close Encounters is pleased to present Scent Ceramic Pit Firings, a collaborative performance piece by Amada Miller and Nicholas Frank. This event will mark the closing of the textile-based exhibition Interwoven, of which Amada Miller is an exhibiting artist. Scent Ceramic Pit Firings is an on-going series of performative work made in collaboration between Amada Miller and Nicholas Frank. After Frank pit fires each pot, Miller places scent material into the warm vessels, activating the surrounding area with rare or unusual olfactory sensations. Gather around the fire in the yard at MASS to experience this unique and magical event.

Host: Yard Dog Art, 1510 S. Congress Ave

Dates: March 2 – April 14

Opening Reception: March 2, 7 – 9 pm

Nate Otto is an artist, illustrator, and muralist based in Chicago. His work occupies its own lane somewhere in between the worlds of folk art, street art, lowbrow art, and contemporary fine art. His paintings and drawings are ruminations on urban life and landscape and stylistic explorations into what Nate dubs “whateveriwanttodoism.” In 2018 alone Nate did over fifteen murals in five different cities and he has done recent client work for Apple, Vans, Goose Island, and many others. City and Sky is Nate’s second show at Yard Dog.

A Shared Vision Host: Davis Gallery, 837 W. 12th St

Dates: March 2 – April 13, 2019 Opening Reception: March 2, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: March 30, 2p

Davis Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibit of new works by Austin-based painters, Denise M. Fulton and Sam Yeates. A Shared Vision will feature allegorical canvases marked by vivid color and rich with symbolism. Both artists are known for their heavily studied realism and dedication to traditional imagery.

Host: Stephen L Clark Gallery, 1101 West 6th St

Date: March 2 – April 13, 2019

Opening Reception: March 2, 6-9p

Host: Landmarks, UT, 24th & Speedway

Date: March 3, 11-12p Join Landmarks for an hour-long, docent-led walking tour of works in the public art collection. Meet your docent at Nancy Rubins’ Monochrome for Austin on the corner of 24th and Speedway and learn how unconventional materials shape our understanding of an artwork.

Host: Umlauf Sculpture Garden, 605 Robert E. Lee Road

Dates: March 5 – August 18, 2019

Opening Reception: March 5, 6-8p

constant escape Host: George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center, Angelina St Dates: March 7, 2019 – July 27, 2019 Opening Reception: March 7, 7-9p Founding members of the Austin based Black Mountain Project Adrian Aguilera, Betelhem Makonnen, and Tammie Rubin will debut a new body of work in sculpture, photography, text, and video, at the George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center from March 7, 2019 – July 27, 2019. This collaborative exhibition, constant escape, provides a sensory prescription for resisting absolute definitions of culture and identity. The concept for this exhibition is inspired by text from Fred Moten’s, Black and Blur (Duke University Press, 2017) Constant escape is uneasy. It demands the blinking intermittence, the radical flight, of a certain experience of constraint that will have been best understood as sustained, unflinching fantasy, as a look through or away, listening to and playing over, under. Perhaps constant escape is that which is what we mean when we say freedom.

Host: Women & Their Work, 1710 Lavaca St.

Dates: March 9 – April 18, 2019

Opening Reception: March 9, 7-9p

In Walk the Sky, Kim’s work examines the nature of line beyond the two-dimensional surface into three-dimensional space. While thread and string are usually synonymous with the utilitarian actions of weaving and stitching, here they emphasize the energy, delicacy, and grace found in painting. These works shift, undulate, and pulse towards us, declaring themselves as entities emancipated from the confines of flatland, and now poised and vibrating just above the surface. The exhibition will be on view through April 18.

Host: The Contemporary Austin – Laguna Gloria, 3809 West 35th Street