Sarah Sudhoff discuss her new show "Not a Drill" with Claire Howard, Associate Curator, Collections and Exhibitions at The Blanton.

Jade Walker will be at grayDUCK Gallery on February 25th from 2:00 – 3:00 pm to give a tour of the exhibition and answer questions.

Hiromi Stringer will be at the gallery this Sunday, December 17th to give tours and answer questions about her exhibition: The Dog Show: Time Traveler Umeyama’s Drawings from the 21st Century

The last descendants of a little-known American clan of multiethnic origin

Journalist and Writer Leslie Tucker and photographer Henry Horenstein began working together in 1997, when she invited him to Maryland to shoot a mysterious multiethnic family, the little-known Wesort clan: »We sorts are different from you sorts.« The project started as a genealogical search for a family whose roots stretched back to the founding of the first Catholic colony, it grew into a mystery about the multiethnic origins of America, then became a race against time as the Wesorts and their descendants disappeared and their stories died. While Horenstein photographed the last generation of Proctors and their disappearing world, Tucker recorded the conversations she had with the wise women of the family. A living archive emerges, with voices that portray the complex realities of their lives in their own words, as seen through their eyes.

Ariel Wood discuss their new show "raze" with Emmy Laursen, curator of programs & engagement at The Contemporary Austin.

Exhibition is on view through October 1.

East Austin’s visual art scene is banding together to create the “East Austin Arts District” and monthly events!

Join us for a self guided tour. The galleries listed below will all be open from 6-9 pm every third Thursday of each month.

Our 3rd Third Thursday is May 18th, come out in support!

@almostrealthings, @artfromthestreetsaustin, @artsparktx, @bolm_arts, @cloudtreestudiosandgallery, @coronadoprintroom, @prizerartsandletters, @somethingcoolstudios, @colabprojectstx, @unchained.art.gallery, @central.machine.works

Shawn Smiith will be at grayDUCK Gallery on April 1st from 2:00 – 3:00 pm to give a tour of the exhibition and answer all of your bug questions. "Ommatidium" is a well researched show to see in person with the added bonus of meeting the artist behind all of this beautiful work.

Renee Lai will be at grayDUCK Gallery on February 11th from 2:00 – 3:00 pm to give a tour of the exhibition and answer questions. "In The Water You Become" is a thoughtful show to see in person with the added bonus of meeting the artist behind all of this compelling work.

East Austin’s visual art scene is banding together to create the “East Austin Arts District” and monthly events!

Join us for a self guided tour. The galleries listed below will all be open from 6-9 pm every third Thursday of each month.

Our 3rd Third Thursday is December 15th, come out in support!

@almostrealthings, @atxurbanart, @cloudtreestudiosandgallery, @icosa_art, @linkpinart, @lydiastreetgallery, @prizerartsandletters, @richesartgallery, @sagestudioatx, @somethingcoolstudios, @colabprojectstx

Tammie Rubin will be at grayDUCK Gallery on December 10th from 2:00 – 3:00 pm to give a tour of the exhibition and answer questions. "Faithful" is a striking and thoughtful show to see in person with the added bonus of meeting the artist behind all of this compelling work.

Join the University of Texas Press and the author as we celebrate the release of You’re with Stupid: an insider’s look at how Chicago’s underground music industry transformed indie rock in the 1990s. Artwork from vintage kranky releases will be displayed and refreshments will be served.

In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair to the national stage. The musical ecosystem from which these bands emerged, though, was expansive and diverse. Grunge players comingled with the electronic, jazz, psychedelic, and ambient music communities, and an inventive, collaborative group of local labels—kranky, Drag City, and Thrill Jockey, among others—embraced the new, evolving sound of indie “rock.” Bruce Adams, co-founder of kranky records, was there to bear witness.

In You’re with Stupid, Adams offers an insider’s look at the role Chicago’s underground music industry played in the transformation of indie rock. Chicago labels, as Adams explains, used the attention brought by national acts to launch bands that drew on influences outside the Nirvana-inspired sound then dominating pop. The bands themselves—Labradford, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stars of the Lid, Low—were not necessarily based in Chicago, but it was Chicago labels like kranky that had the ears and the infrastructure to do something with this new music. In this way, Chicago-shaped sounds reached the wider world, presaging the genre-blending music of the twenty-first century. From an author who helped create the scene and launched some of its best music, You’re with Stupid is a fascinating and entertaining read.

About the Author

Bruce Adams, who has worked in the music industry since 1988, is the co-founder of kranky records, which was established in Chicago in 1993. He left kranky in 2005 and continues to work in the industry.

East Austin’s visual art scene is banding together to create the “East Austin Arts District” and monthly events!

Join us for a self guided tour. The galleries listed below will all be open from 6-9 pm every third Thursday of each month.

The first time we’re doing this is October 20th, come out in support!

@ivester_contemporary @grayduckgallery @linkpinart @lydiastreetgallery @flatbedpress @yarddogart @coronadoprintstudio @prizerartsandletters @richesartgallery @cloudtreestudiosandgallery

BLITTO UNDERGOUND (78 min)

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5524598

Blitto Underground (2021) is a dive into Buenos Aires Bohemia, guided by a struggling club entertainer named Pablo Blitto Torre. It’s about inclusivity, acceptance, and community—the community Blitto has built of his friends, fellow entertainers, and fellow "freaks," as he calls them.

Blitto’s world of music, individualism, love, and self-expression on the margins is a fluid world and Blitto Underground embraces this fluidity in a verité style as it follows its characters wherever they go. One unexpected place Blitto goes is domesticity and humanity, as we follow the vegan Blitto to animal rescue work, dog love, and the warmth of his given family.

Bio

Henry Horenstein studied history at the University of Chicago and earned his BFA and MFA at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he studied with legends Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.

Henry's work is collected and exhibited internationally, and he has published over 30 books, including several monographs of his own work such as Honky Tonk, Histories, Show, Animalia, Humans, Racing Days, Close Relations, and many others. His next monograph Speedway72, which features photographs made 50 years ago, will be published in 2022. He has also authored Black & White Photography, Digital Photography, and Beyond Basic Photography, used by hundreds of thousands of college, university, high-school, and art school students as their introduction to photography. His Shoot What You Love serves both as a memoir and a personal history of photography over the past 50 years.

In recent years, Henry has been making films: Preacher, Murray, Spoke, Partners, and Blitto Underground, which premiered in 2021. He is currently in production on Where Everybody is Somebody, a film about Cajun Louisiana.

Henry is professor of photography at RISD and lives in Boston.

JBJ will be at grayDUCK Gallery on June 12th from 2:00 – 3:00 pm to give a tour of the exhibition and answer questions. "Circles and Cycles" is a big and beautiful show to see in person with the added bonus of meeting the artist behind all of this compelling work.

Bethany will be at grayDUCK Gallery on February 13th from 2:00 – 3:00 pm to give tours of the exhibition and answer questions. "Findings" is a beautiful and layered show to see in person with the added bonus of meeting the artist behind all of the work.

Masks are still required while indoors. There will be ample room to gather outside in our courtyard for refreshments.

Meet & Greet the Artists:

Betelhem Makonnen + Christina Coleman + Deborah Roberts + Tammie Rubin

The small acts artists will be at grayDUCK Gallery on November 18th from 6:00 – 8:00pm to give personal tours of the exhibition and answer questions. small acts is a powerful and beautiful show to see in person with the added bonus of meeting the artists behind all of the work.

Masks are still required while indoors. There will be ample room to gather outside in our courtyard for refreshments.

PARTNERS is a feature-length documentary about relationships. It’s a simple idea, really. PARTNERS of various stripes get together and talk about how they met and how their relationship works. They talk about themselves and their journeys together.

The film uses short clips from 15 interviews, carefully woven together with both poignance and humor. It is not scripted. The words and thoughts are expressed on the spot by the interviewees; they are honest and extemporaneous with only occasional prodding questions from the director. After closing one interview session, a woman told her long-time partner “I never knew you felt that way.”

The relationships are widely varied. Some are fairly conventional while others are wild. But all the partners share so much in common—their tastes, their personal philosophies, their dreams. And most importantly, their love for each other. In the end, we get it: If it’s okay with them it’s okay with us. At its heart, PARTNERS is about acceptance. It’s a celebration of choice.

BIOGRAPHY

Henry Horenstein has been a professional photographer, filmmaker, teacher, and author since the 1970s. He studied history at the University of Chicago, and earned his BFA and MFA at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.

Henry's work is collected and exhibited internationally and he has published over 30 books, including several monographs of his own work such as Shoot What You Love (a memoir), Histories, Show, Honky Tonk, Animalia, Humans, Racing Days, Close Relations, and many others. He has also authored Black & White Photography, Digital Photography, and Beyond Basic Photography, used by hundreds of thousands of college, university, high-school, and art school students as their introduction to photography.

In recent years, Henry has been making films: Preacher, Murray, Spoke, and now Partners, which premiered recently at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.

Henry is professor of photography at RISD and lives in Boston.

On Saturday, November 16th, The Flying Strawberries will be performing a shadow puppet story at grayDUCK Gallery. Surrounded by her current gallery exhibition, Bruisers, Sarah Fox will be joined by collaborators Hilary Rochow and Brittany Ham to share the story of a young centaur and his animal friends exploring their woodland world. Two short performances start promptly at 3pm and 7pm.

EnGendered Species: Audiovisual Presentation—a Project by Rino Pizzi in collaboration with Teresa Elliott, Gail Chovan and Evan Voyles, DJ Stout and Lana McGilvray, Sue and Chris Lambe, Eliza Thomas and Ted Young, Steve Wiman and Emily Cowart, Scott Crow and Ann Harkness, Jana Swec and Shea Little, Caroline Wright and Diego Garcia, Ron Pippin and Julie Faust Pippin.

“EnGendered Species” consists of a series of photographic portraits of heterosexual couples* as they impersonate each other--their body posture, facial expressions, clothing, and the way they express their relation to each other. It addresses issues of gender identity and relations as they emerge in a personal setting.

For decades now gender has been a subject of debates and inquiry in the visual arts, media, performance, and documentary investigations. Its complexity has been addressed mostly as a societal construct with various layers of ideological and economic struggle, from perceived canons of sexual identity to imaginative fashion, including a re-examination of its history and an assessment of its uncertain future. The aim of this project is to narrow the scope of these conversations to personal spaces and intimacy to explore the ways gender specificity is defined in private.

The development of the project relied on the contribution of special effects make up artist Stephanie Caillabet. Photo retouching and manipulation were kept to a minimal, and applied only when necessary.

The presentation will include the participation of the collaborating artists, screening of before/after images, plus a trailer of “Me in You,” a documentary on the project directed by Roberto Badò, with director of photography Alessio Viola, and editor Kim Bica. Produced by Teresa Elliott and Charlotte Moore.

A witchy, magical launch party for the new Literary Witches Oracle Deck by Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan!

Join us as we celebrate the birth of the Literary Witches Oracle Deck by Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan! This new deck is based on the Literary Witches book collaboration (published in 2017). The creators will discuss the magic of the deck and how seekers can use it for creativity, inspiration, and guidance. Purchase your copy of the deck and/or the book, and experience a Literary Witches Oracle reading by Typewriter Tarot (spots are limited -- reserve yours via Eventbrite!). Plus, wine, light refreshments, and a coven of wondrous beings!

Tickets are free, but please RSVP with a free ticket here.

Seats will be limited. Follow the links below for your free ticket:

Friday, May 17, 2019 at 7:00pm https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4237037

Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 7:00pm https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4237060

Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 3:00pm https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4237065

• Duration: 16 minutes
• Performance and visuals by Yuliya Lanina
• Original music by José Martínez
• Choreography by Andrea Ariel
• Technical support by Theodore Johnson and Michael McKellar

"Misread Signs" is a multimedia performance by Yuliya Lanina featuring animatronic sculptures, three channel projected animation, music, and movement. It explores the effects of trauma on human psyche.

Donned as one of her feathered creatures with antlers, Lanina performs within the projected animations, illuminated solely by her anthropomorphic sculptures – skeletal birds with human baby heads and phosphorescent eyes. The animation fills a quarter of the gallery, creating a seamless immersive story.

In the course of the performance, we see Lanina desperately trying to tell us something and being unable to. Based on her personal life story, this piece examines the inability for someone who experienced trauma to express and at times even connect with how they feel.

Lanina’s collaborator, composer José Martinez uses recordings of Lanina’s voice as his audio material, rendering her deeply personal text and songs beyond recognition while transforming her voice to the extreme in order to convey the urgency of expression.

The piece transcends the particulars of artist’s life experience into a universal story of perseverance and asks us to reflect on our connection to ourselves, to our past and to each other.

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

Experimental Response Cinema welcomes Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder for an in-person screening of Untitled, in conjunction with their installation as part of the AIR conference at the University of Texas School of Architecture.

Untitled

16mm film transferred to digital video, sound by Olivia Block, 42 minutes, SOS Editions, 2008

The black-and-white film Untitled is a poetic and conceptual exploration of the medium of film and its technical screening conditions. The central actors are the light and the various shades of darkness it produces. As in many of their film performances and installations, the New York artist duo Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder take the apparatus of the projector as a point of departure to release the medium itself: By liberating the film projection of the baggage of narrative content, they allow the sequential images to take the stage in their own right. In doing so, they juxtapose the minimalism of the perceptible elements to the numerous resulting effects, ranging from complex pictorial spatiality to pulsating movements. Gibson and Recoder “like to think of themselves as facilitators of an expanded concept of cinema not necessarily outside of the so-called black box but precisely within the obscurity of its immanent darkness.”

The evening will also include a slide-show presentation and discussion of the installation version Atmos.

Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have been working together since 2000. Their works have received international recognition and have been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), REDCAT (CA), Viennale (Vienna, Austria), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Museum Kunstpalast (Düsseldorf, Germany), M HKA (Antwerp, Belgium), Serralves Foundation (Porto, Portugal) and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan). Gibson + Recoder live and work in New York.

The installation version of Untitled, titled Atmos, is on view at the School of Architecture (CAAD) of the University of Texas as part of the symposium and exhibition AIR. For more information visit: https://www.airsymposium.com/exhibition/

Dameon Lester discuss his new show "Serene Disturbance" with Tammie Rubin, Artist and Assistant Professor of Sculpture & Ceramics at St. Edward’s University.

Exhibition is on view through October 28.

Hear from the artists participating in the fifth year of The Contemporary Austin’s Crit Group program as they discuss their work in the exhibition. Crit Group is facilitated by Andrea Mellard, Director of Public Programs and Community Engagement.

Exhibiting artists: Adrian Aguilera, Christa Blackwood, Christine Garvey, Ron Geibel, Jenn Hassin, Landon O’Brien, Dawn Okoro, Rachel Wolfson Smith

Exhibition is on view through September 2 at grayDUCK Gallery.

In dialogue with Chiles’s use of abstract color, Luanne Stovall, will be leading an interactive lecture and hands-on workshop about multi-dimensional color.

Luanne Stovall is an artist specializing in color, with a passion for modern design and the creative practice.

​Color = Art + Science + Psychology + Culture. Luanne embraces color as a vital communication tool and believes we are in a Color Evolution. She is currently teaching and writing a New Field Guide to Color as an interdisciplinary model.

She is a lecturer at the Art Institute of Austin and the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has taught Living Color as a Freshman Signature Course, Advanced Color: Strategies & Solutions, and Color Modules for the UT College of Fine Arts.

To reserve a spot, please email duckduck@grayduckgallery.com

SEED/BED is a reflection on landscape, language, and the body. The solo distills movement practice taking place in nature and the human-nature-culture found there. One key principle investigates ways of looking, and the awareness of when/where one locates and positions themselves. Also, What does a body do to read/ride/write the place, time and conditions of a given moment? How are changes in perception linked to so-called gesture? The work is also stimulated by a dialogue with visual artist Elizabeth Chiles taking place in parallel with their respective projects. grayDUCK Gallery and Chiles host performances and workshops of SEED/BED during the exhibition Weave.

Tickets: https://seedbed.brownpapertickets.com/

SEED/BED is a reflection on landscape, language, and the body. The solo distills movement practice taking place in nature and the human-nature-culture found there. One key principle investigates ways of looking, and the awareness of when/where one locates and positions themselves. Also, What does a body do to read/ride/write the place, time and conditions of a given moment? How are changes in perception linked to so-called gesture? The work is also stimulated by a dialogue with visual artist Elizabeth Chiles taking place in parallel with their respective projects. grayDUCK Gallery and Chiles host performances and workshops of SEED/BED during the exhibition Weave.

Tickets: https://seedbedworkshop.brownpapertickets.com/

A project by Rino Pizzi with: Teresa Elliott, Michael Anthony Garcia, Maya Lawrence, Catherine Lee, Emily Little, Graham Reynolds, Shawn Smith, DJ Stout, w. tucker, Peggy Weiss, Steve Wiman, Robert Ziebell

Photo/Montage (12x12) invites established, local artists to step out of their usual boundaries to engage in a complex dialog with a given concept. Each participating artist worked with the same set of twelve prints from Pizzi's recent photography to create a unique collage/assemblage using at least one element from all the twelve images, with no other restrictions or guidelines about form, size or aesthetic purpose. The collaborators involved are diverse in background and vision, and include visual artists Catherine Lee, Michael Anthony Garcia, Shawn Smith, Maya Lawrence, w. tucker, Peggy Weiss, and Steve Wiman; composer Graham Reynolds; graphic designer DJ Stout; architect Emily Little; writer Teresa Elliott; and photographer/filmmaker Robert Ziebell.

Anthony B. Creeden - Artist Talk

Cacti, as notoriously hardy spiked things, tend to look harshly figural and exotic when mixed amongst signs of modernity. In my studio, behind the MacBook, lit under LED light, stands this short, defiantly potted, prehistoric life form. A reminder of how things used to be, out amongst nature, before Brita filters and before ISPs. I notice them as I turn almost every corner on my block in Austin too, waving at me indifferently, and in their own way daring us all to screw this whole societal experiment up. “See who lasts then,” it kind of mutters. Cacti and Semaphore—the show’s title—shares its name with a 1923 painting by Georg Scholz. The artists of Scholz’s day have all passed. They float among us now, in the digital images of their work left behind. Today in our painting studios, like in a séance, we ask for guidance, curious of our own fortunes ahead.

Anthony B. Creeden (born Washington, D.C.) holds an MFA in painting from the University of Texas at Austin (2017) and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2011). Recent exhibitions include Edward Cella Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; the Elmhurst Art Museum in Elmhurst, IL; William Benington Gallery in London, UK; and MASS Gallery in Austin, TX.

Hosted by Experimental Response Cinema

Program two of ERC’s tribute to Stan Brakhage and the republication of his Metaphors on Vision is a program of works best known as the “Pittsburgh Trilogy.” Thomas Beard of Light Industry will introduce.

Part of a 3-evening series celebrating Brakhage's work. Program 1 2/11 at AFS Cinema; Program 3 at Masur Gallery, Lockhart.

• Eyes (1971)
• Deus Ex (1971)
• The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (1971)

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Please Note: The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes contains graphic autopsy imagery.

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