Texas Abstract: New Painting in the Nineties
With rich surfaces and sensitivity inflected brushwork, Boccara’s paintings explore the interaction of geometry and gesture, of reason and automatism. Mancuso, Wallis and Wilcox are primarily monochrome painters. Mancuso’s works […]
Billboards
In celebration of its 15th anniversary, Artpace presented a year-long, statewide exhibition featuring the work of one of its most renowned alums, Félix González-Torres (International Artist-in-Residence Spring 1995). Artpace sited […]
Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler
Eight is a video installation shot in Austin, Texas, which revolves around a young girl attempting to salvage some cake from a rained out birthday party on a stormy night. […]
Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien’s 20-minute filmic triptych, Paradise Omeros (2002) explores the experience of creolization—the psychological and linguistic impact of colonization, immigration, and globalization. Based on Derek Walcott’s Nobel Prize-winning epic poem […]
Borrowed Landscape (Citron, Cerulean, Violet, Blue)
Teresita Fernández’s installations are not environments for providing shelter. Her spaces are constructions bound by hierarchical categories – public and private, interior and exterior, architecture and decoration, masculine and feminine, […]
The Closet
In the late nineteenth century museums were founded throughout Europe and North America to collect and preserve the indigenous cultures of rural societies whose traditions were being lost due to […]
Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand’s photographs are pictures of absence—they are intricate mysteries that pose questions about the things that are not apparent in the work. Demand doles out information in small portions […]
El Niño Effect
Two identical, clinical, white, sensory deprivation tanks occupy the central area of the exhibition venue. Behind, twin showers have been installed, each equipped with towels, shampoo and other amenities to […]
The Novel That Writes Itself
At ArtPace, Ruppersberg presents an installation of two bodies of work. The Novel That Writes Itself is an ongoing project consisting of screen printed posters. Brightly colored with a fluorescent […]
olifant/Funhouse
The definition of an elephant undertaken as a collective and cumulative task by six blindmen each of whom felt a different part of the animal’s body is the basis of […]
Ann Stautberg
Stautberg’s subject is the Texas landscape, and her lens turns to her immediate surroundings, the Texas Gulf Coast. The Gulf Coast is a complicated location. It is an industrial panorama, […]
Joyce J. Scott
Joyce Scott is an artist who adores to work. Her love of labor—whether in drawing and sculpting, making jewelry, or performing—defies hierarchical conceptions of art that tend to value concept […]
