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. […]
Christian Marclay
At Artpace, Marclay has generated new bodies of work, which continue his investigations of the role music plays in culture. The artist has looked to Artpace’s immediate neighbor as a […]
Untitled Nọ 48
An interview with Leonardo Drew by Laurence Miller LM: When did you first know that you were an artist? LD: When I came into this world, it was my natural […]
The Long Road to Mazatlán
The Long Road to Mazatlán, a video collaboration between Isaac Julien and the choreographer Javier de Frutos, is a fusion of movie and movement, a dance of gazes. Shot in […]
Splendid Little War
At Artpace, Rodriguez-Diaz presents two visual environments exploring issues of colonialism and representation titled “Splendid Little War.” In the gallery the artist has painted the walls black and showcases two […]
Reading for Male and Female Corpses
Rasdjarmrearnsook’s project at ArtPace is her first installation incorporating video. The artist is presenting three pieces from a series that investigates death and rituals of mourning. Filmed inside a morgue […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]