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By GT contributors on January 6, 2013
Glasstire contributors offer up their picks for the best spring shows around the state. Think we missed something great? Post it in the comments section below! AUSTIN Alison Kuo: Colorful Food 1117 Garland January 4 – February 14 Former Austin resident and current School of Visual Art grad student, Alison Kuo will present a psychedelic [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged 1117 Garland, 500X, Adam Putnam, Alison Kuo, amset, Andrew Douglas Underwood, andrew wyeth, angela kallus, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Artpace, Ben Shahn, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, brett bloom, Charles Burchfield, Charles Sheeler, colette copeland, Colorful Food, Dave HIckey, Day Wheeler, designated drivers, Diego Bianchi, diverseworks, Edgardo Aragón, Edward Hopper, Fernando Brito, FotoFest, Gary Simmons, George Tooker, Gunilla Klingberg, Interactive Records, Into the Wild Meaning, Ivete Lucas, J. Parker Valentine, Jennifer Ward, Jimmy Peña, Jorge Arreola Barraza, Joseph Cornell, K Space Contemporary, Keri Oldham, kirk hopper fine art, Man Ray, marc fischer, Marcela Rico, Marty Walker Gallery, mckinney avenue contemporary, McNay Museum of Art, miguel aragon, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Okay Mountain, Paul Cadmus, Pedro Reyes, Philip Guston, rice gallery, Roberta Harris, salem collo-julin, sally chandler, Scott Martin, Sterling Allen, Susie Kalil, Suzanne Cotter, Tala Madani, temporary services, terri thornton, Texas State University Galleries, The Jung Center Gallery, The Reading Room, tony feher, UNLV, VAC, Visual Art Center, Yves Tanguy |
By Rachel Hooper on December 9, 2012
We arrived at Blue Star Thursday night to a performance of Justin Randolph Thompson’s Tossin’ the Rag as part of his exhibition Meet Me in the Bottoms. A rag doll was being thrown in the air from a blanket while the artist performed with a group of collaborators. They were accompanied by a small band facing [...]
Posted in Blog, Wax by the Fire | Tagged ann wood, Artpace, benjamin h mcvey, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, brian fridge, catherine anspon, claudia schmuckli, claudio dicochea, dikeou collection, Esteban Delgado, ethan moore, gabriel diego delgado, gary schafter, Goya, ivan salacido, jon pylypchuk, Jonathan Leach, justin randolph thompson, liza littlefield, McNay Art Museum, Michele Monseau, nancy douthey, painting, photography, royal art lodge, sculpture, susan plum, University of houston, utsa, video, vincent valdez |
By Sarah Fisch on December 27, 2011
Justin Boyd’s Window Works installation at Artpace is called “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence.” This title struck me as maybe unnecessarily long when I first heard it, but after “seeing” the installation several times and talking to Justin Boyd about it, it’s won me over. Because not only does ”Natural Black, Sprinkled With [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Artpace, Artpace Window Works, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Chupacabrona, field recordings, Glasstire, grackles, hills snyder, Justin Boyd, San Antonio artists, Sarah Fisch, sound art, Soundcloud interview, Texas wildlife |
By Sarah Fisch on October 27, 2011
So, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair is over. (Which gives me an excuse to post the above image. This particular Rachel Hecker piece is impactful and funny in-person, too.) So I’m still processing everything I saw, PLUS I’m recovering from a bout of dog-days writer’s block, which I blame on 9/11, heatstroke and having watched [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged art, Artpace, austin, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, chandeliers, crochet, Glasstire, Houston, impenetrable narrative, monofilament, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, taxidermy, texas contemporary art fair, Texas Gallery, wolves |
By Dan R. Goddard on July 30, 2011
Before the era of car bombs and IEDs, Icelandic-born sculptor Gudjon Bjarnason began using high explosives to create unorthodox shapes and forms in his work. He was looking for unexpected dimensions to use in his architectural designs for unconventional houses. A maquette he created for a house he’s planning has a front entrance that looks [...]
Posted in Alamo City, Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, bomb squard, dystopic progressions, explosives, Gudjon bjarnason, Gudjon Bjarnason Iceland Blue Star Contemporary Art Center explosives Iceland Stokkseyri ICE Bomb Squard Walley Films architecture, Iceland, sculpture, Walley Films |
By Sarah Fisch on July 2, 2011
Performance art. Performance art made by an avowed and politically-engaged feminist. A feminist who is a new mom to a 5 month old daughter. Who (the new mom) went to U. Penn, and completed a residency in Scandinavia last year. Performance art about gender/frontera issues, sex work and South Texas sexual colonialism. With guitar and [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Boys Town, Boystown, buttercup, contemporary art San Antonio, Donkey Show, Duran Duran, erik sanden, first Thursday, julia barbosa-landois, la frontera, Nuevo Laredo, performance art, prostitution, Rio, Rio Grande, San Antonio music, sex work, Texas-Mexico border, video art |
By Sarah Fisch on June 17, 2011
Here’s an interesting cross-section of San Antonio arts news. Now that I look at it, though, “escena” looks a little too much like “eczema” so I’m gonna call the next roundup something else, like maybe roundup. Me, I’ve been completely distracted from my usual howdoyoudo due to grant application fever, writing about how there’s art [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged Anjali Gupta, Beto Gonzales, Blue Star, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, cactus bra SPACE, food writing, FotoFest, Guy Hundere, Hunting Art Prize, Jennifer Ward, jung hee mun, Leigh Anne Lester, Luminaria, Mantecatron, Reverend Seymour Perkins, Robert Gonzales, San Angel Folk Art, San Antonio, San Antonio contemporary artists, San Antonio film, Southtown, Texas art networking, Texas Monthly, Vinod Hopson |
By Sarah Fisch on April 19, 2011
I don’t think I’ve ever had an interesting conversation that began with the other person saying, “When I was at Burning Man…” I’m not saying it couldn’t happen. And I’ve got several friends who’ve had fun during this increasingly famous free-form, if expensive, festival thingy; one friend met her husband at Burning Man. He’s a [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged Arthouse at the Jones Center, Artpace, austin, Austin Bergstrom Airport, Austin contemporary art, Austrian Ambassador, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Burning Man, Camp Street, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, Daisy Goatherd, Esteban Delgado, Junghee Mun, Linda Pace, LSD, margarita cabrera, Nicolas Cage, Piotr Chizinski, Plaza de Armas, Ryder Jon Piotrs, San Antonio contemporary art, Sarah Fisch, Texas Biennial, Texs Biennial opening party, Wicker Man |