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It’s a month of eclectic art exhibitions and installations that seduce art enthusiasts with countless new dynamic exhibitions and experiences. From animal-sized painted wall reliefs and collaborations between artists and poets to live rhythm tap dancing, iconic Western imagery through a pop lens, and video-based sculptural installations that fuse the botanical world with technology, there are endless ways to enjoy the art November in Austin.
VILLAGE
“Own it, examine it, and confront it directly.”
Now until November 14th.
Named after a quote from Naima Ramos-Chapman about her award-winning film And Nothing Happened, in which the artist illuminates the culture of rape and the consequences of sexual assault, this interdisciplinary project with visual and performance art explores rape culture, survivor justice and healing. The exhibition offers artists and visitors an empathic space to learn, process and eliminate the shame and stigma associated with a difficult but ubiquitous problem in our society. Twenty local and international artists are represented, many of whom are sexual assault survivors and whose work includes video, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, installation, animation and performance.
Central Library Gallery
“Awake in the Dark, Hollis Hammonds and Sasha West.”
Now until 2.12.
“Awake in the Dark” is a multimedia exhibition that emerged from a collaboration between the visual artist Hollis Hammonds and the poet Sasha West. In self-questioning, the artists question both individual and social contributions to environmental crises. The audience lingers in ruins, floating between flood and fire, standstill and loss. In these works, the distinction between natural and man-made disasters begins to collapse. Reflecting the melancholy and darkness manifested in West’s poems, Hammonds’ drawings challenge us to examine the effects of elements when those elements are nurtured by human action. West’s poems tie in with the ruined landscapes in Hammond’s drawing and question our culture’s belief in limitless growth. Through the combination of sound with sculptural installation and word with image, both artists offer their personal perspective on the abyss of a hostile future.
Dougherty Arts Center
“Westward, Faux !, B. Shawn Cox.”
Now until November 27th.
In this exhibition, Austin-based multimedia artist B. Shawn Cox deals specifically with iconography and subtexts that support and challenge the myth of manifest fate. Cox creates from personal or found vintage photographs and aims to capture, reinterpret and share a moment. He takes visual inspiration from vintage imagery, advertising, architecture, magazines, 1980s pop music, and literature. His work reflects a graphic, colorful commentary that reflects social mythology by repurposing and graphically challenging iconographic figurative stereotypes.
Great medium
“We are the [Hackers], Infant, [Hackers] we are: Ariel René Jackson and Michael J. Love. “
Now until January 8, 2022.
Ariel René Jackson and Michael J. Love appear as their alter egos, Confuserella and Babé, illustrating a black futuristic place where wormholes serve as links between the present and the past. The two hack a method of traversing time and imagining new places to plant their loved ones’ story. This is embedded in the namesake of the work, a hack of Real People’s debut single track, the 1980s album by the band Chic. The exhibition consists of three components that are linked together through the collaborative process of Jackson and Love. Personal and visual research becomes part of a live rhythm tap dance performance, which is then captured and archived by a multi-camera setup.
Flatbed gallery
“Carving: Lance Letscher.”
Now until November 30th
This is an exhibition of prints and drawings by Lance Letscher who experimented with gravure printing techniques at Flatbed in 2020. Intaglio is an Italian term describing a design cut or engraved in a material and encompassing many printing techniques that either hand or acid cut into a metal matrix that can be colored and printed on paper. Letscher’s gravure works are straightforward and unpretentious. They play with color, with lines and with visions. They give us permission to enter a world of lines and colors that is beyond narrative. Always contrasting chaos with structure, Letscher invites the viewer to lose himself for a moment in his world.
ICOSA collective gallery
“Mensch, Natur, a juried group exhibition, curated by Claire Howard.”
5th-21st November.
“Human, Nature” reflects the changing relationships with our bodies, with one another and with the environment that many have experienced during this time of public health and the climate crisis. For some, feelings of mutability or alienation in our own bodies and in relation to others that are evoked by illness and isolation are at odds with the desire for connection and tenderness. While nature offers a respite from time at home and the opportunity to be safe with others, the consequences of climate change manifested in natural disasters often make nature dangerous and unrecognizable. Selected from 196 submissions that were received in response to ICOSA’s open appeal, these works by nine artists trace the developing connections between nature and ourselves.
Umlauf Sculpture Garden
“Courtney Egan: SuperFlora.”
November 18 to March 6, 2022.
Courtney Egan is best known for carefully translating photographs she takes of botanical forms into video-based sculptural installations that challenge the distinction between the natural and technological worlds. The central work of this exhibition is Metaflora, a large, interactive video projection. As the viewer moves along the walls, the floral imagery blossoms and fades and reacts to their presence.
North South
“Laura Lit: Far inside.”
November 5th to December 18th.
Laura Lit’s new painted animal-sized wall reliefs made of wood, resin and clay suggest feeling. Everyone is a conscious dream, a solid mind, a connection to the inside. Lit brings all of her experience as a painter and from her work in the fields of film make-up, special effects and architectural restoration. She composes the shapes through meditation or before going to bed and puzzles wooden skeletons, forms shapes, paints fine oils and pours colored resins until something lives on the wall.
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