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The Phenomena of Place - Artist Panel Join us for a conversation with artist Karen Mahaffy, Megan Crigger, Austin's We will discuss the art exhibit, the persistence of moment and the phenomena of place. We will talk about private space and public space, literary spaces and visual spaces. The phenomena of place refers to how these artists feel about Texas; the organic vs. manufactured creation/production of place; preservation, loss and/or appropriation of place; public/private place; place experienced through a sense of harmony, parallax or discord. 
Karen Mahaffy In addition to presenting ephemeral time-based video works, several sculptures in the exhibit were inspired by Mahaffy’s recent Research Fulbright to Estonia and her snowy residency there. In Drift/Felt, Mahaffy presents wool in two states. In Drift, two “blocks” of carded wool reference both snowy landscape and the act of aimless wandering; in Felt, two felted insoles were created over two months by walking through the streets of Tallinn, Estonia. The work suggests the change in material via each step taken as well as the emotion and act of walking through the city.
Panel: A Brief History of Queer Space Community Discussion: Wednesday, June 30th at 7pm 
Leah DeVun Please note the rescheduled panel time. Community Discussion: Wednesday, June 30th at 7pm 
The Mona Lisa Project
Please join us for a panel and public discussion on the Mona Lisa Project at Women and Their Work. Photographer Rino Pizzi and artists Connie Arismendi, Ellen Berman, Valerie Chaussonnet, Faith Gay, Judy Jensen, Germaine Keller, Emily Little, Beili Liu, Beverly Penn, Margo Sawyer, Nancy Scanlan, Julie Speed, Jana Swec, Liz Ward, Sally Weber, and Sydney Yeager will be discussing this creative collaboration. 
Cloud Eye Control Show starts at 7pm nightly. This performance is in conjunction with the Fusebox Festival. Please note this event takes place at Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road, not at the gallery. Tickets are $20 and available at the door or online. Cloud Eye Control's latest work, Under Polaris, tells the story of an epic journey into an Arctic wonderland. A woman embarks upon an incredible mission to preserve the finer elements of humanity in Arctic ice. Along the way, she disguises herself as animals to help her survive the elements-and in the process, learns about the delicate interdependence between humans and nature. 
Body of Art - Spring Gala
Experience an evening of art and spectacle in the stunning new home of art collectors extraordinaire, Deborah Green and Clayton Aynesworth. This gala benefit offers an exclusive look at the house Green built to showcase her extensive - and adventurous - collection of contemporary art. You will see works by internationally renowned artists such as Jenny Holtzer, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell, Jim Hodges, Spencer Finch, Andy Warhol, Jennifer Steinkamp and dozens more. Bid in the silent art auction on a must have work from some of the best loved artists in Texas: Natasha Bowdoin, Candace Briceño, Erin Curtis, Anthony Garza, Roi James, Randy Muniz, Denise Prince, and Liz Ward. Be intrigued by 13 strikingly dressed performers creating roving displays of human sculpture and tableaux in unexpected places. A Body of Art will surround you. 
Marina Zurkow Using vivid animation, Marina Zurkow creates a colorful cast of characters who inhabit a drowned world. In the carnivalesque Slurb ( a word that collapses "slum" and "suburb") Zurkow designs a haunting ode to the rise of slime, a watery future in which jellyfish have dominion. Conflating time, this work refers not only to a future apocalypse but to the present world where extreme weather events occur regularly, ocean temperatures are rising, and the seas are increasingly acidic and hostile to most sea life. Few but the indomitable jellyfish are currently flourishing. And as New Orleans reminds us, the deluge is already upon us. 
Kathryn Kelley Houston based artist Kathryn Kelley up-cycles and reanimates objects of urban refuse into large fleshy sculptures that often stand in the place of the self. The impressive scale of these pieces creates a theatrical position for viewers who are confronted with gregarious forms, or intimations of the shadowed self. Remnant inner tubes, doors, frames & windows morph & mingle in these ambitious works. 
Art Night Austin Art Alliance Austin presents the 7th Annual Art Night Austin, an exclusive night out at Austin's premier galleries and museums, taking place on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010. The highly anticipated evening will showcase art in Austin and offer attendees a coveted first look at work by artists exhibiting during Art Week Austin 2010. The general price of admission is $75. Ticket holders will receive VIP treatment as they are chauffeured around Austin to numerous art spaces, each of which will feature cuisine from a local, notable chef and wine pairings. The price of admission also includes a 10 percent discount on art purchased that night from participating venues. 
Booksigning for Go Down, Old Hannah Author Naomi Mitchell Carrier will be present to autograph her book on Saturday, February 27th from 2 to 4pm. This groundbreaking publication zooms in on Texas black history with a wide-angle lens and a telephoto one on African Americans. Carrier's 15 living history plays examine Texas slavery through different viewpoints and have been performed for historic sites and museums throughout the state since 1994.
Patina Fine Art Jewelry FEED YOUR SENSES ALL your senses at a Feast of Soul Stirring Works from Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, benefiting Women & Their Work. You're invited. Allison Buchsbaum Barnett and Ivan Barnett, owners of Patina, Santa Fe's finest art jewelry gallery, are bringing to Austin their favorite pieces of exceptional work created by artists from around the world. Each piece is hand-made, some with precious metals set with gemstones and others in materials such as steel, glass and paper. 
Kia Neill Viewers will walk through a hand built and textured environment that leads through fantastic moments of surprise and geological discovery. 
My Wicked Twisted Sense of Love
Featured Artists: 
Architecture and Desire Panel
Join us for a lively discussion about how we create what we desire. Inspired by the iconic modernist Kaufmann House, artist Erin Curtis pays homage to-- and questions-- the idea of perfection in her exhibition, Perspective Threshold. 
Erin Curtis Austin-based artist and Fulbright scholar Erin Curtis presents a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sculptures depicting overlapping visions of architectural history, interior decoration, and obsessive patterning. 
Verse and Vision
Poetry Reading and Book Signing for Birds: A Collection of Verse and Vision. Painter Isabelle Scurry Chapman joins poet Jim Blackburn for a reading and discussion of their new book Birds: A Collection of Verse and Vision at Women & Their Work. The reading is free and signed books will be available for sale. 
Austin Museum Day
With over 200 artworks on view, Red Hot Red Dot provides an excellent overview of the range of contemporary art. Featuring some of the best artists from Texas and beyond, Red Hot Red Dot has something for everyone to enjoy. 
Red Hot Red Dot
Join us for hot deals on art at Women & Their Work. This exhibit features over 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photos and mixed media works by some of Texas' finest artists. This is a great chance to see extraordinary artworks like the sampling here. This exhibit is only one week, so come on over. 
Warm Fuzzy Screening
Join us for a free screening of "Warm Fuzzy", a local short film produced by Starveling Productions. 
Movie Screening at AMOA
Screening of the Louise Bourgeois Film: “The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine” at the Austin Museum of Art - 6 to 8 pm Artist Louise Bourgeois has long used memory as a springboard to examine issues in her work. In the intimate documentary, Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine (2008), the iconic female artist reflects on her life and its links to her art. Austin sculptor Margo Sawyer will introduce the film. This film screening is presented in a partnership of the Austin Museum of Art. 
Book Signing
HER STORY: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America by Co-authors Charlotte S. Waisman and Jill S. Tietjen Women & Their Work and The League of Women Voters of Texas 
Lizzy Wetzel Come enter the spiral of Black-black water! 
Gala Ganesh
Fundraiser for Women & Their Work Education Outreach at Big Red Sun. 
Megan Geckler Megan Geckler creates large-scale, site-specific installations assembled by stretching thousands of strands of colored flagging tape into the artist's signature form of optical architecture. In Geckler's hands, flagging tape - an industrial material normally utilized by surveyors to demarcate space on construction sites - transforms into dazzling, kinetic structures that mimic the cool, slick look of advertisements, haute fashion backdrops, and high-design products. Her sculptural, translucent plastic designs simulate and reference our idea of the mass-produced space age while camouflaging the intricately handmade quality of the work. Completely site specific and never duplicated, Geckler's "drawings in space" flirt with both Op Art and Minimalism while retaining a sense of play and delight. 
Texas Biennial 2009 Group Show
Working in nearly every imaginable media, from beads to pixels, in noisy installations and finely rendered paintings, these 31 Texans negotiate the tough task of making art in a culture only marginally supportive of their efforts. 
Leslie Fraser 
delta dandi
Performance event written and conducted by Sharon Bridgeforth. 
Show & Tell: A Digital Slide Jam
Lisette Chavez, Angela Fox, Christa Mares, and Rick Mansfield present a rapid fire slide show and talk about their respective portfolios. 
Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods
Book signing event with authors Meredith L. Dreiss and Sharon Edgar Greenhill. 
Sasha Dela Sasha Dela explores the romanticization of water as resource, commodity, and necessity. 
The Activist Impulse Marking the 30th year of Women & Their Work, the Activist Impulse follows from the original intent of the gallery's founders and the concept of the "Activist Artist" as described by Lucy Lippard. Vital to the 6 artists in this show are practices that incorporate analytical critiques, public interaction, and engagement with various power structures both political and artistic. The exhibition was curated by Regine Basha, Adjunct Curator for Arthouse at the Jones Center and co-founder of Fluent~Collaborative. 
Red Hot Red Dot: Art Spree & Silent Auction
Women & Their Work's annual education fundraiser features over 200 artists and auction items from hundreds of local businesses. Party refreshments provided by Tito's Vodka and Word of Mouth Catering. Entertainment by Rebecca Havemeyer, Texas Roller Girls, ice sculpture by Adrien Johnson, and DJ Katastrophik. 
SUMMER 4 EVER Party
End of Summer social featuring a special performance by Tummy Toast and video art by Austin Video Bee. 
Katie Pell Drawing on the playful sense of juxtaposition displayed in the tricked-out appliances at her recent ArtPace residency, Katie Pell presents new sculptures in Tiny Acts of Immeasurable Benefit. 
Reality Show Five artists deconstruct the modes, memes, and methods of Reality Television. Organized by Jill Pangallo. 
Allison Hunter Allison Hunter creates visual metaphors for the absraction of relationships between wilderness and domesticity, form and sense, and time and space. 
Yoon Cho Yoon Cho's manipulated digital photography and video dissects visualized identity. 
Show & Tell: A Digital Slide Jam
Artists Robert Boland, Josh Rios, Corkey Sinks, and Jade Walker present a rapid fire slide show and talk about their respective portfolios. 
Katy Heinlein Katy Heinlein evokes anatomy and architecture with simple but elegant fabric sculptures. 
Donna Huanca Memory, history, performance and image combine as diorama, installation, collage, and meditation. 
Featured Artists: Amanda Barr, Rosemarie Fiore, Germaine Keller, Laura Paulini, Lisa Solomon, Jana Swec, and Shea Little Curated by Lisa Choinacky and Katherine McQueen and featuring Amanda Barr, Rosemarie Fiore, Germaine Keller, Laura Paulini, Lisa Solomon, Jana Swec, and Shea Little. Artists use repeated images and actions to elucidate intricate patterns. 
Cauleen Smith Multimedia work by Cauleen Smith. 
Katherine Bash Katherine Bash interprets the relationships between image and text, science and art. 
Whitney Lee Whitney Lee brings out the power of crafting. 
Denise Prince Martin Denise Prince Martin's recent photographic work makes narratives of environments. 
Aki Nagasaka Aki Nagasaka invents a simple but wondrous world of yellow. 
Elaine Bradford Elaine Bradford's crochet-and-taxidermy sculptures dissolve the borders between the natural and the synthetic. 
Theresa Marchetta Theresa Marchetta's paintings blow up color. 
Heather Johnson Heather Johnson's multimedia work gathers delicate pieces of memory before they are lost. |