January 2008 SeeSaws – Wk 1

First Night Austin – 2008
I got closer to seeing it this year. I told the kids we were going, they said they wanted to go. Between going to the office, taking naps and buying fireworks, we never made it. Maybe next year : /
Stamps of Approval – George Washington Carver Museum & [...]

November 2007 SeeSawS – Wks 3 & 4

Gail Busch/Dale Neese/Louis Katz – SEU Fine Art Gallery
Didn’t see it.
An Introduction to Mountain Making – Okay Mountain
Another year another show. The artists’ works are easy to identify. This year there’s new work with Ms. Sinks. NOT BAD
The Golem – Slugfest
It was a good set of prints. The drawings were frenetic. [...]

October 2007 SeeSawS – Wks 3 & 4

Sarah Greene Reed & Shawn Smith – dBerman
What a throw-back to the mid90s! The digital collages were like scans I made to play around with using Photoshop 3.0 back in high school. The sculptures weren’t as mind-blowing as the hype would have me believe. They were competent, but its understanding of pixelation, [...]

October 2007 SeeSawS – Wks 1 & 2

Art Matters Austin – Art Alliance Austin
Unconventional works from members of Open Doors Collective, traditional painting and photography, then some video and prints. It was a good roundup, but the space is essentially a hallway. Should I really give it the consideration I give galleries? NOT BAD
Patterns of Peru and Texas – [...]

September 2007 SeeSawS – Wks 1 & 2

Lasers In The Jungle – Art Palace
Wrote a capsule for Glasstire. Because of private matters, I was allowed to turn it in late, so it wasn’t up very long. This is what it said:
Somebody made sure Eric Gibbons and Nathan Green were ready for the start of the new school year. Their bundle [...]

August 2007 SeeSawS – Wks 1 & 2

Radical Nautical – Gallery Lombardi
Wowzers. There was a lot of people. It was a fun show and was glad to see the variety of work. The only thing I could possibly complain ’bout is that it was illustrator/designer heavy. But then again, where else will I see that work? GOOD
Suddenly [...]

July 2007 SeeSawS – Wk 1

Awakening the Soul – La Pena
Paintings were looking interesting. Very dramatic image-making. Would’ve rather seen them in the gallery instead of the restaurant. BAD
Made at Flatbed – Flatbed Press
I don’t think I made this
Marfa/Puerto Viejo – Workspace
This did not put me in the right place. BAD
Taking Life Seriously – Bolm Studios
There [...]

June 2007 SeeSawS – Wk 1

From Revolution to Renaissance – Mexic-Arte Museum
Besides the fact that this show took up three quarters of the year (WTF), it wasn’t terrible. As a survey show it hit on some necessary points and had some pretty images to look at. But I’m still hung up on the fact that this museum is [...]

Apr 2007 SeeSaws – Wks 3 & 4

No Restraint – Bolm Studios
The paintings shared the same general strategies. Cool colors threatened by white paint erasing the image and a tilted composition. For the most part, this composition feels like it was solved by rotating a photograph to the desired dynamic angle. With the human figure in the [...]

Poking Lenny with Turkey

I had me a great Wednesday before Thanksgiving. School is becoming lax wit’ the holidays and gave the kids the day off. I called it “Museum-Field Trip-Day” and took off of work myself. At 9 AM we jumped on the bus and headed downtown and into UT campus. We started off [...]