Red Hot Red Dot – Women and Their Work
It was like Austin’s own art annual. A veritable list of who’s who in Austin art. Filled to the brim with art and non-discriminant between male and female. Although crammed, the work was well hung. Everything in there looked… GOOD
Just Been Fired – Gallery Lombardi
There was alot of ceramic dinnerware and stereotypical Mexican pottery. Utilitarian or folksy. Except for a couple of artists using ceramics in a more sculptural sense. Overall, the show was too cafty for me. BAD
Blood and Guts in High School – Donkey Show
Why do artsy films have to be so slooooowwwwww and have such minimal sets? The pacing was a little slow, but it did make me laugh at a lot of it. Although the sets felt very controlled, they also came off as sparse. It made me focus on the characters, but the background was distractingly comical and automatically made me think of art film stereotypes. NOT BAD
U-Genics – Volitant
The works appeared to be sectioned off into separate topics stemming from plastic (fake) beauty. The large paintings had a very polished finish. They seemed to be categorized under the “magazine/photographic” heading. The digitally manipulated photos of the artist’s face with tape was under “plastic surgery”. The paintings on the disks were “pornographic”. The videos in the small room suggested “Reality TV”. Then there were the “older works” in the side gallery. At least they looked older compared to the other pieces. With such a variety of topics, the show felt like a retrospective. It was wider than it was deep. That’s not to say there wasn’t content, because there was. Maybe too many bullet points were given when less with more elaboration would have been a stronger argument. I enjoyed it, but there was that feeling that it was scatter-brained. GOOD
I’ll tell you ’bout what I sees.
