OUTER LIMITS by Eric Gibbons ART PALACE presents Outer Limits, new paintings by Austin-based artist Eric Gibbons. Drawing upon icons of good and evil, Gibbons weaves the characters of Star Wars: Princess Leia, Darth Vadar and company, into psychologically-charged portraits and narratives. These paintings challenge this dichotomy to complicate archetypes and to explore the emotional undercurrents driving [...]
Review Featured in ’bout what I sees So today, I said it. I hate paintings. It’s mostly true. I find it difficult to work with oil because of the lack of control of the coloring. Just a little too much of another color and I end up with a big ole pile of the wrong color. And [...]
Review featured in “Might Be Good, Issue 65″ Fantasy life requires a lot of tweaking to assume a communicable form. In Nina Rizzo and Stephanie Wagner’s On the Horizon, currently on view at Art Palace, successful translations of this kind lead viewers to almost believe in the existence of the show’s imaginary landscapes. Last summer, in Fever at [...]