Please join us Saturday April 22nd (8 – 11pm) as we celebrate Peat Duggins’ new installation, The Moment That Changed My Life Forever. This exhibition prequels Hickory Ridge, the fantasy community from his 2004 The Battle of Hickory Ridge that investigated its own doomed history and politics. For his current work, Duggins populates Hickory Ridge to explore its personal and spiritual aspects by examining the feedback loop created when tragedy leads to reactionary politics, which in turn yield further misfortune.
Peat Duggins moved to Austin after receiving his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design’s Film and Animation department in 2000. He is a practicing artist as well as a freelance illustrator and animator. In 2004-05 he worked on Linklater’s upcoming film, A Scanner Darkly. In 2002 he co-founded The Fresh Up Club, co-directing it with Dave Bryant for two years. Duggins’ work has been in several group exhibitions including the Austin Museum of Art’s 2005 22 To Watch and the Texas Biennial in 2005. That same year he received The Austin Critic’s Table Award for his solo exhibition, The Battle of Hickory Ridge. His work has been featured in several publications including Artl!ies and Glasstire. This year Duggins and several of his colleagues will launch a new gallery, Okay Mountain, where he will serve as editor for its upcoming publication, The Okay Mountain Reader. In 2007 Duggins will participate in the prestigious Bemis Artist Residency Program in Omaha, Nebraska.
The exhibition is on view from April 22 – May 31, 2006. Art Palace is located at 2109 E. Cesar Chavez St. (next door to Taqueria Chapala) between Chicon and Robert Martinez. Gallery Hours: Saturday noon to 5pm, Wednesday 7 to 9pm and by appointment. For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 512.496.0687 or info@artpalacegallery.com.