Apr 13 through May 19, 2012 Artist Reception – Friday, Apr 13 6-8pm

In 1984, Mike Beradino sat for hours at his Commodore 64 writing code to produce representational images on the digital [...]]]>

mike beradino

freq out

Apr 13 through May 19, 2012
Artist Reception – Friday, Apr 13 6-8pm

In 1984, Mike Beradino sat for hours at his Commodore 64 writing code to produce representational images on the digital screen. Combining the successes and failures of technological advancement that have occurred since then, Beradino  manipulates this history of consumer technology prompting questions about digital mediation, the functional obsolete, and our collective notion of progress. Freq Out explores the recursive cycles between the physical world, psychological space, and digital environments.

This body of work utilizes a variety of antiquated consumer technologies in a attempt to construct meaning from the digital devices that surround us and mediate our daily lives. A centralized theme of the work is an investigation of the distortion of media itself, often occurring through a process of recursion. Many of the works translate information while exploring the limitations of our ability to truly understand the vector of the message.

a view from there: Nina Rizzo, Sonya Berg, and Carrie [...]]]>

a view from there

Nina Rizzo, Sonya Berg and Carrie Cook

Jan 13 through Feb 25, 2012
Artist Reception – Friday, Jan 13 6-8pm

a view from there: Nina Rizzo, Sonya Berg, and Carrie Cook create paintings that apply aspects of the sublime to the contemporary landscape. Each artist employs romantic attitudes towards nature and a lush materiality to their painted surfaces as they negotiate between representation and abstraction. In a series of small-scale, yet grand works, Sonya Berg considers nature in its “wild” form as it approaches the fantastic. Nina Rizzo uses charged color and ambiguous space to create uneasy images of landscapes, both real and imagined. With an openness towards her materials, Carrie Cook creates collages and photographs that she then translates into paintings in her search to understand awe. In each artist’s work, painting is a vehicle to explore our psychological relationship with the land.

SPECIAL HOURS Tue – Sat 4pm – 9pm Nov 25 – Dec 23, 2011

Art Palace presents: ART MARKET, a unique holiday-art-boutique-gallery-festive-shopping experience that explores the [...]]]>

ART MARKET
GRAND OPENING – Black Friday, Nov 25, 2011
4pm-9pm

SPECIAL HOURS
Tue – Sat 4pm – 9pm
Nov 25 – Dec 23, 2011

Art Palace presents: ART MARKET, a unique holiday-art-boutique-gallery-festive-shopping experience that explores the different expressions of the word “market” in the world of art and commerce.

From Claus Oldenberg’s The Store (1961) through Damien Hirst’s manipulation of the art auctions, artists have addressed the relationship between art and commodity using various aspects of the consumer market as a medium in their work. ART MARKET pays homage to these and other distinctive moments in art history over the past 50 years with the intent of making the transactional exchanges and relationships transparent- between artist and gallerist, gallery and patron, art and commerce.

Limited editions and smaller-scale artworks from these Texas-based artists will be on view and available for purchase.

Take a break from the mayhem on Black Friday and stop by the opening reception 5-10pm on November 25, 2011. All works in the market range from $20 to $2500. Ten percent of profits will benefit TOYS FOR TOTS.

Debra Barrera
Elaine Bradford
Vernon Caldera
Chris Campbell
Tara Conley
Carrie Cook
Melanie Crader
Jack Eriksson
Lauren Moya Ford
Dennis Harper
Lane Hagood
Daniel Heimbinder
Allison Hunter
Mick Johnson
Erin Joyce
Rosine Kouamen
Cody Ledvina
Lisa Linbrugger
Emily Link
Michael Merrit
Seth Mittag
Dennis Nance
Jim Nolan
Emily Peacock
Ebony Porter
Linda Post
Anne J. Reagan
Matthew Rodriguez
Anthony Shumate
Michael Sieben
Carlos Rosales-Silva
Xochi Solis
Jason Villegas
Kristi Rae Wilson
Kyle Young
+ More

Darkside of the Rainbow, Barry Stone’s first solo show at Art Palace, takes its title from [...]]]>

Barry Stone
Darkside of the Rainbow

October 15 through November 12, 2011
Artist Reception – Saturday, October 15 6-8pm

Darkside of the Rainbow, Barry Stone’s first solo show at Art Palace, takes its title from the common practice of playing the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd’s Darkside of the Moon (1973) album synchronously. Just as the superimposition of film and album suggests new associations emerging from the juxtaposition of seemingly incongruous elements, so too do Stone’s groupings of photographs, drawings, collage and paintings.

Stone places a photograph of a rainbow that seems to project from a man’s head at the seaside alongside abstract paintings of imagined dark portals, abstractions from vintage heavy metal music magazines, and digital rainbows created from press photographs. Placed within a fluid architecture-characterized by repeating motifs, contradiction and fantasy-any image grouping may suggest multiple meanings. Stone’s work revels in and lays bare the constructions of our image fantasies; in these works fact and fantasy fold into one another to create hopeful visions and yet offer dire warnings.

Barry Stone has exhibited nationally, at venues including the School of the International Center of Photography, New York; The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore; Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York; Ok Ok Gallery, Seattle; Marcia Woods Gallery, Atlanta; Tiny Vice’s, New York, and Arthouse, Austin. His work has been covered in the New York Sun, Art lies, The Photography Post, and Artnet.

Still Life presents four artists whose work abstracts and expands the ordinary things in [...]]]>

Still Life
Travis Kent, Morgan Jones, Stacie Johnson & Ben Ruggiero
(Curated by Katie Geha)

July 8 – August 20, 2011

Still Life presents four artists whose work abstracts and expands the ordinary things in our everyday world. Working in photography and painting each artist approximates the construction of our material world. Art historian Norman Bryson states, “still life pitches itself at a level of material existence where nothing exceptional occurs.” By engaging the unexceptional, the artists in this exhibition employ mundane objects to circumvent allegory or deeper meaning. While these works remain meaningful, each artist engages with the object as an armature for exploration of the formal qualities of the picture.

Travis Kent catalogues the things, personal and otherwise, he encounters on any given day-snapshots of his desk filled will detritus, a bronze bust surrounded by greenery, a gray seascape. Morgan Jones takes photographs of time-worn items and places them amidst a digital field of vivid color. Dramatizing the tension between illusion and flatness in her abstract wall paintings, Stacie Johnson creates a shape out of paper and allows the painted shadows and trompe l’oeil effects to interact with the site-specific object. Ben Ruggiero examines elements in Frederic Church’s sketches of Icebergs from 1859 while using one large piece of glass to create gestural images that employ traditional 19th century photographic processes. Taken together, the artists in Still Life use things in the world to both reaffirm and transcend our day-to-day life.

About the Artists

Travis Kent was born and raised in Long Island, New York. A graduate from the School of Visual Arts in New York, Kent currently lives and works in Austin, TX. His work has been exhibited in several group shows and was featured in the Warsaw based publication A4. He has held solo exhibitions at SOFA and Domy books, both in Austin, TX.

Morgan Jones was born in Ohio. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has exhibited his work in shows throughout the United States and Europe at such venues as SOFA, Austin, TX; Public Surface, Stockholm Sweden; Jupiter the Mighty Oak; Bushwick, Brooklyn; and the Web Biennial of the Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey. Jones recently moved to Austin, TX.

Stacie Johnson was born and raised in Iowa. She received her MFA in 2004 from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In the last year she has exhibited with Brooklyn’s COHORT collective, at Place Gallery, Brooklyn Fireproof and as part of Horse Trader’s project at the Aqua Art Fair in Miami. In 2010, Johnson had two solo shows, one at Ebersmoore in Chicago and one at SOFA in Austin, TX. Johnson is a founding member of the artist-run curatorial collective Regina Rex. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Ben Ruggiero has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including Art and Commerce’s Festival of Emerging Photography, Fotofest and Austin Museum of Art’s New Art in Austin Triennial. His recent solo project “After Icebergs with a Painter” was shown at Testsite in Austin, TX. He is a graduate of Bard’s MFA program, a Senior Lecturer of Photography at Texas State University as well as a member of the Austin photography collective “Lakes Were Rivers”.

About the Curator

Katie Geha is a writer, curator, and art historian living in Austin, TX. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently writing her dissertation on 1970s art and the ordinary. She runs the apartment gallery, SOFA.

Nathan Green’s work explores the visual language and structural qualities of abstract painting. By combining the tropes of modern abstraction with contemporary craft techniques and [...]]]>

Nathan Green
Fill the Sky

May 20 – July 2, 2011

Nathan Green’s work explores the visual language and structural qualities of abstract painting. By combining the tropes of modern abstraction with contemporary craft techniques and common construction methods, Green creates idiosyncratic works that evade categorization and blur the boundaries of their medium. Inherent in all of Green’s work is a palpable sense of playfulness, experimentation, and a curiosity that becomes the guiding force on a search for the ecstatic.

About the Artist:
As a founding member of the Okay Mountain Collective, Nathan Green has recently presented new works at Freight & Volume, New York; Prospect 1.5 New Orleans, University of Houston’s Blaffer Gallery and the McNay Museum in San Antonio, Texas and Pulse Miami (Pulse Prize Winner). Most recently Green’s solo work has been featured in the New Art in Austin: 15 to Watch exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art, and The Texas Biennial.

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Reception: April 16, 2011, 6-8pm

Linda Post explores how perception and individual position can be examined in experiential video installations, sound works, media sculpture and photography. Wherever presents [...]]]>

Linda Post
Wherever

April 8 – May 14, 2011

Reception: April 16, 2011, 6-8pm

Linda Post explores how perception and individual position can be examined in experiential video installations, sound works, media sculpture and photography. Wherever presents a group of discreet works that extend her exploration of the site-specific to the idea of the ideal exhibition space as a neutral non-site. The white cube is addressed as nowhere, or, wherever. Within the individual works, a choreography of the everyday emerges as simple everyday actions are performed and systematized.

About the Artist:
Linda Post has exhibited her work at PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum. Most recently, Post’s video Moon (Watch) was exhibited in CPQ: CQ100 at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Post has been covered in New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, and Time Out London.

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In his debut show at Art Palace, Today is Tomorrow, Jim Nolan combines the aesthetics of working class labor and [...]]]>

Jim Nolan
Today is Tomorrow
RECEPTION: FEB 25 6-8PM

February 25 – April 2, 2011

In his debut show at Art Palace, Today is Tomorrow, Jim Nolan combines the aesthetics of working class labor and underground music culture with the language of Minimalism to create off-hand and irreverent installations, sculptures and photographs. The stereo speaker stands in for the Minimalist cube in Nolan’s new work “There Was No Encore”, a wall-scaled assembly of outmoded speakers. Nolan mars High Minimalism’s precision through purposefully DIY gestures that ask the viewer to consider discarded cultural artifacts and everyday materials for their formal qualities as well as their cultural content.

About the Artist:
Jim Nolan’s work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, Tastes Like Chicken Art Space, Brooklyn and DEEPSPACENEWYORK. Most recently, Nolan collaborated with Mick Johnson on (v)=Variable Project. His work has been covered in Time Out New York, New Art Examiner, and Artnet.

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construct

- vb : 1. to put together substances or parts, esp systematically, in order to make or build (a building, bridge, etc); assemble 2. to [...]]]>

Jillian Conrad
Construct

January 15 – February 19, 2011

construct

- vb : 1. to put together substances or parts, esp systematically, in order to make or build (a building, bridge, etc); assemble 2. to compose or frame mentally (an argument, sentence, etc) 3. geometry to draw (a line, angle, or figure) so that certain requirements are satisfied;

- n : 4. something formulated or built systematically 5. a complex idea resulting from a synthesis of simpler ideas 6. psychology a model devised on the basis of observation, designed to relate what is observed to some theoretical framework.

Mixing the elements of traditional sculpture–its mass, volume, and solidity–with the possibilities of drawing, Jillian Conrad’s work has one foot in the world of objects and the other in the world of the imagination. Through an interplay of material surfaces, Conrad creates sculptures that tend towards the flatness of an image and drawings that slide into dimensionality. The new works in Construct plainly show the step-by-step decisions that went into their assembly, as if they came from a long lost book of architectural plans. Materials from the world of building are composed with a sense of play and rigor, resolving into constructions that toggle between image and object, illusion and reality, humor and beauty.

About the Artist:
Jillian Conrad recently completed the Core Artist-in-Residence program at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Sculpture Department at the University of Houston. Her work has been exhibited at Nurture Art, Brooklyn, the Bronx Museum, and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Later this spring, Conrad will present new work at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island, NY and a solo show at the Hunt Gallery in St. Louis, MO.