Art Palace is pleased to announce the opening of its summer group exhibition, The Longest Day of the Year, featuring new work by Jonathan Marshall, as well as three additions to the Art Palace roster, Erin Curtis, Jules Buck Jones, and Erick Michaud.

Erin Curtis received her BA from William College in 1999. In May 2007, she received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Curtis’ large-scale paintings and collages explore our relationship to modern architecture and interior spaces. Her work was exhibited at Unit B in San Antonio, at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, as well as the 2007 Texas Biennial. In 2007, Curtis was the exhibition designer for Table Top Sculpture at Art Palace. Curtis is a Fulbright scholar and will be traveling to India in 2009. Her upcoming exhibitions include a solo show at Women and Their Work Gallery in October of 2009.

Jules Buck Jones hails from Richmond, VA where he received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. He completed his MFA at the University of Texas at Austin this May. His large-scale drawings and paintings of animals examine the relationship between predator and prey. Jones’ work can currently be seen in The Drawing Room, a group exhibition featuring twelve emerging Texas artists at the Galveston Arts Center and is also on tour with Austin Museum of Art’s 20 to Watch: New Art in Austin.

Jonathan Marshall, a native Austinite, received his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. Since then, Marshall’s works have been exhibited in a number of group exhibitions as well as solo shows including The Book of Lenny at Art Palace in 2007, as well as Johan Pilgrim and the Cave of Wonders at Man&Eve Gallery in London this Spring. Marshall works across a number of different media including drawing, video, animation, photo-collage, installation and sculpture developing a rich narrative that runs throughout his current body of work. Marshall’s work can be found in the permanent collections of both the Blanton Museum of Art and Austin Museum of Art and was recently awarded “Best Solo Show 2007″ by the Austin Critic’s table for The Book of Lenny.

Erick Michaud is a multidisciplinary artist who combines elements of performance, video, painting, and installation. He received an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and his BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Michaud attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture during the summer of 2006. Later this year, he will curate a group video exhibition at Okay Mountain in Austin.

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 7-9pm and by appointment. For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 512.496.0687 or info@artpalacegallery.com.

Please join us Friday, April 18th (8-10pm) as Art Palace presents Swan School; The Matriculation, Ali Fitzgerald’s second solo exhibition at Art Palace. Fitzgerald’s current body of work explores victimization and violence within a forged adolescent caste-system. Through drawing based sculptures, dioramas and site-specific installations, Fitzgerald surveys a dystopian boarding school complex, within whose misleading facades, we see residue of girlhood gone awry.

In Swan School, Fitzgerald turns to the emotionally charged ostentation of the Gothic, referencing movies like Robert Wise’s The Haunting, in which the undulating spaces themselves reflect a character’s psychological state. Her architecturally impossible facades allude to both privileged east coast boarding schools and to the supposedly solemn naves of old cathedrals. These structures house and protect fantastic scenarios involving Fitzgerald’s imprisoned character Sad Little White Girl and her tormentors.

Swan School; The Matriculation is on view from April 18th through June 7th, 2008. 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 7-9pm or by appointment. For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 512.496.0687 or info@artpalacegallery.com.

About the Artist Ali Fitzgerald’s work is currently on view at the Austin Museum of Art for 20 to Watch and Road Agent’s Palace does Dallas. Her work has been exhibited at Diverseworks for New Texas Painting (2005) and Luck of the Draw (2007), Arthouse at the Jones Center for Siren’s Song (2007), curated by Kelly Baum, and Who Killed Chuck Tracy? at The Bungalow Project in San Antonio (2006). Her dioramas have recently been featured in Art In America and Beautiful/Decay. Receiving her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, Ali received her BA from Davidson College and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2004). She was awarded a Takt Residency position in Berlin, Germany in 2007.





Photo Credit: Carling Hale

Please join us Saturday, March 1st (8-10pm) as we celebrate Eric Zimmerman’s, Atlas. This most recent body of work investigates the methods we use to structure space, from the unknown, ideal, and unattainable, to the concrete and apparently real. His graphite drawings, deal with the ideas of here and there and what occurs in the intermediary space. His work moves between the two and three-dimensional, then and now: real and imagined.
Zimmerman’s work represents spaces that embody our efforts to structure and image a larger environment, and our attempt at fixing a constantly fluctuating series of states. His imagery derives from topographical maps, visionary architecture, astronomical illustration, observation, along with text, and natural phenomena such as icebergs, glaciers, and forests.

“Atlas” is on view from Mar 1st through April 9th, 2008. 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 7-9pm or by appointment. For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 512.496.0687 or info@artpalacegallery.com.

About the Artist
Eric Zimmerman lives and works in Austin as a practicing artist and Adjunct Professor at St. Edwards University. Zimmerman received his M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. Eric’s work is currently on view at the Austin Museum of Art’s “New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch”. Zimmerman recently received The Kimbrough Fund Award from The Dallas Museum of Art, as well as a full fellowship to Vermont Studio Center. His work was recently featured in Project Space of Artlies 55 (Fall 2007), Apexart in New York City, Gallery Enrique Gutierrez in Mexico City, and Aqua Art Fair in Miami, Southern Graphics Council, Madison WI. Eric’s work is represented in several public collections including Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Southern Graphics Print Council Archives, University of Arizona Museum of Art, and The Kohler Art Library in Madison, WI.

Installation Photo Credit: Carling Hale

“The Secret of Life and Death, 2007″ is a three channel video based upon a text by artist Allen Ruppersberg. Originally published in a catalog in 1985, it commemorates Ruppersberg’s retrospective at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The text lists general and specific comments and questions for artists. Finding the catalog in 1988 at the library of the University of North Texas, Tucker then scrawled the lists into his college sketchbook. Almost twenty years later, Tucker rediscovered the lists and adapted them to music, singing the lyrics across three video monitors in a disjointed but humorous, four song concert.

“Try All, 2007,” is a 16 page, hand printed book of picture-puzzles inspired by courtroom jargon. Tucker intermittently prints an open-ended, continuous edition since its conception in 2005. At Art Palace, a makeshift print shop set up in the gallery is employed to continue the book’s production, while loose pages and materials simultaneously reveal the book’s construction and deconstruction.

Brad Tucker lives and works in Austin, TX, he received a BFA from University of North Texas and will receive a MFA in 2008 from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Tucker was a Core Fellow at the Glassell School of Art in Houston and his work has been featured in multiple solo and group exhibitions internationally including; PS 1 in NYC, Ibid Gallery in London, Homeroom in Munich, Ray Gun in Valencia, ARTissima 10 in Turin, The Suburban in Chicago, The Sculpture Center in Long Island City, Austin Museum of Art, Arthouse at the Jones Center, and he is represented by Inman Gallery in Houston, TX. Reviews of his work have appeared in the New York Times, Time Out New York, New York Magazine, Art in America, and Art Forum. Tucker’s artwork can be found in the collection of New York’s New Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Dallas Museum of Art, as well as the Altoids Collection.

Artist Reception: Please join us Friday, January 18th (8-11pm) as we celebrate Brad Tucker’s, Opportunity Knocks. The exhibition is on view from Jan 18 through Feb 16, 2008. 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 7-9pm and by appointment. For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 512.496.0687 or info@artpalacegallery.com.

Jonathan Marshall has exhibited most recently at Sixspace in Los Angeles and Lawndale Art Center in Houston. His work was selected by Dan Cameron for the 20th New American Talent exhibition at Arthouse, was awarded “Best-in-Show” in the 2005 Texas Biennial and Marshall was named one of the “Top 10 Artists” in Austin by the Austin Chronicle (2006). He recently returned from a residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska.

Artist Reception: Please join us Saturday, October 20th (8-11pm) as we celebrate Jonathan Marshall’s, The Book of Lenny. The exhibition is on view from Oct 20 through Nov 24, 2007. 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 7-9pm and by appointment. For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 512.496.0687 or info@artpalacegallery.com.

ERIC GIBBONS & NATHAN GREEN

SEP 1 – OCT 6, 2007

War, the diamond trade, killer bees, traffic jams, global warming, killer asteroids, pandemics, cancer, violent crime, religious fanaticism, poverty, tsunamis, governmental corruption, genital herpes, bird flu, identity theft, torture. Nathan Green’s work strives for an absurdity equal to that which is reflected in the above list, but in the opposite direction. His is a search for the ecstatic where vivid visions of unrealistic and impossible situations present a world overflowing with delight and glee, almost to a burden. Where Green’s paintings use a lexicon that includes children’s drawings, nature, drug culture and utopian architecture, Eric Gibbon’s has chosen to focus on one figure whose oeuvre is defined by earnestness and seeming effortless ponderings on love, betrayal, desire, aging and God: Paul Simon. Gibbon’s portraits of Simon function as a means to process the poetry and beauty of the songwriter’s music. Green’s and Gibbon’s worlds sometimes converge thematically, and at other times stylistically, but both worlds always profess a steady devotion to the idea of miracle and wonder. The title of this two-person exhibition, “Lasers in the Jungle”, at Art Palace is taken from Simon’s lyrics to the song Boy in a Bubble.

NATHAN GREEN

ERIC GIBBONS

Richie Budd, Hunter Cross,

Bill Davenport, Katalin Hausel,

Mark Schatz and Jared Steffensen

July 14 – Aug 22, 2007

Exhibition Design: Erin Curtis

Curator: Amanda Douberley

“Tabletop Sculpture” brings together small works by six artists working in larger-than-life-size sculpture and installation. Some of these “tabletop sculptures” are models for unrealized projects, while others are models made after the fact; still other works have no relationship with a big idea whatsoever. Here the active potential of the model as projection is tempered by the miniature’s provocation of a state of idle contemplation. To reinforce this ambiguity, the main gallery space at Art Palace will be transformed into a mid-century modern living room, a strategy that also echoes the gallery’s place inside of a house.

Artists included in “Tabletop Sculpture” are Richie Budd (San Antonio), Hunter Cross (Austin), Bill Davenport (Houston), Katalin Hausel (Austin), Mark Schatz (Houston), and Jared Steffensen (Rhode Island). Austin-based artist Erin Curtis will design the installation. “Tabletop Sculpture” is curated by Amanda Douberley.

July 14 – Aug 22, 2007

In the newly built SIDE GALLERY, Aldo Valdés Böhm will exhibit his one of a kind furniture pieces. Influenced by modernist sculptors and architects these hand built works are stunningly sexy. Aldo Valdés Böhm received a BA in Sculpture & Ceramics from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX, he lives and works in Austin as a fine wood worker.

Writesy Drawsy

June 9 - July 7, 2007

In his first gallery solo show, Sterling Allen has constructed a series of work using the rules of games like telephone and exquisite corpse as parameters. The results of these experiments are objects and drawings that questions the ways in which we see, perceive and look at images.

Sterling Allen recently returned from residencies in Nebraska and Vermont. His work was featured in 22 to Watch: New Art in Austin (Austin Museum of Art, 2005) and FotoFest’s Native Sons: Talent in Texas (FotoFest, 2006). He is a founding member of Okay Mountain and was Lead Animator on Richard Linklater’s film A Scanner Darkly (2006). Writesy Drawsy is his first gallery solo show.

ART PALACE

MAY 5 - JUNE 2, 2007

Agent on the Road is the first part of Art Palace’s two part collaboration with Dallas gallery Road Agent. Three of Road Agent’s artists—Lizzy Wetzel (Denton), Bradly Brown (New York) and Edward Setina (Dallas)—are featured in this exhibition. Art Palace artists selected by Road Agent Director, Christina Rees, will show at Road Agent later this year.

Join us at the artists’ reception for Agent on the Road, Saturday, May 5th, from 8-11pm, at Art Palace. Art Palace is located at 2109 E. Cesar Chavez Street (next door to Taqueria Chapala), between Chicon and Robert Martinez. Gallery Hours: Saturday 12-5pm, Wednesday 7-9pm, and by appointment. For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 512.496.0687 or info@artpalacegallery.com.

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