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Weekend: Steve Brudniak Reception at Butridge Gallery
Followers of innovative sculpture resemble certain subsets of indie rockers. It’s a scruffy, but intellectual breed — well-muscled and sun-burned, many of them, from shaping mountains of stuff outdoors or in sweaty workshops. They appear to belong on punkish Red River Street as much as shady, laid-back Barton Springs Road.
Rose Saenz, Steve Brudniak, Belinda Casey, Jimmy Jalapeeno
So an opening for long-absent Steve Brudniak, who twists industrial and mechanical materials into whimsical, provocative forms, is bound to attract the cut-offs crowd as well as heavy hitters from the Old Guard of Austin arts, such as Jimmy Jalapeeno and Bob “Daddy-O” Wade.
Allison Kramer, Nellie Moore, Danielle Tierney, Ed Salanga
Friday’s reception, the first of eight social events we attended that evening, took place at the Julia Butridge Gallery in the Dougherty Arts Center, a community gathering as it were, since his highly refined, vaguely elephantine pieces can go for many thousands of dollars, thus out of reach for the red-wine-in-paper-cups tribe. The good thing is that the rented gallery is supremely accessible, so while the exhibit runs, drop by to see these wonders without the attendant crowd. And maybe there are some serious collectors among Brudniak’s staunchly loyal following.
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