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Weekend Surprises 7: Identity Complex
What surprised me about … Identity Complex, the art and architecture exhibit on West North Loop, was the fierceness of both major aspects of the events. Metrohouse’s residences, joined by a tree-topped courtyard, look like they emerged from some hyper-inventive designer’s dreams, with open, angled spaces executed in contemporary materials and obsessively pristine details. The art, assembled in the live-work lofts by Marcy Hoen of Austin Art Start, was similarly forward-thinking in electronic and sculptural medias, as well as a few more modest paintings. The art-mad crowd walked around mouths agape. A fair point was made by several partiers: “What Austin artist could afford to purchase such lofts?” Well, it might attract creative types from more costly real estate markets, looking for a lot of good light and the inspiration of edgy digs. The city is a pretty strong magnet as well.
Renee Gravois of the LBJ School and Nicole Blair, who you may remember from our McMansion Ordinance series, both lit up by Sean Gaulager’s projection and video gambit
Jody Kaylor, Skip Swanson
Nathan Michael, Nichole Rogerson
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