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Steve Brudniak’s long-awaited solo show
Austin artist Stever Brudniak presents a long-awaited solo exhibit of new work, ‘Noumenon.’
Using a vast array of found objects — from household junk to industrial cast-offs — and then adding with fiber optic and other electronic effects, Brudniak creates sculpture that are half-machine, half organic being and always beguiling. Brudniak’s is a technique of exacting exquisiteness — surfaces are burnished to a polish, objects are fitted together with seamless precision.
Brudniak is represented in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts-Houston and other institutions. One Texas collector referred to him as the “Michelangelo of weird Texas.”
“I’ve admired ( Brudniak’s work) with a deep seriousness for many, many years,” said MFAH curator Alison de Lima Greene, several years ago. “It is at once familiar yet strange. There’s a ‘danger’ element to it which I find particularly intriguing. It is subversive in a very literal way, and it is also perverse in that it’s totally from beyond the realm of one’s usual expectations.”
There’s a reception for Brudniak from 6 to 9 p.m. this Friday, May 30. Regular gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through July 1. Butridge Gallery, Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Road.
Detail of “Noumenon Objectifying in Four Parts,” 2008. Courtesy Steve Brudniak.
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