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Art talking, this week
Chatter, chatter, chatter: Three recommended art talks this week.
WEDNESDAY
8 p.m., Art Palace Gallery, 2109 E. Cesar Chavez
www.artpalacegallery.com
Austin artist Nathan Green beguiles with his newest series of paintings. Their faux naivety actually speaks more of impossible scenes and situations rather than idealized tableaux. Green’s vivid, fantastical spectacles seem joyous at first, but are filled with a stream of underlying anxiety.
THURSDAY
7 p.m., Arthouse, 700 Congress Ave.
www.arthousetexas.org
In the domestic space of testsite, a private home exhibit space, artist Sarah Pepe will create an all-encompassing abstract installation made of crocheted yarn attached that stretches between the walls and ceiling. As a means of questioning the tradition of women’s crafting traditions, Pepe invites to unravel the massive yarn piece and creatively re-purpose the yarn, by knitting or crocheting something for personal use.
At Arthouse on Thursday, Pepe will discuss this project within the larger context of her artistic practice which, for nearly two decades, has focused on issues related to feminism and gender identity as well as what she calls “cultural continuation.”
A collaboration with Arthouse curator Elizabeth Dunbar, the exhibition will be on view at testsite view May 31 - July 5.
THURSDAY
‘Texas Treasures: Early Texas Art from Austin Museums’
Peter Mears, Ransom Center curator
7 p.m., Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum
www.umlaufsculpture.org
Think you know Texas art? Think again. ‘Texas Treasures’ is the first collective exhibit; of early Texas artworks from the collections of the University of Texas Blanton Museum, the University of Texas Harry Ransom Center, the Austin Museum of Art and the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum.
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