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2011 Texas Biennial: Miles and miles of Texas art
That’s right — it’s all from Texas.
Some 50 Lone Star artists were chosen by New York independent curator Virginia Rutledge for this iteration of the artist-founded Austin-based 2011 Texas Biennial. And like the sprawling, exuberant self-proud state it represents, this time around the biennial spreads all the way across Texas.
Official Texas Biennial venues are in three cities now: Austin, San Antonio and Houston.
The Austin Biennial venues include UT’s Visual Arts Center, Women & Their Work, Pump Project Art Complex, Big Medium project space, an empty house at 1403 Rosewood Avenue in East Austin and even empty office space on the fifth and fourteenth floors of 816 Congress Avenue.
In San Antonio, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center plays official host. In Houston, it’s Box 13 Artspace.
And in brilliant move to unite an often disparate art community, Rutledge has smartly struck up cooperative relationships with myriad art spaces around the state who are currently hosting their own exhibits of Texas contemporary art that share the forward-looking spirit of the Texas Biennial. From the Grace Museum in Abilene to K Space Contemporary Corpus Christi, from the Longview Museum of Fine Arts to Ballroom Marfa — contemporary art is connecting the dots around Texas this month.
The 2011 Texas Biennial opens April 9.
All Austin venues open April 9 with exhibit hours from noon to 5 p.m. and the regular viewing hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays to Saturdays through May 14.
Pencil it in: On April 15 and April 16, a number of special events and performances are scheduled for Austin.
Admission to all official Texas Biennial exhibits is free. Participating statewide venues may have individual admission.
www.texasbiennial.org
Image: Anthony Garza. “Aard Cardinal Mountain Carrier,” 2010. Watercolor on Arches paper.
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