Past Shows / Events
2025
optimal optimism (1.4.25)
For this group show we invited artists to open up their minds and harvest some positive ideas to make the world a better place. Inventions? Ambitious goals? Take a glimpse into the future... Optimal Optimism is where it's at.
Participants included:
Amanda Vaughn
Bill Jeffery
Brittany Gant
Camille Cannell
Chad Hopper
Del Wieding
Jennifer Burchill
Josh Ronsen
Katrin Abel
Kevin Pope
& Trin Viet Ho
Participants included:
Amanda Vaughn
Bill Jeffery
Brittany Gant
Camille Cannell
Chad Hopper
Del Wieding
Jennifer Burchill
Josh Ronsen
Katrin Abel
Kevin Pope
& Trin Viet Ho
2024
LOST IN AUSTIN (10.19.24)
an installation by David Rodriguez Jr.
"Lost in Austin is a deep exploration of perspective and the psyche.
A story from a box from a place guarded by fear, disassociation, the invisible weight, and the conquering of these things followed by an honest unravelling of the heart."
David led viewers individually or in small groups with the room dark, illuminated only by flashlight. The viewer indicated when to stop moving the flashlight, and the artist then spoke about the art piece visible and the thoughts or events behind it.
"Lost in Austin is a deep exploration of perspective and the psyche.
A story from a box from a place guarded by fear, disassociation, the invisible weight, and the conquering of these things followed by an honest unravelling of the heart."
David led viewers individually or in small groups with the room dark, illuminated only by flashlight. The viewer indicated when to stop moving the flashlight, and the artist then spoke about the art piece visible and the thoughts or events behind it.
SOMETHING SOMETHING FRIENDSHIP ADVENTURE (10.12.24)
a funtastic evening of games, music, activities, skits, and smiles... a very Rert-y variety show
Chad Hopper, Andy Miller, Amanda Jones, Kevin Pope, Emily Summerfield
Chad Hopper, Andy Miller, Amanda Jones, Kevin Pope, Emily Summerfield
WHERE DOES PEACE BEGIN? (5.11.24)
We all wade through our personal struggles and triumphs in a world where terrible things happen with great frequency. It takes a great deal of resilience to be an earthling, especially with things like war, genocide and environmental destruction devastating the planet on the daily. So... where do you find peace? What does peace even mean? How do we sow and nurture it?
This Mothers' Day weekend (a holiday which was founded as an anti-war protest), we gather a grouping of artists' takes on these questions. Non-violent visions of our collective, cooperative potential, and insights into where all that begins.
This Mothers' Day weekend (a holiday which was founded as an anti-war protest), we gather a grouping of artists' takes on these questions. Non-violent visions of our collective, cooperative potential, and insights into where all that begins.
CIMARRÓN COMMONS: REDREAMING (1.28.24)
Cimarrón Rec Center presents "Cimarrón Commons: Re-Dreaming", a moment to revisit and remake dreams, gathering and documenting the endless cycle of transformation from memory into dream into memory into dream.....
We'll be sharing an art gallery, live music by Sirene, Kardinal Bloo, and Alexi 8bit, a vendor market, and a screening of the 2001 documentary "The Coconut Revolution," about an Indigenous people in the Pacific who repurpose the detritus of a former copper mine to sustain their autonomous community and ecology in the face of a military blockade.
We'll be sharing an art gallery, live music by Sirene, Kardinal Bloo, and Alexi 8bit, a vendor market, and a screening of the 2001 documentary "The Coconut Revolution," about an Indigenous people in the Pacific who repurpose the detritus of a former copper mine to sustain their autonomous community and ecology in the face of a military blockade.
2023
POSTMODERN OPTIONS (10.14.23)
An art show about super secure commodity rights for self-pleasure branding as a way of coping with the realities of
our natural environment and other taboos featuring the visual and the sculptural by Christopher Hutchins.
our natural environment and other taboos featuring the visual and the sculptural by Christopher Hutchins.
INTERPRETING PUNCTUATION (9.30.23)
For this group show we invited artists to explore interpretations of punctuation marks
using any mediumthey wish to translate it onto. Perhaps they chose their favorite punctuation,
one they're unfamiliarwith as a means to get to know it better, or a completely random one.
using any mediumthey wish to translate it onto. Perhaps they chose their favorite punctuation,
one they're unfamiliarwith as a means to get to know it better, or a completely random one.
IMPERFECT TENNIS (8.5.23)
Celebrate the weekend of International Friendship Day as Chris Martino and Chad Hopper decorate the gallery with both solo and collaborative works. Feed your brain with their drawings, paintings, and collages while taking comfort in the riddles, jokes, and nonsense... a true exploration of these two creatures bouncing ideas back and forth.
Your insides are out (6.24.23)
Wendy Rhode's paintings flirt with the figurative and representational while consistently veering back to a pure romance with process. In this subgroup of her massive output from the last five years, she plays with the theme of inside/outside through the use of layering, transparency and opacity. The works speak in a common language of sensual organic forms, which sometimes resemble the guts inside our bodies or the skin holding them in.
remains to be seen (5.27.23)
Something happened. Maybe by accident, maybe on purpose, but now there's this: the evidence.
We put out a call to the community for mysterious responses to a mysterious question / results of an action or inaction,
and our intrepid community members delivered. This show was ripe for the scrutiny of poets and amateur detectives.
Therefore, we invited local poet and conceptual artist Michael Anthony Garcia to share his impressions of the works presented! At the opening reception attendees were treated to a musical performance by sad pajamas + Andrea Alfaro.
We put out a call to the community for mysterious responses to a mysterious question / results of an action or inaction,
and our intrepid community members delivered. This show was ripe for the scrutiny of poets and amateur detectives.
Therefore, we invited local poet and conceptual artist Michael Anthony Garcia to share his impressions of the works presented! At the opening reception attendees were treated to a musical performance by sad pajamas + Andrea Alfaro.
all saxophones are trees (4.15.23)
paintings by Carl Smith... in his words:
"For many years I approached abstract art head on and tried to deal with nonobjective abstraction in a personal way,
but these images always fell short of the real thing for me. The filter of my experiences must be expressed through
the medium of landscape and painting but there is never an attainment of the goal. Surviving the process to get to a painting's end is difficult enough. The more paintings I make the more I learn how to say what is needed. Being able to present my work has had such a huge influence on the work I make and my ideas around how to make paintings consistently over a long period of time. This final step in the creative process for me is the most important. Presenting the work completes a cycle of creativity that allows me to start at the beginning of painting again, which often starts as an emanation from my heart, compulsively telling me to try to make a slightly better painting then the one I just made."
"For many years I approached abstract art head on and tried to deal with nonobjective abstraction in a personal way,
but these images always fell short of the real thing for me. The filter of my experiences must be expressed through
the medium of landscape and painting but there is never an attainment of the goal. Surviving the process to get to a painting's end is difficult enough. The more paintings I make the more I learn how to say what is needed. Being able to present my work has had such a huge influence on the work I make and my ideas around how to make paintings consistently over a long period of time. This final step in the creative process for me is the most important. Presenting the work completes a cycle of creativity that allows me to start at the beginning of painting again, which often starts as an emanation from my heart, compulsively telling me to try to make a slightly better painting then the one I just made."
just another goofball on god's golf ball (1.28.23)
Scott Stevens is a "surregionalist" painter who has created his own little world. Please enter this world of imagination and enjoy the view!
