FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 20, 2006
FOR INFORMATION ON THIS EXHIBIT:
contact Andy Campbell
email: andycampy@gmail.com
phone:(512) 217-9223
FOR CRL INFORMATION: contact Hana Hillerova
Director, Creative Research Laboratory
email:crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu
phone:(512) 322-2099
RECEPTION: Saturday, July 8, 6 - 9 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays - Saturdays, 12-5 pm
MAKING IT ALONE
JULY 8 - 29, 2006
Opening Saturday, July 8, Creative Research Laboratory presents Making It Alone, introducing work by 11 Master of Fine Arts candidates and curated by four Art History graduate students. The opening reception will take place 6 to 9 p.m. at Creative Research Laboratory, located at 2832 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Austin.
Making It Alone is the first of two summer exhibitions organized collaboratively by students in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Featured artists are Jani Benjamin, Robert Boland, Sarah Frantz, Buster Graybill, Aron Johnston, Jules Jones, Marianne McGrath, Kurt Mueller, Adam Schreiber, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, and Virginia Yount. Curators are Andy Campbell, Erika Cole, Rachel Mohl, Ashley Schmiedekamp.
In conjunction with the exhibitions, two catalogues will be published to represent the true collaborative spirit of both Making It Alone and Making It Together. Art History graduate students will contribute essays about the artists in both exhibitions. Additionally, each catalogue is an original artwork designed and hand-printed by UT design program alumna Kelly Green. Writers appearing in the Making It Alone catalogue are Andy Campbell, Bonnie Casson, Alex Codlin, Amanda Douberly, Tracy Hensley, Alyse Levalley, Rachel Mohl, Erica Morawski, Edwin Stirman, and Melissa Warak.
Last year's summer exhibitions Fever and Shade have been nominated by the Austin Critic's Table for an award in the "Best Group Gallery Show" category. This year's two summer exhibitions Making It Alone and Making It Together continue this tradition of excellence and present to the Austin community an engaging art experience. The first show in this collaborative project, Making It Alone, highlights the work of artists directly engaged in the process of creating work within the studio environment. Kaleidoscopic in materials, methods and means, the artists represented in Making It Alone speak to the diversity within the department. The second show, Making It Together, features artists working in collaboration.
Making It Alone and Making It Together are connected conceptually. Whether striving to jointly create new works, or situating their work within the context of another artist's work, these artists meaningfully stretch the boundaries of collaboration. Playing on the multiple meanings of "making it," both shows investigate artistic process and success. As a whole, both shows present artists whose work is built upon collaboration, risk, play, and artistic evaluation. The artists in Making It Alone work with a variety of media. A viewer to this exhibition will encounter high concept graffiti and video billboards. Paintings of sheep in provocative poses coexist alongside a three dimensional ceramic tree. Performance and video artists will engage in specific tasks that examine racial identification and initiation rites.
The second show, Making It Together, opens Saturday, August 12, 6 to 9 p.m. at Creative Research Laboratory. The show will run from August 12 until September 2, 2006.
The Creative Research Laboratory is a component of the University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts in the Department of Art and Art History. It serves as a flexible interdisciplinary educational environment, advancing professional practices in Studio Art, Art History, Design, Visual Art Studies and Art Education. As a creative incubator, it is designed to facilitate collaboration between artists and scholars and connect with diverse communities at large. Creative Research Laboratory presents a year-round schedule of exhibitions of work by students and faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, and facilitates workshops, performances, demonstrations, seminars and collaborations. Creative Research Lab is located in East Austin at 2832 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, inside Flatbed World Headquarters. There is ample free parking and bus service available on Capitol Metro's route 18. The activities of the Department of Art and Art History and the Creative Research Laboratory are free and open to the public.
For more information about the Creative Research Lab contact Gallery Director Hana Hillerova, crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu, or 512.322.2099.
For more information about the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, contact Carolyn Porter, carolynp@mail.utexas.edu, 512.471.3379.
Hana Hillerova
Director: Creative Research Laboratory
at the Department of Art and Art History,
University of Texas at Austin
2832 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Austin, Texas 78702
directions: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~crlab/map.html
phone: (512) 322-2099
email: crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu
url: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~crlab/
gallery hours: Tu-Sat, 12-5 p.m