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2011 Texas Biennial Participating Organizations
The Texas Biennial is proud to promote the following arts organizations who are supporting the project by joining in with their own programming focusing on contemporary art and highlighting work made by artists who have lived and worked in Texas. Current details are available at the links provided.
Abilene
The Grace Museum
An Act of Faith: The Art of Mary McCleary
Opens Thursday, January 20
Through April 16
Texas Outback:The Photography of June Redford Van Cleef
Opens Thursday, May 5
Through August 20
Albany
The Old Jail Art Center
Ed Blackburn: Jumping Across (The River)
Opens Saturday, February 19
Through May 22
Anne Allen: Alchemy, part of the Cell Series
Opens Saturday, February 19
Through May 22
Austin
Arthouse at the Jones Center
Special Screening: 2011 Texas Biennial
Artists included: Michelle Devereux, Scott Gelber, Joey Fauerso, Sam Sanford ★, Kelly Sears, Angela and Mark Walley, and the Zellner Brothers
Saturday, April 16, 7pm
TX★11 Biennial Artist
Austin Museum of Art
Spring Art HQ
AMOA’s Community Room will serve as the headquarters for the Texas Biennial and the Fusebox Festival (April 20 – May 1). Get advice on what to see, pick up maps and schedules, and buy tickets to performances at the box office.
Opens Tuesday, April 12
Through May 13
New Art in Austin: 15 to Watch
Featuring Miguel Aragón, Jesus Benavente/Jennifer Remenchik, Ben Brandt, Debra Broz, Elizabeth Chiles ★, Santiago Forero, Nathan Green ★, Ian Ingram, Anna Krachey, Robert Melton, Leslie Mutchler, Ben Ruggiero, Adam Schreiber, Barry Stone ★, and J. Parker Valentine
Curated by Kate Bonansinga, Toby Kamps, and Andrea Mellard
Opens Saturday, February 26
Through May 22
TX★11 Biennial Artists
New Art in Austin: 15 to Watch, Curators’ Tour
Tour led by exhibition curators Kate Bonansinga and Andrea Mellard
Saturday, February 26, 2pm
New Art in Austin: 15 to Watch, Talks by Artists to Watch
Thursdays, March 24, 31and April 7 at 7 pm
Hybrid Arts Summit
Investigate cross-disciplinary creative practice and its relevance to contemporary culture with speakers and panels brought together for AMOA’s New Art in Austin, Art Week Austin, the Fusebox Festival, and the Texas Biennial.
Opens Friday, April 29
Through Saturday, April 30
Blanton Museum of Art
Like a Whole Other Country? The State of Contemporary Art in Texas
A public panel at Blanton Museum of Art co-presented by the Texas Biennial, Blanton, and Art Lies.
Saturday, April 16, 2-4:30pm
Panelists include artist Margarita Cabrera; Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Alison de Lima Greene; artist Trenton Doyle Hancock; art critic for the Los Angeles Times, David Pagel; and Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art History at UT Austin, Richard Shiff; moderated by Texas Biennial Curator Virginia Rutledge.
City of Austin People’s Gallery, Austin City Hall
People’s Gallery Exhibition 2011
169 works by 151 Austin-area artists, Jurors included Carla Nickerson, Johnny Walker and Herlinda Zamora
Opens Friday, February, 18
Through mid-January 2012
Co-Lab
Katelena Hernandez Cowles: Comfort Sessions (pod 2, dress 1, nest 2)
Overnight opening: Saturday, April 23, 7pm - Sunday, April 24, 10am
(Performances begin at 8pm and again at 11 PM; guests are invited to
wear pajamas and bring sleeping bags)
Bedtime Sessions: Tuesday, April 26, 9-11pm + Saturday, April 30, 9-11pm
Naptime Sessions: Wednesday, April 27, 12-2pm + Friday, April 29 12-2pm
Personal sessions may be set up by request
Dougherty Arts Center
Austin Community College: 35th Annual Student Exhibition
Opens, Wednesday, April 6
Through April 28
Julia C. Butridge Gallery
Mexic-Arte Museum
Sam Coronado and Más Rudas
Opens Friday, April 8, 6-9pm
Through June 5
Corpus Christi
The Art Museum of South Texas
Revelations: Women’s Art from the Permanent Collection
Opens Saturday, February 5
Through December 31
Panel Discussion in conjunction with Revelations: Women’s Art from the Permanent Collection
Including Amorette Garza, a sculpture teacher from Del Mar College, Corpus Christi; Nadezda Prvulovic, a painter from Houston; Barbra Riley, a photography instructor from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; and Teresa Ruiz, a painter from Corpus Christi
Friday, April 8, 12pm
Relief, Intaglio, Planography, Serigraphy, Monotype: A Printmaking Primer from the Permanent Collection
Opens Saturday, March 5
Through July 10
K Space Contemporary
Fear & Loathing
Opens Friday, March 4, 5:30-9pm
Gallery Talk at 5:30pm with reception to follow
Through April 22
The University Galleries at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Steve Reynolds: Serial Investigations in Sculpture
Opens Thursday, March 10, 6-8pm
Through April 15
Weil Art Gallery, TAMUCC Campus
MA Qualifying Exhibitions: Sandra Gonzales & Grace Vega
Opens Friday, April 8, 6-8pm
Through April 23
Islander Art Gallery
MA Qualifying Exhibitions: Diana Byers, Stephanie Chambers & Lisette Chavez
Opens Friday, April 29, 6-8pm
Through May 14
Islander Art Gallery
MFA Qualifying Exhibition: Casey Cooper
Opens Thursday, April 28
Opening Reception, Thursday, April 21
Through May 13
Weil Art Gallery, TAMUCC Campus
Dallas
CentralTrak, The University of Texas at Dallas Artists Residency
Relics and Remembrance: Gabriel Dawe ★ and Cassandra Emswiler ★
Opens Saturday, April 2, 6-8pm
Through April 23
TX★11 Biennial Artists
CentralTrak Celebrates the Texas Biennial
A reception and open studios
Saturday, April 9, 5-9pm
Hillary Holsonback: Yes, Longer Yet Milder
Opens Saturday, April 2, 6-8pm
Through April 23
In the Corridor Gallery
The Gun & Knife Show
Including Texas artists Nick Barbee, Katrina Moorehead, Faith Gay, Sterling Allen, Charles Hancock, Lance Letscher, Tom Sale, Camp..., William S. Burroughs, Dan Phillips, Margaret Meehan, William Gaynor, Joshua Saunders, Alexandre Rosa, Taro-kun, Leon Allesi
Curated by Heyd Fontenot ★
Opens Saturday, April 30
Through June 4
TX★05, TX★07 and TX★09 Biennial Artist
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art Annual Artists Awards Program: Artist Talks and Reception
Tuesday, May 12, 6:30pm
The winning recipients of the 2011 DeGolyer, Kimbrough, and Dozier awards to artists will discuss their art and ideas, with a reception to follow.
Free Museum of Dallas
Illustrations for Our Afflicted Powers
Opens Saturday, April 29, 6-8pm
Through May 27
McKinney Avenue Contemporary
Nobody Knows My Name: The African American Experience in American Culture:
Angelbert Metoyer: The Fire Next Time
Robert Pruitt: The Souls of Black Folk
Laura Jean Lacy: Invisible Man
Curated by Phillip E. Collins
Opens Saturday, February 26, 5-7pm
Through April 9
Starry, Starry Nights: Adela Andea, Chris Lattanzio, Jeremy McKane, Susie Rosmarin, and Billy Zinser
Curated by June Mattingly
Opens Saturday, April 23, 5:30-7:30pm
Through May 14
Nasher Sculpture Center
Statuesque
A contemporary sculpture exhibition featuring work by Aaron Curry
Opens Friday, April 9
Through August 21
Richland College Galleries
Annual Student Art Exhibition
Opens Thursday, March 31
Through April 17
Brazos Gallery
Artist Talk and Awards Presentation given by TX★11 Biennial Artist Ricardo Paniagua
Friday, April 8,12-1pm
Brazos Gallery
Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery
Unpacking Access
Performed in Austin April 15, 2011
7pm 1319 Rosewood Avenue
9pm Pump Project Art Complex
Denton
East | West Galleries, Department of Visual Arts, Texas Woman's University / Denton
Voertman's Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Opens Tuesday, April 5, 4-6pm
Through April 20
Graduating MFA/MA/BFA Student Exhibitions
Opens Wednesday, April 27
Opening receptions TBA
Through May 14
El Paso
El Paso Museum of Art
Common Language -- Punctuating the Landscape
Suzi Davidoff and Rachelle Thiewes
Opens Sunday, March 27, 12-5pm
Through September 25
Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
2011 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition
Opens Thursday, April 7, 5-7:30pm
Through May 7
Fort Worth
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts – The Art Galleries at TCU
Sterling Allen: Housing Edition
Opens Saturday, March 5
Through April 23
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
The Collection and Then Some
Featuring works in the permanent collection by David Bates, Dennis Blagg, Rosson Crow, Scott Gentling, Joseph Havel, Melissa Miller and Robert Rauschenberg
On view April 9
Through May 14
Galveston
Galveston Arts Center
Ed Hill/Suzanne Bloom: MANUAL on books
Opens, Saturday, March 12
Through April 24
Ann Wood: Garnish
Opens Saturday, April 30
Artist and Curator Dialog, Saturday, April 30, 6:30pm, in conjunction with Galveston ArtWalk
Through June 5
Houston
Art Car Museum
Work by Mark David Bradford, aka “Scrapdaddy”
Opens Saturday, January 29
Through April 24
Aurora Picture Show
Curator’s Corner on aurorapictureshow.org featuring artist Mary Benedicto
Opens Monday, April 18
Through June 17
Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston
2011 School of Art Master's Thesis Exhibition
Opens Saturday, April 23
Opening reception: Friday, April 22, 6-9pm
Through May 14
Window Into Houston
Elaine Bradford: The Sidereal
Opens Wednesday, April 6, 6:30-8 pm
Through June 22
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Brad Tucker ★: Ten Records on Video (2006-2011)
Opens April 8
Through May 1
TX★11 Biennial Artist
CORE Program at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2010 - 2011 Core Annual Exhibition
Artists and scholars in residence include, Nick Barbee, Lourdes Correa-Carlo, Fatima Haider, Steffani Jemison, Gabriel Martinez, Julie Ann Nagle, Kelly Sears, Clarissa Tossin, Massa Lemu, Melissa Ragain, Julie Thomson and Wendy Vogel.
Opens Friday, February 25, 6-8pm
Through April 22
FotoFest
NOWHERE NEAR HERE: New Lens-based Work from Texas
Co-presented by FotoFest and Houston Center for Photography (HCP)
Opens Thursday, March 10, 6-9pm at FotoFest
Opens Friday, March 11, 6-9pm at Houston Center for Photography
Artist Talks at 2pm, Saturday, March 12 @ HCP, March 26 @ FotoFest, April 9 @ FotoFest
Curator Talk and Brown Bag: April 16 @ FotoFest and HCP
Through April 23 @ FotoFest
Through April 24 @ Houston Center for Photography
Opens Sunday, May 1, 2-4pm
Through May 14
FotoFence is the annual celebration and exhibition of student artwork, photography and writing from FotoFest’s Literacy Through Photography (LTP) program. http://literacythroughphotography.fotofest.org/
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Joan Son – Part Geometry, Part Zen: A Personal Exploration through Paper
Opens Saturday, April 9
Reception with the Artist: Friday, April 29, 5:30-8pm
Through June 12
Houston Center for Photography
NOWHERE NEAR HERE: New Lens-based Work from Texas
Co-presented by FotoFest and Houston Center for Photography (HCP)
Opens Thursday, March 10, 6-9pm at FotoFest
Opens Friday, March 11, 6-9pm at Houston Center for Photography
Artist Talks at 2pm, Saturday, March 12 @ HCP, March 26 @ FotoFest, April 9 @ FotoFest
Curator Talk and Brown Bag: April 16 @ FotoFest and HCP
Through April 23 @ FotoFest
Through April 24 @ Houston Center for Photography
Lawndale Art Center
Hillerbrand+Magsamen ★, Daniel McFarlane and Anthony Thompson Shumate: Measured
Opens Friday, April 22
Through June 4
John M. O’Quinn Gallery
TX★11 Biennial Artist
Leigh Merrill: Into the Sunset
Opens Friday, April 22
Through June 4
Grace R. Cavnar Gallery
Carmen Flores: In order to be safe…
Opens Friday, April 22
Through June 4
Project Space
Museum of Printing History
Recent Works by Charles Criner
Opens March 10
Through April 23
Closing Reception, April 21
Project Row Houses
Round 34: New work in the six artist project houses with a focus on FOOD
Including Texas artists Chef Tarsha Gary, Luanne Stovall and Toni Tipton-Martin
Opens Saturday, March 26, 4-7pm
Through June 19
The Menil Collection
Highlights from the Permanent Collection: Robert Rauschenberg
Through May 14
Longview
Longview Museum of Fine Arts
51st Annual High School Exhibit
Juried by Ray Daniel
Opens March 26
Through April 30
Cowboys and Indians
Opens May 14
Through June 25
Gallery Talk with Cliff Vanderpool, Director of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
Saturday, May 14, 6:30pm
Lubbock
Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University
LLANO ESTACADO: An Island in the Sky featuring artists Peter Brown and Rick Dingus
Opens Friday, April 15, 7-9pm
Through June 24
LAND ARTS 2010 Exhibition
Opens Friday, April 1, 6-9pm
“Environmental Art Action” Friday, April 2, 12pm-12am
Through May 6, Closing Reception: Friday, May 6, 6-9pm
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts
William Cannings ★: Surface Tension
Opens Friday, March 4, 6-9pm
Through May 30th
TX★09 Biennial Artist
Wayne Gilbert: If Paper Could Talk
Opens Friday, April 1, 6-9pm
Through April 30th
Farm to Market Arts @ LHUCA
Low-Tech Innovations Done at a Leisurely Pace (no.52)
New Work by The Wheeler Brothers
April 1, 6-9pm
Lufkin
Museum of East Texas
Jeanelle McCall: Where the Wild Things Grow
Opens January 2011
Through June 1
Ann Phifer Reyes: Dance of Light
Opens January 2011
Through June 1
Marfa
Ballroom Marfa
Alyce Santoro
Opens Friday, April 29
Through May 1
McAllen
Arte de la Frontera
Featuring artists Cande Aguilar, Mark Clark, Jesus de La Rosa, M.C. Farris, David M. Freeman, Veronica Jaeger, Linda Lewis, George Lorio, Mirla Martinez, Jessica Monroe, Nancy Moyer, Thomas Murray, Scott Nicol, Steven Ortiz, Karen Sanders, Rosendo Sandoval, Richard Smith, Donna Sweigart, Paul Valadez ★, Benjamin Varela and Fulden S. Wissinger
TX★09 Biennial Artist
Through Sunday, September 4, 2011
The exhibition will be presented in the Main Gallery, International Museum of Art and Science
Midland
Museum of the Southwest
2011 Contemporary Artist Series: Collectors Eye
Pamela Nelson: World Without End
Opens Friday, April 8
Through May 22
San Angelo
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
Different Directions: Coming Together in Clay
An Invitational Ceramic Exhibit featuring the artists Marian Haigh, Ed Gates and Cornelia Henderson Gates
Opens Friday, April 15 , 6-9pm
Through June 19, 2011
Twenty Sixth Annual Ceramic Symposium
Friday April 15, 1:30-4:30pm
Panelists include Harris Deller, Marian Haigh, Ed and Cornelia Gates. The panel is moderated by Howard J. Taylor.
San Antonio
Artpace
windowworks: Joshua Bienko ★
Opens Thursday, Jan 13
Through May 1
TX★11 Biennial Artist
cactus bra Space
Michelle Rozic: Wilderness
Opens Friday, April 1, 6-9pm
Through April 23
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
TRANS/ACTION
Opens Thursday, April 7, 6-9pm
Through June 23
Guadalupe Gallery
McNay Art Museum
Texas Watercolors in the McNay Collection
Opens, Wednesday, January 26
Through May 29
San Antonio Draws: A Survey of Contemporary Drawing
Opens Wednesday, February 2
Through May 29
New Image Sculpture, Extraordinary Sculptures of Ordinary Objects
Featuring work by Margarita Cabrera and Okay Mountain (including Nathan Green ★)
Opens Wednesday, February 16
Through May 8
TX★11 Biennial Artist
Neidorff Art Gallery at Trinity University
Material Evidence
Featuring work by Margarita Cabrera, Beth Secor, Michaell Miller, Chris Sauter and Robert Ziebell
Opens Thursday, February 24
Through April 9
Closing Reception on Friday, April 8, 5-7pm
Presentation and Conversation with Artist Margarita Cabrera and Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 7pm
In the Ruth Taylor Recital Hall, Dicke Smith Art Building
Gallery Reception immediately following, 8-9pm
Capstone Exhibition: Trinity University Senior Art Majors
Opens Saturday, April 29
Through May 14
Sala Diaz
Jung Hee Mun: Proprium Cycle
Opens Friday, April 15, 7-11pm
Through May 15
San Antonio Museum of Art
On view: ‘River Steles’ by Jesús Moroles
On view: ‘Extinguisher’ by James Hetherington
Special recognition in celebration of the Biennial
Through May 14
Southwest School of Art
Magnetic Fields
Opens Thursday, March 10, 5:30-7:30pm
Through May 15
Russell Hill Rogers Gallery
Artist Talk and Presentation by Dan Sutherland: Negotiation, Disruption and Excess
Thursday, April 7, 12:30pm
Unit B (Gallery)
Richie Budd ★: All I Have to Give
Opens Friday, March 18, 6:30-10pm
Through May 7
TX★05 Biennial Artist
UTSA Art Gallery and Satellite Space, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at San Antonio
UTSA Alumni Exhibition
Opens Thursday, April 6, 6-8pm
Through April 17
San Marcos
Gallery I & II, School of Art & Design at Texas State University
Jason Archer: An evening with Jesus Cornbread and the Alcoholics
Tuesday, April 26th, 7pm
Talent Show: All-Student Juried Exhibition
Opens Monday, April 4, 5-7pm
Through April 13
Gallery I & II
BFA Thesis Exhibitions
Opens Monday, April 18
Through May 12
Gallery I & II
Tyler
Tyler Museum of Art
Spring Lecture Series: Sedrick Huckaby
Sunday, April 17, 2pm
Waco
Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University
Annual Art Student Exhibition
Opens Thursday, March 24
Through April 12
Senior BFA Exhibition
Opens Tuesday, April 19
April 23
The Art Center of Waco
PhotoVoice Methodology Series
Opens Friday, May 6
Through May 13
Wichita Falls
The Juanita Harvey Art Gallery at Midwestern State University
Scottie Parsons
Opens Friday, March 4
Through April 15
Main Gallery