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West Austin Studio Tour: Kelly O'Connor “Last Resort: Color Me” free manicures inspired by the palette of Kelly O'Connor and hand massages! Exclusively during the West Austin Studio Tour: Join us for this Pampering Event featuring Aveda, Kelly O’Connor & light refreshments, one day only, on Saturday, May 4th from 2-6pm. Enjoy this exhibition and popping new color. Women & Their Work is open during all West Austin Studio Tour hours (Sat-Sun 11-6pm, 4/27, 4/28 & 5/4, 5/5). 
Fusebox: Michelle Ellsworth Phone Homer is a techno-feminist remix of the ancient epic poem, “The Iliad.” Skype, fast food, torture, and illiterate dance phrases are all bedfellows on an Astroturf sheet of war, technology, and the western canon of literature. The frenetic narrative of the Trojan War unfolds as the homebound Clytemnestra has Skype conversations with Agamemnon, Helen, Penelope, and Aegisthus and surfs her custom-built, self-referential, and interactive world wide web searching for direction, meaning, transformative dance moves, and peace derived from materialism and food. 
Crystal Bash On Friday, April 5th, from 8-11pm, Women & Their Work will celebrate its 35th Anniversary at our Crystal Bash in the strikingly beautiful Westlake home of Alexa and Blaine Wesner. Designed by the New York based firm, Peter Gluck and Partners Architecture, their home is nationally known as the "Floating Box House" and was featured in Architectural Digest. Tickets are limited and available for $200 each, purchase tickets online here by April 4. There will be no tickets at the door, visit the gallery shop or call us at 512-477-1064. After ticket purchase you will receive the address for the party via email. Your name will be on a guest list at the door. Event Sponsorships are available, Learn more… 
Kelly O'Connor Resort: 1. To have recourse. 2. A place frequented by people for relaxation and recreation. Both definitions of resort apply to this exhibition. Collage and mixed media works framed on the wall will compliment the creation of a site-specific cave like geodesic dome. “In collage, works on paper, and installation-based work, O’Connor’s familiar subjects undergo surreal, psychedelic, hypnotic, and other unsettling transformations.” 
Art Night Austin Bus Tour art night austin 2013: 7 art spaces. 6 restaurants. Drinks and DJs. Experience it all as you are chauffeured through Austin's urban core. Art Alliance Austin's most popular fundraiser returns in 2013 and guarantees a one-of-a-kind, feel good experience. Attendees will venture through premier downtown and South Austin galleries and temporary art spaces paired with local favorite food spots, for a sampling of Austin culture at its finest. Each location features complimentary chef-prepared bites, select beverages, music and chauffeured transport to complete the cultural trek. With one-night only satellite art spaces, installations, attending artists and spinning DJs, Art Night Austin in 2013 will be a transformative and inspirational excursion. 
Jewelry Trunk Show Please join us Saturday, February 9 from noon to 5pm, for a Valentine’s Day Trunk Show. Enjoy a glass of bubbly while you shop for the best valentines and gifts for your loved ones! You will meet Kat Marhefka of Spruce Jewelry and Rose Braunstein of My Friend Roze Jewelry, both Austin artists new to the Gallery Shop. Spruce Jewelry is organically composed, modern, wearable art. My Friend Roze jewelry is eco-friendly, handmade and colorful. Come see her bubble wrap series! 
Wendy Wagner Wendy Wagner embraces youthful innocence and creates a distinctive make-believe world using painting, drawing, ceramic, soft sculpture and animation. Working in series, she has themes inspired by childhood, pets, family, and fantasy. Images made of pencil, colored pencil, tinted gesso, acrylic paint, oil paint are transformed to create an intimate and surreal vocabulary infused with personal nostalgia and dreaminess. 
Craving and Desire: A Community Discussion Join us for an evening of conversation "Craving & Desire" with esteemed psychoanalysts Dr. Gemma Marangoni Ainslie and Dr. Richard G. Michael. We will discuss aspects of our human urges as they relate to Lauren Kelley's exhibition "True Falsetto." Kelley's claymation videos highlight awkward moments of craving food, beauty and romantic love. Admission is free to the gallery and audience participation is encouraged. 
Lauren Kelley Lauren Kelley’s animated works pairs a cast of tan plastic dolls with claymation to stage absurd, jittery and endearing narratives. True Falsetto is the Texas debut of a body of collage and animated works from Kelley’s series of short-stop-animation videos. Kelley employs humor when tinkering with ideals of youth, race and place. With a diverse cast of fleshy dolls Kelley wryly renders short stories that probe the malleable nature of innocent minds, the twisted characteristics of immature adults and the odd mechanics of self-sufficiency. |