–East Austin Studio Tour 2011–
November 12 & 13, 11am-6pm, free and open to the public
November 19 & 20, 11am-6pm, free and open to the public
–Art Alliance Austin– Preview party Thursday, November 10, 7-10p + afterparty. Tickets available on their site: includes catering, bar and DJ, several different shuttled stops, but not the whole tour.
Making it better every year are Fisterra Studio’s guest artists:
-Sebastian Miles-
Annie Simpson, Till Death Do Us Part
WHAT: The grand opening of GenerousArt.org will raise money for Amala Foundation, Art Alliance Austin, Austin Child Guidance Center, Austin Creative Alliance, Austin School of Film, Big Medium, Cancer Connection, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Communities in Schools of Central Texas, Emancipet, Foundation Communities, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Meals on Wheels and More, Mental Health America of Texas, Mobile Art Program, Open Door Preschools, SafePlace, SIMS Foundation, Sustainable Food Center, and Texas RioGrande Legal Aid.
WHO: Featured artists include Stella Alesi, Jennifer Balkan, Jennifer Chenoweth, Eleanor Droll, Virginia Fleck, Carol Hayman, Melanie Hickerson, Felice House, Carolyn Kimball, Suzanne Lewis, Karen Maness, Richard Mansfield, Wells Mason, Emily Moores, L. Renee Nunez, Andrea Pramuk, Judith Simonds, Annie Simpson, and Jade Walker.
Listen to live music by the Robert Kraft Jazz Trio, while browsing and buying one-of-a-kind works of art. Come meet global design firm Gensler and tour their new offices in the W Hotel. Catering by Texas French Bread. Refreshments will be served.
WHEN: Thursday, September 29, 2011 from 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
Jennifer Chenoweth, Santa Maria de Fiore
WHERE: Gensler
W Hotel, 3rd Floor
212 Lavaca Street, Suite 390
Austin, TX 78701
ENTRY: The event is free and open to the public.
ABOUT GENEROUS ART: The online art gallery is dedicated to donating 40% of sales to local nonprofits, and gives 40% to local artists, seamlessly supporting the Austin community.
ABOUT GENSLER: Gensler is an international group of architects, designers, planners and consultants dedicated to the transformational power of design in improving the quality of life in the communities it serves.
Generous Art dot Org
Sunday, June 26, 2011
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
1200 E 2nd Street
Austin Texas 78702
Studio Sale to raise money for GenerousArt.org
a new community supportive mission to raise money for artists and nonprofits
Family friendly brunch, come one and all for new art, posole and momentum.
Article by Becca Hensley for the Austin American-Statesman in Glossy, June 3, 2011Local commerce website gives share of profit to those in need… (link to article)
Jennifer Chenoweth’s project –GenerousArt.org– is a finalist for –BigAustin’s Big Idea– business plan competition. The three finalists will compete for $10,000 in cash and prizes on April 29, 2011 in front of a live voting audience and panel of judges. Buy tickets now!
–Decorazon Gallery, Dallas Texas– is an exhibitor at the –Affordable Art Fair– in New York City, NY May 5-8, 2011. They will be showing Jennifer Chenoweth’s work from the Wayfinding installation and Carnival Balloon Trophies.
Art Night Austin
–Art Night Austin hosted by Art Alliance Austin–
February 26, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Represented by –grayDUCK Gallery–
Carnival Balloons
Carnival Balloon Game, as a wall installation, was selected for the 2011 People’s Gallery Show at Austin City Hall. The very enjoyable public opening, where you get to explore City Hall, is Friday, February 18 at 6pm.
Carnival Balloon Game is an interactive piece where participants used waterguns with pigmented water to shoot color at cast plaster shapes made from balloons that hang on a wall. The cast balloons in many different shapes looked very suggestive, and after they were shot with color, were used to make a wall-hung installation or trophies.
Hagia Sophia Plan
grayDuck gallery presents:
DEPARTURE
Ute Bertog, Melissa Breitenfeldt,
Jennifer Chenoweth, Court Lurie
opening reception: friday, january 14, 7-9pm
exhibition dates: january 14 – february 13, 2011
gallery hours: wed, fri, sat 11-6pm, thur 4-8pm & sun 12-5pm
grayduckgallery.com | 512.826.5334
608 w. monroe st. | suite c | austin tx 78704
grayDUCK gallery is pleased to present DEPARTURE. This abstract show explores the deconstruction of words, architecture and information while paying homage to intuition, spirituality and imagination.
Jennifer Chenoweth
Andiamo: This body of work reengages my research of Roman architecture. I study mathematical proportion, path, axis, and patterns in plans and elevations of buildings. I am interested in how these spherical clusters relate to human scale, as diagramed by Vitruvius. I want to understand how a sacred experience is created architecturally and sculpturally.
These artworks are abstractions of real architectural buildings from the Roman Empire. They are models for large-scale sculpture. I am interested in the paint and texture as a response to traditional surface decoration of domes in architecture. By constructing these shaped surfaces, I am creating sacred space for my own painting and drawing practice.
Ute Bertog
I am a painter intrigued by abstraction and its reluctant relationship to language. My goal is
not to make transparent works, but to create opportunities for meaning to slip into other guises.
Texts from news media form the basis for erasures, where the majority of words are canceled out to disrupt and change a given storyline. The result is a fragmented text, interspersed with a multitude of gaps that
coaxes meaning away from the original story. I slowly transform the text until the ability to read is either severely undermined or completely taken away. This is where imagination and play come in and readily fill in any gaps, offering the chance to destabilize and confuse original content.
Melissa Breitenfeldt
Overwhelmed at the amount of information available if not imposed on us everyday, I am constantly seeking a space of quiet resistance.
I’m interested in teaching people a new visual language. The only way to do this is through exploration and openness to the process. To exploit the viewers’ tendency to need something identifiable, I try to create a place with no ties to the existing world, free from the attached meanings of recognizable objects and forms. By using the tension between color, line, and space as my device, I seek to create a composition with its own progression of visual language and evolving rules. With a composition full of precedents the world begins to reveal itself.
Court Lurie
I have spent years studying the intricacies of thought patterns and how they are expressed through action and emotion. I am particularly intrigued by the relationship between ego, motivation and faith. While painting, my awareness vacillates between intentional, premeditated mark making, and spontaneous, intuitive, risk taking, delving into the unknown and exploring new ways of creating space.
The process of creating each work is a dialogue that unfolds in the moment. This complex, ongoing conversation transforms into unpredictable, raw meditations on letting go. Saturation, layers, hue, transparency, content, form and texture intermingle to create an exchange that compositionally comes alive when balance and harmony are achieved.
