–Art Night Austin hosted by Art Alliance Austin–

February 26, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Represented by  –grayDUCK Gallery–

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.

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.

My friend Bonnie Glendinning asked me to create artwork especially for –artmuse.com–. This is where the conversation has gone so far:

“Please welcome our newest artist, Jennifer Chenoweth, to –artmuse.com–. Jennifer is a creative force to behold. You will always be delighted with her art–whether it is the diversity of the materials, range of ideas, bold color combinations, variety of topics, or just her sheer determination to make it all happen. Jennifer’s process is about the journey and where it will take her. Where ever it takes Jennifer, in turn, she offers you an opportunity to experience something new.

She has created two new pieces especially for –artmuse.com–: Sphere of Influence and Circle of Influence were inspired by her investigation into human scale, proportion, and architecture.

Read –an INTERVIEW and in-depth discussion– between Reese Darby and Jennifer Chenoweth about architecture, painting, philosophy, and parenthood. Revealing the beautiful moiré effect with her work and life, Chenoweth speaks effortlessly, gracefully and with humor about these complex topics.”

* images are exclusive and special to –artmuse.com–
* starting at only $25, archival prints
* all framed prints and print orders over $200 include shipping within the US

Fall 2010 project for –Art Outside– and –EAST–:

Be part of Fisterra’s community. Find a sign and locate it on a map as part of a scavenger hunt at –Art Outside–. Buy a sign and hang it where you live, then go online to add it to the “Art Lives Here” google map.

In April 2010 for my –Pecha Kucha– presentation, my friend Holly Fisher helped me make an animated map of my community. I wanted to expand on this idea by creating art signposts that mark places and people that are significant to me, and hang signposts on my paths in the world.

And I thought you might want to participate in my community too. So I’ve made lots of these signposts, have priced them as affordably as possible, $50, $75, $100 and $150 by size. You can “opt in” to my community and hang an “Art Lives Here” signpost at your house and go online to mark your spot on my map.

I love my world and my people. And I need to know you love me too.

Here are instructions for adding your signpost to the –ART LIVES HERE MAP–:

You must have a Google account to add your placemark to the map, but you can see the map without one.

Go to the link and sign in to Google if you are not already signed in. Navigate on the map to the place where you want to add your marker. Zoom in or out if that helps.

Click the “Edit” button in the left panel Put your mouse cursor over the exact location you want to put the placemark.

Click the RIGHT mouse button and select “Add a placemark” In the pop-up window that appears, enter a Title and Description and click OK.

Click the Save button. You’re done.

Tips for the Advanced User:
To use a photo with your placemark, click “Rich text” and then click the picture icon.  You cannot upload a photo, but if you have one somewhere with its own Web address (URL), you can point to it.

To change the look or your placemark, click on the picture of the marker, then pick a marker.  If you are really advanced you can use a marker of your own creation.

–East Austin Studio Tour–

November 13 & 14, 11am-6pm, free and open to the public

November 20 & 21, 11am-6pm, free and open to the public

–Art Alliance Austin– Preview party November 12 (tickets available on their site)

Wow! The guest artists this year:

–Virginia Fleck–

–Wells Mason–

–Jeff Stockton–

–Monique Capanelli–

–Johnny Walker–

Jennifer will be creating unique site specific sculptures for– ART OUTSIDE –held in Apache Pass, Texas.

Show dates are October 22, 23, 24, 2010. See their website for more information on the event.

Wayfinding at the Courtyard Gallery

Solo exhibition: May 13 – August 27, 2010

–Click here– to download PDF of Catalog

Chenoweth’s flowing three-dimensional wall installation is inspired by the four elements: earth, water, air and fire. She has created a unique topography utilizing the lengthy, traveling space of the gallery in a way that has not yet been explored.  Chenoweth’s methods and process for this piece include ink drawings on rice paper, torch-cut metal, dripped paint, and repeating spiraling cones in cast plaster.

Curated by Jade Walker, Visual Arts Center, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin.

--The Courtyard Gallery is at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center at The University of Texas at Austin–.

See images of the installation under “2010 Collection”.

For Art City Austin, I created a portable 60″x120″ wall that held cast plaster formed from balloons. Participants shot waterguns filled with pigment at the balloons to create artwork and to try to win a prize. Prizes were trophies made from the plaster balloons.