Ian Shults: Solo Show

February 4 - February 25, 2012

Opening Reception Saturday, February 4th 6-8pm

Collector's Preview First Thursday, February 2nd 6-8pm

Taunting the societal taboos of sexuality and inebriation with bold brushstrokes and sly editing skills, Ian Shults prompts viewers to bring their own repressed desires and dreams to the work. Each piece is broken up by planes and layers of paint, causing an asymmetry that serves to break up the painting's space as well as the layers of time captured. This show, filled with lust, loss and libations, conveys a sense of unabashed mischief not to be missed.

Preview show

Art Night Austin: 7-10pm

Saturday, February 25

art night austin 2012: 8 art spaces. 8 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 2012 and guarantees a one-of-a-kind, feel good experience.  Attendees will venture through premier downtown and West 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 2012 will be a transformative and inspirational excursion.

Buy tickets here. Can't attend? You can still support the Art Alliance Austin by purchasing a raffle ticket. You might win a $500 gift certificate to one of the participating galleries, including us!

Jennifer Balkan: Peep Holes

March 3 - March 31, 2012
Opening Reception on Saturday, March 3 from 6 to 8pm

Collectors' Preview 6-8pm Thursday, March 1st

Known for her luscious paint quality and psychologically investigative subject matter, Jennifer Balkan’s most recent body of work explores our culture’s current phenomenon of turning the private public. Her paintings, like the circles repeated within them, act as lenses into moments that once were personal but that are now commonplace in the public-sphere today, bringing the evolution of our interpersonal behavior to the forefront.

Before becoming a full-time painter in 2002, Jennifer Balkan studied behavioral neuroscience at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and received her Ph. D in Sociology from the University of Texas. Her formal education has a profound impact on her painting, as she continues to explore the human psyche both psychologically and sociologically through the 2-dimensional.

Holly Wilson: Works in Bronze

April 5 - April 28, 2012
Opening Reception on Thursday, April 5 from 6 to 8pm

As a Delaware/Cherokee Native American I grew up hearing many stories from my mother. I was drawn to those of shape shifters, the idea of a trickster who wears a mask to hide their identity, birds as messengers, owls as bearers of tragic news. These stories also now run through most of my work in the form of animals with human characteristics, masks of birds and other animals. I anthropomorphize the animals and birds, giving one the eyes of a tired old woman, and another the hands of a strong man holding the branch on which they perch.

My figures are cast bronze and they are each unique and one of a kind, my work in not produced in the traditional style of editions. It is the unique that make us each an original individual, and so too are they.