HARTMUT AUSTEN
  • Home
  • About Hartmut Austen
    • News
  • Paintings
  • Works on Paper
  • Installation Views
  • Contact
  • Reviews and Interviews
  • Telegraph Collective
  • Tumbling Towers Edition

Artist Lecture at University of Minnesota

24/1/2014

 
Picture

Approximate Territory at The Butchers Daughter

8/1/2014

 
Picture
The Butcher's Daughter is proud to announce the solo exhibition 

Hartmut Austen: Approximate Territory
Saturday, January 18 - February 23, 2014
Join us for the opening reception
Saturday, January 18th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM



Picture
Ferris, 2013 (studio view, Iowa City, IA) oil on canvas 75 x 60"

In his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Austen has produced work over the course of two years that reflect the notion of place, current events, and considerations of painting.

Derived primarily from his archive of photographic newspaper reproductions, Austen's deliberate, semi-abstract compositions embed themselves in the painterly concerns of surface, tautness and color, and are reflexive of his interest in mapping and geography.

"My paintings are often based on projected photographic source images. However the original source image is obliterated in the final painting... I manipulate the image in ways that both evoke and subvert recognition and play on voyeuristic curiosity in the final painting. In each painting I attempt to strike a balance between personal reflection and political and social currents while simultaneously commenting on the artistic medium itself."
- Austen's Artist Statement, 2014

Hartmut Austen (b. 1967, Lüdenscheid, Germany) received his Meisterschüler-degree from Hochschule der Künste (University of the Arts) Berlin. He also studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Austen was a Grant Wood Fellow for Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History in 2013 and an inaugural Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow in 2009.

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in private, corporate, and institutional collections such as The Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. Austen has been with The Butcher's Daughter gallery since 2010.

Currently, Austen works as an Assistant Professor in Painting and Drawing at the University of Minnesota and divides his time between Minneapolis and Detroit.

Open Thursday - Saturday, 12 to 6:00PM, Sunday, 1-4:00 PM
and by appointment 

The gallery is located at 4240 Cass Avenue, Suite 111   Detroit, Michigan 4820

T 248 890 6536 || info@thebutchersdaughtergallery.com

www.thebutchersdaughtergallery.com
    Picture

    Author

    Hartmut Austen is a painter and educator living in the Boston area.

    Archives

    December 2021
    September 2021
    September 2020
    May 2020
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    August 2018
    April 2018
    March 2017
    January 2017
    September 2016
    May 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    October 2015
    July 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    September 2014
    January 2014
    October 2013
    August 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    November 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    January 2012
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    March 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010

    RSS Feed

© 2010-22  Hartmut Austen.  All rights reserved.
  • Home
  • About Hartmut Austen
    • News
  • Paintings
  • Works on Paper
  • Installation Views
  • Contact
  • Reviews and Interviews
  • Telegraph Collective
  • Tumbling Towers Edition