Atlanta Contemporary
Blurred Vision is just one of the Symptoms
Oct 24–Nov 18, 2018
 
Good Weather is pleased to participate in Atlanta Contemporary’s On-Site program: in a nod to this repeated invitation, Good Weather will split and multiple the opportunity through presenting two solo exhibitions as a hyphenated compound, beginning with Hartmut Austen’s Blurred Vision is just one of the Symptoms with an opening on Wed, Oct 24, 2018 and a public reception on Thu, Oct 25, 2018, running through Nov 18, 2018. The second part, Ron Ewert’s I’m getting too old for this shirt, will commence with an opening on Tue, Nov 20, 2018 and a public reception on Thu, Nov 29, 2018, running through Dec 15, 2018.

http://goodweathergallery.com/events/blurred-vision-is-just-one-of-the-symptoms/
https://atlantacontemporary.org/

Not There, Not Here presents twenty-two abstract paintings by Hartmut Austen that often evoke either interior spaces or landscapes in distress. Created over the past decade, the paintings aim to visualize the transient nature of place.

In Stage, Aleppo, Two Prisons, and Harbor, Austen appropriates and responds visually to photographic imagery of current events and places that have shaped public discourse, prompting viewers to reflect on the nature of their subjective connection to these events.

The finished images often emerge from the artist’s prolonged process of painting and overpainting that eventually results in an abstract composition of form and color. Austen attempts to strike a balance between personal reflection while simultaneously commenting on the practice and history of painting itself.
The installation on three levels in the McMullen atrium is site-specific, evolving throughout the day as a result of changing daylight streaming through the windows. Shadows interact with the paintings, surrounding walls, and floors and produce variations in color, which viewers experience from different vantage points as they ascend or descend the staircase. At the same time, through the windows visitors glimpse shifting views of the panorama outside, inviting them to ponder connections among the painted images, the natural world, and themselves.
Assistant Professor of Painting at Boston College, Hartmut Austen studied painting and drawing with H. J. Diehl at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Since his arrival in the United States in 1998, he has exhibited widely in this country as well as Germany and is one of seven artists in the Telegraph Art Collective. Produced in various US cities, the paintings in Not There, Not Here comprise Austen’s first solo exhibition in New England. A booklet with a contribution by Professor Jordan Kantor of the California College of the Arts accompanies the exhibition.

September 10 - December 13, 2018
Preview: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 from 5 PM - 6:30 PM
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
2101 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 0213

More Information:
https://www.bc.edu/sites/artmuseum/exhibitions/austen/

 The 38 mixed-media works on paper are uniform in size (24 3/4 in x 17 1/4 in)  and were created with assistance of Sara Chung and Lucas Mockler.  Installation at Boston College from late January - late April, 2018.

Interview as part of Faculty Publication Highlights, published at the end of February 2017.
Interviewer: Nina Bogdanovsky, Boston College Libraries

The exhibition Here r more at Good Weather was featured on Art Viewer. http://artviewer.org/hartmut-austen-at-good-weather/

The Department of Art at the University of Minnesota is proud to present BERLIN CALLING, an exhibition of film, drawing, installation, sculpture and photography by artists from Berlin and the Twin Cites.

Please join us for the opening Tuesday, March 1, 5pm-7pm.
Opening remarks by Lynn Lukkas, Chair, Department of Art

BERLIN CALLING was organized by Hartmut Austen and is supported by the Department of Art and the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Hartmut Austen and Mary Kim
 
Born in Germany, Hartmut Austen studied in Berlin, and currently lives and works in Detroit and
Minneapolis. Born in New York, Mary Kim studied in Seoul and Detroit, and now works in Munich. Detroit as a crossing point, the artist’s works grew out of their experiences of living and working in foreign landscapes, languages and cultures. Originating from opposite directions, but sharing their common necessity of responding and adjusting to each new places, there is mutual understanding and appreciation of each other’s work. The drawings and objects presented in this exhibition do not speak of the specificity of the places, or architecture directly, rather they reveal their own ideology through their consistent interest in their choice in art, reflected and influenced by their traces. With their common artistic language that has its foundation in drawings, their works cross over, overlap, and correspond to each other.