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Faculty and Staff Open Studio

7/10/2015

 
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You are invited to an Art Department Faculty and Staff Open Studio on Friday, October 23rd from 
1 – 4pm at the University's South Stores building.



This open house offers our community an opportunity to gain insight into faculty and staff members' professional work and creative processes. It’s also a great time for the community to come together for casual conversation and the exchange of ideas.


The South Stores Studios are located at  879 29th Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414


Participating Faculty and Staff include:

Hartmut Austen
David Feinberg
Teri Fullerton
Diane Katsiaficas

Lamar Peterson

Sonja Peterson
Tamsie Ringler
Jenny Schmid
Clarence Morgan
Mathew Zefeldt

Paul Shambroom
Tetsuya Yamada


And more!

In The Heat Of The Night

21/7/2015

 
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In its nomadic state, Jess Hirsch's curatorial project The Bedfellow's Club has settled momentarily in Hunter Riley's bedroom of Unit 2R at 1451 N. Maplewood Ave. in the East Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois with an exhibition, 'In the Heat of the Night', guest curated by Haynes Riley and featuring work by:

Hartmut Austen
Lauren Cherry & Max Springer
Jack Craig
Ron Ewert
Ashley Zangle & Talon Gustafson


Join us for an opening on Sunday, July 26, 2015 from 3–7 pm and peek at the exhibition that Hunter will be living and sleeping with over the course of a month. The apartment has a large porch and kitchen to congregate and refreshments will be provided on what is forecasted to be a beautiful 81° Chicago afternoon.

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Hartmut Austen, TYRONE, 2015, oil on canvas, 20" x 16"

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Haptic Image

25/1/2015

 
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I am happy announce my inclusion in the upcoming exhibition "Haptic Image" at Waiting Room in
Minneapolis. The exhibition also features work by Katelyn Farstad, Grace Marie Keaton and Justin Quinn.
Waiting Room is a project founded and directed by Jehra Patrick.

Opening: Friday, Feb. 6, 7 - 10 PM
1629 Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55403

http://www.waitingroomart.org/

From the Announcement:
Waiting Room is pleased to announce Haptic Image, a group exhibition of recent work by Hartmut Austen, Katelyn Farstad, GraceMarie Keaton, and Justin Quinn. Curated by Jehra Patrick, Haptic Image gathers together photographic prints, drawings, collage, assemblage, and paintings, to demonstrate possibilities for mark-making through material.
 
Each of these artists maintains a traditional studio practice: a physical site for the contemplation, production, and iteration of images-as-objects. All embrace the tactility of their materials, operate as interveners on surface, and leave traces – brushwork, folds, creases, clipped edges, globs – of their hands' interactions with their objects. Their surfaces, even if built up or incised upon, are to be viewed head-on. All commit to a rectangular frame, either through paint on stretched canvas or by forms which proximate painting.
 
While material drives process, each of the artists begin with a found image or object, often historical or cast-off. They then work to obliterate, transform, mask, scale, fragment, build, and re-constitute their source-subject until a new image amalgamate is born. ‘Image' is the operative word - any traces of the pictorial are circumstantial; the works are now abstractions, stylizations, reductions, counterparts, and recursions. Even-handed touch affirms the image-ness of these pieces. Nothing singular is depicted, given focus, or hierarchy, which provides room for multiple entry points, readings, associations, and histories.
 
This combination of process, technique and uniform application results in an all-over touching, as well as evidence of decision-making – like residual finger traces on an iPad screen. No coincidence, this language of touching – in digital user experience this is known as haptics, or interactive feedback appealing to touch – opens new interpretations for the shorthand, secondhand, and sleight of hand, that these artists employ from mark, to materializing image, to contained and collective meaning.


The exhibition is welcomed by an opening reception at Waiting Room on Friday, February 6, from 7-10 pm. Waiting Room invites conversation and patronage during gallery hours and by appointment.

Coming in February 2015

27/12/2014

 
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Tonight

13/12/2014

 
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I am happy to participate in this year's ...


Midway's 7th Annual Monster Drawing Rally

Saturday, December 13th, 6 – 10pm
Grain Belt Bottling House, 79 13th Ave NE in Minneapolis

Watch over 80 artists draw live throughout the night and bring home the drawings you love for $35

Drawing rounds begin at 6, 7, and 8pm
Admission is free
Drawings are $35
Cash bar / Potter’s Pasties & Pies Food Truck

All proceeds benefit Midway's programming

http://www.midwayart.org/index.php

Catalog for "Figur"

13/12/2014

 
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The 16-page publication with colored images and text by Lynn Crawford can be purchased or ordered at Praire Lights Bookstore in Iowa City.

Hartmut Austen at Prairie Lights in Iowa City

7/9/2014

 
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Hartmut Austen will present a selection of paintings and drawings from the past ten years that deal with figures and landscapes. In them, figures sometime appear as if either dissolved within, separated from or alienated from their environment.



Shadow Figure, 2008, oil on canvas, 20" x 16"

September 8 - October 24
Closing Reception and release of publication with introduction by Lynn Crawford  TBA


For any inquiries, please contact the exhibition curator:
Mary F. Coats
[email protected]

Times Club at Prairie Lights

15 South Dubuque St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
319-337-2681





Artist Lecture at University of Minnesota

24/1/2014

 
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Approximate Territory at The Butchers Daughter

8/1/2014

 
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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



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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 || [email protected]

www.thebutchersdaughtergallery.com

University of Minnesota Art Faculty Exhibition

13/10/2013

 
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Approximate Territory, 2013, oil on canvas, 20 in x 30 in
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