From July 25 to September 4, I will be showing a selection of paintings as part of several inaugural exhibitions that take place in the new building of the Urban Center for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids (UICA). Other artists are Mindy Bray Dragana Crnjak Gary Justis and L J Douglas Brandon Belote Caitlin Masley Evan Mann Ben Stagle Cheryl Wassenaer Holly Greenberg For more information, please click here. or go to UICA.org I enjoyed the week in Watertown, near Boston. Here are a few impressions of my installation (process) at Sasaki Associates Gallery. The exhibition will be on view through July 22 and can be viewed during regular office hours. Address: Sasaki Associates, 64 Pleasant St., Watertown, MA 02742 All Photos: Mary Lewey
I will be showing a selection of oil paintings in "Detroit Muscle - new aesthetic trends from the Motor City", a group show curated by Brian Barr at the Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries at Purdue University from June 1 - June 30.
I will be taking a road trip to Boston soon where I am invited to a four day residency and solo exhibition in the gallery of the architecture firm Sasaki Associates. Artists who have been previously shown there include former Detroiters Sarah Kabot and Nancy Mitchnik. The opening is Thurday, May 26 from 5 - 7 PM. Hartmut Austen JUMP, 2010, oil on canvas, 50 in x 29.5 in
I am happy to announce my participation in a group show of former students of the Jugend Musik and Kunstschule at Streitbörger and Speckmann in Bielefeld. The exhibition is organised and curated by Manfred Schnell, my teacher at the school that - between 1982 - 1987 (?) - I attended once or twice weekly after "regular" school.
Together with artist Graem Whyte, I spend most of the weekend at his and Faina Lermans' Popps Packing, building the wood structure for my installation Wedge. Poppspacking The model of Wedge. This installation will be part of the Art X Detroit Festival and Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit and other venues, from April 6 - 10. The visual art at Mocad will be on view until April 24.
Caspar David Friedrich, 'Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer' ca. 1817, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany. Photo: hanneoria, fickr.com As I am preparing my installation "Wedge" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit in April, I often think about some of the paintings by Caspar David Friedrich. Some of his best paintings are in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. The "Wanderer" is one that I like a lot. As much I can identify with the moment that one experiences when reaching the top of a hill or an outlook after a hike only up, and feeling exhausted yet also the center of it all, it also makes me wonder. Who is this man? Who is looking at him from behind? And that landscape... too pretty to be true. One tries to have a change of vantage point, and what does he see or what does he feel? Make sure to visit Vimeo.com daily to see the small trailers introducing the Kresge Arts in Detroit fellows. Each day a video will be posted leading up to Art x Detroit. Sign, watercolor on paper, 4.7" x 6.7" Billboard, 2010, oil on canvas, 24" x 36"
I am happy that Telegraph - after a hiatus of more than one year - has planned two projects for this year. The first is our exhibition in the Free Museum of Dallas from February 8 - February 25.
The opening will be February 8 from 5 - 7 PM. Information about our collective: www.telegraphart.com We are currently also working on an editioned set of works by all the artists of Telegraph, which will be available sometime later this Spring. We hope that all who have taken interest in our work will consider purchasing a set that will help us to realize our second project, a show in the Pavillion of Milchhof in Berlin, that will be part of the "Kunstherbst" events in Fall in the city. |
AuthorHartmut Austen is a painter and educator currently based in the Boston area. Archives
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