Jessica Halonen- Rx GARDEN
September 3 - October 10, 2009
Art Palace- artpalacegallery.com
2109 East Cesar Chavez St. Austin, Texas 78702

Art Palace gallery is pleased to present Rx Garden, a solo exhibition by Austin-based artist Jessica Halonen. Jessica’s recent work is interested in the relationships between the body, nature and medical world.
Rx Garden explores the issues surrounding the use of genetically modified plants in the pharmaceutical industry. It includes a series of gouache on paper portraits of plant-based drugs, as well as sculptures inspired by biopharming (a process that uses genetic modification to ‘grow’ chemical components, including human proteins, in plants that are harvested to make drugs). The drawings borrow from botanical illustrations, infusing their once sterile forms with a sense of playfulness and animation. In the sculpture, colorful synthetic materials are introduced to found organic objects.
Thank you to the Artist Foundation of San Antonio and Artpace for their generous support in the creation of this body of work.

 

Jon Lee- Unity and Continuity
September 30- November 28, 2009
Opening, September 30 5-7pm
Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery
Ruth Taylor Arts Complex
Trinity University, One Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX 78212
210-999-7682

 

Lane Relyea- From Spectacle to Database: On Bricolage in Contemporary Art
Stieren Arts Enrichment Series
October 8, 7:00 pm, Chapman Auditorium



Lane Relyea is Associate Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. His writing has appeared in Art Journal, Art in America, Artforum, Afterall, Frieze and Parkett. He has also published monographs on Polly Apfelbaum, Richard Artschwager, Jeremy Blake, Vija Celmins, Toba Khedoori, Monique Prieto and Wolfgang Tillmans among others, and contributed to such exhibition catalogs as Helter Skelter and Public Offerings. He has delivered lectures at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University and the Art Institute of Chicago. After teaching for a decade at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, in the summer of 2001 he was appointed director of the Core Program and Art History at the Glassell School of Art in Houston.