Local Art This Week: September 2007

One of the advantages of being an art student at TX State is one's close proximity to two budding cultural centers in Austin and San Antonio. Though mostly known for its live music scene, Austin has, over the past three years, developed a young vibrant gallery scene. Semi-new nonprofit spaces like Okay Mountain and Art Palace have been staging some excellent exhibitions in the past year and this week features a couple of shows at these venues that are worth taking a peek at:

Art Palace
Lasers In The Jungle
Eric Gibbons and Nathan Green
Sept 1 - Oct 6 2007







Okay Mountain
The Total Power of Such a Signal is Infinite
Kristin Luke, Mark Mulroney, and Casey Jex Smith:

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8th, 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates: September 8th - October 13th
Gallery Hours: Wednesday 7-9pm and Saturday 12-5pm




"The Total Power of Such a Signal is Infinite" explores incongruent interactions of disparate ideologies, methods, mediums, and vocabularies. While each artist works within their own distinct framework, continuous psychological and conceptual linkages are established between each artist. What happens when physical manifestations of faith, jarring methods of communication, surreal environments that pit anxieties against fantasies, spiritual visions, and strategies that reflect endless possibilities are forced to relate to one another?
Kristin Luke graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006. She has shown work throughout the U.S. and the U.K., and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Casey Jex Smith graduated with a BFA in painting at Brigham Young University in 2003, and an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions around the country, such as the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Swarm Gallery in Oakland, and the Provo Arts Council Gallery in Provo, Utah, as well as abroad.
Mark Mulroney graduated from San Diego University with a B.F.A in painting and received his M.F.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2000. Mark has shown all over the U.S. extensively and had numerous solo exhibitions at Mixed Greens in New York, the Greg Lind Gallery in San Francisco, the Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica, and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.