Austin Thomas "Drawing on the Utopic"
Storefront Ten Eyck
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Austin Thomas' collages are deceptively delicate studies. Sometimes caught in the act of unfolding against or through the gridded skin of a graph paper background they explore enduring thoughts about the speciation of drawing and sculpture.
Thomas’ varied performative actions and artworks may be broadly described as delineating and creating “social sculpture.” In homage to Joseph Beuys’s famous formulation and the idea that social systems add up to (or can be rearranged to constitute) one great work of art. Her ‘practice’ has included “Perches” (hybrid sculptural/architectural objects around which events are created); an artist-run gallery in Bushwick; a traveling El Camino that provided a moving space for lectures about art; and many other public actions that have created spontaneous communities around art, discussion, and most recently a summer camp for kids and adults.
Thomas’ text pieces punctuate this varied practice by adding a relational narrative of overheard public conversations. These works appear to fall apart just when they begin to fall together –they're sketches of the way life is, as organisms (like us) negotiate their desires across the permeable borders of being.
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Schedule
from September 17, 2010 to October 17, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-17 from 18:00 to 21:00