Past GAC Programs › Exhibits

Austin is home to hundreds of muralists, many of whom got their start doing graffiti, although many others have academic roots in fine arts, printing, graphic design and other similar fields. Yet something has attracted and enticed these artists out of the comfort of their studios and brought them onto the streets, to experiment, explore and inspire the masses. Come join us in viewing examples of murals and graffiti along with current work created during studio sessions at the Arts…

The paintings and drawings in this series are reflections of issues that are prevalent today -- gender inequality, cultural biases, and specific subjects linked to social justice including human trafficking, child marriage, and honor killing.  This exhibition represents Richard Laurent's personal journey to understand cross-cultural criminal traditions. This work represents his efforts as an artist to help turn these "human wrongs" into human rights.

For several years, JR Rapier has been exploring the possible existence of emotional entities by visualizing an emotion on canvas as an earthly being. Through a common philosophy, that feelings are separate from who you are as a human being, Rapier is tapping into her own psyche to illustrate what her feeling might look like if it actually appeared to her as an old friend, a child-self or a strange figure. A Symphony of Entities is about giving emotions a…

The Black Women’s Epoch is a group art exhibition by We Here Collective that explores Black femme history through a multi-media, intersectional lens. Through this exhibition, we hope to emphasize the perspectives and stories of Black American women to show who they are and how they have always been instrumental in shaping our country and our history. In this exhibition, we have included work that displays the continued resistance to systematic racism and sexism. Within this exhibition we also work…

Found presents recent artworks by three area artists.  Each artist relies on random discovery and found materials as a starting point.  Chaussonnet recuts recovered industrial scrap steel, then forges and welds stylized busts, landscapes, and abstract sculptures.  Rolfe is an assemblage artist whose narrative relief sculptures and shadow boxes are composed primarily of reclaimed vintage household furnishings.  Webb faithfully uses acrylics to portray abandoned trash piles left at the curb for bulk collection.

Four artists look beyond the surface and use paper to create paper-constructed worlds. B. Shawn Cox folds and creases paper into textured geometric forms. Donna Lewis creates serene, ordered collages from common materials. Valerie Fowler tells stories with drawings, rolls of paper and a unique presentation device she calls a Crankie. Meena Matai carves webs of paper into 2-D and 3-D forms.

Join us for our last exhibit of 2020, Book Passage, where unwanted books are given a new home in a world where dying books are reborn and venerated. This is new work by award-winning book artists John Sager and Janice Anderson. Anderson weaves complex, exquisite and richly colored mixed media collages from discarded book covers, supporting ephemera and carefully placed related found objects. Sager is an assemblage sculptor who shapes distressed books into evocative, thoughtful and astonishingly elegant constructions.  

Please join us for our biggest event of the year with original works of art from Texas artists.  This event has over 100 artworks in multiple categories with participants selected by renowned judges for each: 3D/sculpture, photography, 2D abstract, and 2D representational.

Blissful Ignorance is an exhibit of graphite drawings by artist Mayuko Ono Gray that hybridizes traditional Japanese calligraphy with Western drawing practices and aesthetics. Traditional Asian art-forms have often integrated word and image. Mayuko draws upon literary artifacts ranging from proverbs to poetry to influence her calligraphy and creates unique word-images that are reflections on human nature, place, self, ephemerality, permanence, and universal wisdom.

Four Artists Creating Visual Stories Through Wood “Ingrained” is an art exhibit of four artists with differing styles and subjects who are united by their use of a common material. The pieces created for this exhibition highlight the wood grain of panels to explore a range of viewpoints and topics. From questioning how humans communicate and connect, to interpreting nature and exploring humanity’s impact on it, these paintings and sculptures may at first appear disconnected. Visually they also vary: Colorful abstractions, brooding landscapes, hyper-realistic insects,…

Artist Reception: Saturday, March 21, 2020 6-8 PM Artist talk: Sunday, March 22, 2020 2 PM   Critters: Our Animal World, is an exhibition featuring the work of three incredible artists: Carrie Cook, Jessica Gengenbach, and Shanny Lott. The exhibit also includes work from the Georgetown Art Center’s open call jury-selected finalist work, creating a unique multi media presentation.

Artist Reception: Saturday  Jan 11, 2020 6-8 PM Artist Talk: Sunday  Jan 12, 2020 2-4 PM Artist Rebecca Bennett’s Meta Garden exhibit will have work that uses digitally manipulated images of her original paintings to create a new body of work that references in a very abstract way elements of a garden, ie. blooms, sprouts, cairns. She’s using “garden” as a metaphor for growth, change, nourishment, seeds, and natural evolution.   She wants to share creative growth and the path…

Nov 1st - Jan 5th Artist Reception: Saturday Nov 2, 2019 6-8pm This exhibit will feature works from multiple artists at the Austin Mosaic Guild, who are seeking to push the boundaries in techniques, formats, and materials of mosaic art. The exhibit will focus on the state of contemporary mosaics today as well as ways in which traditional boundaries are being challenged by these contemporary artists. The Guild intends to enlighten visitors on the ways in which modern mosaicists are…

Progressive Artist Reception: Saturday, Sept. 28 Begins at the Georgetown Public Library - 2:00pm Then HOP to the Georgetown Art Center - 3:15pm Awards Ceremony - 3:45pm   The 2019 Art Hop exhibit is a statewide juried arts competition, organized by Georgetown Art Works, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts in the City of Georgetown, Texas. The participating venues are the Georgetown Public Library and the Georgetown Art Center, in the historic district of Georgetown. Competition Categories: 2D…