WorkSpace showcases innovations in contemporary art. The series features commissioned projects by emerging and mid–career artists from around the world, along with illustrated critical texts, and an array of exciting public programs. Created in response to the Blanton's gallery space, the exhibitions that result from these artistic investigations rotate every ten weeks, providing museum visitors with constant and ever–changing glimpses into the art of the present day.
2008–09 Schedule:
- Marcelo Pombo
October 4, 2008 – February 22, 2009Argentina–based artist creates a temporary hotel room inside the museum galleries.
- Lisi Raskin
March 6 – June 21, 2009Brooklyn–based Raskin refelects on American cultural anxieties and power structures in a sculptural installation based on an aircraft boneyard.
- Jim Drain
July 3 – November 1, 2009
Miami–based artist Jim Drain will design a dense sculptural environment for a new series of video vignettes that feature mysterious performances amidst found objects, recycled equipment and building supplies. Sci–fi fantasy, philosophy, music, ruminations on architecture and survival, the forests outside Berlin, and a recent trip to Portugal all inform what is sure to be a memorable new commission.
- Pablo Vargas Lugo
November 14, 2009 – February 21, 2010Pablo Vargas Lugo's WorkSpace project, Eclipses for Austin, will address the feelings of belonging that collective activities inspire in people – despite their unique backgrounds. For Lugo's WorkSpace project, 800 people will gather in the stands of UT's Darrel K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium and will stage ten solar eclipses that will occur in Texas over the course of the next 340 years. Participants will hold up black and white signs in a choreographed simulation of each eclipse.
Please visit our Upcoming Exhibitions page for more information.