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, 2009

  Argentina–based artist creates a temporary hotel room inside the museum galleries.

• Lisi Raskin
  March 6 – June 21, 2009

  Brooklyn–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, 2010

  Pablo Vargas Lugo's WorkSpace project, Eclipses for Austin, explores solar eclipses as important collective rituals. Total eclipses of the sun provoke astonishment, anxiety, hope, joy, and fear and compel those who witness them to question their place in the world. For Vargas Lugo's WorkSpace project, 350 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. In a carefully choreographed performance, participants will hold up black and white signs in a choreographed simulation of each eclipse. Visit us on Facebook: eclipsesforaustin. For more information, please contact eclipsesforaustin@gmail.com

Please visit our Upcoming Exhibitions page for more information.