Body of Art: Gala Benefiting WTW Gallery

The gallery that I volunteer for, Women and Their Work, is celebrating spring with a gala event on Friday, April 23rd at the home of art collector Deborah Green.
The house is built around her amazing collection of work... and is simply gorgeous. The event will be an evening of art and spectacle, with performers, a dj, fabulous food and drink.
Tickets are available now online!

Art Basel Miami Beach 2009

So excited that Mark and I are going to Miami for Art Basel!
We happened to be in Venice during the Biennale this past summer, and Art Basel is just as major. I'm reading 'Seven Days in the Art World' to brief myself. I'll be sharing lots of pics of this gathering!

Erin Curtis at Women and Their Work

This is the last week to see Erin Curtis's show, Perspective Threshold, at Women and Their Work Gallery.
I worked with Erin on this installation, and just can't get a long enough look at her paintings, prints, and other creations.  I want to go to all the fantastically colorful places she depicts. And, someday, the painting pictured above, Caldor, will be mine... Oh yes, it will be mine. (If someone else hasn't already bought it!)
The show is up through this Saturday, November 14th.

Raucous Bacchus, yo!

Saturday night, after the shower (and, for Mark, the UTvUTEP game) we headed downtown to Arthouse at the Jones Center's Raucous Bacchus TOGA PARTY! (No, we didn't wear togas- but, little did we know, we wouldn't have been out of place with a helmet and an bed sheet draped asymmetrically across our shoulders...)

Our friends, Sean and Ruth, joined us for a Roman-style banquet complete with on-table kegs and appropriately toga-ed servers. The food was delicious, and the recreation of Rome was an interesting experience to say the least. The event was catered by Fete Accompli... and I will be searching for a recipe to mimic their Beef Tenderloin with Truffled Tomato Sauce. Truffled Tomato Sauce? Yes, it is good.

And, Mark and I 'competed' in our first ever live auction... and successfully bid on a trip to Miami during its Art Basel event this December. Quite exciting! (And, the good thing is, after all the red wine and table-tapped beer, we still remembered that we won!)

Plus, our contributions help Arthouse close the gap on their reconstruction fundraising goal. It's an amazing art venue, that will, once re-construction is complete, be a beacon for contemporary art in Austin. We're happy to be a part of it!

Red Hot Red Dot!

For our anniversary each year, Mark and I seek out an artwork to add to our "collection." It's a fun process... visiting galleries, doing a bit of traveling, and researching artists in search of something that 1) works with our decor 2) strikes both our interests and 3) is reasonably priced!

And for the past three years we've been able to find something that fits all three criteria at Women & Their Work Gallery's Red Hot Red Dot event. The gallery collects donated work from local artists (men and women for this show) and sets a price (not to exceed $500.) The array of work is spectacular. From the well known to the obscure, there is such a variety of styles, sizes, subject matter, media. Also, the event is a great night out... good food, fun people, and a silent auction. (Which I have decided I have no "talent" for.)

We found two prints by artist Shepard Fairey, of OBEYGiant/Obama Poster fame. I'm really excited for them to come home with us... they'll be on view at W&TW for the next month or so.

Also, we were caught by the A-AS's Out and About social columnist, Michael Barnes.... so here we are on his blog. Pretty funny!