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Lauren
Levy's "works are like ghosts,where little bodies
might have been.Tiny corpses,specters
of death...But the work is by no means ugly.The accumulation
of shiny colored buttons on steel
wires creates a jewel-like effect,which is to say
that it is visually quite rich.Everything is here:
form and color and texture.Especially texture.The
buttons are all about touch,having been handled by
the owners of lost garments...The buttons suggest
the passage of time.They remind us of loss and death.Just
as Levy's sculptures do...the buttons are rigid,forming
a dense,hollow shell.They only retain the memory of
what was."-Saundra Goldman,essay accompanying
Women and Their Work exhibition
To
read a profile of Levy in from the Austin American-Statesman
click here
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Owen
McAuley
"Among the compelling features of Owen McAuley's
elusive nocturnal paintings are the striking absences
within them of daylight,of human subjects,even of
identifiable physical contexts.These meticulously
crafted works seem to exist in a distanced,stylized
world,where the viewer is free to invest them with
narratives or tensions of his or her own devising...part
of the challenge he sets for himself is to transform...utterly
familiar urban locations into landscapes that verge
on abstraction."
-Gail B.Sanders,Austin Museum of Art 22 to Watch catalogue
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