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New American Talent: 22, up at Arthouse at the Jones Center for another month, has received positive reviews. That's unsurprising, considering Anne Ellegood, curator of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., juried the show. Picking and choosing from nearly 900 submissions, she landed on 96 works generated by 45 artists, 15 of whom are from the great state of Texas. You might recognize locals Roberto Bellini, William Hundley, Rebecca Rothfus, Joseph Phillips and Dave Woody.

This exhibit, filled with lots of two-dimensional work (as opposed to more interactive multimedia pieces), functions as a drawing drawer's paradise. That seems ironic, since NAT: 22 purports to shine bright lights on cutting-edge artists. But perhaps it's in perfect thematic alignment with art's ultra-contemporary traditionalist backlash, a response to the digitized homogeneity of computerists.

You can ask Anne Ellegood about it next week when she gives a curator's talk at Arthouse on the 26th of July at 7pm.

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[Statesman review]

New American Talent: The Twenty-Second Exhibition
Arthouse at the Jones Center
June 16-August 19, 2007
700 Congress Avenue
Free

Image credit: David Woody, Amelia, 2006