Austinist Preview: Impish Animal Mutates and Consumes at Okay Mt.
The artist who was first to plant his flag at Austin’s Okay Mountain gallery last year is back and bringing more of his bizarre works on paper, sculpture and installation art in Impish Animal.
Houston native Jason Villegas, whose work has been displayed in various cities around the country, helped open Okay Mountain in April 2006 with his solo exhibition, Repressed Burial Fantasy.
Since his first Okay Mountain appearance, Villegas has completed his MFA at Rutgers University and has helped create the Texas Firehouse, a New York gallery featuring works by artists from the Lone Star state.
Impish Animal: a solo exhibition of new works by Jason Villegas
Okay Mountain (1312 E. Cesar Chavez, Ste. B)
Opening reception, 7 p.m., artist talk, 6:30 p.m.
Afterparty at Scoot Inn featuring Cavedweller and The Silver Pines.
The Okay Mountain folks describe Impish Animal, with all of its gaudy jumbles and feverish drawings, as a "primordial sea of frenetic mutation and unrelenting consumption ... These bizarre creatures run amok, acting out a vicious free market battle, devouring, multiplying and destroying each other in an epic struggle for dominance."
An informal artist talk for Impish Animal will take place tomorrow at 6:30 p.m., followed by the opening reception at 7 p.m.
Impish Animal runs through Nov. 11.
Image from Okay Mountain
