Opportunity Knocks: Artist Talk with Brad Tucker

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Artist Talk with Brad Tucker in conjunction with “Opportunity Knocks”
Wednesday, Feb. 6
Art Palace (2109 E Cesar Chavez Street)
8 p.m.
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Wednesday night you’ll have the opportunity to ask just that and get into the creative brain of Austin artist Brad Tucker, who has a new solo show, Opporunity Knocks at the Art Palace in East Austin.
The exhibit incorporates sculpture, painting, video, and lino-prints that provide a framework for the presentation of two texts.

The Secret of Life and Death, 2007 is a video based on a manuscript written by American conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg. The text lists general and specific comments and questions for artists. Tucker stumbled upon the text in 1988 at the library of the University of North Texas, scrawling the lists into his college sketchbook. Now, almost 20 years later, Tucker rediscovered the lists and adapted them to a musical performance shown across three video monitors.

Tucker's other piece, Try All, 2007, is a 16-page, hand-printed book of picture puzzles inspired by courtroom jargon. Over the years Tucker has printed an open-ended, continuous edition of the book since its conception in 2005. At Art Palace, a makeshift print shop is set up to help continue the book's production during Opportunity Knocks.