Saturday Exhibition Openings: Darkness, Maps, and Prints

Image courtesy of Women Printmakers of Austin

What’s great about being an art enthusiast in Austin is that multiple exhibition openings tend to occur on the same night. It’s entirely possible to do an art crawl across town in one evening, sipping chardonnay at West End fine art galleries before heading to Lone Star-flowing East Austin spaces. You’ll likely run into others following the same route. Here are three opening receptions occurring today, in west to east order.

Wally Workman Gallery
1202 West 6th Street
Austin, Texas 78703
Opening Reception: December 3, 6-8pm
Show runs December 3-23
Free
http://wallyworkmangallery.com/

Wally Workman Gallery’s latest exhibition features works inspired by the title “After Dark.” Thirty artists literally and metaphorically interpret darkness, leaving you mesmerized by beautiful nightscapes and befuddled by some of the more obscure interpretations.

Co-Lab Project Space
613 Allen St.
Austin, TX 78702
Opening Reception: December 3, 7-11pm
View by appointment only through December 9
Free
http://www.colabspace.org

Michael Abelman’s “I Put You On A Pedestal” opens at Co-Lab Project Space. Abelman turns topography into art. His pieces are “both astral roadmaps and geomantic altars that dig into our collective intuitions that lie buried under the modern psyche.”

Pump Project Art Complex
702 Shady Lane
Austin, TX 78702
Opening Reception: December 3, 6-9pm
Show runs December 3-30
Free
http://pumpproject.org/

At the Pump Project Art Complex, twenty members of the Women Printmakers of Austin will show their work in the WPA’s annual exhibit, “Multiple Originals XVI.” The hodgepodge of subjects showcases the talent of a very diverse group of artists.