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Current Media Releases
May 22, 2013 | Texas Biennial Announces Artists for 2013
February 26, 2013 | Texas Biennial Announces "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
News
May 23, 2013 | "Texas Biennial Project 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place' Nominated for Austin Critics' Table Award", Austin 360
March 11, 2013 | Rachel Corbett, "At SXSW, Performers Recite Hemingway, Hickey, and the Cariou v. Prince Lawsuit", Artinfo
March 6, 2013 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, "Hear an inspiring work at 'Clean, Well-Lighted' event", Austin American-Statesman
an online version of this article appears as:March 4, 2013 | "Texas Biennial 2013: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place", Art Agenda
February 27, 2013 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, "Texas Biennial's 'Clean, Well-Lighted Place' launches March 10-12", Austin American-Statesman
February 27, 2013 | Bill Davenport, "Texas Biennial Announces a Clean Well-Lighted (and Free!) Place at SXSW", Glasstire
January 5, 2013 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, "Biennial keeps expanding to showcase Texas art", Austin American-Statesman
an online version of this article appears as:December 11, 2012 | "Texas Biennial Announces 2013 Curators", Artforum
January 6, 2013 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, "Biennial keeps expanding to showcase Texas art", Austin American-Statesman
December 10, 2012 | Andrew Russeth, "2013 Texas Biennial Curators Named", GalleristNY
December 10, 2012 | Peter Simek, "Texas Biennial Announces Curators for 2013 Edition", D Magazine
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2011 Texas Biennial
May 20, 2011 | Richard R. Brettell, "Sited and Situated: A Brief Account of Art Spaces in Texas", Art Lies
May 19, 2011 | Margarita Cabrera, Alison de Lima Greene, Trenton Doyle Hancock, David Pagel, Virginia Rutledge and Richard Shiff, “Like a Whole Other Country? The State of Contemporary Art in Texas”, Art Lies
May 14, 2011 | Sarah Fisch, “Texas Biennial at 816 Congress: Office Space”, Glasstire
May 13, 2011 | Lana Shafer, “Jade Walker”, ...might be good
May 8, 2011 | Sean Ripple, “Texas Biennial - 1319 Rosewood Avenue”, Austinist
May 4, 2011 | Scott Andrews, “Jade Walker's 'Quadri-Poise' at Blue Star”, San Antonio Current
April 29, 2011 | Dan Boehl, “Texas Biennial: Austin”, ...might be good
April 29, 2011 | Wendy Vogel, “Texas Biennial: Houston”, ...might be good
April 29, 2011 | Peter Simek, “Texas Biennial Comes to Dallas”, D Magazine
April 27, 2011 | Sean Ripple, “Texas Biennial Artists - Susi Brister and Carin Rodenborn”, Austinist
April 27, 2011 | Kelly Klaasmeyer, “They shoot curators, don't they?”, Glasstire
April 23, 2011 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Texas Art's Wide Range”, Austin American-Statesman
an online version of this article appears as:
April 22, 2011 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Biennial survives -- and keeps thriving -- as new exhibits show”, Austin American-Statesman
April 22, 2011 | Benjamin Lima, “Biennials and Texanicity in Contemporary Art: A Survey of Surveys”, Art Lies
April 20, 2011 | Anthony Mariani, “Texas Biennial: Austin Bias?”, Fort Worth Weekly
April 14, 2011 | Veronica Castelo, “Art in April: Texas Biennial”, Your News Now
April 8, 2011 | Robert Faires, “Miles and Miles of Canvas”, The Austin Chronicle
April 8, 2011 | Brittanie Shey, “Austin's Texas Biennial Comes to Houston's BOX 13 ArtSpace” Houston Press
April 7, 2011 | Michael Hoinski, “GTT ★”, The New York Times
April 7, 2011 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Texas Biennial: Now with even more Texas!”, Austin American-Statesman
April 1, 2011 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “2011 Texas Biennial: Miles and Miles of Texas Art”, Austin American-Statesman
April 1, 2011 | Wendy Vogel, "Interview: Virginia Rutledge", ...might be good
January 12, 2011 | Laura Lark, “Spring Preview 2011”, Glasstire
December 19, 2010 | Steven Thomson, “Art trifecta: 2011 Texas Biennial expands from Austin to Houston and San Antonio ”, Culturemap Houston
December 15, 2010 | “Texas Biennial Expands Statewide in April 2011”, artsTEXAS
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2009 Biennial
June 16, 2009 | Frances Colpitt, “Texas Biennial”, Art in America
May 1, 2009 | Alison Hearst, “Austin: The Texas Biennial”, artcritical
April 10, 2009 | Robert Faires, “Texas Biennial 2009 - DIY: Double Wide”, The Austin Chronicle
March 27, 2009 | J R Compton, “Texas Biennial 2009”, DallasArtsRevue
March 6, 2009 | Andrew Long, “State of Wonderment”, The Austin Chronicle
February 24, 2009 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Ten Days til the Texas Biennial, Austin American-Statesman
February 20, 2009 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Two weeks til the Texas Biennial”, Austin American-Statesman
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2007 Biennial
April 30, 2007 | S. Castillo, A. Douberley, N. Moore, “Arts Review: 2007 Texas Biennial, Butridge Gallery”, The Austin Chronicle
April 18, 2007 | “Texas Biennial 2007 - John Mulvany”, Art Fairs International
April 13, 2007 | S. Castillo, A. Douberley, N. Moore, “Arts Review: 2007 Texas Biennial, Bolm Studios”, The Austin Chronicle
April 6, 2007 | S. Castillo, A. Douberley, N. Moore, “Arts Review: 2007 Texas Biennial, Okay Mountain”, The Austin Chronicle
April 6, 2007 | S. Castillo, A. Douberley, N. Moore, “Arts Review: 2007 Texas Biennial, Site 1808”, The Austin Chronicle
April 4, 2007 | J R Compton, “Putting the Bi in The Texas Biennial”, DallasArtsRevue
March 14, 2007 | Elaine Wolff, “Reading Between the Pixels”, San Antonio Current
March 2, 2007 | Nikki Moore, “Bi-ology: The Texas Biennial’s second rising”, The Austin Chronicle
March 1, 2007 | Rachel Cook, “The Texas Biennial: Our Salon des Refusés?”, Glasstire
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2005 Biennial
April 1, 2005 | Rebecca S. Cohen, “Texas Biennial 2005”, Art Lies
April 2, 2005 | J R Compton, “The Texas Biennial”, Glasstire
March 8, 2005 | Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Brushed with Greatness”, Austin American-Statesman
March 8, 2005 | J R Compton, “The 2005 Texas Biennial”, DallasArtsRevue
March 4, 2005 | Robert Faires, “Do It Yourself Biennial”, The Austin Chronicle
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Media Release Archive
January 1, 2013 | Texas Biennial Announces 2013 Open Call for Art
December 10, 2012 | Texas Biennial Announces 2013 Curators
October 19, 2012 | Texas Biennial Announces 2013 Dates and Venues
April 16, 2011 | Texas Biennial Announces Art Lies Collaboration
April 6, 2011 | Texas Biennial Announces Invited Artists
March 31, 2011 | Texas Biennial Opening Events and Venues
February 2, 2011 | Glasstire Sponsors 2011 Texas Biennial with Special Events Calendar
December 13, 2010 | Texas Biennial Artists Selected, Project Expands Statewide
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Images
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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, a project of the Texas Biennial, March 10-12, 2013 |
Reading at "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place", March 2013, Austin Texas (Photo: Amanda Winkles) |
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2011
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| Christie Blizard performed The Give-Away Project in Austin for TX★11 (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★11 Susi Brister, R & T and Frosted Mongolian in Fallen Leaves (2009), pigment print on hahnemühle photo rag paper, 44 x 44" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★11 Matthew Bourbon, Happy House (2010), acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 x 2” (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★11 Mary Ellen Carroll, prototype 180 (2010), Houston, TX (Photo: Kenny Trice, courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★11 Catherine Colangelo, Fleet for Abby Boat 7 - Lotte (2011), gouache and pencil on Okawara paper; 20 x 30 1/2" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★11 Gabriel Dawe, Plexus No. 5 (2011) at Pump Project Art Complex, Austin (Photo: Don Mason, courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★11 Esteban Delgado, Trivial (2010), acrylic on panel, 24 x 22 x 1" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★11 Cassandra Emswiler, Hemispheres / Spacia bridge / Austin - Houston (2011), mixed media, installation variable (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★11 Michael Anthony García, Bilocate (2010), mixed media including light fixture and architectural elements, 72 x 48 x 96" (Photo courtesy Texas Biennial) | TX★11 Anthony Garza, Aard_Cardinal_Mountain_Carrier (2010), watercolor on Arches paper, 40 x 60" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★11 Lori Giesler, IFTP9 (2010), oil on panel, 36 x 32 x 1 ¼" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★11 Rigoberto A. Gonzales, The Zetas Cartel Beheading Their Rivals (Se Los Cargo La Chingada) (2010), oil on linen; 84 x 84 x 5" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| Timothy Harding's window installation Don't Forget to Dot the I in Power and Margarita Cabrera's roving Mexico Abre la Boca in the background at TX★11 venue BOX 13 ArtSpace, Houston (Courtesy the artists and BOX 13 ArtSpace) | TJ Hunt performs The True Artist Carries the Weight of the World in Austin for TX★11 (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| Dion Laurent performs Earthman 2 in Austin for TX★11 (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★11 Jessica Mallios, 1:1 (2011), high definition video with sound, 4:13 mins., looped single channel projection (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★11 Tom Orr, Onagadori (2010), wood, laminate, plexiglass; 59 x 68 x 40" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★11 Ricardo Paniagua, Fresh Gong Go Bong Bong (2010), enamel and lacquer on canvas, 72 x 43" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★11 Jason Reed, Border (2010), high definition video with no sound, 6:15 mins., looped single channel projection (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★11 Barry Stone, Alan Greenspan as a Rainbow in Washington D.C. on October 23, 2009, 12.20.2009 (2009), archival inkjet print, 24 x 36", Edition of 10 (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★11 Shane Tolbert, Mirror (2010), sodium chlorine solution on commercially dyed fiber, 79 x 79 x 1 3⁄4" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★11 Cathie Tyler, Caged Sky (2009), oil on board, 12 x 12 x 2" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| Alyce Santoro discusses her exhibition "The Synergetic Omni-Solution" at TX★11 participating organization Ballroom Marfa (Courtesy the artist and Ballroom Marfa) | "Like a Whole Other Country? The State of Contemporary Art in Texas", (L-R) Alison de Lima Greene, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Richard Shiff, David Pagel, Margarita Cabrera and Virginia Rutledge at a TX★11 panel co- presented by Art Lies at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (Photo courtesy Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★11 participating organization Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery performing Unpacking Access in Austin (Courtesy the artists and Texas Biennial) |
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2009
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| TX★09 tribute artist Kelly Fearing (1918–2011) beneath his Spirit Deer at a Yellow Edge (1970) at Women & Their Work, Austin (Photo: Steve Hopson, courtesy Texas Biennial) | TX★09 William Cannings, Kink (2008), steel and paint, 48 x 38 x 16” (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★09 Andy Coolquitt, Wink Wink (2008), mixed media, 44 x 24 x 5" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★09 Lee Baxter Davis, Sitter DeeBee (2007), ink wash, watercolor and collage on paper, 28 x 20” (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★09 Celia Eberle, Shadow (2008), bone, coral, jet, 7 x 4 1/4 x 3 1/2" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★09 curator Michael Duncan on a studio visit with artist Heyd Fontenot (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★09 Jules Buck Jones, Warthogramhawk (2008), mixed media on paper, 84 x 72” (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★09 Ken Little, Homeland Security (2009) installed at the Long Center, Austin (Photo: Ken Little, courtesy Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★09 Raychael Stine, The Annunciation (2008), acrylic and oil on canvas, 24 x 20" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) |
TX★09 installed at the Mexican-American Cultural Center, Austin (Photo courtesy Texas Biennial) |
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2007
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| TX★07 Andrew Anderson, Blue Crush (2006), acrylic and oil on board, 24 x 24 (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★07 William Hundley, Venison (2006), lightjet print mounted on plexi, 22.5 x 30" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★07 Tom Matthews, Surplus IV (2007), chairs and mixed media (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★07 Linda Pace (1945–2007), Mirror Mirror (2007), mixed media, 108 x 54" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★07 Soody Sharifi, Mr. & Mrs. (2006), photograph, 13 x 25" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★07 Gary Sweeney, JFK (2007), installation of plastic cups and chain-link fence (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) |
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2005
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| TX★05 Elaine Bradford, By the Fire (2004), mounted deer head, yarn, buttons, faux fireplace, 72 x 44 x 21" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | TX★05 Peat Duggins, The Gathering: II Evening (2005), acrylic on canvas, 100 x 72" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) | |
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| TX★05 Faith Gay, Langleybandontherun (2004), acrylic on paper, 30 x 30" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) |
TX★05 Tara Welch, You Don't Give a Shit About Anyone but Yourself (2004), C-print, 22 x 18" (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial) |
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Media Kit
Click here for a downloadable PDF document that contains:
ABOUT THE TEXAS BIENNIAL
TX★13
Biennial Exhibitions ★ Artists ★ Participating Organizations ★ Curators
FAQ
SELECTED PRESS
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, "Biennial keeps expanding to showcase Texas art", Austin-American Statesman (January 6, 2013)
Robert Faires, "Miles and Miles of Canvas", The Austin Chronicle (April 8, 2011)
Frances Colpitt, "Texas Biennial", Art in America (June 16, 2009)
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