Chronicle Critics Table Nominations

Have you checked the Austin Chronicle’s Critics Table Awards nominations for 2007-2008? Women & Their Work is in effect:

Pattern Pattern Pattern, curated by our own Katherine McQueen and Lisa Choinacky, garnered a nomination for best Group Gallery Exhibition. Women & Their Work also got a nod for best “Gallery, Body of Work”.

Yoon Cho has had a really busy past couple months: She was named one of Austin’s “20 Artists to Watch” in the Austin Museum of Art’s triennial New Art in Austin exhibition, and she just wrapped up her solo show, Nothing Lasts Forever, here at Women & Their Work. Her W&TW show got nominated for best Solo Exhibition, and Yoon was nominated for best artist. Go Yoon!

Yoon’s fellow 20 to Watch artist Jill Pangallo–who has performed at W&TW and organized our upcoming Reality Show exhibition–also scored a Critics Table nomination for best artist. And, her dreamy, creepily iconic Note to Self piece from the AMOA show was nominated for best Work of Art!
We’re so proud of these gals (American Girl Doll included).

BLU we love you!

If you haven’t seen it yet, you simply must check out the newest wall animation from BLU.

Double Fantasy

Here’s a couple of slices from the Fuse Box Collaboration Project at Big Medium Gallery from last Saturday night, featuring the work of our own Lisa Choinacky (Women & Their Work’s Operations Manager) and NYC artist Jake Borndal. The Fuse Box collaboration pairs five different Austin-based artists with artists from different locations and media for two exhibitions: Double Reality, in which the artists show their solo work side by side, and Double Fantasy, the tag-team work of the paired artists. These pics are taken from the Double Fantasy collab. See that little radio there? It only plays the weather station.

The words on the shower curtain are taken verbatim from a mysterious text message Jake received while they were conceptualizing their work. True story!

Oh, how I could generate volumes about the work of Lisa Choinacky in general, but Nat Russell already beat me to the punch.

May GiftShop Sale!

Women & Their Work is celebrating 30 years of helping women artists, and for the month of May, the GiftShop will offer 30% off many gifts. It’s a great place to get the perfect Mother’s Day gift. Don’t forget, Mother’s Day is May 11.

Look for the pink dots!

“I know what it feels like to be a wife that no one pays attention to…”

We all know that female artists are underrepresented in galleries and art history tomes in addition to earning less than their male counterparts. Duh–that’s one of the main reasons Women & Their Work exists. But as a new documentary reveals, there’s another annoying peril that awaits the woman artist: the boyfriend who can’t deal with your success.

Even though photographer Cindy Sherman was already a certified art star with a celebrated 20-year career under her belt when she met and fell in love with filmmaker Paul H-O in the mid-90s, the dude seems utterly taken aback that her lifestyle had a certain corresponding cachet that his lacked. According to H-O in his new doc Guest of Cindy Sherman, he suffered while dating Sherman because his identity “went into hibernation or was subsumed by this much greater force… In the old days there were these things called Rolodexes with little cards. Mine had like 10 cards, and hers had 1,000. And, you know, Salman Rushdie would be in hers. Her world was a lot bigger and more powerful than mine.”

Awww. Wouldn’t it have been a lot hotter of him to acknowledge how lucky he was to share five interesting years with a rad, creative lady? And as for his assertion, “I know what it feels like to be a wife that no one pays attention to”–implying that because he is male, he shouldn’t have to occupy the role of less-famous partner? So. Over it. And Cindy Sherman is apparently over it, too.
I Dated Cindy Sherman…and All I Got Was This Documentary[Salon]
Cindy Sherman’s Un-Famous Ex-Boyfriend Finds That “Being A Wife” Is the Pits[Jezebel]

Los Outsiders Interview Katy Heinlein

As you may already know, Katy Heinlein’s W&TW show Unknown Pleasures aroused much curiosity. Maybe this chat with the artist recorded by Los Outsiders will dispel some of the mystery. Check it:

http://losoutsiders.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/artist-katy-heinlein/