On Saturday, October 30 at Colab join MASS Gallery at the Vortex Brainsaw Massacre. Come see how MASS does nasty, gory, shocking, confusing, awesome, scary, hairy, D.A.R.E-y, brainy, Halloweeny insanity!!!!

To gear up for such a deprivation, MASS Gallery will present two horror classics The Tenant and Suspiria outside on the grounds of Co-Lab, 613 Allen. BYOB, Free and open to all!

On view at CoLab by appointment Oct 8th – Oct 15th 2010
Opening: Friday, October 8th, 7-11PM

Hours:
Open Wednesday, October 13th, 6-8pm
Closing Reception: Friday, October 15th, 7-11PM

MASS and CoLab present a new installation of drawings by Anthony W. Garza.

CoLab is located at:
613 Allen St
Austin, TX 78702
(512) 300-8217
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Thursday, September 9, 2010 7:00 – 10:00pm
in the TACC Visualization Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin ACES Building 2.404a

The exhibition presents digital and interactive artwork from local and national artists, including:
Leigh Brodie, Sam Sanford, Ali Miharbi, exCorporation, Duncan Malashock, James Willard Pierce, Robert Boland, Jeanne Stern, and Jenny Vogel, in TACC’s Visualization Laboratory, a new venue for digital art in Austin.

Meet the artists, view their work, and enjoy light refreshments.

Please RSVP to rsvp@tacc.utexas.edu OR on the Facebook Event Page!

MASS Presents at Big Medium

Opening with Special Performance: Saturday, June 5, 8-11 PM

Gallery Hours: M, T, TH, F 10 AM-4 PM, W 7-9 PM, SA 12-5 PM

In the years 2009-2015, the Totally Wreck Production Institute conducted a series of experiments investigating the qualities and curiosities of technological foreplay. Visions of progress and product were set aside, and instead, the identity of failure was sought out as a milestone containing shrouded and inherent success. Inconclusive dilemmas became holy events with hidden meaning and techno-spiritual meditations. The romance of technology within the members of the institution shed the layers of traditional clinical procedure, and instead, anarchic and unorthodox practices became felicitous excursions. Investors quickly ceased their funding of these experiments, based on an overwhelming fear that the institute’s pursuit of scientific conquest appeared to be slipping deeply into the palms of the psychotic/avant-garde.

However, in the eyes and brains of the institute, the reward of failed experimentation unveiled the antithesis of post-evolutionary change, as well as the capacity of love to undue ones’ own estate. “This is the foreplay of our own cognitive architecture,” declared one of the institute’s head scientists.

Alas, The Totally Wreck Production Institute is proud to present evidence of failure in these technological dark ages. The findings in these experiments were varied, but one fact remained consistently clear: IN SCIENCE, THE LION SLEEPS WITH THE LAMB.

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, March 6th, 8-11 p.m
LIVE MUSIC AND ARTIST CONVERSATION: Saturday, March 13th, 2-5 p.m
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday 7-9 p.m, Saturday 12-5 p.m

To begin our 2010 season, MASS Gallery is pleased to present Over, a new collaborative installation created by Austin-based artists, Ilea Avalos, Andrea Bonin, and Megan Kincheloe.

Over is the group’s collective process of reconciliation between the desire to hold on to time, to remember, and time as an impersonal force. The artists use handmade plaster bricks to create larger structures that represent units of counting and the building blocks of memory. Avalos, Bonin, and Kincheloe share an aesthetic that involves both a sense of structuring as well as collapsing. The project is a meditation on the human process of resolving what ultimately might be loss.

Avalos, Bonin, and Kincheloe are all recent graduates of the University of Texas at Austin where they each received a B.F.A in Studio Art and began the early parts of their collaborative relationship.  They each have shown work independently in various venues around Austin and this is their first full-scale project together.

Over will be on view from March 6th through March 27th.  In addition to the opening reception, MASS invites the public to join us for a day of live music and informal conversation about Over on Saturday, March 13th from 2 – 5 p.m. More details to come, so please check our website for more information.

MASS is an independent, artist-run project space in East Austin committed to presenting compelling work by contemporary artists in a non-commercial setting. Brought together by a shared interest in site-specific and multi-disciplinary contemporary art practice, MASS encourages ambitious, experimental art and curating in film/video, social practice, music, painting, drawing and sculpture that otherwise would not have a voice or venue. MASS seeks to aid emerging artists from Austin, Texas and beyond during a crucial point in their careers, encouraging them to create projects that broaden the usual scope of their art making practice.

Founded in 2006 in a former auto body shop and the current Blue Theater complex, MASS is open to proposals from committed artists and curators.

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over rationalized structure
of “nothingness.”  The use of reductive grid, pattern, structure,
omission
entropy
restrain
fixate
struggle for control
visually representing -ration order represented with
submitting to
stoic
self restrained, self denial

human attempt at controlling and structure. made by hand, at times the sentiment leaks through to expose a beautiful release.

connections

conscious, careful, thoughtful structuring and building

pure sentiment depends on the devotion to find order

memory- transform memory, emotion and how we code memory.
memory vs. omission
remembering feeling, releasing
catharsis, capturing something within a sense of hand has to do with a kind of coding a sentiment or memory into something physical
our process is this. doing it and thinking it, past gestures

time

memory

counting. measuring time in our gestures and slide of hand.
grid, relativity
an attempt to grasp the passing time, to own it and control it

MASS Gallery presents Color Spaces, an exhibition of new paintings and video by Austin artist Sam Sanford.

Sanford’s works form an extended investigation into the three-color system at the foundation of the world of images we now inhabit.

Nineteenth-century advances in optics and pigment technology gave us the ability to capture and reproduce a full range of color using only three photoreceptors or pigments – without this three-color (RGB/CMY) system, color photography and film, television, compression of digital images and video, and the Internet as we know it would not be possible.

In order to work directly with the red, green, and blue information encoded in digital source images, Sanford paints with only cyan, magenta, and yellow paint, applied in successive transparent layers. By interfering with the normal functioning of the three-color system – selectively displacing, distorting, and deleting information – the artist brings the color system itself to the foreground, exposing its limitations and undermining its claim to represent reality while revealing new formal possibilities and layers of meaning.

In this exhibition, the three-color system serves as an analogy for technology and the scientific enterprise, illustrating how our increasing understanding of and control over all aspects of the world both enriches and impoverishes our experience, and how any seemingly clean and closed system hides a wealth of dirt and complexity at its margins.

Sam Sanford was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1977. His work has been exhibited at various galleries in Austin and at the University of Texas at Dallas. This is his first solo show.

MASS Gallery is pleased to present Funky Junction Oracles, an exhibition of new works by Austin-based artist Dylan Reece.

On view from October 17th to November 7th, Funky Junction Oracles employs a variety of media — prints, photography, painting, animated GIFs, and sculpture — to illustrate Reece’s attempt to fix meaning in a world characterized by ever increasing flows of information and rapid change in the complexity of social systems. Drawing from a range of sources that include the pop-metaphysics of the ’70s, the classical art of Greece and Rome, the internet, vintage nature books, rave culture, and Modernism in art, the imagery for much of the work is unified by an underlying sense of idealism and progress gone awry.

Reece’s formal strategy incorporates a wry sense of humor, a graphic bluntness, and campy rehashings of art historical tropes to examine the space between the idealistic ethos of his source materials and their failure to realize these goals over the course of history.

Dylan Reece was born in in Garland, Texas in 1982. He received a B.F.A. in Design from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. He has exhibited work at the UT Dallas CentralTrak, Okay Mountain Project Space, MASS Gallery, the Creative Research Laboratory, LMNL Gallery, The Austin Museum of Digital Art, and the Helen Day Art Center in Vermont.

For more info checkout dylan-reece.com

Don’t Let Your Time Do You is an experimental collaboration between two Austin artists, Dave Bryant and Nathan Green. This exhibition will feature a large-scale sculpture composed of found objects, peripheral art materials, and handmade objects that aim to transform MASS Gallery into a desert island paradise cum defunct natural history museum. Through the ramshackle construction and idiosyncratic aesthetic of the environment, the exhibition can be viewed as a sculptural collage that blurs tradition notions of landscape, abstraction, nature, and artifice.

MASS has recently acquired some super duper talented new staff members and to celebrate we’re having a staff show! There will be paintings, installations, sculpture and video by the MASS staff as well as the customary cold beverages.

The show will feature work by:

• Anthony Garza
• Max Juren
• Xochi Solis
• Andrea Bonin
• Carlos Rosales-Silva
• Sam Sanford
• Michelle Devereux
• Duncan Malashock
• Scott Eastwood
• Drew Liverman

You dreamed about the same creep I did. – Tina, Nightmare on Elm Street

Sinks’ work examines the way bits of information are transferred from source to source and the space that exists between sources. As information travels, the space between each bit fluctuates, drawing representation nearer to the truth while distancing the two through editing processes, new discoveries, new technologies, and living language.

mardröm investigates the mythological creature, mara, and the popular horror series, Nightmare on Elm Street. Centuries ago, the mara slowly permeated Europe, taking on new forms in different regions as culture after culture adapted the story. Modern media innovations for entertainment and communication have compounded the spread of information, forcing parts of mara to be lost and expanded upon, spawning countless monsters, urban legends, and nightmares.

Corkey Sinks was born in Dallas, Texas in 1983. She received an integrated B.A. in Media Studies from the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands, CA in 2005. Shortly after moving to Austin in 2006, Sinks joined Okay Mountain and, in 2007, she became a founding member of the multimedia collective, Austin Video Bee.