https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

As Austin continues to take in more people, whether visiting or relocating to the Capital City, new residences have to get creative about all the coming and going. Natiivo, a sold-out condominium complex built in partnership with Airbnb in the popular Rainey Street District, is streamlining the rentals approach with built-in home-sharing management and hotel amenities.

The concept allows a compromise in an already-crowded city between luxury traveling accommodations and individual ownership. To bring in a little more local spirit, Natiivo is partnering with New York design consultancy Indiewalls to decorate the building with work created by 12 Texas artists. The multimedia works will appear throughout the building, as well as in a top-floor gallery.

The artwork follows different themes: Emily Eisenhart uses transparency to evoke the Texas sun, while Angela Navarro pays tribute to Austin with large-scale impressionist works, and Kerry Hugins creates local flowers in watercolors. The group came together from past Indiewalls projects and through organic artist searches through social media.

“I did not want to provide any guidance or strict design direction for the artists,” says Indiewalls art curator Sarah Hatahet. “I wanted to showcase the artists and their works in their purest forms to be appreciated in the same sense as one would experience them in an art gallery. I did not want the artwork to seem forced or too curated.”

A column on the 33rd floor will sport a wraparound mural from Michael W. Hall, inspired by the abstract gradient line work popular in 1970s art. The curvy shapes twist around the cylinder in reds, blues, oranges, and yellows, simultaneously crowding each other out and propelling each other up in an organic splash. The artist attributes the design to the Austin landscape visible from the high-rise.

“I looked out over the undulations of Lady Bird Lake and the swaying peaks of the cypress trees along the water’s edge, the vibrant energy of downtown and the east side, the vaulting towers of the growing skyline, and the waves of the Hill Country in the distance on the western horizon,” Hall says. “My mural concept is a response to all of these: the movement of the natural environment, the rhythm of downtown, and the upward vertical launch of our ever-growing city.”

Hall’s work is driven by similar organic lines in vivid colors, often paired with a more chaotic wood grain that complements the evenness of the painted forms. In a video with Indiewalls, he works on a tornado-inspired piece and discusses the freedom of custom-cut wood panels — a luxury he didn’t have in planning his Natiivo mural. Still, he maintains some negative space at the top of the column that allows him to avoid the blocky form.

Each artist working on the Natiivo project will make a similar video explaining their design and execution processes, and discussing local inspiration throughout their work. The series breaks down specific works in context, taking a less-common narrative angle about where pieces end up once they’re finished. Hopefully, the series helps bring Texas works to a wider audience that may know nothing of the state or its artists.

Indiewalls is uploading videos to its YouTube channel one by one as the works go up and people start moving in to Natiivo.

Read These Next
Edgar Rico 8 top Austin chefs cooking with passion and feeding the city’s soul Outdoor Voices Houston promo shot 3 fun ways for Austin to get out and celebrate Earth Day 2022 The Republic New tower set to rise near Austin’s iconic Republic Square Park

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

Documenting the work of Artists across Austin
An inclusive platform for a diverse group of artists to showcase their work year round. Encouraging collections, creating connections, and building relationships around artists and their creative practices.

https://artistregistry.bigmedium.org/artists/kerryhugins

Opening Reception Saturday, April 30, 2022 from 4pm til 7pm,

On Shelter, celebrates the paintings, photographs, poetry, and sculpture of 16 artists and one poet. In this exhibition, our artists express the idea of shelter in its broad range of forms, from barns and the sheltering sky to kindness and the embrace of community.

4th Street Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery in Blanco, Texas. We are a venue for Texas artists and beyond with a special eye on artists with roots in Blanco and the Hill Country area. We look forward to meeting you in the coming days!

Since the current exhibition is themed On Shelter, we are donating five percent of the proceeds to the Blanco Good Samaritan Center in honor of Blanco’s Random Acts of Kindness Group. https://4thstreetgallery.com/show/4th-street-gallery-on-shelter

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

As Austin continues to take in more people, whether visiting or relocating to the Capital City, new residences have to get creative about all the coming and going. Natiivo, a sold-out condominium complex built in partnership with Airbnb in the popular Rainey Street District, is streamlining the rentals approach with built-in home-sharing management and hotel amenities.

The concept allows a compromise in an already-crowded city between luxury traveling accommodations and individual ownership. To bring in a little more local spirit, Natiivo is partnering with New York design consultancy Indiewalls to decorate the building with work created by 12 Texas artists. The multimedia works will appear throughout the building, as well as in a top-floor gallery.

The artwork follows different themes: Emily Eisenhart uses transparency to evoke the Texas sun, while Angela Navarro pays tribute to Austin with large-scale impressionist works, and Kerry Hugins creates local flowers in watercolors. The group came together from past Indiewalls projects and through organic artist searches through social media.

“I did not want to provide any guidance or strict design direction for the artists,” says Indiewalls art curator Sarah Hatahet. “I wanted to showcase the artists and their works in their purest forms to be appreciated in the same sense as one would experience them in an art gallery. I did not want the artwork to seem forced or too curated.”

A column on the 33rd floor will sport a wraparound mural from Michael W. Hall, inspired by the abstract gradient line work popular in 1970s art. The curvy shapes twist around the cylinder in reds, blues, oranges, and yellows, simultaneously crowding each other out and propelling each other up in an organic splash. The artist attributes the design to the Austin landscape visible from the high-rise.

“I looked out over the undulations of Lady Bird Lake and the swaying peaks of the cypress trees along the water’s edge, the vibrant energy of downtown and the east side, the vaulting towers of the growing skyline, and the waves of the Hill Country in the distance on the western horizon,” Hall says. “My mural concept is a response to all of these: the movement of the natural environment, the rhythm of downtown, and the upward vertical launch of our ever-growing city.”

Hall’s work is driven by similar organic lines in vivid colors, often paired with a more chaotic wood grain that complements the evenness of the painted forms. In a video with Indiewalls, he works on a tornado-inspired piece and discusses the freedom of custom-cut wood panels — a luxury he didn’t have in planning his Natiivo mural. Still, he maintains some negative space at the top of the column that allows him to avoid the blocky form.

Each artist working on the Natiivo project will make a similar video explaining their design and execution processes, and discussing local inspiration throughout their work. The series breaks down specific works in context, taking a less-common narrative angle about where pieces end up once they’re finished. Hopefully, the series helps bring Texas works to a wider audience that may know nothing of the state or its artists.

Indiewalls is uploading videos to its YouTube channel one by one as the works go up and people start moving in to Natiivo.

Read These Next
Edgar Rico 8 top Austin chefs cooking with passion and feeding the city’s soul Outdoor Voices Houston promo shot 3 fun ways for Austin to get out and celebrate Earth Day 2022 The Republic New tower set to rise near Austin’s iconic Republic Square Park

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

Documenting the work of Artists across Austin
An inclusive platform for a diverse group of artists to showcase their work year round. Encouraging collections, creating connections, and building relationships around artists and their creative practices.

https://artistregistry.bigmedium.org/artists/kerryhugins

Opening Reception Saturday, April 30, 2022 from 4pm til 7pm,

On Shelter, celebrates the paintings, photographs, poetry, and sculpture of 16 artists and one poet. In this exhibition, our artists express the idea of shelter in its broad range of forms, from barns and the sheltering sky to kindness and the embrace of community.

4th Street Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery in Blanco, Texas. We are a venue for Texas artists and beyond with a special eye on artists with roots in Blanco and the Hill Country area. We look forward to meeting you in the coming days!

Since the current exhibition is themed On Shelter, we are donating five percent of the proceeds to the Blanco Good Samaritan Center in honor of Blanco’s Random Acts of Kindness Group. https://4thstreetgallery.com/show/4th-street-gallery-on-shelter

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

As Austin continues to take in more people, whether visiting or relocating to the Capital City, new residences have to get creative about all the coming and going. Natiivo, a sold-out condominium complex built in partnership with Airbnb in the popular Rainey Street District, is streamlining the rentals approach with built-in home-sharing management and hotel amenities.

The concept allows a compromise in an already-crowded city between luxury traveling accommodations and individual ownership. To bring in a little more local spirit, Natiivo is partnering with New York design consultancy Indiewalls to decorate the building with work created by 12 Texas artists. The multimedia works will appear throughout the building, as well as in a top-floor gallery.

The artwork follows different themes: Emily Eisenhart uses transparency to evoke the Texas sun, while Angela Navarro pays tribute to Austin with large-scale impressionist works, and Kerry Hugins creates local flowers in watercolors. The group came together from past Indiewalls projects and through organic artist searches through social media.

“I did not want to provide any guidance or strict design direction for the artists,” says Indiewalls art curator Sarah Hatahet. “I wanted to showcase the artists and their works in their purest forms to be appreciated in the same sense as one would experience them in an art gallery. I did not want the artwork to seem forced or too curated.”

A column on the 33rd floor will sport a wraparound mural from Michael W. Hall, inspired by the abstract gradient line work popular in 1970s art. The curvy shapes twist around the cylinder in reds, blues, oranges, and yellows, simultaneously crowding each other out and propelling each other up in an organic splash. The artist attributes the design to the Austin landscape visible from the high-rise.

“I looked out over the undulations of Lady Bird Lake and the swaying peaks of the cypress trees along the water’s edge, the vibrant energy of downtown and the east side, the vaulting towers of the growing skyline, and the waves of the Hill Country in the distance on the western horizon,” Hall says. “My mural concept is a response to all of these: the movement of the natural environment, the rhythm of downtown, and the upward vertical launch of our ever-growing city.”

Hall’s work is driven by similar organic lines in vivid colors, often paired with a more chaotic wood grain that complements the evenness of the painted forms. In a video with Indiewalls, he works on a tornado-inspired piece and discusses the freedom of custom-cut wood panels — a luxury he didn’t have in planning his Natiivo mural. Still, he maintains some negative space at the top of the column that allows him to avoid the blocky form.

Each artist working on the Natiivo project will make a similar video explaining their design and execution processes, and discussing local inspiration throughout their work. The series breaks down specific works in context, taking a less-common narrative angle about where pieces end up once they’re finished. Hopefully, the series helps bring Texas works to a wider audience that may know nothing of the state or its artists.

Indiewalls is uploading videos to its YouTube channel one by one as the works go up and people start moving in to Natiivo.

Read These Next
Edgar Rico 8 top Austin chefs cooking with passion and feeding the city’s soul Outdoor Voices Houston promo shot 3 fun ways for Austin to get out and celebrate Earth Day 2022 The Republic New tower set to rise near Austin’s iconic Republic Square Park

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

Documenting the work of Artists across Austin
An inclusive platform for a diverse group of artists to showcase their work year round. Encouraging collections, creating connections, and building relationships around artists and their creative practices.

https://artistregistry.bigmedium.org/artists/kerryhugins

Opening Reception Saturday, April 30, 2022 from 4pm til 7pm,

On Shelter, celebrates the paintings, photographs, poetry, and sculpture of 16 artists and one poet. In this exhibition, our artists express the idea of shelter in its broad range of forms, from barns and the sheltering sky to kindness and the embrace of community.

4th Street Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery in Blanco, Texas. We are a venue for Texas artists and beyond with a special eye on artists with roots in Blanco and the Hill Country area. We look forward to meeting you in the coming days!

Since the current exhibition is themed On Shelter, we are donating five percent of the proceeds to the Blanco Good Samaritan Center in honor of Blanco’s Random Acts of Kindness Group. https://4thstreetgallery.com/show/4th-street-gallery-on-shelter

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

As Austin continues to take in more people, whether visiting or relocating to the Capital City, new residences have to get creative about all the coming and going. Natiivo, a sold-out condominium complex built in partnership with Airbnb in the popular Rainey Street District, is streamlining the rentals approach with built-in home-sharing management and hotel amenities.

The concept allows a compromise in an already-crowded city between luxury traveling accommodations and individual ownership. To bring in a little more local spirit, Natiivo is partnering with New York design consultancy Indiewalls to decorate the building with work created by 12 Texas artists. The multimedia works will appear throughout the building, as well as in a top-floor gallery.

The artwork follows different themes: Emily Eisenhart uses transparency to evoke the Texas sun, while Angela Navarro pays tribute to Austin with large-scale impressionist works, and Kerry Hugins creates local flowers in watercolors. The group came together from past Indiewalls projects and through organic artist searches through social media.

“I did not want to provide any guidance or strict design direction for the artists,” says Indiewalls art curator Sarah Hatahet. “I wanted to showcase the artists and their works in their purest forms to be appreciated in the same sense as one would experience them in an art gallery. I did not want the artwork to seem forced or too curated.”

A column on the 33rd floor will sport a wraparound mural from Michael W. Hall, inspired by the abstract gradient line work popular in 1970s art. The curvy shapes twist around the cylinder in reds, blues, oranges, and yellows, simultaneously crowding each other out and propelling each other up in an organic splash. The artist attributes the design to the Austin landscape visible from the high-rise.

“I looked out over the undulations of Lady Bird Lake and the swaying peaks of the cypress trees along the water’s edge, the vibrant energy of downtown and the east side, the vaulting towers of the growing skyline, and the waves of the Hill Country in the distance on the western horizon,” Hall says. “My mural concept is a response to all of these: the movement of the natural environment, the rhythm of downtown, and the upward vertical launch of our ever-growing city.”

Hall’s work is driven by similar organic lines in vivid colors, often paired with a more chaotic wood grain that complements the evenness of the painted forms. In a video with Indiewalls, he works on a tornado-inspired piece and discusses the freedom of custom-cut wood panels — a luxury he didn’t have in planning his Natiivo mural. Still, he maintains some negative space at the top of the column that allows him to avoid the blocky form.

Each artist working on the Natiivo project will make a similar video explaining their design and execution processes, and discussing local inspiration throughout their work. The series breaks down specific works in context, taking a less-common narrative angle about where pieces end up once they’re finished. Hopefully, the series helps bring Texas works to a wider audience that may know nothing of the state or its artists.

Indiewalls is uploading videos to its YouTube channel one by one as the works go up and people start moving in to Natiivo.

Read These Next
Edgar Rico 8 top Austin chefs cooking with passion and feeding the city’s soul Outdoor Voices Houston promo shot 3 fun ways for Austin to get out and celebrate Earth Day 2022 The Republic New tower set to rise near Austin’s iconic Republic Square Park

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

Documenting the work of Artists across Austin
An inclusive platform for a diverse group of artists to showcase their work year round. Encouraging collections, creating connections, and building relationships around artists and their creative practices.

https://artistregistry.bigmedium.org/artists/kerryhugins

This preorder will end on March 7th, 2023. Your order will ship after this time.

https://rawpaw.ink/products/west-texas-cosmos-by-kerry-huginsMy work is tilted as a colorist and an automatism painter, my name is Kerry Hugins and I live and make art in Austin, Texas.

My work also explores materiality, minimalism and the impermanent exploration of Memento vivere in wildflower paintings. The colors collected in my wildflower paintings, appear in my color exploration mood works, the two of them in a kind of wordless dialogue. Events that happened years ago can be more on my mind than what is going to happen tomorrow. I love exploring the esoteric thoughts and ways colors can be used to evoke the sensory agregates. I am an avid meditator, my perspective growing up was scattered and unintegrated, a this and that mixture, but meditation has shown me that my steps I take in making art is my contribution to the greater consciousness we share. 

https://www.instagram.com/karawaane

• Shirts are printed on 100% cotton unisex shirts
• Due to the small size of our business, all sales are final.

Hooray for Animals!

Hip hip(po) hooray for the animal kingdom, so diverse and majestic!
This November we’re celebrating creatures with a group show featuring a variety of mediums.
Bonus: the work will be priced on the cheap (since it’ll be the pre-holiday season). 
Yay animals!!!

opening reception: Saturday, November 5 (6- 9pm)

additional viewing hours: Saturday, November 12 (1-4pm) 

Opening Reception Saturday, April 30, 2022 from 4pm til 7pm,

On Shelter, celebrates the paintings, photographs, poetry, and sculpture of 16 artists and one poet. In this exhibition, our artists express the idea of shelter in its broad range of forms, from barns and the sheltering sky to kindness and the embrace of community.

4th Street Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery in Blanco, Texas. We are a venue for Texas artists and beyond with a special eye on artists with roots in Blanco and the Hill Country area. We look forward to meeting you in the coming days!

Since the current exhibition is themed On Shelter, we are donating five percent of the proceeds to the Blanco Good Samaritan Center in honor of Blanco’s Random Acts of Kindness Group. https://4thstreetgallery.com/show/4th-street-gallery-on-shelter

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

As Austin continues to take in more people, whether visiting or relocating to the Capital City, new residences have to get creative about all the coming and going. Natiivo, a sold-out condominium complex built in partnership with Airbnb in the popular Rainey Street District, is streamlining the rentals approach with built-in home-sharing management and hotel amenities.

The concept allows a compromise in an already-crowded city between luxury traveling accommodations and individual ownership. To bring in a little more local spirit, Natiivo is partnering with New York design consultancy Indiewalls to decorate the building with work created by 12 Texas artists. The multimedia works will appear throughout the building, as well as in a top-floor gallery.

The artwork follows different themes: Emily Eisenhart uses transparency to evoke the Texas sun, while Angela Navarro pays tribute to Austin with large-scale impressionist works, and Kerry Hugins creates local flowers in watercolors. The group came together from past Indiewalls projects and through organic artist searches through social media.

“I did not want to provide any guidance or strict design direction for the artists,” says Indiewalls art curator Sarah Hatahet. “I wanted to showcase the artists and their works in their purest forms to be appreciated in the same sense as one would experience them in an art gallery. I did not want the artwork to seem forced or too curated.”

A column on the 33rd floor will sport a wraparound mural from Michael W. Hall, inspired by the abstract gradient line work popular in 1970s art. The curvy shapes twist around the cylinder in reds, blues, oranges, and yellows, simultaneously crowding each other out and propelling each other up in an organic splash. The artist attributes the design to the Austin landscape visible from the high-rise.

“I looked out over the undulations of Lady Bird Lake and the swaying peaks of the cypress trees along the water’s edge, the vibrant energy of downtown and the east side, the vaulting towers of the growing skyline, and the waves of the Hill Country in the distance on the western horizon,” Hall says. “My mural concept is a response to all of these: the movement of the natural environment, the rhythm of downtown, and the upward vertical launch of our ever-growing city.”

Hall’s work is driven by similar organic lines in vivid colors, often paired with a more chaotic wood grain that complements the evenness of the painted forms. In a video with Indiewalls, he works on a tornado-inspired piece and discusses the freedom of custom-cut wood panels — a luxury he didn’t have in planning his Natiivo mural. Still, he maintains some negative space at the top of the column that allows him to avoid the blocky form.

Each artist working on the Natiivo project will make a similar video explaining their design and execution processes, and discussing local inspiration throughout their work. The series breaks down specific works in context, taking a less-common narrative angle about where pieces end up once they’re finished. Hopefully, the series helps bring Texas works to a wider audience that may know nothing of the state or its artists.

Indiewalls is uploading videos to its YouTube channel one by one as the works go up and people start moving in to Natiivo.

Read These Next
Edgar Rico 8 top Austin chefs cooking with passion and feeding the city’s soul Outdoor Voices Houston promo shot 3 fun ways for Austin to get out and celebrate Earth Day 2022 The Republic New tower set to rise near Austin’s iconic Republic Square Park

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

Documenting the work of Artists across Austin
An inclusive platform for a diverse group of artists to showcase their work year round. Encouraging collections, creating connections, and building relationships around artists and their creative practices.

https://artistregistry.bigmedium.org/artists/kerryhugins

This preorder will end on March 7th, 2023. Your order will ship after this time.

https://rawpaw.ink/products/west-texas-cosmos-by-kerry-huginsMy work is tilted as a colorist and an automatism painter, my name is Kerry Hugins and I live and make art in Austin, Texas.

My work also explores materiality, minimalism and the impermanent exploration of Memento vivere in wildflower paintings. The colors collected in my wildflower paintings, appear in my color exploration mood works, the two of them in a kind of wordless dialogue. Events that happened years ago can be more on my mind than what is going to happen tomorrow. I love exploring the esoteric thoughts and ways colors can be used to evoke the sensory agregates. I am an avid meditator, my perspective growing up was scattered and unintegrated, a this and that mixture, but meditation has shown me that my steps I take in making art is my contribution to the greater consciousness we share. 

https://www.instagram.com/karawaane

• Shirts are printed on 100% cotton unisex shirts
• Due to the small size of our business, all sales are final.

Hooray for Animals!

Hip hip(po) hooray for the animal kingdom, so diverse and majestic!
This November we’re celebrating creatures with a group show featuring a variety of mediums.
Bonus: the work will be priced on the cheap (since it’ll be the pre-holiday season). 
Yay animals!!!

opening reception: Saturday, November 5 (6- 9pm)

additional viewing hours: Saturday, November 12 (1-4pm) 

Opening Reception Saturday, April 30, 2022 from 4pm til 7pm,

On Shelter, celebrates the paintings, photographs, poetry, and sculpture of 16 artists and one poet. In this exhibition, our artists express the idea of shelter in its broad range of forms, from barns and the sheltering sky to kindness and the embrace of community.

4th Street Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery in Blanco, Texas. We are a venue for Texas artists and beyond with a special eye on artists with roots in Blanco and the Hill Country area. We look forward to meeting you in the coming days!

Since the current exhibition is themed On Shelter, we are donating five percent of the proceeds to the Blanco Good Samaritan Center in honor of Blanco’s Random Acts of Kindness Group. https://4thstreetgallery.com/show/4th-street-gallery-on-shelter

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

As Austin continues to take in more people, whether visiting or relocating to the Capital City, new residences have to get creative about all the coming and going. Natiivo, a sold-out condominium complex built in partnership with Airbnb in the popular Rainey Street District, is streamlining the rentals approach with built-in home-sharing management and hotel amenities.

The concept allows a compromise in an already-crowded city between luxury traveling accommodations and individual ownership. To bring in a little more local spirit, Natiivo is partnering with New York design consultancy Indiewalls to decorate the building with work created by 12 Texas artists. The multimedia works will appear throughout the building, as well as in a top-floor gallery.

The artwork follows different themes: Emily Eisenhart uses transparency to evoke the Texas sun, while Angela Navarro pays tribute to Austin with large-scale impressionist works, and Kerry Hugins creates local flowers in watercolors. The group came together from past Indiewalls projects and through organic artist searches through social media.

“I did not want to provide any guidance or strict design direction for the artists,” says Indiewalls art curator Sarah Hatahet. “I wanted to showcase the artists and their works in their purest forms to be appreciated in the same sense as one would experience them in an art gallery. I did not want the artwork to seem forced or too curated.”

A column on the 33rd floor will sport a wraparound mural from Michael W. Hall, inspired by the abstract gradient line work popular in 1970s art. The curvy shapes twist around the cylinder in reds, blues, oranges, and yellows, simultaneously crowding each other out and propelling each other up in an organic splash. The artist attributes the design to the Austin landscape visible from the high-rise.

“I looked out over the undulations of Lady Bird Lake and the swaying peaks of the cypress trees along the water’s edge, the vibrant energy of downtown and the east side, the vaulting towers of the growing skyline, and the waves of the Hill Country in the distance on the western horizon,” Hall says. “My mural concept is a response to all of these: the movement of the natural environment, the rhythm of downtown, and the upward vertical launch of our ever-growing city.”

Hall’s work is driven by similar organic lines in vivid colors, often paired with a more chaotic wood grain that complements the evenness of the painted forms. In a video with Indiewalls, he works on a tornado-inspired piece and discusses the freedom of custom-cut wood panels — a luxury he didn’t have in planning his Natiivo mural. Still, he maintains some negative space at the top of the column that allows him to avoid the blocky form.

Each artist working on the Natiivo project will make a similar video explaining their design and execution processes, and discussing local inspiration throughout their work. The series breaks down specific works in context, taking a less-common narrative angle about where pieces end up once they’re finished. Hopefully, the series helps bring Texas works to a wider audience that may know nothing of the state or its artists.

Indiewalls is uploading videos to its YouTube channel one by one as the works go up and people start moving in to Natiivo.

Read These Next
Edgar Rico 8 top Austin chefs cooking with passion and feeding the city’s soul Outdoor Voices Houston promo shot 3 fun ways for Austin to get out and celebrate Earth Day 2022 The Republic New tower set to rise near Austin’s iconic Republic Square Park

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

Documenting the work of Artists across Austin
An inclusive platform for a diverse group of artists to showcase their work year round. Encouraging collections, creating connections, and building relationships around artists and their creative practices.

https://artistregistry.bigmedium.org/artists/kerryhugins

This preorder will end on March 7th, 2023. Your order will ship after this time.

https://rawpaw.ink/products/west-texas-cosmos-by-kerry-huginsMy work is tilted as a colorist and an automatism painter, my name is Kerry Hugins and I live and make art in Austin, Texas.

My work also explores materiality, minimalism and the impermanent exploration of Memento vivere in wildflower paintings. The colors collected in my wildflower paintings, appear in my color exploration mood works, the two of them in a kind of wordless dialogue. Events that happened years ago can be more on my mind than what is going to happen tomorrow. I love exploring the esoteric thoughts and ways colors can be used to evoke the sensory agregates. I am an avid meditator, my perspective growing up was scattered and unintegrated, a this and that mixture, but meditation has shown me that my steps I take in making art is my contribution to the greater consciousness we share. 

https://www.instagram.com/karawaane

• Shirts are printed on 100% cotton unisex shirts
• Due to the small size of our business, all sales are final.

Hooray for Animals!

Hip hip(po) hooray for the animal kingdom, so diverse and majestic!
This November we’re celebrating creatures with a group show featuring a variety of mediums.
Bonus: the work will be priced on the cheap (since it’ll be the pre-holiday season). 
Yay animals!!!

opening reception: Saturday, November 5 (6- 9pm)

additional viewing hours: Saturday, November 12 (1-4pm) 

Opening Reception Saturday, April 30, 2022 from 4pm til 7pm,

On Shelter, celebrates the paintings, photographs, poetry, and sculpture of 16 artists and one poet. In this exhibition, our artists express the idea of shelter in its broad range of forms, from barns and the sheltering sky to kindness and the embrace of community.

4th Street Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery in Blanco, Texas. We are a venue for Texas artists and beyond with a special eye on artists with roots in Blanco and the Hill Country area. We look forward to meeting you in the coming days!

Since the current exhibition is themed On Shelter, we are donating five percent of the proceeds to the Blanco Good Samaritan Center in honor of Blanco’s Random Acts of Kindness Group. https://4thstreetgallery.com/show/4th-street-gallery-on-shelter

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

As Austin continues to take in more people, whether visiting or relocating to the Capital City, new residences have to get creative about all the coming and going. Natiivo, a sold-out condominium complex built in partnership with Airbnb in the popular Rainey Street District, is streamlining the rentals approach with built-in home-sharing management and hotel amenities.

The concept allows a compromise in an already-crowded city between luxury traveling accommodations and individual ownership. To bring in a little more local spirit, Natiivo is partnering with New York design consultancy Indiewalls to decorate the building with work created by 12 Texas artists. The multimedia works will appear throughout the building, as well as in a top-floor gallery.

The artwork follows different themes: Emily Eisenhart uses transparency to evoke the Texas sun, while Angela Navarro pays tribute to Austin with large-scale impressionist works, and Kerry Hugins creates local flowers in watercolors. The group came together from past Indiewalls projects and through organic artist searches through social media.

“I did not want to provide any guidance or strict design direction for the artists,” says Indiewalls art curator Sarah Hatahet. “I wanted to showcase the artists and their works in their purest forms to be appreciated in the same sense as one would experience them in an art gallery. I did not want the artwork to seem forced or too curated.”

A column on the 33rd floor will sport a wraparound mural from Michael W. Hall, inspired by the abstract gradient line work popular in 1970s art. The curvy shapes twist around the cylinder in reds, blues, oranges, and yellows, simultaneously crowding each other out and propelling each other up in an organic splash. The artist attributes the design to the Austin landscape visible from the high-rise.

“I looked out over the undulations of Lady Bird Lake and the swaying peaks of the cypress trees along the water’s edge, the vibrant energy of downtown and the east side, the vaulting towers of the growing skyline, and the waves of the Hill Country in the distance on the western horizon,” Hall says. “My mural concept is a response to all of these: the movement of the natural environment, the rhythm of downtown, and the upward vertical launch of our ever-growing city.”

Hall’s work is driven by similar organic lines in vivid colors, often paired with a more chaotic wood grain that complements the evenness of the painted forms. In a video with Indiewalls, he works on a tornado-inspired piece and discusses the freedom of custom-cut wood panels — a luxury he didn’t have in planning his Natiivo mural. Still, he maintains some negative space at the top of the column that allows him to avoid the blocky form.

Each artist working on the Natiivo project will make a similar video explaining their design and execution processes, and discussing local inspiration throughout their work. The series breaks down specific works in context, taking a less-common narrative angle about where pieces end up once they’re finished. Hopefully, the series helps bring Texas works to a wider audience that may know nothing of the state or its artists.

Indiewalls is uploading videos to its YouTube channel one by one as the works go up and people start moving in to Natiivo.

Read These Next
Edgar Rico 8 top Austin chefs cooking with passion and feeding the city’s soul Outdoor Voices Houston promo shot 3 fun ways for Austin to get out and celebrate Earth Day 2022 The Republic New tower set to rise near Austin’s iconic Republic Square Park

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

Documenting the work of Artists across Austin
An inclusive platform for a diverse group of artists to showcase their work year round. Encouraging collections, creating connections, and building relationships around artists and their creative practices.

https://artistregistry.bigmedium.org/artists/kerryhugins

This preorder will end on March 7th, 2023. Your order will ship after this time.

https://rawpaw.ink/products/west-texas-cosmos-by-kerry-huginsMy work is tilted as a colorist and an automatism painter, my name is Kerry Hugins and I live and make art in Austin, Texas.

My work also explores materiality, minimalism and the impermanent exploration of Memento vivere in wildflower paintings. The colors collected in my wildflower paintings, appear in my color exploration mood works, the two of them in a kind of wordless dialogue. Events that happened years ago can be more on my mind than what is going to happen tomorrow. I love exploring the esoteric thoughts and ways colors can be used to evoke the sensory agregates. I am an avid meditator, my perspective growing up was scattered and unintegrated, a this and that mixture, but meditation has shown me that my steps I take in making art is my contribution to the greater consciousness we share. 

https://www.instagram.com/karawaane

• Shirts are printed on 100% cotton unisex shirts
• Due to the small size of our business, all sales are final.

Hooray for Animals!

Hip hip(po) hooray for the animal kingdom, so diverse and majestic!
This November we’re celebrating creatures with a group show featuring a variety of mediums.
Bonus: the work will be priced on the cheap (since it’ll be the pre-holiday season). 
Yay animals!!!

opening reception: Saturday, November 5 (6- 9pm)

additional viewing hours: Saturday, November 12 (1-4pm) 

Opening Reception Saturday, April 30, 2022 from 4pm til 7pm,

On Shelter, celebrates the paintings, photographs, poetry, and sculpture of 16 artists and one poet. In this exhibition, our artists express the idea of shelter in its broad range of forms, from barns and the sheltering sky to kindness and the embrace of community.

4th Street Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery in Blanco, Texas. We are a venue for Texas artists and beyond with a special eye on artists with roots in Blanco and the Hill Country area. We look forward to meeting you in the coming days!

Since the current exhibition is themed On Shelter, we are donating five percent of the proceeds to the Blanco Good Samaritan Center in honor of Blanco’s Random Acts of Kindness Group. https://4thstreetgallery.com/show/4th-street-gallery-on-shelter

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

As Austin continues to take in more people, whether visiting or relocating to the Capital City, new residences have to get creative about all the coming and going. Natiivo, a sold-out condominium complex built in partnership with Airbnb in the popular Rainey Street District, is streamlining the rentals approach with built-in home-sharing management and hotel amenities.

The concept allows a compromise in an already-crowded city between luxury traveling accommodations and individual ownership. To bring in a little more local spirit, Natiivo is partnering with New York design consultancy Indiewalls to decorate the building with work created by 12 Texas artists. The multimedia works will appear throughout the building, as well as in a top-floor gallery.

The artwork follows different themes: Emily Eisenhart uses transparency to evoke the Texas sun, while Angela Navarro pays tribute to Austin with large-scale impressionist works, and Kerry Hugins creates local flowers in watercolors. The group came together from past Indiewalls projects and through organic artist searches through social media.

“I did not want to provide any guidance or strict design direction for the artists,” says Indiewalls art curator Sarah Hatahet. “I wanted to showcase the artists and their works in their purest forms to be appreciated in the same sense as one would experience them in an art gallery. I did not want the artwork to seem forced or too curated.”

A column on the 33rd floor will sport a wraparound mural from Michael W. Hall, inspired by the abstract gradient line work popular in 1970s art. The curvy shapes twist around the cylinder in reds, blues, oranges, and yellows, simultaneously crowding each other out and propelling each other up in an organic splash. The artist attributes the design to the Austin landscape visible from the high-rise.

“I looked out over the undulations of Lady Bird Lake and the swaying peaks of the cypress trees along the water’s edge, the vibrant energy of downtown and the east side, the vaulting towers of the growing skyline, and the waves of the Hill Country in the distance on the western horizon,” Hall says. “My mural concept is a response to all of these: the movement of the natural environment, the rhythm of downtown, and the upward vertical launch of our ever-growing city.”

Hall’s work is driven by similar organic lines in vivid colors, often paired with a more chaotic wood grain that complements the evenness of the painted forms. In a video with Indiewalls, he works on a tornado-inspired piece and discusses the freedom of custom-cut wood panels — a luxury he didn’t have in planning his Natiivo mural. Still, he maintains some negative space at the top of the column that allows him to avoid the blocky form.

Each artist working on the Natiivo project will make a similar video explaining their design and execution processes, and discussing local inspiration throughout their work. The series breaks down specific works in context, taking a less-common narrative angle about where pieces end up once they’re finished. Hopefully, the series helps bring Texas works to a wider audience that may know nothing of the state or its artists.

Indiewalls is uploading videos to its YouTube channel one by one as the works go up and people start moving in to Natiivo.

Read These Next
Edgar Rico 8 top Austin chefs cooking with passion and feeding the city’s soul Outdoor Voices Houston promo shot 3 fun ways for Austin to get out and celebrate Earth Day 2022 The Republic New tower set to rise near Austin’s iconic Republic Square Park

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-15-21-downtown-austin-high-rise-texas-artists/

Documenting the work of Artists across Austin
An inclusive platform for a diverse group of artists to showcase their work year round. Encouraging collections, creating connections, and building relationships around artists and their creative practices.

https://artistregistry.bigmedium.org/artists/kerryhugins