The Body as Teleportation

         Moments and memories operating within the scales of time

This installation includes video from gathered footage aligned with mirrors etched with signifiers. These projections overlap the collage of epic scale which was extracted from many works on canvas. They are the remnants of personality and spirit – recharged as medium – in clothing and personal objects.

Angelbert Metoyer is a native Houstonian. He is a descendant of the freed slave Marie Thérèse Coincoin, the matriarch of a Cane river family who became a Louisiana plantation owner. His unique experience is reflected in his use of natural materials to consider the elemental nature of identity and futures.

In all of his works, whether they be visual, auditory, or performance, Metoyer explores the “hidden language of religion.” His works question and address ancestral memory, Jungian archetypes, and the human condition.

Metoyer is a renowned visual and performance artist, having studied at the Atlanta College of Art and Design, and shown at Miami Art Basel, the Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, Gerald Peters Gallery, the Dactyl Foundation, Project Row Houses, prominently featured at the Contemporary Austin's exhibition Strange Pilgrims curated by Heather Pesanti, and others.

His enthusiasm for engagement with the arts community has been consistent and unyielding. He has recently become involved with the Afrofuturism movement and has ongoing collaborations with post-punk poet Saul Williams, singer-songwriter Bilal, and hip-hop performer Mike Ladd.

This exhibition was developed as a community partnership with The Contemporary Austin's exhibition Strange Pilgrims, on view from September 27, 2015, through January 24, 2016.

Art of the Brew is the crossroads of contemporary art, craft beer, music, and food. This one-day event demonstrates the connections and influences these creative communities have on one another and encourages greater collaboration between them. In preparation for the event, artist and brewers meet to discuss their work during brewery visits and over a few cold ones. On the day of the event, breweries showcase their craft by providing tastings in the beer garden while the artworks, influenced by the breweries, are displayed in the gallery. Food from local chefs will be built to pair with what’s on tap, while local musicians provide the atmosphere and entertainment.

Breweries/Artists:
512 / Erin Cunningham
Hops & Grains / Seth Schwaiger
Blackstar Co-op / Ted Chevens
Jesterking / Andy Rhin
Live Oak / Hand Waddell
Thirsty Planet / Andrea Hyland & Emily Cayton
Blue Owl Brewing / Jessica Deahl
Kamala Brewing / Vladimir Mejia
Lone Pint / Josh Cockrell
Independence / Pat Snow
Karbach / Landon O'Brien
Zilker Brewing / Rebecca Marino
Circle Brewing / Casey Polacheck
5 Stones / Haley Householder
Pint House Pizza / Matthew John Winters
Adelbert's / Matt Rebholz
Austin Beerworks / Michelle Devereux
Last Stand / Mark Leavens
Oasis Brewing / Ryan McKerly
Lakewood Brewing / Nathan Walker

Bands:
Neosho
Mama K and The Shades
The Avocados
Dan and The Ceiling Fans
Cactus Operandi
Tahoma

Food: 
Frank Hot Dogs
Wunder Pig BBQ
Shhmaltz
Sa-Ten

Sponsors:
Franks Hot Dogs
Whichcraft
Bitch Beer
Juniors
Shame Shame Productions 

betties … emotional labor … a world without gender: a world without genesis? maybe
also a world without end … “then laughing wildly the next”... ovo-lacto-cyborgs…
reclaiming craft … what are we building? … breast milk food porn … slippery when wet
"rebellion against the derogatory connotations of feminine" … female rat pack …
dress for the job you want … vessels … why is it pink? … fainting couches or picket
fences … gentrifying a gender ghetto … the delicate promiscuity of laying eggs … 
“informatics of domination” … put on a pedestal for an upskirt shot … do you see? …
fears of a zero-sum art market … “she’s good enough to be a real actress” 

Natalie Bradford currently lives in Austin, pursuing a BFA in Studio Art at the University of Texas. Bradford utilizes printmaking and painting to examine parallels between feminine, human bodies and non-human, animal bodies in relation to modes of production and consumption. www.nataliebradford.com

Whitney Hill recently received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas and has remained in Austin to continue her work. She draws upon her family’s tradition of craft to create prints and sculptural pieces about femininity and domesticity. www.whitneyjhill.com

Born in Hong Kong, Tsz Kam received their BFA in Studio Art from University of Texas in 2015. Through multimedia work, Kam explores the relationship between their queer gender identity and an exotified feminine body existing in the West. www.zekam.tumblr.com

Kate Wilson is an artist originally from and currently working in Austin, Texas. She earned a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, and completed her BFA in Studio Art at the University of Texas this past May. Wilson engages in printmaking and sculpture to question the legibility and rationality of visual systems of information. www.kateewilson.com

This exhibition is a part of SUMMERSCOOL, an intensive program that prepares dedicated artists to propose, refine, and execute an exhibition concept in a professional and supportive environment. These selected artists have spent the last several months participating in our post-art-school curriculum which includes professional development in gallery preparation, art handling and installation, artist statements, bios, and talks, application preparation, grant writing, and community networking. These efforts now culminate in three exhibitions opening at our Canopy pop-up gallery.

The work of Kayla Jones and Lillian Byrd explores texture as it exists in nature and as it is impersonated in processes of mass production. Whether due to cheapened processes or limitations in technology, everything from masonry to Google Maps bears evidence of this attempt to aestheticize or convenience nature and its textures. Jones and Byrd explore these dumb, redundant, or alien products attempting to package an idealized version of nature. Their work mimics and highlights the peculiarity of these wholly unnatural endproducts, sampling the natural world and aestheticizing it to curious or ridiculous ends.

Kayla Jones grew up in Austin and is currently a student at the University of Texas at Austin pursuing a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in English. She is attracted to the mundane and explores our interaction with everyday objects or rituals through a variety of media.www.joneskayla.com

Lillian Byrd was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She received her BFA from the University of Texas in 2015. She primarily works in sculpture and oil painting. Her work explores self-perpetuating natural processes of dematerialization and entropy. Her process often involves experimentation with unusual materials and exposure to natural damaging elements. She is dedicated to preventing a piece of art from developing an object preciousness, or a disconnect with nature by depriving a material of its tendency toward natural decomposition. Byrd has exhibited work at The Visual Arts Center in Austin, Texas and The Lumberyard in an exhibition affiliated with Fieldwork in Marfa, Texas. She was a recipient of the University of Texas Fine Arts Professional Initiative Travel Grant in 2015. She is currently living and working in Austin, Texas. www.lillybyrd.com

This exhibition is a part of SUMMERSCOOL, an intensive program that prepares dedicated artists to propose, refine, and execute an exhibition concept in a professional and supportive environment. These selected artists have spent the last several months participating in our post-art-school curriculum which includes professional development in gallery preparation, art handling and installation, artist statements, bios, and talks, application preparation, grant writing, and community networking. These efforts now culminate in three exhibitions opening at our Canopy pop-up gallery.

In a crowded bar, I told an acquaintance that she looked like Parker Posey.

"Really? I don’t know who that is. Is she pretty?"

"Yeah, she’s really pretty."

"Pull her up on your phone."

I held up a google image search for Parker Posey. Her friends gathered around. 

"Mmm she doesn’t look like that girl.”   “You actually look like her way more."

"Yeah, I don’t look like Parker Posey. YOU look like Parker Posey."

“Wait… what? But her bone structure— and her voice. You have to hear her voice."

"She doesn’t look like her. You look like her."

“Okay." 

An assortment of societally-induced identity crisis. 

Credits: Cinematographers: Carmen Hilbert, Aaron Berecka Performers: Lucy Kerr, Matt Sledge, Jen Rachid Additional Performers: Destiny Baldwin, Charity McBay, Marlaina Smith, Lindsay Mitchell, Mandy Marcu, Brittany Allyson, Stephanie Atkinson, Francis Roman, Raquel Breternitz, Victoria Prescott, D'Anna Siciliano, Sarah Marie Maddox, Ananda Marielle, Emily NG, Ursula Barker, Sarah Gerson and Samara Alvidrez

Special Thanks To: Quacks 43rd St. Bakery, James G Hubly , Tyler Gavin Shaffer, Heather O'Connor, Kayla Abuda Galang, Jonathan Cox, Ursula Barker, Victoria Prescott, Susan LaMarca, Gregory Stout, Kyle Seaquist, Caleb Kuntz, John Spottswoode Moore, Thomas Graves, Raquel Breternitz, Taylor Washington, Taylor Benac, Sean Gaulager, Chris Whiteburch, Valdimir Mejia and Erin Miller

Floridian turned Texan, Brittany Reeber obtained a degree in film from the University of Texas and then remained there to pursue a career in directing and producing. Her short films, Psycho Billy (2013) and The Rapture and Gammy Gwen (2014), have been honored at the university level and screened around the U.S. Her video installation and performance work has been featured in various venues in Texas. She recently collaborated with Houston-based artist Mark Flood, to produce his feature film titled Art Fair Fever that is currently in exhibition. www.brittanyreeber.com

This exhibition is a part of SUMMERSCOOL, an intensive program that prepares dedicated artists to propose, refine, and execute an exhibition concept in a professional and supportive environment. These selected artists have spent the last several months participating in our post-art-school curriculum which includes professional development in gallery preparation, art handling and installation, artist statements, bios, and talks, application preparation, grant writing, and community networking. These efforts now culminate in three exhibitions opening at our Canopy pop-up gallery.

multiplication,
differentiation,
organization,
function and form.

All of these things, seen in time, appear to us as the general phenomenon of growth.

Mark Johnson was born in Xenia, Ohio in 1979. He works predominantly in painting but includes video and performance in his installations. Johnson completed a BFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2001. He currently lives and works in Austin, Texas.