Up Collective

Fundraiser: Member-led Art Classes

Taylor Browning — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:58:36 +0000

Saturday, April 6th, 11am-7pm

Help support Up Collective and learn art techniques from some of our member artists!

11am-1pm: Perspective and Caricatures with Benjamin Frisch

1-3pm: Jewelry Making Techniques with Laritza Garcia

3-5pm: Printmaking Techniques with Kelly Lynn McTavish

5-7pm: Encaustic Painting Demos with Leslie Pierce

$40 all-day pass or $15 per class
Purchase Tickets here:http://upartclasses.eventbrite.com/

Opening soon: We love you Danny.

Taylor Browning — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:21:13 +0000

Art of all mediums inspired by and featuring a certain badass named Danny Trejo.

Opening party Friday, April 5th, 7-10pm

Performances by:
The Possum Posse
Wasted Fangs
Walker Lukens and The Side Arms

WhiteLabBlackLab Records & Up Collective Showcase

Taylor Browning — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 02:19:16 +0000

March 15th, 1-9 PM

March 16th, 12-8 PM

Join Up Collective for a two day live music and visual art showcase featuring sixteen bands brought to you by WhiteLabBlackLab & Up Collective. Enjoy music from all over, sip on some refreshing Tito’s Vodka and Independence Brewery, and surround yourself with local Up Collective Art, all in one unique East Austin venue.

1 pm- Big Warmth
http://bigwarmth.bandcamp.com/

2 pm – Friend Roulette
http://friendroulette.bandcamp.com/

3 pm – Tyagajara
http://tyagaraja.bandcamp.com/

4 pm – Sun Club
http://sunclub.bandcamp.com/

5 pm – Featherface
http://featherface.bandcamp.com/

6 pm- Feverbones
http://feverbones.bandcamp.com/

7 pm – Flashlights
http://flashlights.bandcamp.com/

8 pm- Supervillians

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12 pm- Marc Scibilia
https://www.facebook.com/marcscibilia

1 pm – Benjamin Wesley
http://benjaminwesleymusic.bandcamp.com/

2 pm – Matt Hines (of The Eastern Sea)
http://theeasternsea.bandcamp.com/

3 pm – My Father’s Rifle

4 pm – Art Decade
http://artdecade.bandcamp.com/

5 pm – Justin Granger (Geography)
http://geography.bandcamp.com/

6 pm – A Sea Es (solo set)
https://soundcloud.com/a-sea-es

7 pm – Marmalakes
http://marmalakes.bandcamp.com/

8 pm – Walker Lukens w/ the Side Arms
https://soundcloud.com/walker-lukens

This event is Sponsored by Tito’s Vodka

so come get your drink on.

Studio Opening Saturday, March 9th: “Triple Beat” Leslie Pierce Studio

Taylor Browning — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 02:14:40 +0000

Art Opening Saturday, March 9th: 7-11 PM.
“Triple Beat”
The Art of Dana Brown, Leslie Pierce and Andrea Pramuk
Three artists’ explorations in color, space and volume.

This Exhibit coincides with SXSW 2013 in March.
Location: Leslie Pierce Contemporary in Up Collective, located at 2326 E. Cesar Chavez, Studio 106.
Sponsored by Tito’s.

Exhibit runs through March 30th

Opening Soon: “Most Folks” by Marcus Mataga

Taylor Browning — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:40:19 +0000

Opening date and reception:
Saturday, February 2, 7-10pm

Closing date:
February 22

Venue name, address, phone:
Up Collective
2326 E. Cesar Chavez
Austin, TX 78702
(512) 981-7539

“Most Folks” will feature 30-40 drawings out of a collection of over 300 created by Marcus Mataga since 2005. A recent graduate of Baylor Law School, Mataga has never exhibited his artwork. During 2012 he posted a drawing a day to Instagram and began getting a lot of attention.

Mataga’s work is largely an exploration of details through inexpensive materials. He draws almost exclusively from photographs, using ballpoint pens and highlighters. Mostly inspired by people, he is more interested in close examination of the subject than the accuracy of the finished piece.

Potentiality: Last Chance

Jessica Mathews — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:09:25 +0000

Just at the right time, Teruko Nimura and Tahila Shireem began their project Potentiality. While the fruits of Up Collective’s labor were displayed throughout the halls and gallery at EAST both Nimura and Shireem opened participatory projects for artists and art lovers, a community. Their work focuses on the energies involved in the art making process, individual experiences married into a collaborative art object that embodies a collective energy.

For Shireem, this was a tree ornamented with cyanotypes created by the public during EAST. Various individual intentions were harnessed into each cyanotype. The communal energies and wishes were blessed, in traditional Native American manner, at the opening reception. The process reached full circle as many of those that experienced creating a cyanotype witnessed the collective they played a role in constructing.

In the main gallery a bright energy surges, due to the origami lilies that fill the space. According to Japanese culture, the act of folding one thousand paper cranes grants one wish. In an equally dedicated concept, the public, under the instruction of Nimura, fabricated a multitude of yellow lilies. The activity of folding origami can feel laborious, possibly frustrating at times, while learning. However, it transcends into a meditative state in its repetitive nature once you get the hang of it. Each origami lily contributes to a dynamic energy instead of the traditional focused wish.

Potentiality is best approached with less of an analytical mind. The clearer you are of everyday thoughts the more evident the energy embodied in the works appears. The exhibition closes this Sunday, the 13^th. At this point the meaning of the artists/creators, the opening ceremony, and all who have visited since has been absorbed into the space. It is a good time to see the evolving work at its fullest. Certainly come stop by the gallery to see Potentiality before it is taken down, but also look out for what this new energy within Up Collective’s space produces for 2013.

By Jessica Mathews

Potentiality

Taylor Browning — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 02:36:41 +0000

After the East Austin Studio Tour coming up this November, our next exhibition Potentiality will happen in December. The show will consist of installations reflecting the powerful potential of collective efforts, inspired by Native American and Japanese cultural traditions. The artists, Nimura and Mintz, will conduct participatory events for the Austin community to create objects that will be included in the exhibition. Held in the UP Collective community room, the artists will prepare for their exhibition in December by having hourly events where they teach the participants how to create part of their installation.

Nimura will provide yellow paper to create origami flowers and Mintz will provide cyanotype paper for light exposure prints.

Nimura and Mintz will hosting making events at UP Collective during E.A.S.T. on Saturday, November 10th from 11-5 and Sunday, November 18th from 12-4 in the classroom downstairs.

Opening Saturday, December 8th from 7-10pm…R.S.V.P. here.

6 x 6 Project (Español)

Ricardo Jaén — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:59:46 +0000

For English click here

Tras el éxito que nuestro primer Proyecto 6 x 6, expuesto durante East Austin Studio Tours (E.A.S.T.) 2011, nos estamos preparando para la Segunda Ronda, que estará en exhibición en UP Collective durante E.A.S.T. 2012

Si usted participó el año pasado, le invitamos a participar de nuevo. Si usted es un novato o necesita un repaso, aquí tienes toda la información que necesita:

UP Collective ha ampliado su espacio de la Galería durante el E.A.S.T. 2012 ara una exposición de obras de arte de 6” x 6” creados por miembros de UP Collective, artistas internos y artistas dentro de la comunidad de Austin.
¿Quiénes puede participar?: Todos!

Losas 6″ × 6″ de Masonite estará disponibles para recoger en UP Collective empezando en septiembre de 2012 sin costo alguno para el artista. Cada artista puede tomar hasta 3 losas de Masonite.
No existen restricciones en medio.
Artistas participantes en el Proyecto 6 x 6 donaran sus obras al UP Collective para ser vendidas por una tarifa base de $20 durante los dos fines de semana de E.A.S.T. Todas las ganancias apoyarán el colectivo en su misión para proporcionar espacio de estudio, Galería y eventos para artistas emergentes.
Para participar, envíe un e-mail a info @upcollective.org para programar un tiempo para recoger sus materiales.
A los artistas se le pedirán presentar una breve biografía y un punto de contacto con información para remplazar sus obras que se venden en la exposición. (Nombre, Titulo, pagina web, correo electrónico, y numero de teléfono (opcional)).
El último día que puede entregar sus obras es el 29 de octubre, a las 7pm.

El Proyecto 6 x 6 no sólo reflejará la variedad de talento artístico en UP Collective, sino también la comunidad creativa que ofrece Austin. El Proyecto 6 x 6 apoya la misión del colectivo para proporcionar un espacio para que artistas emergentes pueden mostrar sus obras, especialmente durante E.A.S.T. Estamos deseosos de ver sus obras!

Member Show: Kristin Leigh Knoll + Kevin O’Dowd

Taylor Browning — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 02:10:23 +0000

Alongside the opening of More Awkward Than Heavy by Ink Tank, UP Collective members Kristin Leigh Knoll and Kevin O’Dowd will have a show in our North Gallery next Friday, September 7th from 7-11pm.

Cutting The Edge

Kristin Leigh Knoll is a 25 year-old collage and mixed media artist currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She re-purposes old textbooks, board games, letters, magazine clippings, paint chips, playing cards and even discarded collages of her own into something new. Elements of embroidery and stitching in her collages create the hand-crafted look of paper-quilting. The constant search for interesting materials and the problem solving nature of combining those together to create something cohesive is what keeps her inspired every day.

Dream Bedroom

Kevin O’Dowd is a 25 year-old minimalist collage artist based in
Austin, TX. He combines imagery from outdated encyclopedias, science textbooks, magazine clippings, and found thrift store art to create surrealist pieces inspired by dreams and subconscious states. The themes of nature, spirituality and humor in his work are meant to invoke a sense of child-like wonder and new age positivity.

Opening Soon: “More Awkward Than Heavy” by Ink Tank

Taylor Browning — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:04:01 +0000

Opening next Friday, September 7th is an exhibition not to be missed: “More Awkward Than Heavy” by Ink Tank. A locally-born artist collective, Ink Tank is made up of twelve members who work collaboratively to create conceptual and interactive, installation-based art. Ink Tank won the 2011/12 “Outstanding Work of Art: Independent or Public Project” Award from the Austin Critics’ Table for their exhibition, “Last New Year.”

Experience what it means to be awkward on all levels.
Join us in celebrating the opening of MATH (More Awkward Than Heavy) on Friday, September 7th from 7-11pm. R.S.V.P. here.

Ink Tank & Friends:
Annie Arnold
Jamie Panzer
Joshua Saunders
Sam Sanford

Special events happenin’ all night
Ride your bike and get a special treat
Stay tuned for more experiences all month

MATH is difficult and rigid not malleable and receptive like, say, salt water taffy. MATH makes you uncomfortable with its quotidian obtuseness. Similar to reading in a dream, the story is familiar but the words are illegible, not even words sometimes but scribbles. That is what MATH is like.

I wanted to say I love you despite how sudden it seems. I mean after all you have only come into our shop once and it was just for basic diagnostic work. I bet if I covered my name-tag you would probably assume my name is something standard, like Ed or Wayne or something. MATH is severely sincere and directly direct. That is its problem. It is unabashed and flirts with the wait staff and pretty much means every word and batted lash. It does not last. A moment of unconscious oblivion snapped suddenly into sharp focus, self-analysis, then shame.

MATH has an order and a process; mechanization like a clock with gears and stuff, but all that does not matter when it functions. It is invisible perfection until a spring slips, a fail saves, and the whole thing comes to a halt. Only then does each part become important, each part a mystery among mysteries, each part becomes the saboteur, a new hope, an unrelated mess. Who designed this thing anyway? It is probably just some cheap import.

MATH is not standing naked and aroused in front of one’s peers trying to explain Pythagoras but rather it is losing car keys down a fourth grade teacher’s blouse during parent-teacher conferences. It is doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, at every opportunity. Because you and I both know I didn’t really mean I love you when I said it under my breath that day at the Lube & Tire. It just felt right at the time.