October 13 -16, 2016 Fair Market

October 13-16, 2016 Fair Market - Austin, Texas CONTENTS CONTENTS

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4 // LETTER FROM THE CURATOR 28 // SHOWROOM PIECES Inspired by our city, POP Austin is doubling What it’s all about! An index of every artwork down on art and programming of the exhibited during this year’s show. moment. 34 // POP SHOP 6 // EVENT SCHEDULE Affordable works on paper from limited and What you need to know about the flow: a open edition prints to unique originals. 10 28 34 timeline of not-to-be-missed opening events, performances, talks, and screenings. 36 // SPONSORS We curate our partnerships as much as we 10 // POP TALKS do our art. Look to our sponsors for the best Entertaining educational talks from leading in art, lifestyle, education, and tech. experts. This year we focus on innovation in art ranging from the importance of 38 // THE HOOP new technology to the subversion of You’ll notice our new HOOP design splashed unsanctioned urban art. throughout these pages. Learn what this versatile visual device means to us. 12 // ARTISTS A closer look at select artists participating in POP Austin 2016. 39 // SPECIAL THANKS 36 38 39 LETTER // FROM THE CURATOR

n our third year of POP Austin it’s difficult not to notice how the city itself has affected our curatorial tastes. We continue to source work without predilection to an artist’s origin or residence (we care more about their work and personal energy), but we still have to hand it to Austin for shaping our unique vision for the future of art and collecting. Beyond the inclusion of select local artists Iin each of our shows, the visual and social impact of the city manifests itself in our synthesis of genres and embrace of light and technology, whether this be in the art itself, or in supporting infrastructure and partnerships. Furthermore, the refreshing youthfulness of the professional force in Austin (whether in personality or in years) and its appetite for lifestyles rich in experience rather than consumer goods, has led us to focus our programming on the moment—whether that be through our POP Talks with a myriad cast of celebrated academics “We believe that and celebrity speakers, through our not-to-be-missed exhibition contemporary art—in all openings, or through our one-of-a-kind auxiliary events produced in partnership with other leading creative enterprises throughout the of its forms—is destined city. to become an increasingly important part of the daily That said, we have found that there is one class of consumer good lives of future generations.” that even the experience-driven Austin elites have a hunger for: that which has meaningful cultural value and supports the work of leading creatives. And so it is with great pleasure that we are announcing the opening of our online marketplace in conjunction with this year’s exhibition. We are proud to pioneer a local connection to the international art world and couldn’t be happier to promote the collector’s lifestyle throughout the year with this new development.

Ultimately though, our first and final focus will always be on the art and the viewer experience. We believe that contemporary art—in all of its forms—is destined to become an increasingly important part of the daily lives of future generations. We are part of how that future will be shaped, how taste will be informed, how collectors of every level will find new exciting work, and how those who don’t have that luxury can enjoy artwork outside of the stiffness and sterility of museums and museum-like galleries.

We are the new way to experience art. We are POP Austin.

LANA CARLSON Co-founder and Senior Curator

4 SCHEDULE // OF EVENTS

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15TH

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13TH POP Austin Art Exhibition 10:00am - 6:00pm VIP Collector Preview Reception* Fair Market - 1100 E 5th St 6:00pm - 8:00pm Fair Market - 1100 E 5th St POP Talks Benefitting The Texas Cultural Trust/Arts & Digital 12pm – 4:30pm Literacy Initiative Fair Market - 1100 E 5th St *Grand Patron & Patron Pass only Entertaining educational talks from leading experts. See Page 25 for full schedule. VIP Party Opening Night* 8:00pm - 12:00am ThinkPOP Party* Fair Market - 1100 E 5th St 8:00pm - 12:00am *Grand Patron, Patron, and VIP Pass only 800 Congress - 800 Congress Ave Featuring a new installation and rare performance by the renowned French artist duo, Nonotak Studio *Grand Patron Pass only

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14TH

POP Austin Art Exhibition SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16TH 10:00am - 6:00pm Fair Market - 1100 E 5th St POP Austin Art Exhibition Austin Premiere Party and Screening of 10:00am - 6:00pm “Wall Writers” Fair Market - 1100 E 5th St 8:00pm - 12:00am The North Door - 501 Brushy St POP Talks Directed by Roger Gastman and Narrated by 12pm – 4:30pm John Waters Fair Market - 1100 E 5th St General Admission tickets available for purchase, Entertaining educational talks from leading experts. reserved seating with Grand Patron Pass only See Page 25 for full schedule.

6 7 OCTOBER 15TH | 800 CONGRESS SCHEDULE // PREVIEW AND VIP PARTY Hosted by Danneel & Jensen Ackles and Genevieve & Jared Padalecki

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13TH: POP AUSTIN OPENING NIGHT VIP AND PREVIEW PARTY

COLLECTOR PREVIEW 6pm-8pm (Grand Patron and Patron Tickets Only) Above (left to right): Benefitting the Arts and Digital Literacy Initiative Works by Keith Haring, Andrew Schoultz, and Sage Vaughn VIP OPENING NIGHT PARTY 8pm-12am (Grand Patron, Patron, and VIP tickets only)

GRAND PATRON PASS REQUIRED | COCKTAIL ATTIRE WWW.POPAUSTIN.COM/TICKETS Texas Cultural Trust’s Innovative Arts & Digital Literacy Program Named Charity Partner of the POP Austin Opening Night Preview Party

Before our VIP Opening night party begins, join us for a very special Collector Preview Party hosted by Dr. John Hogg and David Garza and benefiting The Arts & Digital Literacy Initiative, a program of the Texas Cultural Trust in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, College of Fine Arts.

A portion of ticket proceeds will benefit the Arts & Digital Literacy Initiative—a project- ThinkPOP, a new partnership between Thinkery and POP Austin, blends the highly curated and carefully designed POP Austin based, fine arts curricula for high school students that establishes the connection experience with Thinkery’s vision to build a creative community with a passion for lifelong learning and discovery. between traditional fine arts education and digital media. The courses are based on a combined set of fine arts and technology standards, resulting in arts instruction that For more information, visit: Enjoy an entire evening of cutting edge entertainment presented by NONOTAK Studios. Don’t miss this rare live is rigorous and designed to specifically develop students’ media literacy, providing performance of Late Speculation and experience the fully immersive/interactive art installation HOSHI. WWW.TXCULTURALTRUST.ORG integrated, relevant skills that will prepare them for the 21st century workplace. Nonotak is a collaboration between illustrator Noemi Schipfer and architect Takami Nakamoto. Together the two create ethereal The Texas Cultural Trust is a statewide arts advocacy organization whose mission is installations, sculptures, and technology-driven audiovisual performances. Nonotak explores different forms of energy (sound, light, to be the leading voice for the arts in education, advocacy, and economic impact in kinetic, human) and the way in which these interact with and inhabit space to produce experience. The duo has become a staple Texas, spotlighting the artistic excellence of our state. of experimental light, sound, and art festivals across the world. They’ve produced commissioned works and performance for The Mapping Festival in Geneva, EM15 in Montreal, La Nuit Blanche in Paris, Roppongi Art Night in Tokyo, and Axcess Art Gallery in New York, among several others. 8 9

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POP POP POP POP POP TALKS // SCHEDULE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16TH

12:00PM TO 12:30PM JENNIFER RANSOM RICE (Executive Director at The Texas Cultural Trust) POP Austin brings you POP Talks, a series of entertaining and educational talks Digital Pioneers: How Fine Arts & Technology Merge in the Creative Classroom from leading experts in the fields of art, design, technology, and culture. This year Drawing from her experience as Executive Director of Texas Cultural Trust, Jennifer Ransom POP we focus on innovation in art, ranging from the importance of new technology to Rice speaks on the combined role of technology and art in the classroom as a need-to- TALKS the subversion of unsanctioned urban art. have rather than nice-to-have. Saturday, October 15th and Sunday, October 16th, 12:00pm - 4:30pm 1:00PM TO 1:30PM JESSICA PALVINO and DR. ROBIN GOSE (Thinkery President of the Board and at the POP Austin International Art Show Exhibition at Fair Market - 1100 E 5th St Director of Education) A is for ART. Thinkery’s platform for innovation, S.T.E.A.M. The Thinkery’s Jessica Palvino, President of the Board, and Dr. Robin Gose, Director of Education, delve into innovative integrations of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) into all levels of education. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15TH 2:00PM TO 2:30PM BIJOY GASWAMI (Writer / Artist) Artist: Steward of Meaning 12:00PM TO 12:30PM BRANDON BOYD (Artist / Lead Singer of Incubus) Bijoy Goswami is the founder of the Bootstrap Network and the author of The Human Transcending Mediums Fabric. A technologist, writer, actor, musician, evangelist, and officiant, Bijoy dissects Brandon Boyd, visual artist, author, and lead singer of Incubus discusses the Austin’s future in the art world and the role of the artist in the 20th century. rewards and challenges of working across multiple creative fields. 3:00PM TO 3:30PM MORGAN CATALINA and JULIE YOST (SXSW) 1:00PM TO 1:30PM LISA SCHULTE (Artist) Place by Design: Art’s Role in the Future of Austin Neon Art in Film Morgan Catalina and Julie Yost, the Executive Producer and Design Program Curator A much sought after and long running leader in the industry, Lisa Schulte of SXSW Eco, join us to discuss the much lauded event that celebrates the power of expounds upon her experience working with neon and light effect in film and its business, technology, art and design to drive economic, environmental and social change. connection with contemporary art. 4:00PM TO 4:30PM BALE CREEK ALLEN (Artist) 2:00PM TO 2:30PM MOLLY MARONEY and HEATH SPEAKMAN (SprATX) My America Austin Street Art POP Austin favorite Bale Creek Allen discusses his new body of work, My America, an Molly Maroney, organizer of the design studio/print shop/street artist network exploration of the unique aspects of each of the 50 states, starting with Texas, that add up conglomerate SprATX, speaks on the resilience of street art in Austin, and the to ONE America. role of disruption in the urban aesthetic.

3:00PM TO 3:30PM ROGER GASTMAN (Graffiti Historian / Curator of Culture) “Wall Writers - Graffiti in its Innocence” A graffiti history expert and author of 60 books on the subject to date, Roger Gastman discusses his critically acclaimed documentary Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence.

4:00PM TO 4:30PM EVAN GARZA (Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Blanton Museum of Art) I never read, I just look at pictures: “Warhol By the Book” at the Blanton The Blanton Museum Assistant Curator Evan Garza shares insights into Andy LISA SCHULTE BALE CREEK ALLEN BRANDON BOYD Warhol’s lesser known publication-based works in the eye-opening exhibition Saturday @ 1pm Sunday @ 4pm Saturday @ 12pm Warhol by the Book, currently open at the Blanton.

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Using an enthralling RICHARD COLMAN mystery-symbolism of nudes, clayware, bears, ferns, rainbows, and the cloaked figure of Death, Richard Colman creates sharply designed, heavily geometric paintings and sculptures that invoke a variety of branching interpretations. These esoteric, sexually-charged works’ true power, however, lies not in its intriguing narrative “Unusual harmonies, potential, nor in its dissonances, and balanced hard-edged vibrating pairs and trios of compositional design, color add a psychedelic, but in Colman’s unusual, nuanced use pseudo-spiritual overtone of color. By flattening to the cryptic imagery, his work into solid or setting Coleman apart semi-solid fields, color from others toeing the Above: Gao Brothers’ Blessing in the Suburbs takes center stage, arbitrary line between art holding the viewer and design.” GAO BROTHERS - GAO ZHEN AND GAO QIANG long after the intrigue of the opaque symbolism lets go. Unusual harmonies, Winning the artist/social activist’s badge of honor— dissonances, and vibrating pairs and trios of color add having their studios and exhibitions frequently raided a psychedelic, pseudo-spiritual overtone to the cryptic and shut down by the authorities—Zhen and Qiang imagery, setting Colman apart from others toeing the have taken risks that don’t even exist as a possibility arbitrary line between art and design. in most contemporary artists’ cultures. Significant American, b. 1976, lives and works in San Francisco progress has been made in China, but the freeze on freedom of expression is still thawing; meanwhile, the Gao brothers push the limits on what is permissible. Their relationship with their country has long been volatile. Siblings in a family of eight, the Gao Brothers lost their father to the Cultural Revolution. After he was labeled a class enemy and detained, the Gaos’ were informed that their father had committed suicide while imprisoned. Much of the brothers’ fame is built on their unusual handling of the image of Chairman Mao. Despite their own personal history, the brothers choose to depict the polarising Mao as neither savior or demon, but rather as complex, conflicted and sometimes even remorseful figure—or they undercut the debate entirely through bizarre cartoon like grotesqueries using the Colman’s “Before and After Us” featured on right image of Mao as a starting point.

Chinese, b. 1956 and 1962, live and work in Beijing

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BRANDON BOYD

In recent years, Brandon Boyd, lead singer of the multi-platinum musical group Incubus, spends an increasing amount of time and energy on his visual arts practice. Informed by the traditions of album covers, concert posters, and narrative graphics from the 70’s POSE’s “Couple’s Therapy” onward, Boyd distills themes similar to those found in his songwriting into visual form. Fringe psychology, new POSE “His work has been exhibited age spirituality, intellectual independence, character in literally hundreds of solo archetypes, and sultry imagery are presented through overt symbolism that maintains the artworks’ openness Jordan Nikel, aka POSE, is a celebrity graffiti ALEX KATZ shows in top galleries and and accessibility to the masses—true to the roots of artist known for his highly saturated, tightly museums the world over, Boyd’s art lineage of popular illustration. rendered, and heavily graphic collage-based and the lasting impact of wall works. These cacophonies of vibrant The appealing simplification of life native to advertising and cinema finds a third his practice is unquestioned American, b. 1976, lives and works in LA plastic colors depict a variety of op-art like home in each of the numerous paintings, prints and sculptures produced by the among respected critics and patterns, barely identifiable elements pulled hugely influential Alex Katz. The artist creates works that give as much or more from popular cartoons and pulp comics, art historians.” focus on large flat fields of color as they do to the faces, figures, or landscapes advertising-like text and graphic elements, as these fields depict. It is too facile to describe these works as dispassionate, well as a visual vocabulary more native to less though it is undeniable that they share a unique propensity for detaching their viewers from the subject. While ostensibly technically precise graffiti styles, piled up into off-putting, this forced distance serves only to enhance the denied magnetism—to amp up want in the manner of the fractured figurative forms. The candy-colored flat affect of a catwalk model. chaos of POSE’s work has graced the walls of several prestigious galleries throughout the Through his prolific career Katz has influenced generations of artists, cinematographers, advertisers, and designers. world, collections both public and private, He’s been given more prestigious awards, accolades, and honorary doctorates than can be listed here, perhaps chief as well as such notable public spaces as the among them, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972. His work has been exhibited in literally hundreds of solo shows in top Bowery/Houston wall in New York City and the galleries and museums the world over, and the lasting impact of his practice is unquestioned among respected critics Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit. and art historians. American, b. 1980, lives and works in Chicago American, b. 1927, lives and works in New York City Katz’ “Black Hat IV” featured above Above: Boyd’s “Segovia in Profile”

14 15 ARTISTS // FEATURED WORK SHANE GUFFOGG

Shane Guffogg views painting as an alchemical act, a search for metaphysical and scientific truth. That’s a definitively different approach from Ed Ruscha whom he assisted in the studio for seven years, though both approaches attempt to plumb undiscovered depths of meaning. Unlike Ruscha’s, Guffogg’s works are removed from popular “In August of this year, culture and act as an Guffogg broke into alternative to written Cannes Auction’s ‘Best language rather than attempting to decode Sales’ for ‘Amor Fati 1’ either. He uses multiple reaching a final bid of layers of transparent £148,100. The work had medium to create been priced at $25,000 refractive, virtually lucent ten months earlier at POP paintings depicting Austin 2015.” tangled abstract forms Ruscha’s “Mark Twain Quote” that Guffogg views as having as much to do with human spirit and emotional realities as with quantum theory and the ED RUSCHA nature of the physical universe.

In August of this year, Guffogg broke into Cannes Auction’s “Ruscha never met a word he couldn’t ‘Best Sales’ for ‘Amor Fati 1’ reaching a final bid of unsettle,” said TIME’s art critic Richard £148,100. The work had been priced at $25,000 ten months Lacayo after bestowing him the honorific earlier at POP Austin 2015. of “the SoCal Magritte.” Widely known for his pioneering use of text laid cleanly over American, b. 1962, lives and works in LA dramatic paintings of landscapes, sunsets, and color fields, Ruscha led the charge of Pop art in California. His laconic, deadpan work has roots deep in the earlier movements of Surrealism, Dada, and Abstract Expressionism. His practice stretches just as far into the future, rippling outward through Conceptualism and presaging Postmodernism’s dominance.

American, b. 1937, lives and works in Culver City, California

Guffogg’s “At the Still Point of the Turning World (Time Present, Time Past)” featured on left

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Originally coming to prominence BOB SCHNEIDER through his musical acumen rather than his lesser-known but equally deft skill as a visual artist, Bob Schneider creates jarring collage-based works that demand just as much consideration as any of his acclaimed albums. These piled up constructions of detailed imagery send viewers reeling between the microcosm of the individual cut-out and “Schneider creates jarring the gestalt in which collage-based works that the small elements demand just as much dissolve into a greater consideration as any of psychedelically-bound whole. his acclaimed albums.”

The fractured image-overload of Schneider’s work reflects the rapidly changing facets of a musician’s career and travels—a reality Schneider has lived with all his life, born to a struggling but ambitious opera singer, and living abroad for much of his childhood. Although these works are personal to the artist in this way, these ANDREW SCHOULTZ themes resonate with an increasingly wide swath of the population as relocation, occupational shifts, and the Drawing from a youth spent consuming and rapid propagation of information become the norm for participating in the visual language of skateboard recent generations in vocations of every stripe. culture, graffiti, and underground comic art, Andrew Schoultz creates paintings, drawings, installations American, b. 1965, lives and works in Austin and murals that land squarely between the mastery of Hieronymus Bosch, the thoroughness of medieval war illustration, and the juvenility of middle school notebook battles. Often exposing the impulses of the horrors of modern and historic war and political struggle as nothing more than childish squabbles, Schoultz’s densely layered works manage to stay light-hearted despite their heavy subject matter.

Schoultz’s work can be found in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Berkeley Art Museum, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Progressive Art Collection, and in the form of murals (sanctioned and otherwise) throughout the US.

American, b 1975, lives and works in San Francisco Schneider’s “Silicon” featured on right

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DAMIEN HIRST

By purely monetary measures, Damien Hirst is the most successful living artist on the planet. Hirst cemented his trajectory through an early seduction of the grand seducer himself, Charles Saatchi, during Hirst’s undergrad forays in DIY curatorship. The advertising mogul-cum-gallerist Saatchi, enthralled by Hirst’s edgy works and his organizational savvy, propelled Hirst and many of his associates (making up the majority of the Young British Artists or YBAs), into the art celebrity stratosphere through exhibitions, influential introductions, and above all, funding. Though his practice extends to virtually all media, Hirst’s best known works are sculptures centered on mortality, with two pieces in particular drawing an unprecedented amount of criticism and acclaim: an early work bankrolled by Saatchi titled ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ consisting of an adult tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde in a large vitrine-like display case; and ‘For the Love of God’ a much more recent work consisting of a human skull reproduced in platinum and covered in $30,000,000 worth of diamonds. From the beginning, it would be hard to argue Zhengjie’s “Chinese Portrait Series no. 53” with the notion that Hirst’s truest medium is capitalism itself.

British, b. 1965, lives in Devon, England and works in Baja, Mexico FENG ZHENGJIE

Zhengjie is one of the most prominent painters working in China today, most famous for his large scale stylized portrait paintings of female fashion models wrought in vibrant crimson and pinks, alongside icy pearlescent turquoises. The eyes of his subjects are represented with pupils oblique to one another in deity-like paradoxical expressions of emptiness and ecstasy. His work is often viewed as a commentary on hyper- capitalism, presenting the aesthetics of luxury and consumerist desire as ravishingly appealing and powerful, but simultaneously echoingly hollow.

Chinese, b. 1968, lives and works in Beijing and Jeju Island

Featured on left and above: Hirsts’ “Methylamine-13c” and “Mescaline” - see page 25 for details

20 21 ARTISTS // FEATURED WORK MARK JENKINS

LISA SCHULTE

CLEON PETERSON

Tracing clean connections to Athenian red- and black-figure vase painting, Escherian tessellations, and the printwork of Lynd Ward, Jenkins’ “Head in the Wall (Child) 1/5” featured on left Cleon Peterson’s work depicts unanchored The artist Lisa narratives of senseless violence and gore. A champion of the positive potentials of street art, Schulte and her Peterson draws upon years of former drug Mark Jenkins’ practice, virtually without exception, piece “Rotating abuse, including a long stint living out of his employs humor and whimsy to tease, interrupt, and Emotions #2” of car, in an effort to unpack and expose the upend social convention and the doldrum flow of “Rotating Emotions grim reality faced by marginalized portions urban life. Jenkins rose to fame through his use of 1, 2, 3” of society. At times connecting to topical common packaging tape to make three dimensional concepts (police brutality, race relations, human forms and animals, which are then placed poverty, terrorism), and at times not at all, in precarious situations. These full size works are Peterson’s paintings elicit intense, if muddled often finished with actual clothing, wigs, and hats, emotional responses—a cerebral cocktail and when installed outside of standard viewing made stronger by the even, decentralized spaces are frequently mistaken for living people, Working with a singular dedication to her medium, Schulte nature of his intentionally perspectiveless, despite the absurd positioning—defying gravity creates simple, often light-hearted artworks that center around high-contrast compositions. on the edge of a department store roof, tied to a her manipulation of neon tubes. Quintessential to several number of helium balloons floating face down in a of her bodies of work is a nostalgia for the recent past—a American, b. 1973, lives and works in LA pond, or sitting in a standard avenue recycling bin. glorifying of the out-of-date, but somehow still persistent symbols of our yesterdays. Neon light could itself be classified “These full size works are His work, whether in in this way, and much of Shulte’s formal choices do indeed the gallery or in the reflect long past decades more strongly than our more recent often finished with actual unsanctioned arena of past, but as the wheel turns, and the cycle of fashion and clothing, wigs, and hats, and the street, is met with aesthetics spirals back to the 80s and 90s, contemporary when installed outside of (usually) laughter and thought and taste are back in alignment with Schulte’s standard viewing spaces are (occasionally) disdain and persistent and ongoing interests. Her most recent work seems frequently mistaken for living even (rarely) ernest calls attuned to this temporal anomaly, with an updated visual and people, despite the absurd to emergency services for material vocabulary that references the past pointedly, but positioning.” swift interventions. Jenkins refrains from being anchored to it, instead producing works views these absurdists works, and street-art as that touch time but float above it. whole, as cathartic, invigorating, and necessary to the visual culture of any city. He regularly lectures Shulte’s exhibits regularly in the Los Angeles area, including on the subject and has proven time and time again recent exhibitions at the Museum of Light Art and work to be a staunch advocate of smart, subversive art commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. forms. American, lives and works in Los Angeles Peterson’s “Remain in the Light” American, b. 1973, lives and works in LA

22 23 ARTISTS // FEATURED WORK JOAN MITCHELL

Mastering a signature style of Action Painting (akin to Jackson Pollock’s work) informed by a deep interest into the post-impressionist paintings of Van Gogh and others, Joan Mitchell became one of the driving forces behind a second generation of Abstract Expressionism. Undermining the notion of Action Painting’s violent and rage-induced mark as something inherently masculine, Mitchell has said “I think women are inclined more than men to be self-destructive, and I really think I had the masochistic medal there for a while.” Mitchell’s expressive works were based equally on the lasting impressions of the environments around her, (the city of New York, or the French countryside where she would settle, among others) and her own, often Swoon’s “Ice Queen” featured above troubled psyche at the time of painting. The results make up an important part of the historical canon of SWOON abstract expressionism, marking the expansion of the movement into new compositional frontiers and vivid experimental palettes. Caledonia Dance Curry began wheat pasting portraits in unauthorized locations as a way American, 1925-1992 of balancing her relatively prescribed artistic development during her undergraduate studies at Pratt. Later taking the name Swoon, Curry is one of few living artists to be warmly accepted by street artists and high level contemporary art institutions alike—and not just those on the west coast where such divisions are less prevalent. Responding to the living collage of the city, Swoon populates “The artist simultaneously activates forgotten spaces with drawerly images of SAM FRANCIS individuals with palpable senses of struggle the ostensibly incongruous Ab Ex and determination. camps of Action and Color Field Painting, bridging the two through On the opposite side of the spectrum from Like his contemporary Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis was a second generation holistic interpretations of the forgotten space, Swoon’s work has been Abstract Expressionist influenced both by the fervor of the new American Style mind and spirit offered by eastern shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New and by the art and physical environment of France and Europe more broadly. Philosophy, and compelling York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The In addition, Francis became deeply influenced by Zen Buddhism through his psychological schools of thought.” Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and in travels in Japan, and later by Jungian psychology. Many of his works are easily 2014 in a solo exhibition of the artist’s work at distinguishable from that of other Ab Ex artists for the importance of white, open space in the composition—a strategy finding The Brooklyn Museum. its zenith in Francis’s Edge Paintings in which the vast majority of the canvas remains untouched by hue. Through this and other series, the artist simultaneously activates the ostensibly incongruous Ab Ex camps of Action and Color Field Painting, bridging American, b. 1977, lives and works in New the two through holistic interpretations of the mind and spirit offered by eastern Philosophy, and compelling psychological York City schools of thought. Francis’ “Baudelaire” featured above Mitchell’s “Champs (Fields)” featured above American, 1923-1994

24 25 ARTISTS // FEATURED WORK DANIEL JOUSEFF

Born in Stockholm to immigrant parents belonging to a Christian minority of Influenced by the graphic styles UGO NONIS Palestine, Daniel Jouseff’s work often of surf culture, Mayan imagery, revolves around archetypes of the outsider. and Keith Haring, Nonis uses a visual language of bold The embedded recursive otherness of line and mixed perspective to create paintings of piled Jouseff’s own identity (a born national within up geometries. Sometimes flat, sometimes not, these a religiously dissimilar group of a minority map-like works hint at little, instead projecting the immigrant population) informs the artist’s simple enjoyment of making or the cathartic depiction angst-filled neo-impressionist paintings. of inaccessible narrative as their purpose for being. A clash of harsh mark-making and pop- culture glamor are invested in each work, Nonis’ work has been exclusively exhibited in New either overtly by abstract marks painted York and California with the exception of Pop Austin in directly atop images culled from mainstream 2014 and 2015. magazines, television, or pornography, or French, b. 1977; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA more subtly through the contrast of the visceral brushstrokes and the intended context of the work: clean-lined luxury homes and sparse minimal gallery space.

Swedish, b. 1975, lives and works in Stockholm and London

NIAGARA

Pioneering musician and visual artist, Niagara, invokes the guiding principles native to the punk scene of 70s Detroit in her visual art: anti-elitism, the hijacking of popular culture, satire, wit, in-your-face sexuality, and the total democratization of production methods into universally available modes. As lead singer of Destroy All Monsters, Dark Carnival, and more recently with The Hitmen, these rebellious aesthetics come naturally. In a manner similar to Lichtenstein, Niagara co-opts imagery of women (often villains) from pulp comics and, through the use of collaged text and manipulated color, alters these into tongue-and-cheek parodies of their former selves. Her work has not avoided the great irony of punk culture, with its gradual colonization by the mainstream, The artist Ugo and now takes on new meaning as clear preemption of Nonis and his the ubiquitous tropes of social media memes. piece “Skully II” Nonis and his piece “Rhino II” featured above American, b. 1956, lives and works in Detroit Jouseff’s “Calling from the sky, doubtless Niagara’s “Life Ain’t for Sissies” featured above transparent in its shade of blue” on left

26 27 26 SHOWROOM PIECES // ARTISTS A - D SHOWROOM PIECES // ARTISTS F - H

BALE CREEK ALLEN GALINA BLEIKH & ELENA RICHARD COLMAN NATALIA FABIA STÉPHANE GAUTIER HAZE SEREBRYAKOVA Untitled #1 Silver extended Geometrix 2 Three Heads (Orange) Hooker One 2016 2015 2011 Danger! Radiation 2016 2015 mixed media framed under Acrylic and oil stick on Raku ceramic horns, Acrylic on canvas Oil on panel plumbing casings 2011 glass canvas 48 x 48 inches 24 x 18 inches (framed) 18 x 5 x 5 inches c-print, flexiglass. ed. of 6 20 x 35 inches 40 x 40 inches 27.5 x 27.5 inches Untitled #2 Cold Shoulder Painting Hooker Yoga in Alphabet Rainbow Geometrix 3 2016 (Orange) Couple City 2015 2011 Raku ceramic horns, BRANDON BOYD 2016 2015 mixed media framed under Acrylic and oil stick on plumbing casings Acrylic on canvas Oil on panel glass canvas Segovia in Profile 18 x 5 x 5 inches 60 x 60 inches 40 x 30 inches (framed) 20 x 59 inches 40 x 40 inches 2015 Watercolor and ink on Toys Collection Untitled #3 paper Before and After Us FIDIA FALASCHETTI 2015 DAMIEN HIRST 2016 30 x 22.5 inches 2015 mixed media framed under Raku ceramic horns, Acrylic on canvas Freaky Mouse, Pink 2/5 Methylamine-13c wood, leather, suede glass 60 x 72 inches 2016 2014 8 x 41 x 4 inches Listening 21 x 41 inches Chrome metallic paint, Silkscreen vwith diamond 2016 resin dust Untitled #4 Watercolor on paper 43 x 36 x 12 inches 33 x 27 inches JANA CRUDER SHANE GUFFOGG 2016 35 x 47 inches Raku ceramic horns, Where From Here Donald Fuck, Red 1/5 At the Still Point of the Mescaline plumbing casings 2013 2016 Turning World (Time 2014 23 x 2 x 2 inches Lauren in Transit Archival Metallic Lambda Chrome metallic paint, Present, Time Past) Lenticular digital print on 2016 C-Print, ed. 1/8 resin 2016 PETG plastic Untitled #5 Watercolor on paper 30 x 40 inches 19 x 16 x 12 inches Oil on canvas 22.5 x 22.5 inches 2016 35 x 47 inches 58 x 48 inches Raku ceramic horns, The New Normal plumbing casings SAM FRANCIS MA HONGJIE 2013 When I Consider How My 19 x 2 x 2 inches Lauren in Black & Grey Time is Spent #16 Archival Metallic Lambda Baudelaire Home in 4-zu, Xiangyang 2016 C-Print, ed. 1/8 2016 Watercolor on paper 1986 Village, Moudao Town, Untitled #6 30 x 40 inches Oil on canvas Lichuan City, Hubei 2016 35 x 47 inches Color Lithograph on wove paper 22 x 20 inches Province Raku ceramic horns, 2009-2013 plumbing casings 42 x 59 inches DABSMYLA Photography, Edition of 8 38 x 19 x 3 inches TIM CONLON KEITH HARING 39.375 x 31.5 inches Cyan Triangle HELEN FRANKENTHALER Blank Canvas #44 - CRYX 2016 Icons (A) - Radiant Baby JASON ARCHER 2014 The Home of Soldier Acrylic on wood, framed Grey Fireworks 1990 on Chiqua Reef, Nasha Spray paint, paint marker, 48 x 48 inches 2000 Silkscreen with embossing King of the Dead / Stray of and acrylic on canvas Islands, Hainan Province the Kong Color screenprint on wove 21 x 25 inches 2009-2013 36 x 48 inches paper 2016 Photography, Edition of 8 28 x 46 inches Acrylic on Canvas Surrounded by Light 39.375 x 31.5 in 60 x 60 inches Blank Canvas #68 - 2016 PICKens Acrylic on wood, framed 2016 GAO BROTHERS 48 x 48 inches Serape Stray of the Dead Spray paint, paint marker, and acrylic on canvas 2015 Blessing in the Suburbs 36 x 48 inches Acyclic on Canvas 2000 72 x 72 inches C-Print 39.5 x 26.5 inches

28 29 SHOWROOM PIECES // ARTISTS H - K SHOWROOM PIECES // ARTISTS L - P

MICKY HOOGENDIJIK MARK JENKINS DANIEL JOUSSEF MATTHEW LAPENTA NIAGARA UGO NONIS

Calling from the sky, Sophia Loren “Arrivaderci Mad Man Ode to Damien Head in the Wall (Child) 1/5 doubtless transparent in Sunglass, Emoji Baby” 2016 2012 2016 its shade of blue 2015 2014 Acrylic and enamel on C-Print in Aluminum Mixed media, resin 2015 Bronze w/ automotive mounts w/ high gloss paint, lost wax casting Acrylic on canvas canvas 43 x 16 x 21 inches Flashe, crayon and spray laminate paint on canvas process 30 x 24 inches 60 x 60 inches 21 x 30 inches 45.75 x 35 inches 12 x 18 x 12 inches I Don’t Like The Sense You Elephant II Kick Painting 3/5 Make 2016 JIM HOUSER 2015 ROY LICHTENSTEIN Good times, bad times, 2014 Acrylic and enamel on Mixed media whatever times Acrylic on canvas canvas Sunrise Trying and Trying 30 x 42 x 24 inches 2016 24 x 30 inches 60 x 48 inches 1965 2016 Flashe, crayon & spray paint on canvas Offset lithograph on white Assemblage on panel wove paper Marilyn (How To Marry A Rhino II MR. BRAINWASH 45.75 x 35 inches 24 x 24 inches 18.325 x 24.325 inches Millionaire) 2016 2014 Love is The Answer Acrylic and enamel on L’Acteur (the actor) Acrylic on canvas canvas Mmmaps 2013 2016 GARETH MAGUIRE 30 x 30 inches 60 x 48 inches 2016 Silkscreen and mixed media on paper Oil, spray paint and crayon Acrylic and collage on on canvas ‘Surrounded by Snakes’ panel 21 x 16 inches Skully II 31.5 x 24 inches Daniel J Blast Off 48 x 48 inches 2016 2016 2014 Champ Acrylics and enamel on Acrylic, enamel and oil bar Acrylic on canvas canvas 2016 DAVE KINSEY on stretched canvas CODY HUDSON 24 x 30 inches 36 x 36 inches Silkscreen and mixed 36 x 24x 2 inches media on paper I Don’t Want To Die Alone Tonic Blue 36 x 52 inches (Junglist Massive) 2014 Life Ain’t for Sissies CLEON PETERSON JOAN MITCHELL 2015 Acrylic and collage 2014 Acrylic on linen Diamond Girl - Black 34 x 40 inches Acrylic on canvas Remain in the Light Champs (Fields) 24 x 36 inches 2016 24 x 24 inches 2016 1990 Silkscreen, spraypaint Acrylic on Canvas diamond dust on paper Memory of Self Color Lithograph I Don’t Want To Die Alone 40 x 40 inches (Ragga Jungle 1990) 22.5 x 22.5 inches 2014 60 x 40 inches 2015 Acrylic and collage on canvas Acrylic on linen 28 x 36 inches The Night 24 x 36 inches AIKO NAKAGAWA 2016 Girl With Bow In Hair Acrylic on Canvas ALEX KATZ ROBERT INDIANA 2015 40 x 60 inches Acrylic and Spray Paint on The Book of Love 6 Black Hat IV Canvas 1996 2012 36 x 36 inches Color screenprint on 68 color screenprint A.N.W Crestwood 28.5 x 72 inches Museum Edition paper 24 x 20 inches HANS KOTTER

Color Code 2015 Stainless steel, slide, plexiglass, LEDs 79 x 5 x 5 inches

30 31 SHOWROOM PIECES // ARTISTS P - S SHOWROOM PIECES // ARTISTS S - Z

POSE KRISTOFFERSON SAN PABLO BOB SCHNEIDER JEREMY SHOCKLEY SAGE VAUGHN FENG ZHENGJIE

You Can’t Rush A Rainbow Staircases Chinese Portrait Series Couple’s Therapy Nevermind Sunshine 2016 2016 No. 53 2016 2011 2016 Oil on Canvas Acrylic, Ink, and velum on 2008 Acrylic, spraypaint, and Oil in Canvas Digital collage, C-Print, paper on clayboard panel unique piece 30 x 40 x 1.5 inches canvas Silkscreen, Edition of 200 36 x 36 inches 48 x 60 inches 20 x 20 inches 50 x 70 inches 43 x 43 inches

Tidy Silicon It’s Just You, Me, and the ED RUSCHA ANDY WARHOL NOLA ZIRIN 2016 2016 Bull 2016 Acrylic, spraypaint, and Digital collage, C-Print, After the Party paper on clayboard panel Mark Twain Quote unique piece Oil on Canvas Flexion 1979 36 x 48 inches 2012 20 x 20 inches 36 x 38 x 1.5 inches 2016 Screenprint on Arches 88 Lithograph paper Mixed media on canvas 16 x 22 inches Collision Rainbow Dives Off An Old 21.5 x 30.5 inches 52 x 72 inches DENISE PRINCE 2016 Faded Cliff...Survives 2016 Texas Federation of Digital collage, C-Print, Ads: Mobil, II. 350 unique piece Oil on Linen Women’s Clubs LISA SCHULTE 1985 20 x 20 inches 16 x 20 x .75 inches 2010 Screenprint on Lenox C-print on Moab fine art Continuation of a Dream Museum Board paper 2016 Destroy him Chasing That Neon 38 x 38 inches 30 x 30 inches Wood and neon 2016 Anything 29 x 82 x 28 inches Digital collage, C-Print, 2016 unique piece Oil on Canvas TOM WESSELMANN First Job 20 x 20 inches 16 x 20 x 1 inches (oval) 2007 Untitled Wood Series #1 Monica in Robe with C-print 2016 Motherwell SWOON 30 x 30 inches Wood and neon ANDREW SCHOULTZ 1994 34 x 40 x 17 inches 21 Color screenprint on Sinking in the Green Ice Queen Coventry paper, signed (Sinking Ship) 2016 and annotated ‘HC 12/16’ ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG Memories of Rotating 2016 Silkscreen and acrylic on 40 x 58.25 inches Emotion 1,2,3 Acrylic and collage on paper and wood Untitled 2016 canvas 54 x 28 inches 1973 36 x 36 inches Neon HUANG ZHEN Screenprint and collage 12 x 23 inches 28 x 20.25 inches Nicole Mandala 2016 Cloud Mountain Linoleum block print and 2016 acrylic on paper and wood Copper wire sculpture VICTOR REYES 72 inch diameter 22 x 14 x 14 inches Island 1 2016 Oil on canvas stretched THANKYOUX over panel 48 x 60 inches Desire 2016 Island 2 Collage spray paint, acrylic paint, and resin on canvas 2016 with wood frame Oil on canvas stretched 30 x 30 inches over panel 48 x 40 inches

32 33 POP SHOP // AND VIRTUAL MARKETPLACE

POP SHOP

Since its conception, POP Austin has showcased some of the world’s most talented artists, creating an experience that transcends art to become that of a conversation-starting social movement. The unique model combines style, spectacle, cultural education, and taste to present today’s most compelling art in an accessible and engaging format. Over the years, POP Austin has carefully and thoughtfully designed architectures of experience. By developing fully curated events in immersive and engaging environments, POP Austin has given birth to meaningful programming found nowhere else on earth. Artists and art enthusiasts travel from around the world to enjoy a fusion of lifestyle and creative expression, which transcend all creative mediums and genres.

This year, in addition to the four days of meticulously planned programming to entertain art enthusiasts and inspire attendees, we’re offering three platforms for investing in great art! As always, the works on show at our POP Austin Exhibition at Fair Market are available for purchase. New additions this year include our POP shop: a curated selection of works on paper, from limited and open edition prints (from the likes of Huang Yan) to unique originals (including original drawings by Zen Sevastyanova). Be sure to stop by the POP Shop when visiting the POP Austin Fair Market exhibition. From top to bottom: Work from Huang Yan and Zen Sevastyanova

POP AUSTIN VIRTUAL SHOWROOM

Lastly, POP Austin is excited to launch The Virtual Showroom, a permanent online home for art from international and Austin- based artists. This art commerce platform will allow collectors to choose from an expertly curated selection of art. POP Austin also offers Art Advisory services in addition to art investment and asset management consulting.

- Visit the POP SHOP 10:00am - 6:00pm, Friday-Sunday, October 14th-16th POP Austin International Art Show Exhibition at Fair Market - 1100 E 5th St Visit the POP Austin Virtual Showroom 24 hours a day at WWW.POPAUSTIN.COM

34 35 SPONSORS // AND PARTNERSHIPS MEDIA SPONSORS

CORPORATE SPONSORS

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Helen Frankenthaler’s “Grey Fireworks” featured above

36 37 ABOUT // THE HOOP SPECIAL THANKS //

“[The HOOP] has vitality and fire—that raw electricity that we get from all of the artists we work with. We thrive off of their creativity and talent, paying that fine favor back the only way we know how: by bringing their work to the world, and sharing that fire with the people in Austin, a taste-driven city that recognizes passion, and the best of what creatives have to offer.” A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO:

POP Austin is more than a show, it is a movement.

Texas Cultural Trust Lisa Schulte The Blanton Museum Nights of Neon In order to emotionally and visually convey what that means John Hogg Vosea Advisors to us, we are proud to present the HOOP. We set out to David Garza Gerald Francese create a simple but versatile visual device. The circle is a Mike Barber DLA Piper strong and balanced piece of geometry that signifies an infinite and repetitive occurrence. The distortion gives the Roger Gastman Justin Haynes geometry a sense of humanity and imperfection. The various Jaime Delgado Tim Haldeen layers represent the diversity of art within. The feel of motion Mary Mandel Jordan Ford represents that it is ever changing. Jen DiSisto Jamie Kovach Danneel & Jensen Ackles Seth Orion Schwaiger The undulating ring is a refined and constant (but not too Genevieve & Jared Padalecki Grover Bynum constant) image that reflects a sense of passionate community. Brandon Bolin Art Alliance Austin It represents the artists and the artwork we champion in its bold Scott DeRue Big Medium declarative form, hypnotic movement, and multifaceted nature. Suzanne Deal Booth David Mendoza That last adjective is especially poignant this year with work Jennifer Ransom Rice Steve Downey coming from light and technology driven artistic practices, street Ellen Mason Christopher Cruz and other urban art traditions, as well as established modern and contemporary masters. Like the HOOP, we curate these potentially Heather Wagner Reed Danielle Grenier Cossey disparate works into a seamless whole that amplify each specific Adrienne Longenecker Greg Smith movement and genre’s unique characteristics. Like all good art, the Chris Gilbert Lily Zhang HOOP provokes an emotional response. Chelo Eckhardt Tony Schubert

It has vitality and fire—that raw electricity that we get from all of the And all of our partners and affiliates who help to support our vision. artists we work with. We thrive off of their creativity and talent, paying that fine favor back the only way we know how: by bringing their work to the world, and sharing that fire with the people in Austin, a taste-driven city that recognizes passion, and the best of what creatives have to offer. EDITOR: Seth Orion Schwaiger PHOTOGRAPHY: Courtesy of the artists DESIGN: Jamie Kovach PRINTING: Austin Texas Print, Inc.