Jason Middlebrook: More Art About Buildings and Food

Oct 27-Jan 16
For his Arthouse commission, New York-based artist Jason Middlebrook transforms detritus from the building’s renovation into sculpture, dining furniture, and other functional objects, all of which combine to evoke the history of the Jones Center and its longstanding importance as a gathering place for the Austin community.
Location : 2nd floor gallery

Mequitta Ahuja: Automythography II

Oct 27-Jan 2
Automythography II features new paintings and drawings that continue Ahuja’s ongoing artistic investigation into the construction of gender, cultural, and ethnic identities through a multi-layered process of self-portraiture.
Location : 1st floor gallery

Tony Feher

Oct 27-Ongoing
For his Arthouse commission, New York-based artist Tony Feher has created a constellation-like installation by suspending hundreds of water bottles from the soaring, pitched ceiling in Arthouse’s second floor gallery space.
Location : 2nd floor gallery

Cyprien Gaillard: Cities of Gold and Mirrors

Oct 27-Dec 5
Continuing the Paris and Berlin-based artist’s longstanding exploration of the built environment, this non-narrative film focuses on Cancún’s anachronistic and decaying landscape as a symbolic site of memory and loss.
Location : Film & Video Project Room

Ryan Hennessee: The Specious Present at 700 Congress

Oct 27-Jan 2
Commissioned specifically for Arthouse’s second floor video projection screen, Austin-based artist Ryan Hennessee has created a looping video animation that cleverly reimagines and collapses the past, present, and future of 700 Congress Avenue.
Location : 2nd floor Congress Avenue window

James Sham: Close Caption

Oct 27-Jan 2
Close Caption, a witty video that addresses issues of language, translation, and mistranslation via DJ Kool’s song “Let Me Clear My Throat,” inaugurates Lift Project, a series of short video works shown in Arthouse’s new passenger elevator.
Location : elevator (Lift Series)

Arthouse exhibitions and education programs are FREE and open to the public.