Holly Johnson Gallery has just opened the first installment of what has become an international project, pairing veteran artist Otis Jones and his former studio assistant Bret Slater.
Deceptively simple in design, Current, a monumental, interactive sculpture at The Contemporary Austin’s Laguna Gloria estate, intervenes in the landscape to force viewers to consider not only the elements that went into its making, but also the environment in which it resides.
Any daydreamer remembers being back in school, either ignoring the teacher or absorbing the world around them as they doodled in the margins of their notes.
It has been a busy year for Patricia Ruiz-Healy, who made the leap last fall from showing art in a house by appointment only to an East Olmos Drive gallery, only to move next door in the spring.
