Filtering by: Front Page
April #bitres Artist: Sean Ripple
Apr
1
to May 10
Current, Front Page

April #bitres Artist: Sean Ripple

Sean Ripple
#bitresrip5


“your stylist @ripple1213 checking in for my #bitres for the month of April through the end of @friendsfair.art taking place 5/7/26-5/9/26 @thelorenaustin

follow along for fit collages, shopping excursion documentation, fit feeds, fashion histories and horrors (a red lace adorned hand in a black leather studded glove dipped in honey and diamond dust), muses, off-brand advertisements for high end dreams, direct marketing schemes for experiential offerings and more.

…and do take this as an invitation to participate in a styling session in the styling salon that @colabprojectstx and I will be running throughout this year’s @friendsfair.art @thelorenaustin

message on instragram today to be sent a link to book a session appointment. 👠❤️👠❤️👠

#bitresrip5 #stylist #stylingsalon #stylecouncil”

Instagram: @ripple1213

Links: seanripple.net


About #bitres:
As a means of expanding Co-Lab Project's programming into the digital realm, artist/curator Vladimir Mejia selects artists to participate in an Instagram hosted month-long residency. Artists are given full control of the @colabprojectsbitres Instagram account, and all images posted by the artist are categorized by hashtags representing the artist name in residency. Original concept by Sean Ripple.



View Event →
"Day for Night" : Fabiola Torres-Alzaga
May
23
to Jul 4
Upcoming, Front Page

"Day for Night" : Fabiola Torres-Alzaga

Day for Night
Fabiola Torres-Alzaga
Curated by Leslie Moody Castro

May 23rd - July 4th, 2026
On view Saturdays, 12-6pm
5419 Glissman Road, Austin, TX 78702

Opening Events:
Saturday, May 23rd
Members Preview, 6-7pm, Become a Member
Public Reception, 7-11pm, Please RSVP
Sponsored by Austin Beerworks and Tito’s Handmade Vodka

Members Meet & Greet with Fabiola Torres-Alzaga:
Thursday, May 14th, 8-10pm
Become a Member to receive the location

The work of Fabiola Torres-Alzaga investigates visual geographies and their thresholds, with a special emphasis on the manifestations of the invisible. Through an interdisciplinary practice, Torres-Alzaga revisits the scenic systems and their spatio-temporal languages ​​of film, theater, and magic, articulating them within an expanded field. Incorporating a queer perspective, Torres-Alzaga is interested in the construction of the illusory image, its censorship and concealment, as well as the lingering ghosts, composing scenes in which not everything present is available to the gaze. Thus, she has created her work in the interstices of what an image explicitly shows and, above all, what surrounds and exceeds it — an imaginary that, through suggestion, recomposes forms and their absences. Torres-Alzaga is interested in creating illusory worlds that can function as parentheses of reality and counter-spaces that reclaim more corners within the patriarchal sphere in order to generate other possible relationships.

Her work has been exhibited at the MUAC (Mexico, 2024), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2024), Museo MACRO (Rome, 2023), Villa Medici (Rome, 2022), MUAC's Sala 10 (Mexico, 2021), the FEMSA Biennial (Zacatecas, 2018), Anthology Film Archives (New York, 2018), Lille 3000 (France, 2019), Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires, 2018), Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York, 2018), Maison des Arts de Malakoff (France, 2016), Moscow Polytechnic Museum (Russia, 2015), MARCO (Monterrey, 2015), Museo del Chopo (Mexico City, 2014), Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City, 2014), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City, 2011), Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv, 2006), and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (Mexico, 2004), among others.

She has published Historias de la noche (ESPAC, 2019), a book/project in dialogue with Mara Fortes; Fabiola Torres-Alzaga: entre actos (Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2015), with texts by Itala Schmelz and Daniel Garza Usabiaga; and Las Desinvitadas (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, 2025), with texts by Virginia Roy and Laura Orozco.

She has twice received the Jóvenes Creadores grant and was a member of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA) from 2020 to 2023.


This exhibition is supported in part by H-E-B, Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Donors, and Members like You!

View Event →
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER IV — AN OPEN CALL
Jul
1
11:59 PM23:59
Front Page, Upcoming, Current

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER IV — AN OPEN CALL

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER IV
An open call for new artists

Extended open call dates: February 1st - July 1st, 2026
Extended Application Deadline: Midnight, July 1st, 2026
Application review and notification: Early July
New exhibition dates: Fall, 2026 (exact dates TBA)

Co-Lab Projects invites all Austin area artists who have NOT physically exhibited with Co-Lab in the past to apply for this open call exhibition. The application is open to individual artists, curators, collectives, or other groups who fit this description.

Submitted/proposed works may be in any medium including but not limited to: installation, video/film, performance, 2D and 3D static works, social practice, etc. Please consider the installation logistics and limitations of the culvert gallery, for example the space is not temperature or humidity controlled which means it is not necessarily an ideal environment for works on paper or photography. If you have specific concerns we’re happy to answer any questions before you submit.

Artworks do not have to be from any specific time frame. The open call title is tongue in cheek, however we do encourage applying with semi-recent work and/or new proposed work.

Works will be reviewed and selected by a Curatorial Committee and the format of the exhibition will be determined by these selections. For example we may decide to pair two artists who submitted separately, or build a multiple artist exhibition from several applicants, or a large group exhibition may take shape. The format will depend largely on what we receive from applicants. However, the last three years of this application/program have produced group exhibitions and will be the most likely outcome of this year's open call. Apply accordingly.

Please fill out the form here to apply. What are you waiting for huh?!



View Event →
OPEN CALL FOR NEW ARTISTS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 20TH
Feb
1
to Apr 20
Front Page, Current

OPEN CALL FOR NEW ARTISTS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 20TH

  • Google Calendar ICS

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER III
An open call for new artists

Open call dates: February 1st - March 31st, 2025
Application Deadline: Midnight, March 31st
Application review and notification: By the end of April
Exhibition dates: June 14th - July 19th, 2025

Co-Lab Projects invites all Austin area artists who have NOT physically exhibited with Co-Lab in the past to apply for this open call exhibition. The application is open to individual artists, curators, collectives, or other groups who fit this description.

Submitted/proposed works may be in any medium including but not limited to: installation, video/film, performance, 2D and 3D static works, social practice, etc. Please consider the installation logistics and limitations of the culvert gallery, for example the space is not temperature or humidity controlled which means it is not necessarily an ideal environment for works on paper or photography. If you have specific concerns we’re happy to answer any questions before you submit.

Artworks do not have to be from any specific time frame. The open call title is tongue in cheek, however we do encourage applying with semi-recent work and/or new proposed work.

Works will be reviewed and selected by a Curatorial Committee and the format of the exhibition will be determined by these selections. For example we may decide to pair two artists who submitted separately, or build a multiple artist exhibition from several applicants, or a large group exhibition may take shape. The format will depend largely on what we receive from applicants.

*Note: The last two years of this application/program have produced group exhibitions.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY! What are you waiting for huh?!

View Event →
“Epiphany” Artist Talk moderated by Justine Kurland
Oct
19
7:00 PM19:00
Front Page, Upcoming

“Epiphany” Artist Talk moderated by Justine Kurland

Photo curtesy of Rosemary Haynes

“Epiphany” Artist Talk 
Featuring Justine Kurland in conversation with Michelle Marchesseault, Diana Welch, Kate Csillagi, and curator Alyssa Taylor Wendt

Saturday, October 19th, 7pm, (please RSVP)
Co-Lab Projects, 5419 Glissman Rd, Austin, TX 78702

Join us at the Culvert Gallery for another look at “Epiphany” and a conversation moderated by esteemed artist Justine Kurland. In this talk, Justine hopes to open a discussion about themes and processes in each artist's work and in relation to one another. Justine echos the question underlying the exhibition “Epiphany” and the mission of Co-Lab Projects- How do we support artists engaged in radical experimentation and play?

Justine Kurland is an artist known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them. Her early work comprises photographs, taken during many cross-country road trips, that counter the masculinist mythology of the American landscape, offering a radical female imaginary in its place. Her recent series of collages, SCUMB Manifesto, continues to make space for women by transforming books by canonized male photographers through destruction and reparation. Kurland’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. www.justinekurland.com

Diana Welch is a multidisciplinary artist based in Austin, TX, whose body of work spans sculpture, music, and writing. A self-taught ceramicist, she has exhibited in the US and Europe as one-half of the collaborative Mother of God. Her vessels reference classical ancient clay forms imbued with unexpected flare and subversion through interaction, collaboration, and functionality. As a musician, she has released several recordings, both solo and as a member of the band Stormshelter. A reporter, editor, and author, her extensive writing has been reviewed in Vanity Fair and elsewhere.

Kate Csillagi is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from Austin, TX. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Evergreen State College where she studied fiber art, printmaking,  and bookmaking. Her work has evolved over the years to include drawing, mural work, fabric tapestry, and installation. She was also a founding member of ICOSA, an artist-run collective and gallery in East Austin. Csillagi’s work is disruptive and whimsical, constructing unexpected narratives that star her anthropomorphic characters within supernatural scenes. Her work dismantles reality through watery dreamscapes and colorful illustrations, providing refuge from the monotony of modernity. 

Michelle Marchesseault splits time between Austin, TX, where she paints, and New York City, where she designs art and interiors for restaurants, television, movies, and the stage. She attended Herron School of Art in Indianapolis for painting and has been creating visuals and environments for over 20 years. The majority of Marchessault’s work fluctuates between studies of color and design that she called “twist” paintings and lush mannerist landscapes where nature is simultaneously gushing with beauty and brutality.

Mimi Bowman was born in Texas in 1989. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022 with a degree in archaeology and Middle Eastern studies. Bowman is currently abroad pursuing an MA in archaeology at the University College of London, hoping to work in Karez rehabilitation in northern Iraq. In 2023, she curated Oshay Green and Isabel Legate’s dual exhibition Holometabolism at Martha’s Contemporary, and her collaborative video work with Jonny Negron was included in Electricity · Shadow at Château Shatto.

Alyssa Taylor Wendt is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and curator working in Detroit and Austin, Texas. Her recent projects address mysticism, the architecture of memory, and the decodified strata of history using video, ceramics, sculpture, painting, and installation. Earning her MFA from Bard, she has shown and performed internationally since 2004. She recently completed a second master’s degree in museum studies from Harvard and plans to open a small non-profit museum of cultural artifacts in 2026.

View Event →
Summer Open Call
Apr
25
to May 26
Front Page, Current, Upcoming

Summer Open Call

  • Google Calendar ICS

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER II
An open call for new artists

Open call dates: April 25th - May 25th, 2024
Application review and notification: End of May
Exhibition dates: June 15th - July 20th, 2024

Co-Lab Projects invites all Austin area artists who have NOT physically exhibited with Co-Lab in the past to apply for this open call exhibition. The application is open to individual artists, curators, collectives, or other groups who fit this description.

Submitted/proposed works may be in any medium including but not limited to: installation, video/film, performance, 2D and 3D static works, social practice, etc. Please consider the installation logistics and limitations of the culvert gallery, for example the space is not temperature or humidity controlled which means it is not necessarily an ideal environment for works on paper or photography. If you have specific concerns we’re happy to answer any questions before you submit.

Artworks do not have to be from any specific time frame. The open call title is tongue in cheek, however we do encourage applying with semi-recent work and/or new proposed work.

Works will be reviewed and selected by the Board of Directors and the format of the exhibition will be determined by these selections. For example we may decide to pair two artists who submitted separately, or build a multiple artist exhibition from several applicants, or a large group exhibition may take shape. The format will depend largely on what we receive from applicants.

Please following the link below to apply. What are you waiting for huh?!

Apply Here!
View Event →
Co-Lab Book Club
Oct
13
to Nov 13
Current, Front Page, Upcoming

Co-Lab Book Club

  • Google Calendar ICS

Co-Lab Book Club
Led by Leslie Moody Castro in conjunction with Ana Segovia’s exhibition Boy’s Ranch

October 13th — November 13th, 2023
This and all future Book Club editions are FREE for Members

Book Club members will discuss via Discord and will be invited to an in-person conversation with Leslie Moody Castro and Ana Segovia on November 13th.

Become a member

We will be reading both of the following books, Cartucho is very short and will not take long to finish.


- Book 1 -

Cartucho by Nellie Campobello
55 pages
Buy the book here

Cartucho: Tales of the Struggle in Northern Mexico (Cartucho: Relatos de la lucha en el Norte de México) is a semi-autobiographical short novel, or novella set in the Mexican Revolution and originally published in 1931. It consists of a series of vignettes that draw on Campobello's memories of her childhood and adolescence (and the stories her mother told her) in Northern Mexico during the war. Though long overlooked, it is now celebrated, among other reasons because it is, as Mexican critic Elena Poniatowska points out, "the only real vision of the Mexican revolution written by a woman."

About the Author:
Nellie (or Nelly) Francisca Ernestina Campobello Luna (November 7, 1900 – July 9, 1986) was a Mexican writer, notable for having written one of the few chronicles of the Mexican Revolution from a woman's perspective: Cartucho, which chronicles her experience as a young girl in Northern Mexico at the height of the struggle between forces loyal to Pancho Villa and those who followed Venustiano Carranza. She moved to Mexico City in 1923, where she spent the rest of her life and associated with many of the most famous Mexican intellectuals and artists of the epoch. Like her half-sister Gloria, a well-known ballet dancer, she was also known as a dancer and choreographer. She was the director of the Mexican National School of Dance.


- Book 2 -

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
302 pages
Buy the book here

All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. It was a bestseller, winning both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is the first of McCarthy's "Border Trilogy".

About the Author:
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and post-apocalyptic genres. He was known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. McCarthy is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists. McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, although he was raised primarily in Tennessee. In 1951, he enrolled in the University of Tennessee, but dropped out to join the U.S. Air Force. His debut novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published in 1965. Awarded literary grants, McCarthy was able to travel to southern Europe, where he wrote his second novel, Outer Dark (1968). Suttree (1979), like his other early novels, received generally positive reviews, but was not a commercial success. A MacArthur Fellowship enabled him to travel to the American Southwest, where he researched and wrote his fifth novel, Blood Meridian (1985). Although it initially garnered a lukewarm critical and commercial reception, it has since been regarded as his magnum opus, with some labeling it the Great American Novel.

View Event →
Jun
26
to Dec 11
2021, Front Page

"Serpentine and Sporous" : Suzanne Wyss

IMG_2483.jpg

Serpentine and Sporous
Suzanne Wyss

Commissioned by Springdale General
Curated and produced by Co-Lab Projects

On view permanently 24/7, no appointment required
Springdale General (between buildings 7 & 8)
1023 Springdale Road, Austin, TX 78721

This concrete installation speaks to growth and movement in a rigid world. The walkway slithers through the spires that are based on fungal fruits, acting as a symbol for cleansing the earth and a place to cleanse the mind.

Suzanne Wyss is a multi-disciplinary artist focusing on large-scale installation and sculpture, transforming industrial materials into organic forms. Wyss received her MFA in sculpture from Indiana University in 2013 and her BFA in sculpture and ceramics from the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 2010. She originates from the Black Hills of South Dakota. Wyss has shown her art throughout the Midwest and as far away as Osaka, Japan. Since becoming a Texan in 2013 her most notable previous works are a permanent installation at Thinkery ATX, and a site-specific installation for the Facebook Artist in Residence Program. Wyss is currently working towards her Masters in Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin to further explore the integration between sculpture and landscape.

View Event →