Big Medium and Origin Studio House partner to present an exclusive preview and opening reception for Yo trabajo con la tierra / I work with the earth.

Featuring the work of Melissa Aguirre, Alexa Capareda, Paloma Mayorga, VLM (Virginia Luna Montgomery), and Alejandra Regalado, this exhibition aims to reveal marginalized perspectives in the environmental movements prompting a sense of kinship to the earth, and consequently, a more compassionate understanding of ourselves and each other.

Artist Talk begins at 8pm.

Seats are limited and reserved for Big Medium Members and Origin Studio House guests only. We invite all other visitors to support the work of Big Medium by becoming a Member before RSVPing at bigmedium.org/membership.

To learn more about the artists, visit bigmedium.org/tierra.

Close out our Summertime Studio Visits with a trip to Alejandra Almuelle’s studio in West Austin.

Spaces are limited and available to Members at the $250 level and above. Big Medium Members, please RSVP below. All other visitors, we invite you to consider supporting the work of Big Medium by becoming a Member at bigmedium.org/membership before RSVPing.

If you have any questions regarding your Membership or would like to level up to attend, please email Paloma Mayorga at mayorga@bigmedium.org.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Alejandra Almuelle was born in Arequipa, Peru. She spent few years in Pizac in the Sacred Valley of Cuzco, a center for ceramic making. Peru is a country in which the abundance of clay has made this medium a language of artistic expression. Clay is its own idiom, and being there, she began to speak it. After she moved to Austin, she started working with clay. Addressing the functionality of the medium as well as its sculptural expression has been equally important for her. She has participated in art fairs, galleries and museums with both pottery and sculpture.

alejandraalmuelle.com

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***RESCHEDULED TO JULY 23 at 11am.***

Join us for a tour of Adrian Armstrong’s studio at Canopy and experience his works in progress as he prepares for his upcoming exhibition at Big Medium opening on October 15, 2022.

Spots are limited and available to Members at the $250 level and above. Big Medium Members, please RSVP below. All other visitors, we invite you to consider supporting the work of Big Medium by becoming a Member at bigmedium.org/membership before RSVPing.

If you have any questions regarding your Membership or would like to level up to attend, please email Paloma Mayorga at mayorga@bigmedium.org.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Adrian Armstrong is a multidisciplinary artist from Omaha, NE now living and working out of Austin, TX. Armstrong received his BFA from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 2014. His work expands throughout different mediums such as music, painting, and printmaking, but his primary medium of choice is ballpoint pen.

Through portrait and figurative practices, Armstrong’s work explores black identity and how the black body is perceived in predominantly White American spaces. He aims to portray what it means to be an African American living in modern America. Often using himself as an “every man” symbol, Armstrong’s work touches on topics such as depression within the black community, systematic oppression, and identity erasure; but on the other side of the spectrum explores, nostalgia, growth, and success.

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Join us at 7pm for a Member's exclusive preview of Xavier Schipani's newest exhibition, The Lightning Can't Be Harnessed, which includes a gallery-wide mural and soft sculpture. Hang around and catch an artist talk at 8pm to learn more about the artist's process and inspiration for his new body of work.

Seats are limited and reserved for Big Medium Members and Origin Studio House guests only. We invite all other visitors to support the work of Big Medium by becoming a Member before RSVPing at bigmedium.org/membership.

Kicking off this year’s Summertime Studio Visits is Xavier Schipani. As he prepares for his upcoming exhibition, The Lightning Can't Be Harnessed, Xavier invites us into the Big Medium gallery before the exhibit opens on June 25 to experience his murals in progress and get a glimpse into his process.

Spots are limited and available to Members at the $250 level and above. Big Medium Members, please RSVP below. All other visitors, we invite you to consider supporting the work of Big Medium by becoming a Member at bigmedium.org/membership before RSVPing.

If you have any questions regarding your Membership or would like to level up to attend, please email Paloma Mayorga at mayorga@bigmedium.org.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Xavier Schipani was born in 1984 in Washington, D.C. He studied at the Center for Arts and Culture in AIX-en-Provence and received a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Schipani is an Austin-based Transgender artist, who has focused his practice on creating large painting installations that explore the boundaries of gender, body politics, sexuality, and queer identity. His unique voice and personal connection to the themes of his work create intimate experiences in combination with a larger-than-life scale to establish a contrast between the work and the viewer. He continues to investigate fear and anger, masculinity as performance, and the ambiguity of what makes a man.

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Doors open at 11am.

Artist Talk begins at noon.

Big Medium Members, please RSVP below. All other visitors, we invite you to consider supporting the work of Big Medium by becoming a Member at bigmedium.org/membership.

If you have any questions regarding your Membership, please contact Paloma Mayorga at mayorga@bigmedium.org.

To learn more about The Constructed Self by Karen Navarro, visit bigmedium.org/karen-navarro.

Doors open at 7pm.

Artist Talk begins at 7:30pm.

Big Medium Members, please RSVP below. All other visitors, we invite you to consider supporting the work of Big Medium by becoming a Member at bigmedium.org/membership.

If you have any questions regarding your Membership, please contact Paloma Mayorga at mayorga@bigmedium.org.

To learn more about Mónica Vega and her installations for Fusebox Festival, visit bigmedium.org/fusebox-2022.