Peter Staats and Company | Oscar Gallery | Photostructure
1150 San Bernard Street – Go to Map 512-473-2277 - Trees Their canopy chills the air. Their majesty goes un noticed. Their needs go unmet. We finance condos that scrape the skies, Keeping Austin weird. East 09 at Oscar Gallery is all about the tree. Texture, root ball, canopy and all.
Charlie Chauvin | Illustration, design
My name is Charlie Chauvin. I was born and raised in McAllen, Tx, but I escaped to Austin when they weren’t looking and I have been living here for the last ten years. I like the color red so I started using it a lot until I got bored and decided I want to use more blue. I draw and paint stuff on wood and as a requirement I must amuse myself first. I like laughing, number two pencils, orange juice, pink pearls and electric erasers. I love my wife and I enjoying showing my son new things everyday.
Chris Chappell | Street Scapes
Austin Figurative Gallery Co-Founder
http://www.chrischappellart.com/
After studying art at the American College of the Applied Arts in Atlanta, Georgia, Chris established a regimented work ethic of daily painting, concentrating on made up spaces as well as invented landscapes. Over the past few years, his paintings shifted from the mazes of apartment complexes and repeating surburban developments to focus on a new frontier: the human figure. As one of the founding members of the Austin Figurative Project, Chris has studied the human form and continued to make and break rules of painting in an effort to capture the essence of life that only the combination of turpentine and paint can achieve.
April Garcia | Fabric Art
April Garcia is a multimedia artist exploring her passion for fabric, art and installation. With every strip of fabric, every bold color and every ritualistic knot, she builds layered sculptural pieces. She creates organic forms to reify and make her abstract ideas more tangible. As she sits in her creative space she allows her creativity to flow through her soul, with her breath and the peace she finds in her sewing and knotting process she relish the driving creative force. What is most important to April Garcia is to just BE and FEEL the happiness in that moment of creating. While prolific with soft sculptures, she’s working with various media and techniques, including sculpting, printmaking, painting and collage. All these materials help her bring ideas to reality. What inspires April most is the process of learning and discovering things about herself as a conscious multi-media artist.
April Garcia has been working diligently creating new art from recycled fabric materials. Her works are influenced by nature and organic plant forms that are both floral and abstract in nature. More of her work can be viewed at AustinPeach.com
Nicole Delcuze | Photographer
http://www.behance.net/NicoleDelcuze/frame
512.466.5251
Born in Austin and I’ve never left! I picked up my first camera in ‘06 and fell in love with visual storytelling. My photography tends to center around stories and strong moods. I’m drawn to using natural or available light and use composition as part of the story. With perspective and playfulness I look for the soul in the ordinary and overlooked.
A favorite quote of mine: “A person shows who he is, by what he does, with what he has.”
David Russ | illustration, painting, sculpture, costume design
David Russ has been an artist since birth. After all the chastising and hours of detention for doodling on his homework and exams, he was destined to receive a BFA in Illustration and to live out his life as a professional artist. David can’t be contained or defined. His works are like the weather in Texas…”just wait a moment and it’ll change.” Whether it’s a painting, animation, puppetry, creature creation, or 3-D computer imaging, his need for exploration is the driving force behind his diverse and varied style.
Amanda Bulger
Green Corn Project
Come by 1222 Rosewood Avenue during EAST weekends to chat with GCP volunteers about how to help bring organic food gardens to more Austinites who lack access to healthy produce. Visit our website at www.greencornproject.org and visit us at our EAST table to sample a garden-made goodie, get gardening with a veggie start or seeds, and color at the kids’ garden art table.
Green Corn Project is a local non-profit run entirely by volunteers. Our mission is to educate and assist Central Texans in growing organic food gardens. We work with individuals and families in need and teach them how to grow safe, fresh, nutritious food at home. You can help Green Corn Project accomplish this mission through volunteering with us at our “Dig-Ins”. No gardening experience is necessary, and helping us is a great way to improve your own gardening knowledge and skills.
Music, food, drinks and local businesses! Visit the East End IBIZ District during East Austin Studio Tour 2009. There’s a lot going on . . .
Keep Austin Green Shirts – $15
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Help the Keep Austin Beautiful Foundation by purchasing a Peace, Love, & Recycle Keep Austin Green Tie-Dye. T-shirts are printed on a Hanes heavyweight shirt and are 100% preshrunk cotton. The front of the shirts display the peace, love, recycling symbols and the back side reminds everyone to Keep Austin Green! They also make great gifts.