Andy Coolquit

Andy Coolquitt, an Austin-based artist, creates installations that are activated through casual but precise arrangements, suggesting purpose and relationships between elements made of what Coolquitt terms "somebodymades," as well as manipulated and combined flotsam and jetsam of the artist's urban environment. Stephanie Buhmann of the Brooklyn Rail writes, "Coolquitt's crops find meaning primarily through re-organization. Combined and fused into larger constructions, these objects are reincarnated." Coolquitt himself explains his practice as an "interest in basically, creating a place . . . all these objects are just things I can use to that end."

Coolquitt has shown from Milan, to Berlin, to New York, to Vienna, to closer to home with a recent solo exhibition, attainable excellence, organized by the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston and opening at AMOA_Arthouse in Austin in fall 2012, as well as having an artist's residency and exhibition this summer at 21er Haus in Vienna, Austria. Despite his international exhibition history, Coolquitt has actually had a quiet and steady career rooted in his domestic setting. In fact, he is perhaps best known for a house, a performance/studio/domestic space that began as his master's thesis project at the University of Texas in 1994 and continues to the present day.

For Tuesday Evenings at the Modern Andy Coolquitt presents "You Had to Be There."

 

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