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 Cowboy Character at Stephen L. Clark Gallery This October offers tintypes and prints by Robb Kendrick at Stephen L. Clark Gallery. A native Texan, Kendrick has an impressive resumé, photographing for such notable publications as National Geographic, Life, Sports illustrated, Audubon and Smithsonian. Kendrick's latest work documents contemporary working cowboys and cowgirls. Mostly portraits, the images are divided into two techniques, the traditional tintype technique (a way of producing photographs using wet collodion on thin black painted sheet iron) as well as digital prints, probably scanned images taken from the tintypes and reproduced. The tintype aesthetic suits Kendrick's sitters well. Weathered faces crowned with silhouetted black cowboy hats emerge from stark backgrounds. Figures are emblematic, faces appear proud and impressions, timeless. Kendrick's new book published by Bright Sky Press is available to purchase at the gallery. "Robb Kendrick: Revealing Character "will be on view through November 9.
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Barnett at Wally Workman New at Wally Workman Gallery are paintings and collages by Helmut Barnett. Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1946 Barnett attended The University of Texas at Austin where he earned a degree in Fine Arts in 1973. He has been living and working in Austin ever since. In the past, Barnett exhibited primarily in Houston. This exhibition is rare opportunity to see his work locally and marks a new and hopefully enduring relation with the Wally Workman Gallery. The current group of work consists of paintings, drawings and collages. Many of Barnett's large painted canvases contain clean, crisp, straight-edge geometry and amazing eye-popping color. Other paintings depict looser geometric and ribbon-like forms that bend and tumble in space. His collages combine cryptic textual messages layered between detailed colored rectangular and semicircular shaped pieces of paper. The titles of Barnett's works, such as "The Official Version," often seem to suggest something more profound is being represented, other than merely an analysis of such visual elements as color, form, texture and composition. The artist states: "Having chosen a visual means of expression I have always found it difficult to write or talk about my work…At best I would say that my paintings and drawings are deeply rooted in the history of art and represent my delight in exploring the many possibilities of the visual world." "Helmut Barnett - Paintings and Collages" will be on view through October 22.
Past, Present, Future - Four artists at F8 F8 Fine Art Gallery will open "Perspectives: Looking Inward, Looking Backward and Looking Beyond," on October 6. This show features work by four diverse artists: Piercarlo Abate, Raymond Copley, Michael Kessler and Sky Patterson. Abate's historic photographic prints of World War I asylum patients document the haunting plight of the mentally ill. New to F8, the photographs by Copley were taken in 1950, but only very recently printed. Evocative of the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Copley's charming photos capture moments from European city streets, for example a child peering in a storefront window. Patterson's paintings portray abstracted and isolated figures reflecting upon struggles toward self-realization, while Kessler's sleek, organic and abstract paintings explore our relation to the natural environment. "Perspectives: Looking Inward, Looking Backward and Looking Beyond" will be on view through November 5. 
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