Lakes Were Rivers–Spring 2011
Lakes Were Rivers
Lakes Were Rivers Book Launch!
Book Launch | Lakes Were Rivers: Number One

Domy Books, Austin, Texas
Saturday, February 19, 2011, 7–9 pm
Austin based collective Lakes Were Rivers is happy to announce the publication of our first book. To celebrate the occasion we will be having a launch party, slideshow, and book signing at Domy Books in Austin on Saturday, February 19th from 7–9 pm. For this evening only, each book purchased during the party will include a free original photograph by one of the artists in the collective. Come hang out, get a drink, see a slideshow, and grab a signed book with a print for just $27! More…


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New Art in Austin, 15 to Watch

Austin Museum of Art | February 25–May 22, 2011

Elizabeth Chiles, Anna Krachey, Ben Ruggiero, Adam Schreiber, and Barry Stone are a part of AMoA′s triennial exhibition – curated by Kate Bonansinga, Director of UT El Paso′s Visual Arts Center, Andrea Mellard, interim curator of AMoA, and Toby Kamps, curator of modern and contemporary art at The Menil Collection. More…


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Nowhere Near Here: New Lens-based
Work from Texas

Foto Fest Headquarters and the Houston Center
for Photography | March 10–April 24, 2011
Mike Osborne presents new work from an ongoing project that takes the social and physical landscape of Houston as both its subject and its structuring principle. Curated by Toby Kamps and Michelle White of The Menil Collection. More…


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Portland Women's Film Festival

Portland, OR
March 9–13, 2011
Leigh Brodie's video Compound Signature will be showing at The Portland Oregon Film Festival. POW Fest showcases the work of women filmmakers and promotes strengthening the community of women in film.
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Highway 71 Revisited

Stars of Austin Gallery and the Austin Bergstrom International Airport
Through April 15, 2011
Selections from Barry Stone′s series exploring notions of place is highlighted in Air Gallery 2.
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The Collector′s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2 Book Launch & Exhibition

Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
March 4–April 2, 2011
Humble Arts Foundation′s Collector′s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2 has its launch Friday, March 4th at the Chelsea Art Museum accompanied by an exhibition curated by Vanessa Kramer, Director of Photographs, at Phillips de Pury & Company. Anna Krachey, Adam Schreiber and Elizabeth Chiles are among the artists in the catalogue and exhibition. More…


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art night austin 2011

Champion Contemporary, Austin, TX
March 26, 2011 from 6:30–10 pm | Group Show
Selections from Jessica Mallios′ Disassociate project will be included in a group exhibition as part of art night austin 2011 which opens up premier galleries, museums and temporary art spaces in Austin′s urban core for a preview of the artists and partners collaborating in spring 2011. More…


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Open Engagement Conference:
Art + Social Practice

Portland State University
May 13–15, 2011
Jason Reed will be chairing a panel on the Wurzbach Manor Project, a collaboration between three displaced families and Reed′s social art group Borderland Collective.
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The Ambiguous Object; Cantanker Issue #10

Current Issue | Purchase
Leigh Brodie, Anna Krachey, Jessica Mallios, Jason Reed, and Barry Stone are included in this special issue investigating questions of space, perception, projection, and meaning, curated by Rachel Cook and Claire Ruud. Accompanying the magazine was an exhibition at Pump Projects in Austin of works selected from the publication.


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My Musent Touch It

Champion Contemporary, Austin, TX
January 20–February 19, 2011
Selections from Barry Stone′s recent series reconsidering and reconfiguring the work of Ansel Adams through collage and painterly intervention. The exhibit accompanies Erin Curtis′ exhibit: Ornament of Savage Tribes.
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Newcomers Postcards

Will be Released April 15, 2011
Jason Reed will be releasing 3000 sets of Newcomers Postcards. Each set will include twenty 4x6 photographs by refugee youth and a curriculum guide for teachers. The postcards are part of a Global Storytelling initiative by Borderland Collective that will include an open access wiki site for youth across the globe to share their stories with each other through photography and creative writing. The card sets will be available to schools and organizations for free by contacting Reed at director@borderlandcollective.org. The project is in collaboration with Hays Design Studio and sponsored by Sappi Paper Company. More…


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Texas Biennial

Venues in Austin, Houston and San Antonio, TX
April 9–May 14, 2011
Jason Reed, Jessica Mallios, Elizabeth Chiles and Barry Stone are included in the fourth edition of the Texas Biennial, an independent survey of Texas Art, curated by New York based curator Virginia Rutledge. More…


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Mike Osborne: Papers and Trains

Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
January 8–February 12, 2011
Mike Osborne′s third solo exhibition at Holly Johnson brings together two recent projects. Underground focuses on a series of commuters waiting in the subterranean stations of a German metro system. Press Pictures revolves around the newspaper production process. More…


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Jessica Mallios, Visiting Artist Lecture

International Center of Photography, New York, NY
February 12, 2011
Jessica Mallios was invited as a visiting artist to give a lecture in the course The Hand and The Machine on her most recent project Disassociate which includes photographs and her latest video project. Find more information about ICP′s programs here.


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Hum

SOFA, Austin, TX
March 5–April 9, 2011
Works in this solo exhibition by Barry Stone combine elements of drawing, collage, photography, and audio to create a constellation of imagery that intertwines issues of fantasy, adolescent masculinity, and personal history. More…


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Faculty Exhibition

Texas State University, School of Art and Design, San Marcos, TX
March 7–March 21, 2011
Ben Ruggiero, Jason Reed, Jessica Mallios, Elizabeth Chiles, Mike Osborne and Barry Stone will have work in the faculty exhibition along with other artists teaching at Texas State University. More…


All the lakes in Texas save one were made from rivers.

Lakes Were Rivers is a group of artists working in photography and video. We exhibit individually and collectively as well as publishing limited edition books. We are based in Austin, Texas.

Artists Included:
Adam Schreiber
Anna Krachey
Barry Stone
Ben Ruggiero
Elizabeth Chiles
Jason Reed
Jessica Mallios
Leigh Brodie
Mike Osborne
Sarah Murphy
Susan Scafati Shahan

Lakes Were Rivers Website
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All images copyright of the individual artists.
© 2011 Lakes Were Rivers


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