EXHIBITIONS – NEWS
Steve Brudniak: Ontological Catastrophe
Selected work from the 21st century
A rare Houston solo exhibit. At Reeves Art+Design Gallery, 2415 Taft St. Houston TX. May 10 – 25 2024. Opening reception May 10th 6pm – 9pm. Alcohol will be served. On May 25th, an all day closing reception happens from 10am – 5pm with the artist and refreshments and a talk and book signing will take place at 1pm. Here’s a little bit about the exhibit:
This century brought reality into question for many. There is a weirdness invasion looming on the horizon. These pieces aim to share glimpses of what we are not aware of through ordinary channels: realms influenced by dreams, therapy, psychedelics, science, mysticism, spirituality, and ontology. Some take years to complete. They are multimedia assemblages, enhanced with phenomenal elements: ultraviolet and laser light, natural fiber optics, electronic sensors and reactors, sacrament oils, microscopic and pressurized systems, light obliteration, even a sample of world oldest known rock. Such novelties assist in skirting the edge of five senses, to flirt with unique perceptions. May they escort us through a seemingly catastrophic ontology to find insight into the oncoming weirdness.
https://reevesartgalleryhouston.com/events
Material Evolution
Brudniak’s work is included with over twenty Texas Sculptors at Gallery 2000 on the campus of Austin Community College. The exhibit highlights an array of traditional and modern techniques in sculpture. Curated by Lana Meador, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art. https://admc.austincc.edu/tag/material-evolution/
Summer Group Show of the Davis Gallery Family of Artists
Davis Gallery is excited to announce their Summer Group Show, an extensive exhibit showcasing the depth of work by the Davis Gallery family of artists. Brudniak will unveil the newly completed ‘Djet’ a piece shown as a work in progress during his recent solo Davis exhibit, In the Wake of the Exodus. Come see this elaborate, year-in-the-making, surreal and kinetic sculpture and the work of 33 of Texas most outstanding fine art masters on Saturday June 11th 2022 with a reception from 4-7pm The show runs through July 23rd.
https://www.davisgalleryaustin.com/show/davis-gallery-summer-group-show-of-the-davis-gallery-family-of-artist
Steve Brudniak: In the Wake of the Exodus
Recent work of the 21st century
Davis Gallery Austin Texas. March 12 – April 16 2022. Opening reception Sat. March 12 4-7pm. Refreshments by Still Austin Whiskey Co. Gallery talk with artist/curator Benito Huerta April 9 5-7pm
https://www.davisgalleryaustin.com
Flora and Fauna Group Show at Davis Gallery – Invite and Info
August 7 – September 25 Reception: Sat August 7 4:00-7:oo PM
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flora-and-fauna-tickets-163422116951
Flora and Fauna Group Show at Davis Gallery – Chronicle Preview
(Featuring Brudniak Piece)
https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/arts/visual-arts/davis-gallery-flora-and-fauna-2829794/
The State of Sculpture – San Angelo Museum of Art
July 15 – September 12
Featuring works by some of the most celebrated contemporary sculptors in Texas. From traditional to cutting edge, small-scale to monumental, this exhibition fills the expansive galleries of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, offering insight into the range of material, aesthetic, and conceptual possibilities that define contemporary sculpture.
http://www.samfa.org/current-exhibits
Art Museum of Southeast Texas Purchases Brudniak Art
http://www.artstudio.org/curatorial-conversationalist/
Secret Dimensions: The Art of Sean French and Steve Brudniak
If you find yourself near Phoenix, September 6th – 27th this will be a VERY interesting exhibit. Brudniak will be showing new work which is his most ambitious yet and Sean has been making some incredible, surreal chrome sculpture. The opening is during the huge 2019 Fall First Night Art Walk in the Rosevelt Arts District. Lot of folks from the burner community will be there too I hear. Fun stuff. Opens September 6th 7pm – 11pm – Alwun House – 1204 E Roosevelt St. Phoenix AZ 85006 – (602) 253-7887
Brudniak Art Featured in Kai Astra Music Video: Medicate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lan5CXD0Xg&feature=emb_logo
Issue Magazine Review – The Art of Found Objects: Enigma Variations
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas
https://issuu.com/tasi-issue/docs/issue.02.19
Beaumont Enterprise Review – The Art of Found Objects: Enigma Variations The Art Museum of Southeast Texas
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/entertainment/article/Texas-artists-make-treasures-from-trash-13461214.php
The Art of Found Objects: Enigma Variations
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas
This exhibition focuses on artists currently (or formerly) working in Texas that all create art with found materials. Artists Steve Brudniak (Austin), Marilyn Lanfear (San Antonio), Angelica Paez (Houston), Ward Sanders (Lytle) and Kelly Sears (Boulder, Colorado) will be featured as the focus of the exhibition and will each have numerous works in the exhibition. They will be joined by other well-known Texas artists that often explore creating art with found objects, including: Charles A. A. Dellschau, Forrest Bess, Felix “Fox” Harris, Jesse Lott, David McManaway, Maudee Carron, Clyde Connell, Bert Long, Mary McCleary, Dario Robleto, Vernon Fisher, Trenton Doyle Hancock and Jonathan Rosenstein. As guest curator, Robert Craig Bunch has selected each artist, considering the diversity and enigmatic visual history of the found object realm. They were included in Bunch’s book, The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists, published by Texas A&M University Press in 2016.”
The Art Museum of Southeast Texas – 500 Main Street, Beaumont TX 77701
Reception and Artist Panel Discussion – December 14, 2018 6-8pm
Contact – (409) 832-3432 More Info – https://amset.org
71 Magazine Expose on Brudniak
https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1399137
Aether Magazine Review – The Afterlife of Artifacts: Assemblages by Barbara Irwin, John Sager, Larry Seaman, Steve Brudniak and Steve Wiman
https://aetherart.com/2017/11/01/the-afterlife-of-artifacts/
Brudniak Included in The Art of Found Objects Book
Bunch, Robert Craig. The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2016
Brudniak Work Included in Art for Everyone Text Book
Chemeketa College Art Faculty. Art for Everyone. (Text Book). Salem, Oregon: Chemeketa Press, 2016
Steve Brudniak: In the Wake of the Exodus
In conjunction with the Biennial Abilene Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at The Ira M Taylor Art Gallery – Hardin Simmons University.
Brudniak will be showing new work and closely related work from the last decade in this, solo indoor exhibit in conjunction with the Biennial. The pieces in this exhibit are bound together by the murmur resonating from the dig into the rabbit hole to the unknown; the physical entrances into those rabbit holes: portals, mirrors, lenses and doors. What you see here is meant to take you out of the world to that state where there are no words, no thoughts.
At the Frost Center for Visual Arts 2200 Hickory, Abilene, TX 79698. The show runs from August 27 thru September 22, 2017. NOTE: the
CLOSING Reception is Friday September 21, 2017 5:00-6:30pm.
Brudniak included in Texas 12 at The Arts Center Texas Gallery and Wolf Pen Park, College Station, TX
Curated by Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Exhibit runs from April 20 – May 19 2016 With opening reception April 30th from 2:00 – 4:30 pm. A catalog of the show will be available.
http://www.texassculpturegroup.org/college-station-texas-12-exhibition-featuring-tsg-members/
San Antonio Book Signing with Artist Steve Brudniak Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
http://www.bluestarart.org
Brudniak in Fresh Dozen Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas
http://texassculpturegroup.com/dallas-tx-fresh-dozen-at-red-arrow-contemporary-opens-nov-23-6-9pm/
Austin Chronicle Review of Brudniak Book: The Science of Surrealism – Assemblage Sculpture of SteveBrudniak
http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/arts/2013-09-03/your-coffee-tables-begging-for-books-like-these/
Houston Press Review – Steve Brudniak: The Science of Surrealism at Avis Frank Gallery
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2013/05/steve_brudniak_avis_frank_gall.php
Arts and Culture Houston Magazine Review – Steve Brudniak – The Science of Surrealism at Avis Frank Gallery
http://artsandculturehouston.com/steve-brudniak-the-science-of-surrealism/
New Brudniak coffee table book and print available now: The Science of Surrealism – Assemblage Sculpture of Steve Brudniak.
Guillermo Del Toro book preface excerpt:
“…Brudniak fabricates, manipulates or re-shapes found materials into absolutely
coherent, powerful works of art. He can cannibalize a junkyard, a discarded science
lab or even his own bodily fluids in order to find the perfect balance between drama
and aesthetics. Ask him to tell you the stories behind each piece and he will regale
you with tales that involve illegal medical experiments, miracle cures through art and paranormal experiences. …But, above all, the pieces themselves are the story.
Like museum artifacts, they speak of a future/past that is half Orwellian nightmare,
half Steampunk adventure. They tell long lost tales of expeditions, factories or mad
scientist labs in lands out of reach, out of time.”
The Science of Surrealism – Assemblage sculpture of Steve Brudniak is a thirty
year retrospective of work, inspiration and methods along with a display of work
dating from the early eighties up to his most recent sculpture. To order the book
visit brudniakbook.com. 100 copies of the book will be available with a limited
edition signed print.
http://brudniakbook.com
San Antonio Express News Review – InterPlay: Mechanical Objects
http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/visual_arts/article/Playing-with-art-3880897.php#photo-3475656
Austin Chronicle Preview – Steve Brudniak: Back from Samsara
http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2012-08-31/steve-brudniak-back-from-samsara/
KABB San Antonio TV News Review – Interplay: Mechanical Objects You can watch video of his sculpture “Vunderglas” in part of the broadcast here
http://www.foxsanantonio.com/newsroom/features/streetscorner/videos/vid_329.shtml
Article in Austin Chronicle, Brudniak Receives Best of Austin Award for Best Sculptures From Yesterday’s Future
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Awards/BestOfAustin/?Award=1244291
Texas Sculpture Group Show at Austin Airport with new Brudniak Piece Pictured on the Site
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/austinairport/cultural.htm
The Texas Sculpture Group (Brudniak on Board of Directors)
http://texassculpturegroup.com/
Steve’s Chair is Featured in this Review by the Columbus Dispatch of Damian Priours Traveling Texas Chair Project Show
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/arts/stories/2011/02/20/sitting-pretty.html
The Texas Chair Project Opening at the Ohio Craft Museum
Columbus Ohio, February 6 through March 27, 2011. Steve’s chair is featured on the poster and invites.
http://www.ohiocraft.org/exhibition_Texas_chairs.html
Nice Blogg About the Steve Brudniak: Noumenon Show in San Antonio. Scroll down to thu july 29 2010
http://maguevara.blogspot.com/
Photos of the Noumenon Show and Talk at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio
http://stevebrudniaknoumenon.shutterfly.com/
San Antonio Express News review – Selections From Steve Brudniak: Noumenon and Other New Work
http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/visual_arts/Weighty_subjects_weighty_pieces_on_display_99451939.html
San Antonio Current Review – Selections From Steve Brudniak: Noumenon and Other New Work
http://www.sacurrent.com/arts/story.asp?id=71389
Making the Austin Social Scene : )
http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/outandabout/entries/2010/03/16/sxsw_14_man_on.html?cxntfid=blogs_out_about
Critics Pick Preview in San Antonio Current – Selections From Steve Brudniak: Noumenon and Other New Work
http://www.sacurrent.com/calendar/event.asp?whatID=54868
Glass Tire Review – Selections From Steve Brudniak: Noumenon and Other New Work
http://glasstire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4346&Itemid=22
Excerpt from the TV show, Secret Spaces – Brittania Manor
Trained eye can spot some Brudniak sculptures in Richard Garriott’s home full of weird stuff and surprises.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM109_EbMcs&NR=
Brudniak’s Astrogeneris Mementos Sculptures on the International Space Station
In this video by Richard Garriott, who flew to the space station with them in 2008. Look at the top of the green bulletin board to Richards right, halfway between the playing cards and the pens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IYDb6K5UF8&NR=1
Photo of Brudniak Giving a Talk at Texas Lutheran University in 2009
http://www.communiversity.com/schools/texas_lutheran_university/gallery.html?school_id=3033
Lone Star Lutheran Review – Selections From Steve Brudniak Noumenon and Other Work
http://media.www.lslonline.net/media/storage/paper1011/news/2009/09/17/Entertainment/Contemporary.Artist.Opens.Exhibit.Noumenon.And.Other.Works-3773992.shtml
Brudniak Art In Outer Space: Interview with Astronaut Richard Garriott
This link takes you to part 3 of the piece on You Tube where the sculpture is featured starting at 6:25 into the interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX3IfQ5moHU&NR=1
TLU News Blog on Brudniak Exhibit
http://www.tlu.edu/news?newsid=6583
San Marcos Daily Record reports on Brudniak Show at Texas Lutheran University
http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/features/local_story_244111727.html
Device 2, Reconstructed New book Featuring 14 Pieces of Brudniak’s
http://www.amazon.com/Device-2-Reconstructed-Gareth-Branwyn/dp/1600105599
http://www.devicegallery.com/store.html
Brudniak’s Work Referenced in Randall Reid Review.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:784500
Steve Brudniak: Noumenon Show Nominated for Best Independent Gallery Show of 2008-2009 Season by Austin Chronicle
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:782000
Brudniak Studio and Home Featured in Glasstire
http://glasstire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3229
Rachel Koper Interviews Paul Beck About the Austin Art Scene of the 90s, Austin Art History Lesson I, in Fluent Collab
Koper, Rachel, “Austin Art History Lesson I,” Fluent Collab, http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/index.php/reviews/review/119/143
Brudniak photo In Austin American Statesman with Friends at Peoples Art Gallery Opening Austin City Hall
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/outandabout/entries/2009/02/21/
Rachel Koper Makes Steve Brudniak: Noumenon Show #1 in the Austin Chronicle’s 2008 Top 10’s Issue. (with photo)
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A721391
Wayne Allen Brenner gives #4 to Brudniak in the Austin Chronicle’s 2008 Top 10’s issue.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A721384
The Shorthorn Review – Steve Brudniak: Noumenon
http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13239&Itemid=62
Brudniak Mentioned (22:10) on KUT 90.5 Radio Interview Covering Texas Chair Project
http://kut.org/items/show/14720
Brudniak in the Texas Chair Project Show at the Austin Museum of Art with sculpture featured on invitation and webpage
http://www.amoa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ex_exhibitions
Brudniak in First Art Exhibit in Outer Space
http://www.richardinspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Mission_Activities.List_of_Artwork_
Photos of Galveston Steve Brudniak: Noumenon Show 8-08
http://galvestonnoumenonshow.shutterfly.com/
Galveston Daily News Brudniak Photo
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=6383db230cc6dd2e&-session=TheDailyNews:181B08B1115c40147FNNI2C7A01F
Galveston Parrot Preview – Steve Brudniak: Noumenon
http://www.galvestonparrot.com/parrot/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239
Galveston Daily News Preview – Steve Brudniak: Noumenon
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=6abde42cb63fecab
Austin American Statesman Review (Jean Clair Van Risen) – Steve Brudniak: Noumenon
http://www.austin360.com/calendar/content/arts/stories/2008/06/0622gallery.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=22
Austin Chronicle Review – Steve Brudniak: Noumenon
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A638385
Galveston Preview – Steve Brudniak:Noumenon
http://www.galveston.com/calendarofevents/event2992/
Photos from Steve Brudniak: Noumenon Reception May 30 2008. Courtesy of Gavin (Dr. Thompson) Tabone
http://noumenonaustin.shutterfly.com/
Austin American Statesman Review (Michael Barnes) – Steve Brudniak: Noumenon
http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/outandabout/entries/2008/06/01/weekend_steve_b.html
Austin American Statesman Preview – Steve Brudniak: Noumenon
http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/seeingthings/entries/2008/05/26/steve_brudniaks_longawaited_so.html
rocketboom.com Interviews Steve Again During the South x Southwest Festival March 3rd 2008.
Scroll down to find the 2006 interview as well.
http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/rb_08_mar_11
New Pictures of Brudniak Studio
http://brudniakstudio.shutterfly.com
JPG Magazine Has Reprinted Sean McGaheys Apparently Popular Interview from The Beat.
http://www.jpgmag.com/stories/612
The Beat Interview Reprint with Another Picture.
http://acceptation.blogspot.com/2006/11/canal-dreams-edition-of-four-steve.html
Repost of The Beat Interview with an Added Picture.
http://orthogonal.wordpress.com/2006/10/30/art-in-america-steve-brudniak-2/
The Beat (UK) Interviews Brudniak
http://the-beat.co.uk/interview-steve-brudniak/
rocketboom.com Interview with Steve Brudniak. Austin 2006.
http://rocketboom.podzinger.com/results.jsp?col=en-vid-pod-ep&s=PZSID_videopods_videopod0_0_6_0005&sname=ROCKETBOOM&q=brudniak
boingboing.net Blog About the rocketboom.com Brudniak Interview.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/14/rocketboom_visits_ar.html
Video of the Artist at the Green Muse Cafe in Austin.
http://screenaddict.typepad.com/lifeblog/2005/03/steve_brudniak_.html
Austin Museum of Art, Art Ball X Pictures.
http://www.amoa.org/site/PhotoAlbumUser?AlbumID=6029&view=UserAlbum
More Photos by Wiley Wiggins.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwiggins/6176721/
Spanish Art Thesis on Brudniak.
http://www.tdx.cesca.es/TESIS_UB/AVAILABLE/TDX-0406105-173506//01.PARTE_I.pdf
Ken Hunt Expose on Steve Brudniak
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A533552
Buddhist Interpertation of the Waking Life Film Dialogs.
http://publish.uwo.ca/~dmann/waking_essay.htm
Perdido en Maya, Spanish Film Blogg.
http://perdidoenmaya.blogspot.com/2005/04/steve-brudniak.html
Computer Gazette Magazine cover. The Italian version of Computer Graphics World Magazine. (With the same cover).
http://www.iht.it/ante0204.htm
Picture of the artist and Bob Sabastan, animation director for Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly Films
http://www.wileywiggins.com/images/random/random-Pages/Image13.html
Fringeware Review Magazine Interview by Wiley Wiggins.
http://www.wileywiggins.com/brudniak.html
Austin Paratimes Magazine Brudniak Interview
http://www.elfis.net/austin/AustinParaTimes/issue1/brudniak.htm
Weekly Wire Review – Aberations (Curated by Brudniak)
http://weeklywire.com/ww/06-20-97/austin_arts_exhibitionism.html
Preview – Electricity and Me MD at Gallery Lombardi
http://www.gallerylombardi.com/exhibits/302exhibitplus.html
Weekly Wire Review – Contemporary Texas Art: The Personal Collection of Chuck Cooper
http://weeklywire.com/ww/07-28-97/austin_arts_feature1.html
Austin Chronicle Review – Looking Into the Mind of Steve Brudniak
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue05/arts.exhibitionism.html
CI Austin Review – Bucking the Texas Myth
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/dougherty/txmbrudniak.htm
Dallas Arts Review – 500X Gallery Show
http://www.dallasartsrevue.com/art-crit/Artists/critiques/PaulBooker.shtml
The Robot Group Expose
Brudniak was an honorary member for several exhibits.
http://www.robotgroup.org/people/brudniak.html
Robot group Robofest Review.
http://www.robotgroup.org/robofest/program.html
Jumpstart Arts Group; A Nonprofit for at Risk Youth.
http://www.main.org/polycosmos/people/brudniak.htm
Electric/ kinetic sculpture for children.
http://www.main.org/polycosmos/alta/sculptur/kinetic.htm