You're invited: Different Dances
Opening Reception | March 28 from 4- 8pm
I hope you’ll join us for the opening of Different Dances, at Verdant Gallery in Austin, Texas, on March 28th from 4-8 pm.
From the gallery:
“Different Dances” brings together two extraordinary artists, featuring new monoprints by legendary choreographer Deborah Hay and a 10-year span of floral abstractions by Caroline Wright. This exhibition marks a major milestone: at 84, Hay, an original founder of the Judson Dance Theater, presents her first series of visual art prints in a gallery setting.
For six decades, Deborah Hay has been a pioneering figure in experimental postmodern dance. While globally recognized for her choreographic work, “Different Dances” presents a new series of fourteen monoprints created by Hay in 2026 at Flatbed Press. Much like her dance scores, these visual works rely on chance, spontaneous determination, and poetry.
In dialogue with Hay’s prints are the rhythmically expressive paintings of mid-career artist Caroline Wright. For 20 years, Wright has brought movement and music to the visual field in her large canvases and collaborations with dancers and musicians. Wright’s latest work focuses on the moon, storytelling, and how, while mothering young children, an artist can only work by bringing all of it with her to the canvas.
The connection between the artists began serendipitously at an homage to Dave Hickey’s Austin gallery, “A Clean, Well-lighted Space.” This forged a friendship rooted in shared artistic philosophies and a lineage of influence, including figures like John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg, friends and mentors to Hay.”
Different Dances
Deborah Hay & Caroline Wright
March 28 - April 25
Verdant Gallery
703 W 10th St, Austin, TX 78701
Opening Saturday, March 28th
4-7 pm
I’m also honored to be back in conversation with playwright Katie Bender & poet Carrie Fountain this Thursday night for a Fusebox Salon.
Katie’s hilarious, thoughtful play Instructions for a Séance, will be performed at Fusebox Festival this April. We’ll be in conversation around art & motherhood for the Fusebox Salon, along with the Rude Mechs & Kenyon Adams.
Fusebox Artist Salon
Thursday, March 19th
7 - 9:30 pm
Dada Labs
get tickets here
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