Color Him Tender
Raul de Lara, Gabe Langholtz, Shea Little,
Moyo Oyelola, Miguel Rodriguez, and Saakred
Furman + Keil Architects
Stack 2 & Stack 3 by Shea Little, Old Ghosts by Gabe Langholtz
At a time when womxn have to be fierce, ready to defend themselves, and in a continuous fight for our fundamental rights, male tenderness can bring balance and a safe space for us to rest and recharge.
This exhibition intends to highlight how being surrounded by this kind of softness and vulnerability can break barriers while sustaining womxn's neverending fight to unlearn the patriarchal ways, finding and reclaiming our place in the world.
I'm tremendously grateful for these incredible men that have opened up to themselves, me, and their communities, sharing their beauty and willingness to embrace us.
May you be comforted by male tenderness everywhere you go, and may we encourage this beautiful quality in every man-identified person around us.
Color Him Tender runs from November 12 to November 22, 2022
Furman + Keil Architects | 1211 E. 11th Street, Suite 200, Austin, Tx. 78702
About the Artists
Raul De Lara is a Mexican-born sculptor based in New York City. His sculptures explore how stories, folklore and rituals can be silently communicated through inanimate objects, tools and environments. He often works with wood, a material that always shows the passing of time on its skin. De Lara immigrated from Mexico to the United States at the age of 12, and has been a DACA recipient since 2012. Growing up in Texas as a non-English speaker, feeling neither from here nor there, his work now reflects on ideas of nationality, body language and identity politics. His aesthetics and materials are inspired by the shared backyard between the United States and Mexico.
De Lara received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. His selected awards include the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Craft Open Studio Residency, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, The National Park Services OCARC Residency, Ox-Bow School of Art Fellowship, a Chicago Artists Coalition HATCH Residency Queens New Arts Grant, New York City Arts Corps Grant, and the International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.
Gabe Langholtz is an American painter, living and working in Austin Texas.
His work, although primarily representational, is indebted to American Color Field painting, focusing on color relations, pattern making, form and line, with a heavy emphasis on the two-dimensional surface of the canvas.
In the tradition of folk art, Langholtz routinely employs the use of mundane cultural objects and/or activities to establish a contemporary narrative, oftentimes drawing on humor, parody, and pastiche as tools for social commentary.
His work has been featured in New American Paintings and Create! Magazine, and exhibited nationally at Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY, and The Painting Center, New York, NY.
Langholtz is influenced by the work of Mary Fedden, Philip Guston, Agnes Martin and Gary Bunt, while folk art and collage heavily inform his distinctive style.
Shea Little is one of the co-founders of Big Medium (est. 2007) and continues to serve as the Executive Director overseeing the artistic vision, direction, and operations for the organization and all of its programs. Little received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC in 2000 and attended the University of Texas McCombs School of Business and completed an Arts Management Certificate in 2015. Currently, Little serves on the board of ArtAustin, the Nonprofit Advisory Council of I Live Here I give Here, and the Butler Trail Arts and Culture Committee. Little is also an artist and has shown his artwork throughout Texas in galleries and museums both as an individual artist and as part of a three-person collaborative group called Sodalitas.
Moyo Oyelola is a photographer, multimedia artist and activist. He creates intimate, real interactions with his subjects and communities and synthesizes that into deep, universal activations expressed in multimedia, photography, environmental installations and public arts projects. Born in Nigeria, Moyo moved to Austin when he was seven. Having grown up as the “product of two worlds” has shaped his thinking and work, reflecting perspectives of pan-African and modern western worlds. Moyo’s work has been featured in brand films, advertising, editorial, music videos, environmental installations, personal projects, and an evolving number of public arts projects.
Miguel Rodriguez’s work is a contemporary approach to art making through the utilization of new technologies such as 3D modeling, texturing, sculpting and volumetric photogrammetry.
This practice exists on a continuum of his larger goals as a world-builder in efforts of both deconstructing and reconstructing the complexities of the human experience and the immortal potential of our collective digital afterlife.
