Personal Records, part of a trio of connected shows comprising Runners Art Club, focuses on artist-runners and the impact of running on our artwork. Goodluckhavefun, Northern–Southern, and the route between the two galleries will host shows best viewed on foot.
Featuring work by Brian Dulaney, Drake Konow, Gerardo Cisneros, Justin Leal, Tim McCool, Kevin Muñoz, Marissa Dunagan, Phillip Niemeyer, and Preetal Shah.
This show is inspired by the Artist Run Club, a weekly ritual where we visit an art gallery and then go on a run. Join us for a unique blend of gallery opening and run club on May 3rd at 8am. We'll gather to view the show, with an optional run between the galleries at 9am (in one direction) and 10am (in the reverse).
A native of Dallas Texas, Gerardo Cisneros is a building artist influenced by the intersection of architecture, design, and visual art. Summer trips in Mexico visiting his uncle’s working studio exposed him to architectonic forms and green landscapes of working paper models; that initial seed created the foundation for an interest in the built environment. Using watercolor, drawing, and painting, his work functions as a diary notebook, documenting where he has been, what he is doing, and where he is going. The use of analog mediums also serve as the appropriate antidote to an increasingly digital world.
Brian Dulaney is a printmaker and painter currently living and working in Austin, Texas. He earned a BFA in studio art from The Cooper Union and an MFA in studio art from Hunter College in New York City.
Brian’s work often explores the intersection of humor and tragedy to both the delight and discomfort of his audience. His work is inspired by comics, art history and all of the things he sees while running around Austin.
To create the stencils for his screen prints, Brian collages, paints, draws and stamps directly onto the screen. This method invites playful experimentation and a measure of unpredictability.
Marissa Dunagan is a painter based in Austin, TX. She recieved her BFA from the University of Texas in 2020. Dunagan's work explores contact sports and their influence on her life and practice. In her paintings, she isolates specific moments of action and displays them in detail, examining themes of physicality, contact, and constructing a sense of self. She has been featured in group exhibition From Afar at the Visual Arts Center and more recently organized First Veil, an independent group show.
Drake Konow is an analog photographer and bookmaker. He works in Polaroid film, 35mm, and print-making. Working in the U.S. across Texas and South Louisiana, Brazil, and the Atacama Desert in Chile, his photographs explore light and shadow, error and abstraction, intimacy and loss. His installations play with the materiality, excess, and refusal of the photograph. In November 2023, Drake mounted a self-produced solo show called “Take” featuring hundreds of Polaroid photos and installed into his apartment—where many of the photos had been taken. At that same time, he published a limited edition series of five handmade photo books, based on three years of Polaroid photography. His most recent installation “secret passage hidden geography” combines carved wood, risograph prints, and Polaroid photos.
a native San Antonian, and lifelong Texan; Justin received a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Texas State University in 2018 with a minor in Mass Communication. His photographs explore landscapes in both urban and rural environments. He believes that how we describe meaning to our surroundings informs how we connect to the larger historical significance of the area.
Timothy McCool is an Austin, Texas-based artist and educator. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, McCool received his Master’s of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University located in Boston, MA.
McCool has exhibited his work at locations such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Montserrat College of Art, Carroll & Sons Gallery, and Room 68. He has been the artist in residence at the Boston Center for the Arts, the Studios Program at MASS MoCA, and at the Arteles Creative Center in Finland.
Kevin Muñoz (b. 1982) is a self taught artist who works in a folk realm of bright colors and loose textures to achieve bold abstraction. He explores concepts of cultural identity, transformation and growth. His design background informs his practice as does his upbringing in Southern California to Guatemalan parents.
Phillip Niemeyer (b. San Antonio, 1973) is an organizer and graphic designer. He owns Northern-Southern gallery and is one of the organizers of the Artist Run Club. He has been drawing the shoes for the club's flyers since 2022. His design work has been featured in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and is in the permanent collection of the MoMA.
Preetal Shah is an Austin, TX based artist whose work is influenced by his training in architecture. He holds a Masters in Urban Design and Architecture from Columbia University, a Masters in Science of Architecture from the University of Houston, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Houston. His latest compositions bridge the boundaries between typography and three-dimensional spatiality, while exploring the deconstruction of letterforms and symbols. His work has been exhibited in Austin, TX, Houston, TX, and New York, NY.