Nick Georgiou

Art from recycled newspaper and phonebooks!  Georgiou's work is inspired by the drifting of our modern world away from printed material.  He creates a three dimensional painting: the brush stroke becomes a book or a strip of paper.  Really interesting work.

Jules Buck Jones!

Local Austin artist!  graduated from UT.  Jones' work draws from nature, and more specifically animals.  He has a great book from his residency at the Everglades National Forest.  Here is some of his work.  I had a chance to see this several months ago and greatly enjoyed his work.  Expressive and expansive in media, really interesting visually (esp. in person).

Reuben Margolin's kinetic sculptures

More kinetic sculptures!  Reuben Margolin's wave sculptures are fascinating!  I highly suggest taking the time to watch this video. Incredible craftsman and designer, also incorporating mathematical equations into relating to nature.  AMAZING!!!!

Theo Jansen

 

This has been around for awhile from TED talks (I'm sure many have seen already).  Theo Jansen's work is incredibly interesting.  He creates kinetic sculptures powered by the wind.  Merging engineering and art, he creates optically captivating sculptures that change and move, forcing the viewer to also change and reinterpret constantly.  

Beth Galston's Luminous Garden

Beth Galston creates ethereal environments with her light installations using materials from nature (from acorn mold in this piece).  Based upon a trip to the Galapagos, she creates an entire new environment in a gallery space.  She has a really interesting and diverse body of work, but the light installations are my favorite.

 

Beth Cavener Stichter

Stichter examines the human existence through the gestural forms of animals.  Her forms are dynamic and captivating as she parallels the gestures throughout human lives to those of animals.   I absolutely love her work.
http://www.followtheblackrabbit.com/A_Modest_Proposal.html

check out her work!

Chris Sauter