At The Moment ~ Group Exhibition

A T T H E M O M E N T “The present is that which obliges you to identify and decide things; just how difficult that is… One could rage and weep, day and night, rushing from thing to thing in a room, with fists imploring it to reveal itself. What is this it, with which all separate objects conspire?” -Christopher Middleton atm at the moment the momentary is fragmentary an assemblage of objects awaits to be defined as whole or individualized collective momentum becoming explanatory by means of material the ends are always made by the questions at the moment ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATM Gallery kicks off this year's East Austin Studio Tour with AT THE MOMENT, a group exhibition of new work by ATM members old and new, including BERKELEY BEAUCHOT, ZOE DARSEE, WAYNE MOON DEAN, DIEGO MIRELES DURAN, BRITTANY LAURENT, JONNY NEGRON, BRUNO RUIZ, NELSON SMITH, CLAYTON SMITH WESTMEIER and XIAOZHOU ZHU. Please join us on 11/11 7 - 10 pm Drinks and music will be provided. **The exhibition will remain open for the duration of EAST** hours as follows, or by appointment 11/11 7pm-10pm Opening Reception 11/12-11/13 11am-5pm 11/19-11/20 11am-5pm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BERKELEY BEAUCHOT graduated from St. Edward’s University with a B.A. in Photocommunications and has since been practicing photography in ways that explore its connection to sculpture, performance, the body and the self—working to create objects that reference several different pasts at once. She is a founding member of ATM Gallery. JORDAN CLOUGH is an artist working in San Marcos, TX and is currently completing a BFA in Painting at Texas State University. She is interested in using appropriated and invented symbols to investigate color and shape relationships. Her current work is referential to her summer spent in Mexico. ZOE DARSEE (1991) is a poet who considers poetry as a sculptural process. She is co-founder of TABLOID press, a publishing platform for social poetics and the exploration of material communication. Her printed works are more like objects than books, attentive to texture, material, and the conditions of their reading. Graduating from Oberlin College with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Ancient Greek, Zoe is now based in Austin, TX. WAYNE MOON DEAN is a self taught illustrator living in Austin, Texas. Wayne's work is influenced by nightlife culture, queer politics and experiences as a QPOC. Mixing humor with radical imagery Wayne plays with the boundaries between the real & the fantastic. DIEGO MIRELES DURAN attempts to optically shout the unspeakable inborn perceptions regarding the notions of love. Duran's newest publication "Neo Romantique: Lost in Love's Ether" explores the conundrums of losing and gaining—self awareness while maneuvering through the mysterious mulitlayers of modern romantic intimacy. Duran's work, much like love itself, is a glitch in the mastery of discernment. "Neo Romantique: Lost in Love's Ether" is the first hand bound book series released by Lower Left, and will be available in the ATM shop. BRITTANY LAURENT is a visual artist working in photography. She graduated with a B.A. in Photocommunications from St. Edward's University and lives and works in Austin, TX. She is interested in using the photographic medium to investigate constructed and deconstructed spaces. The subtext of these reconstructed scenes is interpreted referentially and autobiographically within a literary context. Since graduating, she has contributed as a founding member of ATM Gallery and has had her work exhibited statewide. JONNY NEGRON's (born Carolina, Puerto Rico, 1985) drawings and prints reference the flat forms of hieroglyphics, as well as cartoons and science fiction while illustrating social conflict through fantasy and the crushing banalities of life. jonnynegron.com NELSON SMITH is an Artist and Industrial Designer from Dripping Springs, TX. He received his B.F.A. from Texas State University in 2014 and is currently pursuing a M.S. in Industrial Design at the University of Houston. He enjoys mundane everyday objects that dutifully serve their purpose for a long time without complaining. CLAYTON SMITH WESTMEIER is a German American transmedia artist operating from the initial assumption that art—like life—is at its most profound when it is aware and critical of itself. Over-signification in aesthetic creation is a methodology employed to expose and emphasize the over-determination of every semantic act. Art is capable of redefining objects in a way that is not dissimilar to that of philosophy or the harder sciences; thus Westmeier interrogates the contemporary symbolic landscape through the digital Romantic’s lens of a Millennial Mannerism. Westmeier’s work has been exhibited internationally and he graduated with a B.F.A. in Studio Art and B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. XIAOZHOU ZHU grew up in Beijing, China. During the time he lived there, he witnessed extreme changes and transitions. In 2009, Xiaozhou left Beijing for Texas. He is interested in the duality of new and old as metaphor, and how an idea can originate itself through its opposite.