Jeff Williams
February 11, 2025

Pictured: Bruised Buildings, 2024
10 x 10 x 40 feet
Pigmented cast latex rubber, hand cast aluminum hangers, shaped aluminum pipe, steel hardware, and LED fixtures.
An installation view of nine garments created from an architectural rubber cast of a defunct rice silo in Houston, TX. Using the rubber as fabric, I tailored patterns in a variety of styles, from fur-collared coats to sleeveless denim. Installation view of "Bruised Buildings" at Co-LabProjects in Austin, TX. This is the first iteration of my proposed project.

1. On the Prowl, Paris
   
2. Raise the Bells, The Folk Implosion
   
3. Trance #2, Angus LacLise, Tony Conrad, John Cale
   
4. We Will Fall, The Stooges
   
5. Dopesmoker, Sleep
   
6. Big Church [megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért], Sun O)))
   
7. The Fare to Get There, Do Make Say Think
   
8. The Dance No. 1, Laraaji, Brian Eno
   
9. RF5, Ben Vida
   
10. Dazed and Awake, Aerial M
    

Jeff Williams lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and Austin, TX, where he is an Associate Professor Of Sculpture at The University of Texas.  He has been awarded residencies at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France; Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA; Recess in New York, NY; Galería Perdida in Chilchota, Michoacán, Mexico; and the Core Program in Houston, TX. Williams was the 2009 Leonore Annenberg Fellow in the Arts at the American Academy in Rome. He is a recent recipient of an NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship for Environmental Structures and a Santo Foundation Award. Solo exhibitions include Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, NY; Co-Lab Projects in Austin, TX; RAIR in Philadelphia, PA; 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA; Arthouse in Austin, TX; and Artpace in San Antonio, TX.

Winter Dance Party!
January 28, 2025

A music-only show to fight off the winter doldrums. Some old and new school beats for your booty.

Caitlin Keogh
January 14, 2025

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Painter Caitlin Keogh’s most recent show at Bortolami Gallery in New York, “Procession,” centers on a suite of seven contiguous paintings. These intricate and allusory canvases are made up of translations of art historical, design, and commercial sources ranging from Cranach and Beardsley to the Wiener Werkstätte and Harper's. At once fascinating and bemusing, these compositions are structured like a dance. It’s no surprise, then, that we begin our conversation talking about Keogh’s childhood study of ballet. We talk about the discipline and how it’s essentially an art form of interpretation rather than expression—of objecthood and subjecthood.

We discuss Dolly Parton, Elizabeth Murray, country music, and Keogh’s use of the female nude. How her background in commercial illustration has influenced her work, and her fascination with artists like Magritte and Juan Gris, who did commercial work to support themselves. Her practice of collecting images herself and from friends, and how that translates into studio practice. For this work she really wanted to make a show that was about process—a dreamlike intuitive cobbling together of images, of “performers”, to create a parade marching across a life-size two dimensional space. It’s a great conversation with great music!

Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

1. Plie, Lynn Stanford, 1983
   
2. If Teardrops Were Pennies, Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, 1973
   
3. My Tennessee Mountain Home, Dolly Parton, 1973
   
4. Fist City, Loretta Lynn, 1968
   
5. Amigo's Guitar, Kitty Wells, 1959
   
6. Pauvre Martin, Barbara, 1969
   
7. After Laughter (Comes Tears), Wendy Rene, 1964
   
8. Salad Days, Young Marble Giants, recording released 2007
   
9. Seven Words, Weyes Blood, 2016
   
10. Solace, Myriam Gendron, 2014
    
11. Love No More - 2024 Remaster, The Durutti Column, 1989
    
12. It Is What It Is, Blood Orange, 2013
    
13. Jackie, Sinéad O'Connor, 1987
14. La festa d'Imeneo: Vaghi amori, grazie amate (Ed. Sanderson), Nicola Porpora, Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, 2019
    
15. The Tinderbox (of A Heart), Cocteau Twins, 1983
16. Only You, Yaz, 2023
17. Norman fucking Rockwell, Lana Del Rey, 2019    
18. Catherine, PJ Harvey, 1998
19. Freight train, Elizabeth Cotten, 1989
20. Reverence, Lynn Stanford, 1983

Caitlin Keogh (b. 1982 in Anchorage, Alaska) lives and works in New York. Her paintings were recently included in New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century at BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA. In 2021, Keogh completed a mural in the city of Holbaek, Denmark in conjunction with Holbaek Art. Keogh participated in Art Basel Parcours 2019, Basel, Switzerland, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Melas Papadopoulos, Athens, Greece; and MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. Her work has also been exhibited at Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France; MoMA Warsaw, Poland; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany; the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows, NY; and The Church, Sag Harbor, NY.

Her work is represented in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul; the Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida; and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence.

New Year’s Eve 2024 into 2025
December 31, 2024

A holiday mixtape from host Nate Heiges in honor of New Year's Eve, including a greeting from the inimitable Guy Lombardo. HAPPY 2025!

Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

1. Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30, TrV 176: Prelude (Sonnenaufgang),    Richard Strauss,Berliner Philharmoniker,Herbert von Karajan, 1995
2. Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney (Special Holiday Edition), The Paulette Sisters, c. 1950s
   
3. He's a Chubby Little Fellow (with The Pinafores), Gene Autry & The Pinafores, 1947
   
4. Can You Get to That, Funkadelic, 1971
   
5. Baby It's Cold Outside; Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, 1949
   
6. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, Billie Holiday, 1958
   
7. The Merriest, June Christy, 1961
   
8. Medley: Winter Wonderland Sleigh Ride, Dolly Parton, 1984
   
9. Blue Christmas, Elvis Presley, 2012
   
10. Another Lonely Christmas, Prince, 1993
    
11. Christmas in California, Raff Pylon & Snoop Dogg, 2020
    
12. Everybody Eats When They Come To My House, Cab Calloway, 1948
13. (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holiday, Perry Como, 1959
    
14. All Alone For Christmas, Danny Barnes & Thee Old Codgers, 2001
    
15. Rebel Jew, Silver Jews, 1994
    
16. The Night Before Christmas (In Texas, That Is), Gene Autry & the Cass County Boys, 1947
17. El Rorro (Mexican), Valentino Production Music, 1993
    
18. Bang a Gong (Get It On), T. Rex, 1971
    
19. Santa's Beard - 1991 Remix; The Beach Boys, Mark Linett, Sweet, 1964
    
20. Fairytale of New York, The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl, 1988
    
21. Sleigh Ride, Johnny Mathis, 1958

1. 7 O'clock News/Silent Night, Simon & Garfunkel, 1966
2. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,  Judy Garland, 1944
3. Merry Christmas Darling, Carpenters, 1984
4. A Shitty Gay Song About You, Smoothboi Ezra, 2018
5. I'll Be Home For Christmas, Kacey Musgraves with Lana Del Rey, 2019
6. The Christmas Waltz, Peggy Lee, 1960
7. 'Deed I Do, Blossom Dearie, 1957
8. God Bless The Child, Billie Holiday, 1956
9. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Helen Forrest, 2004
10. Little Altar Boy, Glen Campbell, 1968
11. The Little Boy That Santa Forgot, Vera Lynn, 2009
12. Everything Happens To Me, Chet Baker, 1987
13. I Want To Come Home For Christmas, Marvin Gaye, 2019
14. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), Darlene Love, 1963
15. Quarantine Christmas, Aaron Taos, 2019
16. Pretty Paper, Willie Nelson, 1979
17. White Christmas; Bing Crosby, Ken Darby Singers, John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra; 1942
18. Snow, Harry Nilsson, 1971
19. The Virgin Mary Had One Son, The Staple Singers, 1962
20. 500 Miles - Live At UCLA, Los Angeles 1961, The Kingston Trio
21. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? Lena Horne, 2007
22. Guy Lombardo Wishes You A Very Happy New Year, Guy Lombardo    1961
23. I Wish You Love, Nancy Wilson, 1960