The Project

The July Transplants, a group of six mixed media artists, will transform a vacant lot on Northwestern Ave into a collaboratively curated site-specific installation. The July Transplants recently relocated to Austin from the cities of Baltimore, Milwaukee, Chicago, and San Diego. As we circumnavigate our new home and learn the visual language of the Austin landscape we are captivated observers. The homes, sidewalks, fences and trees are riddled with messages and stories. The vacant lot will be used a context for new work by the six emerging artists.

Mali V

Mali Margaret Voglund is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the history of the American west. Themes of manifest destiny and distortion of historical facts into folklore are presented through drawing, sculpture and video. Mali plans to exhibit extraordinarily large saw-horses and a video montage of gun battles from old westerns.

Bridget Q

Bridget Quinn a mixed media artist fascinated by the way our desires become evident in landscape. Our desire to connect with one another reveals itself in many ways including the rhythmic electric and telephone lines that dot the landscape and compete with church steeples for our devotion. In the vacant lot on Northwestern Ave Bridget plans to create a sculptural fable using instead of animals the imagery of construction equipment interacting with each other.

www.bridgetfrancesquinn.com

EGL

Elliot Gaylord Lehnen’s work defies classification. Working in myriad materials and with a full spectrum of different approaches to making. His work ranges from narrative drawings to installation incorporating found objects to non-objective oil paintings. On the vacant lot He plans to create abstract expressionistic oil paintings on wood panels that have been fastened to each other.

Nick Falduto

Nickolas Falduto studied interior architecture at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. He currently works as a woodworker at the Splinter Group. His sculpture and design traverses the space between architecture, sculpture and furniture, functionality and whimsy or absurdity.¬ Nick will create a small scale model of the front of his house and porch on the vacant lot.

Jess Marquart

Jess Marquart uses reclaimed materials that she rescues from their fated landfill existence, and natural materials that have fallen to the ground. These Items are twisted, drawn or sewn into each other creating a community of their own. On the vacant lot, Jess plans to create a large hammock, made from recycled curtains, for anyone who wants to lay in the shade.

http://jpmarquardt.blogspot.com/

Cole Lundstrom

Cole is a mixed media artist who's work often focuses on recreating recognizable objects with uncommon materials and varying sizes. He is currently attempting to focus on "details that might make the work mean more then it should". The piece shown on the vacant lot on Northwestern is titled "Balloon", it is inspired largely by a nagging desire one might have to just leave their present situation regardless of the practicality.