I miss this wall... hidden behind the new Brasil kitchen.

domywall01, originally uploaded by Tony who?.

More pictures here

HOUSTON -- Beautiful Losers -- October 8

HOUSTON -- Beautiful Losers -- October 8, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books, in association with AIGA Houston, is pleased to present

Beautiful Losers
Make something from nothing

Thursday, October 8, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098

6:30pm - social
7:30pm - screening
REGISTER ONLINE - www.aiga.org/secure/houston/loser/default.html
closes at 5pm, October 6

Pre-Registration Pricing
$10 AIGA Members,
$20 Non-Members
$5 AIGA Student Members
$10 Student Non-Members

Pricing at the door
$15 AIGA Members
$30 Non-Members
$10 AIGA Student Members
$20 Student Non-Members

For more information or questions, email:
Robin Parrish, Programming Director - events@houston.aiga.org

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BEAUTIFUL LOSERS celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation.

In the early 1990s a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the "establishment" art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture.

Starring a selection of artists who are considered leaders within this culture, Beautiful Losers focuses on the telling of personal stories. It speaks to themes of what happens when the outside becomes "in" as it explores the creative ethos connecting these artists and today's youth.

To learn more about this film please visit Beautifullosers.com

Libres Y Lokas in Artlies #63

[ read | photos | purchase ]

Opening Night Shenanigans

... never can get enough of BLU (plus David Ellis)

Devin Flynn: SuperStupid -- September 26 at Okay Mountain

After building a strong foundation in DIY art and music-making while living in Providence, R.I. during the Fort Thunder-era, Devin Flynn then moved to Brooklyn, NY where these ethics were challenged by the reality of economics. He created his own market by doing animated music videos for friends in up and coming bands like Providence's own Lightning Bolt, which got the attention of many like-minded individuals, and also resulted in various opportunities. These included a regular spot on MTV's Wondershowzen, a video in the Liverpool Biennial, curating a video program for The Anthology Film Archives and Deitch Projects respectively, animating the title sequence for Adult Swim's AquaTeen Hunger Force Movie, making an educational animation about hearing for an elementary school, and culminating all of these experiences in a stream of consciousness webseries on Adultswim.com called Y'all So Stupid. The exhibition will consist of the last 10 years of Flynn's animation output as well as a selection of drawings.

In addition to the gallery exhibit, a special screening of Devin's animation will be held at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown in Austin, Texas on Monday, September 28th at 10pm.

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

Devin Flynn at OK MTN - Sept 26

This sounds like it will be fun...

WorkSpace: Pablo Vargas Lugo

November 14, 2009 – February 21, 2010

Pablo Vargas Lugo's WorkSpace project, Eclipses for Austin, explores solar eclipses as important collective rituals. Total eclipses of the sun provoke astonishment, anxiety, hope, joy, and fear and compel those who witness them to question their place in the world. For Vargas Lugo's WorkSpace project, 350 people will gather in the stands of UT's Darrel K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium and will stage ten solar eclipses that will occur in Texas over the course of the next 340 years. In a carefully choreographed performance, participants will hold up black and white signs in a choreographed simulation of each eclipse. Visit us on Facebook: eclipsesforaustin. For more information, please contact eclipsesforaustin@gmail.com

J-O-M is living it up in New Orleans. This photo said "hello" to me. I like it.

, originally uploaded by joeyomahoney.

My friend Maria is getting married in October and I couldn't be happier for her.

Do I need to repeat myself, originally uploaded by Maria Guzman.

New Arrival in Austin.

New Arrival!, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

New Arrival here at Domy Books in Austin: Local purveyors of wit, Apocalypse Cakes, bring you recipe cards for your sweet tooth in light of the impending doom and destruction of the earth.

AUSTIN - Cluster | new drawings by Patrick Phipps - Sep 19

AUSTIN - Cluster | new drawings by Patrick Phipps - Sep 19, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books, in association with Verde Camp, is pleased to recommend

cluster
new drawings by patrick phipps

Saturday, September 19, 2009 at Verde Camp
1505 Drake Avenue, Austin, TX 78704
7-9pm, FREE ADMISSION

Exhibition runs September 19 – October 17, 2009
Open by appointment only


Patrick Phipps’ drawings in the “Cluster” series follow a thematic constant in present in his work from his earliest drawings. Phipps has a deep-seated appreciation for the world of comics and has studied, collected, and emulated them in almost all of his work.

The “Clusters” present comic characters, drawn in fragmented and layered compositions, and repeated in an almost obsessive compulsive manner to the point that the images begin to obliterate one another. The drawings not only reference popular idioms such as the comics, but also abstract expressionist painting. Phipps finds inspiration in the marks made by comic artists and finds joy in the formal possibilities they offer.

Certain of the “clusters” follow formal constraints or self-imposed rules, such as the use of only a single daily issue of the newspaper for the subject matter or the selection of only characters with their mouths open in shock, awe, or surprise. These clusters suggest psychological states of mind and impart a new non-objective narrative to the widely familiar syndicated characters.

Photos from Mr Meatball and the Doo-Doodler

Photos from Your Heart is not a Museum

HTX/ATX - God Says No, a reading and signing with James Hannaham - Sept 14/15

HTX/ATX - God Says No, a reading and signing with James Hannaham - Sept 14/15, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books, in association with McSweeney's, is pleased to present

God Says No
a reading and signing with the author, James Hannaham

Monday, September 14, 2009 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
7pm reading, followed by a signing
FREE ADMISSION

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
7pm reading, followed by a signing
FREE ADMISSION

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Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen. God Says No is his testimony—the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetite for other men, told in a singular, emotional voice. Driven by desperation and religious visions, the path that Gary Gray takes—from revival meetings to out life in Atlanta to a pray-away-the-gay ministry in Memphis, Tennessee—gives a riveting picture of how a life like his can be lived, and how it can't.

“A tender, funny tour of a mind struggling to do the right thing. A revelatory and sympathetic guide to a misunderstood world.”
—Steve Martin, author of Shopgirl and Born Standing Up

"James Hannaham's God Says No introduces a groundbreaking new American voice: a writer of spectacular sentences who has trained his sights on a world that has hardly been touched by literary fiction. Topical and ambitious, disturbing and hilarious, God Says No is everything a person could ask of a first novel — and twice that much. "
—Jennifer Egan, author of Look at Me and The Keep

HOUSTON - Jason Villegas, show videos - September 18

HOUSTON - Jason Villegas, show videos - September 18, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Domy Books, in association with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston,
is pleased to present

Short Videos
by Jason Villegas

Friday, September 18, 2009 at Domy Books, Houston
1709 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77098
830, FREE ADMISSION
followed by Matango

Jason Villegas is exhibiting at the CAMH until November 1, 2009.

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Jason Villegas
Reverse Cosmic Ejaculation, 2006
Ultrabastard Commercials, 2006
The Fox, 2007
Hare Brand, 2007

In this series of film shorts, Jason Villegas literally animates his mythology of consumption and mayhem. Drawing upon his narrative of the Ultrabastards, “harmless” polo icons engendered with powers to destroy the world, Villegas implore both viewers and buyers to beware as these icons quickly possess and destroy all those in their wake. The shorts, ranging in durations of 2 – 6 minutes, are comprised of domestic and international television footage, international ads for toys as well as the artist’s own sculptures, drawings and paintings. Often featured performing in these videos, Villegas reprises his role as a subject and victim, transformed by epidemic of mass consumption.

Jason Villegas was born in Houston, TX in 1977, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Houston and a Master of Fine Arts from The George Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2007. Villegas's work has been featured in several group exhibitions including the traveling exhibition Phantom Sightings, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008); Young Latino Artists #10, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX (2005); Artadia@Diverseworks, DiverseWorks (2005), and The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2003). Solo exhibitions include projects at Commerce Street Art Warehouse, Houston, TX; Cactus Bra Space, San Antonio, TX; Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX; Okay Mountain Gallery, Austin, TX; and most recently, Receiver Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

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LINKS

CAMH - www.camh.org/exhib_MAIN.html
Jason Villegas - www.jasonvillegas.com/

The Joanna... Saturday afternoon...

Wednesday in both stores...

Opens Saturday in Austin...

AUSTIN - Your Heart is not a Museum, Levi Dugat & Leah DeVun - September 12, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Opens Friday in Houston...

HOUSTON - Mister Meatball and the Doo-Doodler - September 11, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Opens Saturday in Austin...

AUSTIN Project Space: Trophy Room by Jade Walker - September 12, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

Thursday, in Houston...

HOUSTON - HIWI: IKE, THE BOOK - Book Signing, September 10, originally uploaded by Domy Books.

We received some kudos and love from the Austin Chronicle this week...

Best New Local Business AND
Most Dangerous Store for Graphic Design Addicts

AUSTIN: Libres y Lokas is in its final days... Plus, an interview with the artists

Austin Vida interviewed Otis Ike and Ivete Lucas about their photos and video currently in the Austin gallery space. Read it here. (Thanks Sarah!)

Make sure to stop by the show ASAP if you haven't seen it. It comes down tomorrow. New shows coming to the gallery and project space next weekend (9/12). Stay tuned.