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Artist Reception
Come out and join us for our upcoming Art Happy Hour with Navena Bentz. Nevena was born in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Her artistic journey is an exploration of female identity. “It seems to me that women today, more than ever before, are defined by their physical appearance and relationship to products. Women have fallen into the trap of seeking an identity in the marketplace,” she explains. Nevena chooses female fragments and distortion as a means to expose women’s inner contradictions, struggles, and unease.
Friday, June 11 from 6 - 8 PM
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The Art of Hugh Syme
Ao5 is excited to announce our newest collection by Hugh Syme, award-winning artist. Syme is best known for his album artwork for the likes of Rush, Dream Theater, Whitesnake, Aerosmith, Queensrÿche, Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden ... and more. Both music-related and non-music works will be on display. Ao5 will host a VIP Collectors Night on Friday, June 25 and an Opening Reception on June 26. Syme will be in attendance. Click the date links above to purchase tickets.
Featured Artist: Steven Lavaggi
Steven Lavaggi's creative intent through jewelry and fine art is to express Hope, Faith, Peace and especially Love. He has been internationally recognized as the Artist of Hope since 1984. Motivated by divine inspiration, Steven can usually be found in his studio, located in Austin, TX , designing jewelry and painting almost every day. His Artworks are in the collections of numerous music & entertainment notables including Ozzy & Sharon Osborne, Smokey Robison, the late Nelson Mandela and Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top Guitarist) just to name a few.
Featured Artist: Rachel Dory
Rachel Dory is based in Austin, Texas and well known for painting site-specific scenes found along roadside America. Although the locations she paints are often stumbled upon while en route from one location to another, they are thoughtfully chosen as places that will stop you in your tracks and linger in your memory. Dory is mindful of the exact location, noting the longitude and latitude of each site. With each painting, she sets out to awaken a memory within all of us.
Featured Artist: Cynda Valle
Cynda Valle chronicles human life from her unique perspective in which she finds the most ordinary moments of domestic circumstances and infuses them with undercurrents of surrealism, luminosity and pattern. She then captures these moments on canvas with oil paint, in order to remind the viewer of the fragile poignancy of life.
These paintings are done with a traditional, labor intensive oil glazing and underpainting technique. Focal points within the painting can have up to 40 thin glaze layers, and take several months worth of work in one small area.
Featured Artist: John Morse
For the first time ever, 5 decades of John Morse's work is featured exclusively at Ao5 Gallery. The collection spans from the oldest surviving collage of Morse's career to his latest large scale works. Ao5 has unveiled works created by Morse that appeared along with his contemporaries Keith Haring and Jean-Michele Basquiat on the streets of New York in the 1980s. To listen to John talk about the works and his journey into collage art, check out our YouTube videos.
Ao5 Gallery is the only gallery to carry John Morse originals. Learn more about John Morse
Google Reviews
"What did Tina Turner say? Simply the best. You don't need to know anything about art because the staff here does.. and they don't make you feel stupid for not knowing. Excellent selection!"
~ Court Simpson
"Awesome art selection at reasonable prices. Wonderful framing department, executing art gallery level of quality."
~ Miles Braddock