Austin is getting its first international art fair! Please join us at Affordable Art Fair Austin from May 16-19 at the Palmer Events Center, which will host 60+ galleries from around the world.
McLennon Pen Co. will present a solo booth of works by Austin-based artist Andy Coolquitt, including pouf benches and pipe lamps.
For further information and to check availability of artworks you may email info@mclennonpenco.com.
Andy Coolquitt (b. 1964, Texas) currently lives in Austin. He
is perhaps most widely known for Andy’s Place, which began as his master’s
thesis project at University of Texas at Austin in 1994 and continues to the
present day. Andy’s Place is a multifaceted entity, serving as a performance,
studio, and domestic space for Coolquitt as well as hundreds of artists
throughout the years. In collaboration with his partner Susan Scafati,
Coolquitt most recently created DUSTY, an exhibition space within his studio
in 2022, and opened the inaugural show in March. In 2020 he produced a
wide ranging project titled “How A House Works” through the exhibition
venue TestSite in Austin, TX. In 2018, he produced a temporary exhibition
version of Andy’s Place for "The Autotopographers" at the Kohler Museum
in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In the summer of 2016, Coolquitt produced a
multi-exhibition project titled "Studio Art...........Period Room" while in
residence at Artpace in San Antonio, TX. In spring 2014 he was artist-in-
residence at the Chianti Foundation in Marfa, TX, which culminated in the
exhibition, "Multi-Marfa Room", at the Locker Plant in Marfa, TX. Notable
solo exhibitions have included "This Much" at Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna,
Austria; "no I didn't go to any museums here I hate museums museums are
just stores that charge you to come in there are lots of free museums here but
they have names like real stores" at Maryam Nassir Zadeh in New York City,
NY; "attainable excellence" at AMOA-Arthouse in Austin, TX; and
"somebody place" at Lisa Cooley in NYC.