Eric Zimmerman

Small Texas towns are easy to stereotype, and often, those generalizations prove themselves to be true.  Conservative politics, high school football, and abundant red meat are just a few that…

When it comes to art, using the word ‘crisis’ is always a massive overstatement. Between the crises in painting, criticism, and photography you’d think that art was in some real…

Patience, in the traditional sense, is a virtue I’m not fortunate enough to possess. So much so that as a child I was set down and made to build model…

Its time to pour yourself a cocktail, slather on some sunscreen, and break out that worn copy of Valley Of The Dolls. The art world, having lovingly adopted the academic…

Have you ever noticed than when people look at abstract paintings they’re always peeking around the edges? Clearly the painter has left some secret nugget of wisdom on the sides…

Who would’ve thought I’d ever be shilling for Texas, with a glass half-full at that? But having recently spent some time back in The Bayou City that’s exactly what I’m…

‘Tis the season to hand out financial advice. There isn’t a rock in existence under which we could live and not hear about the dismal state of the economy, how…

Artists have a hard time organizing. We don’t have a union to bust, don’t have annual conferences, and it’s not all that shocking. Take a bunch of  individualistic, over-worked, buck-the-system…

Sequels are never as good as the original, but since when has that ever stopped anyone? (To read Part I, click here.) Lack of respect, a turgid definition of productivity,…

‘So, what do you do?’ Gulp, do I say artist, professor, writer, lawyer? One of these things is not like the other. Faced with this inevitable question I typically squirm.…

‘It was plagiarism, a plain piece of plumbing’ – Anon., ‘The Richard Mutt Case,’ 1917. Who hasn’t copied something? Dress it up with whatever word you’d like, sampling, stealing, reproduction,…

  Excuse my French. Yesterday while thumbing through my book shelves I came across a number of great little exhibition catalogs. One from back in1997. After some browsing, in an…

Let’s just call this one an icebreaker. There’s a saying about putting your best foot forward, but I am waffling about just which one that is. A proper entry should…

The landscape’s singularity it thus not something which a bit of topography does or does not possess; it is rather a function of the images it figures forth at any…

Nestled in an unassuming, pale yellow brick building in east Austin, Slugfest Printmaking Workshop and Gallery supplies local, regional and national artists with a space to develop their ideas through…