Co-Lab Projects

Install week 1 with @fabiola_to is underway! @lesliemoodycastro toured her around the @blantonmuseum and the @contemporaryatx yesterday. A big part of hosting visiting artists is introducing them to our cities cultural spaces and the community that makes Austin so special. Become a member and join us for the Meet & Greet tonight! Sign up at the 🔗

Friends Fair Year 2 was a massive success! Thanks to @friendsfair.art for inviting us, @eastsidepictureframing for sponsoring our room, @ripple1213 for the dedication to this project and the perseverance required to perform for 3 days straight, @elizabethschwaiger @_jeremydeprez @rebeca.proctor and @transplantsfloral for suppling their talents and beautiful objects, @burchwilldojustfine for plying us with social lubricants, @jacquelineoverbyart for making the fair run like clockwork, and everyone who supported the galleries and their artists by buying work! See y’all next year! 📷 @baptiste_zenko

Meet the Artist: Fabiola Torres-Alzaga @fabiola_to Fabiola has arrived in Austin and we’re beginning install for her exhibition “Day for Night”, curated by @lesliemoodycastro Become a member and join us for the Meet & Greet this Thursday evening and be sure to come to the Culvert Gallery on May 23rd for the exhibition opening! Full info via 🔗 Fabiola’s work has been exhibited at Museo Cabañas (Mexico, 2025), MUAC (Mexico, 2024), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2024), Museo MACRO (Rome, 2023), Villa Medici (Rome, 2022), MUAC’s Sala 10 (Mexico, 2021), the FEMSA Biennial (Zacatecas, 2018), Anthology Film Archives (New York, 2018), Lille 3000 (France, 2019), Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires, 2018), Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York, 2018), Maison des Arts de Malakoff (France, 2016), Moscow Polytechnic Museum (Russia, 2015), MARCO (Monterrey, 2015), Museo del Chopo (Mexico City, 2014), Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City, 2014), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City, 2011), Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv, 2006), and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (Mexico, 2004), among others. She has published Historias de la noche (ESPAC, 2019), a book/project in dialogue with Mara Fortes; Fabiola Torres-Alzaga: entre actos (Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2015), with texts by Itala Schmelz and Daniel Garza Usabiaga; and Las Desinvitadas (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, 2025), with texts by Virginia Roy and Laura Orozco. She has twice received the Jóvenes Creadores grant and she is a member of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA) from 2025 to 2028.

Friends Fair kicks off tonight! Visit us in the Styling Salon, Room 219, featuring Sean Ripple, Elizabeth Schwaiger, Jeremy DePrez, Rebeca Proctor, and Antonio Bond Thursday, May 7th: Preview by invitation only Friday, May 8th, 12-7pm & Saturday, May 9th, 12-6pm: Open and free to the public with required RSVP at the 🔗 @ripple1213 @elizabethschwaiger @_jeremydeprez @rebeca.proctor @transplantsfloral

Meet the Artists | Friends Fair Edition Antonio Bond (@transplantsfloral ) was born and raised in south Austin, Texas, where he continues to do his part to keep Austin weird and abide by the 78704 way of life. With a style that resists convention and a commitment to artistry over trends, his work has earned both local admiration and national attention. Blending elements of the natural world with the everyday and man-made, Antonio reveals a quiet beauty in the subtleties that often go unnoticed. As a self-taught photographer, collage artist, and floral designer, he brings a distinct aesthetic and a finely tuned eye to every piece he creates. Shaped by his life experiences, Antonio has developed a singular way of seeing the world—one that transforms ordinary moments into layered visual narratives. His creations are more than compositions; they are open-ended stories, inviting viewers to find their own meaning within them.

Meet the Artists | Friends Fair Edition Elizabeth Schwaiger (@elizabethschwaiger ) received her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2011 and currently lives and works in Paris, France. In her decade-long exploration of power dynamics and the climate crises, Schwaiger uses a variegated symbolism of water, fracturing, dimensional overlay, gesture, and dialed levels of representational clarity to construct images suggestive of the interplay among unseen forces that govern our world. She has exhibited in venues in the UK and the USA, including The Walker Gallery National Museum in Liverpool, The Macintosh Museum in Glasgow, The National Portrait Gallery in London, Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, Glasgow International, Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, and Co-Lab Projects and GrayDUCK Gallery in Austin. Recent projects include NYC solo exhibition Now & Now & Now at Nicola Vassell and solo exhibition Pressing Shadows at Gana Art in Seoul in 2023, as well as a solo presentation at the Independent art fair presented by Nicola Vassell. RSVP via 🔗 and visit us in Room #219 at @friendsfair.art this week! May 7th-9th

Meet the Artists | Friends Fair Edition Jeremy DePrez (@_jeremydeprez ) is a Brooklyn, New York, and Houston, Texas based visual artist whose paintings examine the shifting connections between personal identity, material culture, and the often-overlooked objects of daily life. Through painting, he renders ephemeral, discarded materials with an uncanny sense of permanence, transforming them into static artifacts that suspend the instability of value, memory, and consumer culture. Working at the intersection of personal history and broader cultural forces, DePrez’s work challenges how we assign meaning to the objects we possess, discard, or inherit. Selected solo exhibitions include Night Worker: Works on Paper 2018–2025, Front, Houston; Reality’s Coffin, Post/Times, New York; GLYPHS, Best Western, Santa Fe; Tent Posts, SUNNY, New York, Furnished Head, Marinaro, New York; Boy Meets World, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; Mind Fold, Texas Gallery, Houston; and Tenant, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York.  Selected group exhibitions include A Selection of Great Art By People Who Know What They Like (curated by Bob Nickas), The Drawing Center, New York; Hypervision, Magenta Plains, New York; Outside the Lines, Texas Gallery, Houston; Beyond the Frame, Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels; Shapeshifters, Luhring Augustine, New York; Das Bild hängt schief, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; and The Shaped Canvas Revisited, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York. Jeremy was an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in 2015. RSVP via 🔗 and visit us in Room #219 at @friendsfair.art , this week! May 7th-9th

Meet the Artists | Friends Fair Edition Rebeca Proctor (@rebeca.proctor ) is an artist based in Central Texas whose current practice responds to the tensions embedded within the domestic roles of maternal life. Working primarily in clay, she creates quiet monuments to the careful work of mothering, to the repetition of domestic labor, and to the abundance that can exist even in monotony. Her work teeters between at once utilitarian objects and symbolic sculptures - containing, protecting, and bearing the weight of it all while seeking moments of personal transformation amidst the overwhelm. Rebeca’s practice continues to evolve alongside her experience of raising two young children in the countryside outside of Austin, TX. She received her BFA in Studio Art in 2018 from the University of Texas at Austin where she focused on bronze casting and mixed media sculpture. She has held internships and residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado and Penland School of Craft in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Her recent exhibitions include Soft Opening at DORF Gallery and Ain’t Hold Much; Ain’t Too Much to Hold at Co-Lab Projects. Proctor is co-owner of @eastsidepotshop , a community ceramics studio in East Austin, and co-founder of @nomceramics . RSVP via 🔗 and visit us in Room #219 at @friendsfair.art , this week! May 7th-9th

Meet the Artists | Friends Fair Edition Sean Ripple (@ripple1213 ) is an artist, writer, and curator based in Austin, TX. His projects are often improvisational and interventionist in nature and rely heavily on social media and the Internet to frame the outcomes of a feverish dedication to an idea. Taking inspiration from portrait painting and divination practices like tarot and tea leaf reading, Ripple will host Friends Fair visitors in the booth and style them in fashions drawn from a variety of sources, including his personal collection. Visitors will engage in conversation to develop a look they feel works well for them, and then be given privacy to change into their ensemble. Their fit will be documented, and if the look is purchased, the visitor will be encouraged to walk it around the fair, which can be thought of as a runway for living sculpture. Ripple has been exhibiting with Co-Lab Projects since its founding in 2008. He has mounted exhibitions, projects, and interventions at Neue Welt, Time Being Books, The Contemporary Austin, Pump Project, The Museum of Human Achievement, Wurhaus, The Gatehouse Gallery at Laguna Gloria, inside private homes, numerous big box and department stores, and on internet platforms such as Tumblr, Flickr, Vine, Facebook, and Instagram. Sean Ripple is also currently Co-Lab’s digital artist in residency at the @colabprojectsbitres instagram account. RSVP via 🔗 and visit us in Room #219 at @friendsfair.art , this week! May 7th-9th

@friendsfair.art starts in ONE WEEK! The Co-Lab Projets room will feature a styling salon, services, performance, and video from Sean Ripple, ceramics from Rebeca Proctor, floral arrangements from Antonio Bond, and paintings by Jeremy DePrez and Elizabeth Schwaiger. RSVP via the 🔗 and join us at @thelorenaustin on Lady Bird Lake May 7th-9th. Co-Lab Projects @ Friends Fair May 7th - 9th, 2026 The Loren at Lady Bird Lake 1211 W Riverside Dr, Austin, TX 78704 Wednesday, May 6th: Friends Fair Launch Party with @futurefronttexas at the @contemporaryatx Jones Center from 7-10pm Thursday, May 7: VIP Access 5-9pm & Frost Sponsored Party on the rooftop from 8-11pm Friday, May 8 & Saturday, May 9th: Open and free to the public with required RSVP 12-6pm @elizabethschwaiger @_jeremydeprez @rebeca.proctor @transplantsfloral @ripple1213

Announcing our next exhibition at the Culvert Gallery: “Day for Night” by Fabiola Torres-Alzaga @fabiola_to Curated by Leslie Moody Castro @lesliemoodycastro May 23rd - July 4th, 2026 On view Saturdays, 12-6pm 5419 Glissman Road, Austin, TX 78702 Opening Events: Saturday, May 23rd Members Preview, 6-7pm, Become a Member via 🔗 Public Reception, 7-11pm, Please RSVP via 🔗 Sponsored by Austin Beerworks and Tito’s Handmade Vodka Members Meet & Greet with Fabiola Torres-Alzaga: Thursday, May 14th, 8-10pm Become a Member to receive the location The work of Fabiola Torres-Alzaga investigates visual geographies and their thresholds, with a special emphasis on the manifestations of the invisible. Through an interdisciplinary practice, Torres-Alzaga revisits the scenic systems and their spatio-temporal languages ​​of film, theater, and magic, articulating them within an expanded field. Incorporating a queer perspective, Torres-Alzaga is interested in the construction of the illusory image, its censorship and concealment, as well as the lingering ghosts, composing scenes in which not everything present is available to the gaze. Thus, she has created her work in the interstices of what an image explicitly shows and, above all, what surrounds and exceeds it — an imaginary that, through suggestion, recomposes forms and their absences. Torres-Alzaga is interested in creating illusory worlds that can function as parentheses of reality and counter-spaces that reclaim more corners within the patriarchal sphere in order to generate other possible relationships. This exhibition is supported in part by @heb , @txcommarts , the @neaarts , Individual Donors, and Members like You!

Tomorrow (Saturday, April 25th) is the LAST DAY to see Mark Flood’s exhibition “Buddy Can You Spare a Meme” at Co-Lab Projects! Stop by 12-6pm to take in this densely layered installation which curator JD DiFabbio describes as “culture warfare body horror”. Read more of JD’s writing on the exhibition via the 🔗 Mark Flood’s work has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States and internationally. His solo exhibitions include Lace Paintings at Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas (2006), American Fine Art in New York (2004), and Peres Projects in Berlin (2015). He has also shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2016) and Karma in New York (2020). Group exhibitions have included Pretty Ugly, co-hosted by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Maccarone in New York, as well as numerous other shows throughout his career. Flood’s work is held in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions, including the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and The Menil Collection. His work is also part of the Rubell Family Collection in Miami and international collections such as the Taguchi Art Collection in Tokyo.