📣📣📣 Announcing new gallery hours! Saturdays 10 AM-3 PM and by appointment via email.
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So you may better dine with Lynny’s (@lynnysatx ) and better browse with Time Being Books (@timebeingbooks ). We love our yard neighbors! Come hang at the MASS compound and make a full morning of art, literature, and the best damn biscuits in town.
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MASS is generously supported by The City of Austin’s Elevate Grant. We are thankful for this resource to center LGBTQ+ and BIPOC artists for our community.
Our next show, LAMP, opens April 18th, 6-9 PM! Curated by @arielrw
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LAMP is a group exhibition rooted in practices of accumulation and adornment. Primarily sculptural, the works span ceramic, papier-mâché, textiles, and found objects—materials that carry the marks of touch, use, and return. The exhibition draws inspiration from the fantastical potential of a bookshelf alcove crowded with knickknacks, and from the push and pull of a warm light bulb: how it reveals the texture of its shade while allowing everything beyond its beam to slip into shadow. LAMP lingers in this tension—between illumination and obscurity, excess and intimacy—asking what it means to look again at what we already have. At its core, LAMP is about making a home. Home here is not fixed, but a space of continual return. Each return brings something new: an object, a gesture, a layer. Through acts of adornment, familiar things are re-seen and re-translated. Function is rendered implicit; materiality, charm, and care emerges energetically.
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Featuring works by Caroline Perkinson (@carolinoleum ), Emma Rossoff (@emmalouiserossoff ), Gabrielle Constantine (@quibby00 ), Jamie Lerman (@double_cradle ), Julia Kunze (@julpippin ), and Magdalena Jarkowiec (@magsjarks )
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Stay tuned for artist features!
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2. Big Pour papermaking workshop.
3. The large handmade-paper carousel from Big Pour.
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5. Ceramic tiles at the Clay-re-workshop for Earth Oven.
6. Aaron Amin firing up the first pizzas in the freshly installed Earth Oven.
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8. Artist, Miles Matis-Uzzo, in front of their installation for Porous Matters.
9. Emily Lee reading at the Porous Matters’ Close Encounters event.
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11. MASS Ambient x Pease Park. Played by Joey Reyes and Mooncloud.
12. Beth Schindler at the desk for Toxic Masculinity.
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14. Admiring the art of Siena Smith at Heartstrings.
15. Veneer DJing the 2024 Holiday Market.
💕BIG LOVE TO OUR AMAZING COMMUNITY 💕
It’s confirmed: Clay Club will be doing a pop-up event in the yard of MASS Gallery, on Saturday May 30! The Clay Club is located at Monofonus Studios, tucked into the neighborhood just across the street from MASS Gallery. Membership is made up of a wide range of ceramicists, from those who are just starting out to established clay artists, and the work produced in the club ranges from functional pieces to sculpture and everything in between. MASS is really excited to host this showcase & market. The event is being lovingly doula’d by former Clay Clubber and current MASS member, Grayson Hunt. MASS member Tanya Zal will be firing up The Earth Oven 🧱 Lynny’s will be open for business 🥞 and MASS will be offering a by-donation mimosa bar for guests🥂
DETAILS:
Mass Gallery presents: Pop Up Clay Club
705 Gunter Street
Saturday May 30
11-3pm
***Please do not park on Gonzalez between Gunter and Springdale***
Seeking a summer artist studio for a month? Hotbox is a collaborative two-person studio share program at the main gallery space at MASS taking place from July 18—August 15, 2026. We are seeking two individual artists. You may apply either as an individual who is curious to work with another artist through a curated pairing by MASS or via a proposal to work as an artist duo. Apply at massgallery.org before May 21st!
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Two selected artists will be offered the gallery space to share from July 18—August 15, 2026.
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A $500 honorarium will be awarded to each chosen artist to support their residency and to fund a public presentation at the end of the program.
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The Hotbox residency program is open to Austin-based artists working in any medium and at any stage in their career.
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We are looking specifically for kinship and chemistry between artists’ practices and will aim to pick a pair of artists based on the potential of exciting creative partnerships.
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Find all the details on our online application!
LAMP is up until May 23! A huge thanks to all who came to the opening and Read-In
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Make sure to grab your Supper Club Tickets for May 14th through our website! Places are limited and movin’ fast.
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We welcome you to come back and linger in this thoughtful exhibition curated by Ariel Wood (@arielrw )
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This Sunday!! I’m so excited to be collaborating w friends at MASS Gallery to bake pretty little pies in the magical Earth Oven ~ drop by :) say hi! eat pie!
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We’re firing up the Earth Oven in the yard at MASS and you’re invited to join us for a bake sale! Sunday, April 26, 10am-12pm or sold out. Bring a blanket, bring your buds, and enjoy hand-made pies baked by Hannah (@cagefree.egg ). Fresh fruit pies will be accompanied by a limited edition zine celebrating the harmony of beauty & function in domestic craft.
The Earth Oven is a communal, functional sculpture project created by Tanya Zal (@heartofgoo ). A space for sharing food and community on a regular basis. A portion of sales from this event will be donated to MASS Gallery to support ongoing programming.
Hannah Goodhue Lynch is an artist, writer and home baker living and making in Austin, TX. Alongside their work in weaving & fiber craft, drawing, book arts, and assemblage, Hannah has leveraged their creative baking hobby, once just a way of experimenting with taste and technique, to become a part of their larger social practice as an artist. With a background in arts engagement and education, Hannah is inclined to connect people, in art spaces especially, with the age-old communion of bread breaking.
Lynny’s, Time Being Books, and the Lamp exhibition at MASS Gallery will be open also, be sure to say hey during your visit!
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Earth Oven x PIE PICNIC
Sunday, April 26th
10am - 12pm or sold out
705 Gunter Street
*~~GET YOUR TICKETS*~~ for a unique dining experience at Supper Club, Thursday, May 14th from 6-8pm
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In connection with the exhibition LAMP and Earth Oven at MASS Gallery
🍸Hosted by Gabrielle Constantine and Ariel Wood
🥖Food by Gabrielle Constantine
🥚Ceramic wares by Double Cradle and Watson Ceramics
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This is a Ticketed event with limited capacity!
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An evening at a shared table. Supper Club invites patrons to gather around the Earth Oven, for a meal prepared and served in the spirit of hospitality and exchange. The Earth Oven is a communal, functional sculpture project created by Tanya Zal
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Picture it, wood-fired lahmajun (Armenian pizzas), a myriad of salads, drinks, handmade ceramic plates, and layers of patterned table cloths all under the twinkle lights and the stars above. In partnership with the exhibition LAMP at MASS Gallery, Supper Club extends the exhibition’s spirit of material care and collective presence into an outdoor meal, where food, handmade objects, and conversation come together in a temporary commons. Alongside her more sculptural practice, Gabrielle Constantine has shared in cooking dinners and hosting gatherings with communities in Philadelphia, Mexico City, Austin, and is consistently and continually innovating ways of gathering community through art and food. Guests are invited to linger, share space, view the exhibition, and experience the simple intimacy of eating together.
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Head to our website for tickets! massgallery.org
We are excited to have Magdalena Jarkowiec in our show, opening TOMORROW! Come hang and explore her beautiful work.
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Magdalena Jarkowiec is a Polish-born artist, writer, and psychotherapist. Her art practice centers mostly around soft sculpture and dance which often intersect in unusual installations. She loves humor and is interested in the strangeness of life, particularly the strangeness of being a physical form. Kinship is also a big theme in her work; her sculpture practice grew out of a love of sewing that she inherited from her Polish grandmother.. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2021) and a BA from the New College of Florida (2001).
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After our opening, come to the Read In! Sunday, April 19th from 5-7pm in connection with the exhibition LAMP at MASS Gallery
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Hosted by Julia Kunze and Ariel Wood and in partnership with Time Being Books
Music by Elizabeth Hess
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An evening of shared attention. Read In invites visitors to gather with books and settle into reading as a collective, contemplative act. Like the exhibition itself, the event honors accumulation and care: the comfort of holding a familiar object, the curiosity enlivened by a pre-loved book, the subtle energy of being alone together. Visitors are invited to move freely between the gallery, the adjoining yard, and the resident used bookstore—bringing a beloved book from home or discovering one on site. A curated vinyl DJ set, sourced from the DJ’s personal record collection, will shape the atmosphere for reading, rest, and renewed attention.
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Enjoy these intricate ceramics of LAMP artist, Julia Kunze! Come see Julia’s gorgeous work on April 18th from 6-9 PM.
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Julia Kunze is an artist based in Catskill, NY. She holds a BA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson (2016) and currently manages Interlude Artist Residency in Hudson, NY. She works in a Dark Whackademia aesthetic, using romance novel tropes to examine desire and self-authorship. She primarily works in clay and cardboard, crafting oversized, book-ish sculptures that include rewritten and personalized romance novels.
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Emma Rossoff is one of the most talented makers we know! Her work will be featured in LAMP, comin up real soon on April 18th!
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Emma Rossoff (b. 1992, New York, NY) is an artist based in Chicago, IL. She holds an MFA in Sculpture & Extended Media from the University of Texas at Austin (2022) and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Columbia University(2016). She also completed the foundation year at the Rhode Island School of Design and studied Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins.
She has trained in furniture making at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship and studied woodcarving and etching at the Art Students League of New York. Rossoff has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Bunker Projects, Rockland Woods, and Stove Works. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including two solo exhibitions in Austin, Texas in 2023.
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