Austin was born in Paris in 1977 and raised in New York City until he
left to attend the University of California at Santa Barbara. After completing
his undergraduate studies he travelled and painted throughout Europe and
North Africa before returning to New York. Upon his return he began painting
mural commissions in collaboration with his father. Working for the top
interior designers in New York they produced paintings for public buildings,
restaurants and private homes in New York, Los Angeles and Palm Beach.
Austin is developing a new body of work that he describes as hunting paintings.
In his own words, "An eskimo shaman said that the most dangerous
thing facing mankind is that his diet consists entirely of souls. I draw
inspiration from nature, human nature on the streets of New York City,
and old hunting books. These are hunting paintings, giving prayer to this
inherently violent world we have been born into. I am hunting for simplicity
in painterly expression, for spiritual revelation, and for the viewers
imagination
Exhibitions:
-University of California Santa Barbara Undergraduate Honors exhibition
2000
-Shifrazzi Gallery Los Angeles group show 2000
-New York Art Walk exhibition and Sothebys auction 2003
-Kips Bay Designer Showhouse 2003
-Los Angeles International Showhouse 2004
-Inaugural group show Christopher Henry Gallery Chelsea New York 2005
-Kips Bay Designer Showhouse 2005
-Guy Regal, New York Design Show 2006
-James Sansum Fine Arts group exhibition 2006
-Objects and Art Gallery group show, Bronxville, New York 2006
~Austin
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