Austin artist Sterling Allen to show at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts through March

The solo exhibition, titled “Housing Edition,” is a large-scale sculpture installation.

Fort Worth, TX

2/24/2011

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, the TCU gallery located at 2900 W. Berry Street, will host a show by Sterling Allen from March 5 – April 10. The opening reception will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 4.

The solo exhibition, titled “Housing Edition,” is a large-scale sculpture installation conceived by Allen during his residency at Artpace International Artist-in-Residence Program in San Antonio.

Sterling Allen received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. He was a co-founder and director of the progressive Camp Fig gallery in Austin from 2004 until the gallery closed its doors in 2006. Together with eight other Austin artists, he founded and currently co-directs the Okay Mountain collective and gallery. He has shown at the Austin Museum of Art, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston and various galleries across Texas, and received residencies in Nebraska, New York, and Vermont.

For more information, call Christina Rees, at  817-257-7638 or 817-257-2588.