Perspective Tour with RF. Alvarez and Beth Schindler
Join us on October 8 (Wed) at 6:30P, for a Perspective Tour exploring Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art with Austin-based artists RF. Alvarez and Beth Schindler.
Perspective Tours is a talk and tour series in which guest artists, curators, and subject matter experts share information about their own work while lending insights into our exhibitions.
General Admission | Free for Members
Tickets coming soon. Date subject to change.
About the artists
RF. Alvarez is a queer artist based in Austin, Texas. His figurative paintings are characterized by nocturnal color pallets and evocative scenes that blend personal memory with romantic allegory. Using a process of dry-brushing paint onto raw linen – and borrowing stylistic techniques from Old Masters – Alvarez creates luminous images of queer joy, revelry and contemplation; countering a historical narrative of queer alienation and erasure in the American West. With deep family roots in both Texas and Mexico, Alvarez uses visions of friendship, indulgence and tenderness to juxtapose with Southern machismo – illuminating the vulnerability that can hide beneath the steely façade of masculinity and the societies it creates.
Alvarez has shown with Almine Rech in Paris, Taymour Grahne Projects in London, Alanna Miller Gallery in New York City, and Martha’s Contemporary in Austin. His work has been featured in The New York Times, T Magazine, Texas Monthly, The Brooklyn Rail and Cultured Magazine. He received a BA from Wesleyan University.
Beth Schindler (she/her) is an artist, curator, and organizer living and working in Austin, TX. Working in textiles, video, photography, found materialism, Schindler creates ephemeral installations for performance. Deeply committed to centering lesbians in inclusive spaces for all queers, she focuses on crafting creative and liberating experiences to connect in person, and to learn and reimagine our history. Her recent, Lesbian Mapping Project has become an international success, and has programmed events like Power Snatch, Hickeys & HJs, Plum Crazies, Dyke Bar, Lesbian Wedding, Lesbian Touch, Gay Dregs, Austin Dyke March, and more. In January of 2025, she curated Toxic Masculinity: The Old Reliable World Of David Hurles, an archival show of gay porn photographer and diarist David Hurles at MASS Gallery in Austin, TX. She is the President of the non-profit MASS Gallery in Austin, TX, and focused on making it the gayest community art space in town. She also has a collaborative art partnership with Lex Vaughn as FFTWINZ.