IVORY VAULT

UP AROUND THE SUN — Galveston ✨

This Friday, January 9th at 7PM, a special surf-art crossover lands at .

Featuring original hand-painted surfboards by legendary Texas artist Tim Kerr, plus a limited-edition tee release and live music by Up Around the Sun.

These boards are one-of-a-kind functional art pieces — carrying raw Gulf Coast spirit, outsider energy, and true Texas soul.
Boards will be on view and available.

Saturday continues with the opening at .

📍 Picnic Surf Shapes
2510 Market St. — Galveston Island
🕖 7PM
🎶 Live music
👕 Limited tee drop
🖼 Original art surfboards available

Come feel it.

✨ Last Day to Experience This Exhibit — Today, 1–5 PM ✨

It’s the final day to step inside the world of Michael Wayne Hall and Heather Lindquist Hall — a duo whose work transforms familiar landscapes into dreamlike portals.

From Michael’s multi-layered, sculptural color formations that appear to pulse with life…
to Heather’s atmospheric scenes where neon signs, quiet forests, and surreal horizons feel both nostalgic and otherworldly — this show has brought a steady stream of people in just to stand, breathe, and take it all in.

If you’ve been meaning to stop by, today is your window.
Gallery hours: 1 PM – 5 PM

Come support two phenomenal artists on their closing day and experience these works up close before they leave the gallery walls.

✨ Black Feather Gallery
📍 979 Springdale Rd , Austin TX
🕐 Today only: 1–5 PM

Join us this Thursday at Blackfeather Vintage for an intimate live concert with Erika Wennerstrom, plus a special artist reception featuring Heather Sundquist Hall and Michael Wayne Hall.
A perfect Austin night of music, art, and community.
November 20th • 7–9 PM
✨ All are welcome.

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Michael Wayne Hall & Heather Sundquist Hall
Featured Artists — Austin Studio Tour 2025

Through distinct yet deeply connected practices, Michael and Heather Hall offer work that speaks to rhythm, memory, and the quiet beauty woven through their process.

🎨 Michael Wayne Hall uses painting as a meditative practice. His work is always created by hand — colors individually mixed and remixed, applied without the use of tape or masking, allowing wobbles, smudges, and other human gestures to remain. While each piece feels measured and exact, a closer look reveals the handmade nature of his process. Grounded in his love of vintage screenprints and flat-color design, Michael’s abstract paintings use methodically blended gradients to suggest movement, transition, and depth. The result is work that feels both familiar and modern — simultaneously calming and energizing.

🎨 Heather Sundquist Hall works primarily in gouache, using her subjects as a means to preserve fleeting memories — like souvenirs collected along a road trip. Having lived in Texas for over a decade, Heather draws inspiration from the vast terrain and awe-striking skies of the romantic Southwest. Her transient landscapes often contrast with discarded objects and subtle domestic details — a floral curtain, a plaid couch from her grandmother’s house in November 1986. These recognizable fragments invite viewers to pause and return to their own stories, rediscovering the magic in the everyday and the often overlooked.

Together, their practices form a dialogue between precision and nostalgia, process and poetry — a shared space where art becomes an act of reflection.

📍 Austin Studio Tour
🗓️ November 8–9 & 15–16 | 12–6 PM
🎟️ Free & open to the public

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A Reason To Return
Austin Studio Tour · Stop #9
📍 Blackfeather Vintage, Austin TX
🗓️ November 9–10 & 16–17 · 12–6 PM

Featuring artists Michael Wayne Hall & Heather Sundquist Hall

✨ A Reason To Return explores the quiet resonance of memory and the meditative rhythm of process — where process meets memory, and the landscape of the heart meets the remembered places of our lives.

🎨 Michael Wayne Hall
Hall’s paintings are acts of meditation — each color hand-mixed, each edge shaped without masking. His gradients breathe movement into stillness, revealing both control and humanity in every line. The work recalls the flat-color precision of vintage screenprints, yet remains distinctly alive — calm, energizing, and entirely handmade.

🎨 Heather Sundquist Hall
Through the delicacy of gouache, Heather preserves moments as if they were souvenirs — bits of memory and landscape woven with the details of the everyday. Her work invites stillness, reflection, and a return to the magic found in quiet observation.

🖤 Join us for this special presentation during the Austin Studio Tour.austin ·

Last night’s performance by Tim Kerr and his project Up Around the Sun was absolutely amazing — and so is the artwork in the show!

Today is your last chance to catch this incredible group exhibition before it comes down.
Stop by Black Feather Gallery between 12 PM and 5 PM to experience Four + One Equals Now, curated by Ivory Vault, featuring the works of Tim Kerr, Win Wallace, Terry & Sarah Snow, and Josh House.

Thursday, Oct 30 • 7pm
Come see Tim Kerr play with his project “Up Around the Sun” at Black Feather Gallery, and while you’re here, you’ll be able to catch the group show “four plus one equals now”, curated by Ivory Vault.
Art + music + good company — don’t miss it. 🎶🖼️ .dracula

A quiet glimpse behind the process ✨
Here’s a look at Michael Hall’s work in progress — one of the featured artists showing during the Austin Studio Tour, presented by Blackfeather Gallery & Ivory Vault.
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Like the song — it unfolds slowly, beautifully. Come see the finished piece in person during the tour.

.austin /. 979 Springdale Rd. , Suite 99, Austin Texas

The gallery is open today from 12–5 PM — come experience the incredible works in four plus one equals now, curated by Ivory Vault at Black Feather Gallery. Each piece is a world of its own. ✨
📍Black Feather Gallery

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This Saturday • 12–5 PM

I’ll ( Deb ) be at Black Feather Gallery for Saturday Hours - four + one = now — a beautiful group exhibition featuring
Tim Kerr, Win Wallace, Josh House, Terry Snow & Sarah Snow.

Come by, take in the art, and say hi — would love to see some familiar faces in the gallery ✨

📍 Black Feather Gallery, Austin
🗓️ Saturday Oct 18 • 12–5 PM