ICOSA Collective presents Trigger Town, a collaborative exhibition between Kate Csillagi and Matt Rebholz that invites visitors into a dystopian society of riotous color and deranged narratives. The interwoven stories of Trigger Town are told through mixed media collage, video projection, and paper craft puppets that confront the viewer with cartoon chaos and punk-rock mysticism.

Trigger Town serves as both commentary on and placebo for the unfamiliar nightmare world we now inhabit. In an era fraught with panic, bellicosity, and resurgent tyranny, Csillagi and Rebholz posit a worst-case scenario where the sky is always falling and history is continually devouring itself.

Matt Rebholz is an artist and educator from Austin, TX where he is a Lecturer at Texas State University. He has shown nationally and internationally, recently exhibiting work at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, TX, the Till Richter Museum in Buggenhagen, Germany, the Bulgarian Triennial of Graphic Art in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Pump Project in Austin, TX. He is currently hard at work on a Psychedelic Sci-Fi/Cosmic Western graphic novel titled The Astronomer.

Kate Csillagi lives and works in Austin, TX. Csillagi creates provocative and absurd storylines by way of fabric collage, drawing, and found object assemblage. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Evergreen State College. Her work is inspired by the reorganization of mental & cultural runoff, and explores themes of duality, the supernatural, and the playfully forbidden. Csillagi has shown work and contributed to renegade art spaces throughout the United States in Reno, Nashville, New York, Olympia, and Austin.

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Trigger Town

Matt Rebholz and Kate Csillagi

Opening Reception: Friday, March 31, 7–11 pm

Exhibition: March 31 – April 29

Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12 – 5pm or by appointment

For appointments: email info@icosacollective.com, or call 512-920-2062

ICOSA will also be open during FUSEBOX Waffle Chats: April 12-16, various hours, see collectivization. Fuseboxfestival.com // https://www.fuseboxfestival.com/dates/waffle-chats-2017