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👟 Artist Run Club –– Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 6:30am:

🏁 We met at ICOSA ( @icosa_art ) to see Contrapuntals, a two artist show with Intel Lastierre and Vy Ngo ( @intellastierre.art @vjngo_art )

🏰 Vy was there to speak about her work in the window as well as her paintings inside that relate to historical imagery, place, and visual significance of cultures colliding.

🪩🪅🎂 Predal led the run along the Boggy Creek trail. In addition to that, it was Predal’s birthday. Happy Birthday! ( @preetal )

✨ Photos taken by Christian Pugh, Johnathan P, Phillip N, and Thira. Thira wrote this post. ( @christianpugh @poritsky @thirartist )

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➡️ Next two runs

🍁 Saturday, October 17, 9am: We’ll meet at Govalle Park and run together to Co-Lab Projects ( @colabprojectstx ) to see “Within my Maze of Memory” by Isadora Jackson ( @isadora.a.jackson )

🏰 Wednesday, October 24, 6:30am: We’ll meet at Almost Real Things ( @almostrealthings
) gallery at the Canopy complex to see FORTRESS a three artist show with Kate Csillagi, Hope Hummingbird, and Lauren Napolitano ( @kate.csillagi @hope_hummingbird @peptalks ) taken in ICOSA by @icosa_art

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Gallery hours 12-6pm today!
Come see our current exhibition, “Contrapuntals: New Work by Intel Lastierre and Vy Ngo”

Exhibition Dates: Sept 25 - Oct 24, 2026
Opening Reception: September 25, 7-10 pm
Artist talk: October 15th, 6-8 pm with Sabrina Mooroogen Ph.D., Equity Through Arts
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12-6 pm and by appointment

Contrapuntals takes its title from music, where two or more independent melodic lines unfold simultaneously. Rather than merging into a single voice, each retains its own integrity, creating moments of harmony, tension, and dissonance. The exhibition adopts this structure as a way of thinking about the conversation between the work of Intel Lastierre and Vy Ngo. Each artist approaches questions of history, power, and identity from a distinct perspective, generating meaning through proximity and difference. Rather than seeking resolution, Contrapuntals asks what becomes possible when distinct voices remain in conversation. by @icosa_art

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Artist talk: October 15th, 6-8 pm with Sabrina Mooroogen Ph.D., Equity Through Arts

ICOSA is proud to present an artist talk on Thursday, October 15, featuring a conversation
between Vy Ngo and Sabrina Mooroogen, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Equity Through Arts.

The discussion will explore themes at the heart of Ngo’s current exhibition, Contrapuntals,
including history, colonialism, cultural identity, and the ongoing journey of healing as well as
Asian American representation within the visual arts.

This dialogue invites audiences to reflect on how art can illuminate lived experiences, challenge
inherited narratives, and open pathways toward equity and understanding.

#artisttalk #asiancontemporaryart #vietnameseartist #arthistory #texasartist

“Bridge to Paris”, 2026
“Temple of the Celestial Lady”, 2026
“The Imperial Stairs”, 2026

Acrylic, colored pencils, oil, oil sticks, paper, tea leaves, tea bag paper on panel
74” x 40” with black lacquered frame

Artist talk: October 15th, 6-8 pm with Sabrina Mooroogen Ph.D., Equity Through Arts

ICOSA is proud to present an artist talk on Thursday, October 15, featuring a conversation
between Vy Ngo and Sabrina Mooroogen, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Equity Through Arts.

The discussion will explore themes at the heart of Ngo’s current exhibition, Contrapuntals,
including history, colonialism, cultural identity, and the ongoing journey of healing as well as
Asian American representation within the visual arts.

This dialogue invites audiences to reflect on how art can illuminate lived experiences, challenge
inherited narratives, and open pathways toward equity and understanding.

#artisttalk #asiancontemporaryart #vietnameseartist #arthistory #texasartist

Artist talk: October 15th, 6-8 pm with Sabrina Mooroogen Ph.D., Equity Through Arts

ICOSA is proud to present an artist talk on Thursday, October 15, featuring a conversation
between Vy Ngo and Sabrina Mooroogen, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Equity Through Arts.

The discussion will explore themes at the heart of Ngo’s current exhibition, Contrapuntals,
including history, colonialism, cultural identity, and the ongoing journey of healing as well as
Asian American repr taken in Canopy by @icosa_art

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On view at @icosa_art
Contrapuntals: New Work by Intel Lastierre and Vy Ngo

"Contrapuntals" takes its title from music, where two or more independent melodic lines unfold simultaneously. Rather than merging into a single voice, each retains its own integrity, creating moments of harmony, tension, and dissonance. The exhibition adopts this structure as a way of thinking about the conversation between the work of @intellastierre.art and @vjngo_art . Each artist approaches questions of history, power, and identity from a distinct perspective, generating meaning through proximity and difference. Rather than seeking resolution, "Contrapuntals" asks what becomes possible when distinct voices remain in conversation.

ICOSA Collective @icosa_art
📍 916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2, 102
🕐 Fri–Sat: 12–6pm

#icosa #artaustinorg #austinart #austinartists #austingalleries taken in ICOSA by @icosa_art

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Gallery hours 12-6pm today and tomorrow!
Come see our current exhibition, “Contrapuntals: New Work by Intel Lastierre and Vy Ngo”

Exhibition Dates: Sept 25 - Oct 24, 2026
Opening Reception: September 25, 7-10 pm
Artist talk: October 15th, 6-8 pm with Sabrina Mooroogen Ph.D., Equity Through Arts
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12-6 pm and by appointment

Contrapuntals takes its title from music, where two or more independent melodic lines unfold simultaneously. Rather than merging into a single voice, each retains its own integrity, creating moments of harmony, tension, and dissonance. The exhibition adopts this structure as a way of thinking about the conversation between the work of Intel Lastierre and Vy Ngo. Each artist approaches questions of history, power, and identity from a distinct perspective, generating meaning through proximity and difference. Rather than seeking resolution, Contrapuntals asks what becomes possible when distinct voices remain in conversation. by @icosa_art

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Happy Filipino American History Month!!!!

Dedicated to the Filipino diaspora, in remembrance of those who were represented and displayed at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition.

Metropolitan Grotesques / Kakatwang Dagway ng Dakbanwa, 2026
 Oil on panel and styrene poster, 31 × 13 1/2 × 3’4”, 6 pieces

About the work:

Metropolitan Grotesques examines the genealogy of the colonial gaze and how European ways of seeing transformed human difference into spectacle. Drawing from Renaissance grotesque art and early representations of “monstrous races,” including those found in Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle, the series traces how unfamiliar bodies were imagined, classified, and represented as strange or inferior. These ways of seeing later extended into colonial science, museums, and human exhibitions, where non-Western peoples were observed and displayed as representations of difference.

The series draws heavily from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, where Filipinos were exhibited in the Philippine Reservation shortly after the United States colonized the Philippines. Communities including Igorots, Moros, Visayans, and others were removed from their homes and placed in constructed villages where Western audiences could observe and scrutinize their bodies, clothing, traditions, and daily activities. They were displayed as representations of an “uncivilized” colony, transforming their lives and cultures into public spectacle. The exhibition created a colonial image of the Philippines as primitive and in need of American intervention, reinforcing ideas of Western superiority while presenting empire as education, progress, and civilization.

Rendered in monochromatic green, the fluid, metamorphic figures resist colonial systems of classification. Rather than portraying the colonized body as grotesque, Metropolitan Grotesques turns the grotesque back onto the structures that created these images.

P.S. Our stories deserve to be told from our perspective, too.

Mabuhay! 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 by @icosa_art

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Get your applications in by 11:59pm tonight! Information and application can be found in the link in our bio or stories! by @icosa_art

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A little highlight from opening night

If you haven’t seen the show yet, there’s still time to come experience it!

Contrapuntals
September 25–October 24, 2026
📍 @icosa_art , Austin, TX

Come see it before it closes on October 24!

📸 2-10 @leonalesi by @icosa_art

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Don’t forget to apply for the Icosa Annual juried show! Deadline is 11:59pm on October 1. Information and application can be found in the link in our bio! by @icosa_art

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Just a few more days left to apply for our annual open call! Check out the link in the linktree in our bio for the application and more information #callforentry #opencall #callforartists. ICOSA Collective (Austin, TX) announces a national call for entries for ICOSA Annual, a juried group exhibition to be held in conjunction with the Austin Studio tour. Open to all US residents working in any 2D/ 3D media and video. The entry fee is $30.
About the Juror:

Dennis Nance is an artist and curator from Houston, Texas. He was appointed as Curator for the Galveston Arts Center in 2016 where he organizes exhibitions featuring work by contemporary artists from Texas and the Gulf Coast region. From 2007 to 2016, Nance was Exhibitions & Programming Director for Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas, where he worked extensively with local and regional artists through exhibitions and the Lawndale Artist Studio Program. Nance is a past member of the Artist Advisory Board for DiverseWorks and BOX 13 ArtSpace artist board member. He is a practicing artist and has been awarded grants for his work from the Houston Arts Alliance and an Idea Fund Award, administered through Aurora Picture Show, DiverseWorks Artspace and Project Row Houses and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Art Lab at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston; the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Webb Gallery; The Brandon; BOX13 ArtSpace; and the Menil Collection bookstore. He received his BA from Austin College in Sherman, TX with a concentration in Fine Arts and French.

See link in the linktree in our bio for application and more information by @icosa_art

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Gallery hours 12-6pm today!
Come see our current exhibition, “Contrapuntals: New Work by Intel Lastierre @intellastierre.art and Vy Ngo @vjngo_art ”

Exhibition Dates: Sept 25 - Oct 24, 2026
Opening Reception: September 25, 7-10 pm
Artist talk: October 15th, 6-8 pm with Sabrina Mooroogen Ph.D., Equity Through Arts
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12-6 pm and by appointment

Contrapuntals takes its title from music, where two or more independent melodic lines unfold simultaneously. Rather than merging into a single voice, each retains its own integrity, creating moments of harmony, tension, and dissonance. The exhibition adopts this structure as a way of thinking about the conversation between the work of Intel Lastierre and Vy Ngo. Each artist approaches questions of history, power, and identity from a distinct perspective, generating meaning through proximity and difference. Rather than seeking resolution, Contrapuntals asks what becomes possible when distinct voices remain in conversation. by @icosa_art

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TONIGHT at ICOSA Collective @icosa_art📍 Visit the opening reception of Contrapuntals from Intel Lastierre and Vy Ngo

916 Springdale Rd. Bldg 2 #102 | 7-10PM

@intellastierre.art | @vjngo_art taken in Canopy by @icosa_art

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