The first thing you notice when you walk into Women & Their Work, an East Austin contemporary art gallery and nonprofit, is the butt of a missile. The six-foot-high shape is suspended in a fragment of wall, decorated with white and gray brick-patterned wallpaper. Illuminated by the gallery’s front windows, the light bouncing off the harsh contours of the missile’s Mylar surface draws your eye away from the pile of rubble beneath it, the glowing outline almost disappearing into the wall itself. This sculpture, The Strike, is part of “Bending Light” (on view through August 22), a group exhibition designed to explore “the intricacies of Black femininity and queer identity.” Its four Texas-based artists depict adversity and strength in pieces that employ disparate materials from…
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