Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Camouflaged History, 1991, Documentary photograph, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., Charleston, South Carolina, 1991

AUSTIN, TX.- The Austin Museum of Art presents America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, on view through May 6, 2007. America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler presents ten years of collaborative work by two artists who helped rethink the nature of public art and conceptual practice in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Ericson and Ziegler devised public art projects and site-specific installations that altered sites subtly, using poetic language and their idiosyncratic wit to illuminate mainstream American contexts and highlight individual community issues. America Starts Here offers new ways to think about a community’s relationship with public space, questioning how public space is defined, who owns it, and how it is used. The exhibition includes sculptures and installations, as well as models and video documents of site-specific works. (courtesy www.Artdaily.org)