It’s a small world, as we noticed the other day when we went over to the Quattro Gallery to look at its current exhibition “Animal”, featuring the work of local Austin area artists. The exhibition includes the art of noted Austin painter Katy Nail, and we wanted to snap some pics for her website, since we adore Katy, and just by the way, Hunter and Associates built the Katy Nail website – which was our great pleasure and privilege.
Funny thing though, the building that houses Quattro Gallery seemed very familiar to us.
The Roger Beasley Audi dealership on Pond Springs Road is the patron of the gallery, having given over quite a bit of its own square footage to the support of Art – and we’ll take this moment now to salute that sponsorship, which allows art to breathe.
Is it strange to have an art gallery within an auto dealership? Actually it’s not that strange inside Audi, which is making itself a home outside the mainstream, bringing a bit of European style and substance to America. The building houses a number of friendly features, including a cafe. In fact, here’s the Austin Business Journal’s story about the dealership.
And we found the Roger Beasley Audi building itself to be quite beautiful. Where, we wondered, had we seen those lines before, that curving arch of a roof, with that sloping-bow of a front?
Of course, we’d seen it in the FTWOODS Construction website, in their Selected Projects section. They built the building, and Hunter and Associates built their website. And the architect on that project was of course Elsasser Architectural, Inc, and sure enough, Hunter and Associates built the Elsasser website too. So all in all, we’d seen that Beasley Audi architecture quite a bit.
Thank goodness for the world of Katy Nail, where nothing is complicated by impossibility, and all things connect just to surprise us, to make full circles, and small worlds, and wonder.
