AUSTIN, TX.- The ongoing quarterly series, New Works, debuts art in diverse media with an emphasis on work by artists taking steps forward in new directions. The next installment, Eric Zimmerman’s painstakingly rendered graphite drawings, sculptures, texts, and sound installations, focuses on American history, exploration, and industry. Assistant Curator Andrea Mellard explains, “The Austin Museum of Art is thrilled to present Eric Zimmerman’s first solo museum project. Detailed drawings celebrate dreamers who tested man’s boundaries of speed, height and distance. Newspaper, a reading desk, and audio documentation symbolize the ways we learn about historical achievements that we didn’t experience firsthand. His conceptually rich, multi-media project is a reminder of when innovations, like man’s visit to the moon, were just the realm of imagination.” With painstaking detail, Zimmerman skillfully