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Located in the Joann Cole Mitte Building on the campus of Texas State University, The University Galleries are committed to programming that allows for interaction among students, artists, design professionals, and surrounding communities. The University Galleries focus on contemporary art and host more than 20 diverse exhibitions a year. In addition to supplemental public programming that includes visiting artists’ lectures, performances, panel discussions, symposia, films, critiques, and workshops, we also continue to grow our Permanent Collection through significant donations.

This exhibition season, we are pleased and proud to open a new flex space, adjacent to the 4,600 square feet of exhibition spaces provided by Galleries [1] & [2], and the Atrium Lobby Gallery. Adding more than 500 additional square feet of exhibition space, Gallery [3] will be used not only for programmed exhibitions, but also for additional programming such as lectures, seminars, and workshops.

Alongside our mission of providing challenging and engaging exhibitions, the gallery has dual roles: providing an access point to the university for the community while also educating and engaging the students for whom the galleries ultimately exist. The University Galleries and Visiting Artist Program are an integral part of the learning environment at Texas State University, as well as a benefit to the entire community. We do hope to see you here!

Mary Mikel Stump Gallery Director | Curator The University Galleries, Texas State University

Directions to the Galleries: The University Galleries [1], [2] & [3] and lecture hall are located inside the Joann Cole Mitte Complex (JCM) at the corner of West Sessom Drive and North Comanche Street on the campus of Texas State University.

Parking is available at the LBJ Parking Garage located on Student Center Drive, just a block away from the Joann Cole Mitte Complex.

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3 Director’s Note

7 Selections from The Bearden Project

9 Katrina Moorhead | Some Objects About Some Thoughts

11 Francesca Fuchs | Again Once More

13 Roger Colombik | 29th Street Serenade (& Other Love Songs)

15 14th Annual Alumni Invitational

17 Jonathan Faber, Dana Frankfort, Jessica Mallios | ... And Introducing

19 Fall BFA Thesis Exhibitions

23 Faculty Exhibition

25 Tell Me What You Think of Me curated by Leslie Moody Castro

27 Hills Snyder | Steam

29 All Student Juried Exhibition juried by Rachel Adams

31 Spring BFA Thesis Exhibitions

The University Galleries [1] [2] [3] at Texas State University

top Emilio Villarruel, for Ars Ipsa installation, Resurfaced, 2006

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the texas state university system board of regents

Donna N. Williams, Chairman Arlington

Ron Mitchell, Vice Chairman Horseshoe Bay

Charlie Amato, Regent San Antonio

Dr. Jaime R. Garza, Regent San Antonio

Kevin J. Lilly, Regent Houston

David Montagne, Regent Beaumont

Vernon Reaser III, Regent Bellaire

Rossanna Salazar, Regent Austin

William F. Scott, Regent Nederland

Anna Sandoval, Student Regent Alpine

Bryan McCall, Chancellor

cover images, top to bottom Selections From The Bearden Project: Fred Wilson, Book/Mark, 2012. Torn book pages from This Was Harlem and acid free tape, 16 × 9 ½ × 1 ¼ in. Photo: Marc Bernier

Katrina Moorhead, Pier, Black Bunting, 2009, wood, paint, nails, linen, twill tape, gallery installation Photo: Tom DuBrock

Jonathan Faber, Broadcast, 2012, oil on canvas, 66.25 x 57 inches

Roger Colombik, E Sup, Bogyoke Village, 2013, photograph

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Dana Frankfort, TURNER (detail), 2013 Acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 inches

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Fall 2014 Exhibitions

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1963 was an important year. It was the year that artist Romare Bearden, along with fellow artist Hale Woodruff, founded the Harlem-based art group known as the Spiral Group—formed to discuss the responsibility of the African-American artist in the struggle for civil rights. This led to an art practice that defined how the group could contribute both to the civil rights movement and also to what author Ralph Ellison called a “new visual order.” 1963 was also important in the life of Texas State University, as it was the year that [then] Southwest Texas State College was integrated, paving the way for the education of all qualified students, regardless of race. We celebrate the intersection of these significant events through this exhibition of artworks, which recall the legacy of Romare Bearden while also bringing his influence into a contemporary context.

On loan from the Studio Museum in Harlem, Selections from The Bearden Project presents works that were created for The Bearden Project (2011-2012), an exhibition initiative at the museum honoring the centennial of Romare Bearden’s birth. The exhibition brings together works by contemporary artists who have each been influenced by this 20th-century master. Bearden, who was deeply involved with the founding of The Studio Museum in Harlem, was, for many of the artists whose works are featured, one of the first black artists they ever encountered. The works in the exhibition are by artists who are at different stages in their careers, but each was given the task of creating a work of art inspired by Bearden’s life and legacy. Working in a wide range of media, the artists mined a varied range of ideas and themes associated with Bearden’s career, including Modernism, urbanism, jazz, and of course, the medium of collage. We are pleased to host Selections From The Bearden Project, courtesy of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

CURATOR’S LECTURE Monday, September 15 | 2 PM, JCM 2121 Lauren Haynes, Assistant Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem

Selections from The Bearden Project"I am a man...who shares a dual culture...unwilling to deny the Harlem where I grew up or the Haarlem of the Dutch Masters that contribute its element to my understanding of art." – Romare Bearden, 1963

AUGUST 25 – SEPTEMBER 19

Kerry James Marshall, The Woman at the Window, 2011. Cut paper college, 22 × 30 in. The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of the artist on the occasion of the Romare Bearden (1911-1988) Centennial and The Bearden Project at The Studio Museum in Harlem, November 10, 2011 – October 21, 2012 12.1.1; Photo: Marc Bernier

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Katrina Moorhead’s installations, objects, and drawings are frequently informed by her interest in sourcing or creating instances in which human sentiments are seemingly conflated with scientific facts—places where our mutable emotions overlay onto ‘fixed’ science. The works employ a wide variety of materials and objects, which, when brought together, continue to refer to known forms while simultaneously offering new, often poetic, associations.

Katrina Moorhead was born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, received her MFA from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, and currently lives and works in Houston, TX. She has exhibited her work at a number of prestigious fine art venues, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; the 51st Venice Biennale, Italy; and Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland. Katrina Moorhead’s work appears courtesy of the artist and Inman Gallery, Houston.

ARTIST’S LECTURE Monday, September 22 | 2 pm, JCM 2121

OPENING RECEPTION Tuesday, September 23 | 5 – 7 pm

Katrina Moorhead | Some Objects About Some Thoughts

[1]SEPTEMBER 23 – OCTOBER 19

top Katrina Moorhead, A Book About Old Colours, 2011, Archival Pigment Print on Moab Entrada Bright White paper, frame 12.5 x 18.5 x 4 inches

bottom Katrina Moorhead, Pier, Black Bunting, 2009, wood, paint, nails, linen, twill tape, gallery installation Photo: Tom DuBrock

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For her exhibition at The University Galleries, Francesca Fuchs shows paintings that sublimate the ordinary and regulate the sublime. These works—paintings of paintings, drawing, prints, and photos from her personal collection—result in a unique ode to the things that line the artist’s own walls, or those of her loved ones. The sources for these paintings call to mind the love affair that we all have with the objects in our lives. By making paintings of intentional artworks or incidental mementos, the artist provides for the viewer her visual observations of the originals right down to the frames. Through this revisiting, the paintings address the stories that our amassed possessions tell about us, in ways that we cannot convey ourselves. Francesca Fuchs received her B.A. in Fine Art at the Wimbledon School of Art, London, in 1993 and she did her graduate work under Prof. Tony Cragg at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany in 1995. She currently lives and works in Houston, TX. Francesca Fuchs’ work appears courtesy of the artist, Texas Gallery, Houston, and Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas.

ARTIST’S LECTURE Tuesday, September 23 | 2 pm, Gallery [3]

OPENING RECEPTION Tuesday, September 23 | 5 – 7 pm

SEPTEMBER 23 – OCTOBER 19

Francesca Fuchs | Again Once More

Francesca Fuchs, Framed Painting: Boat, 2012, acrylic on canvas over board, 19 x 31 inches

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Roger Colombik | 29th Street Serenade (& Other Love Songs)

[3]OCTOBER 14 – NOVEMBER 14

29th Street Serenade (& Other Love Songs) is a social practice based collaborative endeavor that combines oral history interviews/conversations and documentary photographic practices to explore the historical tales and cultural identity amongst the denizens of one extended neighborhood in Yangon, Burma.

With the goal of exploring the nuanced mores of a highly diverse and multicultural community that is often portrayed in the state media as a fractious and divisive, School of Art and Design sculpture professor Roger Colombik discovered a group of citizens that speak and partake of unity and the optimism of that notion that life will change soon and for everyone.

“Suu Kyi cannot change my life. I have to change my life. Too many people in this society are afraid of this responsibility.” These words, spoken by a young artist during the project, changed the work’s direction toward an investigation of personal responsibility towards building a civil society in Burma, as well as that of addressing issues on education. Soliciting feedback from university-level students at the Stamford-City Business Institute, the project sought to gather a wide range of perspectives from young adults who are coming of age in a radically different social and political environment from the parents.

An ongoing work, phase one will transform the wall of windows in the atrium lobby of The University Galleries, while imagery and text from the project will also be featured within the formal exhibition space, along with a sculptural installation, Absence/Presence.

This project made possible through Texas State University Developmental Leave Supplemental Grant, New Zero Art Space in Yangon, the Yangon-based NGO Love for Myanmar directed by Meagan and Chase Henry, as well as the Stamford-City Business Institute in Yangon.

OPENING RECEPTION Tuesday, October 14 | 5 – 7 pm

Roger Colombik, Koko, Yangon, 2013, photograph

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[1]OCTOBER 23 – NOVEMBER 14

14th Annual Alumni Invitational

Each year, the School of Art and Design at Texas State University extends an invitation to selected alumni to exhibit works that reflect their current creative practice. While these exhibited works are diverse, they have one thing in common: Each represent an intersection of concept and process, resulting in compelling works that we are proud to exhibit in The University Galleries. This survey exhibition celebrates the creativity of School of Art and Design alumni across disciplines. The exhibition also provides an opportunity to see how the artists and their practices have continued to mature after leaving our hallowed halls.

The 14th Annual Alumni Invitational participants are:Nicholas Hay

Janel Jefferson

Jack McGilvray

Kevin Paczosa

Rand Renfrow

Jessica Tolbert

Leandra Urrutia

OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, October 23 | 5 – 7 pm

top, left to right Jack McGilvray, Janel Jefferson, Kevin Paczosa, Nicholas Hay, Rand Renfrow, Jessica Tolbert, Leandra Urrutia

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The School of Art and Design at Texas State University is pleased to welcome three new tenure-track faculty within its studio areas. As a means of introduction to university and surrounding communities, this exhibition features the works of Jonathan Faber, Dana Frankfort, and Jessica Mallios.

Jonathan Faber received his BFA from Alfred University in 1994 and an MFA from the University of Texas Austin in 2003. Faber’s work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums across the country, including Cue Art Foundation, the Galveston Arts Center, David Shelton Gallery, and the Blanton Museum of Art. Among his awards are those from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He will be teaching in the School of Art and Design’s Foundations/Studio Art area.

Dana Frankfort studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received her BA from Brandeis University, as well as an MFA from Yale University. She has served as a Core Fellow at the Glassell School of Art in Houston, been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2006, and has had numerous solo exhibitions, among them are shows in New York City, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Brussels. Frankfort’s work has also been exhibited in many group shows, including Abstract America (The Saatchi Gallery) and Feminist Painting (The Jewish Museum, NYC). She will be teaching in the School of Art and Design’s Foundations/Studio Art area.

Jessica Mallios holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Her work has been presented in many solo and group exhibitions such as For An Experience of Wholeness (2013) at the Digital Media Gallery, Lycoming College in Williamsport; Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive (2013) at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin; X Y Z – The Geometric Impulse in Abstract Art (2012) at the Torrance Art Museum; and Perspectives 168 (2010) at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She will be teaching in the Photography program in The School of Art and Design.

OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, October 23 | 5 – 7 pm

[2]OCTOBER 23 – NOVEMBER 14

Jonathan Faber, Dana Frankfort, Jessica Mallios | And Introducing …

top Jonathan Faber, Wake, 2012, oil on canvas, 39 x 49.5 inches

middle Dana Frankfort, LIKE, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 96 inches. Courtesy of Inman Gallery, Houston.

bottom Jessica Mallios, Overview 4, 2014, inkjet print, 40 x 50 inches

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The BFA Thesis exhibitions are exciting for our students, as they signal at once both the completion of a major life’s accomplishment, while prompting the start of an independent creative practice. As students in the School of Art and Design at Texas State prepare to graduate, their BFA Thesis Exhibitions act as a fulcrum of sorts—a point of transition.

In the fall semester, thesis students will exhibit their works in three shows over a three-week period, featuring a survey of works from all of the School of Art and Design’s Studio disciplines: painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, metals, ceramics, photography, new media, and art education.

Each student earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the School of Art and Design Studio curriculum is required to exhibit artworks that are generated in their final two Thesis semesters. Entirely conceived, designed, and installed by the thesis students, this exhibition highlights selections from those bodies of work.

Exhibition 1 | November 17 – 21 RECEPTION Monday, November 17 | 5 – 7 pm

Exhibition 2 | December 1 – 5 RECEPTION Monday, December 1 | 5 – 7 pm

Exhibition 3 | December 8 – 12 RECEPTION Friday, December 12 | 10 am – Noon

Fall BFA Thesis Exhibitions

Angela Arteritano, Fouette, 2013, metal, elastic, 21.5 x 4 1.5 inches

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Spring 2015 Exhibitions

Tell Me What You Think of Me: Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker, still image from Drinking Song, 2011, HD video with sound, 1 minute 58 seconds.

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Faculty Exhibition

This biennial exhibition is always a treat—an opportunity for the School of Art and Design faculty to share their creative work with the university staff, faculty, students, and surrounding communities. A survey of artistic styles and disciplines, this exhibition is reflective of each individual faculty member’s current direction of work and is a chance for students and others to share in the creative practices of the tenured, tenure-track, and adjunct Art and Design faculty at Texas State University.

OPENING RECEPTION Tuesday, January 20 | 5 – 7 pm

JANUARY 20 – FEBRUARY 10

top Jason Reed, Wellhead Adapter, 2014, photograph

bottom Tommy Fitzpatrick, Ancient Practice of Painting, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 69 x 69 inches

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Tell Me What You Think of Mecurated by Leslie Moody Castro

Categories and definitions are tricky things, especially when they are used to define cultures. While this complex system is often used to identify and generalize cultures outside of the United States, it is also common for North Americans to experience the same type of categorization and definitions abroad. Organized by independent curator Leslie Moody Castro, who divides her time between the United States and Mexico City, Tell Me What You Think of Me explores the humor of these definitions and categorizations placed onto the North American identity. Featuring the works of Donna Conlan, Jonathan Harker, Maximo Gonzalez, Artemio, Ricardo Cuevas, and Emilio Chapela, this exhibition looks at culture, stereotypes, and cultural classification with a lens of humor and irony, inviting the viewer to laugh while rethinking identity. 

Tell Me What You Think of Me has been curated specifically for The University Galleries at Texas State University in support of this year’s Common Experience topic, Exploring Democracy's Promise: From Segregation to Integration. It seeks to pull back the lens on the topic of integration to open a dialog on diversity and culture within a broader global context by looking at the larger stereotypes of culture from the Latin American perspective, projected onto the United States identity.

OPENING RECEPTION Monday, February 16 | 5 – 7 pm

CURATOR’S LECTURE Tuesday, February 17 | 2 pm, Gallery [3] Leslie Moody Castro

[1]FEBRUARY 16 – MARCH 13

Ricardo Cuevas, Reading Strategies by Countries (text/napkin), 2002

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Steam is an ongoing project finding a fourth expression—its first in San Marcos this semester—in which participants are invited take 72-minute shifts in an anti-gravity recliner, blindfolded and headphoned while attending to two trips through a 36-minute aural landscape as visitors move in and around the space.

The project began with an Artpace (San Antonio) funded visit to Amsterdam in June of 2001 and followed twin pursuits—the purposeful gathering of bicycle parts found along a systematized search grid and the accidental collection of ambient sounds occurring along the same line.

Over a three-week period, artist Hills Snyder walked every street defined bythe fan-shaped map of inner-city Amsterdam, picking up hundreds of bicycle parts scattered about the streets. As the parts were gathered, the simultaneously occurring ambient sounds of the environment were recorded to mini-disk.

In January and February of 2002, some 80 hours of sound were sorted and distilled into a 36-minute loop during a seven-week Residency at The Banff Center for The Arts in Banff, Alberta.

A few dozen of the collected bicycle parts were selected to be templates for cut-outs laminated to photographs of the San Antonio sky, taken in early October of 2002, and in November of the same year, Steam was seen and heard for the first time at Shores Space in Amsterdam.

A 2009 invitation to bring the work to Miami at Gallery Diet was supported with a two-week residency at The Fountainhead, affording Snyder the opportunity to install the work in a new context—the result of which was a completely new piece.

Most recently, the work found a completely new configuration in San Antonio during Contemporary Art Month, 2014. Shown alongside the exhibition, Tell Me What You Think of Me, the project further explores the idea of being in two places at once and allows participants to submit themselves fully to the experience while also allowing themselves to reside physically within the space and mentally be transported to another.

ARTIST’S LECTURE Monday, February 16 | 2 pm, JCM 2121

OPENING RECEPTION Monday, February 16 | 5 – 7 pm

Hills Snyder | Steam

[2]FEBRUARY 16 – MARCH 13

Hills Snyder, Steam, 2014, installation, San Antonio, Texas Photo: Ansen Seale

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All Student Juried Exhibition

This annual competition features the works of students who have taken part in the curriculum within the School of Art and Design at Texas State University. By highlighting works made in each area of discipline and in classes from the foundations level through the final thesis classes, it is a means of celebrating the art works generated within our own curriculum. This year, guest juror Rachel Adams, an independent curator with Rachel Adams Projects, will select the final works exhibited from over 350 entries.

Juror: Rachel Adams Curator, Rachel Adams Projects

OPENING RECEPTION Monday, March 30 | 5 – 7 pm

Awards announced at 5:45 pm

MARCH 30 – APRIL 16

Jessamyn Plotts, Portrait of a Young Man Outside, 2013, oil on panel, 36 x 24 inches

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Spring BFA Thesis Exhibitions

These exhibitions highlight the depth and range of School of Art and Design students and their creative practices. Each student who earns a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from the School of Art and Design Studio curriculum is required to exhibit artworks that are generated in their thesis semesters. In the spring semester, thesis students will exhibit their works in four shows over a four-week period, featuring a survey of works from all of the School of Art and Design’s Studio disciplines: painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, metals, ceramics, photography, new media, and art education.

These BFA Thesis Exhibitions serve as the capstone for a rigorous studio education, and the exhibitions, entirely conceived and executed by the Thesis students, are the perfect way to end the semester and academic year.

Exhibition 1 | April 20 – 24 RECEPTION Monday, April 20 | 5 – 7 pm

Exhibition 2 | April 27 – May 1 RECEPTION Monday, April 27 | 5 – 7 pm

Exhibition 3 | May 4 – 8 RECEPTION Monday, May 4 | 5 – 7 pm

Exhibition 4 | May 11 – 14 RECEPTION Thursday, May 14 | 10 am – Noon

Jennifer Wosnitzky, Rug, 7 inches off the floor, 2014 Re-purposed yarn, wood 32 x 48 x 7 inches

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