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FALL 2013 & SPRING 2014 EXHIBITIONS TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY

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This fall, we celebrate our move of a decade ago when the University Galleries, along with the School of Art & Design, relocated to a new state-of-the-art facility providing for the galleries’ 4,600 square feet of exhibition spaces. Since that time, we have honed our contemporary art focus by hosting an average of twenty exhibitions a year, growing our Permanent Collection through significant donations, and providing Public Programming that includes visiting artists’ lectures, performances, panel discussions, symposia, films, critiques, and workshops.

The University Galleries and Visiting Artist Program are integral to the learning process for students, as well as a source of enrichment for the entire community. Alongside the aspiring mission of mounting exhibitions that are challenging and engaging, 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. So it is with much anticipation that we look forward to the 2013 – 14 exhibition season and the varied ideas and disciplines that are represented within the exhibitions offered.

Galleries [1] & [2] – located in the Joann Cole Mitte building, within the School of Art & Design at Texas State University – are used separately for individual exhibitions and in tandem for combined exhibitions. We continue our commitment to programming that fosters discourse among artists, art & design professionals, students, and the community by providing a diverse schedule throughout the academic year. We look forward to seeing you here!

Mary Mikel StumpGallery Director | CuratorThe University Galleries, Texas State University

Directions to the Galleries:The University Galleries [1] & [2] 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. Limited parking is available for receptions in front of JCM on Sessom Drive.txstgalleries.org/visit/

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Director’s note

M path

13th annual alumni invitational

MoDiFiCationS anD aDaptionS: recent work by yumi Janairo roth

Eric Zimmerman: WESt oF thE hUDSon

Fall bFa thesis Exhibitions

MFa Showcase 2014 / MFa thesis Exhibition

Deb Sokolow: all yoUr vUlnErabilitiES Will bE aSSESSED

laurie Frick & James Sterling pitt: pattErn langUagE

100-4-100: Silent & live auction Scholarship Fundraiser

all Student Juried Exhibition

lauren E. Simonutti: thE DEvil’S alphabEt

richard Martinez: ¡PAINTINGSFORNOW!

Spring bFa thesis Exhibitions

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Thank you,Cover: [Front] Briana Purser, Kate and Cavan, After the Fire, Bastrop State Park, 2012, archival inkjet print, 20 x 30 inches [Back] Eric Zimmerman, Mars, As Viking Sees It (Black & White), 2013, collage on paper, 15.5 x 12.5 inches 03Emilio Villarruel, for Ars Ipsa installation, Resurfaced, 2006

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Fall 2013 ExhiBiTiONS

M PATH: angela Fraleigh, I Believe In You, 2011, porcelain, sculpey, mirror, 7 x 10 x 10 inches

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M PaThEmpath: One who is capable of feeling the emotions of others, despite the fact that their circumstance is not the same.

This exhibition seeks to create an empathic gaze on the part of the viewer to the artist’s work and the ideas contained therein. Empathy—defined as the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings and thoughts of another without having the feelings, thoughts communicated explicitly—is the focus of this group exhibition, which creates an emotional architecture for the viewer to react to the work. Offered in support of the university’s Common Experience, Minds Matter: Exploring Mental Health and Illness, the exhibition explores the nature of emotional dissonance, unease, and evaluation. As such, identity—or lack thereof—is used as a standard for and a path to the viewer’s responses.

M PATH features works by the following artists:

08.28 – 09.28

opening reception: Wednesday, august 28 | 5 – 7 p.m.

performances: Comfort Sessions by Katelena hernandez Daytime: tuesday, September 17 | noon – 2 p.m., gallery 1 Evening: thursday, September 19 | 7 – 10 p.m., gallery 1

artist’s lecture: Katelena hernandez Monday, September 16 | 2 p.m. JCM, room 2121

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Clockwise from large image:

Ewan Gibbs, Arlington, 2012, Graphite on paper, 17 7/8 x 12 inches

Kerry Skarbakka, Trestle, 2003, photograph, 60 x 72 inches

“You call round to borrow chairs for your party; I spend the night sitting on the floor.” Nigel Grimmer, Baskerville Family Album / Minor Monuments, 2013, Screenprint / Found Objects

Caleb Cole, First Communion, 2010, altered photograph, 11 x 11 inches

Ryan Everson, Long Lost, 2013, wood, lights, map, binoculars, dimensions variable

Vera Barnett***

Caleb ColeRyan EversonAngela Fraleigh*

Heyd Fontenot*

Ewan Gibbs**

Nigel GrimmerSean Hathaway / Carlos Severe Marcelin

Katelena HernandezKaty HoranJunCheng Liu***

Mads Lynnerup**

Kristin Musgnug*

Kerry SkarbakkaHadar SobolHappy Valentine

Courtesy of:

*Inman Gallery, Houston

**Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin

***Valley House Gallery, Dallas

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08.28 – 09.2813th 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. The resulting survey exhibition celebrates the creativity of School of Art & Design alumni across disciplines. The exhibition also provides an opportunity to see how the artists and their practices continue to mature after they leave our hallowed halls. 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 have the opportunity toexhibit in the University Galleries.

The 13th Annual Alumni Invitational participants are:

*The 2013 Texas Biennial is proud to recognize this independently curated exhibition.

opening reception: Wednesday, august 28 | 5 – 7 p.m.

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Rebekah Frank, San FranciscoYuko Fukuzumi, Yokohama, JapanDieter Geisler, AustinBriana Purser, Austin

Clifton Riley, San AntonioJosh Rios & Anthony Romero, ChicagoKyle White, SeguinJoshua Y'Barbo, London, UK

Left to right, top to bottom:

Josh Rios & Anthony Romero, Selections from Rewriting O’Keeffe, 2013, altered photograph

Briana Purser, Dagney, 2012, photograph, 20 x 30 inches

Dieter Geisler, Transformation Part I, 2013, mixed media, 30 x 20 inches

Joshua Y’Barbo, still from Soap-Oil-Water installation, 2010, dimensions variable

Rebekah Frank, Collection of Four Necklaces, 2012, steel. Photo credit: Edgar Mosa, Courtesy of Cranbrook Art Museum

Kyle White, Teapot, 2012, ceramic

Yuko Fukuzumi, Summer Set, 2011, screenprint on paper, 11 x 19 inches

Clifton Riley, the rising 3, 2013, intaglio, relief, 22.25 x 29.5 inches

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MOdiFiCaTiONS aNd adaPTaTiONS:Recent Work by Yumi Janairo Roth

Modifications and Adaptations—a collection of recent projects by Colorado based artist, Yumi Janairo Roth—explores immigration, hybridity, and displacement through a number of reimagined objects. Roth matches fine workmanship and labor-intensive processes such as mother-of-pearl inlay and silversmithing with mundane objects such as pallets, fencing, and trailer beds. In so doing, Roth aims to suppress normally foregrounded attributes associated with these processes, and by extension, perhaps the trappings of conventional “beauty.” Faced with this work, the viewer is forced to reconcile disparate visual languages found in the same object. The works in Modifications and Adaptations function as both natives and interlopers to their environments, simultaneously recognizable and unfamiliar to their users.

Yumi Janairo Roth currently lives and works in Boulder, CO, where she is a Professor of Sculpture at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Roth's oeuvre includes discrete objects and site-responsive installations, solo projects as well as collaborations. She has exhibited her work and participated in residencies nationally and internationally, including New York, Houston, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, Santa Fe, Mexico, the Philippines, Colombia, the Czech Republic, and Germany. Roth’s work appears courtesy of the artist.

opening reception: tuesday, october 8 | 5 – 7 p.m.

artist’s lecture: Monday, october 7 | 2 p.m. JCM, room 2121

Yumi Janairo Roth| From top to bottom:

Cargo Cult, 2009, temporary, site-responsive installation, mother-of-pearl, found shipping pallet

10,000dwt (pennyweights), 2011, handmade, sterling silver chain link fence

10.08 – 11.14

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10.08 – 11.14

Eric Zimmerman:WEST OF ThE hUdSON*

Eric Zimmerman’s work is focused on the search for and creation of objects, symbols, and images that intersect with one another and when taken together, act as a form of visual evidence. Through drawings, sculptural objects, publications, diagrams, writing, and collage, Zimmerman reaches multiple points where empirical data is displaced and the viewer is instead met with a series of fragmented narratives and overlapping meanings. At the core of this investigation lie questions revolving around the nature of evidence, the process though which meaning is created, and the systems of knowledge upon which each is built. Longing for the unknown, and crafting objects that embody it, while striving to come to terms with our place and actions within this world are distinctly human qualities, which the work hopes to address.

For his exhibition at The University Galleries, Eric Zimmerman utilizes the Native American myth of the bobcat (fog) and the coyote (wind) as his specific point of departure. Within this narrative framework is the theme of duality, opposites, contradiction and his interest in establishing a series of open meanings, rather than closed propositions. As such, Zimmerman also references in a variety of ways something from another time—something potentially romantic—and a specific point in North American history, which precedes industrialization and Western Capitalism.

Zimmerman has been a Resident at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and his work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Art Palace in Houston, The Old Jail Art Center in Albany, TX, and the Austin Museum of Art, and as part of group exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. He lives and works in Houston, Texas. Eric Zimmerman’s work appears courtesy of the artist and Art Palace in Houston, Texas.

*The 2013 Texas Biennial is proud to recognize this independently curated exhibition.

opening reception: tuesday, october 8 | 5 – 7 p.m.

artist’s lecture: Wednesday, october 9 | 2 p.m. JCM, room 2121

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Eric Zimmerman | From larger image, clockwise:

Hungry Like The Wolf, 2013, graphite on paper, 15.5 x 12.5 inches

Mars, As Viking Sees It (Black & White), 2013, collage on paper, 15.5 x 12.5 inches

The Logger, 2013, graphite on paper 15.5 x 12.5 inches

Mars, As Viking Sees It (Color), 2013, collage on paper, 15.5 x 12.5 inches

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Fall BFa ThESiS ExhiBiTiONS

Each student who earns 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.

The BFA 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 & 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 & Design’s Studio disciplines: painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, metals, ceramics, photography, new media, and art education.

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reception: Monday, november 18 | 5 – 7 p.m.ExhiBiTiON i

reception: Monday, December 2 | 5 – 7 p.m.ExhiBiTiON ii

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11.18 – 11.22

12.02 – 12.06

12.09 – 12.13

Misa Rodriguez Valenzuela, Equal Efforts (from the series Never Stops), 2013, digital print, 19 x 13 inches

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SPRiNG 2014 ExhiBiTiONS

deb Sokolow, All Your Vulnerabilities Will be Assessed, 2012-2013, graphite, charcoal, acrylic, ink, tape, adhesive and collage on paper, 18 x 325 (height variable to 44 inches)

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01.13 – 01.17

MFaShOWCaSE [2014]Connect. Collaborate. Create. This exhibition provides an opportunity for the MFA program in Communication Design to showcase work by award-winning students who are part of a new generation of design education.

MFaThESiS ExhiBiTiON

reception: Monday, January 13 | 6 – 8 p.m.

awards announced: 7 p.m.

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01.13 – 01.17

Clockwise from large image:

Andrea Weissenbuehler, Stronger, 2012, paper, 24 x 36 inches

Jonathan Pliego, TabCloud, iPhone App, 2012

Alexa Goldberg, Letters from Camp, iPhone App, 2012

Maria Beane, The Wizard of Oz, Presentation of Gifts, 2013, paper, 5 x 5 inches

Duncan Robertson, New Alphabet Typeface Design Exploration, 2012, 42 type cuts

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reception: Monday, January 13 | 5 – 7 p.m.

MFA students share their research in the MFA Communication Design program with this thesis exhibition.

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laurie Frick & James Sterling Pitt:PaTTERN laNGUaGETranslating the data of daily living and observation, artists Laurie Frick [Austin] and James Sterling Pitt [San Francisco] each utilize a framework of visual languages that straddles neuroscience, data, and art, while also residing in the place of visually stunning aesthetics.

While Frick’s constructions—intricately hand-built works and installations that investigate the nature of pattern and the mind—relate to personal data collection and observations made over time, James Sterling Pitt uses pattern as a means of personal communication and as a tool for making sense of his world. Pitt’s drawings act as a visual diary, helping him to understand his changed perception of the world after a 2007 accident that left him struggling with short-term memory loss and everyday tasks.

Laurie Frick’s work has been exhibited at the Oklahoma Contemporary, Real Art Ways, Marfa Contemporary, and Robert Steele Gallery in New York City. She has been awarded residencies by the Neuroscience Research Center University of Texas, the Headlands, Yaddo, as well as the Bemis Center for the Contemporary Arts and her lectures include a 2013 TED talk at TEDxAustin.

James Sterling Pitt's work has been exhibited at Eli Ridgway Gallery, Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston), SF  Parklife, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sight School, The Lab, Richard Levy Gallery (New Mexico) and Gallerie Axel Obiger (Berlin). He has been the recipient of the Djerassi Foundation Artist Residency and the Kala Art Institute Fellowship in Berkeley, California.

Laurie Frick’s work appears courtesy of the artist and Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles. James Sterling Pitt’s work appears courtesy of the artist.

01.27 – 02.22

opening reception: Monday, January 27 | 5 – 7 p.m.

artists' lecture: laurie Frick – tuesday, January 21 | 12:30 p.m. JCM, room 2121

James Sterling pitt – Monday, January 27 | 2 p.m. JCM, room 2121

Collaborative Musical performance: James Sterling pitt & J D Emmanuel tuesday, January 28 | 7 p.m., gallery 1

Clockwise from large image:

Laurie Frick, Sleeping in Pink (detail), 2013, watercolor and ink on paper, cut and folded, 11 x 12 inches

James Sterling Pitt: Untitled (August 14 - September 16, 2012), ink, graphite on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches

Untitled (The Ocean in Four Parts), 2013, acrylic on wood, 22.5 x 17.5 x 2.5 inches

Untitled (In the Waves at Night), 2012, acrylic on wood, wire, 18.5 x 13.5 x 2.5 inches

Untitled (Wind Shimmer), 2013, acrylic on wood, colored pencil, 18.5 x 13.5 x 2.5 inches

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01.27 – 02.22

deb Sokolow:all YOUR VUlNERaBiliTiES Will BE aSSESSEdFor this exhibition, Chicago based Chicago based artist Deb Sokolow exhibits her 28 foot-long, text-and-image drawing, plus tangentially related items inspired by a recent two-month stay at the mountaintop artist residency, Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dalsåsen, in Norway.

All Your Vulnerabilities Will Be Assessed is a panoramic narrative on multiple papers consisting of handwritten texts, erasure marks, blocked out information, photocopies, diagrams and architectural floor plans with flap-like walls protruding from the papers’ surfaces. The story is narrated with the voice of Sokolow’s ubiquitous protagonist, also known as “you”, a somewhat unreliable individual, who, in this particular story, exists as an artist and disgruntled security guard on staff at the Art Institute of Chicago.

This narrator—along with other artists from various countries—has been invited to spend two months at a retreat on a mountaintop in rural Norway with the premise that a quiet, secluded environment will be provided for making art. Unbeknownst to those invited, the retreat is actually a recruitment center for an international art theft organization called “The Association” and the selection process is neither based on artistic merit nor exhibition credentials, but rather on the sole qualification that each artist selected must also be an unhappy security guard working at an art museum with a weak security system and vulnerable masterpieces. During the two months at the retreat, the artists are slowly brainwashed into believing that The Association has the connections and power to make each of them famous in exchange for staging art thefts inside the museums at which they work. Along the way, each artist is put through a series of mental and physical tests as part of the art thief recruiting process.

Deb Sokolow’s work has been exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art [Hartford, CT], Western Exhibitions [Chicago, IL], Abrons Art Center [New York], the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art [Kansas City, MO], The Drawing Center [New York], and Museum für Gegenwartskunst [Siegen, Germany].

Sokolow’s work appears courtesy of Western Exhibitions, Chicago.

opening reception: Monday, January 27 | 5 – 7 p.m.

artist’s lecture: Monday, January 27 | 11 a.m. JCM, room 2121

Deb Sokolow | From larger image, clockwise:

The Mountain (2012-2013), graphite, charcoal, acrylic, ink, tape, adhesive and collage on 4 sheets of paper, hung 2 x 2, 60 x 44 x 1 inches

Smaller images: details from All Your Vulnerabilities Will be Assessed (2012-2013), graphite, charcoal, acrylic, ink, tape, adhesive and collage on paper, 18 x 325 (height variable to 44 inches)

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The premise is simple: a scholarship fundraiser featuring 100 works by 100 artists—friends, faculty, alumni and students of the School of Art & Design at Texas State University. Each work, starting at 100 dollars, will be offered in a silent auction format that will raise money for scholarships. The evening’s party will culminate in a live auction where three selected works will be offered in an active bidding format with a surprise Guest Auctioneer.

This silent and live auction is a biannual fundraiser to raise money for student scholarships. Our goal is to exceed our last event’s result of almost 20,000 dollars.

Complimentary hors d’oeuvres & cash bar.

For more information, go to txstgalleries.org

6 p.m. | pre-registration

7 p.m. | Silent auction bidding opens

9 p.m. | live auction

10 p.m. | Silent auction Closes / Checkout begins

100-4-100Silent & live auction Scholarship Fundraiser

all Student Juried ExhibitionJuror: arturo Palacios, art Palace, houstonThis annual competition for students who have been enrolled in classes within the School of Art and Design is a means of highlighting and celebrating the art works generated within our curriculum. This year, guest juror Arturo Palacios, Director and Owner of Art Palace in Houston, will select from over 350 entries.

The selected works will also be highlighted on the University Galleries’ website, at txstgalleries.org.

opening reception: Monday, March 3 | 5 – 7 p.m.

awards announced: 5:45 p.m.

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03.03 – 03.07

Michelle Clements, Vel, 2013, brass, grandfather’s military pendant, Iraq war commemorative coin, cogs and arrow from broken scale, aluminum, 3 x 1.5 x .5 inches

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lauren E. Simonutti:ThE dEVil’S alPhaBET

“Over three and one half years I have spent alone amidst these 8 rooms, 7 mirrors, 6 clocks, 2 minds and 199 panes of glass. And this is what I saw here. This is what I learned.”

—Lauren E. Simonutti

In 2002, photographer Lauren E. Simonutti (1968-2012) acquired a house that was in a certain state of disrepair. In 2006, after she was diagnosed with rapid cycling, mixed-state bipolar with schizoaffective disorder, she turned her camera on herself and the space in which she lived to beautifully chronicle the mental illness that would eventually take her life. Of her decision to record the struggle, Simonutti said, “I could document my ascension from madness to as much a level of sanity for which one of my composition could hope or I could leave a document of it all in the case that I should lose.” It was through this documentation that the house became the model for her first comprehensive large format project and, in her words, “in turn, became my backdrop, my setting, my refuge and, eventually, a collaborator, as I began to bleed myself into the frame.”

The beauty of Simonutti’s work makes a place for itself not only in the personal story chronicled within it, but also in the way the artist made the images. “100% digital free,” Simonutti proudly claimed, as she gained the visual effects in the images either from the camera via gestures and movement accompanied by exposures that range from two minutes to eight hours or through the artful approach that she took in the darkroom, often timing exposures by the length of songs.

The Devil’s Alphabet contains 26 images, taken with a 5x7 View Camera, each corresponding to a different letter in the alphabet. The images fulfill Simonutti’s goal of giving each letter its own personality while offering a glimpse into a life in which, “nothing is real but everything is true.”

This exhibition is presented courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago and in support of the university’s Common Experience, Minds Matter: Exploring Mental Health and Illness.

03.17 – 04.11

opening reception: Monday, March 17 | 5 – 7 p.m.

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Lauren E. Simonutti | From larger image, clockwise:

The Devil’s Alphabet: N (2007)

The Devil’s Alphabet: E (2007)

The Devil’s Alphabet: R (2007)

The Devil’s Alphabet: T (2007)

The Devil’s Alphabet: W (2007)

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03.17 – 04.11

Drawing from many sources—Baroque sensibilities in Mexican and earlier European art & architecture, marine painting, and Modernist work from the 1950s and 60s—the works of Richard Martinez are visual hybrids that are at once personal as well as art historical while acting as references that seek to re-contextualize familiar elements to introduce new ways of looking at and considering painting. The resulting forms are visual statements that are unusual and ambiguous and also hold a certain familiarity.

Says Martinez, “I’m interested in how, when combined, these unlikely and often oppositional elements bump up against each other, often in awkward ways, to create a new visual language.” Martinez works with shaped stretched canvases complete with curvilinear edges that pit ornate sensuality against a modernist austerity of color fields and flat silhouettes; the canvas shapes are informed by references to ornate Rococo mirrors, decoration, and architecture. Subsequently, Martinez creates a statement on how the canvases are at once objects and windows that create optical space, while never fully giving in to or becoming either.

A recent resident of Texas where he took part in the 2011 Texas Biennial and the Texas National, Martinez now lives and works in Walla Walla, Washington, where he is on the faculty at Whitman College.

The works of Richard Martinez appear courtesy of the artist.

opening reception: Monday, March 17 | 5 – 7 p.m.

artist’s lecture: Monday, March 17 | 2 p.m. JCM, room 2121

Richard Martinez, HEATMACHINE, 2013, oil, alkyd, on shaped, stretched canvas, 42 x 37 x 2 inches 29

Richard Martinez:¡PAINTINGSFORNOW!

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SPRiNG BFa ThESiS ExhiBiTiONS

This exhibition highlights the depth and range of School of Art & 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 & 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.

reception: Monday, april 14 | 5 – 7 p.m.ExhiBiTiON i

reception: Monday, april 21 | 5 – 7 p.m.ExhiBiTiON ii

reception: Monday, april 28 | 5 – 7 p.m.ExhiBiTiON iii

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Darby Rose Hillman, Assembly Lines: Dirty Social, 2012, industrial filament thread, dimensions variable 31

04.14 – 04.18

04.21 – 04.25

04.28 – 05.02

05.05 – 05.09

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