Spring 2010

Gallery I
OKAY MOUNTAIN: Big Strange Mystery

January 19 – February 26


Opening Reception:  January 21   5-7

Gallery Talk: January 21, 6 p.m.
 

What began as collaborative drawing sessions during weekly staff meetings at their Austin Gallery of the same name, OKAY MOUNTAIN has developed into an artists’ collective whose projects use a variety of media. Drawing upon pop graphics and styling that plays on the conventions and absurdities of contemporary consumer culture, the resulting works reveal the unique perspective provided by a group dynamic, giving emphasis to drawing and the artist's hand.  OKAY MOUNTAIN has exhibited at Galeria Enrique Guerrero in Mexico City, Paragraph in Kansas City,  the Creative Research Lab in Austin and PULSE Contemporary Art Fair in Miami, where they were awarded the Pulse Prize for their installation commissioned by Arthouse, Austin.

Their installation for Texas State University, Big Strange Mystery, is an immersive installation that borrows, mimics and transforms various elements associated with such phenomena and institutions as Crypto-Zoology, U.F.O. and Natural History museums.  The installation, based on the accumulation and staging of various periphery objects, acts as evidence and documentation of the existence and serarch for an elusive water creature, while also functioning as entertainment, likening the woven characterisitcs of information and its presentation to a narrative, rather than a set of objective, knowable facts.

Gallery II

TWO WORLDS:  Selections from the Borderland Youth Project

January 19 – February 26

Opening Reception:  January 21   5-7

Brown Bag Lunch / Roundtable Discussion:   Education Borders - An Interdisciplinary Forum

Wednesday, January 27   12-1 p.m.  Joann Cole Mitte Building

^{Led By: Jason Reed, Director and co-Founder of Borderland Youth and Assistant Professor, School of Art & Design and}

              ^{Ryan Sprott, Field Director and Co-Founder of Borderland Youth and Doctoral Fellow, Educaiton Leadership at UTSA.}           

Photographs and text, created by 20 young adults between 14 and 17 years of age from the Borderland regions of West Texas and the Native American lands of New Mexico comprise this exhibition. Part of the Borderland Youth Documentary Project, the exhibition represents a varied and dynamic look into these young people’s lives and allows access to their journey as they traverse the two worlds that exists between nations, racial identities, urban/rural lifestyles, and childhood/adulthood through photography, creative writing, and storytelling.

Fall 2009

Gallery I:
On, Of or About: 50 paper works

September 22 – October 22

Opening Reception:  September 22nd, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Lecture:  September 21st, 5:00 PM in room JCM 2121

Trends in Paper Works

Becky Kerlin—Owner, Gallery Joe Philadelphia, PA

Viviane Rombaldi-Seppey Memory 3 charcoal,graphite and pencil drawings on Fabriano paper, punched and joined by a thread Diameter,1.58"x12" Long, 2008

Co-curated by collector Timothy Woolsey and Mary Mikel Stump, On, Of or About: 50 Paper Works features the work of 44 artists—each of who make work that is on, of or about paper. On, Of or About: 50 Paper Works brings together 50 works that, sometimes literally, illustrate the ways in which the traditional Works On Paper category is becoming more broadly defined in contemporary art.
 

The exhibition includes work by the following artists:

Gallery II:
Marjorie Moore: Labyrinth

September 22 – October 22

Opening Reception:  September 22nd, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Lecture:  September 22nd, 12:45 PM in room JCM 2121

Marjorie Moore Pond Collection #15 ink and graphite on mylar

Following in the footsteps of her Natural History artist predecessors, Marjorie Moore creates a blended narrative of the past and future of the natural world. Using the Texas State University entomology collection as a point of origin, Moore has created her own version of wunderkammer, or Cabinets of Wonder, where categories are questioned and the boundaries between science, popular culture and art are eroded.

Gallery II

Jeanne Stern: Shadow Tiger

October 27 – November 19   
 

Opening Reception: October 27   5-7
Lecture:  October 28  5p.m.  JCM 2121

^{Jeanne Stern, Tiger Climbs the Stairs, still from steroscopic projection, 2009}

With films that use stereoscopic stop-motion animation (photographs that are taken with
two cameras and then combined to create the illusion of a three-dimensional image),
Jeanne Stern explores memory and the way in which it relies upon non-linear perception
– that of time and space. This exhibition combines the motion of Stern’s previous film
works with the dimensionality of her dioramas, acting as living memories which may
exist after the original subjects cease to be.  

Gallery I 

9th Annual Alumni Invitational

     
October 27 - November 19

Opening Reception:  October 27   5-7
 

Each year, the Faculty invites School of Art & Design alum to exhibit their work in an invitational exhibition.  The exhibition is a survey of a variety of disciplines, which include printmaking, painting, ceramics, metals, sculpture & fibers.
Exhibiting artists are:
Christi N. Clyburn
Joseph Cohen
Logan Hill
Stacey Ryan Farrar
Laura Latimer
Oscar Silva

Gallery I & II  

Thesis Exhibition I
November 30 - December 5
Opening Reception: November 30, 5p.m.-7p.m.

Thesis Exhibition II
December 7 - December 12
Opening Reception: December 7, 5p.m.-7p.m.

Thesis Exhibition III
December14  - December 18
Opening Reception: December 7, 5p.m.-7p.m.

Rocky Reasoner, Sam Needs A Friend, acrylic on canvas, 2009

Jessica Tolbert, Pertaining To The Ear Or Sense Of Hearing, metals/mixed media, 2008

Each student graduating with a studio art degree from the School of Art & Design takes part in a Thesis Exhibition.  These exhibitions, designed and implemented by the students, allow graduating seniors to present a body of work that is generated in the Thesis studios of their chosen area of specialization.