Department of Art & Art History
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present Paper Trails, a three-person exhibition featuring artists Cecelia Feld (Dallas), Jessica Drenk (Rush, NY) and Rachel Livedalen (Fort Worth). The exhibition curated by Gallery Director Dr. August Jordan Davis and Visual Resources Curator Lilia Kudelia focuses on how each artist engages with the materiality of paper and books in their artworks, often to unexpected ends.
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition honoring the life and creativity of longtime faculty member, Pauline Hudel Smith, who died in 2024 after a battle with cancer. Organized by colleagues, friends, and family members, the exhibition displays over 100 sculptural and mixed media works along with graphic design and illustration posters created throughout her long career, ranging from 1980 to 2020. Many of her early works have rarely been seen and attest to her creative design and conceptual process, setting the stage for her later award-winning commercial graphic designs.
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present a two-person exhibition showcasing the creative partnership of artists John Ahearn (New York) and Rigoberto Torres (Florida). Concurrently, a complementary group show of artworks borrowed from private collections titled “Works By…” will be on view. Both exhibitions are open to the public at the University of Texas at Arlington from September 7 through October 9.
The Art & Art History Department of The University of Texas at Arlington is pleased to present the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition at The Gallery at UTA. The Master of Fine Arts is a professional graduate degree in the practice of art – unique in that it is the artist’s terminal academic degree.
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present an exhibition by Anila Quayaam Agha, Ambreen Butt and Simeen Farhat on view at the University of Texas at Arlington from February 15 through April 3, 2021.
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present Cross Currents, an exhibition featuring three Texas artists, Melinda Laszczynski (Houston), Chris Powell (Fort Worth), and Fred Spaulding (Santa Fe, NM/Arlington) that will be on view at the University of Texas at Arlington from March 2 through April 4, 2020.
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present an exhibition by Jill Bedgood (San Antonio) and Celia Eberle (Ennis) on view at the University of Texas at Arlington from January 21 through February 22. These two Texas-based interdisciplinary artists share a willingness to experiment with both materials and methodology to create works, which curator Benito Huerta describes as “personal and intimate no matter what the scale – from tiny, inches-long objects to wall-sized installations.”
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present concurrent exhibitions showcasing interdisciplinary artists Alicia Eggert (Denton) and Robert Hodge (Houston) on view at the University of Texas at Arlington from September 3 through October 5. The two artists have in common the use of words and materials that reference modern urban culture: Eggert through lighted text works that resemble advertising signage and Hodge through altered materials collected from city streets with words, phrases and lyrics cut out or inscribed on them.
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present Re: Introductions featuring art work by six recent additions/promotions to the full time faculty of the Art & Art History Department. Over its thirty-two-year history, The Gallery at UTA has periodically scheduled this type of small group exhibition to introduce the university’s newest art and design professors so that students and the general public have the opportunity to learn about the creative talents in their midst. This year, only one of the artists, Changhee Chun, is completely new to the university, and he is joining the department as the Morgan Woodward Distinguished Professor in Film. Five of the artists have been teaching here for some time, but have recently been promoted or hired for new positions: Ben Dolezal in visual communication design; Bryan Florentin in photography; Justin Ginsberg in glass; Pauline Hudel Smith in visual communication design; Josh Wilson in visual communication design. We celebrate the accomplishments of all six artist/educators showcased this year as they bring their diverse technical skills, creative energy and conceptual rigor to the local visual art and design community.
The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present concurrent exhibitions showcasing artists Debra Barrera (Houston) and Angela Kallus (Fort Worth) on view at the University of Texas at Arlington from October 15 through November 17.
Debra Barrera utilizes a wide variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture, to examine issues and subject matter as varied as her techniques. Consumerism, technology, identity and culture, male/female idealizations, and reimagining the art historical canon are all themes she addresses through her varied art making processes. As she states, Often I use both formal (hyper detailed drawing) and informal (found object/ephemeral sculpture) to create layers of spatial, historical, and conceptual information for a viewer that can be guardedly deceptive and willingly vulnerable at once.