The document summarizes upcoming exhibitions at the University Galleries at Texas State University. It describes several exhibitions that will be on display, including Selections from The Bearden Project featuring works influenced by Romare Bearden, installations and drawings by Katrina Moorhead that reference science and human emotion, and paintings by Francesca Fuchs that depict art from her personal collection. It also provides information on related events like artist lectures and opening receptions. The galleries aim to provide engaging exhibitions and educational programming for both students and the community.

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FALL2014&SPRING2015EXHIBITIONS
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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 fromThe 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 BFAThesis Exhibitions
23 Faculty Exhibition
25 Tell Me WhatYouThink of Me
curated by Leslie Moody Castro
27 Hills Snyder |
Steam
29 All Student Juried Exhibition
juried by Rachel Adams
31 Spring BFAThesis Exhibitions
The University Galleries [1] [2] [3]
at Texas State University
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Emilio Villarruel, for Ars Ipsa installation, Resurfaced, 2006
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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 fromThe 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
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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
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Katrina Moorhead, Pier, Black Bunting, 2009, wood, paint, nails, linen, twill tape, gallery installation
Photo: Tom DuBrock

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[2]
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)
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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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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
JessicaTolbert
Leandra Urrutia
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, October 23 | 5 – 7 pm
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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
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OCTOBER 23 –
NOVEMBER 14
Jonathan Faber, Dana Frankfort, Jessica Mallios |
And Introducing…
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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.
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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 BFAThesis Exhibitions
Angela Arteritano, Fouette, 2013, metal, elastic, 21.5 x 4 1.5 inches
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NOVEMBER 17 –
DECEMBER 12

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[1] [2] [3]
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
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Jason Reed, Wellhead Adapter, 2014, photograph
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Tommy Fitzpatrick, Ancient Practice of Painting, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 69 x 69 inches
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Tell Me WhatYouThink of Me
curated 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
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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 BFAThesis 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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MAY 14

17. Jessica Tolbert, Untitled (altered silver), 2014, altered silver spoon
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