The Art Galleries at TCU
Highlights for the upcoming Fall 2024 season include:
Upcoming at the Moncrief Cancer Institute is a solo exhibition of works by Alfredo “Freddy” Ortega (current MFA Graduate Student in Studio Art). Crumbs of food, bits of land features mixed media artworks of sweet candies and snacks paired with glimpses of the Chihuahuan Desert. Join us on October 17th from 7:30-8:30 pm for a public reception at 400 W. Magnolia St, Fort Worth, TX. With the exception of the public reception, the Art Gallery at the Moncrief Cancer Institute remains closed to protect immunocompromised patients. A virtual walkthrough of the exhibition will be made available on the Art Galleries at TCU YouTube Channel and still shots of the installation can be found on our Artsy page.
On view at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts August 30 – November 16, Do you really believe that? present a selection of artworks and ephemera reflecting themes coalesced from Dr. Frances Colpitt’s (1952-2022) work over the course of her career. Together, they aim to illuminate her scholarship and curatorial practice, emphasizing the significant impact her mentorship had on artists and the art community in Texas.
And key exhibitions in Moudy Gallery:
Moche Art: Between Life and Afterlife curated by Sofía Pichardo, August 21 – Sept 12 with a reception on August 21 from 5-8 pm
Biennial Faculty Exhibition, September 19 – October 15 with a reception on September 19 5-7 pm
TCU Artist Collective, October 21 – 28 with a reception on October 21, 5-7 pm
Honors Graphic Design Exhibition, November 4 – 7 with a reception on November 4, 5-7 pm
BFA Studio Art Thesis Exhibition, November 12 – 22 with a reception on November 14, 5-7 pm
BFA Graphic Design Senior Exhibition, December 9 – 13 with a reception on December 9, 6-8 pm
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January 19 – February 17, 2024: Refract: 2024 Candidacy Exhibition Refract showcases the work of TCU’s second-year Master of Fine Arts candidates: Austin Lewis, Mckee Frazior, Raul Rodriguez, and Eli Ruhala. Through an array of sculpted forms, narrative photography, interactive video, and immersive installation, the artists delve and explore aspects of ideas and their construction, allowing viewers to see them from different angles and new perspectives. Visit Artsy for images of the exhibition. Mckee Frazior | Austin Lewis | Raul Rodriguez | Eli Ruhala Press: March 1 – May 4, 2024: Children Need Love Like Flowers Need Rain JooYoung Choi creates fictional worlds through interdisciplinary means. Utilizing bright colors, dense imagery and sensuous textures, JooYoung Choi creates a dynamic and playful energy between objects; collectively the works entice viewers to consider the human spirit. Employing painting, video, sculpture, animation and installation art, she documents the interconnecting narratives of The Cosmic Womb, an expansive, and partly autobiographical, imagined land. With its own characters and mythology, this imaginary space allows Choi to explore her own identity through multiple roles and different characters. Guided by this creative narrative, she explores themes such as anti-racism, gender inclusivity, trans-racial adoptee rights, post-traumatic growth, and spirituality rooted in social justice. Visit Artsy for more images of the exhibition. August 30 – September 30, 2023 : In Passing: Ane Le & Trinh Mai organized by guest curator Kim Phan Nguyễn In Passing featured new work by second-generation Vietnamese American women, Ann Le and Trinh Mai. Including photography, sculpture, video and installation, this exhibition highlights the migrant experience through the lens of Vietnamese Americans. While many of the works are inspired by the artists’ personal and familial history, various connecting threads are revealed as both artists explore universal themes including migration, resilience, loss, memory and identity. “Family traditions and stories touch and connect all of our lives,” Nguyễn said. “Knowing where we come from is an important foundation to know who we are today.” Ann Le | Trinh Mai | Kim Phan Nguyễn October 13 – November 17, 2023: Pleasure & Protest Conceptual threads connecting these five artists center on exploring or re-situating domestic craft and decorative art practices in relation to painting the figure. They employ strategies of pattern, gesture and repetition through a range of materials and methods including watercolor, fresco-secco, wallpaper, clay and embroidery. Their works celebrate handwork and revel in the pleasures of tactile surfaces, decoration and ornamentation. Over forty years on from the groundbreaking Pattern and Decoration art movement, works by these five artists prompt fresh discussion about the renewed value of craft in contemporary art practices. Collectively their work protests against hierarchies in subject and material, and their concerns in paint reflect current feminist discourse about cultural identity, representation and making. Jackie Gendel | Lovie Olivia | Yana Payusova | Alexis Pye | Keer Tanchak Moudy Gallery January 20 – February 18, 2023: Criss Cross Applesauce: MFA Candidacy Exhibition 2023 The 2023 MFA Candidacy Exhibition featured the work of second year Master’s of Fine Arts Candidates Max Marshall and Lauren Walker. With playful intention, the work in this exhibition explored the power of constructed narratives and the spaces that act as their settings through mediums of sculpture, painting, and drawing. Max Marshall received her BFA in Painting and Drawing with a second major in Art History, from The University of North Texas in 2015. In her current body of work, she examines the origins and creators of popularized American folklore which historically cowboys as individualistic and stoic seekers of justice. By fabricating her tall tale of a species of giant Cowboys and setting this revised origin story within the guise of roadside museums and highway attractions, Max creates a stage on which the popular Cowboy archetype can be critiqued as similarly flawed or absurd. With tongue in cheek, the resulting work asks questions of how, who constructed it and to what depth does it resound within our modern culture? Lauren Walker’s current body of work explores the dollhouse as it relates to her personal experiences with femininity, sexuality, shared domestic space and make-believe. Through painting and ceramics, the resulting work uses playful gestures to elicit a queer narrative, disrupting the notion of idealized space. She invites the viewer to approach the work with their personal experiences of the domestic in mind, with questions of scale, materiality, and color palette shaping this ongoing research. Lauren is a Fort Worth native and received her BFA in Painting from Stephen F. Austin State University. Read Glasstire’s review of the show by Jessica Fuentes here March 24 – May 6, 2023: 150 years / 150 Artists In conjunction with TCU’s sesquicentennial, the School of Art hosted a group exhibition featuring the work of 150 artists in all media accompanied by an exhibition publication that explored the legacy of the visual arts at TCU. Artists featured included current TCU student and faculty artists, and alumni students and faculty artists. Selections of works by local and regional artists from the TCU permanent collection were also included. Click here to read the “150 Years / 150 Artists” publication. Artists included: Fernando Alvarez, Francisco Josue Alvarado Araujo, Sheryl Anaya, Kalee Appleton, Jon Ashcraft, Randy Bacon, Greg Bahr, Deedra Baker, Clint Bargers, Jesse Morgan Barnett, Maria Barrientos, Stephen Battle, Iris Bechtol, Carol Benson, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Michael Blair, Christopher Blay, Jashley Boatwright, Rosalyn Bodycomb, Chris Bond, Nick Bontrager, Rachel Bounds, Bradly Brown, Dario Bucheli, Meredith Cawley, Janet Chaffee, Kristen Cochran, David E. Conn, Lynné Bowman Cravens, Blakely Dadson, Brian K. Dickson Jr., Lindsey Dunnagan, Simeen Farhat, Lauren Fleniken, Sierra Forrester, Hayley Fowler, Julia Franklin, Mckee Frazior, John Frost, Adam Fung, Jennifer Gassiraro, Harry Geffert, Shelley R. Gipson, Ryan Goolsby, Sam Granado, JT Grant, Daniel Gray, Holly D. Gray, Jennifer Guest, Joe Guy, Linda Guy, Randy Hall, Courtney Hamilton, Timothy Harding, Susan Harrington, Marshall Harris, John Hartley, Alyssa Hawkins, Terry Hays, Nathan Hayes, Jack Hein, Candace Hicks, Erin Hill, Barbara Horlander, Etty Horowitz, Sarah Hunt, Clay Hurt, William Jenkins, Dan Jian, David Johnson, Fernando Johnson, Bella Pinedo, Julie Jung, Michelle Justice, Patrick Kelly, Shin Kitahara, Tuba Koymen, Hiroko Kubo, Dick Lane, Meg Langhorne, Duoc Le, Casey Leone, Austin Lewis, Nathan Little, Rachel Livedalen, Benjamin Loftis, Billi London-Gray, Alejandra Lopez, Layla Luna, Davion Mack, Max Marshall, Sydney Martin, Todd McCollister, Elizabeth McLaurin, Margaret Meehan, JoAnn Mulroy, Mary Nangah, Natalie Neale, Devon Nowlin, Adeniyi Olagunju, Madi Ortega, Sally Packard, Harmony Padgett, Dhananjaya “DJ” Perera, Kacie Perez, Jack Plummer, Chris Powell, Hector Ramirez, Ryder Richards, Raul Rodriguez, Eli Ruhala, Greg Ruppe, Winter Rusiloski, Kiran Sattar, Cam Schoepp, Thomas R. Seawell, Kay Seedig, Luther Smith, Susan Smith, Tiffany Wolf Smith, Lori Dolan Solley, Stefani Job Spears, Ann Stautberg, Ashley Stecenko, Adelynn Strong, Terry Suprean, Keer Tanchak, Jason Thing, Corrie Thompson, Terri Thornton, Adrianna Touch, Audrey Travis, Mckie Trotter, Janet Tyson, Bernardo Vallarino, Charles Varner, Lauren Walker, Andy Warhol, Ron Watson, Steve Watson, Karen Weinman, Ashley Whitt, Chris Wicker, Angilee Wilkerson, Alden Williams, Sydney Williams, Zeke Williams, Jim Woodson, Lillian Young & Samuel P. Ziegler Aug 24 – Oct 1, 2022: WAKE – Ian Weaver Ian Weaver’s artistic practice is interdisciplinary in nature, and he uses a variety of media including drawing, collage, assemblage, sculpture, photography and film to explore memory and consider how individuals and communities construct their own identities. In reference to Christina Sharpe’s writings on representations of Black life, the title of Weaver’s exhibition responds to multiple understandings of “wake” – the temporary and ephemeral path behind a boat, a social ritual associated with funerals and a celebration of the dead, and the idea of awakening or becoming conscious. For his exhibition at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts Weaver responded to “wake” with a selection of objects that collectively weave together intersecting concerns of memory and identity. Referencing historic maritime culture, his new work included the skeletal frame of a boat hull, an anchor, and part of a lighthouse. He also included family photographic portraiture and a film that documents the wake of a boat on the Little Calumet River, a location that was once an important part of the Underground railroad on the South Side of Chicago. Oct 19 – Nov 18, 2022: Yours, in Extraction: Robyn Woolston Robyn Woolston’s socially-engaged practice elicits site-specific responses to environmental concerns and human agency. Her work across installation, photography, moving image and print explores concerns ranging from economic imperatives and government policy to ecological grief and the psychological effects of the climate crisis. For the Art Galleries at TCU Woolston presented a new film and discursive objects resulting from ideas and materials gathered during two residency periods in Fort Worth (November 2019 and January 2022) and through collaboration with TCU’s Department of Psychology and BRIT, the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. View Woolston’s film visit here “With Pleasure,” 2022 MFA Candidacy Exhibition The Art Galleries at TCU are pleased to present Persona, three solo exhibitions featuring the work of Richie Budd, Kris Pierce and John Rasimus. The exhibitions run February 25 – April 30, 2022 at Fort Worth Contemporary Art and opens with a reception for the artists on Friday, February 25, 6-8pm. Budd and Rasimus will present artist talks in the gallery on Saturday, February 26, at 2pm. Pierce will present an artist talk in the gallery on Saturday, March 26, at 2pm. Additional live programming to be confirmed soon. The artists describe Persona as loosely referencing Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 Swedish film of the same title; an experimental, psychological drama renowned for its perplexing suggestion that the two main characters experience a type of an emotional convergence. Formatted as three concurrent solo exhibitions, the artists’ work circles ideas relating to identity, duality, and character as traits of humans’ inherent need to distinguish and validate their existence as individuals. Through these individual presentations, the artists consider the development of persona in real and digital space, including involvement of physical senses. In different ways they each speak to a complicated desire to exist at the center of one’s own universe. Working within an anti-collaborative format, a web of connections between the artists’ approaches is revealed without the dynamics of a traditional group exhibition or the type of social alliance that informs much contemporary media. Three Solo Exhibitions: “Sequential Self: Gender and Identity in Comics”, Moudy Gallery, October 2021 The Fall 2021 semester at The Art Galleries at TCU was a whirlwind of exhibitions and activity! Both Fort Worth Contemporary Arts and Moudy Gallery re-opened to our public audiences and hosted many of our regular student exhibitions that were on-hold last year. We host two exciting projects at Moudy Gallery by TCU School of Art faculty and Staff, and at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts a site specific installation and performance by artist duo Dani + Sheilah ReStack! You can revisit our Fall 2021 virtual exhibitions and materials below! Moncrief Cancer Institute is invested in the idea that the presence of art can positively impact the experience of their patients. Their vision is to provide Tarrant County and surrounding communities with the foremost science, resources and programs to reduce the threat and impact of cancer. The partnership between Moncrief Cancer Institute and the TCU School of Art celebrates the vital relationship between art and medicine. TCU Graduate students and alumni are selected to serve as Guest Curators and are advised and supported by the staff of The Art Galleries at TCU through the entire exhibition-making process. Below are links to view past and present exhibitions hosted at Moncrief Cancer Institute. 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About The Art Galleries at TCU
The Art Galleries at TCU are a dynamic cultural resource presenting unique exhibitions and projects by inspiring contemporary artists. Through a rigorous curatorial process of research, creative collaboration and interdisciplinary partnerships, the galleries showcase excellent artistic practice and high-quality art, while supporting experimentation and innovation. To support students and faculty, the galleries act as a catalyst for critical dialogue and provide a vital avenue for professional development through investigation of contemporary art practices.
Moudy Gallery
“now & back then; Cuba” by Marielis Conde Mendez at Moudy Gallery, 2021
Located in the same building that houses the School of Art, Moudy Gallery showcases student work, including exhibitions by undergraduates and MFA students. This 900-square-foot space also functions as a responsive place for one-off or pop-up projects that students and faculty develop. TCU regularly shows its support for local professional artists by providing a collaborative environment in the Moudy Gallery as a testing ground for work-in-progress. Exhibitions or events of this kind help artists get involved in numerous ways and significantly benefit TCU students by enabling them to develop their professional networks with the local creative community.
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts
“Let My Body Eat the Sun” by Christie Blizard at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 2021
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts (FWCA) is a satellite exhibition space located a few blocks from the School of Art, on the edge of the TCU campus. Situated on West Berry Street, a busy urban corridor, this 2,000-square-foot gallery is TCU’s public-facing art venue. It offers a great opportunity for students, faculty, staff and alumni to engage with the Dallas-Fort Worth community.
At FWCA, the curatorial focus revolves around national and international artists at different stages of their career. It often includes work that has never been shown in Texas before or that is made on-site during a residency period. This concentration means students have close access to high-quality art and can critically engage with artists on a one-on-one basis in the gallery.
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts is located at 2900 W. Berry St. on the edge of the TCU Campus, Fort Worth, TX 76109.
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Opportunities for Students
Students can volunteer or intern as gallery attendants. Interns are typically assigned responsibilities and research, such as overseeing social media for the galleries and researching artists’ work for future exhibition projects.
In addition, graduate students are assigned to the galleries each semester and complete weekly tasks including installation/deinstallation of exhibitions, delivery of live events and maintenance of the permanent art collection.
The Art Galleries at TCU are home to exhibitions from regional and international artists, students, faculty and alumni. To see the upcoming exhibitions in the galleries, please visit our event calendar.
Locations and Hours
Moudy Gallery
2805 S. University Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76129
Monday-Friday: 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Saturday: 1-4 p.m. and by appointment
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts
2900 W. Berry, Fort Worth, TX 76109
Wednesday-Saturday: 12-5 p.m., and by appointment
Mailing address
The Art Galleries at TCU
School of Art
TCU Box 298000
Fort Worth, TX 76129
Contact Us
For more information about the Art Galleries at TCU, please contact theartgalleries@tcu.edu and 817-257-2588.
Photo: Post-Processing by Cisco Merel at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 2017
Photo on homepage: Rogue Objects by JJ Peet and Rob Rhee at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 2016
Photo on sidebar: Recording Studio A4 by Sebastiaan Bremer at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 2016