The Art Galleries at TCU

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts

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

Moudy Gallery

• January 19 – February 2: At Second Glance: Selections from the Dickinson Collection, curated by Leslie Medrano, Livia Pereira, Allison Shearer and Anna Thornton, first year MA Art History students

• February 8 – 14 : Annual Graphic Design Juried Exhibition
• February 20 – 25: Annual Juried Student Exhibition – juror Yana Payusova
• March 2 – 8: MFA Thesis Exhibition – Sheryl Anaya
• March 20 – 25: MFA Thesis Exhibition – Benjamin Loftis
• March 30 – April 5: MFA Thesis Exhibition – Madi Ortega
• April 10 – 15: MFA Thesis Exhibition – Sarah Theurer Hunt
• April 19 – 27: BFA Studio Art Thesis Exhibition
• May 1 – 5: BFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts

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

Moudy Gallery

• • September 1 – 22: BRB: Kristen Cochran
  • September 29 – October 20: Faculty Exhibition
  • October 27 – November 2: Honors Studio / Art Education
  • November 7 – 11: Honors Graphic Design
  • November 16 – 30: BFA Studio Art Thesis Exhibition
  • December 5 – 9: BFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition

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.

Exhibitions

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

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