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Material Culture - February 16, 2008 through April 5, 2008, is the inaugural exhibition at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, TCU’s new university art gallery. The exhibition will present sculptures by twelve mid-career and emerging artists in Texas including Helen Altman, Richie Budd, Margarita Cabrera, Bill Davenport, Jonathan Durham, Lily Hanson, Joseph Havel, Jessica Halonen, Katrina Moorhead, Chris Sauter, Polly Lanning Sparrow, and Brad Tucker. The exhibition will include an intriguing variety of three-dimensional structures made from real, commonplace, or readymade materials. Although limited to artists in Texas, the exhibition will not make a case for a regional sensibility—given the irrelevance of regionalism in our global society—but for the strength of an art that celebrates material culture in an increasingly dematerialized world. The works in the exhibition are typically hand-fabricated from readymade or commonplace materials transformed into evocative new realities. Including both representational and abstract sculptures, the exhibition will draw attention to the on-going embrace of object-making in Texas, which is frequently overshadowed by drawing and photography, as well as more conceptual and performative projects in contemporary practice. Material Culture’s curator is Frances Colpitt, Professor of Art History, who holds the Deedie Potter Rose Chair in the Department of Art and Art History at TCU. Following the exhibition, a full color catalogue with essays by the curator and two invited contributors (Jennifer Davy and Kirstie Skinner) will document and further explore ideas raised by Material Culture. theartgalleries@tcu.edu 817 257 7643 |