Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations:

Feature print by Nic Nicosia, titled "Cityscape #1, Denton, Texas" Nic Nicosia, "Cityscape #1, Denton, TX," Type C print

Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations:


Selections from the Permanent Collection at the College of Visual Arts and Design

Jan 17, 2012 - Feb 11, 2012

Curated by Victoria Estrada Berg DeCuir, Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Collections

Opening Reception, Thursday 1/19, 5:00 - 7:00 pm

 

EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION

The UNT Art Gallery presents the 5th annual Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations exhibition, featuring highlights from the CVAD permanent collection, along with excerpts of related research papers by CVAD Art History graduate students under the direction of Dr. Jennifer Way.

The Collections series was created in 2007 by Jennifer Way, Associate Professor of Art History, and Rina Kundu, then Lecturer in Art Education, in collaboration with the UNT Art Gallery. The series has engaged with important collections around the state, as well as our very own. Artists included in this year’s exhibition are Vernon Fisher, Nic Nicosia, Willem de Kooning, Judy Chicago, Anri Sala, Patrick Caulfield, Robert Motherwell, Henri Chopin, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Cindy Sherman.

Lunchtime Lectures

Wed, Jan 18

Victoria DeCuir, Collect, Exhibit, Educate

Jeremy Lupe, Patrick Caulfield: Reimagining the Ordinary

Wed, Jan 25

Paige Prater, On Comics & Copying: How Fritzi Ritz and Vernon Fisher Confront Art and Meaning

Ann Howington, Filling in the Blanks with Post-Communist Art

Wed, Feb 01

Madeline Fitzgerald, Willem de Kooning: A Deviation from the Norm

Laura Lee Brott, F.U.N. with Display

Wed, Feb 08

Courtnee Kendrick, Cindy Sherman: Quirky or Just Plain Weird?

Cheryl Palyu, The Birth Project: Deconstructed

CURATOR

Victoria Estrada Berg DeCuir came to the UNT Art Gallery as Assistant Director in 2007 with over seven years of experience in galleries and museums in both curatorial and registration. Recent exhibitions include, Recuerdos: Nostalgia on the Periphery, 2010, co-curated with Adriana Martinez; Drawing from the Ethereal: CVAD MFA Exhibition, 2010; and Graff, Tag, Bomb: the Influence of Graffiti, 2007.

Currently, DeCuir is focusing on CVAD’s collections, teaching as an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Art History/Art Education and working as a freelance writer and critic with an interest in post-WWII British and American history as well as popular and visual culture from the 1970s to the present. DeCuir holds a BFA and MA in Art History from the University of North Texas.

SPONSORS

Exhibitions are sponsored in part by Goodmor, LLC, Karen SG Milnes Desgin, the College of Visual Arts and Design, and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

 

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May 24

CVAD MFA Exhibition Opening Reception, 5-7 pm, UNT Art Gallery

May 22 - August 4

Annual Summer Exhibition: CVAD MFA Showcase on view in the UNT Art Gallery

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