Sum of All Parts is a group exhibition featuring current MA and MFA graduate students at the University of Dallas. The exhibition showcases a diverse range of themes and materials that reflect the intense research each student undertakes in the studio.
The figure features in the majority of works. The grotesque body and consumer culture come to a head in colorful woodblocks prints and corresponding ceramics pieces by Brian Henson. Genevieve Armstrong and Natalie Lambert investigate the physical and subjective realms of human experience using oil on canvas as their primary medium. Lambert utilizes unprimed canvas to represent the figure as a vacant or inhabited vessel. Armstrong’s oversized canvases confront the viewer with an imaginary portrait of herself as a self ordained king with a possum skull for a crown.
Imagination and metamorphosis are also present in the horse and human portraits by Jamie Gardner. Her large oil paintings subvert stereotypical portrayals of the power dynamic between horses and humans by showing the two in a symbiotic like relationship. Michelle Cortez Gonzales uses fabric and resin on her canvases to explore the space between the process of making and remembering. As Gonzales reconstructs a familial history she embellishes and eliminates imagery to highlight the complexities and imperfections of a hazy recollection.
Textiles also feature in the work of Denise Lange and Richie Peña. Large nine foot spiral columns of yarn have been suspended in the gallery by Lange. Her aerial sculptures create dramatic forms in the way the gather, arc, and pool. The pieces represent intergenerational storytelling with the yarn’s long flowing nature. In contrast, the yarn in Peña’s small intimate mix-media wall works is crocheted. The act of crocheting, with it’s tactile repetition, has served as an act of meditation for the artist. Peña’s labored and multilayer approach centers on the symbol of the cross as he reconnects with spiritual belief, religion, and lost traditions through the act of making.
The seven exhibiting artists were invited to present their current work with the option of changing, editing, or reframing their presentations over the course of the display period. Continue to visit over the summer to see the exhibition evolve.
Hours: Please see Summer Hours
Where: Beatrice M. Haggerty and Thompson Loggia, University of Dallas.
Former Affiliate Assistant Professor of Spanish Nicole (Hammerschmidt) Lasswell, BA '03, and her husband, Martin, have two sons, Will and Stevie, both of whom have autism. For World Autism Awareness Day, the family was interviewed on Telemundo; because the boys are thriving, it seemed particularly important to the Lasswells to share their story and their hope with others.
+ Read MoreThe first time Monica Ashour, MTS '95 MH '04, read St. John Paul II's "Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body" was in 2000 with a small, grassroots group of parents and teachers, including DeAnn (Barta) Stuart, Ph.D., BA '98 MH '04, and Annie (Duffin) Vining, MTh '03. This group went on to found The Theology of the Body Evangelization Team Inc. (TOBET) on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8, 2001.
+ Read MoreUD is pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Wu Trujillo as its new vice president for university advancement. Trujillo currently serves as chief development officer and director of the Honor the Future campaign at the University of Virginia (UVA) Law School Foundation, which conducts alumni relations, external affairs, fundraising and endowment management for the benefit of the UVA School of Law. He begins his new role at the end of June.
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