Visual Arts Center

Assemble: The 2012 Visual Arts Center Celebration

Join us January 28, 6–9, for an evening of art, festivities, and libations as we celebrate another great year of growth and transformation at the Visual Arts Center and the Department of Art and Art History.

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January 27 – Mar 10

Sculptor Diana Al-Hadid constructs forms that are a baroque complex of architectural structures and figurative allusions, which appear to be in a state between construction and deconstruction. Al-Hadid reinterprets a variety of common sculpture materials, such as cardboard, wood, plaster, and metal, to create sculptures that are simultaneously dense with materiality yet seemingly ethereal and gravity defying.

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January 27 – Mar 10

San Antonio-based artist Justin Boyd often takes a multidisciplinary approach to exploring uncharted territories. Boyd rearticulates the space of The Arcade by responding to its most striking element: a pair of floor-to-ceiling bay windows. By creating two separate site-derived sculptural augmentations, Boyd explores the interstitial space of The Arcade by morphing its geometry into something unfamiliar.

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January 27 – Mar 10

Across the Divide focuses on a shared cultural identity over differing geopolitical convictions under the large frame of Chinese culture with work by twenty-five contemporary Chinese artists who are currently working in academia across the United States. With an emphasis given to artwork that blends cultural influences drawn from both Eastern and Western aesthetics, this exhibition explores personal cross-cultural perspectives in relationship to the changes that have been brought by China’s current social, economic, and cultural development.

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January 27 – Mar 10

(im)possibilities addresses the themes of chance and inevitability. Using probability theory, linguistics, mathematics, radar imaging, robotics, fortunetelling, and even a yo-yo, Erica Baum, Ellie Ga, Birgit Rathsmann, Patrick Resing, and Michael Stevenson question the limits of knowledge and the (im)possibility of predicting outcomes.

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January 27 – Mar 10

Presented in collaboration with the Department of Art and Art History’s Printmaking Convergence Program, New Prints 2011 features sixty-seven prints by fifty-one emerging to established artists and printers. Selected from a pool of over 2,500 submissions, New Prints 2011 is the fortieth presentation of the International Print Center New York’s (IPCNY) New Prints Program.

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