Recent News from the Art & Design Department at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi
Sculpture Professor Greg Reuter is exhibiting at the Baugh Center for the Visual Arts Gallery at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor College of Visual & Performing Arts. His installation titled Recurring Alternatives: Sculpture by Greg Reuter will be on display from September 24-November 2.
Wood and steel sculptures by Sculpture I & II students are inhabiting the TAMU-CC Performing Arts Center for the rest of the week. Made in response to the Russian Renaissance performance and the architecture of the PAC, students were given the opportunity to create life-sized wood or steel sculptures to be displayed in the lobby to compliment the performance, and will be moved to the Weil Gallery Friday, October 19th for further display through the end of the month.
Published on October 10th, the university featured this collaboration in an articled titled: Sculpture and Music Work in Symphony to Create Unique Russian Renaissance Experience.
TAMUCC’s newest member of the sculpture department, Professor Leticia Bajuyo, accompanied with an all-female group of sculpture students, traveled 18+ hours to attend the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Conference: Knoxville 2018. The conference was held at The University of Tennessee- Knoxville campus, where Bajuyo received her MFA. She was invited to join the board for the MSA the previous year and is making efforts to connect sculptors of Texas to the group.
This year’s conference featured sculptors Chakaia Booker, Elizabeth Turk, and Mary Bates Neubauer, held numerous artist panel lectures, presentations, workshops, demonstrations, and also ventured off-campus to various art galleries. The 3-day conference explored both indoor and outdoor sculptures and installations, inspiring students and working artists alike.
Thursday, October 18th
6:30-8:00 pm
in the Weil Gallery on campus.
As part of this semester’s Video Art Screening Series, organized by Art History Professor, Dr. Laura Petican, Gerhard Richter Painting, 2012, 97mins, will be shown October 18th from 6:30-8:00 pm in the Weil Gallery.
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), a German painter of both photo-realistic and abstracted works. In 2015, one of his paintings set the record for highest auctioned price from a from a living European artist. Richter’s Abstraktes Bild (1986) sold for $46.3 million at the Sotheby’s auction in London.
Left: Gerhard Richter, Right: Abstraktes Bild (1986)
Ghorashi, Hannah. “New Records for Gerhard Richter, Jonas Wood at Buoyant $188.2 M. Sotheby's London Sale.” Art News. http://www.artnews.com/2015/02/11/new-records-for-gerhard-richter-jonas-wood-at-buoyant-188-2-m-sothebys-london-sale/. (Accessed October 15, 2018).
Assistant Professor of Sculpture Leticia R. Bajuyo’s artwork is on exhibition at the Rudolph Blume Fine Art Gallery in Houston, Texas.
September 16 – October 20, 2018
Artist Talk – Saturday, September 29, 2018 from 12-2pm
This solo exhibition of Exurban is sponsored by Sculpture Month Houston
In sculptural series such as Turf Rolls, Pre-Fab(ulous), and The Not So Little Engine within this ongoing, multi-year project of Exurban, I consider the intangibility and responsibility of hyperobjects as I explore the tension between nature and societal innovation. Inspired by mise en abyme, I combine sizes and proportions to physically invoke a meta-narrative where one is both inside and outside, both subject and object, and both in control and being controlled. These comparisons of perception address a drive to create a version of nature and of society with which we are comfortable — one that is contained and controlled.
Rudolph Blume Fine Art / ArtScan Gallery
1836 Richmond Ave. Houston, TX 77098
Rudolph Blume Fine Art / Artscan Gallery champions and exhibits work in a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practice, from conceptual works to large-scale installation and time-based performances. The program’s emphasis lies with emerging and mid-career artists. The gallery is home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, drawing and printmaking.
This October Art Walk you can find TAMUCC’s Undergraduate BFA Exhibition by Ali Dunman at Urbana Market~Deli.
This week two of our departments will be embarking on their separate journeys to conferences across the nation.
Printmaking Professor Ryan O’Malley‘s printmaking crew, Full Court Press, will be traveling to his hometown of Laramie, Wyoming to the Mid American Printmakers Council Conference. There, they will attend panels, demonstrations, and open portfolio sessions.
Sculpture Professor Leticia Bajuyo and her team of women sculptors will be making their way to Knoxville, Tennessee to attend the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Sculpture Conference: Knoxville 2018. Professor Bajuyo is one of the board members of the MSA and received her MFA at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where the conference will be hosted this year. The conference will host a number of artist panels and presentations, workshops, demonstrations, and exhibitions both on campus and at various local galleries.
Assistant Professor of Sculpture Leticia R. Bajuyo’s sculpture Turf Roll is part of an exhibition titled LAND AND SEA at Stove Works in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Curated by Mike Calway-Fagen from Stove Works and Daniel Fuller from Atlanta Contemporary, this inaugural exhibition at Stove Works features artworks by Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Trevor Reese, Matthew Jensen, Emily Marie Charles, Land Report Collective, Erica Scoggins, David Onri Anderson, Christopher Mahonski, Cory Constantine, Alicia Eggert, Jeff Whetstone, Katie Hargrave, Jiha Moon, Janaye Brown, John Russell.
LAND AND SEA
August 10 – September 9, 2018
Stove Work’s is located at the corner of Holtzclaw and 14th. Built in 1915, the building operated as Tennessee Coffin and Casket Co until the 1950’s when it was purchased by Tennessee Stove Works for the assembly and distribution of cast iron stoves. The building has since changed hands many times over, and in the spring of 2017, it changed hands for the final time and now begins it’s journey as Stove Works.
