Richland College Green Commons

In the Interest of Time
an installation by Smudge Studio

Brazos Gallery, February 2- March 2

Reception: Brazos Gallery, Richland College,  Monday, Feb. 13^th, 2012 from 4-6 PM
Artist talk: McKinney Avenue Contemporary,  Monday, Feb. 13^th from 6:30- 7:30 PM

Richland College’s Brazos Gallery presents In the Interest of Time, an installation by Smudge Studio, NY.  Investigating and documenting instances of convergence between humans and the land, Smudge Studio offers a reconsidered, holistic relationship of human/land interactions within a geologic time scale. Displaying photos and videos, as well as a geo-architectural field guide to New York City, the installation provides a consideration of “deep time” through projects mapping lake beds from the Pleistocene that now hold suburban tract housing and visits to several nuclear testing sites in America.

Fragment
Benjamin Terry  and Giovanni Valderas

January 11-March 29, 2012

Lago Vista Gallery, Richland College, Dallas
artist reception: Thursday, Feb. 9 from 4-7 PM

Richland College presents Fragment, new art installations by artists Benjamin Terry and Giovanni Valderas. Expanding their unique styles of painting and figure/ground abstraction the artists embrace the challenge of working on two curved walls in the Lago Vista Gallery. Both artists currently explore notions of loss and erasure through layering, providing persistent figurative content as a platform for conceptual and formal inquiry. The exhibition will run from January 11^th through March 29^th, 2012 with an artists reception on Thursday, February 9^th from 4-7 PM.

Midway to Madness
Dwayne Carter

Brazos Gallery, Richland College, Dallas
Jan9 – Jan 27, 2011
Reception: Thursday, January 26, 2012 from 12-1 PM

Richland College’s Brazos Gallery presents Midway to Madness, a series of large scale digital prints by Richland Faculty Dwayne Carter. The banner size images blend photography and digital painting into narrative compositions, echoing their origin from Carter’s self published photo novella: Midway to Madness #2. Copies of the zine will be available during the exhibition and at the reception on Thursday, January 26 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM. The exhibition will run from January 9^th through January 27^th, 2012.

Work
Annual Art Faculty Exhibit

Brazos Gallery, Richland College, Dallas
Nov 17-23, 2011
Opening Reception: Nov. 17, NOON.

Participating faculty include:

Dwayne Carter, Roy Cirigliana, David Collins, Colette Copeland, Sheila Cunningham, Eric Eley, Tim Jones,  Wayne Loucas, Brenda McKinney, Robert Galindo, Tom Motley, Vicki Mayhan, Ryder Richards, Jennifer Rose, Jim Stover, Keith Williams, and Kristin Vilbig

Regional HS Art Show
Brazos Gallery: Oct 27- Nov 10
Opening Reception: Thursday, Oct 27, 4-7 pm

JUROR: Colette Copeland
We are pleased to have Colette, an extraordinary artist, arts writer, and new instructor at Richland College juror this years exhibit.

Winners:

3rd Place

Meghan Dahlke’s “Pandora’s Ball: Tears of Joy or Sorrow”

color photo            Garland HS            J. Thompson            Senior

2nd Place

Darby Fields’ “Untitled”

watercolor, crayon        Rowlett HS            C. Wilkinson            Senior

1st Place

Estella Garza’s “Urban Totem”