exhibits

Ethereal places blending fantasy- and science fiction-like imagery with the divine embody the art of Dick Davison, a professor of visualization at Texas A&M whose work is being shown at Dallas museum through June 22, 2012.

A series of living spaces co-designed by Miguel Roldán, adjunct professor of architecture for Texas A&M’s study abroad program in Spain, were exhibited at the Catalunya College of Architects headquarters in Barcelona.

An exhibition retracing a landmark 1972 New York Museum of Modern Art exhibit of Italian design co-curated by Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture, was lauded as one of the world’s 2011 cultural highlights.

Videos by Joshua Bienko, assistant professor of architecture, were part of an exhibit that ran through Jan. 7 at a Kansas City gallery that a critic called “smart and engaging work by artists who acknowledge the impossibility of originality in the 21st century.”

It’s been a notable fall 2011 for Texas A&M environmental design graduate Russell Buchanan ‘93, whose Modern house design is making waves in an upscale Highland Park neighborhood while his furniture designs were featured in a retrospective at one of the most respected galleries in the U.S.

Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M, joined curators, designers, artists and architects from across the globe to discuss experimental curating for design and architecture exhibitions at “Curating and Counter Curating,” a September 2011 conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

New multimedia work by Joshua Bienko, assistant professor of visualization, was showcased Sept. 30 – Oct. 1 at Houston’s Barbara Davis Gallery. Bienko’s show, “WORD TO YOUR M(O)THER,” included paintings on the soles of Christian Louboutin stilettos and canvas as well as a new rap video.

Competitors on sports fields in an El Paso public park will be inspired by “Rivals,” two new sculptures by Lars Stanley, an outstanding alumnus of the college. The hand-made forged steel sculptures depict arachnids found in El Paso’s desert environment.

Photographs, newspaper clippings and many other items from the college archives were on display Aug. 26, 2011 at an open house in the Technical Reference Center's extension on the fifth floor of Langford A.

Former Texas A&M environmental design student Dan Darr ’93 explores untold stories, dreams and the difference between the ways we remember things and the way they really were in a series of paintings at the Arlington Museum of Art at an exhibit on display through Sept. 30.

A graduate visualization student’s self-portraits, tributes to iconic masterworks from the art world, have captured the attention and praise of art blogger Michelle H. Harrell, coordinator of teen/college programs for the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.

Last summer undergraduate visualization students in a graphic design class led by Donna Hajash, a senior visualization lecturer, integrated color, texture and typography to create revealing biographical self portraits.

A rare work in Texas A&M’s Forsyth Center Galleries by Winslow Homer (1836-1910), a preeminent figure in U.S. art history, is receiving its first-ever scholarly attention from Stephen Caffey, assistant professor of architecture at Texas A&M. Caffey said it's an important yet little-known painting.

Internet users can explore the disconnect between the burst housing bubble in Florida and the foreclosed homes it left behind in “Open House,” an online installation partly developed by Patrick LeMieux ’07, a Bachelor of Environmental Design graduate from Texas A&M.

Tall Furniture, a new kind of stage furniture designed and built by former student Bob Turek ’08, won first place in the do-it-yourself category of the Core77 Design Awards, which recognizes excellence in all areas of design enterprise.