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The possibilities, limitations, and responsibilities that come with instructing both humans and computers how to see stand at the core of A Well-trained Eye. The exhibition considers the potential to classify and surveil that we have coded into our AI technologies, looking closely at the biases that underlie data collection and analysis. Encompassing different media—drawing, photography, video, and installation—the artworks on view examine the reciprocal relationship between human and computer vision; they interrogate how technical systems increasingly mediate our relationship with ourselves, the environment, and to one another, fundamentally shaping the way we see.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the unfulfilled promise of the “racial reckoning” of 2020, the dissolution of Roe v. Wade, and the unfolding climate crisis, the current moment feels increasingly dystopian for many. If we are here… explores artists’ response to that sense of impending apocalypse in its philosophical, political, and personal dimensions. The exhibition brings together five artists whose practices explore different approaches to where and when we find ourselves from Black feminist perspectives.
Somos Recuerdos is a group exhibition organized by the members of SOMOS, a Latinx collaborative seeking to explore, share, expand, and ignite conversations about Latinidad, an ever-evolving expression that voices Latin America's interconnected and multifaceted culture.
This exhibition is an assemblage of projects, prints, and artifacts from and featuring the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection (the RRK)—a working archive of over 150 letterpress typefaces from the 1800s. As a living body of resources that continue to be utilized daily by students and scholars, the collection thrives as a core component of our curriculum and ongoing studies in the School of Design and Creative Technologies.
Las Nietas de Nonó are the Visual Arts Center's Spring 2024 artists-in-residence. In their creative process, they evoke ancestral memory through personal archives. Their practice incorporates performance, found objects, organic materials, ecology, fiction, video and installation.
UT Print presents Ensemble, a group exhibition of print media that aims to celebrate the community-based nature of printmaking by bringing together a collection of prints that are unified in size and color theme.
All Else features the work of six graduating MFA students. The exhibition brings together painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and sculpture to build spaces between inner and outer worlds, memory and experience, and examine how the artists’ individual narratives can generate expansive dialogues. What remains above all else?
Against the Current reassesses contemporary societal behaviours and invites viewers to consider new paths forward. Featuring thesis works from four graduating MFA candidates, this exhibition explores analogue antidotes, challenges restrictive historical cycles, offers tools for BIPOC design students, and unpacks emerging autonomy. Integral to the work is a spirit of rebellion and resilience—a rejection of structural, cultural, and traditional constraints.
In Sincerely, Everything, the 2024 graduating class of The University of Texas’ Studio Art Program demonstrates their sharpened sensibility to the visual through their independent voices and diverse creations. The exhibition encapsulates an expansive array of mediums including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, technological-based/transmedia, and print. Works presented in this exhibition act as platforms for conversation, inspiration, and inclusive expression for their peers and themselves for years to come.