UT Austin alumnus Adam Crosson (MFA in Studio Art, 2016) solo exhibition, Haptic Recordings: The Body Eyes will be on view at the Galveston Arts Center in Galveston, Texas, March 7 – May 24, 2020. In this exhibition, Crosson takes inspiration from the Mississippi River’s physical properties as well as the hydrological functions and human incursions that have changed it over time. Crosson’s use of video, pinhole-type cameras and photograms explore the past mainstream waterways of the Mississippi River and analyze the current rivers’ flows of distribution.
Adam Crosson was awarded the Jack G. Taylor and Virginia R. Allen Presidential Scholar and was awarded the College of Fine Arts Fellowship and the Umlauf Prize. He also holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Fay Jones School of Architecture. In 2016-17, Crosson was a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 2018, he received a Tulane University COR Research Grant, a Monroe Fellowship Grant from the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, and he was awarded a scholarly retreat. Crosson has been awarded additional fellowships to study at the Royal College of Art, London, and to attend the Vermont Studio Center. He has been included in recent group exhibitions in Berlin at the Humboldt University Nord Branch Library and the Erwin-Schrödinger-Zentrum Science Branch Library, The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, MS, and The Carrol Gallery at Tulane University. Crosson has organized exhibitions in London, Texas, and Vermont. He is currently Assistant Professor and Sculpture Area Head at Tulane University.