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2018 UTEP Department of Art Biennial Faculty Exhibition

Rubin and L Gallery
February 01 –  April 06, 2018

 

 

 

The Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts was proud to showcase artwork by the distinguished faculty of the UTEP Department of Art in the 2018 UTEP Department of Art Biennial Faculty Exhibition. The exhibition, which only takes place every two years, features 25 members of the Department of Art and a wide range of artistic media including ceramics, metals, sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing, graphic design and more.  The organization of year’s exhibition included participation by students in the Department of Art.  Graphic design students, under the supervision of Senior Lecturer of Graphic Design, Clive Cochran, competed to design the identity, invitation and publicity for the exhibit; and the work on display were complemented by original texts written by students of art history under the guidance of Assistant Professor of Art History, Dr. Melissa Warak. 

Participating Artists

Kim Bauer • Therese Bauer • Tom Birkner • Vincent Burke • Angel Cabrales • Antonio Castro H. • Derek Caulfield • Clive Cochran • John Dunn • Christine Foerster • Nicholas Gialanella • Anne M.  Giangiulio • Nabil Gonzalez • David Griffin • Manuel Guerra • Anna Jaquez • Heather Kaplan • Alexandra McGovern • Davinia Miraval • Jacob Muñoz • Irene A. O’Leary • SV Randall • Hector Romero • Daniel Szwaczkowski • Jessica Tolbert

Art History Lectures:

Bernini and Borromini: Architecture, Patronage and Power in Baroque Rome
Dr. Max Grossman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History

The Clothes Make the Band: Nick Cave’s Soundsuits
Dr. Melissa Warak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History


Gallery Talks with Faculty Artists and Friends


Tom Birkner and Kerry Doyle: Painting and Politics
Melissa Barba, Anne Giangiulio and Jonna Perrillo: The Art of Balancing Work and Motherhood
Derek Caulfield and Daniel Szwaczkowski: Planning and Intuition - Two Methods of Making
Kim Bauer and Dominic Dousa: Composition in Art and Music
John Dunn and Nick Gialanella: Where Does the Photograph Exist – Digital Versus Analog
UTEP Spring Break no talk
Terri Bauer, Anna Jaquez and Jessica Tolbert: Subtle Gestures - Working on a Small Scale
Manuel Guerra and Karl Whitaker: Prints - Breaking Out of the Time Zone
Antonio Castro and Ben Saenz: The Poetics of Collaboration

All talks took place in the third floor galleries of the Rubin Center.