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Courtyard Gallery

Past Exhibitions

Synchronicity of Color

Sculptural Site–Specific Works by Margo Sawyer

Exhibition Dates
January 24 – May 9, 2009

Reception
February 5, 2009, 4–6 PM

About the Artist
Margo Sawyer received her M.F.A. from the Yale University sculpture program in 1982. She is a Professor of Sculpture/Studio Art in the M.F.A. program at The University of Texas at Austin. Sawyer was part of the collaborative team, headed by San Francisco landscape design firm Hargreaves Associates and architect Larry Speck of Page Sutherland Page Architects to design a new park in downtown Houston, called Discovery Green. Sawyer created four site-specific works for the park that integrate art and architecture entitled Synchronicity of Color.

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Tracing: Images of Italy
Photographs by Lawrence McFarland

The Tracing series was produced between 1991 and 2004 and pays tribute to interior and exterior Italian landscapes both urban and rural. Each panoramic image contains a narrative evoking in the viewer an emotional response to a particular place in time.

The Beginning of Acqua Alta

Exhibit Dates
September 29, 2008 – January 10, 2009

About the Artist
Lawrence McFarland received his M.F.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1976 and is a William and Bettye Nowlin Endowed Professor in Photography in the Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been awarded three NEA fellowships (1978–79,1984–85, and 1990–91) and a Friends of Photography Ferguson Grant. His photographs are in numerous collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Creative Photography, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, among others. He has worked on several documentary projects including the Central Arizona Cannal Project creating a body of work to help document and preserve the endangered sacred land of the Navajo tribe. Most recently he has produced a series of panoramic images in the American West and Italy.

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Broken Gold

Drawings by Jonathan Faber and Photographs by Barry Stone

Exhibition Dates
May 14 – August 28, 2009

Reception
May 14, 4–6 PM

About the Artists
The phrase 'Broken Gold' is borrowed from the pawnshop's marquee. Like pieces of broken gold rendered down and returned to elemental forms, Jonathan Faber and Barry Stone's exhibition, Broken Gold, is a synthesis of drawings and photographs poured in together to create one unbroken visual idea. Jonathan Faber graduated from the UT Austin MFA program in 2003 and is currently a Lecturer at both the University of Texas at Austin and Southwestern University in Georgetown. Barry Stone graduated from the UT Austin MFA program in 2001 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography in the College of Art and Design at Texas State University–San Marcos.

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