Tony Feher
October 13, 2012 – March 17, 2013
Public Opening and Reception on Friday, October 12, 2012, 6-9pm

Blaffer Art Museum is pleased to present a twenty-year survey dedicated to American sculptor Tony Feher. The exhibition and the accompanying monograph represent the first attempt at a comprehensive, in-depth consideration of Feher’s career. It seeks to reveal the richness, complexity, and impact of Feher’s investigations through a careful selection of 60 key works that revolve around a very personal formal, material, and spatial vocabulary developed and refined over the past couple of decades.

Lynne McCabe: Room to be (Ms.)understood: A Social Sculpture Workshop
August 28-December 4, 2012
Tuesday evenings from 5:30-8:30 pm

Blaffer Art Museum and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts are proud to host multi-disciplinary artist Lynne McCabe in residence for a class cum exhibition during the 2012 fall semester. McCabe makes interactive work that explores the potentialities and limits of "social sculpture". The term designates art that is produced collectively, often through a series of flexible parameters that the artist defines for herself, her participants, and her audiences. By focusing on process, collaboration, interaction and conversation, McCabe's work is a product of social engagement and active negotiation between all participants. These processes take varied forms for McCabe and include performance, installation, text, events, video and sound works.

Andy Coolquitt: Attainable Excellence
May 25 – August 15ton, 2013
Public Opening and Reception, May 24, 2013, 6-9pm

For his debut at Blaffer Art Museum, the artist's first solo museum exhibition, Coolquitt will recombine 60 discrete sculptures and tableaux made between 2006 and 2011 into a site-specific installation which, in its singularity and temporariness, reflects on the condition of the gallery space as a codified place of encounter for people and works of art. The exhibition will also include pieces that occupy a hybrid position between autonomous artworks by Coolquitt and what the artist calls somebody-mades and in-betweens. Somebody-mades are assemblages of objects that are presented just as the artist found them in the streets, while in-betweens combine such found assemblages with interventions of his own. Presented alongside and interspersed with his own work, these elements serve to further complicate the relationship between the contexts of creation and reception, artist and audience, and blur the boundaries between art and life.