Hawn Gallery Exhibitions

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A selection of Dylan Glynn’s paintings, works on paper, digital prints, and animated shorts. 

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Guided by a preoccupation with the subjectivity of facts, Elizabeth Moran uses photography, text, sound, and other forms of recorded documentation to examine the reliability of information and how evidence is often far from evident.

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Agents of Change, works by  Arthur Koch, questions about the relationships of the words "natural" and "artificial" and led me to realize that while wood is a natural material, the process I applied to wood was a process that could be considered artificial.

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This exhibition turns rivers into lines of connection. Moving and flowing in many directions, these lines form a complex network of images, ideas, sounds, and objects, evoking a symbolic hydrography in the exhibition space. Bodies of water become the conduits of the meanings.

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Dallas-based artist Andrew Douglas Underwood research-based artistic practice explores historic vignettes, examines the notion of perfection, and questions the possibility of objectivity.  

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ARK is a cinematic installation featuring a film by Michael A. Morris made from archival 35mm film prints held in the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection.

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Thomas Gibson Bowles desire was to establish Vanity Fair as a periodical defining the social and cultural life of London in Victorian England.

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This show featured Camilla Cowan's prints and paintings, many inspired by molas and other folk art.

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Sanford's interest in painting is in the experimentation of endless nuances of color combination possibilities, "color is feeling, color has emotional resonance."

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Artwork featured from Constance Lowe’s series Garden City (Air to Ground), FabCom and Chromarray that examines the intersection between natural and human-constructed environments.

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Clear, Deep, Dark features new works by Julie Morel that examines the intersections between text and visual imagery. 

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Collective Practice: Community Building Through Zines presents works by Puro Chingón Collective, with members James Huizar, Claudia Zapata and Claudia Aparicio-Gamundi.

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Paintings and works on paper by David Dreyer, technical advisor and adjunct professor in SMU’s Division of Studio Art.

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Features rarely seen works from the University Art Collection that explore instances of legibility and illegibility, ambiguity and abstraction, concealment and uncovering in drawing since the 1950s.

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Six photographic collages by Jeffrey Junkin, MFA candidate in photography. 

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Exhibited in 2012, Dallas artist and museum educator Scott Winterrowd had sketched a wide variety of the landscapes in the American West, including California, New Mexico, Colorado, and the Big Bend region of Texas, working primarily in watercolor.

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Deborah Garwood is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Her work explores the interdependence of nature and culture.

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A retrospective of the work from Tony award winning theater designer, John Arnone, including sketches, set designs, stage models, and theater props.

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The Illusion of Being is a three-person exhibition of photographic works by DFW based artists Lynné Bowman Cravens, Ross Faircloth, and Ashley Whitt. Each artist utilizes lens-based media to investigate notions of reality as perceived by the self.

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Artist Michael Corris explores art’s role in the process of a city’s identity formation, in particular his relationship to Dallas, Texas and Venice, Italy.

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Artists have used the book as medium for exposing their images and concepts, which in turn challenge the form of the book as an information package and loops back to extend the idea of a book qua book.

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Building on the research of the PRIDE@SMU capstone project, In Search of Belonging explores stories of LGBTQ+ student organizing -- struggles for equality and recognition -- through oral history and archival documents.

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Explore Devezin's work which plays with material investigations through steel sculptural drawings, woven paintings, and ceramics.

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An invitation to viewers to eavesdrop on the conversations between and among the archival digital prints and their paper collage ancestors.

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The photographs in this series document the parallel stories of the lives and rituals of the disappearing population of Jews still living in small enclaves in Eastern Europe.

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The painting process is described as diagramming, mapping, plan/elevation, cross-section, translation/re-translation inquiry (or subverting the clarity these systematic intentions may imply). 

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Williams’ small drawings and studio sketchbooks illuminate his working process of construction and variation of color, shape and line in a simple and intimate manner. 

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In celebration of the Mexican centennial in 2010, an exhibition of historic books and portfolios from Mexico, part of the Stanley Marcus Collection at SMU’s DeGolyer Library.

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On view in 2005 were 29 individual works by sculptor Michael O’Keefe. These works included 22 small-scale drawings and seven sculptures.  

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Highly decorative arrangements of shapes embedded with unexpected motifs that are in reference to an enigmatic story continuously changing as it unfolds.

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A glimpse into the Jessica and Kelvin Beachum Family Collection beholds an artistic world of hope, Black joy, reality, and aspiration.

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This exhibition of recent work by Dallas and Monterrey-based artist, Octaviano Rangel is inspired by Franz Kakfa’s Metamorphosis.

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This exhibition showcases Hamon Arts Library holdings related to Octavia Butler’s writing alongside a mixed media installation by Dallas artist Ciara Elle Bryant pertaining to identity, bibliography, and virtuality.

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A selection of abstract paintings and drawings by Danielle Kimzey, Mary Laube, and Christopher Reno. These artists explore the private world of the ‘home’ and seek to demystify this insular, domestic space.

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This exhibition presents a selection of books on this grand and artful instrument, the organ, from the James L. Wallmann Collection.

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Basil Kincaid’s R3clamation: Routes and Roots is the third iteration of the artist’s Reclamation Project and is, among other things, an intimate examination of his hometown of St. Louis.

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Through a seminar in Renaissance Technology for the Art History graduate students in the Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture (RASC/a) program, the exhibition is a collaboration of ideas and knowledge through the advancement of print and book production 

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Large format black & white landscape photographs range from grand views in the American West to quiet, intimate scenes along streams in the Texas Hill Country.

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Sounding is a site-specific, interactive installation with looping video, text-based instructions, and subtle interventions into the architecture and resources of Hamon Arts Library.

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Susan Barnett works originated with paintings based upon a specialized type of Latin Square popularized by the Sudoku puzzle. 

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Tino Ward’s suite of paper pulp paintings depicts symbols from anthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger’s catalog of proto-linguistic signs found in ancient cave paintings, known as “phosphenes.”

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This exhibit brings together two notable collections of posters, flyers, clothing, and ephemera from this highly influential era of pivotal cultural shift in Britain and the United States.

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Wingate says, "the structures in my work are derived from typography and letter construction, printed texts, decorative type ornaments, logos and symbols."

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The exhibition is an installation of fifteen drawings by artist, Jane Chu. The exhibition centers upon her mother’s journey out of China during the Chinese Revolution of 1949.