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Currently on Display Through Sept. 11

FRESH FORWARD III: Annual Student Exhibition

The annual Wright Gallery exhibition features student projects from the Texas A&M College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts and College of Architecture.

UPCOMING

Margaret Smithers-Crump
“Tapestries of Kinship,” runs Sept. 22 through Oct. 30.
Emilie Duval
“In Digital Elysium: Architectures of a New Reality,” runs Nov. 10 through Jan. 15, 2026.

FEATURED COVERAGE

A piece of photographic art that shows a mountain and the stars beyond it, with lights in a spiral shape in the foreground.

“Pilgrimage of Light” features a collection of photographs with images of space projected onto remote landscapes in national parks by Mark Chen, a photographer based in Missouri City, Texas.

An art gallery features several black and white photographs of brutalist architecture examples.

“Carbon Copy” includes architectural models and photography by Leonid Furmansky, an Austin-based photographer.

An art piece featuring a representation of an animal carcass, with colorful mushrooms growing from it and around it.

Dissonant Data” includes two and three-dimensional work featuring life-size animals, insects and abstract self-portraits by artist Shawn Smith.

A university dean and a student stand in an art gallery surrounded by people. The student is holding a plaque award.

Angel Aparicio received the Dean’s Selection Award at the closing reception for the “Fresh Forward” student exhibition.

A photo of artwork made from scraps of Newspaper.

“Lamentations” features work of mixed-media collages that address current events by Ukrainian-American artist Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak.

Several paintings hang in a gallery. The focus of the gallery images is the center with a black cat surrounded by swirls.

In honor of a decade of art, a special exhibition titled “10 Years 10 Artists” features work from the gallery’s first decade, with additional artists featured digitally.

Print art featuring a cowgirl with splotches around her, above the painting is a pink ribbon banner on display in an art gallery.

“Past and Present: Alternative Prints and Sketches” includes printmaking, sketches and commercial music posters by artist Carlos Hernandez.

Three paintings on display in an art gallery.

“Caracas Moderna” showcases 15 paintings and one video of Marian Ichaso Lefeld’s work.

A university professor, student and other university professor stand in a gallery. The students holds a plaque that says "best in show."

Corain Marneweck received a Best in Show Wright Gallery Scholarship at the closing reception for the “Fresh Forward” student exhibition.

Two square structures in red, yellow, blue and white in an art gallery.

An exhibition of new works and site-specific interventions by Tulsa-based artist Shane Darwent.

A range of tignon's on display on a wall in an art gallery.

The Texas-based artist, Chesley Antoinette, examines the Tignon Law of 1786 in Louisiana, which forced free women of color to cover their hair with a cloth known as a tignon.

A painting of a house pn a farm with clouds and open terrain.

Intricately textured oil paintings by artist Catherine Allen that depict scenes from Midland, Texas, her hometown, are on display in “En Route.”

Text image: Notes from the Desert Aquarium Carol Flueckiger Robin Germany"

Texas artists Carol Flueckiger and Robin Germany make a powerful plea for awareness of climate change, and a call for each individual to act accordingly, in “Notes from the Desert Aquarium.”

“Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture,” a painting of sharp triangles.

Residential designs by Bruce Goff, featured in the exhibition “Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture.”

CONTACT

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Rebecca Pugh, M.F.A.

Director of Wright Gallery, Instructional Assistant Professor in the Visualization Program College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts
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Wright Gallery

Langford Architecture Center, Building A, Second Floor Mon. through Thurs. 8 a.m. to 7:45 p.m.; Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.