Tag Archives: contemporary art

New Work: Frederick Hammersley

This gallery contains 15 photos.

Toward the end of 2017, The Frederick Hammersley Foundation donated to the Art Division of the Museum of Texas Tech thirteen artworks by the Foundation’s namesake, including one painting, three computer drawings, six prints, and three drawings.  Then in 2018 … Continue reading

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New AP/RC Artist: Aaron Coleman

This gallery contains 12 photos.

Better the artist’s words than ours, here are excerpts that Coleman penned: My work once found its origin in current events…more recently it has evolved into a blanket description of the apocalyptic world in which we live. Police brutality, racial … Continue reading

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Monograph on Rick Dingus’ Photographs

This gallery contains 15 photos.

Following the retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Texas Tech University, the University of Oklahoma Press published in September 2016 a comprehensive monograph, Shifting Views and Changing Places, on Rick Dingus and his artwork. The Artist Printmaker/Photographer Research Collection (AP/RC) … Continue reading

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New AP/RC Artist: Joseph Labate

This gallery contains 89 photos.

Joseph Labate, currently professor of photography, served as chair of the University of Arizona photography area from 1996-2014. His role at that University coincided with the increased availability of digital cameras and his dogged pursuits in digital photography. Labate got … Continue reading

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Anthony Lazorko, Jr. (1935-2017)

This gallery contains 18 photos.

Tony Lazorko died last August (2017) in Mesilla, New Mexico, just south of Las Cruces, where he had moved after he retired from a long career at newspapers in Philadelphia and St. Louis. He had worked at the Philadelphia Evening … Continue reading

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Patrick Nagatani, 1945-2017

This gallery contains 18 photos.

Patrick Nagatani died on October 27, 2017 after a long struggle with colon cancer. He was 72. Obituaries can be read in the New York Times and the Albuquerque Journal. The Artist Printmaker/Photographer Research Collection holds two important portfolios by … Continue reading

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Andy Warhol in the AP/RC

This gallery contains 167 photos.

About a decade ago, as we were developing the Artist Printmaker/Photographer Research Collection, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts celebrated in 2007 its 20th anniversary. One facet of this celebration included the distribution of thousands of Warhol’s polaroids … Continue reading

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New Additions to the AP/RC: Rick Dingus

This gallery contains 108 photos.

Rick Dingus has explored the cultural and topographical landscapes of the western United States for more than four decades. Beginning in the late 1970s, his black and white and color photographs heightened with drawing created a dialogue between the multiplicity … Continue reading

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New AP/RC Artist: Judy Youngblood

This gallery contains 8 photos.

The AP/RC received a generous donation from the artist of 46 original drypoints and linocuts that date from 2000 to 2010. Like a variety of printmakers who use relief matrices, Judy Youngblood tends toward printing combinations or select elements of … Continue reading

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New Additions to the AP/RC: Cerese Vaden

This gallery contains 21 photos.

Vaden’s recently donated prints include many references to flight, birds, stairwells and ladders, and running water. The artist recently noted that the ladders and stairs act as “verbs” in her images, suggesting incomplete actions. The ladders have only three rungs, making it impossible … Continue reading

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