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College of Fine Arts and Communication | 7 6 | April & May | College News THE TEXAS STATE GALLERIES Galleries 1 & 2 , FLEX Space, and JCM Lobby are physically located within the School of Art & Design at Texas State Universit y. THE WORK OF MARIA TRITICO: I AM NOT CONTAINED BETWEEN MY HAT AND BOOTS March 21 - April 15, 2022 Born and raised in Houston, Maria Tritico (1988– 2020) received her B.F.A. in 2012 from Texas State University in Photography and in Studio Art with an emphasis in Metals. This exhibition brings together 40+ works by Maria Tritico , on loan from the artist's fiancé, family members, and friends. The exhibition includes sketchbooks and works in progress, as well as examples from her distinguished body of thesis work, which posed the question: How would your body react if you were to wear your fear— to choose to put your fear on every day? Tritico's interest in the space of the mind followed her later to graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she earned a master's degree in Art Therapy. Tritico described a shift in her art practice upon leaving Chicago, from being inspired by "an emotional reaction to things happening in the world" to "looking at the world around." It was then that her signature style began to take shape as she fashioned artworks influenced by the implied patterns in architecture, even in its construction materials. MORE INFORMATION: To fnd out more information, please visit: https://txstgalleries.org/ Instagram | Facebook