January & February 2018 College News

THE UNIVERSITY GALLERIES Galleries 1 & 2 are physically located within the School of Art & Design at Texas State Universit y. TEMPORARY MEASURES HEATHER SCOTT PETERSON FEBRUARY 5 – MARCH 9, 2018 The works in this exhibition explore the syntax of matter—to refuse anchorage in time, to slip from the assurances of physical permanence, and to yield only briefly to the geometries and aesthetics of human intention. Copper and zinc—the elements that conspire to form the idiom of brass—are shaped by metamorphic processes beyond our conception of time and scale. Brass is a material more closely aligned with the provisional dynamics of science or the utility of the applied arts than with the presumptive permanence of sculpture. Its resistance to corrosion and wear allowed the esteemed clockmaker John Harrison to harness geographical longitude with the gearing of the first sea clock, and its acoustic and bactericidal properties underwrote the flare and luster of Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet. 4 | January & February | College News UPCOMING EXHIBITION: School of Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition March 26 - April 10 Opening March 26, 5 – 6 PM To find out more, please visit: www.txstgalleries.org