Two Texas artists have work on display in Austin College galleries during February and March. The exhibits are free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The exhibits and artist visits are sponsored by the Austin College Department of Art and Art History.
Michael Winegarden’s exhibit titled Parallel Universes is on display through March 8 in Ida Green Communication Center’s Ida Green Gallery, 1201 E. Brockett. His oil, acrylic, and mixed media artwork consists of paintings and photography that explore the interaction and perception of simultaneous images. An artist reception will be held Monday, February 18, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Ida Green Gallery. The reception will be followed by an artist talk at 7 p.m. in Room 210 of Forster Arts Studio Complex.
Winegarden received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2007 from Texas A&M University-Commerce, and he has been an adjunct professor at several North Texas colleges.
Catherine Prose is exhibiting her work titled Nature Observed and Imagined through March 29 in Dennis Gallery of Forster Art Complex, 1313 E. Richards Street. The exhibition, inspired by notions of landscape and the conservation of our natural environment, includes photography, drawing, painting, and printmaking works created from 1999 through 2019.
Prose is a published artist working as an art professor at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. Prose holds a bachelor’s degree from Cameron University and a Master of Fine Art degree from Texas Tech University. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Colorado Special Collections, and in the Printmaker Research Collection at the Museum of Texas Tech University.