March 1 - May 9, 2025
From CO-OPt Research + Projects:
“CO-OPt Research + Projects presents Water Radio, a solo exhibition of work by New York-based artist Audra Wolowiec created with contributions from Texas Tech University students from across the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Wolowiec’s new sound installation and notational scores respond to the Ogallala Aquifer, the largest in the United States and our region’s primary source for water. A subterranean water table formed by layers of porous material and spanning eight states, the Ogallala Aquifer creates its own aqueous boundary, and is rapidly depleting. Through a series of participatory workshops and interviews, Water Radio adopts an embodied approach to understanding our entanglement with the water table, inviting participants to respond to our complex relationships with water—how we are connected to water, and how water connects us.
The sound installation will be aired on CO-OPt’s low-power radio station KOOP, transmitted from the gallery into public space.
About the artist:
Audra Wolowiec is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in New York whose work engages sound and the material qualities of language. Her work has been shown internationally and in the United States at MASS MoCA, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, ICA at MECA, Stony Brook University, and Art in General. Interviews and reviews have appeared in BOMB Magazine, Artforum, The New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, and Sound American. Residencies include Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Dieu Donné, Complex Systems Art and Physics Residency at the University of Oregon supported by a National Science Foundation Grant, Institute for Electronic Arts (iea) at Alfred University, and Center for Book Arts. In 2023, Wolowiec was awarded a NYFA Fellowship Grant for Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts and an Artist Fellowship at the New York Public Library Picture Collection investigating how sound is contained in images. She teaches at Parsons School of Design, Dia Art Foundation, and directs the publishing platform Gravel Projects.
www.audrawolowiec.com”
Reception: March 1, 2025 | 5–8 pm
4204 Boston Ave
Lubbock, 79413 Texas
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