April 17 - 24, 2025
From Moody Gallery:
“Chasing Shadows is a celebration of diverse perspectives on grief, trauma, and nature through the mediums of oil painting and drawing. Join the graduating BFA candidates for Chasing Shadows as they present their capstone exhibition, featuring final works in a variety of mediums and technical approaches, created during their undergraduate experience at TCU. Similar to shadows, the works present a visual for invisible experiences. Chasing Shadows invites viewers into a nexus of surreal and ethereal spaces. Within their works, each artist suggests their understanding of ordinary objects through diverging lenses of the eerie and celestial. In life-studies, sourced images, and three-dimensional models, they curate two-dimensional space where time remains undetermined. Each artist utilizes notions of nostalgia and the familiar to recognize their pasts whilst simultaneously moving into the future.
Ellie Evans, originally from Atlanta, GA, is a current BFA Studio Art major at Texas Christian University with an emphasis in painting. She combines techniques of dying canvas, gestural brush work, and a range of transparent to opaque paint applications. She layers sourced imagery to invent ethereal spaces and mimic techniques of double-exposure usually found in photography. She references human to nature connection and juxtaposes what is deemed domestic and what is natural.
Jasmine Ramirez, originally from Fort Worth, TX, is a current BFA Studio Art major at Texas Christian University with an emphasis in painting. She uses a range of thick and thin paint applications, custom made shaped substrates, and images of space, water, and clouds in her work. She combines these techniques to create figures in otherworldly environments to communicate various aspects of what PTSD and trauma can feel like.
Lydia Welling, originally from Grand Junction, CO, is a current BFA Studio Art major at Texas Christian University with an emphasis in painting. Her work uses the subject of windows and nature, specifically plant life. Windows are used to reveal and conceal interior spaces with nature acting as voyeuristic stand-ins for the human gaze. The plant life is painted in bright red to separate the natural world from the human-made world.
Madeline Smith, originally from Fort Worth, TX, is a current BFA Studio Art major at Texas Christian University with an emphasis in drawing and painting. Madeline combines her love of life-study and graphite drawing by assembling three-dimensional models to serve as direct references for her work. Utilizing small drawings, found objects and found materials, Madeline creates models of surreal landscapes to incapsulate themes of loss, religion, and the macabre.”
Reception: April 17, 2025 | 5–7 pm
The Moudy Gallery @ Texas Christian University
2805 S. University Drive (At Cantey Street)
Fort Worth, 76129 TX
(817) 257-2588
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