Tyler Residents Featured in Upcoming UT Tyler Art Exhibitions

November 6, 2024 | Hannah Buchanan

Public receptions set this month at Fine Arts Complex and Meadows Gallery

Work by student-artists Amanda Parks and Lisa Horlander, both of Tyler, will be featured in upcoming exhibitions at The University of Texas at Tyler.

“Vitality in Grain” highlights the works of Parks, a UT Tyler undergraduate art degree candidate, and begins Monday, Nov. 11 through Friday, Nov. 22, at the Fine Arts Complex Gallery. The UT Tyler
Department of Art and Fine Art will hold a public reception at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Fine
Arts Complex.

Parks is a sculptor and painter who uses wood and oil paint. Her current body of work is focused on the pieces of time that determine who individuals are, through abstracted tiers of topography.

“Whispering Shapes” presented by Horlander, a UT Tyler graduate art degree candidate and Tyler
native, begins Monday, Nov. 18 through Friday, Dec. 6, at the Meadows Gallery, located in the R.
Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center. The department will hold a public reception at 6 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 21, at the gallery.

Horlander’s exhibition showcases organic forms suspended from the ceiling, which recreates the
experience of being still and standing within a forest, while light cascades through the branches.

Both gallery hours are 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and by special appointment. For
more information, contact Michelle Taff, UT Tyler gallery, community outreach and education
coordinator, at mtaff@uttyler.edu or 903.566.7237.

With a mission to improve educational and health care outcomes for East Texas and beyond, UT
Tyler offers more than 90 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 10,000 students.
Through its alignment with UT Tyler Health Science Center and UT Health East Texas, UT Tyler has
unified these entities to serve Texas with quality education, cutting-edge research and excellent
patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News & World
Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.