Currently on display

Misty Gamble
Meadows Gallery

Now on display is a body of work from renowned ceramicist Misty Gamble, who shares the following artist statement:

"My current studio practice sits at the intersection of feminism and environmentalism and looks to the relationship between human animals and non-human animals. I am looking at the overlap of feminist and vegan critical theory that discusses consumptive culture and objectification in language and “the absent referent” in literature. My work is inspired by research from The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams, which has become the classic articulation of the hidden connections between meat eating and patriarchy, and between vegetarianism and feminism.

In the solo exhibition, Of Flesh and The Feminine, a series of eight ageless ceramic life-size femmes, depicted through torsos, and inspired by the Rococo hold up heads with enormous baroque fantastical coiffures and operate as pedestals for the gigantic meat bouquet of animal fragments and accoutrement. Atop the head sits metal woven 'cages' or upside down French revolutionary era pocket skirts holding cornucopias of synthetic hair, tassels, horns, faux flora and ceramic cast drumsticks, wings and feet.

For artists, there is nothing more currently pressing, than engaging in discourse about the earth and all its inhabitants. This exhibition explores environmental issues through eco-social engagement that is anchored in community-led development and uses art to draw the community into talking about and acting on social, political, or environmental issues. This exhibition creates an opportunity to support dialogue to bring about social change that goes beyond the exhibition space."

Festival Hall

In the earliest days of GDAC, as far back as 1969, original members of our organization established the beginnings of a small permanent collection of artworks. Some of the early pieces were acquired as purchase awards from the Fine Arts Festival of Denton, while later works were gifts or bequests from artists and local patrons of the arts.

While GDAC no longer accepts or pursues additions to our permanent collection, we want to ensure the community still has the opportunity to enjoy the pieces that we have. Some of the works are on display around the building in perpetuity and others are hung in Festival Hall between exhibitions.

Our staff is in the process of rebuilding the catalogue of our permanent collection artworks and researching further into the artists and their works to preserve their stories. You can see the in-progress catalogue here.