Sedrick Huckaby and Barbra Riley @ THE GALLERY AT UTA

LECTURE: Sedrick Huckaby will talk about his work on Wednesday, March 30. The talk will take place at 12:30 in UT Arlington’s Fine Arts Building. Room 148. The talk is free and open to the public.

Exhibition: February 21 – April 2, 2011

ARLINGTON–The Gallery at The University of Texas Arlington is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Sedrick Huckaby (Ft. Worth) and Barbra Riley (Corpus Christi). Huckaby, who has won numerous important awards for his paintings including a recent Guggenheim Fellowship Award, will present canvases and works on paper depicting and celebrating African-American quilting traditions. Riley, an art professor at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, will be showing a series of large format digital photographs that reference the legacy of 17th Century Dutch and Flemish still life painting.

Sedrick Huckaby, Hidden in Plain Sight, 2011 - Detail, Oil on canvas, 108" x 168",

Courtesy of Valley House

Barbra Riley, Balancing Values While Riding the Bus, 27x29, 2008, archival inkjet print

The exhibit and all events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon until 5 p.m. Saturday. The gallery is located in room 169 at the north end of the Fine Arts Building, 502 S. Cooper St. For more information, contact Benito Huerta or Patricia Healy (817) 272-5658 or visit www.uta.edu/gallery.