GOLDMARK CULTURAL CENTER

“Elsewhere”
Jacqueline Smith

Saturday Oct03 // 6-8pm
thru October 03

Ruth Andres Gallery

The Goldmark Cultural Center’s Ruth Andres Gallery presents “Elsewhere”, a solo exhibition of new fine art relief prints by Goldmark artist Jacqueline Smith.

The exhibition is on display from 9/21 through 10/3 with a closing reception on Saturday 10/3 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

The reception is a great opportunity to meet the artist and learn from her about her artwork.

About the Exhibition

Elsewhere brings together relief prints shaped by observation, memory, and imagination. The work reflects my ongoing interest in the visual character of a place—particularly architecture, landscapes, ordinary objects, and overlooked details that become meaningful through attention and recollection.

Relief printmaking allows me to distill these subjects rather than simply reproduce them. Through carving, I reduce an image to the lines, shapes, contrasts, and textures that feel essential. What begins as direct observation is inevitably altered by the process, allowing memory and imagination to enter the work.

Across my practice, I return to ideas of place, memory, nostalgia, and the overlooked. Elsewhere is ultimately about the act of carrying places with us—and about how observation becomes memory, memory becomes image, and sometimes image becomes a place of its own.

About the Artist

Jacqueline Smith is a Dallas-based printmaker working primarily in linocut, woodcut, and chine collé from her studio at Goldmark Cultural Center. Raised in West Texas, she maintains a strong connection to its landscape, architecture, and visual culture, which frequently appear in her work. Her practice also draws on everyday objects, personal memories, and places encountered through travel.

In recent years, Smith has expanded her practice through international travel and artist residencies, including residencies in Skopje, North Macedonia, and Finland, outside Helsinki. These experiences have broadened her exploration of place and memory while continuing her interest in the familiar, overlooked, and remembered.

“While We Are Here…”
Kelly O’Briant

Saturday Oct03 // 6-8pm
thru Oct 30

John H. Milde Gallery

The Goldmark Cultural Center’s John H. Milde Gallery is proud to present “While We Are Here…”, a solo exhibition featuring photographic works by Kelly O’Briant.

The exhibition is on display in the Goldmark Cultural Center’s John H. Milde Gallery from 28 September to 30 October 2026.

The exhibition’s reception is on Saturday, 3 October 2026 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. The reception is a great opportunity to view the exhibition, meet the artist, and learn about the artwork.

About the Exhibition

I make photographs on medium format film with a homemade pinhole camera and a Holga wide-angle pinhole camera. I often intentionally layer frames, images, locations and contexts. Beaches, clouds, marshes, rooms and bodies overlap. Color vibrates. Figures repeat, disappear and pass through one another. One frame isn’t necessarily finished before the next begins. Something from the previous exposure remains; another place enters it; a body passes through. Things that could not occupy the same space in the visible world become inseparable on the film.

This feels very much like the way I experience the world—how I walk through it, observe it, remember it, and connect one thing to another. We don’t experience our lives as a clean sequence of discrete frames. The person in front of us exists alongside someone absent. The space we occupy contains other places. A memory enters the present without asking permission. Relationships of vastly different durations can coexist with equal intensity in the mind. Chronology is not necessarily a measure of emotional weight.

I have long been drawn to the surreal, but I don’t think I understood how visceral it could be—how completely the layers of a life can overlap into something simultaneously nonsensical and more real than anything around it. These photographs come from inside that overlap. They aren’t about arriving on the other side. They are made from inside the middle.

The process is technologically simple and remarkably direct: no lens, no digital compositing, no post-production creating these collisions. Light passes through a tiny opening and strikes film. Time, movement, my decisions, and chance construct the image. I don’t see exactly what I have made while I am making it.

Long exposures record duration differently. What is still can remain clear while living bodies move, blur and sometimes nearly disappear. A crowded beach becomes a mass of anonymous figures; a single blurred person might be a stranger or someone I know intimately. For many years, I have worked primarily in ceramics, considering people through the traces of their presence in objects and spaces. In these photographs, the people are present, but remain similarly elusive

Distortion, blur, repetition and overlapping exposures don’t make these photographs feel less true to me. They feel truer to experience precisely because they don’t describe the visible world with optical precision. There is a frame, but there is freedom within it: structure and accident, intimacy and anonymity, clarity and blur. One thing ends while another is already beginning, and sometimes neither disappears completely.

These photographs are not quite documents of what the world looks like. They are a record of what it feels like to be fully inside it.

About the Artist

Kelly O’Briant is an artist working in ceramics and photography. A native of North Carolina, she studied ceramics and cultural anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and worked as a studio potter for nearly a decade before earning her MFA in ceramics from Arizona State University.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including the Crocker Art Museum, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Archie Bray Foundation, and Penland School of Craft. O’Briant’s residencies include the Archie Bray Foundation and Hambidge Center, as well as programs in Kristinestad, Finland; the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemét, Hungary; and the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China.

Named an Emerging Artist by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) in 2015, O’Briant later completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in ceramic production methods and digital technologies at West Virginia University.

O’Briant is based in Texas, where she is Chair of the Art Department and Associate Professor of Ceramics at the University of Dallas.

“Domestic Ecotone”
Amy Henson

Saturday Oct03 // 6-8pm
thru Oct 30

Norman Brown Gallery

The Goldmark Cultural Center’s Norman Brown Gallery presents “Domestic Ecotone”, a solo exhibition featuring figurative ceramics and functional pottery by Dallas College art professor Amy Henson.

The exhibition is on display in the Goldmark Cultural Center’s Norman Brown Gallery from 28 September to 30 October 2026.

Read more about the exhibition and artist here!

Amy Henson is a ceramic artist whose research centers on figurative or sculptural functional pottery. Currently Henson’s concepts focus on maternal feminism, inspired by the challenges of her lived experience as a woman, artist, and mother, and real or imagined flora and fauna mythic enough to reflect marginalization and the human psyche. Subjects include domesticated animals like horses, wildlife perceived as pest animals such as opossums and raccoons, as well as creatures from the fantastic bestiary like cryptids. Humble red earthenware softly textured with pinch marks presents an ideal foundation to communicate aspects of marginalization associated with craft and function.

“Quadrant”
Virginia Marsh + Eliza Au

Saturday 10/3 // 6-8pm
thru December 31, 2026.

Join us on Saturday 10/3 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the Goldmark Cultural Center’s Dialogue Wall for the opening reception of “Quadrant”, a two person exhibition featuring ceramic works by Goldmark artist Virginia Marsh and UNT art professor Eliza Au.

The exhibition is on display in the Goldmark Cultural Center’s Dialogue Wall from 28 September to 31 December 2026.

The reception is a great opportunity to view the exhibition, meet the artists, and learn about the artwork.

About the Exhibition

Quadrant presents four distinct clay works, each showcasing a unique sensibility and technique. Eliza Au’s precise, digitally fabricated and slip-cast plates, adorned with elegant, patterned rims, invite us to explore the intricate, open motifs that reveal a sense of peaceful order and lightness. In contrast, Ginny Marsh’s deeply textured slab platters, crafted with minimal tools, recall the primal nature of the clay while confining it within a distinct quadrant. By contrasting the approaches of each artist to repetition, the exhibition highlights the range of possibilities available when working with clay.
About the Artists

Eliza Au is an artist working in clay using digital fabrication techniques. She earned her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Au has shown her work nationally and internationally, including at: the Korean International Ceramic Biennale (Icheon, Korea; 2019), the Taiwan Ceramic Biennale (New Taipei City, Taiwan; 2020), MIC Faenza (Faenza, Italy; 2023), and the Indian Ceramics Triennial (New Delhi, India; 2023). She has previously attended residencies at the European Ceramic Work Center (Hertogenbosch, NL), the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (Helena, MT), Greenwich House Pottery, and received a McKnight Artist Fellowship to attend a residency at the Northern Clay Center (Minneapolis, MN) in 2022. In 2020, she received an Award of Excellence during the Chrysalis Competition held by the James Renwick Alliance. Her work is in several permanent collections including the Everson Museum of Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Au is currently based out of Texas where she is an Associate Professor of Ceramics at the University of North Texas.

Ginny Marsh has spent a long career using traditional clay forming techniques with high-temperature stoneware and porcelain. She earned her MFA from The Ohio State University and her BA from DePauw University. While raising a family on a small organic farm, she taught at the University of Louisville, worked as Editorial Advisor on Ceramics for Chilton Books, exhibited her work and gave workshops all over North America. Her work is in several permanent collections , and she was one of only a handful of ceramic artists included in the Indiana State Museum’s 2016 Bicentennial Exhibition, “200 Years of Art in Indiana.” Her work has been featured in major pottery books. She led a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and attended one at the Medalta International Artist-in-Residence Studio. More recently, she taught classes at the Craft Guild of Dallas and worked as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Dallas. She now works in her home studio and fires in a small car kiln in her backyard. A native Texan, she is a member of the Goldmark Cultural Center and the Craft Guild of Dallas.

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