The Gallery at UTA is pleased to present the Introductions exhibition, which showcases the work of four newly appointed or promoted faculty members in the Department of Art and Art History: Liz Trosper, Danielle Beverly, Dr. Ananya Singh, and Dr. Lucy Bartholomee.
Working across digital painting, documentary cinema, visual communication design, and art education, these four professors share an interest in learning through close attention to people and their stories, urban systems and discarded materials, activist communities, and artists and histories that have been overlooked. Their practices begin with encounters that challenge assumptions and open up new ways of seeing, thinking, and making. These same approaches shape their classrooms, where students learn to investigate the world, follow questions, trace connections, and imagine what might be possible.
Danielle Beverly
Assistant Professor of Cinematic Arts Danielle Beverly brings more than two decades of experience in documentary production and visual storytelling to UTA. The exhibition screens five of her feature-length documentaries, recognized for their intimate observational attention to people and communities navigating moments of transformation. Her films move from girls coming of age within a multinational gymnastics community (Qatar Stars, 2023) to histories of racial division and healing in the American South (Old South, 2015)\; from the emotional weight of objects we leave behind (Dusty Groove: The Sound of Transition, 2019) to artists who transform personal struggle (Learning to Swallow, 2005) or discarded materials into new forms of possibility (Lonnie Holley: The Truth of the Dirt, 2017). Across these varied subjects, Beverly uses time, trust, and close observation to reveal how individual lives are shaped by larger systems of race, gender, history, and belonging.
Liz Trosper
Assistant Professor of Painting Liz Trosper works between screens, scanners, her studio, and city curbsides, exploring how systems of technology, waste, and exchange might generate new possibilities for painting and community. In her ongoing project ALT+drag, Trosper develops a practice of “digital psychogeography,” systematically exploring urban landscapes and embedding curbside discoveries into digital paintings through improvisational scanning. Her persistent fascination with pipes, pipelines, hoses, cables, among other discarded materials forms the basis of a new site-specific installation at The Gallery at UTA, where objects marked for disposal are transformed into a large-scale installation and shareable artifacts. At its expansive scale, the work foregrounds physical gestures, glitches, and material traces embedded in digital image-making. Trosper’s practice expands the possibilities of self-portraiture by embracing the visible traces of touch, the physical presence of human flesh on technological surfaces, and productive chaos, while resisting the sleek, frictionless aesthetics of digital culture. A section of the installation extends these ideas into the historic indoor garden of the Fine Arts Building, exploring connections between cultivation, discarded materials, and digital systems.
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Ananya Singh
The creative practice of Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design Ananya Singh demonstrates how design can become a tool for advocacy and social change. Across commercial, environmental, and community contexts, Singh’s collaborative projects address complex ethical issues. The exhibition features campaigns addressing wildlife trafficking, a Goodwill campaign focused on sustainable reuse, and BRAID (Black Restorative Agriculture Incubation & Development), an award-winning identity supporting Black women farmers and confronting systemic barriers surrounding land and agriculture. The images on view demonstrate Singh’s expansive interest in visual storytelling that amplifies underrepresented voices, collective identities, and imagines more sustainable and equitable futures through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Lucy Bartholomee
Assistant Professor of Art Education Dr. Lucy Bartholomee’s practice centers on expanding whose histories, perspectives, and creative possibilities enter the classroom and contemporary culture. Her recent research on Swedish artist Hilma af Klint examines the artist’s pioneering abstraction, spiritual practices, and resistance to the patriarchal systems that marginalized her work. Bartholomee extends this research into her teaching, using art history as a catalyst for students to explore symbolism, abstraction, identity, and their own creative voices. The exhibition presents Bartholomee’s published research alongside creative responses developed with student collaborators, who have reimagined her texts for the gallery through engaging printmaking techniques. The project reflects her broader commitment to elevating women artists and empowering students to see themselves as active participants in the production of art discourse and visual culture.
Exhibition on view: September 8 – October 2, 2026
Reception: September 10, 5-7 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday by appointment.
Located on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building, 502 S. Cooper St., Arlington, Texas.
For more information, contact August Davis at 817-272-2891 or Lilia Kudelia at lilia.kudelia@uta.edu.
Image: Liz Trosper. Detail of Pipeline: Self-portrait, 2026