The Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas will unveil Cosmic Dancer: Anne Ferrer, a monumental textile installation that transforms the museum’s lobby into a colorful, imaginative environment inspired by nature, the human body and the supernatural.
This installation is presented in partnership with Los Angeles-based architecture firm, Morphosis, who designed The Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum.
Through this partnership, Ferrer’s work creates a conversation with how art responds to architecture and its environments.
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Located in the lobby of the Crow Museum of Asian Art at UT Dallas in Richardson, Cosmic Dancer will be on view Oct. 15, 2026, through Oct. 17, 2027. Admission to the museum is free.
Billowing, biomorphic and luminous, the sculpture engages the architecture of both buildings while echoing the spirit of the UT Dallas Art Museum collections. Rather than depicting specific forms, Ferrer conjures an imaginative world of aquatic forms, botanical motifs, and fantastical creatures that emerge and dissolve across its iridescent surface, filling the museum lobby with color, movement, and wonder.
Ferrer’s work has been exhibited internationally at some of the world’s leading art institutions, including the Centre Pompidou and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in France, the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center in Savannah, Georgia and the Ho-Am Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea.