is what is exhibits work by Jeff Williams. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Plymouth, Michigan. Williams' work questions the relationships between materiality, abstraction, and their correlation to time. He studied at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design in 1998, and his MFA from Syracuse University in 2002. From 2006-2008, he was a fellow and artist-in-residence at the Core Program at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston. He received the Texas Prize from The Contemporary Austin in 2012. Williams lives and works in Brooklyn and Austin where he is an assistant professor in Sculpture in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. The exhibition will be on display February 12 – May 2, 2015.

Please join us for the opening reception Thursday, February 12, 5–7 pm.

The Courtyard Gallery is located in the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center at The University of Texas at Austin and features artwork from faculty and alumni of the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Fine Arts. It is the result of a collaborative effort between the Office of the Vice President for Employee and Campus Services and the College of Fine Arts and is curated by Visual Arts Center Director Jade Walker.