“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that,” Virginia Woolf writes in Orlando, running her needle in and out, joining fragments that logic would keep apart. Memory does not record; it stitches, cutting what it keeps and seaming it into something new. The artists in this exhibition make that work visible.

Across painting, sculpture, assemblage, and cut canvas, remembered places and gathered materials are pieced back together: northern landscapes, family land, gardens, bayous, and the discarded fabric of city streets. For some, the seam is literal, binding personal and collective histories through sewing, quilting, and collage. For others, it is the distance between a place observed and a place remembered, distilled through paint. What emerges is never a faithful record but always a new whole, an invitation to consider how transformation is itself a way of remembering.

Art @ CityCentre is a rotating art program featuring fresh and engaging exhibitions of works from Texas-based artists and galleries. This ongoing program serves visitors and tenants of CityCentre lobby spaces in office buildings across the campus.

On exhibit until March 2027, the lobbies at CityCentre are open to the public M-F, 8 AM – 6 PM

CityCentre 2 Lobby I – Gabriel Martinez
CityCentre 2 Lobby II – Garrett Griffin
City Centre 3 – Peter Gynd
CityCentre 4 – Isela Aguirre
CityCentre 5 – Erin Curtis

Photography by Nicki Evans