Gallery Talk: Frances Bagley

Name: Gallery Talk: Frances Bagley
Start: 2025-01-25T13:30:00-06:00
Location: Nasher Sculpture Center

Schedule

Sat, 25 Jan, 2025 at 01:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Nasher Sculpture Center | Dallas, TX

For over four decades, artist and long-time Dallasite Frances Bagley has created a multivalent sculptural language through her objects, installations, and lens-based media. Bagley is a founding member of the feminist collective Toxic Shock, a Dallas-based group of women artists established in 1980 with whom Bagley has made works commenting on gender, politics, and identity. Her practice continues to explore contemporary social issues and dynamics, particularly relating to the gendered body. Often using cast body forms as well as ambiguously feminine signifiers like braided hair or draped fabric, Bagley creates a tension between the figurative and abstract. In recent years, Bagley has begun to incorporate enterable structures in her installations to create an architecture that bridges the viewer’s world and the surreal universe that her organic forms and enchanted objects inhabit.
In-person and open to the public. FREE admission with RSVP.
About Frances Bagley:
Born in Fayetteville, TN, Frances Bagley earned her MFA in Sculpture from the University of North Texas after receiving her MA and BFA in Painting from Arizona State University. She currently lives and works in Dallas, TX. Bagley’s work is informed by situations of social concern and often asks questions about the human experience in relation to the environment, architecture, and society.
Bagley has exhibited extensively throughout her more than 40-year career along with a strong community involvement in support of women’s and artist’s rights. She has been a member of the women’s collaborative Toxic Shock since its beginning in 1980. An award recipient in the 10th Kajima Sculpture Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, and in the 2007 Texas Biennial, Bagley’s work is included in museum and corporate collections, including the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the El Paso Museum, the Kajima Collection, Tokyo, and American Airlines, among others. Bagley has also been involved in numerous public art projects, and collaborated with her husband, artist Tom Orr, to create sets and costume designs for Verdi’s Nabucco, which opened The Dallas Opera’s 50th anniversary season. Her awards include the Moss Chumley Artists Award from the Meadows Museum, the Individual Artist Grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the Legend Award from the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art.