Opening Reception: November 7, 2025 6:00-8:00pm
Exhibition on View: November 7, 2025–February 6, 2026
Location: Exhibitions at Rice, William T. Cannady Hall, Rice School of Architecture
Symposium: November 14–15, 2025
Admission: Free and open to the public
Art in Context will investigate how art and architecture are practiced in socially, politically, and ecologically turbulent times, while imagining productive and sustainable futures for maintenance and repair, adaptive reuse, and environmental conservation. The exhibition brings together drawings and photographs from the Chinati Foundation and Judd Foundation archives, documenting the development of Donald Judd’s 100 untitled works in mill aluminum and the repurposing of the former artillery sheds in which he installed them. Alongside these are contemporary drawings and models by Rice School of Architecture associate professor Troy Schaum. A series of twenty woodcut prints by Judd (1992–1993), on loan from Judd Foundation, will also be on view.
A related symposium, Art in Context: Art, Architecture, and the Middle Landscape, Part II, will be held on November 14 and 15.
Exhibitions at Rice
As a curatorial program of the Rice School of Architecture, Exhibitions at Rice uses the lens of design research to look at the world differently. Mobilizing a full spectrum of architectural representation—including drawing, imaging, making, and prototyping—this program weaves together scholarly inquiry, visual experimentation, and public engagement. Across all scales, from objects to buildings, cities, and the planet, Exhibitions at Rice engages the discipline of architecture as a cultural practice with a civic mandate, creating new discourses for both local and global audiences.