UTRGV School of Art & Design hosting lecture, exhibition by artist Daniel Cosentino

By Amanda A. Taylor-Uchoa

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) School of Art and Design is inviting media partners to attend a lecture and exhibition opening by renowned artist Daniel Cosentino as part of his one-week residency at UTRGV in collaboration with Romeo Di Loreto, assistant professor of Photography in UTRGV’s School of Art and Design.

The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the Rusteberg Building, 65 Gorgas Dr., Brownsville, TX. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the UTRGV Rusteberg Art Gallery, 65 Gorgas Dr., Brownsville, TX.

Cosentino will discuss the theoretical and technical aspects of his work, which includes traditional platinum and palladium photographic printing, intaglio and laser etching, metal gilding, and 3D printing techniques.

The exhibition, titled “On Silence (Silenzio),” will run from October 2 to October 30, 2024. The exhibition is the latest in an ongoing collaboration between Cosentino and Di Loreto, which began in 2022.

“These images began as conversations or ‘lessons,’ as Romeo coined them, on the evolving presence of photography and its discourses,” said Cosentino. “From these discussions, we explored a concept in our photographic work—in this case, ‘silence,’ which, it turns out, can be quite noisy and filled with tonalities.”

Several works from this collaboration have been selected for numerous juried exhibitions both nationally and internationally.

Notably, Cosentino’s work will be featured in the 2024 New Jersey Arts Annual at the Montclair Art Museum, opening on September 26, just prior to his residency at UTRGV.

Di Loreto’s work has been selected for the Pingyao International Photography Festival in UNESCO-protected Shanxi, China.

“We are delighted to support this exhibition and lectures from Professor Cosentino and our own Professor Di Loreto. We look forward to this exhibition and the future exchanges it will produce,” said Dr. Jeffrey Ward, Dean of the College of Fine Arts at UTRGV.

For more information about upcoming events at the UTRGV College of Fine Arts, visit: https://www.utrgv.edu/school-of-art/.