Widener Gallery
Located on the ground floor of Austin Arts Center,
Widener Gallery is free and open to public.
The gallery is currently closed for the winter break.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
ECHOES AND COLLISIONS
THE ART OF FRANTZ PATRICK HENRY IN CONVERSATION WITH SELECTIONS FROM THE EDITH A. GRAHAM COLLECTION OF HAITIAN ART
January 30 – April 30, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 30, 4 – 6 p.m.
Echoes and Collisions asks: What happens when artistic legacies and contemporary visions meet, but do not always fit? How can moments of dissonance be as generative as moments of unity?
This exhibition features installation art by Frantz Patrick Henry in conversation with selections from the Edith A. Graham Collection of Haitian Art. The resulting dialogue oscillates between harmony and dissonance, connection and collision, inviting viewers into a speculative space where the boundaries of time dissolve, and art becomes a bridge between histories and imagined futures. Here, cultural narratives intertwine, but sometimes misalign, reflecting the complexity of navigating art across different timelines.
The Edith A. Graham Collection of Haitian Art was donated to Trinity by members of the Graham family in memory of their mother. Born of a 40-year commitment to Haitian art, the collection holds vibrant expressions of spirituality, resilience, and cultural identity. These paintings, sculptures, and ceremonial objects evoke a Haiti that exists beyond historical constraints — a Haiti reimagined, where traditions continue to evolve. Henry’s work engages with these legacies, at times echoing them, and at other times clashing, questioning, and reshaping them. The result is a dynamic tension, where past and present do not always seamlessly align, but instead create new, unexpected meanings.
Echoes and Collisions pays tribute to Edith A. Graham’s legacy while embracing the unpredictability of cultural dialogue. In this space, art becomes a force that collides, challenges, and ultimately expands our understanding of heritage and possibility.
F. Patrick Henry is an artist of Haitian origin who has been living in Montreal since 2011. He graduated from Université du Québec à Montréal (2019). He received the McAbbie Foundation Sculpture Excellence Grant from the School of Visual and Media Arts (UQAM) for his installation titled Je suis nouveau ici (2020), and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and the Explore and Create Grant from the Canadian Council for the Arts for his upcoming solo exhibition in Toronto, titled Am I a hero? (September 2025). Having recently completed his MFA in sculpture at Yale School of Art, he is currently a fellow at NXTHVN, the art incubator lab in New Haven, CT.
A multidisciplinary artist, Henry explores the theme of “becoming” through sculpture, painting and installation. By appropriating everyday objects diverted from their function, his works often unfold in the form of a site promoting relations with the viewer, which invites them to an experience of self-reconstruction.
Sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts and the Center for Caribbean Studies.
For more information contact:
Lisa Lynch: [email protected], 860 297 5237
Or Tracy Quigley, [email protected], 860 297 5232
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