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The Malouf Abraham Family Art Center

Designed to increase cultural awareness and artistic heritage, the gallery was made possible thanks to the generosity of Dr. Malouf and Therese Abraham. 

An avid art collector and patron, Dr. Abraham designed the gallery space in collaboration with the Frank Lloyd Wright Institute. The result is one of the finest and most elegant galleries in the Southwest.

Students at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÊÓƵ and local community members take advantage of the wonderful opportunities the gallery provides. Season exhibits include a variety of shows featuring a full range of medias such as sculpture, metalwork, and acrylic and oil paintings, techniques and concepts. Exhibits feature works of both established professional and emerging regional artists, as well as showcases of nationally renowned collections.

NOW SHOWING: TRANQUILITY & BEING

 

The Abraham Art Gallery new exhibition, TRANQUILITY & BEING features the original oil, tempera and watercolor paintings and drawings of artist Zhuocai Ouyang. The show will be open October 4 through December 5, 2025.

Zhuocai Ouyang was born in 1976 in southeastern China. As an elite artist, he applied to immigrate with his family for permanent residency in America to pursue his art career in oil painting. He and his wife, Sarah, and their son, Charlie, have lived in Lubbock, Texas since 2018.

Ouyang enjoyed painting as a young child and knew he wanted to pursue it as a lifelong career. He majored in oil painting and went on to postgraduate studies at Nanjing University of the Arts from 2002 to 2005, and he currently teaches a variety of subjects at Jiangxi Normal University in China.

Working primarily in oil and tempera, Ouyang’s stylistic use of color, patterns and light create a texture of clarity and serenity in his introspective portraits and atmospheric landscapes. He is fascinated by emotion and the ways painting “explores the human spiritual world” through the artistic process and style of expression; he enjoys this private act of discovery in his work more than the completed painting itself. “Character image has always been my concern and interest,” says Ouyang. “I like to depict characters in a realistic way. Realistic paintings depict the objects from the natural world, but it is not about simply reproducing the objective things but with deeper psychological experience and spiritual pursuit.”

In recent years, his paintings have been selected to show in national and provincial academic art exhibitions in China and have won awards at the national level, and three of his works were chosen to be exhibited at Joint exhibition of 100 Chinese painters in London in 2023.

The Abraham Art Gallery is located on the Atrium level of the WBU Library & Mabee Learning Resource Center at 1900 W. 7th St. For more information or to schedule a group tour, please call us at 806-291-3710. We hope to see you soon!

Our regular hours are Monday to Thursday 10am - 5pm, Friday 10am - 4pm & Saturday 2pm - 5pm.

 

 

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