2026 Braun Memorial Lecture
Join us on THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2026, from 6:00–7:00 P.M. in GOLD ROOMS B & C at OAKLAND UNIVERSITY'S OAKLAND CENTER for this year's lecture event.
Born and raised in Mexico City, Gabriel Dawe has created a practice informed by his childhood fascination with needlework as well as his frustration with the restrictive gender norms that forbade him access to it as a young boy. Challenging the traditional categorization of textiles within domestic craft, the artist’s work weaves together reflections on gender, fashion, and architecture. Dawe’s large-scale installations emulate the optical phenomena of refracted light, captivating viewers by inviting them into an ethereal and celestial experience within the bounds of the venerable walls and ceilings of art institutions. Dawe explains his intent is to “materialize light, to give it density, so that I can offer the viewer an approximation of things otherwise inaccessible to us—a glimmer of hope that brings us closer to the transcendent.”
Dawe received an MFA from the University of Texas at Dallas. In 2020, Dawe received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, and the Texas State 3D Visual Artist Award. His work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Crystal Bridges; Courtauld Institute, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Amon Carter Museum, to name a few.
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