The Goldmark Cultural Center’s Norman Brown Gallery presents “Habitat”, a group exhibition of paintings by Denton artists Rachel Black, Elaine Pawlowicz, and Susan Seaborn.
The exhibition is on display from Monday October 13, 2025 through Friday November 7, 2025, with an opening reception on Saturday October 18, 2025 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm at the Norman Brown Gallery (14001 Goldmark Drive). The reception is an ideal time to meet the artists and learn from them about their work.
About the Exhibition
In this collection of paintings of the outdoors, scenes are revealed through three distinct lenses. The works are the result of introspection and exploration.
Shared are fallow landscapes, suburban lawnscapes and skyscapes, including "natural" or orchestrated habitats which define our sliver of the world.
We strive to present and interrogate the spaces between and within our constructed environment. These places are the habitat we share.
About the Artists
Elaine Pawlowicz received her B.F.A. from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1990 and her M.F.A. in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993. She continued to live and work as an artist in Chicago for the following 15 years before beginning teaching at the University of North Texas in 2006. Her paintings are inspired by the Chicago Imagist Tradition. The style is magical realism, where the space is flat with an idiosyncratic perspective. The paintings are speckled with tiny characters swallowed up by neon color fields. These highly personalized narratives are slightly ambiguous and peculiarly lighthearted. Her work has been exhibited in numerous national solo and group shows. She was commissioned in a highly competitive process by the City of Chicago to paint 12 large-scale paintings for permanent installation at Oriole Park Library, Chicago. She is currently an Associate Professor in Studio Art: Drawing and Painting.
Rachel Black received her M.F.A. in Studio Art: Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas in 2006. She was a Sol Lewitt mural project crew member at DFW airport. She created an original mural in the permanent collection of the Texas Forestry Museum in Lufkin, Texas. She has also taught workshops at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, been a staff member at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and shown her work in exhibitions throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth region. In Summer 2024, Rachel was selected by the Valles Caldera National Preserve, Jemez Springs, New Mexico, as one of five artists for its inaugural artist-in-residence program during the 2024 summer season. She is currently a Principal Instructor in the Foundations program of UNT’s College of Visual Art and Design.
Susan Seaborn returned to university after careers in both IT and language instruction. She received her B.F.A. in Studio Art: Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas in 2020. She is currently a graduate student in the M.F.A. Visual Art program at Texas Woman’s University. Her work has been selected for juried shows across the DFW area, including prestigious student shows at both UNT and TWU. Her work has also been seen at Ro2 Gallery in Dallas, in the Chaos! shows in 2022 and 2023. Susan also curates shows at Anna Street Studios, a gallery space in Denton, Texas. Anna Street Studios hosts quarterly contemporary art shows and seeks to provide a space for contemporary art to Denton, and build closer ties between the university art communities and the local art scenes in Denton and the greater DFW area.