Strand Gallery

July 11 - October 4, 2026

ArtWalk Opening Reception
Saturday, July 11, 2026
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

GAC’s exhibitions are supported in part by a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts. Artist accommodations generously provided by Hotel Lucine.

Cody Arnall
Looking
Up
Looking
Down

Looking Up Looking Down is an exhibition of recent work by Cody Arnall. The exhibition explores boredom as a productive component of his studio practice, upending its perception as failure into a space for potential outcomes. His work is prompted by observation of the mundane debris encountered in his daily life. Arnall allows these materials to determine the meaning in his work. Other themes consider time, mortality, and the role of the viewer within the exhibition space. Arnall states his processes with the artworks are “often tied to just living, observing, or moving through the landscape in some way. I collect debris from the side of the road while walking my dog, pick up rocks, make molds of mundane objects, visit cemeteries, go to former nuclear test sites, and film landscapes or the sky while I sit or lay quietly. This is how I make work.”

Cody Arnall is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at Texas Tech University. Arnall was born in Tulsa, OK. He received a B.F.A. in Studio Art from Oklahoma State University and an M.F.A. from Louisiana State University. He is a founding member of the artist run gallery and studio space, CO-OPt Research + Projects in Lubbock, TX. Recent exhibitions include Box13 Artspace and Sculpture Month Houston at The Silos at Sawyer Yard, both in Houston. Arnall has also shown at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN; Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA; Contemporary Art Museum Plainview, Plainview, TX; Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO; Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA; K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX; CICA Museum, Gimpo, SKR; Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Durango Arts Center, Durango, CO; Pump Project, Austin, TX; Terminal 136, San Antonio, TX; Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN; Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; DEMO Project, Springfield, IL; Living Arts, Tulsa, OK; the American University Museum, Washington, DC; and The Shed, Galway, IE. He has also participated in residencies at Sculpture Space in Utica, NY and at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson VT. 

codyarnall.com