2025
April 26 – May 24, 2025 | Colette Copeland, Soundings (OC3 Gallery)
Soundings is a collaborative, community-based experimental sound installation that amplifies historically silenced voices in Texas—specifically those of women, non-binary, and queer individuals.
For Soundings, participants were invited to choose a phrase or series of phrases that held deep personal meaning—words they wished to sound into the universe. Those who spoke multiple languages expressed themselves in all of them. Their voices were then woven together into a layered sonic composition, forming a chant-like symphony—part mantra, part reclamation—symbolizing collective power and resilience.
Soundings has been exhibited at the Sawyer Silos as part of Houston Sculpture Month (2023), ICOSA Gallery in Austin (2023), Under Construction Gallery in San Antonio (2024), Delta Triennial at Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (2024) and forthcoming at LHUCA at Texas Tech University (2025). The Oak Cliff Cultural Center marks the project’s Dallas debut exhibition. The companion project Soundings:India has been exhibited at Arthshila Art Center in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (2024) and at University of Texas at Dallas (2025).
Colette Copeland is an interdisciplinary visual artist and cultural critic/writer whose work examines prescient socio-political and cultural issues. Sourcing personal narratives, historical research and contemporary culture, she utilizes video, sound, photography, printmaking, performance and sculptural installation to bring awareness and engage in critical discourse. Her work has been exhibited in 34 solo exhibitions and 156 group exhibitions/festivals spanning 36 countries. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute in New York and her MFA from Syracuse University. She teaches contemporary art/studio practices and performance art at University of Texas in Dallas, Texas. She writes for Glasstire, and Arteidolia online publications. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Research Award for 2023/2024 to write about female contemporary artists in India who work with socially engaged issues, as well as an experimental sound project amplifying female, non-binary and queer voices.
