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Symposium: Progressive Women Artists of Texas

Symposium: Progressive Women Artists of Texas

Margaret Blagg, former director of the Old Jail Art Center, curator Jim Edwards, journalist Bill Marvel, and Becky Duval Reese, former Director of the El [...]

Zanne Hochberg: The Art of Our Time

Zanne Hochberg: The Art of Our Time

A retrospective exhibition and catalog of the career of Texas artist Zanne Hochberg (1931 – 2001). Hochberg was a pioneer abstract artist, out of sync [...]

Mary McCleary: A Survey 1996-2011

Mary McCleary: A Survey 1996-2011

Art League Houston’s 2011 Texas Artist of the Year exhibition featuring psycho-collagist and native Houstonian Mary McCleary.

Heather Bause: If You Sprinkle When You Tinkle

Heather Bause: If You Sprinkle When You Tinkle

Wall Paper as Art: If You Sprinkle When You Tinkle, a hand-painted wallpaper installation by Houston artist Heather Bause in the Art League Houston’s main [...]

Word, Object, Motion: Simeen Farhat and Mohammed Al Shammarey

Word, Object, Motion: Simeen Farhat and Mohammed Al Shammarey

Contemporary Islamic art, featuring the work of Dallas-based Pakistani artist Simeen Farhat, and Houston-based Iraqi artist Mohammed Al Shammarey.  Farhat’s cast resin sculptures explode from [...]

Color Space & In Search of Lightness

Color Space & In Search of Lightness

Twin solo exhibitions featuring Liz Penniman & Becky Joye. On view Sept 11-12 from 12-4pm and by appointment through September 18th

John Sparagana: Going Down for the Third Time

John Sparagana: Going Down for the Third Time

Sparagana’s newest magazine reconstructions use imagery that depicts the unfolding or aftermath of tumultuous world events. In some of these new works, Sparagana has introduced [...]

Gary Komarin: The Vicar’s Wife in Green and Gray

Gary Komarin: The Vicar’s Wife in Green and Gray

Works on paper and canvas: seemingly imprecise in their imagery, austere in palette, self-absorbed in feeling, their surfaces gritty and un-ingratiating, Komarin’s paintings can nevertheless [...]

Reconstructing Perspective: Chaddy Dean Smith and Andrew Douglas Underwood

Reconstructing Perspective: Chaddy Dean Smith and Andrew Douglas Underwood

Landscape triptychs photographed from multiple vantage points, yet convincingly presented as a single landscape by Chaddy Dean Smith, and Andrew Douglas Underwood’s museum-esque displays cataloging [...]

Robert Wittman: Pursuing the Priceless: Stolen Art, Investigation and the Law

Robert Wittman: Pursuing the Priceless: Stolen Art, Investigation and the Law

Founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team Robert Wittman went deep undercover to infiltrate the dark world of international art thieves and black market traders,  [...]

Fragmentation, Rhythm, Vibration: Paintings by Larry Rushing

Fragmentation, Rhythm, Vibration: Paintings by Larry Rushing

NY artist Rushing’s highly finished paintings of stylized interiors coax viewers into an unworldly land where they must navigate fluid walls and fractured glass.

Leigh Anne Lester: Beautiful Freaks/Nature’s Bastards

Leigh Anne Lester: Beautiful Freaks/Nature’s Bastards

Sculpture, carbon drawings, embroidery and cut paper pieces from the winner of last year’s $50,000 Hunting Art Prize. San Antonio-based Lester’s “Frankenstein Flora” are an [...]

Maricela Sanchez: Fascinations

Maricela Sanchez: Fascinations

Organic, ambiguous forms built of various mediums and applied colors, Sanchez’s work resembles nature more than anything man-made.

Kelly O’Connor: Post Utopia

Kelly O’Connor: Post Utopia

San Antonio-based Kelly O’Connor’s first one-person show with David Shelton Gallery features new collage, paper and installation works.

Nancy Graves: Paintings and Sculptures of the 1980ʼs

Nancy Graves: Paintings and Sculptures of the 1980ʼs

In cooperation with The Nancy Graves Foundation, Texas Gallery will juxtapose paintings and cast bronze sculptures that naturally flow from three dimensions into two and [...]

Albert Oehlen and Christopher Wool: Musical Moves

Albert Oehlen and Christopher Wool: Musical Moves

German painter Albert Oehlen and American painter Christopher Wool have immersed themselves in various musical activities; this exhibition, curated by John Corbett, brings together an [...]

214 Trans4m: Fotos by Daniel Kusner + Bryan Amann

214 Trans4m: Fotos by Daniel Kusner + Bryan Amann

Transgender models strike poses beside landmarks in Texas’ most conservative metroplex. 214 Trans4m aims to capture Dallas’ history, architecture and stereotypes, all while straddling the [...]

Luis Abreux: Brightest Dreams

Luis Abreux: Brightest Dreams

Cuban painter Luis Abreux’s insular surrealism may have the “vivid colors reminiscent of his native Cuba”, and the “dynamism of the topics,” but his Master’s [...]

Art with a View: Christopher Bingham

Art with a View: Christopher Bingham

Christopher Bingham’s paintings of neon signage offer a glimpse of the glory days, capturing the essence of the seedy motels and smoke filled rooms of [...]

What’s In Your Mind

What’s In Your Mind

An exhibition of photographs and handmade books.