Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas.
To see our fall picks of upcoming Texas exhibitions, please go here.
1. Sculpture School: Concrete
Sweet Pass Sculpture (Dallas)
September 7 – November 16, 2024
From Sweet Pass Sculpture Park:
“Sweet Pass Sculpture Park announces the exhibition Sculpture School: Concrete, featuring commissioned sculptures by Valentina Jager (NY), Dalila Sanabria (CT), Tatiana Sky (IL), and Ariel Wood (TX). With bridges, basins, fountains, bunkers, and dream homes — each a shell of desire — the artist’s work responds to the context of the metroplex and concrete as a material.
In its second iteration, the Sculpture School program turns its attention to the theme of CONCRETE, the most ubiquitous of substances, layered beneath our feet and spread across the skeleton of the world. Sculpture School is an alternative platform for making and thinking as a community of artists. It is a place for peeling back the layers of what it means to put an object outside in a place.”
Rashaun Rucker, “The Ghost at New Bethel,” 2021. Linocut relief print on Arches heavyweight paper, 24 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist and M Contemporary Art. Photo: CJ Benninger © Rashaun Rucker
2. Rashaun Rucker: Patron Saints of a Black Boy
Art Galleries at Black Studies (Austin)
August 30 – December 7, 2024
From the Art Galleries at Black Studies at UT:
“In Patron Saints of a Black Boy, Detroit-based artist Rashaun Rucker connects Christian iconography, Black spirituality, and notions of ancestry. The works in the exhibition testify to the legacy of Black people within the Christian tradition, highlighting personal histories while exploring the complexities of representation in religious imagery. Rucker’s sculpture, mixed media works, and photographs exemplify what he calls being ‘covered in Black’ — being protected by ‘the prayers, pleadings, and rituals practiced in the Black community, including calling on the ancestors, the laying on of hands, altar calls, morning prayers, and a never-ending river of advice.’”
Michael Hasted, “A Public Outcry,” 1980, lithograph
3. Mundos Pequeños: Miniatures from the John Gaston Fairey Collection of Mexican Folk Art
Art Museum of Southeast Texas (Beaumont)
July 20 – September 15, 2024
From AMSET:
“Mundos Pequeños: Miniatures from the John Gaston Fairey Collection of Mexican Folk Art will continue AMSET’s annual summer tradition of exhibiting works from the permanent collection. It will be on view in tandem with a second permanent collection exhibition titled Dreams, Screams & Fantastical Things. Mundos Pequeños will include over 20 miniature artworks made from a variety of materials. These will include miniature masks, nativity scenes, trees of life, altars, and micro-woven textiles. Large versions of these objects, such as masks and trees of life, will be exhibited alongside the miniatures to demonstrate size differences.”
A work from “Studio Show 2024, Part 2″
4. Studio Show 2024, Part 2
Spellerberg Projects (Lockhart)
August 10 – September 7, 2024
From Spellerberg Projects:
“The Spellerberg Projects Studio Show is a yearly exhibition of all the artists who practice and work at Spellerberg Projects. This year with the opening of ten new artist studios, their numbers have grown and the show has grown into a two part exhibition. The second half of the gallery’s yearly round up feature fiber art by Brandy Schuenemann, sculpture by Jennifer Moore, and paintings by Maya Endsley and Marie Tobola.”
5. Cross Connections 2024
International Museum of Art & Science (McAllen)
June 1 – September 8, 2024
From IMAS:
“Cross Connections International has been a prominent global design event and festival in academia since its inception in 2009. This Cross Connections 2024 event marks the fourth edition of this international design festival, which includes an international design competition, a juried exhibition, and a series of design thinking webinars. The exhibition aims to transcend borders, cultures, concepts, media, and disciplines, offering a captivating fusion of contemporary visual communication designs and emerging trends.”
