Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas.
For last week’s picks, please go here.
Darren Waterston, “Partita no. 1,” 2024, oil on wood panel, 36 x 18 inches
1.Darren Waterston: Adrift
Inman Gallery (Houston)
September 13 – November 16, 2024
Artist Reception: Friday, September 13, 6–8 p.m.
Exhibition Walkthrough: Saturday, September 14, 1 p.m.
From Inman Gallery:
“Inman Gallery is pleased to present Adrift, a solo exhibition of new work by Darren Waterston. Utilizing both galleries, the show features a suite of 12 paintings, 20 works on paper, and a site-specific mural installed in our south gallery. The exhibition’s title calls us towards the emotional sensations of being unmoored and untethered. With references to abstracted landscapes, wherein pictorial space is destabilized and ethereal, the works explore the sensory experience of floating outside the body, representing in-between states of dream and wake. At times terrestrial, marine or celestial, the atmospheres depicted feel humid, and thick, enveloping the viewer in a rich cloak of saturated color. Motion within these mysterious spaces are necessarily slow, akin to the measured movement of Tai Chi, or Qigong.”
This will be the last show at Inman Gallery’s current location prior to its move to 1502 Alabama St., the former home of the Station Museum of Contemporary Art.
Annette Lawrence, “Green Planet March 2021,” 2024, acrylic on linen, 48 x 44 inches
2. Annette Lawrence: Ahkelo’s Walk
Conduit Gallery (Dallas)
September 7 – October 19, 2024
From Conduit Gallery:
“Annette Lawrence’s work, Ahkelo’s Walk, involves counting days by walking miles. It is a natural extension of her practice of recording everyday occurrences. Like her other works, this project reflects her commitment to finding meaning and beauty in what life brings.
Akhelo’s Walk is a deeply personal project that has been ongoing for three years. In March 2021, Annette Lawrence turned her walking practice into a memorial to honor her late nephew, Lawrence (Ahkelo) Wade Kimbrough (September 28, 2000 – February 14, 2021). Friends and family contributed to the 7444 miles logged for each day of Ahkelo’s life, making this a collective act of remembrance. The charts created to record the miles are the data set for the works in Ahkelo’s Walk.”
A work from “From Here y De Allá: Reflections on Elizabeth Catlett Mora – an African American Artist Who Embraced Mexico”
3. From Here y De Allá: Reflections on Elizabeth Catlett Mora – an African American Artist Who Embraced Mexico
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center (San Antonio)
September 6 – 30, 2024
From Esperanza Peace and Justice Center:
“The exhibit features fifteen works of seventeen San Antonio Ethnic Art Society members inspired by Elizabeth Catlett’s work and activism — showcasing a diverse range of creativity and artistry. In addition, thanks to collectors Paula and Edwin Miles, the exhibition will display prints by other well-known African-American artists, including Jacob Lawrence, Margaret Burroughs, Faith Ringgold, George Hunt, and Frank Frazier.”
Jenny Robinson’s woodcut series
4. Jenny Robinson: Temporal Frameworks/tracing the lines of time
Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Austin)
August 31 – October 19, 2024
From Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking:
“Flatbed is thrilled to welcome back Jenny Robinson to exhibit her newest work at Flatbed’s gallery and work in our professional shop on a new lithograph. Robinson is known for her use of monumental scale and fragile, lightweight papers to draw attention to the strength and fragility of both the natural and manmade worlds. Her imagery often features the built environment and decaying structures, from iron bridges to concrete warehouses, investigating the impact of the present moment on the appearance of places and materials. Robinson is bringing her large scale prints on gampi and her new series of small woodcuts for her first exhibition in the USA since relocating to Australia.”
Jon Revett, “Lowelands”
5. Jon Revett: How It’s Done
Mary Moody Northen Art Gallery (West Texas A&M)
August 24 – October 12, 2024
From the artist:
“How It’s Done features new paintings, prints, and a sculpture by Jon Revett. Inspired by a reimagined cannon of American Abstraction, Revett intentionally exploits painting taboos to challenge the way art is seen through the lens of social media. This body of work continues his use of tessellations as an armature for conceptual investigation and is best described as ‘Geometric Mannerism.’”
