Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas.
For last week’s picks, please go here.
Zoroastrian Afargan Altar, 20th century, silver, Zoroastrian Temple, Houston
1. Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
October 27, 2024 – January 20, 2025
From the MFAH:
“Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples, is an expansive exhibition of more than 200 objects made over 3,000 years in order to help humans make contact with the divine. For the exhibition, MFAH Director Gary Tinterow has invited British art historian and longtime museum director Neil MacGregor to revisit his 2017 BBC radio series and book of the same title, bringing that vision to great objects in the MFAH’s collections as well as landmark loans from international institutions.”
Read a review of the exhibition here.
Jesse Lott: A Legacy of Art and Collaboration
2. Jesse Lott: A Legacy of Art and Collaboration, from the Collection of Ann Harithas
The Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art (Victoria)
December 7, 2024 – March 5, 2025
From Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art:
“Starting with their meeting in the 1970’s, Jesse Lott and Ann Harithas became lifelong friends sharing ideas on aesthetics and the role art can play in society. Included in this exhibition are a number collaborative collages and an Art Car, demonstrating that their relationship bridged the divide between artist and collector.
Lott began his formal art training from two influential masters of African American Art, Houston’s Dr. John Biggers and Charles White. From the lessons learned from them, Lott developed an aesthetic based on the use of simple materials of paper, discarded wire, metal, and wood. He would call his aesthetic “Urban Frontier Art” which ranged from subtle ethereal abstractions to starkly political statements on race and class. This exhibition is unique in that it is the first time decades of the artist’s work will be shown in one setting.”
Jennifer Godínez (VNA), “Llamada a casa,” 48 x 43 1/2 inches, sumi ink on Arches paper, 2024
3. Jennifer Godínez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá
Pencil on Paper Gallery (Dallas)
January 11 – February 1, 2025
From Pencil on Paper Gallery:
“Jennifer Godínez, conocida como VNA, profundiza en sus experiencias como mujer y como inmigrante mexicana de primera generación. Su práctica se centra en autorretratos, su identidad cultural e imágenes que combinan humor con lo inquietante, evocando a menudo sensaciones de incomodidad y ansiedad. Su realidad se retrata a través de elementos surrealistas, marcados por yuxtaposiciones improbables y autorretratos recurrentes. Navegando el espacio liminal de no pertenecer completamente ‘aquí’ ni ‘allá,’ Godínez explora temas de identidad y la búsqueda de un lugar al que pertenecer.
Jennifer Godínez, known as VNA, delves into her experiences as a woman and a first-generation Mexican immigrant. Her practice centers on self-portraits, her cultural identity, and imagery that blends humor with the uncanny, often evoking feelings of unease and anxiety. Her reality is portrayed through surrealistic elements, marked by unlikely juxtapositions and recurring self-portraits. Straddling the liminal space of not fully belonging ‘here’ or ‘there,’ Godínez explores themes of identity and the search for a place of belonging.”
Installation view of “Renewed Visions,” Coronado Print Room, 2024
4. Sandra C. Fernández: Renewed Visions
Coronado Print (Austin)
December 30, 2024 – January 15, 2025
Closing Reception: January 15, 2025, 7 – 10 p.m.; Artist Talk at 7:30 p.m.
From Coronado Print Room:
“Join us for an artist talk & closing reception for Renewed Visions, a print-based solo exhibition by Sandra C. Fernández. Exploring humanity’s ongoing struggle with violence and the resilience that emerges in its aftermath, Fernández has created a sanctuary where sorrow and hope intertwine.
Born in New York, raised in Quito, Ecuador, and later migrating back to the United States as a young adult, Fernández’s life has been shaped by movement and adaptation. Her work seeks to mend fragmented memories by hand-stitching together materials, like paper and found objects. In doing so, Fernández transforms the act of mending into a symbolic gesture of reassembling and reclaiming both past and present.”
Works by Eric Blum
5. Eric Blum: Paintings
Rule Gallery (Marfa)
November 29, 2024 – February 15, 2025
From RULE Gallery:
“This solo exhibition marks the artist’s third with the gallery and first in our Marfa location. Eric Blum’s paintings invite viewers into the margins of perception — those liminal spaces where the boundaries of form and amorphousness blur. Developed through delicate layers of ink-drenched silk and beeswax, Blum’s compositions hover between the tangible and the ephemeral, the actual and the perceived. His expansive palette ranges across each painting, offering shades of lush green, plum brown, and ice cream pink — building atmospheres that resist immediate recognition, rewarding slow and contemplative engagement.”
