Exhibitions Coming to West Texas and the Panhandle This Spring

by Jessica Fuentes January 14, 2025

Museums in West Texas and the Panhandle have announced their Spring 2025 exhibitions. Learn more about solo shows and group exhibitions below.

A mixed media collage work by Mabel Poblet Pujol featuring a mass of blue triangles on a circular canvas.

Mabel Poblet Pujol, “Marine Landscape (Oceanscape),” 2015, collage/digital print, acetate, nails, 100 cm diameter

Next week, the Amarillo Museum of Art will debut Layered Lives: The Art of Nine Contemporary Cuban Women The Discoveries in Art, Certilman Family Collection. The touring exhibition is curated by art historian Arianne Faber Kolb and organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions in Los Angeles, California. Layered Lives brings together works created over the past three decades by Ariamna Contino, Aimée García Marrero, Rocío García de la Nuez, Alejandra Glez, Elsa Mora, Mabel Poblet Pujol, Sandra Ramos, Adislen Reyes, and Linet Sánchez Gutiérrez. 

Layered Lives will be on view from January 18 through March 23.

The book cover for "Icons & Symbols of the Borderland" by Diana Molina.

“Icons & Symbols of the Borderland” by Diana Molina

In February, the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock will present Icons and Symbols of the Borderland. The exhibition is curated by Diana Molina and first debuted in 2017 at Centro de Artes in San Antonio.

A spokesperson for the museum shared the following statement from Ms. Molina, “Now, more than ever, the U.S.-Mexico boundary is at the forefront of the national conversation. The artists [in the exhibition] reflect on the lived experience both north and south of the border and the inherent Mestizaje, a blend of Indigenous, Mexican, and American heritage. Providing a close-up view of the crossroads at a critical point in U.S. history, the artwork makes vibrant personal and political statements that inspire constructive dialogue and connective tissue to bridge divisions and better shape our future.”

Icons and Symbols of the Borderland will be on view from February 15 through August 17.

A pastel on paper work by Judithe Hernández featuring a woman laying down in a nighttime desert scene.

Judithe Hernández, “Santa Desconocida,” 2016, pastel on paper, 30 x 88 inches. Courtesy of The Cheech Center Collection of the Riverside Art Museum

Also in February, the El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) will open two new exhibitions. Judithe Hernández: Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival is the first major retrospective of the artist’s work. Ms. Hernández’ art practice explores the histories and effects of colonialism and the U.S.-Mexico border, specifically how they impact women and children. The show brings together more than 80 works created across 50 years. 

Coyotek is a solo exhibition presenting works by Jorge Rojas. The show includes a site-specific corn mandala, interactive installations, photographs, and videos of performance pieces from the past twenty years. The EPMA website explains, “The title, Coyotek, is a playful neologism. This newly formed word blends the words coyote and technology to reflect an identity and aesthetic woven from Rojas’ interest in borders and immigration policy through his own multicultural immigrant experience. Colloquially, a coyote is known as a guide for immigrants across the Mexico–U.S. border.”

Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival will be on view from February 15 through April 20 and Coyotek will be on view from February 28 through July 13. 

An installation photograph of a built environment that resembles the interior of chapel with paintings hanging on the walls.

John Patrick Cobb, “In the Chapel and the Woods”

In March, the Grace Museum in Abilene will present works by Austin-based artist John Patrick Cobb. In the Chapel and the Woods showcases 19 paintings installed inside an 11-foot by 16-foot handmade wooden chapel assembled within the museum’s gallery. The works are renderings of Biblical images that Mr. Cobb has created over thirty years.

In the Chapel and the Woods will be on view from March 8 through May 24.

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