Art museums across East and South Texas have announced exhibitions opening this Spring. Learn more about shows coming to Beaumont, Tyler, McAllen, and Corpus Christi.
Adrian Esparza: Remnants of Distance
Last month the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, opened solo shows for Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng and Adrian Esparza. Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng: Burden of Proof features works by Mr. Asiedu-Kwarteng, an Edinburg-based professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Art and Design. Burden of Proof features mixed media and ceramic pieces that explore the artist’s experience as an immigrant to the U.S.
Adrian Esparza: Remnants of Distance includes large-scale works by the El Paso-based artist. Mr. Esparza uses deconstructed serapes, repurposing the thread to create minimalist two-point perspective pieces.
Burden of Proof and Remnants of Distance are on view through March 16.
Susie Phillips, “Thinking About.”
The Tyler Museum of Art has opened New to Town: Recent Acquisitions, an exhibition that features works acquired over the past few years, many of which are on view for the first time. The included works span various artistic mediums but all of the artists have close ties to Texas.
New to Town will be on view through April 13.
Paintings from Spanish America (1600-1800) from the Thoma Collection
In January and February, the International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen will debut three exhibitions. Ceremonies of the Americas: The Engravings of Bernard Picart presents works by Bernard Picart, a French engraver. The show centers on images published as part of a book published in 1727 that highlights celebrations and customs from around the world. The images on view as part of this exhibition illustrate customs practiced by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Paintings from Spanish America (1600-1800) from the Thoma Collection highlights 17th- to 19th-century works from the countries now known as Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Cuba. The show is curated by Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt and Verónica Muñoz-Nájar and focuses on viceregal art, including oil paintings on canvas and small works in oil on copper. On February 21, the museum will host an art history roundtable featuring regional and international scholars.
Destino Sur is a solo exhibition featuring photographs by Carlos Limas. Over the past six years, Mr. Limas has traveled to Peru multiple times documenting the iconic locations of Cusco, Lima, Nazca, and Machu Picchu.
Ceremonies of the Americas will be on view from January 25 through June 1, Paintings from Spanish America will be on view from February 8 through May 25, and Destino Sur will be on view from February 22 through June 22.
Ricardo Ruiz, “El Corrido del Mocho Eugenio, Mathis, Texas (The Songs My Father Taught Me are the Songs I’ll Teach My Son),” 1994, oil on canvas. Art Museum of South Texas, Corps Christi, Texas Purchase Funded by Corpus Christi Art Foundation
In February, the Art Museum of South Texas (AMST) in Corpus Christi will open Home, Love, and Loss, part of a series of exhibitions created through a partnership with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Amarillo Museum of Art, and the Ellen Noël Art Museum through the Art Bridges Cohort Program. The show features more than 60 works from the collections of the partnered museums. Paintings, photographs, works on paper, and video works explore the nuances of family and community life.
In a press release, Deborah Fullerton, Curator of Exhibitions at the AMST, remarked, “Home, Love, and Loss is an exploration from multiple points of view that invites us to reflect on our bonds and relationships that form us into who we are. This exhibition examines many layers of living, depicting a wide variety of lives and what connects us through human experiences. These selections of art provide ways to connect to a broader appreciation for human connection through compassion, resilience, and the power of memories.”
Home, Love, and Loss will be on view at AMST from February 14 through April 27, and will travel to the Amarillo Museum of Art this summer and the Ellen Noël Art Museum in 2026.
