Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas.
For last week’s picks, please go here.
Judithe Hernández, “Santa Desconocida,” 2016, pastel on paper, 30 x 88 inches. Courtesy of The Cheech Center Collection of the Riverside Art Museum
1. Judithe Hernández: Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival
El Paso Museum of Art
February 15 – April 20, 2025
From the El Paso Museum of Art:
“Judithe Hernández: Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival is the first major retrospective of this pioneering artist’s career. It presents a sweeping overview of a visionary artist’s work that has centered upon the realities and mythologies of Xicano culture, the legacies of colonization, the atrocities at the US/Mexico border, and their impact on the borderlands.
Working predominantly in pastel on paper, Hernández examines the archetypes of femininity, drawing inspiration from the social-political conflicts where women become prey, such as the femicides in Ciudad Juarez, and the effects of misogyny. This exhibition features over 80 works from her Adam & Eve; Juárez, México; and Colonization series.”
Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Apothecary Rx, at Tureen
2. Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Apothecary Rx
Tureen (Dallas)
February 8 – March 29, 2025
From Tureen:
“Tureen is pleased to present Apothecary Rx, a solo exhibition of new and historical work by renowned Texas-based artist Celia Àlvarez Muñoz. Spanning over fifty years of the artist’s career, the show reveals the myriad strategies she has employed to contend with the interstices between mass media and life in borderlands.
The exhibition’s center is, unmistakably, a fiber installation encompassing the majority of the front gallery, commissioned by San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and most recently exhibited in the traveling retrospective Breaking the Binding, which began at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. A spectacle grandstanding no less than a film set, Fibra (1996) commands physical engagement with a maze-like invitation.”
Josie Del Castillo, “Submergida Por Un Momento,” 2024, oil on panel
3. Josie del Castillo: Matrescence
Presa House Gallery (San Antonio)
February 8 – March 15, 2025
From Presa House Gallery:
“Presa House is proud to announce a solo exhibition of new works by Brownsville-based artist Josie Del Castillo. As a first-generation Mexican American, her work explores themes of identity, empowerment, and the complex emotional journey of motherhood. Through vivid self-portraits and vibrant landscapes of the Rio Grande Valley, Del Castillo reflects on her personal experiences, expressing the joys, challenges, and transformative process of becoming a mother.
Matrescence explores the ambivalence of motherhood—from the overwhelming emotional highs to the psychological struggles that accompany bringing new life into the world. Each piece in the exhibition display’s Del Castillo’s strength and vulnerability, inviting viewers, particularly new mothers, to engage with the uncomfortable realities and all too often unspoken obstacles of motherhood.”
Michael Bise, “The Dying Gym Bro,” 2024, graphite on paper
4. MICHAEL BISE: APOCALYPSE 2020!
Moody Gallery (Houston)
January 18 – March 1, 2025
From Moody Gallery:
“Moody Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new drawings by Michael Bise. Apocalypse 2020! marks his tenth exhibition at the gallery. The word ‘apocalypse’ is typically understood to mean ‘the end of the world.’ In this most recent exhibition, Bise investigates this, and other more nuanced readings implied by the original Greek definition of the word: to uncover, or to reveal.
In a series of thirteen new drawings- including an ambitious 12-foot tall drawing, his largest work to date, Bise illuminates the universal and eternal realities that lie hidden beneath the Modernist conventions of daily life at the beginning of the 21st century. From personal, intimate revelations within marriage and friendship to social disintegration in the face of war and disease, Bise creates iconographic images of the visible and invisible worlds of post-modern civilization.”
A work from “The Contemporary Print 2025”
5. The Contemporary Print 2025
The Art Galleries at Austin Community College
January 21 – March 14, 2025
From The Art Galleries (TAG) at Austin Community College:
“The exhibition features 48 artists, showcasing an independent survey of traditional and innovative contemporary printmaking practices across the world. The Contemporary Print is PrintAustin’s annual juried exhibition.
This year’s juror is Laurel Garber, Park Family Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.”
