Previous Exhibitions

March 9 - April 14, 2013
 Piero Fenci: Battlement
Piero Fenci: A Survey
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January 19 – March 3, 2013
 CURTIS GANNON: Never Enough
Recent Drawings
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November 24 - January 6, 2013
 THE DRAWING ROOM PART II
Recent Drawings
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August 25 - September 30, 2012
 Robert Pruitt
Recent Drawings
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July 14 - August 19, 2012
 Galveston Artist Residency
The First Year
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June 2- July 8, 2012
 HJ BOTT
A 40 Years Celebration
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April 21- May 27, 2012
 KARIN BROKER
Wired, Nailed, Drawn and Printed
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March 10 - April 15, 2012
 SHARON JOINES / SCOTT DALTON
presented in cojunction with FotoFest
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January 28 - March 4, 2012
 CHARLOTTE SMITH
Using built-up strata of colored paintsthis Dallas based artist's paintings turn into sculpture reminisent of abstract, three dimensional pointillism.
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November 26, 2011–January 15, 2012
KAMILA SZCZESNA: fleeting
Ideas of life, science, and time are recurring themes in Galveston-based artist Kamila Szczesna’s two-dimensional and three-dimensional works.
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October 8–November 20, 2011
SARAH WILLIAMS: OUTSIDE THE COUNTY SEAT
A painter of landscapes, Sarah Williams’ images are inspired by the rural American Midwest where she grew up. Carwashes, parking lots and gas stations stand vacant and isolated, surrounded by the cloak of night
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August 27–October 2, 2011
MAYUKO ONO GRAY: JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY MY WAY
Mayuko Ono Gray’s new series of graphite drawings, Japanese Calligraphy My Way, features a combination of traditional Japanese calligraphy and Western drawing techniques.
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July 16–August 21, 2011
ISA LESHKO: ELDERLY ANIMALS
Isa Leshko’s quiet, intimate black and white portraits feature animals that are old or at the end of their lives
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July 16–August 21, 2011
JULES BUCK JONES: EVERGLADES
Inspired by a residency at Florida’s Everglades National Park in 2009, Austin-based artist Jules Buck Jones creates large-scale works on paper.
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June 11–July 10, 2011
MICHAEL GUIDRY: THE SON AND THE HEIR
features a series of paintings that skirt the edges of abstraction and representation by Guidry of Houston.
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April 30–June 5, 2011
ANN WOOD: GARNISH
a site-specific installation by this Galveston-based artist, will explore issues of attraction and repulsion, beauty and decay, seduction and perversion.
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March 12–April 24, 2011
ED HILL AND SUZANNE BLOOM: MANUAL on books
MANUAL on books is a selection of photographs from MANUAL’s extended Book Project, a celebration, paean or praise of the “book.”
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January 22–March 6, 2011
Bert Long: Bert's Red Book
Galveston Arts Center presents Bert’s Red Book, featuring a new series of work by Houston-based artist Bert Long.
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November 27, 2010–January 9, 2011
Michael Tole: Struck by Lightening More Than Once, She Didn't Yield
Features work by Dallas-based artist Michael Tole dating from 2007 to the present.
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October 9–November 14, 2010
Rusty Scruby: Playing in the Sand,
Features three-dimensional photographic reconstructions by this Dallas-based artist.
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March 6—April 11, 2010
Dixie Friend Gay: Mural Studies 1998–2009,
Featured studies for public and private art projects by the Houston artist
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July 10 - August 22, 2010
Dan Rizzie: The Flatbed Years, Selected Prints 1993–2009,
Selected photographs and written reflections on Hurricane Ike from the publication, HIWI: IKE. The Book
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Nov 28, 2009–Jan 10, 2010
Patrick Renner: xylem
Brightly colored sculptures created from found wood by this Houston-based artist
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Jonathan Leach: Beauty and the By Product
The first solo museum show for this Houston-based artist who creates architecturally based paintings and Plexiglas sculptures
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January 23–Feb 28, 2010
Damian Priour: Water Sparks
The first survey exhibition of the glass and stone sculpture produced by this Austin-based artist over the past thirty years Organized by GAC, the exhibition opened at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden in Austin in September 2009
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March 6–April 11, 2010
Dornith Doherty at Mid-Career
Selections from the series Altered Terrain, a decade-long exploration of culturally reconfigured landscapes, and Archiving Eden, a new collaborative project exploring seed germination and cloned plants by this University of North Texas professor and artist
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April 17–May 23, 2010
Howard Sherman: Eating Your Friction
Paintings and works on paper that integrate biting comedy, social criticism and gestural expressiveness by this Houston-based artist .
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May 29-July 4, 2010
Letitia Huckaby
Works which blends quilting and photography while paying homage to the family of this Fort Worth-based new media artist.
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Aug 22–Oct 4, 2009
Houston. It’s Worth It. IKE
Selected photographs and written reflections on Hurricane Ike from the publication, HIWI: IKE. The Book
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Art for All Exhibition
Annual exhibition of work created by participants in GAC’s Art for All Education Outreach Programs and children’s summer art classes, on view at Moody Mansion

Oct 10–Nov 22, 2009
Chuy Benitez: Summer in the City
Digitally-composed dioramic photographs featuring New York and Houston by this Houston-based artist
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Mark Schatz: Earth Below Us
Site-specific installation addressing global warming and instability by this Houston-based sculptor
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