Current Exhibitions
Strand Gallery
April 11 - July 5, 2026
Preetika Rajgariah
about time
Preetika Rajgariah’s exhibition, about time, brings together culturally charged materials such as yoga mats and saris to examine cultural appropriation, body politics, intersectionality, and longing. Her work moves between memory and material, asking how the body carries history and how inherited narratives shape the way we are seen, and see ourselves. The figure, often her own, anchors the exhibition. Rajgariah bends, twists, arches, folds, and at times appears to break open. These gestures are not only physical; they mirror the mental and emotional gymnastics of navigating multiple cultural frameworks at once. Rajgariah uses the body as a profound bridge, between the personal and the ancestral, the private and the political, the sacred and the commodified. Her vibrant assemblages hold tension and tenderness simultaneously. Acts of cutting, stitching, layering, and binding become meditative rituals, expressions of care as much as thematic critique. In reworking materials that are often flattened or exoticized, Rajgariah reclaims agency and complexity. The result is an exhibition that resists erasure while honoring resilience, inviting viewers into a space where vulnerability, strength, and longing coexist.
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Brown Foundation Gallery
June 13 - August 2, 2026
Jasmine Zelaya
Tropical Depression
Jasmine Zelaya’s exhibition asks how a simple fruit shaped the history of Honduras and its people so profoundly that its effects are still felt today. Tropical Depression is informed by the artist’s research into the banana industry, the United Fruit Company, and U.S. corporate influences that changed the course of Honduras’ history. The destabilization of Central America by foreign influence remains relevant to her personally and prevails in oppressive systems impacting current and future generations. Floral motifs recur throughout Zelaya’s paintings, honoring to the names of women in her family. The patterns they created often obscure the figures’ expressive eyes and brown skin, prompting viewers to consider who is seen, who is overlooked, and how identity is layered and protected. She is interested in the process of assimilation and the tension between visibility and otherness, while celebrating the strength and complexity of Latina identity within public space. Through her work, Zelaya creates accessible visual narratives that honor lived experience, amplify marginalized voices, and reflect collective strength, solidarity, and resilience.
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1878 Gallery
June 13 - August 2, 2026
Komie Kim Le
All-You-Can-Eat
Komie Kim Le’s exhibition, All-You-Can-Eat, features everyday objects and food from Vietnamese-American life — crab pots, baskets, fish sauce bottles — transformed into exuberant ceramic sculptures that reveal immigrant memory, humor, and resilience. She manipulates traditional Asian pottery forms with maximalist decoration, mirroring the overlapping influences accumulated through multicultural experiences. Through this tactile language, Komie explores how food, ritual, and domestic objects become markers of belonging and identity. Her vessels carry stories of migration, family, and the joyful chaos of cultural hybridity. Through material play and color, Komie celebrates what she describes as a “naïve yet prideful” inheritance of Vietnamese-ness—an identity shaped by both traditions and pop culture influences.
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These exhibitions are supported in part by a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts.