Current Exhibitions
Strand Gallery
July 11 - October 4, 2026
Cody Arnall
Looking
Up
Looking
Down
Looking Up Looking Down is an exhibition of recent work by Cody Arnall. The exhibition explores boredom as a productive component of his studio practice, upending its perception as failure into a space for potential outcomes. His work is prompted by observation of the mundane debris encountered in his daily life. Arnall allows these materials to determine the meaning in his work. Other themes consider time, mortality, and the role of the viewer within the exhibition space. Arnall states his processes with the artworks are “often tied to just living, observing, or moving through the landscape in some way. I collect debris from the side of the road while walking my dog, pick up rocks, make molds of mundane objects, visit cemeteries, go to former nuclear test sites, and film landscapes of the sky while I sit or lay quietly. This is how I make work.”
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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.