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
August 8 - November 1, 2026
Lauren Christlieb
Wish You Were Here
Lauren Christlieb’s exhibition, Wish You Were Here, is inspired by several carousels of Kodachrome 35mm slides passed down to her through three generations. These 2 x 2 inch positive color film frames were ubiquitous to family photo nights from the mid-twentieth century and can often be found in estate sales or thrift stores today. Her work reveals the shift in our relationship to physical photographs and shared experiences, as technology has moved us to individual devices and terabytes of stored images rarely seen once taken. Enlarged to ten times their original scale, her slides bridge this analog technology with printmaking processes, resulting in objects rather than prints alone. The occasional scribbled inscriptions describing the images and the frame that once held the image in a slide projector can equal, if not become more important than, the image itself. Christlieb brings attention to the details that typically go unnoticed while simultaneously allowing the viewer to see the image clearly.
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1878 Gallery
August 8 - November 1, 2026
Annie May Johnston
Dark Enough to See
Moon upon moon builds the sky with her beams…yet we are but dust and dreams. - Horace
Annie May Johnston’s exhibition, Dark Enough to See, contemplates the disappearing night sky due to light pollution and the consequential severed connections between humans and a nightly reminder that we are small, that we are moving, and that the fleeting darkness is full of potential. Johnston’s installation wraps the gallery in scanner collages and Xerox copies with no beginning and no end. Punctuating this surface are necklaces embedded with hair, letter beads, and objects emerging from the wall - metal silhouettes of the artist’s hand acting both as creator and receiver. The installation forms a continuous loop, mirroring the expansive reach of the universe, and serves as a space for contemplation to see beyond what is known, where stars are born in cold, dark, dense places with pressure, darkness, and time. Johnston describes the experience as “a long journey back, toward whoever is forming on the dark side of the moon.”
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These exhibitions are supported in part by a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts.