1878 Gallery

June 13 - August 2, 2026

ArtWalk Opening Reception
Saturday, June 13, 2026
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

GAC’s exhibitions are supported in part by a grant from Texas Commission on the Arts. Artist accommodations generously provided by Hotel Lucine.

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 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, Lee celebrates what she describes as a “naïve yet prideful” inheritance of Vietnamese-ness—an identity shaped by both traditions and pop cultural influence.

Komie Kim Le is a Vietnamese-American artist and 90's kid based in San Marcos, TX, whose sculptural practice transforms ceramics into exuberant vessels of cultural translation. She received a BFA from Texas State University. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at NCECA (2025 - Salt Lake City, 2026 - Detroit), Laura (the gallery), The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Ruby Projects, and ICOCA Collective. She is recipient of multiple awards for her work, including the Clay Houston Award for Texas BIPOC Ceramic Artists, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Multicultural Fellowship, and the Houston Endowment Jones Artist Award.

komiekimle.com