Past Exhibitions | 2023
November 18, 2023 - February 25, 2024
Gallery
Date – Date
Opening Reception Saturday, Date | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Artist
Exhibit Title
Bio
website
Gallery
Date – Date
Opening Reception Saturday, Date | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Artist
Exhibit Title
Bio
website
October 7, 2023 - January 7, 2024
Strand Gallery
October 7, 2023 - January 7, 2024
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, October 7, 2023
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Joe Harjo
Indian Removal Act I: American Progress
Indian Removal Act I: American Progress is the first part of a three-part exhibition series by San Antonio-based artist Joe Harjo that he describes as “delving into the historical and contemporary issues that have profoundly affected Native American communities, our land, our narratives, and our pursuit of prosperous futures.” The title of this body of work derives from the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which forcibly displaced Native nations – including Harjo’s own, the Muscogee Nation – to “unsettled” lands west of the Mississippi River. Through addressing the current misrepresentations, homogenization, and undervaluation of Native culture, the work brings visibility to and emphasizes Native growth, contributions, resourcefulness, adaptability, and existence of Native people within contemporary spaces.
Indian Removal Act I: American Progress focuses on Manifest Destiny, a 19th-century belief held by many Americans that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This ideology had a profound and negative impact on Native American people, and Manifest Destiny resulted in land displacement, violent conflicts, loss of cultural heritage, treaty violations, and genocide. The exhibition includes sculptures, video installations, large-scale text pieces, photographs, and textile work that Harjo describes as “speaking against the disappearing and erasing of Native people, our histories, our lives as we live them, and our futures.”
Galveston Arts Center will host the first installation of Harjo’s three-part exhibition series, followed by the second at the Contemporary at Bluestar in San Antonio in Spring of 2024 and the third will be at the Contemporary at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth in Fall of 2024.
joeharjo.com
August 26 - November 12, 2023
1878 Gallery
August 26 - November 12, 2023
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, August 26, 2023
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Bryan Keith Gardener
Bridges, Walls, and Water
Galveston Island is a stubborn piece of land connected to the mainland by a causeway that brings Galveston many of its necessities. From food supplies to tourists, this bridge is the life support system that keeps the island flowing. Bryan Keith Gardner’s exhibition, Bridges, Walls, and Water, caricatures this playground on the Gulf, the bridges that connect it, the walls that keep out the water, and the tourist attractions built to draw visitors in. Gardner’s installation examines the duality of the island as a place of leisure, juxtaposed by the anxiety of the ever-looming threat of water, either from the gulf or the sky.
Bryan Keith Gardner is a Houston based artist. He holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from the University of Houston Clear Lake. Bryan has shown paintings, sculptures, and installations throughout the Houston area, including Lawndale Art Center, Box 13 Art Space, and Alvin and Houston Community College.
bryankgardner.weebly.com
Brown Foundation Gallery
August 26 - November 12, 2023
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, August 26, 2023
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Lanecia A. Rouse
Betwixt
Betwixt features mixed media collages on paper and canvas by Lanecia A. Rouse that explore liminal spaces and states of being. Derived from the Latin word “limen,” which means “threshold,” a liminal space is the moment between what was and what will be. Rouse’s work incorporates found materials into layered abstractions that explore color, texture, and the patina of time on their surfaces. She compares her process of collecting, layering, constructing, and deconstructing as parallel to her own lived experience. Through these works Rouse patiently navigates moments of disorientation following loss, life transition, death, and anything that births uncertainty by seeking beauty in the disorder. Rouse describes her work as a space composed of the time between the ending of one part of one's life and the unknown new beginning (job loss, moving, heartbreak, war, physical and emotional deaths). She excavates these layers to reveal a sort of visual poetry, providing ways to dig into an ambiguous terrain.
Lanecia A. Rouse (b. 1978, Atlanta, GA) is a multidisciplinary artist who splits time between Houston, TX, and Richmond, VA. Her portfolio includes a range of mixed media collage, abstract painting, photography, teaching, writing, speaking, and curatorial projects for various non-profit organizations. She is a Co-founding Creative Director for the ImagiNoir Equity Group and the Director of Justice and the Arts with projectCURATE. She also serves as the Chair of the Curation Team for the Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery of Holy Family HTX in Houston, TX. She has exhibited at Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (2022 + 2023), Project Row House, Houston, TX (2022), Art is Bond. Gallery, Houston, TX (2022), Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX (2022), Asia Society Texas, Houston, TX (2022), Urban Zin Gallery, New York City, NY (2021 + 2022), The Brooklyn Collective, Charlotte, NC (2021 + 2022), Monterroso Gallery, Houston, TX ( 2022 + 2023), Duke University Chapel (2022) ; Collect it for the Culture, Houston, TX (2021); Houston First Corporation, Houston, TX (2021); Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2020); Project Row Houses Round 51: Local Impact II, Houston, TX (2020); Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; American Church in Paris, Paris, France where she did a 1-month residency (2018); and Fourth Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2017 + 2021). This fall she will be joining the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts in Charleston, SC as one of their 2023 Fall Artist-in-Residence. Lanecia is a graduate of Duke University Divinity School and Wofford College. Her work can also be seen at the Hardy + Nance Streets in Houston, TX and High Dawn Studios in Richmond, VA.
@LARArtStudio (IG, Facebook, Twitter)
www.laneciarousetinsley.com
July 15 - October 1, 2023
Strand Gallery
July 15 - October 1, 2023
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, July 15, 2023
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Mayuko Ono Gray
七転び八起き_Fall seven times, get up eight
Mayuko Ono Gray’s exhibition, 七転び八起き_Fall seven times, get up eight, features the artist’s monumental graphite drawings that juxtapose Japanese calligraphic forms with depictions of the people, animals, and still-lifes captured in her daily experiences. Reflecting on her life, which is both culturally Japanese and American, Ono Gray’s graphite drawings hybridize influences from traditional Japanese calligraphy combined with Western drawing practices and aesthetics. Each drawing is titled with a Japanese proverb spelled out with hiragana and kanji characters intertwined to create a single line from the top right to the lower left of the pictorial space, following traditional Japanese writing format. The line serves as a metaphor for life and the path taken from birth to death. Through this work Ono Gray navigates her position living between two cultures and languages.
Mayuko Ono Gray is an artist based in Houston, TX whose primary medium is graphite drawing. Born in Gifu, Japan, she was trained in traditional Japanese calligraphy in her youth and later studied classical Western drawing. Ono Gray moved to the United States following high school and went on to receive for MFA in painting from the University of Houston in 2007. Her work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, including exhibitions in Japan, Mexico, Germany, Italy, UK, and Greece. Ono Gray is the former Gallery Director and adjunct faculty at College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX. She served as an Instructor at the Glassell School of Art (Houston) in 2022. Her works are represented by Hooks-Epstein galleries in Houston, TX and Galeria 910 in Oaxaca, Mexico.
mayukoonogray.com
June 3 - August 20, 2023
1878 Gallery
June 3 - August 20, 2023
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, June 3, 2023
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
June Woest
Those Prepared for the Weather are Those that Get to Go
June Woest’s exhibition, Those Prepared for the Weather are Those that Get to Go, features hand-held weather contraptions that empower their beholders to become master manipulators of the weather. Constructed of mass-produced found objects attached to ceramic forms, the works are conceptually designed to fix the weather when facing forecasts of high winds, floods, heat, cold, and haze. Her self-study on weather manipulation and familiarity with blustery weather events during her youth in Kansas informs her interest in human climate resilience. Tiring of doomsday predictions, Woest’s work offers an optimistic view on the changing climate and instigates continued conversation about the future of the weather and the possibility and hope that humans can change it.
June Woest is an artist, educator, curator, traveler, and weather enthusiast based in Houston, TX. She has served as faculty member for Houston Community College (HCC) for the past three decades, where she was as a founding member of the Instructional Technology Committee and led artist projects through the college’s Artist in Residency program and Wedge Space gallery. Her work has been exhibited throughout Texas, including exhibitions in Houston at DiverseWorks, Lawndale Art Center, Lone Star College, Project Row Houses, Skydive, and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. She has presented outdoor installations at Russ Pitman Park, Bellaire, TX; the Mast Arboretum at Stephen F. Austin University; the Wortham Center reflection pool, Houston, TX. Woest curated the rotating billboard project RoadsignUSA, located in the parking lot of a neighborhood pub in Bellaire, TX from 2009 to 2014. She has participated in residencies at Wassard Elea in Campania, Italy; the Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in Jingdezhen, China; and served as a Creative Capital Artist Associate for DiverseWorks. Woest co-founded Municipal Dirt, a Houston group of visual artists intent on working site-specifically outdoors, and is currently a member of ArtAxis, an evolving group of online ceramic artists.
junewoest.com
Brown Foundation Gallery
June 3 - August 20, 2023
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, June 3, 2023
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Lauren Kussro
Eden
Eden features recent prints and paper sculptures by Lauren Kussro inspired by the artist’s playful investigation into the natural world. Kussro’s work incorporates various printmaking methods and manipulations of cut paper that echo the complex patterns, textures, and repetition of forms found in plant life. Kussro’s fascination with nature speaks to a desire to return to a fresh, new, and unspoiled place. Like a garden, her works are both methodically planned and grow naturally during their meditative construction. Their vivid and intense colors come together in arrangements of fantastical botanical forms that transport the viewer into an otherworldly garden.
Lauren Kussro attended the Herron School of Art & Design at Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) for her undergraduate studies, earning a BFA in painting and printmaking in 2003 and graduating with high distinction. In 2006 she completed her MFA degree in printmaking at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her work has been shown throughout the US, including solo exhibitions at the Nashville International Airport, the Bradley Art Museum in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, as well as group exhibitions at Kai Lin Art in Atlanta, the Dadian Gallery in Washington D.C., and the Manhattan Graphics Center in New York, as well as in exhibitions abroad in India and China. Kussro is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at the University of Houston - Clear Lake, where she teaches printmaking and drawing.
laurenkussro.com
April 22 - July 9, 2023
Strand Gallery
April 22 - July 9, 2023
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, April 22, 2022
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Shawne Major
Sew What?
Sew What? features recent works by Shawne Major that incorporate accumulations of everyday objects sewn into layered abstractions. Taking the form of dense tapestries, Major’s works consider the meaning we place onto material and the connection between the build-up, organization, and assimilation of information. The detritus of the human experience serves as a metaphor for collective memory, exploring themes of loss, happiness, pain, and fear. Objects such as power cables, plastic toys, rope and fabric are woven into a vernacular that Major describes as words in a paragraph, bringing their own bits of significance and narrative to the visual story. The mass-produced objects that serve as her primary source material explore the tension between class and culture, bridging the space between low and high art.
Shawne Major was born in New Iberia, LA and currently lives and works in Henderson, LA.She received her BFA in Painting from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and her MFA in Sculpture from Rutgers University. Her mixed media works have been exhibited throughout the United States, including recent exhibitions at the Hilliard Museum, Texas Gallery, and Lawndale Art Center. In 2008, Major exhibited in the Prospect. 1 New Orleans Biennial. She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation and participated in artist residences at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo and Art Omi, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Center. Her work is collected nationally and is included in the collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute of American Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Hilliard Museum of Art, Lafayette, and Art in Embassies program, Brazzaville, Congo. Major is represented by Arthur Roger Gallery (New Orleans), Marcia Wood Gallery (Atlanta), and Texas Gallery (Houston).
shawnemajor.com
March 4 - May 28, 2023
1878 Gallery
March 4 - May 28, 2023
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, March 4, 2022
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
DUAL
It’s Called Fishin’, Not Catchin’
It’s Called Fishin’, Not Catchin’ features the hard-edge paintings and color explorations by the artist known as Dual. Navigating between his background as a street artist and gallery presentations of his work, this exhibition includes paintings on canvas, meticulous collages made from the tape used in his painting process, and site-specific paintings on the 1878 Gallery walls. DUAL’s prolific painting practice incorporates intricate manipulation of paint and tape to create optical illusions and patterned effects. These compositions often incorporate flora and fauna with new works presented in this exhibition incorporating marine lifeforms and environments.
Dual is a Houston-based artists that has been a fixture in the local street art scene since 2005. His work includes large-scale murals, paintings on canvas, meticulously tape collages, and sign paintings. Working anonymously under the pseudonym DUAL, his signature approach to painting can be recognized throughout his hometown of Houston, both in public spaces and on gallery walls. His work has been featured in exhibitions at M Squared Gallery, Pablo Cardoza Fine Art, Colton & Farb Gallery, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, and most recently in an ambitious solo exhibition at Reeves Art + Design. He has collaborated with brands, labels, and charities including the Lebron James Family Foundation, Pabst Brewing Company, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Houston Outlaws, Dickies Workwear, Schmutz Watches, Street Serpents Apparel, and Sprite. DUAL’s wheat paste works were featured in the 2011 documentary Stick ‘Em Up!. He has also been featured in numerous periodicals including 002 Magazine, Papercity, Houston Modern Luxury, Houston Press, Free Press Houston, Houston Lifestyle & Homes, Houston Chronicle, and Case Magazine and published in books such as Stay Up and Stuck-Up Piece of Crap: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art. His work can be found prominently features on walls throughout Houston, including recent commissions for the four locations of The Rice Box Restaurant in Houston and Popston in Houston’s Second Ward.
dualstreets.com
Brown Foundation Gallery & Vault
March 4 - May 28, 2023
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, March 4, 2022
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
James Beard & Sarah Welch Murky Mirror
Artist collaborative Sarah Welch and James Beard create work about the speculative future of the Texas Gulf Coast and the intersections between the built environment and nature. The work frequently highlights creatures, plants, and fungal life which are climate appropriate or endemic to their home on the coast.
Murky Mirror is a two-part installation which includes painted backdrops, sound works, ceramics, and found objects that draw from the narratives featured in the duo’s most recent book, Outpost. The near-future, climate-fiction narrative chronicles the efforts of a subsistence farmer who is struggling to grow food for her family due to increasingly hot and erratic weather. The story examines the limits of self-reliance and resilience while capturing glimpses of what life might look like on the Texas Gulf Coast 40 years into the future.
Murky Mirror looks into the internal or spiritual life of the protagonist. What stories might she create to protect morale and survive extreme change? Welch and Beard’s installations in GAC’s Vault and Brown Foundation Gallery serve as contrasting reflections of this question. One space sets the scene with a collection of backdrops that identifies landscapes as characters and works to foreground the background as its own entity. The second is an inner sanctum for regeneration and mythology building among the mycorrhizal growths of the old world.
Sarah Welch is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in print media and installation art. Welch has participated in artist residency and study programs at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and MacDowell. She has exhibited throughout the US, including exhibitions at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Antenna in New Orleans, and Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Welch is a recipient of grants and support from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award (Dallas Museum of Art), The Houston Arts Alliance, and The Idea Fund (The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts). Her favorite conversation topics are cob houses, natural burial, and cycads.
sarahwelch.info
James Beard is an artist with a rich background in printmaking and collaborative art. He has completed residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and Wesleyan University. In his professional career, he has worked with numerous entities, including the Serie Project, Coronado Studio, Lawndale Art Center, Diverseworks, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and completed hundreds of limited edition prints in his work as a master printer. He is interested in the relationship between creativity and restraint, the democratization of print, and the role of humor in art. His work is guided by the idea that art and culture should be made accessible both in viewing and ownership.
mysticmultiples.com
January 14 - April 16, 2023
Strand Gallery
January 14 - April 16, 2023
ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, January 14, 2022
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Joey Fauerso
I Wish I Had A River
Joey Fauerso’s exhibition I Wish I Had A River presents new paintings, sculptures, videos, and site-specific installations addressing subject matters that are both personal and political, centering on family, gender, humor, figuration, and representation. For this exhibition, Fauerso was inspired by the writings of socialist feminist Iris Marion Young, philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and the history of magic tricks involving women’s bodies (historically referred to as ‘torture illusions’). Fauerso’s work explores the ways in which depictions of bodies in stillness and action speak to women’s dual experiences of transcendence and confinement within a patriarchal system.
Fauerso is interested in an expanded definition of painting and has developed a subtractive method of painting that uses various non-traditional tools including kitchen spatulas, clay tools and silkscreen squeegees. In addition to works created during the last year, Fauerso will also exhibit a series of videos entitled Drawing Battles originally created during the Drawing Center’s ‘Open Sessions’ residency program in 2014/15. Drawing Battles explore interpersonal dynamics through a series of collaborative drawings between Fauerso’s family and friends recorded in her studio.
Joey Fauerso is an artist and Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University. Recently her work has been exhibited at Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL; the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, Austin, TX; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; the Drawing Center in New York, NY; and New Mexico State University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM. Fauerso has been the recipient of multiple grants and residencies, including a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts, a 2020 Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors, a 2021 Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, the Open Sessions residency at The Drawing Center in New York, the Golden Foundation Grant, Dallas Museum of Art Kimberough Grant, the RAIR artist in residence grant, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. She lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas.
joeyfauerso.com