Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas.
For last week’s picks, please go here.
David Altmejd, “The Eye,” 2008, wood and mirrors, 129 1/2 x 216 1/2 x 144 1/2 inches. Dallas Museum of Art, TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Fund © David Altmejd
1. A Product of Time: 25 Years of Two x Two for AIDS and Art
The Warehouse Dallas
September 7 – November 30, 2024
Read about the final TWO x TWO event here.
From the Rachofsky Warehouse:
“Curated by the Dallas Museum of Art’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Anna Katherine Brodbeck; The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, Vivian Li; and The Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Ade Omotosho, A Product of Time celebrates the transformative effect of TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art — the annual contemporary art auction held at The Rachofsky House benefiting the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.
Since the event’s inception, the Museum has acquired over 350 major works of art and organized dozens of shows with the funds raised from this benefit auction. TWO x TWO, with galvanizing support from the local community, has put Dallas on the map as a global destination for contemporary art. This October marks the 25th and final edition of the landmark event. Sections of the exhibition are organized thematically to demonstrate how these funds have allowed the Museum to acquire art that speaks to the most pressing issues of our time.”
Zak Loyd and Melanie Clemmons (Omnigenesis), “Heaven (detail of Hamburger),” 2023
2. Artist-Run, Artist-Organized
FotoFest (Houston)
October 5 – November 17, 2024
From FotoFest:
“FotoFest is pleased to announce the juried winning proposals of artist groups La Mecha Contemporary (El Paso, TX), Omnigenesis (Austin, Dallas, Denton, San Antonio, TX), and Throughline Collective (Houston, TX) will be realized for FotoFest’s fall exhibition, Artist-run, Artist-organized. Each artist group will receive support to produce an exhibition that will fill one-third of FotoFest’s exhibition space at Silver Street Studios, plus program and promotional backing.”
A work from Melissa Gamez Herrera, “Color Code: How It Feels”
3. Melissa Gamez Herrera – Color Code: How it Feels
Presa House Gallery (San Antonio)
October 12 – November 30, 2024
From Presa House Gallery:
“Color Code: How It Feels is a series of new works created between 2023 and 2024. As a lifelong resident of San Antonio, Herrera delves into the city’s urban landscape and the deep inequalities that persist within its physical structure and society. Who are the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’? Why do disparities exist within our landscape? Questions not grappled with in everyday conversations regarding the state of the city. Instead, we blame individuals for their circumstances, never our racist history, environment, and policymakers. Color Code: How It Feels combines photographs, sound, objects, and significant historical text to tell a story about the city’s complicated past and disparities of the present.”
Installation view of “Eric Charlton: Humid Subtropical Doomscroll Pizza Party”
4. Eric Charlton: Humid Subtropical Doomscroll Pizza Party
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (Lubbock)
October 4 – November 30, 2024
From LHUCA:
“Humid Subtropical Doomscroll Pizza Party is centered around the human desire to fill the unknowable void with structure and answers. Composed of a series of drawings and sculptures that occupy the space between digital/actual, familiar/alien, and comfortable/unsettling this exhibition disrupts what is comfortably considered societally conventional and encourages a reconsideration of our performance of normal. The title of this exhibition directly references my experience of an event that occurred after moving from western Pennsylvania to Jackson, Mississippi. The absurdity of grasping for control when it feels completely out of reach.”
Enrique Figueredo, “Dame Dos,” 2024, woodcut, 60 x 39 1/2 inches
5. Enrique Figueredo: And the Valley Froze Over
Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Austin)
October 26 – November 30, 2024
From Flatbed:
“Flatbed is excited to announce our upcoming exhibition with Enrique Figueredo. Figueredo will be exhibiting his stunning installation of new woodcuts in his upcoming exhibition titled, And the Valley Froze Over. Enrique Figueredo is a Venezuelan-American artist who immigrated from South America at a young age. Figueredo’s work looks closely at the forces and issues affecting today’s world—economy, religion, migration, power—and relates those incidents to the visual history of ancient civilizations, the colonization of the Americas, and mythology.”
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