Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas.
For last week’s picks, please go here.
Installation view of “Ariel Wood: rest, raze, cullect”
1. Ariel Wood: rest, raze, cullect
Lawndale Art Center (Houston)
November 21 – December 21, 2024
From Lawndale:
“rest, raze, cullect brings together three bodies of work, interconnected, and interrelated, yet each inspired by a particular infrastructural situ. Transplanting them together here showcases material shifts over time and conceptual throughlines. Utility boxes on the corners of streets become cage-like shower stalls and water towers. Water main access pipes stretch upwards like pillars and lamp posts. Ceramic pipes and vessels rest in their steel holds, face and connect the walls, or drop in blue, acrylic suspension from the ceiling. These ceramic pipes are lifted off the ground on specifically fabricated black platforms; a nod to the unique floor-to-wall relationship of John M. O’Quinn Gallery.”
Read a review of the exhibition here.
Images from “Fables and Labels: Ruhee Maknojia and Hiromi Stringer”
2. Fables and Labels: Ruhee Maknojia and Hiromi Stringer
University of Dallas Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery
December 6, 2024 – January 31, 2025
From Haggerty Gallery:
“Fables and Labels: Ruhee Maknojia and Hiromi Stringer, explores the limitations of cultural and geographical labels in the context of their work. First conceived during their time at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the exhibition responds to how their art is often reduced to identity categories — Indian for Maknojia and Japanese for Stringer —overshadowing the broader global narratives they engage with. Through a combination of painting, animation, drawing, and sculpture, both artists challenge the traditional boundaries of art and history.
Stringer’s fictional Umeyama Time Teleportation Museum reimagines historical narratives, questioning the authority of museum labels and historical records. Meanwhile, Maknojia uses memory, storytelling, and the psychological ‘doorway effect’ to explore how fables, much like fragmented memories, are reassembled and reinterpreted. Together, these works invite viewers to rethink the roles of labels and fables in shaping our understanding of history, identity, and art.”
Johanna Villareal, “Ugly.” Members’ Juried Art Show 2023 Winner
3. 4th Annual Members’ Juried Art Show
International Museum of Art and Science (McAllen)
October 5, 2024 – January 5, 2025
From IMAS:
“Join the International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS) in hosting its 4th Annual Members’ Juried Art Show (MJAS). MJAS provides a welcoming space and opportunity for the community to professionally display their artwork at IMAS, available to be seen by museum visitors of all ages.
The Members’ Juried Art Show at the International Museum of Art & Science is an annual exhibition that celebrates the creativity and talent of the museum’s members. This juried show features a diverse range of artwork, including painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media, submitted by IMAS members.”
A work from “Jon Revett: Get Your Kicks”
4. Jon Revett: Get Your Kicks
Co-Opt Research + Projects (Lubbock)
December 15 – February 20, 2025
From Co-Opt Research + Projects:
“Get Your Kicks is an exhibition by Canyon, Texas-based artist Jon Revett inspired by Route 66’s complicated narratives. This Mother Road has become part of American mythology and represents a freedom that brings with it problems like Westward expansionism and urban sprawl. Get Your Kicks explores this dichotomy by overlaying tessellated screen prints with a video projection using imagery from Revett’s long history with Route 66. The video installation is also accompanied by a sculpture and experimental music performance during the run of the show.”
Pat Batine, “John Lewis”
5. Good Trouble Quilts: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Congressman John Lewis
Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council, Inc.
December 17 – March 1, 2025
From Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council, Inc.:
“This exhibit was booked by TRAHC’s African American Committee as its annual art feature and features 35 quilts by 30 artists, organized around themes of voting and voting rights, activism, and John Lewis. Our secured galleries will display the first 35 quilts, and our lobby and floors 2 and 3 will display works by the Quilting Sisters of Color (Dallas, TX), the Pleasant Hill Quilting Guild (Linden, TX), and our own TAAC Quilting Group (Texarkana, TX).”
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