Austin
Featured show: Shape Shift | Grids and Surfaces, Jan. 17–Feb. 15
ICOSA Collective presents Shape Shift | Grids & Surfaces with works by members Juliette M. Miller Herrera Nickle and Monica Mohnot. Nickle puts a futuristic spin on her neo-Bauhaus aesthetic in hand-stitched fabric collage sculptures, informed by her childhood in St. Louis and ongoing interest in industrial blight, such as abandoned factories. Mohnot combines painting and textiles, inspired by nature and culture, specifically her experiences growing up in Kolkata, India, and living in the United States since 2001. Through weaving, stitching, and quilting, she connects her work to the South Asian diaspora and contemporary issues of gender and labor.
Houston
Featured show: Lineage, Jan. 10–March 1
Austin-based artist Erin Curtis’s solo exhibition Lineage features handcut, layered canvas paintings informed by craft, nature, repetition, and decoration. Her highly chromatic, dense compositions of abstracted, overgrown landscapes offer no fixed perspective for viewers but hint at the physical, visual, and cultural nature of textiles. As the gallery explains, “The exhibition title refers to both the understanding and perpetuation of the vernacular of textiles that are often abstractions created largely by women, as well as the process by which the paintings have been created.”
Featured show: After the Rain, Jan. 10–Feb. 8
BOX13 rings in the new year with a Members’ Exhibition and three solo shows. San Antonio artist Michael Guerra Foerster presents Fries, a selection of interactive, fantastical ceramics that embody big feelings like grief and love; Molly Sydnor plays with color theory and scale in After the Rain, her debut of the work in Houston; and Peter Broz’s show Out of Touch in the Wild, a collection of two-dimensional works that “explore the fine line between fear and excitement and how those feelings coincide with our experiences in nature.”
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AUSTIN: Monica Mohnot, Shifting Forms Mind Map Series #11, 2024, cotton yarns, vinyl, dye, embroidery perale cotton, painting, textile, hand-woven on jacquard loom, 26 x 49 inches, image courtesy of the artist and ICOSA Collective
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HOUSTON: Erin Curtis, August, 2024, acrylic on cut canvas, 44 x 60 inches, image courtesy of the artist and David Shelton Gallery
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HOUSTON: Molly Sydnor, After the Rain, 2024, woven textiles, 18’x15 feet, image courtesy of the the artist and BOX 13 ArtSpace
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DALLAS: Richard Rezac, Untitled (12-08), 2012, painted cherry wood and aluminum, 27 ½ x 20 ½ x 5 ½ inches, image courtesy of the artist and James Harris Gallery
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DALLAS: Sedrick Huckaby, Opal Lee - The Proposal for the State Senate, 2022, oil on canvas, 15 5/8 x 12 5/8 x 1 ¾ inches (framed), image courtesy of the artist and Talley Dunn Gallery
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FORT WORTH: Tom Judd, Gas Station, 2024, oil on canvas, 49 x 50 inches, image courtesy of the artist and J. Peeler Howell Fine Art
Dallas
Featured show: Richard Rezac, Abridged, Jan. 6–Feb. 22
For Richard Rezac’s first exhibition in Dallas, James Harris Gallery presents sculptures and drawings from the past thirteen years of the Chicago-based artist’s more than four-decade-long career. Synthesis and simplification are guiding principles for Rezac, reflected in his use of material, color, shape, spatial relationships, surface treatment, and other formal considerations. Gallery visitors who feel as though they see something familiar in these abstract works may be tuning into the artist’s process of redefinition and repetition, or his adaptation of language, music composition, and other organizing systems. He also embeds his works with symbolic narratives and personal nuance, which layers meanings into each piece.
Featured show: Higher Ground, Feb. 22–May 17
Late this winter, Talley Dunn Gallery opens Higher Ground, an exhibition of painting, sculpture, and video by internationally acclaimed artist Sedrick Huckaby, who has become known for his quilts and expressive portrait paintings that explore faith, family, community, and heritage. Living and working in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, Huckaby has said, “I try to aggrandize ordinary people by painting them on a monumental scale.” He is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and more, and his work is in permanent collections of major museums and institutions around the world.
Fort Worth
Peeler Howell Fine Art
Featured show: Tom Judd: American Sublime, Jan. 18–March 22
American Sublime, Tom Judd’s first solo exhibition at J. Peeler Howell Fine Art, showcases the artist’s ongoing relationship with Americana and the American West, informed by his experiences growing up in Salt Lake City and studying in Philadelphia, where he currently lives and works. Judd’s paintings, collages, photographs, and installations explore lore, geography, and anonymous places, blending elements of the sublime with American Romanticism. By incorporating found objects and ephemera like news clippings and vintage wallpaper, his art critiques nostalgic American myths, particularly the frontier narrative.
—NANCY ZASTUDIL
