Austin
Featured show: Without Borders / Sin Fronteras, Jan. 31–May 10
DORF continues its newly-sited exhibition program with a solo show of photographs by multidisciplinary artist Táhila Moss, who documents life along the U.S./Mexico border, highlighting the disruption and exploitation caused by human-made borders and structures. Her photographs emphasize the effects of colonial frameworks on wildlife, biodiversity, the land, and Indigenous communities, specifically focusing on sacred sites of the Esto’k Gna Nation in Brownsville, Texas. The photos invite viewers to reconsider their relationship with nature and honor Indigenous stewardship practice, and they are part of the artist’s ongoing project supported by the World Monument Fund, which aims to raise awareness of and support for heritage place preservation.
Houston
Featured show: Daniel Sambo-Richter: Icons, March 1–April 26, 2025
Daniel Sambo-Richter is interested in the dynamics of power and powerlessness, resistance and opportunism. He explores the theme through painting, such as his extensive Fire and Ice series of landscapes, which he explains are “symbolic of the collective mental processes of our contemporary society.” Landscapes are central to his solo exhibition Icons at Redbud Art Center, in which he also depicts people and historical events, explaining further that his focus is on “fluid transitions and the elimination of separations between culture and nature, humans and animals, as well as physical and imagined realities.”
Featured show: Notan, Feb. 8–March 29
Don Glentzer’s latest works blend minimalism with implied motion, drawing on his continued interest in Benesh Movement Notation and Labanotation, written systems for recording choreography. Responding to a range of materials like wood, aluminum, steel, and hand-painted papers, his pieces create an abstract, rhythmic language all their own. For Notan, his third solo exhibition of sculptures and mixed media works at Sonja Roesch Gallery, Glentzer explores the interaction of dark and light, echoing graphic design principles such as the constructive relationships of positive and negative space.
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AUSTIN: Táhila Moss, Untitled, 2023, archival pigment print, 16 x 24 inches, image courtesy of the artist and DORF
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HOUSTON: Daniel Sambo-Richter, Land Without Name, 2022, oil on canvas, 78.74 x 118.11 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Redbud Art Center
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HOUSTON: Don Glentzer, NOTAN #14, 2024, paper, basswood, watercolor pencil, 29.5 x 21 inches, image courtesy the artist and Sonja Roesch Gallery
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DALLAS: Robyn Stacey, Salmon, 2009, C-print, 23.5 x 35.5 inches, image courtesy of the artist and PDNB Gallery
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DALLAS: Lauren Spencer King, Flower no.19, 2023, watercolor on Paper, 12 x 9 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Gallery 12:26
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SAN ANTONIO: Katie Pell, Gordon, Lightfoot, 2017–2018, Mixed media, 15 x 15 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Ruiz-Healy Art
Dallas
Featured show: Pangeaography, Feb. 22–March 22
This spring, PDNB Gallery presents Pangeaography, an international photography exhibition that features works by artists from Russia, Argentina, China, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, and more. Gallery visitors can expect to see a diverse range of subject matter and styles, including those of Robyn Stacey, one of Australia’s most renowned photographers, who takes an experimental approach to the still life genre. Other participating artists reveal the magic in the mundane, such as Russian artist Vadim Gushchin, and others still, like Jan Van Leeuwen, draw our attention to the ever-surprising alternative photographic process of cyanotype.
Featured show: Dallas Invitational, April 10–12
Now in its third year, the invitation-only art fair Dallas Invitational features 15 galleries from Los Angeles, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Dallas’s own James Cope Gallery and Gallery 12:26. Fair founder and gallery owner Cope says that the fair’s 2025 move to the hotel enables expanded programming such as panel discussions. Additionally, two new Invitational elements this year include a five-member advisory council and a partnership with The Modern on an acquisition fund that will allow the museum to acquire select artworks exhibited at the fair for its permanent collection.
San Antonio
Featured show: For Fran, Feb. 6–March 29
For Fran is “an exhibition of some of the artists who came into the orbit of Frances Colpitt in San Antonio in the nineties,” writes guest curator Hills Synder, and includes Jesse Amado, Bill Davenport, Jack Massing, Chuck Ramirez, Katie Pell, and more. Many readers will be familiar with the historian, critic, and educator Frances Colpitt, affectionately known as Fran, who passed away in 2022. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, she lived in San Antonio since 1990 and, through her critical writing, brought attention to the Texas art scene. For Fran joins a series of other recent memorializing exhibitions, adding Snyder’s personal touch to Fran’s wide reach.
—NANCY ZASTUDIL
