Austin
Featured Show: if you stare at a cowboy’s face for long enough, it turns into a sunset, Sept. 27- Nov. 13
The desert often gets a bad rap: Dry, dusty, and hot. But beneath that rough exterior and within its unique ecosystem, life is teeming, whether or not we pay attention. Enter Hannah Spector—interdisciplinary artist, poet, educator, member of MASS Gallery, and co-curator of shedshows—who, for the past five years, has been listening to the West Texas desert landscape. Spector brings those experiences to if you stare at a cowboy’s face for long enough, it turns into a sunset, their exhibition at Women & Their Work that “places queer bodies within a new mythos” through installations of sound, video, photographs, ceramic sculpture, and copper-plate etchings.
Houston
Untitled Art
Featured show: Untitled Art Houston, Sept. 19-21
Houston is now officially part of the international contemporary art fair scene. For one event-filled weekend this fall, Untitled Art Houston will host galleries from around the world such as Jessica Silverman Gallery (San Francisco) and Various Small Fires / VSF (Los Angeles, Seoul, and Dallas) alongside Texas galleries 12.26 (Dallas), Martha’s (Austin), McClain Gallery (Houston), and more. You might already be familiar with Untitled, which launched in 2012 and maintains an annual contemporary art fair in Miami. While visiting Untitled Art Houston at the George R. Brown Convention Center, be sure to check out Nest, a portion of the fair dedicated to emerging artists, young galleries, and non-profit organizations.
Featured show: As Vast As We Need It To Be, April 10- Sept. 27
“I’m fabricating an extended story that transcends time and cosmic location,” says multidisciplinary artist and educator Anthony Suber. That story includes history, Afro-futurism, collective voices, and an Afro-surrealist vocabulary. For As Vast As We Need It To Be, Suber makes these ideas and elements visible through a new body of work: reimagined artifacts and mixed media drawings that portray Black people in states of elation, power, and reflection. These “conductors” or time travelers, as Suber calls them, act as guides to help navigate the distance between seemingly opposing emotions and experiences such as loss and love, grief and joy.
Featured show: Inaugural Group Show, Sept. 12- Nov. 1
Houston’s Inman Gallery’s long game is strong, to say the least. For more than 30 years, the gallery has championed local and regional artists, helping to build their careers and bringing much-deserved attention to the Houston art community. Much of that work took place in their iconic Isabella Court location. Now that history takes a turn. This fall, the gallery debuts their new location on Alabama Street (which previously housed the Station Museum). In a celebratory and forward-looking spirit, this inaugural exhibition offers a sweeping survey of work from each of the gallery’s 35 represented artists.
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AUSTIN: Hannah Spector, Leaf-blower Drawing, 2023, performance-still, dimensions variable, image courtesy of the artist and Women & Their Work.
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HOUSTON: Aaron Parazette, Indicator, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 78 x 72 inches, image courtesy of the artist.
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HOUSTON: Anthony Suber, Blessed Arrival, 2025, acrylic, metallic pigment, paper, wood veneer, graphite, pastel, colored pencil, ink on wood panel, image courtesy of the artist and Nicole Longnecker Gallery.
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HOUSTON: Robyn O’Neil, Vacation Scene, 2025, graphite on rice paper, 11 ⅛ x 15 ⅛ inches, image courtesy of the artist and Inman Gallery.
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DALLAS: Raychael Stine, Double velvet midnight lovers in Georgia's petunias, 2024, 40 x 40 inches, acrylic and oil on canvas, image courtesy of the artist and Cris Worley Fine Arts.
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MARFA: Karian Amaya, RUINAS DEL PAISAJE, installation view, mixed media, dimensions variable, image courtesy of the artist and MAINTENANT; photo by Logan Caldbeck.
Dallas
Featured show: Falls and Springs and Stardust Things, Sept. 6-Oct. 25
For Raychael Stine’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, Cris Worley Fine Arts presents a new selection of the artist’s juicy, prismatic paintings that feature trompe l’oeil flowers and waterdrops amidst luscious scenes of colorful, glowing cosmic portals. Stine is generating quite a positive buzz, incorporating visual clues of sweet and sensual experiences and magical environments to entice viewers, but never sacrificing painting’s materiality. Also on view is Summer Breeze, an exhibition of works by Rusty Scruby whose dynamic, nature-adjacent imagery is generated through patterns and self-engineered technical processes.
Marfa
Featured show: RUINAS DEL PAISAJE, June 5- Sept. 28
Located just outside the heart of Marfa, MAINTENANT is a gallery that also serves as a boxing gym, described as “an art and fighting laboratory.” I don’t know about you, but that combo piques my curiosity. And so does the current installation of Guadalajara-based artist Karian Amaya’s marble sculptures, copper, and glasswork inspired by Mexico’s open-pit mines. The artist uses these materials to “explore the profound relationship between mining, landscape, and memory” as a way to discuss the land’s history and transformation, especially the natural environment and cultural identity.
—NANCY ZASTUDIL
