Austin
Featured Show: Jeffrey From, solo exhibition, Nov. 7-Dec. 20.
Martha’s is making a name for itself within the Austin arts community. With two locations — one in Hyde Park and the other in the Westside Market — the gallery is also making early career artists in all media, and from all over, feel right at home. Opening in November at the Hyde Park venue is a solo exhibition of work by local artist Jeffrey From, which includes new selections from the artist’s series of detailed ballpoint-on-vellum-drawings, giving a nod to the art-historical tradition of creating still lifes, making everyday observations, and using modest materials.
Featured Show: TAGGED, Oct. 18-Nov. 29
Beauty, mystery, and imagination are just some of the characters in Josephine Sacabo’s visual narratives. The Laredo-born, New Orleans-based artist has become a leading figure in both printmaking and photography, with a career that spans nearly 50 years. What began as a photojournalistic style has evolved into a subjective and introspective approach, often sparked by poetry from the likes of Rilke and Mallarmé. This fall, Flatbed Press presents Sacabo’s acclaimed photogravure series TAGGED, which was recently published as a deluxe artist book and will be highlighted at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, Nov. 8-9.
Houston
Featured Show: JUXTAPOSED: Frances Bagley—Tom Orr, Oct. 18-Dec. 20
Dallas-based sculptors Frances Bagley and Tom Orr are both interested in how we perceive movement and equilibrium, two aspects that take center stage in their exhibition JUXTAPOSED at Andrew Durham Gallery. A rare joint showcase, the show positions the two artists and their artistic investigations in direct dialogue, inviting viewers to explore when, where, and how those conversations unfold.
Featured Show: Everlasting Sky: A Tribute to Robert Kinsell, Oct. 18-Nov. 22
Robert Kinsell, who died earlier this year, was known for “his devotion to realism as ‘the beautiful lie.’” The artist made his home in West Texas’s Davis Mountains, which he described as a place of wonder that heavily influenced his life and work. Using everyday items — sticks, bones, food — he created playful paintings “layered with humor, surprise, and visual poetry.” Hooks-Epstein Galleries presents a tribute exhibition this fall to honor Kinsell’s life, work, and far-reaching impact. Additionally, the gallery presents WEAR IT OUT! 2nd Biennial Art Jewelry Invitational, which features a curated selection of work by Houston jewelry artists, Dec. 6-20.
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AUSTIN: Jeffrey From, Fish in Water, 2025, ballpoint pen on vellum, 14 x 11 inches; 25 x 19 inches framed, image courtesy of the artist and Martha’s Gallery.
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AUSTIN: Josephine Sacabo, GRABBED, 2019, photogravures printed on Sekishu Tsuru tissue, chine-collé on Somerset paper, 25 x 20 inches, edition of 12, image courtesy of the artist and Flatbed Press.
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HOUSTON: Frances Bagley, The Escape, 2019, mixed media, 84 x 48 x 36 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Andrew Durham Gallery.
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HOUSTON: Robert Kinsell, Aerie, 2008, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Hooks-Epstein Galleries.
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DALLAS: Damian Suarez, Cinetico, 2025, thread on panel, 60 x 60 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Craighead Green Gallery.
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DALLAS: Rachel Hellmann, Cross Beam, 2025, acrylic on wood panel, 59 x 59 x 2.5 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Galleri Urbane.
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SAN ANTONIO: Joey Fauerso, installation view: Bedroom Paintings, 2024, four-channel video, run time: 23 minutes, 44 seconds; edition 1 of 5, image courtesy of the artist and Ruby City.
Dallas
Featured Show: Jessup, McCall, Suárez, Dec. 6, 2025-Jan. 10, 2026
Rounding out the year and into the next, Craighead Green Gallery presents a vibrant exhibition experience of realism and abstraction with works by Faith Scott Jessup, Linda McCall, and Damian Suárez. The trio serves up detailed observations, atmospheric scenarios, and geometric constructions that draw viewers in with a myriad of seductive visual and textural qualities.
Featured Show: Daylight, Nov 15-Dec. 27
Rachel Hellmann blurs the formal and conceptual lines between sculpture, painting, and installation, “influenced by simple structures such as paper airplanes and origami — objects that are light in physical weight yet command and shape the space that they occupy.” Late this year, visitors to Galleri Urbane have the chance to experience Hellman’s art in Daylight, her solo exhibition of new shaped paintings and works on paper. The gallery also presents Fruit Roll Out by Stephen D’Onofrio – Gift Edit(ion), the 11th annual holiday gift edit, featuring D’Onofrio’s luscious editioned fruit and flower compositions.
San Antonio
Featured show: Bedroom Paintings, June 7, 2025-May 10, 2026
Sleepless in . . . San Antonio? Yes, and most every other place around the world these days. Described as “a complex meditation on contemporary anxiety, artistic practice, and painting’s expanding boundaries,” Joey Fauerso’s Bedroom Paintings is nothing short of dreamy — including all the fragmented, abstracted, and layered experiences of waking life. The poignant exhibition includes a multichannel video installation of sleepers amidst Fauerso’s canvases that serve as bed linens, plus black-and-white paintings, sculptures, and prints, with music by the artist’s father, lyrics by her brother, and text from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up.
—NANCY ZASTUDIL
