Austin
Featured show: Interwoven, Sept. 10-Oct. 3
Transformation is all around as the fall season shifts us into longer nights and (hopefully) cooler days. Nature’s cycles can also be seen in Interwoven, a two-person exhibition featuring new paintings by Sydney Yeager and sculptures by Caprice Pierucci. These Texas-based artists share an interest in the beauty of transformation and a sensitivity to process, “revealing abstraction not as a departure from nature but as another way of experiencing it.” Gallery visitors will see Yeager’s distinctive wet-on-wet oil painting practice defined by her expressive brushwork and Pierucci’s dynamic sculptural wall works in which she uses wood to define the passage of time.
Featured show: Strips, Stripes, Pieces, Parts, Sept. 11–Oct. 17
Pattern, color, abstraction, texture, function, domesticity, dimension, history—it’s all there and more in Italian-American artist Regina Durante Jestrow’s artworks. The artist draws from women’s rights and history to challenge ideas of “traditional” quilt-making and textile arts. Growing up in Queens, New York, she learned sewing and crocheting from her mother, and today the sewing machine is a symbol of comfort and creativity for the artist, taking center stage in her studio. She combines new and second-hand fabrics plus natural and reactive dyes, inks, and acrylics to reflect the dynamic cultural diversity and landscape of Miami, where she lives and works.
Dallas
Featured show: Andrea Rosenberg / New Works, Sept. 19–Oct. 31
For Andrea Rosenberg’s solo exhibition, Barry Whistler Gallery presents twelve new drawings from the artist whose bold, expressive marks on colorful washed grounds conjure abstracted images of flowers and other natural elements. In these new works, Rosenberg extends her interest from working with mixed media on paper to paper mounted on linen, a move that adds texture and heft to her gestural compositions.
Featured show: Assumptions Abide, Sept. 19–Oct. 24
Keijsers Koning presents Assumptions Abide, a two-person exhibition featuring Belgian sculptor Johan Tahon and American painter/sculptor Natalie Westbrook. Both artists use the human figure to explore art history and emotional form, working in ways that feel unfinished or shifting, capturing moments of change. Tahon’s plaster sculptures balance spatial depth with flatness, echoing classical Greek style. Westbrook’s expressive paintings move from flat, mask-like surfaces to fleshy, dreamlike figures inspired by Rubens. The results? Challenging expectations rather than conforming to them.
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AUSTIN: Sydney Yeager, Fugitive Reds, 2026, oil on linen, 71 x 66 inches, image courtesy the artist and Laura Rathe Fine Art.
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AUSTIN: Regina Durante Jestrow, Painting 14 Log Cabin, 2026, hand-dyed cotton (reactive dyes), acrylic, lamé fabric, canvas, felt, thread, 54 x 63 inches, image courtesy the artist and Ivester Contemporary.
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DALLAS: Andrea Rosenberg, Untitled 10, 2026, mixed media on paper mounted on linen, 52 x 67 inches, image courtesy the artist and Barry Whistler Gallery.
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DALLAS: Natalie Westbrook , Levitate, 2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 96 x 72 inches, image courtesy the artist and Keijsers Koning.
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HOUSTON: Angela Fraleigh, They have no use for your song (detail), 2026, Oil, watercolor, moon water, bloodstone, hematite, tigers eye, quartz, citrine, serpentine, pyrite on dibond, 78 x 171 inches, images courtesy of the artist and Inman Gallery.
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HOUSTON: Emily Peacock, Beg for It, 2025, archival inkjet print, image courtesy of the artist and Seven Sisters.
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MARFA: Rinus Van de Velde, Conversations bounce from one wall to another, …, 2026, charcoal on canvas, in artist’s frame, 214 x 154 x 4.3 cm.; 84 1/4 x 60 5/8 x 1 3/4 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Hetzler | Marfa.
Houston
Featured show: I have decided not to be hungry, Sept.12–Oct. 31
Angela Fraleigh embraces the “feral feminine,” recasting art historical fragments from works in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Menil Collection into her new paintings that depict maenads, witches, and animals amidst colorful, fiery worlds that vibrate with unsatiated desire. Also on view is Witness, a group show of work by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Ryan Driscoll, Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Angelica Raquel, and Didier William that further explores the transformational relationships among figure, nature, and history.
Featured show: Untitled Art, Houston 2026, Oct. 2–4
For its second boutique fair in Houston, Untitled Art presents 95 galleries from 20 countries and territories, including 17 Texas exhibitors, plus 30 institutional and cultural partners in the George R. Brown Convention Center. Professionals and enthusiasts alike are sure to satisfy their art-world curiosities not just by pursuing the gallery booths, but through the fair’s multifaceted program offerings like educational events, performances, a podcast, and more. And while all of those numbers and activities might make this art-packed weekend seem larger than life, the fair also promotes zero environmental impact.
Marfa
Featured show: The Dinner, through Dec. 6
Hetzler | Marfa rounds out the year with The Dinner, a solo exhibition of new works by Rinus Van de Velde, the most comprehensive overview of the Belgian artist’s practice in the U.S. to date. The show features a range of media—oil pastel, charcoal, sculpture, and film—to blur the line between reality and illusion. Viewers are welcomed into the artist’s fictional world “where playful and reflective conversations unfold, and humor, scrutiny, reality and illusion become inextricably entwined.” Keep your eye on the bicycle, a recurring motif, as your travel guide through Van de Velde’s mind.
—NANCY ZASTUDIL
