Austin
Featured show: Patrick Puckett: Solo Show, July 12-August 3
“They’re not people I know, but they could be people I know,” artist Patrick Puckett once told art historian Suzanne Deal Booth in reference to the figures in his paintings. Such ambiguity is visually expressed in his work through stark contrasts—color, textures, patterns, lighting—all of which makes for enticing if not slightly unnerving scenes. For his twelfth solo show at Wally Workman Gallery, the Mississippi-born, Austin-based Puckett presents a selection of these bold paintings, portraying people who stick out a bit from their surroundings—confident but out of place, comfortably so.
Dallas
Featured show: mutual ground, June 28-August 9, 2025
Art world summers are synonymous with group exhibitions, and Erin Cluley Gallery is taking this season as an opportunity to draw attention to our shared ecosystem. Curated by Victoria Brill, mutual ground “investigates the relationships between the environment and humanity through contemporary art practices,” inspiring art viewers and art makers alike. The exhibition focuses on life-giving and life-affirming connections between us and nature, featuring works by Kaleta Doolin, Hidenori Ishii, Anna Membrino, Jen Rose, Rachel Wolfson Smith, and Ash Eliza Williams—artists who hail from Dallas, Amsterdam, and Western Massachusetts.
Featured show: Laurent Le Bel-Roux: Au-delà des apparences, May 17-August 8
Laurent Le Bel-Roux’s debut exhibition at Liliana Bloch Gallery features his most recent abstract paintings through which he delves into the mind-body connection. The artist uses an intuitive approach in his paintings and drawings, and he often references permeable boundaries such as grids, mesh, stencils, and camouflage to hint at the active filters of our conscious and subconscious, creating introspective perceptual spaces that serve as fertile ground for the sensory experiences of everyday life. The result is a visual record of intention, improvisation, boundaries, and limitless potential.
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AUSTIN: Patrick Puckett, Imaginary Vacation, 2025, oil on canvas, 76 x 54 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Wally Workman Gallery.
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DALLAS: Ash Eliza Williams, Communication Attempt (Mountain and Rock), oil on paper with wood frame, clay, gauche, and wire stand. 24 x 12 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Erin Cluley Gallery.
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DALLAS: Laurent Le Bel-Roux, Untitled, 2024, enamel paint and sand on aluminum, 50 x 36 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Lilliana Bloch Gallery.
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HOUSTON: Pat Colville, Turnabout, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 inches, image courtesy of the artist and Moody Gallery.
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MARFA: Richard Prince, Untitled, 2016, inkjet on canvas, 241.3 x 236.9 cm.; 95 x 93 1/4 inches, © Richard Prince Studio, courtesy the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London | Marfa.
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SAN ANTONIO: Installation view, Paloma Rosenzweig, Between 1 (Ente 1) and Between 3 (Ente 3), 2023–24, hand-felted wool, ceramics, brass, and natural pigments, image courtesy of the artist, Laguna, and Contemporary at Blue Star
Houston
Featured show: Dog Days of Summer, July 5-August 9
The heat is on at Houston’s Moody Gallery with a group show including works by Claire Ankenman, Helen Altman, Pat Colville, Jay Shinn, Al Souza, and Liz Ward. Through a range of media and execution, the artists explore spaces and experiences that at first glance may seem all too familiar. But viewers who look a bit closer may find a few surprises: shapes that shift, colors that glow, objects that amuse, and layers that both reveal and conceal.
Marfa
Hetzler | Marfa
Featured show: Posters (Richard Prince), May 17-Dec 7
For the gallery’s annual presentation in Marfa, Hetzler presents a selection of Richard Prince’s poster works, which the renowned artist created between 2014 and 2024. The large canvases on view are emblematic of Prince’s “post-production” approach to art-making and his interest in appropriating and re-contextualizing imagery from media, focusing on the material culture of mid-to late-twentieth-century counterculture. As the gallery states, “Method and implication are translated into different contexts and, with his meticulous attention to detail, the artist decodes the communication of contemporary visual language and the ideas which are concealed within it.”
San Antonio
Contemporary at Blue Star
Featured show: In the Shadows, Our Ghosts Lurk (En Las Sombras, Nuestros Fantasmas Acechan), June 6-Oct 5
“Some trace the roots of our contemporary surveillance society back to the panopticon, where the sensation of being stalked has grown more acute and pervasive through the digital revolution,” writes independent curator Fabiola Iza. Eleven artists included in In the Shadows, Our Ghosts Lurk (En Las Sombras, Nuestros Fantasmas Acechan) make this tracing visible—by defying, improvising, or barricading total vision, or what Iza calls “that omniscient gaze.” The show was originally exhibited at Laguna in Mexico City and has been reconfigured for the San Antonio installation, creating a setting in which visitors can experience for themselves what blind spots might look like.
—NANCY ZASTUDIL
