Past
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Anna Mavromatis: Romancing the Myth
6 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Anna Mavromatis's work is deeply intertwined with the rich tradition of storytelling that shaped her upbringing in Greece. Growing up, she saw storytelling as a metaphorical window that allowed her to witness and understand the complex emotions of life-from the turmoil of torrential storms to the serenity of sunlit landscapes.... Read more -
Sensations of the Entre-Deux : Paul Fleming, Eduardo Portillo and Garrett Griffin
12 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce “Sensations of the Entre-Deux' a group exhibition by artists Paul Fleming, Garrett Griffin, and Eduardo Portillo, opening Friday, July 12, 2024, with an artists’ reception from 6:00 - 8:30 PM. “Sensations of the Entre-Deux” explores the visual language created through the interplay... Read more -
Nancy O'Connor: Welcome Table
3 May - 3 Jul 2024 CLICK BELOW TO SEE THE SHOW Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce 'Welcome Table', a solo-exhibition by artist Nancy O'Connor, opening Friday, May 3, 2024, with an artist's reception from 6:30-8:30PM. Conversation between artist Nancy O'Connor and Anne Tucker, former chief curator of Photography at Museum of Fine Arts... Read more -
Kambel Smith: RAW
8 Mar - 27 Apr 2024 Kambel Smith artist gallery opening outsider art avant garde Read more -
Andrea Bianconi: Invisible Dance
12 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 Avant Garde Art in Houston Texas Read more -
Fernanda Caballero: The Way the Wind Blows
17 Nov 2023 - 4 Jan 2024 FERNANDA CABALLERO THE WAY THE WIND BLOWS NOVEMBER 17, 2023 - JANUARY 6, 2024 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to present “The Way the Wind Blows”, a solo exhibition by Fernanda Caballero. Fernanda Caballero’s movement is confident and soft, her life-sized canvases soaking in every quick brush. Full-body gestures mix... Read more -
Yuriko Yamaguchi: The Trees are Humming
8 Sep - 11 Nov 2023 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce The Trees are Humming. Yuriko Yamaguchi, openning Friday, September 8th, 2023 and on view through November 11, 2023. With a delicate hand and a gentle spirit, Yuriko Yamaguchi invites communion with the natural world around us. It is easy to become lost in... Read more -
Ming Smith: Catching the Light
26 May - 8 Jul 2023 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to present “Catching the Light,” a solo exhibition by international artist Ming Smith opening Friday May 26, 2023 from 6:30-8:30, on view through Saturday September 2, 2023. Other 2023 exhibitions: The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is exhibiting “Ming Smith: Feeling the Future,” from May 25,... Read more -
Eduardo Portillo: Dream Dust
14 Apr - 13 May 2023 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to present 'Dream Dust', a solo exhibition by Eduardo Portillo opening Friday April 14, 2023 from 6:30PM to 8:30PM. How does reshaping the familiar ignite a pull to the unknown? Following this instinct, Eduardo Portillo explores a craving to understand the space around us in... Read more -
Mel Davis and Deborah Zlotsky: Kith and Pine
3 Mar - 7 Apr 2023 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Kith and Pine, a dual exhibition, opening Friday March 3rd with an artists' reception from 6:30pm-8:30pm at 4411 Montrose. Kith and Pine explores the simultaneously dynamic and gentle lines of Mel Davis and Deborah Zlotsky. The strong clean edges of Zlotsky's abstracted shapes... Read more -
Miguel Angel Madrigal: With Two Tales
13 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce With Two Tales, a solo exhibition by Miguel Ángel Madrigal opening Friday, January 13th with an artist's reception from 6:30 to 8:30pm. We build memory from circumstances, space, and time. Memory alludes to a past that has lost its place and hovers as... Read more -
REVELRY
18 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce REVELRY, a group exhibition opening Friday, November 18th with an artists’ reception from 6:30 to 8:30pm. This exhibition will be on view through January 7th, 2023. REVELRY explores a fresh communion of artists Andrea Bianconi, Sara Bichão, Agnes Bourely, Mel Davis, Paul Fleming,... Read more -
Preston Gaines: Archetypes of Nature
15 Oct - 12 Nov 2022 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce ARCHETYPES OF NATURE, a solo exhibition by Houston-based artist Preston Gaines. This exhibition follows Gaines being awarded with CultuRunner's prestigious international The Future is Unwritten Artist Response Fund. Creating an immersive experience, Gaines breathes life into a room by simulating the peace of... Read more -
Miguel Soler-Roig: Marfa Lights
9 Sep - 8 Oct 2022 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Marfa Lights, a solo exhibition by artist Miguel Soler-Roig. This is his fourth exhibition at the gallery, marked by his participation in this year's Venice Biennale. 'I have always been struck by the peculiarity of the American landscape for its incomparable vastness, free... Read more -
Andrea Bianconi: Journey of the Chair
8 Jul - 1 Sep 2022 The Sit Down To Have an Idea series first began in the artist's studio in 2016 at a very important moment in Bianconi’s life. No ideas were coming to him that day, and he felt at a creative impasse. Then looking over at his grandmother's chair standing in a corner... Read more -
Ruth Shouval and Yizhak Elyashiv - Memory Land
20 May - 2 Jul 2022 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Memory Land , a two-person exhibition featuring Yizhak Elyashiv and Ruth Shouval . Both artists are originally from Jerusalem , Israel , studied at t he Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and received their Masters' from Rhode Island School of Design .... Read more -
Danny Rolph: More Tomorrow than Today
8 Apr - 14 May 2022 The exhibition's title 'More tomorrow than today' is a nod to one of his favourite tracks by Charles Earland 'More today than yesterday' a great musician that continues to inspire him. The four large Triplewall paintings ('Quartetti 1-4'), exhibited here for the first time, were made in London over the... Read more -
Andrea Bianconi: Idea Idea Idea
18 Feb - 19 Mar 2022 Having an idea is perhaps more necessary than ever in this moment. In the beginning of 2020, Italy became one of the epicenters of the Coronavirus pandemic. The entire world felt uneasy and uncertain, everyone looking to each other for answers. It was in this world that Bianconi started to... Read more -
Joe Mancuso: Get Back / A Retrospective
12 Nov 2021 - 5 Feb 2022 Read more -
Anna Mavromatis: Stay Still. Smile!
11 Sep - 6 Nov 2021 Stay Still. Smile ! In this exhibition Anna Mavromatis explores the interlink between personal and social narratives . Mavromatis' intersection of history and her personal story is re-lived through the subtleties of printmaking where she has literally broken ground. During her quest to understand the past, Mavromatis acknowledges its role... Read more -
Here We Go...
10 Jul - 4 Sep 2021 This exhibition reflects on the paradigms of painting and abstraction, their history, conundrums, directions, positivism and their relevance in Houston's contemporary art-world. About the artists: BRANDON ARAUJO Araujo is an American artist whose work references geometric abstraction and minimalism. Having lived and worked in Europe and Asia, his works harness... Read more -
Nicole Awai: Sensation Code
22 Jan - 3 Jul 2021 Trinidad-born artist Nicole Awai’s multimedia works delve into her sense of identity and place, creating dimensional creations that reference Caribbean and American terrains, architecture, and the domestic sphere. As a critic at the Yale School of Art from 2009 to 2015, she secured her place in the eyes of a... Read more -
Eduardo Portillo: Flying Fast Forward
18 Sep 2020 - 14 Jan 2021 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Flying Fast Forward, Eduardo Portillo's first solo-exhibition at Barbara Davis Gallery open September 18, 2020 through January 14, 2021. Portillo’s work leads a negotiation between a borderline and the exterior of the pictorial plane , realizing his desire to deviate from... Read more -
Yizhak Elyashiv: Virtual Landscape
1 May - 12 Sep 2020 When I first arrived in Ireland for my first (of what would become many) artist residencies, I was immediately captivated by the drama of the living past on the landscape. The beauty of the fields, the ever-changing weather that enveloped them, the people who lived and died working them, and... Read more -
Mel Davis: Hihihi You feel good *I
1 - 30 Apr 2020 Mel Davis’ abstract paintings are distinguished by being more than a painted object; they create a reality of their own. Davis forms collages from elements derived from Popular and Museum Culture. This source material is used as a first thought and memory aid to compile more fully orchestrated compositions for... Read more -
Migeul Soler-Roig: AMESEGËNALLÔ (THANKS)
1 - 31 Mar 2020 To view Book: https://issuu.com/soler-roig/docs/ameseg_nall____msr_2020_ Virtual Visit Video: https://issuu.com/ soler-roig/docs Read more -
Agnes Bourely, Eduardo Portillo, and Danny Rolph: Prologue
1 - 29 Feb 2020 Prologue is an exploration of constructed painting filtered through the many languages of Modernist discourse . Abstraction in the 21st Century is a viable and open proposition for contemporary discussions to occur. This exhibition “Prologue” explores three studio-based artists' approaches to unfolding visual dialogues where a multiplicity of readings co-exist,... Read more -
Jason Yates, Joe Fyfe, Lauren Luloff, Jason Stopa: No Strings Attached
10 Jan - 28 Feb 2020 NO STRINGS ATTACHED Joe Fyfe Lauren Luloff Jason Stopa Jason Yates Artist Reception: Friday January 10th , 6:00 – 8:30 pm Jason Yates, Some Place Else, 2019 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce No Strings Attached, a group exhibition opening Friday, January 10th, 2020, with an artist’s reception from... Read more -
small things BIG IDEAS
6 Dec 2019 - 4 Jan 2020 Andrea Bianconi, Agnes Bourely, Sara Bichao, Mel Davis, Joe Davidson, Martin Durazo, Paul Fleming, Larassa Kabel, Kelly, Joe Mancuso, Judy Ledgerwood, Alexander Liberman, Donald Lipski, Gavin Perry, Eduardo Portillo, Neal Rock, Danny Rolph, Ruth Shouval, Troy Stanley, Jason Stopa and Yuriko Yamaguchi. Read more -
Paul Fleming: Pathways
11 Nov 2019 - 14 Jan 2020 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Pathways, a solo exhibition by artist Paul Fleming now Open to the Public this November 12 through January 14, 2021 . In his exhibition, Pathways, Paul Fleming‘s work continues his process driven practice. Captivated by the forms of everyday objects,... Read more -
Andrea Bianconi: Prisoner of Love
6 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 Read more -
Summer Affairs
14 Jun - 31 Aug 2019 Nicole Awai Nancy Friedeman-Sanchez Christy Karll Joe Mancuso Katie Pell Monique Rollins Ruth Shouval Leslie Wilkes Read more -
Troy Stanley: Berm and Swale
3 May - 8 Jun 2019 Read more -
Agnes Bourely: The Restless Forgetfulness of What We Exile
22 Mar - 27 Apr 2019 For immediate release: Agnès Bourély has entered the sphere of visual practice through a life enriched by a family of musicians. Encroaching from her mother and sister, as pianists and her father, a photographer, her eldest daughter is a violinist and sound engineer – she was occupied by the sounds... Read more -
Danny Rolph: The Orchard
15 Feb - 16 Mar 2019 For immediate release: Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce The Orchard, an exhibition of new paintings by internationally known London-based artist Danny Rolph. This is the artist’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. The Orchard, opens Friday, February 15, 2019 with an artist reception from 6 - 8:30pm. Please... Read more -
Judy Ledgerwood: Power Pose
11 Jan - 9 Feb 2019 Power Pose January 11 - February 9, 2019 Artist Reception: Friday, January 11, 2019, 6:00 - 8:30 PM Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to present Judy Ledgerwood’s third solo exhibition at the gallery titled, Power Pose. Small to monumental in scale, the paintings are vigorous, richly layered and fiercely colorful.... Read more -
Gavin Perry: Jawbreaker
16 Nov 2018 - 4 Jan 2019 November 16 – January 4, 2019Artist Reception:Friday, November 16, 6:00 – 8:30 PM The works in “Jawbreaker” are the culmination of more than a decade long investigation into the interaction of antithetical agendas. Starting very early on, my painting practice developed (and has maintained) an affinity for the work of... Read more -
Joe Mancuso: Not Obvious as Songs | Paul Fleming: Carefully Wrapped
11 Oct - 10 Nov 2018 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Carefully Wrapped, an exhibition by artist Paul Fleming and Not Obvious as Songs, an exhibition by artist Joe Mancuso, opening Thursday, October 11th, 2018 with an artist’s reception from 6:00 - 8:00pm. This exhibition is on view through November 10, 2018. In this... Read more -
Andrea Bianconi: Breakthrough
7 Sep - 6 Oct 2018 “The exhibition Breakthrough is my inspiration, and what is behind it, is my constant desire for discovery. Breakthrough is outside of us and within us. The exhibition includes drawings, paintings, sculpture, installation and performance. There is always an idea of travel in my work. Everything has a direction, when we... Read more -
Remix of Dreams
29 Jun - 1 Sep 2018 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Remix of Dreams, a group exhibition opening Friday, June 29th, with an artist reception from 6:00 – 8:30pm. This group exhibition is on view through September 01, 2018. Remix of Dreams, features works by artists Agnes Bourley, Christy Karll, Donald Lipski, Heidi Kidon,... Read more -
Yuriko Yamaguchi: Interconnected, No End, and Web
19 May - 23 Jun 2018 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Yuriko Yamaguchi’s solo exhibition Interconnected, No End & Web. The exhibition opening is May 19, 2018 with an artist reception from 2:00pm - 6:00pm and is on view through June 23, 2018. Yuriko Yamaguchi explores the interconnectedness of humans and nature with themes... Read more -
Justin Berry: Roadtrips and Rebecca Gilbert: Last Year
6 Apr - 12 May 2018 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce two exhibitions, Justin Berry: Road Trips and Rebecca Gilbert: Last Year. The exhibition opening is April 6, 2018 with an artist reception from 6:30 to 8:30pm and is on view through May 12, 2018. Justin Berry Road Trips For this show, Justin Berry... Read more -
Miguel Soler-Roig: Out of Silence
23 Feb - 31 Mar 2018 On View: Out of Silence February 23, 2018 - March 30, 2018 Artist’s Reception: Friday, January 23, 6:00 - 8:30pm In today's world it is practically impossible to find an oasis of silence: noise pollution invades everything and it is necessary to recognize it in our interior. In Eastern cultures,... Read more -
Nancy O'Connor: Out of the Darkness and into the Marvelous
1 - 28 Dec 2017 Nancy O'Connor | Out of the Darkness and Into the Marvelous December 1 - December 28, 2017 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Out of the Darkness & Into the Marvelous, a solo-exhibition by Houston artist Nancy O'Connor, opening Friday, December 1, 2017, with an artist’s reception from 6:30-8:30PM.... Read more -
Owen Drysdale and Rajab Ali Sayed: Swim
7 Jul - 7 Sep 2017 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Swim, a two-person exhibition featuring Owen Drysdale and Rajab Ali Sayed. The exhibition opens July 7, 2017 with an artists' reception from 6:30 to 8:30 pm and is on view through September 2, 2017. In these new paintings by Owen Drysdale, the artist... Read more -
Donna Moylan: Deep Play
2 Jun - 1 Jul 2017 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Deep Play, a solo exhibition by Houston-based artist Donna Moylan, opening Friday, June 02, 2017 with an artist's reception from 6:30 - 8:30pm. This exhibition is on view through July 1, 2017. For this first exhibition with the Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston,... Read more -
Mie Olise Kjaergaard: Through the Portal of the Pineapple
21 Apr - 27 May 2017 Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Through the Portal of the Pineapple, a solo-exhibition by Danish artist Mie Olise Kjærgaard, opening Friday, April 21st, 2017 with an artist's reception from 6:30 - 8:30pm. This exhibition is on view through May 27, 2017. Kærgaard works in painting, sculptural objects and... Read more
