Triple Hits: Jade Mellor, Maisie Luo, Devin T. Mays—Curated by Sanford Dow
Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to present Triple Hits, an exhibition featuring three artists, curated by Sanford L. Dow. This exhibition focuses on contemporary practices that invite reflection, attunement, and reverie.
Opening Friday, November 7th, from 6:00 to 8:30 PM.
Jade Mellor, Maisie Luo, and Devin T. Mays create work that unfolds in time, encouraging viewers to linger in spaces of subtlety, sensation, and meaning. Together, these artists craft an exhibition that asks us to slow, to notice, and to attune—to the fleeting, the fragile, and the luminous threads connecting life, art, and spirit.
For Jade Mellor, painting is more than a medium—it is a way of thinking, feeling, and seeing. Her delicate compositions are moments captured then transferred onto fragile silk, where pigment erodes against chance. Mellor’s surfaces hover between presence and disappearance, inviting the viewer to slow down, to notice the quiet accumulation of emotion, and to bodily experience the painting.
Maisie Luo, an Art Professor at the University of Houston, creates luminous paintings that trace the intricate connections between humans, animals, and the environment. Drawing on personal encounters, dreamlike moments, and research into systems of coexistence, Luo weaves motifs from Chinese paper-cutting traditions and Tibetan Buddhist iconography into contemplative landscapes of myth, memory, and mindfulness. Protective deities, mythical animals, and organic forms carry prayers for freedom, healing, and care, offering viewers a space to consider compassion as both an aesthetic and ethical practice.
Devin T. Mays, a Professor at Rice University, moves fluidly across sculpture, installation, sound, performance, and photography. His practice—described as a practice-in-practice—is a meditation on observation, ritual, and the invisible traces that shape our world. Through subtle gestures and encounters with material and space, Mays creates moments of quiet reverence, inviting contemplation of presence, transformation, and the poetic possibilities of the everyday.
