Chayse Sampy is rewriting history. Her multidimensional, mixed-media paintings are imbued with deep symbolism that addresses and challenges the centuries-long war on the Black imagination. We met in Sampy’s shared downtown Houston workspace to discuss the Black theorists who have guided her, living in the South, and her love for the color blue. Amarie Gipson: I first encountered your… Source ..read more

A Landscaped Longed for: The Garden as Disturbance is currently on view at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum in St. Augustine, Florida. This marks the second iteration of the exhibition, which now features an expanded collection of artists who address identity, belonging, and historical reverence through the intricate visual metaphors associated with the garden. Two rooms house the exhibition and… Source ..read more

In this season’s opening exhibition at Bad Water, As for me, I’m just passing through this planet, curator Kelsie Conley delicately balanced works from Jacob Jackmauh, Caitlin McCann, and Benjamin Stallings—three artists who together create a temporary shared universe of yawning sentimentality. The white barnwood walls of the gallery, romantically uneven and interspersed with bracing and… Source ..read more

Orchid Daze, an exhibition at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, features new work by Atlanta-based Bahamian artist Lillian Blades. Each year, the garden collaborates with an artist to celebrate its orchid collection. Four installations, collectively titled Reflections in Bloom (2024), build on Blades’ signature assemblages that formally reference Junkanoo[1] and quilting, honoring her mother’s… Source ..read more

The work in Richard Dial’s exhibition Everyday Love maps an intricate emotional landscape, embodying the conviction that deep bonds are nurturing, protective, and selfless. Emotions manifest in solid physical form. These connections are continuous cycles, spinning without end. For his first solo exhibition, in an artistic journey that has extended for more than three decades… Source ..read more

Critical Geography, FotoFest’s 2024 Biennial exhibition, takes its name from the sub-field of geography that analyzes the power dynamics inherent to the everyday use of space. Through this theme, FotoFest aims to challenge historical concepts of geography through photography and image-based practices. With a focus on the figurative, artists across three Houston spaces—the Serrano Gallery… Source ..read more

Here is what’s going on with me: my birthday was on daylight savings. I plan to move, and I feel the need to change ‘Home’ in Waze, whose icon is a ghost on wheels, but I don’t live anywhere new yet. I tell contradictory stories to myself and others about my income: As a server, I make so much money. I can afford to live alone. I can barely afford to live alone. I do my taxes and find I owe the… Source ..read more

Stare for long enough at the paintings by Luisa Basnuevo and you’ll start to see things that aren’t there. Yes, that’s a pair of oxen, and yes, that’s a pair of Cupids. Chances are you are not recognizing the pre-Romanesque architectural flourishes and references to Plutarch’s “Triumph of Love,” and instead are filling the paintings with your own iconographical bias. What the oxen appear to be… Source ..read more

Following Survivor watch parties and late night conversations over drinks, fellow artists and friends Imogen Banks and Henry Fauna decided to experiment by combining their respective art practices in collaboration. Their exhibition, Fauna/Banks, at Staple Goods Gallery is the first public installation of the duo’s work. Fauna, a portrait photographer, employs digital collage, mixed media… Source ..read more

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