Glasstire counts down the highest 5 artwork occasions in Texas.
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1. Tracey Rose
Ruby Metropolis (San Antonio)
June 6, 2026 – Could 9, 2027
From Ruby Metropolis:
“This solo exhibition of artist Tracey Rose brings collectively works created throughout Rose’s artist residency at Artpace in 2000, together with the visceral video efficiency TKO and a collection of 62 untitled drawings, proven collectively for the primary time. Transferring between bodily endurance and intuitive mark-making, Rose’s work pulses with depth. In TKO, the artist transforms boxing right into a type of drawing in movement, every strike a gesture, every second a document of exertion and launch. In distinction, the drawings unfold as intimate meditations —layered, spontaneous, and charged with symbolism— the place abstraction meets the physique, language, and reminiscence. Collectively, these works hint a continuum between motion and reflection, presence and chance.
Born in Durban, South Africa, Rose is internationally acknowledged for a multidisciplinary apply spanning efficiency, video, images, and set up. Her work has been offered at main exhibitions worldwide, together with the Venice Biennale, Documenta 14, Tate Liverpool, and the Centre Pompidou.”
2. Benjamin Muñoz: Sanctuary or (various places of solace)
Ellen Noël Artwork Museum (Odessa)
June 5 – August 30, 2026
From Ellen Noël Artwork Museum:
“Sanctuary or (numerous locations of solace) by Texas artist Ben Muñoz presents a brand new physique of labor exploring the emotional and bodily areas that provide refuge in occasions of uncertainty. By layered imagery and private symbolism, Muñoz displays on the folks, reminiscences, and environments that form his sense of security and belonging, whereas additionally confronting how these sanctuaries might be disrupted.
Muñoz’s apply spans portray, set up, and monumental printmaking. He grew up in Corpus Christi, the place traditions corresponding to Day of the Useless celebrations, lowrider exhibits, and meals tradition knowledgeable his visible language. The center little one of artist brothers, he developed his voice via reflections on heritage and lived expertise. Muñoz attended Del Mar Faculty earlier than relocating to Dallas in 2018, the place he continues to reside and work.”
3. Dario Salvatore Bucheli: Transformation Cycle
Field 13 Artspace (Houston)
Could 22 – June 27, 2026
From Field 13 Artspace:
“Transformation Cycle narrates the mythic journey of the snake: She encounters the moon pierced by a blade and acknowledges that transformation requires sacrifice. She then descends underground, coming into a liminal house the place she sheds her pores and skin and releases what she will be able to not carry ahead. Lastly, she emerges from the earth, reborn into a brand new type. The cycle continues, an ongoing passage of change, give up, and renewal.
Beaumont-based Dario Salvatore Bucheli explores themes of displacement, id, and connection via reinterpretations of symbols from pre-colonial Mesoamerican codices alongside references to up to date American politics and tradition. This method displays an ongoing effort to situate the current second throughout the broader context of American historical past.”
4. Erin Carle: you should eat a burger
Unchained.Artwork Up to date Gallery (Austin)
June 4 – July 25, 2026
From Unchained.Artwork:
“Unchained.Artwork Up to date Gallery presents it is best to eat a burger, a solo exhibition by Austin-based artist Erin Carle. That includes a brand new physique of labor throughout portray and ceramic, the exhibition marks a pivotal second for a rising native voice whose apply confronts the expectations and coded language surrounding girls’s our bodies.
Drawing from her background in ballet and the tradition of self-discipline and comparability that formed it, Carle makes use of meals as each topic and image. Burgers, cigarettes, layered textures, and stylized figures open onto bigger questions of self-worth, want, disgrace, and management. Shiny shade and visible play demand consideration, whereas the work reveals one thing sharper beneath: the informal cruelty embedded in how girls are judged, corrected, and consumed.”
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5. Anna Galluzzi: There is Still Time To Stop and Smell The Flowers
Terrain Dallas
June 14 – July 18, 2026
From Terrain Dallas:
“Nestled within the Elmwood neighborhood of Oak Cliff, Terrain Dallas’ non permanent exhibitions within the panorama of a entrance yard returns to seasonal programming.
Impressed by suburban natural world, Anna Galluzzi’s flower types match proper in amongst the panorama of Terrain Dallas which now options quite a few Texas native vegetation. Their work, characterised by childlike whimsy, channels advanced emotional depth via shiny, easy aesthetic decisions. Drawn closely from the Seventies Sample & Ornament Motion, their flower types embrace unabashed visible delight, inviting pleasure and amplifying the native flora on the web site of Terrain Dallas. As a queer and autistic particular person, embracing pleasure is an act of riot in an detached and prejudiced world.”
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