Glasstire counts down the highest 5 artwork occasions in Texas.
For final week’s picks, please go here.
1. Audra Wolowiec: Water Radio
Co-Decide Analysis (Lubbock)
March 1 – Might 9, 2025
From CO-OPt Analysis + Initiatives:
“CO-OPt Analysis + Initiatives presents Water Radio, a solo exhibition of labor by New York-based artist Audra Wolowiec created with contributions from Texas Tech College college students from throughout the School of Visible and Performing Arts. Wolowiec’s new sound set up and notational scores reply to the Ogallala Aquifer, the most important in america and our area’s main supply for water. A subterranean water desk shaped by layers of porous materials and spanning eight states, the Ogallala Aquifer creates its personal aqueous boundary, and is quickly depleting.
By a sequence of participatory workshops and interviews, Water Radio adopts an embodied method to understanding our entanglement with the water desk, inviting individuals to answer our complicated relationships with water — how we’re linked to water, and the way water connects us.”
Carlos Limas, “La Bestia,” 2024
2. Carlos Limas: Destino Sur
Worldwide Museum of Artwork and Science (McAllen)
February 22 – June 22, 2025
From IMAS:
“‘For the previous six years, I’ve had the unimaginable alternative to journey to Peru thrice, exploring a few of the nation’s most fascinating areas, together with Cusco, Lima, Nazca, and, in fact, the enduring Machu Picchu. Every go to has been a journey of discovery, as I attempt to doc essentially the most fascinating scenes that this various and culturally wealthy nation has to supply. By my lens, I search to inform the tales of those locations and their individuals, capturing moments of on a regular basis life, conventional festivals, and the uncooked great thing about nature.
My aim is to create a visible narrative that not solely showcases Peru’s gorgeous surroundings but in addition highlights its wealthy cultural tapestry and the resilience of its communities. This ongoing undertaking is a labor of affection and a testomony to my deep reference to Peru. Every {photograph} is a bit of the bigger mosaic that I hope will encourage others to understand and shield the extraordinary magnificence and heritage of this exceptional nation.’ – Carlos Limas”
3. Fear of the Object
The Rosette (Austin)
March 27, 2025
From the organizers:
“Synopsis:
Fear of the Object is a site-specific intervention using dwell video and sound efficiency to place into dialogue the architectural resonances and dissonances discovered inside bodily area, sound and lightweight.
Initiated in 2017 at Austin’s No Thought Pageant, the persevering with duo collaboration is predicated on the inherent frequencies and resonances of Chris Cogburn’s percussive objects (cymbals, bells, drum) put into dialogue with Norwegian video artist Kjell Bjørgeengen’s audio generated video. The visible projections are fed again into sound, blurring distinctions between listening to and seeing.
Austin digital music legend Rick Reed opens the night with a brand new audio/visible piece.”
4. Ellen Mote: Sheer Disposition
Washington Gallery (Waco)
March 20 – Might 3, 2025
From Washington Gallery:
“Ellen Mote creates summary acrylic work on unprimed canvas, exploring themes of invisibility as a girl and mom via layers of colours and imperfect shapes. Her new physique of labor, Sheer Disposition, impressed by a summer time journey across the Adriatic Sea along with her household, shall be showcased.”
5. Blue
Vickery Meadow Library (Dallas)
March 28 – 30, 2025
From DSGN For Us:
“BLUE is an immersive paper set up that resembles the ocean and the place individuals are welcome to attract their childhood recollections. A undertaking sponsored by the Metropolis of Dallas Workplace of Arts and Tradition.”
