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Power Moves: Natalee Decker Charts a New Course

Ableism abounds in a world built for those who move normatively, but a wizard like Natalee Decker is rare—one who actively redesigns ideas about movement and access, mobilizing activism through artful fantasy. Their work tessellates beyond our spare reality and galvanizes the uniqueness of being. Reimagining everyday objects with more bodily harmony, the artist’s creations are painterly and seemingly sci-fi, radiating an essence of worldbuilding ideals. 

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Cristina Velásquez “As If It Were the Sun” @ Assembly, Houston

Cristina Velásquez’s new exhibition at Assembly’s brand new brick-and-mortar gallery in Houston extends the Colombian artist’s inquiry into the photographic gaze against issues of identity, history, and colonialism through photographs and photographic weavings made with cardboard. The straight, color photographs are purposeful fragments of larger narratives. Drawing the viewer’s attention to the reductive nature of the medium, this work opposes the photograph’s tendency to distill its subject’s intersectional relationship to the world into a single quality—often viewed from a Western perspective—“the sun.” For Velásquez, similar to identity, the function of the photograph is to explore rather than to define. It presents an opportunity for vulnerability, dialogue, and even collaboration. As If It Were the Sun reorients viewers away from a hegemonic view to…

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La Luz de Jesus Gives Us “Everything But The Kitchen Sink”

La Luz de Jesus Gallery is pleased to present our annual group exhibition Everything But The Kitchen Sink, 100+ Artists and over 250 Artworks. The exhibition opens to the public on July 16th from 5-9 pm and runs through August 28th. This exhibition is our most attended of the year and we expect it to be bigger and better after a two-year hiatus.

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