Current Exhibitions

1878 Gallery
November 23, 2024 - February 16, 2025
Meet and Greet with Tammie at GAC - Saturday November 23, 4:30-5:30 PM
Performances at Hotel Lucine - Saturday, November 23, 7 and 9 PM
ArtWalk Opening Reception - Saturday, November 30, 6-9PM | Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Tammie Brown
Rag Queenz

Galveston Arts Center presents Rag Queenz by Tammie Brown. The exhibition highlights Tammie’s visual arts practice that has developed in tandem with her celebrated career as a drag performer, reality television star, and recording artist. The exhibition features a series of Tammie’s Rag Queenz, hand-made dolls created from designer nylons embellished with embroidery and repurposed materials, as well as “facial impressions” featuring the imprint of the artist’s likeness on make-up wipes. Tammie’s Rag Queenz are inspired by her childhood growing up in Mexico and influenced by the craftsmanship and labor of the native artistry of central and western Mexico. This early influence is combined with inspiration from the Southern California drag scene and artists such as Fadra Fae, Delta Work, and the notorious Tranimal exhibits of photographer Austin Young. Her dolls feature hand sewn and embellished faces with their bodies wrapped in snakes which symbolize the nature of flexibility for the artist. As a self-taught artist, Tammie has created and offered her work through live streams on social media platforms. The exhibition at Galveston Arts Center is the first gallery presentation of her work.

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Brown Foundation Gallery & Vault
November 23, 2024 - February 16, 2025
ArtWalk Opening Reception Saturday - November 30, 6-9PM | Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Jessica Kreutter
Collapse

Collapse features ceramic assemblages by Jessica Kreutter that consider the cycle of decay and renewal. Kreutter’s work explores memory and the passage of time through figurative and organic forms that exist in a space between growth and decomposition. Her forms are the result of a playful manipulation of porcelain fragments that are fused through firing and glazing, allowing the structures to fall under the weight of their accumulations. Similar to how the body merges with the earth to nourish future gardens, loss and destruction become a pathway which allows a new horizon to emerge. In her work Kreutter asks, “after the collapse, what is possible?” to reveal different possibilities for how to imagine the world.

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Strand Gallery
October 5, 2024 - January 5, 2025

Richard “Ricky” Armendariz
Dance of the Ghost Wolves /
Baile de los Lobos Fantasmas

Dance of the Ghost Wolves / Baile de los Lobos Fantasmas features work that continues Richard “Ricky” Armendariz’ exploration into the complex relationship between humans and animals. The exhibition is inspired by the existence and the genetic miracle of DNA from the once declared extinct red wolf (Canis rufus) being found in Galveston coyotes. Romanticism for the American landscape and the hybridization of Mexican, American, and Indigenous cultures has long provided context for Armendariz’ work. He combines printmaking, painting, and drawing techniques, woven with text from novels, poems, and song lyrics to explore themes of power dynamics, destiny, and the role chance plays in our lives. The genetic migration of this species offers a new frame for considering nature’s ability to adapt and survive.

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