Future Exhibitions
1878 Gallery
November 23, 2024 - February 16, 2025
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
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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