Women & Their Work Gallery

Upcoming at Women & Their Work:
Spirit of Discrimination by Lari Garcia
Sat Jul 11, 2026 - Thu Sep 3, 2026
Opening Reception Saturday, July 11, 7-9pm

larí garcía visited La Casa de Las Almas (House of the Souls) in Puerto Rico to study transcripts that recorded conversations between spirit mediums and the dead. Almost a century old, this center was a refuge primarily for members of the working class and women who felt excluded from the Catholic Church; today it is one of the most renowned organizations of its kind.

In Spirit of Discrimination, garcía employs sculpture and installation to depict their startling discovery of extensive misogyny and gender-based violence preserved in one of the most prominent Spiritualist centers in Puerto Rico. Originally drawn to this place to trace the strands of French Spiritism, Indigenous Caribbean knowledge, and Catholicism preserved there, garcía sought to define materiality within the immaterial. What was discovered and is presented in this exhibition is the discriminatory “spirits” that inhabit religious spaces, particularly formal mediumship temples.

Spirit of Discrimination incorporates structures and works produced on site. Hollow wall framing holds suspended assemblage sculpture. Newspapers and other documents abruptly drop the viewer into a narrative—with or without context—and become poetic linguistic interventions throughout the gallery. garcía uses sculptural techniques of compression, piercing, and near rupture to evoke pressure, constraint, and the tension of something on the verge of breaking through. These gestures are directly informed by the narratives and conversations found within the featured transcripts.

Learn more about the show via the link in our bio.

Less than two weeks remain to experience MARK, our current group exhibition.

Dedicated to drawing as a central mode of expression, MARK features works by 25 artists and celebrates drawing in its many forms—from traditional mark-making to experimental, expanded approaches. Each piece exemplifies drawing as both practice and possibility.

Visit us during gallery hours:
Mon–Fri | 10 AM–6 PM
Sat | 12 PM–6 PM

Photo documentation by Bobby Scheidemann.

Meet the artists behind MARK:

Margaux Crump is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher exploring the entanglements between magic, science, and the spiritual Imagination. She is currently investigating the phenomena of the unseen, from the microscopic to the mythic worlds that surround us. Her sculpture, photography, and ritual work has been exhibited across the United States, most notably at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Women and Their Work, DiverseWorks, Emerson Contemporary, and Fotofest. She is a recipient of the Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award and a Houston Endowment Jones Artist. Crump holds a MFA in studio art from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Catherine MacMahon’s practice operates at the intersection of architecture, art, and design, treating the line as a connective gesture between drawing, textile, and the body in space. Based in Dallas, she holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, where mentor Lois Weinthal’s investigation of the relationships between architecture, interiors, clothing, and objects shaped MacMahon’s understanding of pattern as a connective logic across scales. MacMahon is represented by Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, where she has presented LINES (2019), Thresholds of Uncertainty (2022), and Soft Fascination (2024).

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Mary Godigna Collet, born in Caracas, Venezuela, 1959, has participated in 70+ solo and group exhibitions internationally. For more than forty years, she has been developing a work of great formal coherence that explores different perceptive, mental, and emotional states. The unifying thread through the years has been the rigorous research about the “interference” related to societal and ecological subjects and materials and their connection with the subject. By assembling and tensioning objects and raw materials, color and light, her works open as much as they conceal physical and mental spaces. She explores the gap between intimate and social, the existential and the everyday, the environment and degradation.

You’re invited to Red Dot Art Spree! 🔴✨

Discover your next favorite art piece while supporting W&TW’s year-round education and exhibition programs. More than 170 original pieces will be available for $1,500 or less, making this the perfect opportunity to start—or grow—your art collection.

For one night only, all artwork sales will be tax free!

As you choose your favorite art, dine on delicious bites and sip on curated libations, an all vinyl DJ set by Kowboy will set the vibe for a night of celebration.

You can also participate in an artist-led collaborative painting experience in the courtyard or strike a pose in the color strobe photo booth. Join us for an unforgettable evening of art, community, and celebration!

📅 September 17, 2026
⭐ VIP Spree | 6–7 PM
🎟️ General Admission | 7–9 PM

Get tickets via the link in our bio.

Meet the artists behind MARK:

Dan Jian is a visual artist working across painting, drawing, and animation. Born in Hubei, China, she earned her BFA from Temple University and MFA from The Ohio State University. Dan is an Assistant Professor of Art at Texas Christian University and maintains a studio practice in Fort Worth. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally in China, Italy, and Korea.

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Heather L. Johnson is a Houston-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans drawing, embroidery, installation, and video. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at DiverseWorks, White Columns, Yam Gallery, and Projective City. Recent honors include piloting the Grand Canyon National Park’s current Artist Residency program, the Texas Biennial, and a 2025 Support for Artists and Creative Individuals Grant.

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Narvell Neves is a Houston-based artist whose practice centers drawing as a spiritual, historical, and ethical act. She earned a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas and works mainly through drawing and oil painting, transforming images of family, friends, and everyday life into affirmations of dignity, resilience, and collective memory. By working within and against inherited traditions of likeness and beauty, her practice challenges who has historically been visible within art history.

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Megan Hildebrandt received her BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design and MFA from the University of South Florida. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including The Painting Center, The Baltimore Museum of Art, HEREarts Center, Erin Cluley Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, and Texas Vignette Art Fair.

Meet the artists behind MARK:⁠

⁠Austin-based artist Jane Reichle embroiders and paints colorful, folkish portrayals of characters donning bespoke Western wear, including Nudie suits, vibrant dresses, and other accoutrement inspired by real life clothing. ⁠
Her work explores cherished cult media, iconic fashion, and is staunchly self-expressive. Each piece is painstakingly hand stitched and chain stitched with a hand-cranked chain stitch machine. The stitching is densely complex, containing embroidery within embroidery. Creative authenticity is paramount for Reichle. Within her pieces, you’ll find a profuse commitment to detail, layered images from her own psyche, and a passion for the eccentric. ⁠
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Selina Wagner is an artist from Florida based in Austin, Texas. She works primarily in large-scale graphite drawing. Wagner has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin, The Pack in New York City, and the Visual Arts Center in Austin. Her work has been supported by the Austrian American Foundation’s Seebacher Prize, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and the University of Texas Continuing Fellowship. She is currently a resident artist with Future Front Texas. Wagner holds a BFA in Drawing from the University of Florida and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Texas at Austin.⁠
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Hiromi Stringer is a US-based Japanese artist. She decided to become an artist at age 30, moving to the US and pivoting from her work for a company in Japan in a field dominated by science, engineering and economics. Since then Stringer has received multiple awards and residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, the Blue Star Contemporary Berlin Residency Program, the Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency, and the Vermont Studio Center.

A resident of the San Antonio area, her works are in public, corporate and private collections in Japan and the US. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of drawing, painting and interdisciplinary in the School of Art at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Join us for a Collaborative Figure Drawing Workshop led by MARK exhibiting artist Selina Wagner. Participants will work in pairs and small groups to create a mix of short gesture drawings and slightly longer observational drawings. The emphasis is on experimentation and responsiveness rather than technical perfection. All materials will be provided.

June 27, 2-4 pm
Fee: $10 members/ $15 non-members

Only 20 spots available! Link in bio.

Meet the artists behind MARK:

Mihee Nahm received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Art Academy of Cincinnati and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from The University of Texas at Austin. Nahm has held residencies at Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat, Laceyville, PA; Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City, NE; Brush Creek Foundation, Saratoga, WY; and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson. She lives and works in Flower Mound, TX.

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Sonya Berg is a multidisciplinary artist and administrator based in Austin. Her work explores the tension between abstraction and representation, as well as arbitrariness and specificity, using process-driven painting and nature imagery as metaphor for the inner emotional landscape.

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Raised in Houston, Texas, Austin artist, Valerie Fowler, is the daughter of noted Houston sculptor, Bob Fowler (1931-2010). Valerie Fowler studied fine art at the University of Texas, graduating with a B.A. in Art in 1985. Austin became her home and her muse. Always nature focused, and with a bend toward the spiritually surreal, her independent vision reveals a rootedness in a specific time and place, landscape and light, which describes our rich natural world as both keenly beautiful and ultimately vulnerable. Her past works includes murals for Whole Foods Market, Illustrations for the Texas Observer, and the honor to be chosen as the official poster artist for the 2018 Texas Book Festival. Her artworks are collected widely in Texas and beyond.

Meet the artists behind MARK:

Christine Garvey is an artist and coach based in Austin, TX. Her paintings and installations have been exhibited internationally with Galerie Circulaire (Montreal), Sur La Montagne Galerie (Berlin), Jules Maidoff Gallery (Florence), International Print Center (New York) and The Contemporary Austin. Garvey’s work has been recognized with a Fulbright Research Grant, a Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, United States Artists, among others. She's taught at the University of Texas at Austin, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation. She writes and speaks about ideas that impact contemporary artists, including scarcity, endurance, and financial stability. Her work has been featured in Creative Mornings Global, Brooklyn Magazine, and The Creative Independent.

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Philana Oliphant’s work includes drawings, sculpture, installations and prints. She combines complex, intricate mark-making and paper-cutting with elegant three- dimensional forms to evoke a meditative, physiological response. Her highly detailed, palimpsestic works explore time and memory, as well as environmental change, loss, and repetition. Currently her solo exhibition, Everything Is Everything can be experienced at Kspace Contemporary in Corpus Christi, TX. Recently Oliphant exhibited at the Longview Museum of fine Arts, Art Center Waco, and the Delta Triennial, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Originally from the Texas panhandle, she now lives and works in East Texas.

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Shannon Cannings grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA and her MFA from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. She lives in Lubbock, Texas and has taught at Texas Tech University for 25 years where she was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Practice in Drawing. She is currently represented by Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas and Charles Adams Gallery in Lubbock. She was a 4 time Hunting Prize finalist and her work has been included in New American Paintings, the Texas Biennial, along with art fairs, publications and gallery and museum exhibitions nationwide.

Meet the artists behind MARK:

Hollis Hammonds is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the emotional and material aftermath of environmental and human-made disruption. Built on threads of memory and shaped by the public collective consciousness, her practice investigates social issues ranging from economic disparity and state violence to environmental degradation and disaster. Her drawings and multimedia installations have been widely exhibited throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions at The Grace Museum, Women & Their Work, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Dishman Art Museum, and the Reed Gallery.

Hammonds is an Associate Professor of Art & Design in the College of Performance, Visualization, and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University.
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Jo Kim is an artist based in Austin, Texas, working across installation, performance, sculpture, and sound. Their practice examines the poetics of acoustics in relation to space and the body, exploring what it means to feel and see sound. Through repetition and symmetry, they consider how architectural elements and overlooked infrastructures can be reimagined as resonant sites where vibration, silence, and noise becomes spatial and visual encounters. Kim received a BA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and is a recipient of the Lomis Slaughter, Jr. Endowment Scholarship in Sculpture. They are a graduating MFA candidate in Studio Art at the University of Texas at Austin and have exhibited in Singapore, Austin, and London
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Rosalyn Jewel Farney is a print, drawing, and photo maker currently based in Austin, Texas. Rosalyn recently graduated from the Studio Art MFA program at the University of Texas, Austin and obtained her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021. She was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Scholarship in the field of animation to study experimental moving image art from 2023 to 2024. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and DIY spaces located in Chicago, Berlin, and Austin.