Inman Gallery

The gallery is CLOSED TODAY, Saturday, May 23 for the holiday weekend. Regular hours resume Tuesday, March 26.

Wishing everyone a restful holiday weekend!

Yevgeniya Baras: Ever Ever, More More presents a body of new paintings completed within the last year. The highly textured topographies evoke a sense of place, like the surface of the earth or a gridded map. Simultaneously harmonious and dissonant, the pigment traverses the weathered surface with both ease and resistance. This rich materiality invites the viewer to linger, asking the eye to reconcile sculptural forms with juxtaposing shape, line, and color.

The exhibition is on view through July 3, 2026

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Untitled, 2018–2026
oil and mixed media on linen
25 1/4 x 21 x 2 (64.1 x 53.3 x 5.1 cm)

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As a friendly reminder, the gallery is open today, Friday, May 22 until 6pm. We are closed tomorrow, Saturday, May 23 for the holiday weekend.

Our project gallery currently features a pop-up of interdisciplinary work by Katrina Moorhead, Jamal Cyrus, and Robyn O’Neil

This installation will be on view through the end of the week! Come visit us Tuesday–Friday, 11am–6pm

**Please note gallery is closed Saturday, May 23 for the holiday weekend**

Works on view:

Robyn O’Neil
Some Things You Said, 2009
graphite on paper
66 x 66 x 2 5/8 in, framed

Katrina Moorhead
Draumalandid, RedGreenBluePeony, 2007
archival blue board, archival paper, wheat starch paste, graphite, gouache
30 x 70 x 70 in approx. installed

Katrina Moorhead
An encroachment of Old ocean, 2012/2015
graphite and gouache on watercolor paper
24 7/8 x 32 7/8 x 1 1/2 in, framed

Jamal Cyrus
Bop is a Spaceship Melody, 2025
bleached denim, denim, burlap, cotton batting
44 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 1 3/4 in, framed

Jamal Cyrus
Common Reed, 2026
patinated bronze, wood piano keys, wire
17 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 4 in

“When you’re telling stories for people to remember, you sometimes need poetic devices. Painting is a poetic device...When you’re telling deep, complicated stories via painting, you need all kinds of devices to engage the viewer. It could be surface; it could be color. To tell a story intimately, you need to figure out what kind of device in the painting will make the viewer investigate its stillness. That’s the griot in me trying to tell this story through a painting.” –David McGee (BOMB Magazine, 2026)

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We’re thrilled to share this interview published in BOMB Magazine of David McGee by Chris Becker, discussing McGee’s institutional survey, “The Griot and the Nightingale”

🔗Read the full text at the link in our bio

Opening TODAY, Saturday, May 16!

📍Loc Huynh: If Memory Serves
On View May 16 – July 3, 2026

Please join us this afternoon for the opening of Loc Huynh: If Memory Serves, and concurrent exhibition, Yevgeniya Baras: Ever Ever, More More

Exhibition walkthroughs with both artists will take place at 1PM, followed by a reception from 2–4pm

See you soon ✨

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Loc Huynh (b. 1992, Austin, TX; based New York, NY) draws from the visual language of Pop and traditional genre painting to create scenes that explore diasporic Asian American identity and cultural hybridity. His technical practice blends airbrush techniques – a highly mechanical mark – with more painterly modes, taping off forms to create flat, crisp lines with smooth volumetric renderings. The resulting images are highly graphic and often biographical, with a nostalgic tone and playful tenor.

“If Memory Serves” presents recent paintings that trace Huynh’s family’s arrival to the United States from Vietnam in the 1980s, and growing up in Austin, Texas in the 1990s. Using his own archive of family photos as source material, Huynh captures tender snapshots of family dinners, birthday parties, and summer vacations, as well as cheery portraits of his mother wearing sunglasses and more solemn self-portraits of the artist as a child.

By nature of the source material, the works are tender and personal, evoking nostalgia through a discerning lens. Seemingly idealized scenes of a quintessential, American childhood are complicated by the larger contexts that situate Huynh’s family in the United States as refugees. Leveraging the depiction of his own childhood naivety, Huynh gestures towards these contradictions, illustrating how family histories are intertwined with geopolitical theatre. Nevertheless, his work retains a moving intimacy: the simple and profound act of painting someone you love.

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Image:


Watson and the Shark (Tourists in the Delta), 2026
acrylic and enamel on canvas
20 x 16 x 1 1/2 in (50.8 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm)

Closing today – Maggie Hills: “Hopscotch” and Tommy Fitzpatrick: “Elsewhere”

Saturday, May 9 is the last chance to see our spring solo exhibitions by Maggie Hills and Tommy Fitzpatrick! As usual, the gallery is open today 11am-5pm. We hope to see you soon!

Many congratulations to both artists on these beautiful exhibitions




Image details:
1-3. Installation views of Maggie Hills: “Hopscotch”
4-6. Installation views of Tommy Fitzpatrick: “Elsewhere”

FRIENDS FAIR 2026 | Room 206

📍May 7-9 and at The Loren Hotel, Austin

Featuring work by:
Charis Ammon
David Aylsworth
Yevgeniya Baras
Jamal Cyrus
Loc Huynh
Yukon Murata
Alexis Pye

Ceramics by:
Amy Blakemore
Rosalie Ramm

If you are in Austin, come say hi! View our booth preview to at the link in bio 🔗
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These works by Beth Secor and Robyn O’Neil are included in the Glasstire Auction. Bidding is live now, and ends Friday, May 8 at 10:15pm CDT

Additionally, Glasstire has produced a 25th anniversary portfolio of five prints from Texas artists, including David McGee, Joey Fauerso, Laura Lark, Aaron Parazette, and Vincent Valdez. Each print is signed, numbered, and published in an edition of 50 portfolios.

Find both at the link in our bio🔗

1. Beth Secor
Grackle, Flood, 2017
gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper
21 x 25 x 1 1/2 inches, framed

2. Robyn O’Neil
Covenant Trace, 2013
Edition 2 of 50 + 10 AP
2-run 2-color direct gravure with waterbite aquatint, printed on Magnani Pescia White 300 g/m
22 7/8 x 26 5/8 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

3. David McGee
Grits, 2026
Edition of 50
eleven-color photolithograph on Arches 88 paper
20 x 16 inches
Editioned by Patrick Masterson, assisted by Jai España at Madcap Press, Houston

We just received our postcards for Friends Fair! The cover features Loc Huynh’s “Punk Rock Áo dài Cowgirl (Flipper)”

Can’t wait for next week 🤠

Friends Fair | Room 206
📍Loren Hotel on Lady Bird Lake
🗓️May 7–9
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We’re thrilled to share that Art League Houston has named Jamal Cyrus the 2026 Texas Artist of the Year!

In recognition, ALH will present solo exhibitions of Cyrus and César Martínez, 2026 Lifetime Achievement awardee, on view September 18–December 20, 2026. Each exhibition will be accompanied by a publication. All honorees will be celebrated at the annual ALH gala on Friday, October 9, 2026

Many congratulations to Jamal and all the 2026 honorees!

Image:

Jamal Cyrus
Africanismus_12469, 2006
found padded vest, paperback books, cotton shirt
32 x 24 x 4 in (81.3 x 61 x 10.2 cm) approx

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Jamal Cyrus is a Houston-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections of Black American history, music, and cultural production. Working across sculpture, collage, assemblage, and performance, Cyrus creates layered works that draw from archival materials and sonic traditions to examine how history is shaped, remembered, and reimagined. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2023), the David C. Driskell Prize (2020), and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019). His mid-career survey, The End of My Beginning, opened at the Blaffer Art Museum in 2021 and traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Mississippi Museum of Art. His forthcoming solo exhibition, curated by Ryan N. Dennis, will open at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in June 2027.

His work has been featured in major national and international exhibitions, including most recently Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2025). His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among others.

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