Issue link: http://papercitymagazine.uberflip.com/i/1538827
Clockwise from top left: Aaron Parazette's New Blue, 2025, at McClain Gallery. Dario Robleto's American Seabed (detail), 2014, at Art League Houston. Louise Nevelson's Untitled, 1959, at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino. Karen Navarro's Chroma Collective, 2025, at Discovery Green. Tomashi Jackson's Dajerria All Alone (Bolling v Sharpe (District of Columbia)) (McKinney Pool Party), 2016, at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. 52 Painter's Progress "Aaron Parazette: Sweet" at McClain Gallery (September 13 — November 1). With its cheeky surf-term title, "Sweet" spans more than three decades of this UH professor/former Core Fellow's work, including a recent series of small paintings created during his Elaine de Kooning House residency in the Hamptons. The exhibition coincides with the release of Parazette's first monograph, published by Skira, Milan. Toasting Texas Artist of the Year "If You Remember, I Remember: Dario Robleto" at Art League Houston (September 26 — December 21). Among the most poetic artists of our day in Texas, Robleto's exhibition promises to delve into his obsessively considered practice, an arcane and beautiful meditation on love, science, history, the human heartbeat, and the cosmos, crafted across many decades and media by a talent who has been in residence at the galactic SETI Institute. You Had Us at Nevelson "New Classicism in Collage: Negret, Nevelson and Ramírez Villamizar" at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino (September 13 — November 22). The chance to see collage works by la grande dame Louise Nevelson in dialogue with a duo of late Latin American notables promises to be an art-historical occasion, marking a fitting tribute to this gallery's seminal first 30 years. Art + Activism Arise "Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe" at Contemporary Arts M u s e u m H o u s t o n (through March 29, 2026). Jackson unpacks images culled from the Civil Rights movement, forging captivating, multilayered assemblages that underscore her prowess with printmaking and grasp of underknown court cases from American history. The exhibition uncannily resonates with our current moment. Feminism Ascendant "Karin Broker: beautiful rage (a clear and concise history of the female gender" at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art (September 6 — October 11). This Rice professor emerita of printmaking and drawing debuts recent work including an eight-by-five-foot graphite on laminate that addresses the biblical narrative of Judith. This tour de force drawing steals the show. Interactive Multiculturalism in Public Art "Karen Navarro: Chroma Collective" at Discovery Green (September 12 — November 2). One of the rising art stars of the Houston scene, this inaugural Discovery Green Art Lab fellow mines her own experience as an Argentine-born immigrant. Navarro crafts two self-portraits alongside portraits of five sitters in an ambitious, interactive photo-based sculpture measuring 22 feet long by 6 1/2 feet high that speaks to the rich cultural zeitgeist of our region. COURTESY GIÓ MARCONI GALLERY AND SICARDI | AYERS | BACINO. © 2025 ESTATE OF LOUISE NEVELSON/ARS, NY. PHOTO BY GIANNI UMMARINO.. ALEX BARBER (Continued)