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O range Crush: Make a beeline to Galleri Urbane for a cool acquisition opp timed to the holidays. Dealer Ree Willaford curates the gallery's 11th annual Gift Edit, this season featuring designer fave Stephen D'Onofrio of the Pop still lifes that pack a jolt of visual energy. "Fruit Roll Out" speaks to D'Onofrio's practice that updates the millennium-old art-historical tradition of still-life painting — one that goes back to the Romans — with a bold graphic contemporary sensibility. For the first time, the Philly-based painter (who holds BFA and MFA degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) makes his art available through the printed medium, in punchy works 58 on paper as well as printed canvas editions featuring hand-painted flourishes (November 15 – December 27). Lone Star Doubleheader: A cross- generational view of two noteworthy Texas talents wraps the year at Cris Worley Fine Arts. The late Harry Geffert, the king of bronze casting, is showcased in "Metamorphosis," a survey of the lyrical, nature-inspired sculptures of this Dallas artist's epic career, including the last works created before his passing in 2017. Paired with Geffert's tribute show is Veracruz- born, Dallas-based Ruben Nieto. The artist expands upon his Comic Abstraction series. This UTD MFA grad's latest — dramatic amalgamations of oil, acrylic, oil stick, and oil pastel on canvas — offer testament to why he's been included in an edition of New American Paintings (both exhibits, November 8 – December 30). Eastern Star: Dallas painter/sculptor Gaurii S Kumaar — one of the Dallas Museum of Art's 2025 Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant recipients — is showcased at the Eisemann Center in Richardson in a solo that speaks to her Indian heritage. While the intuitive ink paintings on view in "Guided by Legacy: Belonging Amidst Rituals, Relics, and Inheritance" may remind viewers of works created by internationally exhibited Pakistani- American artist Shahzia Sikander — who blazed the cross-cultural trail a generation earlier — Kumaar's four woven-cot sculptures, based on traditional Indian charpais, are highly original and signal a unique direction for her emerging voice (through November 29; reception Friday, November 7, 6 to 8 pm). Art Notes By Catherine D. Anspon Stephen D'Onofrio's Orange Tree, 2025, at Galleri Urbane. Ruben Nieto's Pegasus Universe, 2025, at Cris Worley Fine Arts.