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FRANCISCO RAMOS T he Houston art space where Andy Warhol once signed issues of Interview magazine and exhibited, along with other figures ensconced in art history — Robert Rauschenberg, William Wegman, Lynda Benglis — began its next chapter this summer. Earlier this year, the iconic Texas Gallery quietly shuttered its location in River Oaks Shopping Center after five decades to segue to online sales and managing artists' estates. The timing was synchronistic, as a new gallery with international ambitions was waiting in the wings to take over the space. Peruvian- founded Revolver Galería was established in 2008 as a nexus for a global dialogue spun around Latin American art. With projects ongoing in Lima and Buenos Afrofuturist Angelbert: The Book Aires, and after a successful debut at last fall's inaugural edition of Untitled Art, Houston, founder/owner/artist Giancarlo Scaglia and his Houston-based partner, gallery co-owner and managing director Micheline Ferrand Newall, made the commitment to open Revolver's primary location in Houston. For their local director, they tapped Megan Olivia Ebel, whose own continuing art space/residency Ruby Projects/LaRucheHTX is at the edge of the avant-garde. Revolver's big reveal in May brought out a collector-heavy crowd, including members of the MFAH's powerful patron group, Latin Maecenas, which support's the museum's Latin American Department. For the occasion, Cuban émigré, now Houston- based artist Reynier Leyva Novo guest- curated "Nomos," an elevated group exhibition of six talents; he kept the 3,200-foot gallery spare and minimal so each artist had room to make a statement. Hometown hero/MacArthur Fellow Mel Chin (now based in North Carolina) stole the show with his take on a post-war American kitchen underlain with menacing appliances. Viewers were also introduced to Revolver's sophisticated aesthetic and international stable, including this fall's headliner Jerry B. Martin and his conceptually driven drawings (November 21 – January 9). In a pendant gallery space, MoMA- and Tate-collected José Carlos Martinat's mammoth wall extraction of found graffiti served as a preview of what's showing this month at the gallery (September 25 – November 7), as well as in Revolver's Untitled fair booth, where Martinat's street-inspired work will be paired with Argentine artist Elena Dahn's performative practice spun around the body (Untitled Art, Houston, October 1 – 4). Stay tuned. Keep an eye on Revolver Galería. Texas artist Susan Plum is rumored to be bringing her distinctive world of ritual and cosmology to an upcoming project. Revolver Galería, 2012 Peden St., revolvergaleria.com. Catherine D. Anspon T exas artists are hot this fall, with plenty of buzz and exhibitions for talents from Rick Lowe and Mark Flood to Jeremy DePrez and Rachel Hecker. Adding to the excitement is the release of a new book about Houston-born artist Angelbert Metoyer, who lives and works between Texas and the Netherlands. Angelbert Metoyer: The Afrofuturist Impulse is produced by museum-world go-to Marquand Books, Seattle, and edited by collector/patron Craig Massey and scholar Dr. Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University José Carlos Martinat, Lachay (from series Pintas), 2026, at Revolver Galería Revolver Galería's Giancarlo Scaglia, Megan Olivia Ebel, Micheline Ferrand Newall with Mel Chin's Ill-Posed Inverse Problemware & Pre-Flow Hydro Dynamic Relation Sink, 2012 74