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Rio Grande Valley-based artist Mario Perez鈥檚 solo show DIY at Houston鈥檚 Devin Borden Gallery features the artists鈥檚 chief characteristics: humor and reference to tradition.

Recent works by Michael Velliquette, Julia Kunin and Rachel Cox deserve close inspection After a year of pandemic insanity, social unrest and fraught politics, who isn鈥檛 ready for a quiet escape?

Mary Hayslip at Devin Borden Gallery, Houston. Dates: February 20 鈥� April 4, 2020. An exhibition of sculpture and 2-D work featuring vinyl, fabric and collage works made between 1988 and 2019.

Glasstire staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal 鈥渂est鈥� lists for 2019.

I first saw Matt Messinger鈥檚 work in 2010. 

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a long-awaited Houston show, a must-see show in Brownsville, and the debut of a doomsday dream machine in Fort Worth.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a show by a newly-minted MFA, an artwork that doesn鈥檛 quite fit into a gallery, and why our number one pick is our number one pick.

All shows are free unless otherwise noted.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees experience corpsing and art at an Austin Airbnb, and look forward to a promising art walk in West Dallas.

Below is a roundup of some shows we鈥檝e enjoyed so far this fall. Not a comprehensive list. -Ed.

All shows are free unless otherwise noted.

When the critters in the ceiling above his studio wouldn鈥檛 stop their scratch, scratch, scratching, Josh Bernstein embraced the intrusion through art.

'A Wall Around a Window," Melissa Thorne's installation at Devin Borden Gallery, is a strangely lovely take on concrete walls and boarded-up windows.

Geoff Hippenstiel has a most risky process: when he has a perfectly good painting, he intentionally messes it up to create a problem he then has to solve.

Moving between Austin, TX and New York City, Andy Coolquitt is an artist whose work is not merely a bricolage of urban compost: severed plunger handles, discarded bourbon bottles, pipes, wooden planks