Exhibitions

Current

Deborah Bay: [chroma(to)-graphy]
18 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 Foto Relevance is pleased to present [chroma(to)-graphy], a solo exhibition of works by Deborah Bay. As part of an ongoing exploration of color, Bay shifts away from exploring the non-materiality of colored light and optics through film gels, lenses, and prisms toward investigating the physicality of color itself in this... Read more

Forthcoming

Karen Navarro: Somos Millones
13 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Foto Relevance is pleased to announce Somos Millones, a solo exhibition of works by Karen Navarro. Somos Millones (we are millions) is a visual expression of identity though the artist’s uniquely deconstructed and reconstructed portraits of first, second and third generation American immigrants. Navarro’s mixed-media works investigate a sense of... Read more

Past

Alia Ali: Blue Note
9 Sep - 12 Nov 2022 Foto Relevance is pleased to present Blue Note, the gallery's second solo exhibition of works by award-winning multidisciplinary artist Alia Ali. Featuring stunning works from the new LIBERTY and IKATIKAT (2022) series, as well as a selection of fresh works from other series, the exhibit showcases photographic works that see... Read more

Restless Symmetries: Barbara Strigel and Kelda Van Patten
16 Jul - 3 Sep 2022 Foto Relevance is pleased to present Restless Symmetries: Barbara Strigel and Kelda Van Patten. This show marks the gallery's debut exhibition of works by each artist, selected from portfolio reviews at PhotoLucida 2022. Restless Symmetries will be on view at Foto Relevance from July 16th through September 3rd, 2022. Barbara... Read more

Amanda Marchand: Lumen Notebook
14 May - 9 Jul 2022 Foto Relevance is pleased to present Lumen Notebook , the gallery's debut solo exhibition of works by Amanda Marchand. Using ideas inherent in the temporality of the lumen printing process, Marchand explores concepts of landscape, time, and our mortal planet. The cameraless photographic process of creating lumens is beautiful in... Read more

Foto Relevance at EXPO CHICAGO
Navy Pier, Booth 382 7 - 10 Apr 2022 We are thrilled to be presenting the work of Alia Ali, who has received international acclaim for her photographic and multimedia work that was recently described by James Steward, Director of the Princeton University Art Museum, as “politically potent and materially beautiful.” Ali's work dives headfirst into the intricate and... Read more

Nancy Newberry: Smoke Bombs and Border Crossings
26 Mar - 7 May 2022 Foto Relevance is pleased to present Smoke Bombs and Border Crossings, the gallery's debut solo exhibition of works by Nancy Newberry. Influenced by her Italian heritage and her Texan roots, the photographs in the show function as a contemporary Spaghetti Western, investigating the spectacle at the core of the Wild... Read more

The Body as Memory
15 Jan - 19 Mar 2022 Foto Relevance is pleased to present The Body as Memory, a group exhibition that brings together the work of three artists—Nick Simko, Gabriel García Román, and Caleb Cole—who each work with concepts of identity and queerness, both reaching into the past and looking toward the future. The group show, curated... Read more

Xuan-Hui Ng: Interludes
6 Nov 2021 - 8 Jan 2022 Foto Relevance is pleased to present Interludes, the gallery's debut solo exhibition of works by Xuan-Hui Ng. The Singaporean, Tokyo-based artist's serendipitous landscapes capture transient moments of beauty within the vastness of nature. Propelled to begin creating art as a way to seek solace from loss, the artistʼs desire to... Read more

Pelle Cass: Crowded Fields
11 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 Foto Relevance is thrilled to announce Pelle Cass for Crowded Fields, a solo exhibition featuring selections from a critically acclaimed, ongoing series of work capturing hours of dynamic action in a single still frame. A bacchanal of bodies in motion fills each field of play and contrasts with the rules... Read more

Alia Ali: Cartographies of Pattern
9 Jul - 4 Sep 2021 In a spectacular finish to its Spring 2021 programming, Foto Relevance is pleased to announce the gallery’s debut solo exhibition of works by Alia Ali, on view July 9 — September 4, 2021. Featuring selections from Ali’s FLUX, FLOW, INDIGO, andحب (hub) // LOVE series, Cartographies of Pattern dives headfirst... Read more

Karen Navarro: The Constructed Self
30 Apr - 25 Jun 2021 The Constructed Self marks Karen Navarro’s solo debut at the gallery. Combining a survey of the artist’s previous portfolio El Pertenecer en Tiempos Modernos (Belonging in Modern Times) with brand new meditations on self-representation and identity, The Constructed Self is a dizzying playground of texture, color, and unexpected contemporary portraiture.... Read more

Ebb + Flow
29 Mar - 29 Jul 2021 As we collectively enter a time abundant with hope and new beginnings, the TC Energy Center's Spring art exhibition studies themes of lifecycles and rebirth. Ebb + Flow was organized by Kinzelman Art Consulting in partnership with Houston-based gallery Foto Relevance to highlight the work of 3 exciting artists -... Read more

Fabled Flora
19 Feb - 16 Apr 2021 Fabled Flora is a group exhibition blooming with lush still life works from contemporary photographers Yelena Strokin, Robert Langham III, Claire Rosen, and Julia McLaurin. Read more

Brenda Biondo: Sky Light
20 Nov 2020 - 12 Feb 2021 Marking Brenda Biondo’s second solo exhibition at Foto Relevance, Sky Light debuts selections from the artist’s two newest bodies of work: Rayleigh Shadows and A Legacy of Shadows. Both portfolios serve as natural expansions of Biondo’s longstanding fascination with perceptions of high-altitude light and color as they relate to and... Read more

Now You See Me
2 Oct - 13 Nov 2020 Now You See Me is a group exhibition that brings together six artists— Jerry Takigawa, Priya Kambli, Tommy Kha, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Leonard Suryajaya, and Tomiko Jones—who offer a glimpse into the vast complexity and nuance of Asian America. While diverse in scope, works in the show share a common... Read more

JP Terlizzi: The Good Dishes
14 Aug - 25 Sep 2020 Foto Relevance is thrilled to announce JP Terlizzi for a solo exhibition of his acclaimed still life food series The Good Dishes. Read more

Quarantine Blues
20 Jun - 8 Aug 2020 Quarantine Blues is a collection of works from our gallery artists which prominently feature the color blue. The psychology of the color blue has been studied in depth, and it has been shown that blues evoke feelings of calmness and serenity and can even increase productivity. C urated by Suzanne... Read more

Letitia Huckaby: Beautiful Blackness
6 Mar - 4 Jun 2020 Drawn from multiple portfolios of Letitia Huckaby’s work and presented distinctively in embroidery hoops, on flour sacks, and sewn into patchwork quilts, Beautiful Blackness taps deep into the historical entanglements surrounding African American life in the rural American South. This exhibition was held in conjunction with the Houston-wide FotoFest 2020... Read more

Jane Szabo: Somewhere Else
8 - 28 Feb 2020 Somewhere Else by Jane Szabo explores a yearning for a home or a sense of place that one cannot return to, no longer exists, or maybe never was. In this new series, hand-constructed homes are covered in a wide array of maps and photographed in natural settings and architectural interiors. Read more

Margeaux Walter: Believe Me
15 Nov 2019 - 1 Feb 2020 Engaged with a burgeoning world of surveillance cameras, drones, social media, smart phones, and facial recognition software, Margeaux Walter's Believe Me — titled after a phrase frequently deployed by former President Trump — documents staged, site-specific installations in the environment. Resembling Google Earth images, Walter’s aerial-perspective works toe the line... Read more

Lou Peralta: Disassemble
13 Sep - 8 Nov 2019 Lou Peralta's Disassemble marks the Mexico City-based artist’s inaugural solo exhibition at the gallery and in the United States. Featuring over thirty of Peralta’s constructed, photo-based portraits, the exhibition showcases the artist’s mastery of melding traditional studio portraiture with craft techniques. Expanding upon Peralta’s legacy as a fourth-generation member of... Read more

1000+1
12 Jul - 6 Sep 2019 Foto Relevance presents 1000+1, a summer group show highlighting seven contemporary artists—Kalee Appleton, Joana P. Cardozo, Mark Chen, Paul-André Larocque, Noelle Mason, Karen Navarro, and Krista Svalbonas—who expand our expectations of photography through the use of photo-based techniques in conjunction with alternative art forms. Read more

Robert Calafiore: Glass Relics
17 May - 29 Jun 2019 Glass Relics is a solo exhibition by Robert Calafiore, featuring selections spanning ten years’ worth of the artist’s “Oggetti di Vetro” (Objects of Glass) works. Read more

Deborah Bay: Light Forms
29 Mar - 10 May 2019 Light Forms is a solo exhibition highglighting Deborah Bay’s ethereal studio works of light, color, and geometric design. Read more

Julia McLaurin: Hail To The Chief!
22 Feb - 22 Mar 2019 In Hail To The Chief!, Julia McLaurin reinterprets the formal, idealistic portraits of the men at the helm of our nation, peeling off their gloss and making them accessible to the everyday viewer. Based on research into the presidents, their behavior and actions, and the events that transpired during their... Read more

Brenda Biondo: Paper Skies
11 Jan - 15 Feb 2019 Paper Skies is a solo exhibition featuring the abstract work of Colorado-based photographer Brenda Biondo. The show features selections from three of Biondo’s series: Paper Skies, Moving Pictures, and Modalities. Each portfolio serves as a unique investigation into light, color, the environment, and the use of photography as both a... Read more

Domestic Fiction
9 Nov 2018 - 4 Jan 2019 The two-person exhibition Domestic Fiction features selections from NYC-based photographers Margeaux Walter and Joana P. Cardozo. Both artists offer a distinct way of identifying oneself through familiar, domestic spaces: Walter through staged interiors that feature herself disguised as various subjects, Cardozo through blueprints of her subjects’ households based on their... Read more

Every Leaf Speaks Bliss
14 Sep - 2 Nov 2018 Every Leaf Speaks Bliss is an exhibition highlighting selections from NYC-based photographers Laurie Lambrecht and David Reinfeld. Laurie Lambrecht’s lyrical approach to her work comes from her engagement with the tactile qualities and nuances of pattern and color found in nature. Her work celebrates the form, subtlety, and enduring presence... Read more

Tornado Warning In Effect
15 Jun - 4 Sep 2018 Foto Relevance is pleased to present Tornado Warning In Effect, showcasing the work of two distinctly different yet complementary artists: Robert Langham III and Paul-André Larocque. Read more

Torrie Groening: The Color Seekers, The Color Collector's Way
5 Mar - 22 Apr 2018 The Color Seekers, The Color Collector's Way is the US debut of Canadian artist Torrie Groening's newest work at Foto Relevance, a 2018 FotoFest Participating Space. Read more

Contemporary Views
5 Mar - 22 Apr 2018 Foto Relevance, Houston's first fine art gallery focused on contemporary photography, is pleased to announce that it has opened a new office and gallery space located in the Audubon Place Historic District of Montrose. Foto Relevance represents emerging and established contemporary photographic artists and provides informed guidance on the acquisition... Read more

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