Women & Their Work Gallery

Join us this Saturday for the opening of larí garcía's solo exhibition, spirit of discrimination.

The show incorporates structures and works produced on site. Stud walls hold suspended assemblage sculpture. Newspapers and other documents are presented in a way that abruptly drops the viewer into a narrative—with or without context—and become poetic linguistic interventions throughout the gallery. garcía uses sculptural techniques of compression, piercing, and near rupture to evoke pressure, constraint, and the tension of something on the verge of breaking through.

More info at https://womenandtheirwork.org/upcoming/lari-garcia/

Meet the artists behind MARK:

Adéọlá Ọlágúnju is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, video, drawing, film, printmaking, textiles and installations. Ọlágúnju’s work has been exhibited widely and in major venues, including Museum of Modern Art of Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bozar Bruxelles, Palais de Tokyo Paris, Rencontres d’Arles, Rencontres de Bamako, and Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź. She is the recipient of notable awards, including the Grand Prizes at the 12th Bamako Biennial of African Photography, the NRW. Bank Art Prize, Lagos Photo Festival Award. Committed to artistic development and community engagement, Ọlágúnju has undertaken artist residencies and has taught in many workshops and masterclasses. Her work is held in public and private collections, including FRAC Museum, Nantes France and Research Center for Society, Technology and Ecology in Africa (FZA) at the University of Bayreuth Germany.

In creating her "horizonscapes," Katie Maratta acknowledges an apparent contradiction. While the literal picture plane is incredibly small - one inch high and up to four feet long, the visual space it suggests is vast. The technique is understated and monochromatic, but the elements of the composition retain their weight and authority. Upon moving to Texas in the mid 1990's, Maratta was struck by the rich visual experience of West Texas. While these wide-open expanses and long lonely highways may be the stuff of clichéd country songs and western movies, they still evoke wonder for the artist who calls Austin home.

Ashley Perez is a Texas-based artist whose practice centers on painting and drawing. Her work explores memory, identity, and mental health, often blending elements of the natural world with playful approaches to language. An alumna of SAY Sí, Perez earned her B.F.A. in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2010. Her work has been exhibited at Centro de Artes, The Contemporary at Blue Star, the McNay Art Museum, Presa House Gallery, and Ruiz-Healy Art. Her public art sculpture Kindred, created for the World Heritage Wayfinding and Trails project, debuted in 2025. She was recently appointed to serve on the San Antonio Arts Commission, where she continues to contribute to the city’s cultural and artistic landscape.

Meet the artists behind MARK:

Margaux Crump is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher exploring the entanglements between magic, science, and the spiritual Imagination. She is currently investigating the phenomena of the unseen, from the microscopic to the mythic worlds that surround us. Her sculpture, photography, and ritual work has been exhibited across the United States, most notably at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Women and Their Work, DiverseWorks, Emerson Contemporary, and Fotofest. She is a recipient of the Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award and a Houston Endowment Jones Artist. Crump holds a MFA in studio art from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Catherine MacMahon’s practice operates at the intersection of architecture, art, and design, treating the line as a connective gesture between drawing, textile, and the body in space. Based in Dallas, she holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, where mentor Lois Weinthal’s investigation of the relationships between architecture, interiors, clothing, and objects shaped MacMahon’s understanding of pattern as a connective logic across scales. MacMahon is represented by Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, where she has presented LINES (2019), Thresholds of Uncertainty (2022), and Soft Fascination (2024).

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Mary Godigna Collet, born in Caracas, Venezuela, 1959, has participated in 70+ solo and group exhibitions internationally. For more than forty years, she has been developing a work of great formal coherence that explores different perceptive, mental, and emotional states. The unifying thread through the years has been the rigorous research about the “interference” related to societal and ecological subjects and materials and their connection with the subject. By assembling and tensioning objects and raw materials, color and light, her works open as much as they conceal physical and mental spaces. She explores the gap between intimate and social, the existential and the everyday, the environment and degradation.