From Texas with Love: Prints from Flatbed Press at LeRoy Neiman Center, New York
At Columbia University's LeRoy Neiman Gallery, you can catch the exhibit "From Texas with Love: Prints from Flatbed Press" until October 9, 2026. This collection, put together by curator Bale Creek Allen, features works from Flatbed Press, which has been around since 1989. Notable artists showcased include John Alexander, Michael Ray Charles, James Surls, and Linda Ridgway, among others. A review by Glasstire highlights the themes of solemnity and the hardships faced by Texans. Some remarkable works include Jiménez's skull-like self-portrait, Allen's Rage, Saul's haloed God, Brimberry's True Image, and Kopriva's Vigilant, all sharing motifs of yellow, taupe, and birds, symbolizing resilience.
Key facts
- From Texas with Love: Prints from Flatbed Press is on view at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University in New York through October 9, 2026.
- The exhibition is curated by Bale Creek Allen and drawn from the archives of Flatbed Press, Austin's print publisher and communal printmaking studio founded in 1989.
- Artists in the show include John Alexander, Michael Ray Charles, James Surls, Linda Ridgway, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Julie Speed, Luis Jiménez, Terry Allen, Peter Saul, Katherine Brimberry, and Sharon Kopriva.
- Luis Jiménez's self-portrait etching depicts a skull-like face with unkempt hair, grim eyes, and wired-shut lips.
- Terry Allen's Rage (1995) is a line etching and aquatint with collaged fabric, 43 3/4 x 39 1/4 inches, showing four stacked letters under black and gold-flecked lace.
- Peter Saul's untitled polymer direct gravure (edition 19/20) features a haloed, bucktoothed God with many arms distributing traits such as stupid, intelligent, beautiful, important, and faithful.
- Katherine Brimberry's True Image is a chine collé aquatint etching (edition AP) depicting Christ as if photographed from overhead by a medical examiner, in earthen yellow.
- Sharon Kopriva's Vigilant is a color stone and plate lithograph (edition 2/20) showing a vulture encapsulating a twin that cradles a smaller winged iteration in an unhatched egg.
Entities
Artists
- Bale Creek Allen
- John Alexander
- Michael Ray Charles
- James Surls
- Linda Ridgway
- Trenton Doyle Hancock
- Julie Speed
- Luis Jiménez
- Terry Allen
- Peter Saul
- Katherine Brimberry
- Sharon Kopriva
- Natalie Power
Institutions
- LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies
- LeRoy Neiman Gallery
- Columbia University
- Flatbed Press
- Glasstire
- SMU
Locations
- New York
- United States
- Texas
- Austin
- Dallas
- Waxahachie
- I-35