Moody Gallery

PRINTS BY JAMES DRAKE and MELISSA MILLER - In conjunction with PrintHouston

On View May 30 - July 11, 2026

View the Exhibition - https://www.moodygallery.com/exhibitions/71

Moody Gallery is proud to present Prints by James Drake and Melissa Miller, a two person exhibition presented in partnership with PrintHouston. Featuring a selection of prints by gallery artists James Drake and Melissa Miller, the exhibition will be on view May 30 - July 11, 2026.

James Drake (b. Lubbock, Texas, 1946) currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Master of Fine Arts degree from the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California. Drake is the recipient of numerous awards, which include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, and a Nancy Graves Award for Visual Arts. In 2007 his work was featured at the 52nd International Venice Biennale and in 2000 his work was featured in the Whitney Biennial. His exhibition at Moody Gallery in 2004 received a U.S. Art Critics Association (AICA) Award for Best in Show in a Commercial Gallery Nationally, 2nd Place. Drake’s work can be seen in many permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Blanton Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, Art Museum of South Texas, El Paso Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Lannan Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (La Jolla), Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Four books have been published on James Drake: James Drake (University of Texas Press, 2008); James Drake: Red Drawings & White Cut-Outs (Radius Books, 2012); and James Drake: 1242 (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (La Jolla), 2014); James Drake: Tongue-Cut Sparrows (Radius Books, 2024).

Melissa Miller (b. Houston, Texas, 1951) currently resides and works in Austin, Texas. She received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico, New Mexico. Miller has received numerous honors including three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and an award from the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation. She was selected “Texas State Visual Artist of the Year” by the Texas Legislature and has also received awards from the Dallas Museum of Art, the Art League of Houston, the Dallas Visual Arts Association, and the National Council of Arts Administrators. She has exhibited work at major museums in America and was the first native-Texan female artist to be included in the prestigious Venice Biennial, Whitney Biennial, and Corcoran Biennial. Her work has been collected by prominent museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.