Inman Gallery

“When you’re telling stories for people to remember, you sometimes need poetic devices. Painting is a poetic device...When you’re telling deep, complicated stories via painting, you need all kinds of devices to engage the viewer. It could be surface; it could be color. To tell a story intimately, you need to figure out what kind of device in the painting will make the viewer investigate its stillness. That’s the griot in me trying to tell this story through a painting.” –David McGee (BOMB Magazine, 2026)

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We’re thrilled to share this interview published in BOMB Magazine of David McGee by Chris Becker, discussing McGee’s institutional survey, “The Griot and the Nightingale”

🔗Read the full text at the link in our bio

Closing today – Maggie Hills: “Hopscotch” and Tommy Fitzpatrick: “Elsewhere”

Saturday, May 9 is the last chance to see our spring solo exhibitions by Maggie Hills and Tommy Fitzpatrick! As usual, the gallery is open today 11am-5pm. We hope to see you soon!

Many congratulations to both artists on these beautiful exhibitions




Image details:
1-3. Installation views of Maggie Hills: “Hopscotch”
4-6. Installation views of Tommy Fitzpatrick: “Elsewhere”

These works by Beth Secor and Robyn O’Neil are included in the Glasstire Auction. Bidding is live now, and ends Friday, May 8 at 10:15pm CDT

Additionally, Glasstire has produced a 25th anniversary portfolio of five prints from Texas artists, including David McGee, Joey Fauerso, Laura Lark, Aaron Parazette, and Vincent Valdez. Each print is signed, numbered, and published in an edition of 50 portfolios.

Find both at the link in our bio🔗

1. Beth Secor
Grackle, Flood, 2017
gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper
21 x 25 x 1 1/2 inches, framed

2. Robyn O’Neil
Covenant Trace, 2013
Edition 2 of 50 + 10 AP
2-run 2-color direct gravure with waterbite aquatint, printed on Magnani Pescia White 300 g/m
22 7/8 x 26 5/8 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

3. David McGee
Grits, 2026
Edition of 50
eleven-color photolithograph on Arches 88 paper
20 x 16 inches
Editioned by Patrick Masterson, assisted by Jai España at Madcap Press, Houston

We just received our postcards for Friends Fair! The cover features Loc Huynh’s “Punk Rock Áo dài Cowgirl (Flipper)”

Can’t wait for next week 🤠

Friends Fair | Room 206
📍Loren Hotel on Lady Bird Lake
🗓️May 7–9
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