2025 Exhibits and Events at Dock Space Gallery
January 2025
Dreams, Visions, and Desires - Susan Budge
Susan Budge is an American sculptor working in clay and bronze with influences from Biomorphism and Surrealism. Budge holds a BFA from Texas Tech University, MA from University of Houston Clear Lake, MFA from University of Texas at San Antonio.
Budge’s work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Fuller Craft Museum, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the San Angelo Museum of Art, the Art Museum at Northern Arizona State University, the Art Museum of South Texas, the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her work has been in hundreds of exhibitions and is in private collections in the United Kingdom, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Greece, the United States, and Mexico.
Budge has received numerous public commissions, residencies, and awards, including, Artist of the Year for the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts in 2004, and finalist for Texas State Artist for the Texas Legislature and Texas Commission for the Arts in 2018.
Her teaching career began with Artist in Education Grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts in 1988. She was the Department Head of Ceramics at San Antonio College as a tenured professor. Prior to her 2015 retirement, she earned a NISOD excellence in teaching award and established an endowed ceramics scholarship fund. Budge maintains an active studio practice at her rural studio near Houston.
Budge’s work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Fuller Craft Museum, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the San Angelo Museum of Art, the Art Museum at Northern Arizona State University, the Art Museum of South Texas, the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her work has been in hundreds of exhibitions and is in private collections in the United Kingdom, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Greece, the United States, and Mexico.
Budge has received numerous public commissions, residencies, and awards, including, Artist of the Year for the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts in 2004, and finalist for Texas State Artist for the Texas Legislature and Texas Commission for the Arts in 2018.
Her teaching career began with Artist in Education Grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts in 1988. She was the Department Head of Ceramics at San Antonio College as a tenured professor. Prior to her 2015 retirement, she earned a NISOD excellence in teaching award and established an endowed ceramics scholarship fund. Budge maintains an active studio practice at her rural studio near Houston.
Subversive Imagination - Octavio Quintanilla
Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014), The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024), which has been longlisted for the National Book Award, and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize given by the Academy of American Poets, forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press. Octavio is the founder and director of the literature & arts festival, VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely, including in the Mexican Cultural Institute in San Antonio, El Paso Museum of Art, Presa House Gallery, and the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University.
“My work is often mixed-genre and multidisciplinary, exploring the dynamics of belonging/not belonging in U.S./Mexico (and elsewhere). I explore oppositional dynamics such as cultural loss/assimilation, memory/fragmentation, migration/homeland, and often through the lens of poetics: visual poetry, video poetry, found objects, and text. Through visual abstraction, I investigate and document what it means to navigate geographic, cultural, and linguistic loss (and reacquisition).”
“My work is often mixed-genre and multidisciplinary, exploring the dynamics of belonging/not belonging in U.S./Mexico (and elsewhere). I explore oppositional dynamics such as cultural loss/assimilation, memory/fragmentation, migration/homeland, and often through the lens of poetics: visual poetry, video poetry, found objects, and text. Through visual abstraction, I investigate and document what it means to navigate geographic, cultural, and linguistic loss (and reacquisition).”
February and March 2025
heART, Caroline Korbell Carrington & William Carrington, Alan Serna & Madison Cowles, and Kathy Sosa & Lionel Sosa
heART, Caroline Korbell Carrington & William Carrington, Alan Serna & Madison Cowles, and Kathy Sosa & Lionel Sosa
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Continuing with an annual tradition, Dock Space Gallery has invited artist couples in San Antonio to exhibit their artwork during February’s heARtshow. San Antonio boasts many artistic couples, dozens of which have shown their artwork separately or together at Dock Space. In 2025 we have invited Caroline Korbell Carrington & William Carrington, Alan Serna & Madison Cowles, and Kathy Sosa & Lionel Sosa. We are exhibiting Caroline’s contemporary landscapes and William’s whimsical wildlife sculptures. Lionel will be sharing portraits and Kathy will be showing 3-dimensional artworks as well as paintings. Alan Serna will share his works of nostalgia and displacement & Madison Cowles shares works addressing issues of intimate partner violence and trauma.
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April 2025
Islands of Certainty, Mark Hogensen 
Muralist and painter Mark Hogensen has created new drawings for Dock Space Gallery exploring the “uneasy meeting of the familiar and the impossible.” Working primarily with ink on paper for the last three years, Hogensen’s art making “has been and is about the interpretation, alteration, and reorganization of expected perceptions. Each of the elements that make up our surroundings seemingly beg for a re-assignment or new orchestration.”
Hogensen says, “Alongside this Island of Certainty you may drift into spatial representations and objects that don’t agree with the aforementioned familiar.This creates subtle or even blatantly impossible images.These visual inconsistencies provide a perceptual adventure that forces a diversion from our real world experience.” |
Bumpy Road, John Mattson 
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May 2025
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An Ocean in the Desert, Maria Brown
“Womanhood, sex, death, unlikely pairings, self portraiture, and the surreal come together to describe the narrative that is the symbolism of my womanhood and navigating this path without a mother in my life. Becoming a woman on my own has forced me to go deeply within and find the connections in the world, often hidden in plain sight. It is this process that assists me in understanding life and myself. “An Ocean in the Desert” references the blatant duality of every experience, the euphoria and the perceived failures and loss. An Ocean in the Desert also references childhood memories living in Florida for over a decade yet having ancestral roots in South Texas and Mexico. The dualities of my life help me to see the world in contrast, which aids my artist mind to find symbolism in even inanimate objects.”
-Maria Brown BIO - María Jessica Brown (b. 1982, TX) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in South Texas. Her art includes oil on canvas paintings, clay sculpture, drawing, and photography. María has been an artist her whole life but has been a nurse by trade since 2005. In 2021 she returned to college and got her Associates of Art from San Antonio College (Dean’s List) and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in fine art/Studio Art with a Painting Concentration and Minor in Art History (Summa Cum Laude) in 2024. In 2024, María was awarded the Working Artist Grant by CAM (Contemporary Art Month). She has shown in multiple galleries in both the Blue Star Arts District and the Lone Star Arts District. This year, she was chosen to take part in the Marfa Invitational for 2025, and is a participating artist in an upcoming group show for the Centro de Artes entitled “Madreland”. Follow María Jessica Brown: IG@_mj.brown_ & [email protected] |
Feast Day, Marcus Clarke
“Sociologist Charles Taylor describes the immanent frame as the social milieu that is the unavoidable default state of society, or the waters that we unknowingly swim in. As a post-Christian culture haunted by moral and political Christian framework, it’s increasingly difficult to have faith without taking on ideological baggage. My work, Feast Day, is about this tension. In my sculpture and installation practice, I create assemblages of objects and images that create a sense of festivity and excitement, as well as tension and unease. I use materials like LED advertising signs, reflective road barricades, disco balls, confetti, and strobe lights, and pair these with religious ephemera like crucifixes, liturgical objects, scripture, and religious sound- bites that offer alarm and intrigue, familiarity and subversion. The absurdity and
anachronistic pairing of objects allude to “negative theology” and mystic ideas of the unknowability and un searchability of God and inquire into how that void space is ripe for theological questions as a departure from the imminent frame.” -Marcus Clarke BIO - Marcus studied Advertising and Architectural History at Pratt Institute and SavannahCollege of Art and Design–he thinks deeply about media, communication, philosophy, theology, and the built environment. His art career began when moving to Austin in 2019, and since had solo and two shows Zion’s Window (2020), Two Tides Torn (2020), Sans Land (2021), 28 Works on Ecclesiastes (2023), and In the Meantime (2023). He attended artist residency at Casa Lu in Mexico City, an artist and curatorial residency at Vesper Austin, and has received press from Glasstire and Almost Real Things. Clarke currently lives in San Antonio and is an MFA candidate at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has pursued theological coursework at Duke Divinity School and is active in education initiatives at the UTSA Southwest School of Art and the Old School Makerspace. |