2026 Exhibits and Events at Dock Space Gallery
January 2026 - Whatever Your Life's Work IS, Do It Well
As part of DreamWeek San Antonio, The group show brings together the work of Wardell Piquet, Claudette Hopkins, Katlyn Powell, Alethia Jones, and Barbra Felix—a multigenerational group of artists whose practices reflect purpose, dedication, and the lifelong pursuit of meaningful work.
DreamWeek is an annual summit designed to foster the free exchange of ideas on universal issues affecting humanity. Rooted in the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., DreamWeek invites open, civil dialogue through symposiums, panel discussions, film screenings, concerts, and art exhibitions—creating spaces where ideas inspire discussion and ignite change. This exhibition aligns with that mission by using visual art as a platform for reflection, conversation, and shared human understanding. Working across drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and mixed media, the artists in this exhibition approach their practices as both craft and calling. Their work explores identity, spirituality, memory, and connection—offering visual narratives that speak to personal histories while engaging broader questions of humanity and purpose.
Wardell Piquet’s work reflects a rigorous synthesis of drawing, printmaking, and graphic design shaped by his education at Xavier University of Louisiana under the mentorship of John T. Scott and Charles Graves. His layered process blends traditional techniques with digital precision, using abstraction, pattern, color, and the human form to explore spirituality and interconnectedness.
Claudette Hopkins brings decades of artistic practice and community leadership to the exhibition. A self-taught artist known for her mastery of pastels, Hopkins creates portraits that celebrate women of color and individuals from all walks of life. Her work is deeply informed by her passion for fashion and dance, as well as her long-standing commitment to arts education and advocacy through the San Antonio Ethnic Arts Society.
An emerging voice, Katlyn Powell draws from mythology, Buddhist teachings of loving-kindness, and psycho-spiritual inquiry to create emotionally resonant paintings and sculptures. Through self-portraiture and anonymous forms, her work addresses grief, vulnerability, compassion, and identity—offering art as an act of self-reflection and connection.
Alethia Jones, a Dallas native based in San Antonio, began painting in 2018 and has developed a visual language centered on spirituality, mental illness, and lucid dreaming. Her work bridges inner consciousness and lived experience, creating symbolic narratives that invite contemplation and emotional depth.
A multidisciplinary artist, Barbra Felix explores the human figure as a site of movement, memory, and healing. After retiring from a career in corporate graphic design, Felix fully committed to her studio practice, using expressive gesture drawing, experimental painting, printmaking, collage, and video to examine identity, mixed-race heritage, and the body as a vessel of lived experience and resilience.
Together, the artists of Whatever Your Life’s Work Is, Do It Well, contribute to DreamWeek’s mission of exchanging ideas, inspiring dialogue, and igniting change. The exhibition invites viewers into a shared space of reflection—where art becomes a language for understanding, empathy, and purposeful living.
DreamWeek is an annual summit designed to foster the free exchange of ideas on universal issues affecting humanity. Rooted in the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., DreamWeek invites open, civil dialogue through symposiums, panel discussions, film screenings, concerts, and art exhibitions—creating spaces where ideas inspire discussion and ignite change. This exhibition aligns with that mission by using visual art as a platform for reflection, conversation, and shared human understanding. Working across drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and mixed media, the artists in this exhibition approach their practices as both craft and calling. Their work explores identity, spirituality, memory, and connection—offering visual narratives that speak to personal histories while engaging broader questions of humanity and purpose.
Wardell Piquet’s work reflects a rigorous synthesis of drawing, printmaking, and graphic design shaped by his education at Xavier University of Louisiana under the mentorship of John T. Scott and Charles Graves. His layered process blends traditional techniques with digital precision, using abstraction, pattern, color, and the human form to explore spirituality and interconnectedness.
Claudette Hopkins brings decades of artistic practice and community leadership to the exhibition. A self-taught artist known for her mastery of pastels, Hopkins creates portraits that celebrate women of color and individuals from all walks of life. Her work is deeply informed by her passion for fashion and dance, as well as her long-standing commitment to arts education and advocacy through the San Antonio Ethnic Arts Society.
An emerging voice, Katlyn Powell draws from mythology, Buddhist teachings of loving-kindness, and psycho-spiritual inquiry to create emotionally resonant paintings and sculptures. Through self-portraiture and anonymous forms, her work addresses grief, vulnerability, compassion, and identity—offering art as an act of self-reflection and connection.
Alethia Jones, a Dallas native based in San Antonio, began painting in 2018 and has developed a visual language centered on spirituality, mental illness, and lucid dreaming. Her work bridges inner consciousness and lived experience, creating symbolic narratives that invite contemplation and emotional depth.
A multidisciplinary artist, Barbra Felix explores the human figure as a site of movement, memory, and healing. After retiring from a career in corporate graphic design, Felix fully committed to her studio practice, using expressive gesture drawing, experimental painting, printmaking, collage, and video to examine identity, mixed-race heritage, and the body as a vessel of lived experience and resilience.
Together, the artists of Whatever Your Life’s Work Is, Do It Well, contribute to DreamWeek’s mission of exchanging ideas, inspiring dialogue, and igniting change. The exhibition invites viewers into a shared space of reflection—where art becomes a language for understanding, empathy, and purposeful living.
February 2026 - heART
An Annual Valentine’s Exhibition Celebrating Artist Couples
San Antonio,Texas — Dock Space Gallery is pleased to present heART, a group exhibition celebrating artist couples whose creative practices span a wide range of disciplines, including glass, painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media. Held annually each February in honor of Valentine’s Day, heART highlights the unique dialogue that emerges when artists share both their lives and their practices.
This year’s exhibition features work by John Dyer, MiNHi England, Casey Arguelles Gregory, Tommy Gregory, Art Tresspasser, Diane Mazur, Suzanne Paquette, and John Sharvin. Together, these artists present a dynamic exploration of material, process, and perspective, revealing how personal relationships can shape creative inquiry without compromising artistic independence.
The exhibition brings together artists working in diverse approaches—from reflective and illuminated glass, to photography rooted in cultural history, to painting and sculpture informed by science, technology, and the natural world. Each pairing offers a distinct conversation, underscoring both shared sensibilities and contrasting voices.
Featured Artists
Suzanne Paquette is a multidisciplinary artist whose five-decade career encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, and installation. Born in Canada and based in San Antonio, Texas, Paquette’s work is deeply informed by the natural sciences and environmental concerns. Drawing inspiration from soil, maps, geological formations, seeds, and natural pigments, her work emphasizes the physical qualities of materials as much as imagery. Paquette has exhibited extensively throughout Canada and the United States, received numerous grants and awards, and is represented in museum, corporate, and private collections.
Art Trespasser is the current identity of a San Antonio artist who is entering his sixth decade of exhibiting. Trespasser is known for large intricate installations utilizing unusual materials such as magnets, iron fillings,levels and wooden pallets. Born in Illinois, Trespasser studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.Trespasser has exhibited internationally in museums, private and public galleries. He has the privilege of his art included in both private and museum collections, in particular The Art Bank of Canada, Nova Scotia Art Bank and The Great Wall of 1984, National Science Library, Ottawa, Canada.Reviews and articles of Trespasser's artwork have been printed in World Sculpture News, Sculpture magazine, Vie de Artes and The Last Art College MIT press.
John Sharvin is a Seattle-based glass artist whose practice bridges engineering, technology, and humor. A graduate of The Ohio State University, Sharvin previously served as Studio Technician Manager at the Pittsburgh Glass Center and was a competitor on Blown Away Season 3. His work explores processes of translation—from digital design to physical glass—combining CNC fabrication, 3D modeling, and handcraft to create objects that retain the memory of each stage of making.
MiNHi England, an independent artist and educator based in Seattle, works primarily in glass to explore existential themes tied to memory, grief, and emotional transformation. A graduate of Alfred University, England is the owner and operator of Top Hat Glassworks, a collaborative studio supporting emerging artists. Her work has been featured in major collections and publications, including American Craft Magazine, and she was a runner-up on Blown Away. Through mirrored surfaces, light, and repetition, her sculptures examine reflection as both material and metaphor.
Diane Mazur is a prolific painter and mixed-media artist whose vibrant, energetic work spans painting, drawing, ceramics, wood construction, and installation. With over 45 years of studio practice, Mazur has played a significant role in San Antonio’s contemporary art scene, including her involvement in the inaugural Blue Star exhibition. Her work is widely exhibited and collected internationally. She lives and works in San Antonio with her husband, photographer John Dyer.
John Dyer is a photographer with a 50-year career devoted to documenting culturally significant communities and traditions, particularly throughout Texas and the American Southwest. Influenced by Russell Lee and Garry Winogrand, Dyer’s work focuses on lives and places shaped by history, labor, music, and ritual. His photographs are held in major museum collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, El Paso Museum of Art, and the King Ranch Museum. Dyer is the author of several photography books and continues to exhibit nationally.
Tommy Gregory is a Seattle-based artist and curator currently serving as Senior Art Program Manager for the Port of Seattle at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where he oversees one of the largest airport art collections in the United States.
Casey Arguelles Gregory is a Seattle-based artist, writer, and curator whose paintings explore the intersection of the physical landscape and digital distortion. Often inspired by smartphone imagery, her work features intricate, pattern-driven compositions that blur the line between natural and virtual environments.
heART celebrates not only romantic partnerships, but the broader idea of creative companionship—how shared lives can foster curiosity, challenge, and growth while honoring individual artistic voices.
San Antonio,Texas — Dock Space Gallery is pleased to present heART, a group exhibition celebrating artist couples whose creative practices span a wide range of disciplines, including glass, painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media. Held annually each February in honor of Valentine’s Day, heART highlights the unique dialogue that emerges when artists share both their lives and their practices.
This year’s exhibition features work by John Dyer, MiNHi England, Casey Arguelles Gregory, Tommy Gregory, Art Tresspasser, Diane Mazur, Suzanne Paquette, and John Sharvin. Together, these artists present a dynamic exploration of material, process, and perspective, revealing how personal relationships can shape creative inquiry without compromising artistic independence.
The exhibition brings together artists working in diverse approaches—from reflective and illuminated glass, to photography rooted in cultural history, to painting and sculpture informed by science, technology, and the natural world. Each pairing offers a distinct conversation, underscoring both shared sensibilities and contrasting voices.
Featured Artists
Suzanne Paquette is a multidisciplinary artist whose five-decade career encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, and installation. Born in Canada and based in San Antonio, Texas, Paquette’s work is deeply informed by the natural sciences and environmental concerns. Drawing inspiration from soil, maps, geological formations, seeds, and natural pigments, her work emphasizes the physical qualities of materials as much as imagery. Paquette has exhibited extensively throughout Canada and the United States, received numerous grants and awards, and is represented in museum, corporate, and private collections.
Art Trespasser is the current identity of a San Antonio artist who is entering his sixth decade of exhibiting. Trespasser is known for large intricate installations utilizing unusual materials such as magnets, iron fillings,levels and wooden pallets. Born in Illinois, Trespasser studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.Trespasser has exhibited internationally in museums, private and public galleries. He has the privilege of his art included in both private and museum collections, in particular The Art Bank of Canada, Nova Scotia Art Bank and The Great Wall of 1984, National Science Library, Ottawa, Canada.Reviews and articles of Trespasser's artwork have been printed in World Sculpture News, Sculpture magazine, Vie de Artes and The Last Art College MIT press.
John Sharvin is a Seattle-based glass artist whose practice bridges engineering, technology, and humor. A graduate of The Ohio State University, Sharvin previously served as Studio Technician Manager at the Pittsburgh Glass Center and was a competitor on Blown Away Season 3. His work explores processes of translation—from digital design to physical glass—combining CNC fabrication, 3D modeling, and handcraft to create objects that retain the memory of each stage of making.
MiNHi England, an independent artist and educator based in Seattle, works primarily in glass to explore existential themes tied to memory, grief, and emotional transformation. A graduate of Alfred University, England is the owner and operator of Top Hat Glassworks, a collaborative studio supporting emerging artists. Her work has been featured in major collections and publications, including American Craft Magazine, and she was a runner-up on Blown Away. Through mirrored surfaces, light, and repetition, her sculptures examine reflection as both material and metaphor.
Diane Mazur is a prolific painter and mixed-media artist whose vibrant, energetic work spans painting, drawing, ceramics, wood construction, and installation. With over 45 years of studio practice, Mazur has played a significant role in San Antonio’s contemporary art scene, including her involvement in the inaugural Blue Star exhibition. Her work is widely exhibited and collected internationally. She lives and works in San Antonio with her husband, photographer John Dyer.
John Dyer is a photographer with a 50-year career devoted to documenting culturally significant communities and traditions, particularly throughout Texas and the American Southwest. Influenced by Russell Lee and Garry Winogrand, Dyer’s work focuses on lives and places shaped by history, labor, music, and ritual. His photographs are held in major museum collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, El Paso Museum of Art, and the King Ranch Museum. Dyer is the author of several photography books and continues to exhibit nationally.
Tommy Gregory is a Seattle-based artist and curator currently serving as Senior Art Program Manager for the Port of Seattle at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where he oversees one of the largest airport art collections in the United States.
Casey Arguelles Gregory is a Seattle-based artist, writer, and curator whose paintings explore the intersection of the physical landscape and digital distortion. Often inspired by smartphone imagery, her work features intricate, pattern-driven compositions that blur the line between natural and virtual environments.
heART celebrates not only romantic partnerships, but the broader idea of creative companionship—how shared lives can foster curiosity, challenge, and growth while honoring individual artistic voices.
March 2026
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Staffs, Sticks, and Canes
Staffs, Sticks and Canes by Greg Elliott.
For many years, Greg Elliott has created staffs, walking sticks, and canes. Typically, these works were made only once or twice a year, often inspired by a particular piece of wood or an intriguing found object that suggested the form. This exhibition marks the first time Elliott has focused specifically on these objects as a cohesive body of work. For Elliott, the cane or walking stick offers an elegant and direct way to approach sculpture. These forms provide an opportunity to apply skilled craftsmanship, explore decorative elements imbued with meaning, and create objects that suggest a utilitarian purpose while existing as sculptural works. This exhibition presents forty examples of these pieces. Gregory Elliott has been making sculpture for over 50 years. He has worked in a broad range of materials including, wood, steel, bronze, stone, leather and much more. Elliott taught sculpture, ceramics, drawing, art history, and art appreciation for 47 years at institutions such as Louisiana State University (LSU), University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Elliott served as chairperson at UTEP and at UTSA for a total of 19 years. Elliott retired from university life on December 31, 2024 and is currently the Artist in Residence and lead artist restoring the Kenny Hill Sculpture Garden in Chauvin, Louisiana. Elliott continues to work in his studio in San Antonio, Texas. |
Chuck is my copilot
Chuck is my co-pilot, featuring available originals by Chuck Ramirez. Chuck Ramirez is a renown artist and a dear friend to many in San Antonio and beyond. Chuck is my co-pilot became a tag line created for his memorial upon his untimely death from a bicycling accident. Chuck will always be with us and watch over us, guiding us through our lives.
His artwork lives on today as a testament to his prophetic vision. Every day objects became personified, inanimate objects given lifelike characteristics and personalities. Tablescapes photographed like a foreign correspondent covering an active investigation. Documentation of the scene from the night before, the process of the slow changes of a bouquet of flowers, the remnants of a pinata after the party, the empty tray of chocolates. Imagery that instill memories of moments and events in our lives. |
April 2026 - wORldScapes & I’ceScapes
San Antonio, TX — Dock Space/Lone Star Galleries are pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition by internationally acclaimed Icelandic artist and architect Guðjón Bjarnason (Gudjon). Opened April 11, 2026, the show featured a comprehensive selection of his multidisciplinary work, including large-scale hand-painted prints, photographic series, sculptural installations, video, films, and four artist books.
Gudjon’s exhibition used both gallery spaces, encompassing approximately 124 linear feet. The presentation will include works from his recent wORldScapes series, alongside works from the ongoing I’ceScapes series. Additional photographic works will complement these series, creating a layered visual dialogue between landscape and abstraction, culture and perception.
Expanding beyond two-dimensional media, the exhibition featured examples of Gudjon’s signature “exploded” steel sculptures, installed both indoors and outdoors. These works reflect the artist’s investigation into structure, fragmentation, language, art history, and spatial dynamics—bridging his dual practice as both architect and visual artist.
A selection of Gudjon’s newly assembled artist books—spanning painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture—will be on display, alongside multiple film works. The latter include two documentaries, one set in Iceland (52 minutes) and other in the US (8 minutes), as well as an art video and a 6-minute video related to Gudjon’s appearance in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021.
Both exhibits are curated in collaboration with New York-based international art critic Richard Vine, who wrote introductions for two of the books.
Gudjon, now based in Reykjavík and formerly in Geneva, Switzerland, and Pondicherry, India, is the founder of GB-AAA (Gudjon Bjarnason Art & Architecture Ateliers). He holds degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of Visual Arts and Columbia University, both in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, the HP Garcia Gallery in New York, the National Academy of Arts in New Delhi,and institutions in Europe and Asia.
Known for his dynamic steel sculptures, multi-layered monochromatic paintings, and digitally altered photographic works, Bjarnason explores the intersections of architecture, ecology, social dynamics, and human perception. His work has been widely published in leading art and design journals and featured in international media.
This exhibition marks Bjarnason’s return to San Antonio following his participation in the Iceland–Texas cultural exchange program.This cultural exchange exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lone Star Art Alliance. In continuation of this collaboration, a reciprocal exhibition featuring Texas-based artists is scheduled to open in Iceland in June 2027.
Gudjon and Richard will be present in San Antonio for an extended period around the opening to oversee installation and conduct public discussions of the work.
Gudjon’s exhibition used both gallery spaces, encompassing approximately 124 linear feet. The presentation will include works from his recent wORldScapes series, alongside works from the ongoing I’ceScapes series. Additional photographic works will complement these series, creating a layered visual dialogue between landscape and abstraction, culture and perception.
Expanding beyond two-dimensional media, the exhibition featured examples of Gudjon’s signature “exploded” steel sculptures, installed both indoors and outdoors. These works reflect the artist’s investigation into structure, fragmentation, language, art history, and spatial dynamics—bridging his dual practice as both architect and visual artist.
A selection of Gudjon’s newly assembled artist books—spanning painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture—will be on display, alongside multiple film works. The latter include two documentaries, one set in Iceland (52 minutes) and other in the US (8 minutes), as well as an art video and a 6-minute video related to Gudjon’s appearance in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021.
Both exhibits are curated in collaboration with New York-based international art critic Richard Vine, who wrote introductions for two of the books.
Gudjon, now based in Reykjavík and formerly in Geneva, Switzerland, and Pondicherry, India, is the founder of GB-AAA (Gudjon Bjarnason Art & Architecture Ateliers). He holds degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of Visual Arts and Columbia University, both in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, the HP Garcia Gallery in New York, the National Academy of Arts in New Delhi,and institutions in Europe and Asia.
Known for his dynamic steel sculptures, multi-layered monochromatic paintings, and digitally altered photographic works, Bjarnason explores the intersections of architecture, ecology, social dynamics, and human perception. His work has been widely published in leading art and design journals and featured in international media.
This exhibition marks Bjarnason’s return to San Antonio following his participation in the Iceland–Texas cultural exchange program.This cultural exchange exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lone Star Art Alliance. In continuation of this collaboration, a reciprocal exhibition featuring Texas-based artists is scheduled to open in Iceland in June 2027.
Gudjon and Richard will be present in San Antonio for an extended period around the opening to oversee installation and conduct public discussions of the work.
May 2026 - SOSA X 2
Sosa x 2 brings together artists Kathy Sosa and Lionel Sosa in a compelling joint exhibition that examines identity, cultural memory, and the lives of those who often exist beyond visibility. Presented at Dock Space Gallery and Lone Star Gallery, the exhibition reveals stories shaped by resilience, heritage, and the complexities of belonging through vivid portraiture and deeply personal visual language.
A centerpiece of the exhibition is Kathy Sosa’s ZAPATISTA (30" x 30", oil on canvas, $7,500). The work features a masked female figure, her gaze steady and direct, partially concealed by a red bandana. Framed by symbolic patterning, the composition evokes themes of protection, resistance, and cultural identity. Sosa’s use of bold color and stylized form transforms the figure into both an individual and an icon.
In contrast, Lionel Sosa’s Poet (48” x 60”, $20,000) offers an unflinching, intimate portrait rendered with expressive, layered brushwork. The close-cropped face reveals every line and texture, emphasizing raw humanity and presence. Part of a broader series honoring “unsung heroes,” the work reflects on individuals whose stories often remain unseen due to immigration status, giving visibility to lives often overlooked. Sosa x 2 challenges viewers to reconsider not only how we see others, but who is allowed to be seen.
The exhibition will include additional works by both artists, further expanding on themes of identity, social consciousness, and lived experience.
About Kathy Sosa
In 2007 Sosa began to explore the artistic expression of mestisaje, the blending of peoples, races, ethnicities, languages, ideas, habits and cultures that characterizes the Texas-Mexico border region that has been her home since childhood. She received national recognition for the result of that passion, the traveling exhibition “Huipiles: a Celebration,” which debuted at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C. as part of the Smithsonian Latino Center’s 2007 summer season “Mexico at the Smithsonian” before traveling to the Museo Alameda in San Antonio in 2008. 2009 saw Sosa’s one woman show at San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary Art Space. Her work has been featured on CNN, in FiberArts, Skirt!, San Antonio Woman, Country Lifestyle, Destinations, and is available in San Antonio through AnArte Gallery.
About Lionel Sosa
Lionel Sosa is a nationally recognized portrait artist, author, and marketing consultant, and founder of one of the largest Hispanic advertising agencies in the United States. Named one of Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Hispanics in America,” he has advised multiple U.S. presidential campaigns and is widely recognized for his expertise in Hispanic consumer and voter behavior.
His portrait work has been exhibited at institutions including the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, and Texas A&M University. His current series focuses on elevating the stories of individuals whose lives often remain invisible.
A centerpiece of the exhibition is Kathy Sosa’s ZAPATISTA (30" x 30", oil on canvas, $7,500). The work features a masked female figure, her gaze steady and direct, partially concealed by a red bandana. Framed by symbolic patterning, the composition evokes themes of protection, resistance, and cultural identity. Sosa’s use of bold color and stylized form transforms the figure into both an individual and an icon.
In contrast, Lionel Sosa’s Poet (48” x 60”, $20,000) offers an unflinching, intimate portrait rendered with expressive, layered brushwork. The close-cropped face reveals every line and texture, emphasizing raw humanity and presence. Part of a broader series honoring “unsung heroes,” the work reflects on individuals whose stories often remain unseen due to immigration status, giving visibility to lives often overlooked. Sosa x 2 challenges viewers to reconsider not only how we see others, but who is allowed to be seen.
The exhibition will include additional works by both artists, further expanding on themes of identity, social consciousness, and lived experience.
About Kathy Sosa
In 2007 Sosa began to explore the artistic expression of mestisaje, the blending of peoples, races, ethnicities, languages, ideas, habits and cultures that characterizes the Texas-Mexico border region that has been her home since childhood. She received national recognition for the result of that passion, the traveling exhibition “Huipiles: a Celebration,” which debuted at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C. as part of the Smithsonian Latino Center’s 2007 summer season “Mexico at the Smithsonian” before traveling to the Museo Alameda in San Antonio in 2008. 2009 saw Sosa’s one woman show at San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary Art Space. Her work has been featured on CNN, in FiberArts, Skirt!, San Antonio Woman, Country Lifestyle, Destinations, and is available in San Antonio through AnArte Gallery.
About Lionel Sosa
Lionel Sosa is a nationally recognized portrait artist, author, and marketing consultant, and founder of one of the largest Hispanic advertising agencies in the United States. Named one of Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Hispanics in America,” he has advised multiple U.S. presidential campaigns and is widely recognized for his expertise in Hispanic consumer and voter behavior.
His portrait work has been exhibited at institutions including the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, and Texas A&M University. His current series focuses on elevating the stories of individuals whose lives often remain invisible.
June and July 2026
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Jacinto Guevara - Paintings From Life
Dock Space Gallery Presents : Paintings From Life by Jacinto Guevara Dock Space Gallery is proud to present an exhibition featuring the work of Los Angeles-born artist Jacinto Guevara, whose paintings capture the atmosphere, spirit, and evolving identity of urban life through deeply personal and evocative imagery.
Born in 1956, Guevara has pursued drawing and painting with relentless dedication since the age of six. Inspired in the early 1970s by the passion and iconography of the Xicano Movement, as well as the monumental influence of the Mexican muralists of the 1920s and 1930s, he developed a visual language rooted in culture, community, and social memory. In 1986, Guevara began his celebrated Urban Landscape series — plein air paintings documenting the disappearing neighborhoods of Los Angeles. These works serve not only as records of changing cityscapes, but as emotional portraits of place and time. Alongside his visual art practice, Guevara is also an accomplished musician and composer, performing on diatonic accordion, organ, piano, bajo sexto, tenor banjo, and Andean quena. Since his first solo exhibition in 1988, Guevara’s work has been widely recognized for its authenticity, craftsmanship, and emotional resonance. A pivotal moment in his career came in 1990 with a landmark group exhibition alongside four prominent Xicano artists. His artwork is now included in the permanent collections of UTSA, the City of San Antonio, the San Antonio Public Library, and The Cheech in Riverside, California. Reflecting on his work, Guevara states: “I seek to create ambiente (atmosphere) and I use place, detail and randomness to awaken the past dreams and memories in the viewer.” This exhibition at Dock Space Gallery invites audiences into Guevara’s richly textured world — where memory, architecture, culture, and everyday life merge into paintings filled with warmth, nostalgia, and humanity. |
Eric O'Connell - Artist in a Pinhole
Lone Star Gallery is proud to present a new body of work by photographer and visual anthropologist Eric O'Connell, featuring portraits of San Antonio artists captured in the spaces where they work, dream, and create.
Using a traditional pinhole camera — a simple light-proof box with a tiny opening instead of a lens — O’Connell creates richly layered portraits that explore the conceptual relationship between artistic process and photographic image-making. The resulting works are atmospheric and deeply personal, reflecting both the artists themselves and the environments that shape their creativity. “The pinhole camera becomes more than a tool, it becomes a metaphor,” says O’Connell. “The dark box is the artist’s mind; the pinhole is a literal and figurative moment of inspiration. Light enters slowly and gradually builds an image, just as ideas form and evolve into works of art.” Though pinhole photography is rarely used for portraiture, O’Connell embraces the medium’s unique visual qualities and conceptual resonance. The exhibition highlights San Antonio’s vibrant and multi-generational arts community, drawing connections across disciplines including murals, music, textiles, and technology — all elements contributing to the city’s creative pulse. The photographs are printed using the platinum-palladium process, a historic hand-coated printing technique in which light-sensitive metal salts are applied directly to acid-free paper. Each print is one-of-a-kind, distinguished by subtle tonal depth and the visible brush marks left by the artist’s hand. Among the featured portraits in the exhibition is a striking image of Bill FitzGibbons, artist and owner of Dock Space Gallery & Lone Star Gallery, captured by Eric O'Connell using his signature pinhole process. The gallery is especially excited to share this portrait with the public, highlighting both FitzGibbons’ artistic presence and his longstanding contribution to San Antonio’s creative community. O’Connell is a photographer and visual anthropologist whose work explores cultural landscapes through photography and video rooted in visual anthropology. A former associate professor of photography at Northern Arizona University, he has photographed for publications including Time, Fortune, and The New York Times, and has exhibited internationally. Several of O’Connell’s projects — including Cowboys: East Germany and 9/11 A New Reality, created in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks — are held in the The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. The 9/11 work is also included in the collections of the Monroe Gallery of Photography and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. A monograph of the 9/11 series has also been published. O’Connell lives and works in San Antonio, where he teaches photography at Trinity University. |
August 2026
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Ken Foltz - The Passing of Time
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Alex Bow & Savannah Andries - Meet Me in the Traffic Circle
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Dock Space Gallery is pleased to present The Passing of Days, a solo exhibition by Texas artist Ken Foltz, whose richly expressive paintings examine the human figure as a vessel for memory, identity, and the passage of time. Through mixed-media works in acrylic, charcoal, and collage on canvas and wooden panel, Foltz invites viewers into a deeply personal meditation on the tension between permanence and transience.
The human figure has long occupied the center of Foltz's artistic practice. His paintings embrace an intuitively Fauvist approach, employing bold, non-naturalistic color not to imitate reality, but to transcend it. Color becomes emotional language—vivid, expressive, and psychologically charged—allowing the work to communicate feeling before fact. Having lived throughout Texas and Colorado before settling in the Rio Grande Valley in 1985, Foltz draws inspiration from the landscapes and communities that have shaped his life. The varied environments he has called home have left a lasting imprint on both his palette and artistic vision. The exhibition reflects Folt’s fascination with the ways people perceive one another—not simply through likeness, but through gesture, anatomy, expression, and the subtle marks left by experience. "For me, the way in which humans perceive one another has always been a source of great fascination," Foltz says. "Facial recognition, the stories written on the hands, the histories revealed by calluses and scars, the articulation of body language—all of these things draw me in and pull me beyond the surface of the canvas." Rather than striving for photographic representation, Foltz embraces painting itself as the subject. Layers of acrylic, charcoal, and collage become records of both decision and discovery, reflecting what he describes as "the experience of the paint"—a place where permanence and transience exist simultaneously. With more than four decades devoted to artmaking, Foltz has built a distinguished career as a full-time artist. His work is held in private collections throughout the United States as well as internationally in Australia and Ireland. His exhibition history includes a solo exhibition at the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art in 2023, numerous group exhibitions at the museum, and award-recognized participation in exhibitions at the International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS) in McAllen. In addition to his figurative work, Foltz's practice encompasses fine art portraiture, still life, abstraction, florals, and commissioned paintings, each informed by the same commitment to expressive color and painterly exploration. The Passing of Days offers audiences an opportunity to engage with paintings that celebrate humanity in all of its vulnerability, resilience, and imperfect beauty. Through expressive color and sensitive observation, Ken Foltz reminds us that the act of seeing another person is itself both intimate and extraordinary. |
Lone Star Gallery is pleased to present a duet exhibition featuring Alex Bow and Savannah Andries. Through painting, drawing, and printmaking, the exhibition explores the lasting impact of growing up in Central Louisiana's Bible Belt, where religion, landscape, memory, and community continue to shape each artist's visual language.
Though their artistic practices differ, Bow and Andries share a common origin in Central Louisiana. Their work reflects on the complexities of home, examining how nostalgia, faith, identity, and belonging persist long after leaving the region. Together, the exhibition offers an intimate conversation between two artists navigating parallel histories through distinct perspectives. For Alex Bow, the collection revisits memories of adolescence in Central Louisiana. With little to do in the rural landscape, long drives through the same familiar roads and forests became rituals of friendship and discovery. Revisiting these memories from her current home in Texas, Bow reflects on the tenderness, humor, and contradictions of growing up in the Bible Belt. "This collection of work calls back to my time growing up in Central Louisiana. The nature of the Bible Belt seemed to only stitch myself and my friends closer together. There isn't much to do in Cenla, so we burned time by driving around the same twenty-mile radius, exploring the same familiar landscapes over and over again, never getting bored. Looking back now, those ordinary moments have become deeply meaningful, reminding me how place, friendship, and memory continue to shape my understanding of home." Originally from Woodworth, Louisiana, Alex Bow is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Antonio, Texas. Her work draws upon imagery from her upbringing—including catfish, fried food, domestic interiors, and intimate moments—to create a dialogue between the culture of the Deep South and personal identity. After earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2018, Bow taught high school art in Louisiana before relocating to San Antonio in 2021 to pursue her Master of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at San Antonio, which she completed in 2024. She currently teaches studio art courses at UTSA and Northwest Vista College while also mentoring high school students through UTSA's Teen Studio Intensive. Savannah Andries approaches similar themes through drawing and printmaking, using repetition, symbolism, and the human figure to examine the intersections of religion, isolation, queer identity, and community.Spending most of their formative years living on a Catholic retreat center in Louisiana; the religious Bible Belt influenced Savannah’s life experiences. Lived experiences heavily influence their subject matter and creative approach. "I find the repetition of patterns, motifs, and lines akin to prayer beads on a rosary. Through drawing and printmaking processes, this body of work explores ideas of isolation, religious upbringing, and community. Repeated motifs, figures, grid patterns, and an old wreath covered in ribbons and fruit become visual markers of memory and identity. The wreath represents the displacement of being a lesbian in my conservative community, acting as an iconography of self-acceptance. The figures create paused moments that invite viewers into intimate scenes, while the grid pattern blurs the boundaries between relationships and shared experience." Savannah Andries is a drawing and printmaking artist currently based in Austin, Texas. They earned an MFA from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, in 2024, following a BFA from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, in 2020. Their work investigates the lasting influence of religious upbringing through deeply personal narratives that resonate with broader conversations surrounding identity, memory, and belonging. |
September 2026