https://laurathegallery.com Laura the Gallery Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:12:16 +0000 https://laurathegallery.com en https://laurathegallery.com/Homepage-scripts Wed, 27 Sep 2023 15:02:15 +0000 Laura the Gallery https://laurathegallery.com/Homepage-scripts https://laurathegallery.com/Ernesto-Solana-Another-Sunset Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:31:32 +0000 Laura the Gallery https://laurathegallery.com/Ernesto-Solana-Another-Sunset Another Sunset: Ernesto Solana May 2&nbsp; - July 25 https://laurathegallery.com/small-world-banner-2 Mon, 11 May 2026 22:55:27 +0000 Laura the Gallery https://laurathegallery.com/small-world-banner-2 https://laurathegallery.com/Gallery Wed, 27 Sep 2023 15:02:52 +0000 Laura the Gallery https://laurathegallery.com/Gallery <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa67ef06fbdd70e2e5d0baf53e1fe702c38bf2e0a1a0f302c714e7a6f321e2d5/Vector.png " style="height: 20px; width: 54px;"> GalleryHoursBy Appointment Address1125 E 11th St Houston, TX 77009 ContactLaura Burton info@laurathegallery.com ︎ Newsletter Signup https://laurathegallery.com/Current-Exhibitions-1 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 06:09:34 +0000 Laura the Gallery https://laurathegallery.com/Current-Exhibitions-1 &nbsp;<img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b147941e713fcb62ee5b8c96cb2e6e9677d410341a00d68623595e5326d7807/CURRENT.png" style="height: 27px; width: 92px;"> https://laurathegallery.com/The-Antenna-Show Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:35:22 +0000 Laura the Gallery https://laurathegallery.com/The-Antenna-Show Ernesto Solana: Another Sunset&nbsp;May 2 - July 25, 2026&nbsp; <img width="1024" height="1280" width_o="1024" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c60a871392482354b10c0b3e732ac09228567d6c50c948bf073a3b47fa1328d/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-15-at-14.36.32.jpeg" data-mid="247563123" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c60a871392482354b10c0b3e732ac09228567d6c50c948bf073a3b47fa1328d/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-15-at-14.36.32.jpeg" /> Laura (the gallery) is pleased to present Another Sunset, the gallery's first solo exhibition by Mexico-born, Houston-based artist Ernesto Solana, and his first exhibition in Houston. Solana was born in Guadalajara and spent years working in Mexico City before making Houston his home this past fall. He moves between the two cities still, and this body of work was made in that in-between. His new sculptures and photographs think carefully about migration, materials, and what it means to arrive somewhere new. In doing so, his work carries what we leave behind. A cube of styrofoam packing peanuts cast in patinated bronze, topped with a single macaw feather. A six-foot aluminum vine growing from a turtle-shell plant, a styrofoam cup pierced through its center. Wall-mounted aluminum sculptures whose stepped geometry echoes Teotihuacán, alive with cast beetles, cocoons, and orchids whose stamens branch like open hands. Photographs of birds rendered in the ultraviolet color spectrum of avian vision, the world in deep blues and periwinkle, the birds themselves blazing in orange and lime green. And anchoring the back wall, painted Barragán pink: a large-scale photograph of one of the most visually spectacular birds in the Americas. Laura has been working with Solana for some time, introducing his practice through the group exhibition Moon Eats the Sun and most recently presenting his sculptures at NADA Miami 2025, where the work generated significant attention. Another Sunset continues and expands that body of sculptural work in its first full gallery presentation. Ernesto Solana (b. 1985, Guadalajara) works across sculpture, photography, and installation to examine the porous boundaries between the natural and the cultural. Drawing from botanical forms, animal traces, and the detritus of the cities he has inhabited, his practice attends to what accumulates at the edges of human systems: the overlooked, the disposable, the ecologically fraught. Solana's work proposes a multispecies perspective in which landscape functions not as backdrop but as collaborator, informed by ecological thought, material culture, and a sustained attention to the environments we construct and share. He holds a diploma in Forest and Wildlife Conservation, a degree in Photography from the International Center of Photography, New York, and an MFA from the University of Hartford. His photobook Systema Artificialis, examining the Anthropocene and proposing new relational models between humanity and the more-than-human world, was published in 2018. Solana has presented solo exhibitions at the Guachimontones Archaeological Site, Teuchitlán; PEANA, Monterrey; and guadalajara90210, Guadalajara, among others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich; C/O Berlin; Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; and Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, among others. He has held residencies at Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido; Palazzo Monti, Brescia; and the SVA Bio Art Residency, New York, and will take up a residency at Casa Nano, Tokyo, in May 2025. Solana lives and works between Mexico City and Houston, Texas. https://laurathegallery.com/Past Mon, 13 Nov 2023 07:16:32 +0000 Laura the Gallery https://laurathegallery.com/Past &nbsp; <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81f8c7f35846d829e4362930356cd116d3c954f2dcd70b179f15a3c5ef81cfc6/PAST.png" style="height: 37px; width: 82px;"> Barely Fair Chicago 2026 Chang Sujung: A Frog TailorApril 4 - 19, 2026 <img width="7299" height="4866" width_o="7299" height_o="4866" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75518866932b49adbdb66bde22e69e31ec78c07e506dbe9c1f8101ba1a7dbcee/laurathegallery.jpg" data-mid="247563098" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75518866932b49adbdb66bde22e69e31ec78c07e506dbe9c1f8101ba1a7dbcee/laurathegallery.jpg" /> Laura (the gallery) is pleased to present A Frog Tailor, a solo booth by Chang Sujung at Barely Fair 2026, taking place April 4–19 in Chicago. Marking the gallery's first participation in the fair and its debut presentation in the city, the exhibition brings together a new body of work conceived entirely at the scale of Barely Fair's intimate 1:12 scale booths. Working in miniature, the artist has sourced vintage Barbie skirts and sculpted them into tiny autonomous forms titled Rebellious Skirts, using internal metal armatures and a Dutch fabric glue that fixes the material into shape while preserving its surface appearance and tactile quality. The works take their departure from a Korean folk fable about a tree frog who persistently does the opposite of what he is told, reorienting its lesson in obedience toward something more ambivalent: a meditation on defiance turned inward, and the strange, unyielding persistence of instinct. Anthony Iacono: Sticky Fingers December 13, 2025 - April 12, 2026 <img width="1372" height="1212" width_o="1372" height_o="1212" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb12012b609ac2bc6694a0198bf77d70b62362a6ac2516b9898ffa08f3146cdd/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-8.17.59AM.png" data-mid="247562592" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb12012b609ac2bc6694a0198bf77d70b62362a6ac2516b9898ffa08f3146cdd/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-8.17.59AM.png" /> Laura (the gallery) is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Philadelphia-based artist Anthony Iacono, featuring a series of the artist’s signature cut-paper collages. Iacono uses carefully-washed and sliced paper to create ambiguous depictions of queer bodies, at once mysterious and erotic. Iacono’s moody and suggestive compositions at first appear to be digital images or airbrush paintings, but on closer inspection, they reveal crisp cuts and careful assembly. In this series of works, hands become Iacono’s primary subject of exploration. Hands filch objects from the jackets of unwitting victims, caress bodies, and play with treasures. The exhibition opens Saturday, December 13 and runs through February 15, 2026. NADA Miami 2025December 2 - 6, 2025 Ice Palace Film Studios Booth D301 <img width="3906" height="4909" width_o="3906" height_o="4909" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abc075aa60c0ef3d5a433c2e9f116637664cf35fc33d1e6798f4fe3c2518fd8f/DIEGO-MEDINA--this-is-what-has-always-been-true--oil-on-linen--30-x-24-in.-2025.jpg-.jpg" data-mid="241663677" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abc075aa60c0ef3d5a433c2e9f116637664cf35fc33d1e6798f4fe3c2518fd8f/DIEGO-MEDINA--this-is-what-has-always-been-true--oil-on-linen--30-x-24-in.-2025.jpg-.jpg" /> Laura (the gallery) is pleased to participate in NADA Miami 2025, taking place December 2-6 at Ice Palace Studios. Booth D301 brings together artists whose practices turn toward the mystical and the cosmological, drawing from traditions that include New Mexico transcendentalism, ancestral ritual, and spiritual abstraction. A new painting by Diego Medina anchors the presentation, working within the cultural and spiritual legacies of Indigenous knowledge systems, Medina considers the possibility of portals, thresholds, and cosmological diagrams through compositions rooted in the land-based philosophies of the Southwest and the visionary language of the Transcendental Painting Group. Shuling Guo's transcendent painting on linen extends this exploration of interior and ancestral realms, drawing from Chinese temple iconography and the reverence central to her upbringing in the Chaoshan region to create work that functions as an altar holding devotion, continuity, and spiritual inheritance, profoundly shaped by her grandmother's passing and her daughter's birth. The presentation also features intimately-scaled paintings by Keiko Moriuchi, the final artist accepted into Gutai and personally recruited by Jiro Yoshihara, whose impastoed surfaces gilded with gold leaf create topographic terrains that read as portals or devotional objects, drawing from Buddhist cosmology, ancient Japanese myth, and her formative relationships with Ad Reinhardt, Isamu Noguchi, and Matsumi Kanemitsu. Works by Ernesto Solana round out the booth, responding to celestial events and ancestral symbols through eclipse photography and patinated sculptural forms. An Ocean Between: NADA Miami 2025 Keiko Moriuchi, Wang Menghsa, Komie Kim Le September 15 - October 25, 2025 <img width="4880" height="3257" width_o="4880" height_o="3257" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13b7c5d2afc5919a1452b16aa5a1fc540984ea209e33dafe09f9f43e137820c2/grahambell_grahamwbell_laura-sept25-722.jpg" data-mid="241663552" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13b7c5d2afc5919a1452b16aa5a1fc540984ea209e33dafe09f9f43e137820c2/grahambell_grahamwbell_laura-sept25-722.jpg" /> Laura (the gallery) is pleased to present An Ocean Between, an intergenerational exhibition featuring the work of Keiko Moriuchi (b. 1943, Osaka), Wang Mengsha (b. 1982, Wuxi), and Komie Kim Le (b. 1999, Houston). The exhibition spans over eight decades and traverses geographies from Japan to China to the Vietnamese diaspora in Texas, exploring how women artists of Asian descent inherit, interrogate, and reinvent visual languages across time and place.The title An Ocean Between invokes both separation and connection: the vast aqueous divide that distances continents and histories, yet also the persistent undercurrents that resurface like tides, binding disparate shores of human experience. Rather than positing a linear genealogy, the exhibition proposes a poetics of relation: an intertidal zone where visual traditions, personal mythologies, and diasporic subjectivities ebb and flow in perpetually shifting confluence. Untitled Art Fair, Houston: Shuling Guo September 18 - 21, 2025 <img width="5318" height="3988" width_o="5318" height_o="3988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4adfe578fc36fe3eb53edd052e4130021e78b1893da53894d398534cd156325f/Pelvis--36.jpg" data-mid="239002476" border="0" data-scale="65" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4adfe578fc36fe3eb53edd052e4130021e78b1893da53894d398534cd156325f/Pelvis--36.jpg" /> Laura (the gallery) is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Chinese born, Philadelphia based artist Shuling Guo (b. 1986, Chao’An, China) on the occasion of Untitled Art Fair’s inaugural Houston edition—her first show with the gallery and in Texas. Guo’s practice, shaped by years living aboard a sailboat, translates the mutable elements of sea and sky into compositions suspended between figuration and abstraction, recalling Rothko’s atmospheres, Hilma af Klint’s spiritual geometries, and Agnes Martin’s meditative restraint. Since the birth of her daughter in 2022, her work has shifted from oceanic expanses toward an earthbound engagement with flora, foliage, and trees, infused with the embodied experiences of pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood. Layering colored pencil over liquid washes of oil on linen, she creates glowing surfaces where medallion-like orbs track her daughter’s growth and her own evolving identity, invoking Chinese temple iconography, ancestral veneration, and the felt presence of her late grandmother. Across ocean and earth, body and spirit, Guo’s paintings emerge as contemporary altarpieces that chart cycles of life, loss, and renewal, inviting viewers into a contemplative space suffused with light. https://laurathegallery.com/Moon-Eats-the-Sun-current-exhibitions-copy-page Tue, 16 Apr 2024 01:07:14 +0000 Laura the Gallery https://laurathegallery.com/Moon-Eats-the-Sun-current-exhibitions-copy-page Gerardo Rosales: El Bosque July 12 - August 23, 2025 <img width="3845" height="3877" width_o="3845" height_o="3877" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0141fc599abe7e15739e1443164306c2616bc0ac728f979a7e6ef101e590a91e/grahambell_grahamwbell_gerardo_rosales--copy.jpg" data-mid="238181392" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0141fc599abe7e15739e1443164306c2616bc0ac728f979a7e6ef101e590a91e/grahambell_grahamwbell_gerardo_rosales--copy.jpg" /> El Bosque is a solo exhibition by Houston-based, Venezuelan-born artist Gerardo Rosales, featuring new paintings that navigate the entangled realms of queer solitude, desire, and ecological refuge. In Rosales’s lushly patterned worlds, hybrid creatures—part human, part animal—emerge from vibrant fields of flora and ornament, while serpentine forms wind through dense compositions like maps of cruising paths and life’s nonlinear journey. Drawing from Latin American craft traditions, Gio Ponti’s architectural geometry, and the codified aesthetics of queer subculture, El Bosque invites viewers into a forest of symbols where beauty camouflages critique and myth becomes a mode of survival. Chang Sujung: Alteration April 26 - June 14, 2025 <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df2843df595981842889e092e598a19dc381e417e731e24529f398f8faf972ad/GIF-email1-sm.gif" data-mid="235490352" border="0" data-scale="65" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df2843df595981842889e092e598a19dc381e417e731e24529f398f8faf972ad/GIF-email1-sm.gif" />Laura (the gallery) is pleased to present Alteration, a solo exhibition by New York–based artist Chang Sujung, featuring new works that synthesize plein air paintings and the sculptural language of textiles made between the architectural density of Midtown Manhattan and the living, improvisational rhythms of Central Park. Taking its title from a musical term denoting chromatic deviation—and from the tailoring vernacular of adjustment—Alteration reflects on the labor of becoming: of garments modified, chords bent, and identities recut within shifting social and linguistic fabrics. Christine Egaña Navin: Hot Swap February 1 - March 16, 2025 <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/908853557f6841c8dedc7c4d2d6ea5894bf790cc4da8cdcc856002cba651cb1d/IMG_5973.JPG" data-mid="231724862" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/908853557f6841c8dedc7c4d2d6ea5894bf790cc4da8cdcc856002cba651cb1d/IMG_5973.JPG" /> Laura (the gallery) is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition with Christine Egaña Navin. &nbsp;Comprising an 11-channel video installation, the exhibition positions technology as both protagonist and paradox, exploring the recursive systems that mediate our experience of energy, power, and representation. NADA Miami 2024 Keiko Moriuchi Booth D101December 3 - 7, 2024 <img width="4134" height="4921" width_o="4134" height_o="4921" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c592533ace34d399bcb98b68d14498641017d573b7087a51c5009e52a5e7186/donut-peach-p--a-CROP.jpeg" data-mid="225506000" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c592533ace34d399bcb98b68d14498641017d573b7087a51c5009e52a5e7186/donut-peach-p--a-CROP.jpeg" />Laura (the gallery) is pleased to announce our participation in NADA Miami 2024. The gallery will present a solo booth of works by Keiko Moriuchi (b. 1943, Osaka, Japan). Now 81 years old, Moriuchi was the last member accepted to join Gutai, Japan’s preeminent post-war avant-garde art group. She is one of Gutai’s few surviving members, and the sole member personally recruited by founder Jiro Yoshihara. Moriuchi’s showing at NADA Miami represents the artist’s debut in the United States. The Antenna ShowSeptember 19 - November 27, 2024 <img width="1552" height="1162" width_o="1552" height_o="1162" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad6bf2b861c6571efb6083f3ec9d26bee2f257c6e8371e33406741da4f7d6a9a/IMG_4164.jpg" data-mid="222678758" border="0" data-scale="64" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad6bf2b861c6571efb6083f3ec9d26bee2f257c6e8371e33406741da4f7d6a9a/IMG_4164.jpg" /> Laura (the gallery) is pleased to announce The Antenna Show, an exhibition about frequencies, feelers, and feelings. The exhibition's works of art channel the acute sensitivity of antennae, framing them as conduits for perception and energy. The works of Emily Cheng, larí garcía, Iva Kinnaird, Umico Niwa, and Sarah Pettitt not only receive signals, as antennae do, but dispatch them. Thus, the works of art together become an array of conductors that participate in cycles of sensation and transmission. These five artists respectively tune into spiritual, paranormal, insectoid, and botanical frequencies. Moon Eats the SunApril 13, 2024 - August 24, 2024 <img width="6778" height="4524" width_o="6778" height_o="4524" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f68d30ab60eb587f9eba0c9a420560188e6f29286e79e57d3a9235511784ca5/GrahamBell_grahamwbell_laura_mooneatsthesun-.jpg" data-mid="209605072" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f68d30ab60eb587f9eba0c9a420560188e6f29286e79e57d3a9235511784ca5/GrahamBell_grahamwbell_laura_mooneatsthesun-.jpg" /> Laura (the gallery) is pleased to announce Moon Eats the Sun, a group exhibition about eclipse, and human perception of the celestial event. The show is comprised of works by artists Celeste, Saúl Hernández-Vargas, Julie Malen, Kian Mckeown, Ernesto Solana, and Alexis Zambrano. https://laurathegallery.com/Night-Skyline Mon, 13 Nov 2023 06:53:25 +0000 Laura the Gallery https://laurathegallery.com/Night-Skyline Night Skyline StarsDecember 15, 2022 - March 9, 2023 <img width="8191" height="5463" width_o="8191" height_o="5463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d1034cb94765d60f3a5e71085e1186469ba3de97ef70d1095f1168a2b749b43/Night-Skyline-Stars-hero-smaller.jpg" data-mid="203789283" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d1034cb94765d60f3a5e71085e1186469ba3de97ef70d1095f1168a2b749b43/Night-Skyline-Stars-hero-smaller.jpg" />Inaugural group exhibition&nbsp; https://laurathegallery.com/Ernesto-Solana-Another-Sunset-1 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:12:16 +0000 Laura the Gallery https://laurathegallery.com/Ernesto-Solana-Another-Sunset-1 <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63a70539b4171101d3938d03725d0db31f59374622c7bc8ac956f86e5b71cad1/BACK.png" style="height: 30px; width: 92px;">Ernesto Solana: Another SunsetMay 2 - July 25, 2026 <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e77c4d8802d3bb635ee56880c1b10c6cfcef3d136bd3aa643b816e389624847/ES_Another-Sunset_low-2.jpg" data-mid="249845142" border="0" alt="Ernesto Solana, The Anecdote Reveals Something Else V, 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 41.3 x 28.9 x 33.3 cm (16.26 x 11.38 x 13.11 in)" data-caption="Ernesto Solana, The Anecdote Reveals Something Else V, 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 41.3 x 28.9 x 33.3 cm (16.26 x 11.38 x 13.11 in)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e77c4d8802d3bb635ee56880c1b10c6cfcef3d136bd3aa643b816e389624847/ES_Another-Sunset_low-2.jpg" /> Ernesto Solana, The Anecdote Reveals Something Else V, 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 41.3 x 28.9 x 33.3 cm (16.26 x 11.38 x 13.11 in) <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4840bde4947e2b502852cf8fe64c0f0c94185bd94a34e79c3ac589d5af03ac80/Press-Release.png" style="height: 35px; width: 150px;">Ernesto Solana: Another Sunset May 2, 2026 - July 25, 2026Press Contact: info@laurathegallery.comLaura (the gallery)1125 E 11th St, Houston, TX Laura (the gallery) is pleased to present Another Sunset, a solo exhibition by Houston and Mexico City-based artist Ernesto Solana (b. 1985, Guadalajara). This is Solana’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in Texas. The exhibition assembles eight sculptures that incorporate cast bronze, cast aluminum, and found objects, as well as four photographs. The works in Another Sunset watch a familiar sky from new ground. Conceptually, they draw upon the wildlife migration routes between Texas and Mexico, and the birds that stop to rest along the Gulf Coast before pushing on. Solana’s art incorporates the flowers and insects and detritus he found Mexico, things that a person encounters when they wander on foot. From Mexico City, he has gathered the blooms of Erythrina coralloides — the flame coral tree — iridescent Cotinis beetles, chrysalises, and styrofoam cups stamped with xicalcoliuhqui geometries derived from Mesoamerican design. The result is an ecosystem sketched with art, a symbiosis of flora and fauna, but not without human presence. One sculpture in the exhibition casts ordinary packing peanuts — compressed into a dense, brick-like cube — in patinated bronze, now finished with a luminous teal. Something designed to disappear becomes something that will not. Resting on top: a single molted feather from a macaw, brilliant and multicolored. A floor sculpture occupies its own territory in the space. The Dioscorea mexicana — known colloquially as the tortoise plant for its rounded, woody base — sends up a single new vine each year. Solana has cast the entire structure in aluminum: the base on the floor, the vine rising nearly six feet from its center. Pierced through the vine’s middle hovers a styrofoam cup. The cup is ubiquitous across Mexico and bears the xicalcoliuhqui pattern. Aluminum pretends to be something cheap and disposable, the ancient geometry repeated so many times it practically disappears into the object it decorates. That same cup recurs throughout the exhibition. In the large-scale photograph The Problem Here Is the&nbsp;Obvious (Totemic Studies), 2023, the cup floats on the surface of the water at the Tláloc fountain at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. Beneath the cup, Tláloc himself appears inverted in the reflection: the Aztec rain god submerged below a piece of trash that will molecularly outlast almost everything around it. Following the cup around the gallery, we see a cast aluminum sculpture presenting the object slightly crushed, and mounted on a small aluminum shelf a foot above the floor. In this work, the cup stages an encounter between slowness and waste, between permanence and the disposable, transforming what would otherwise be overlooked into a site of unlikely attention. The wall-mounted aluminum sculptures extend Solana’s attention to botanical and insect life into something closer to architecture. Their stepped geometry references the xicalcoliuhqui and the inverted pyramid forms of Teotihuacán; their surfaces host cast aluminum renderings of Erythrina coralloides&nbsp;flowers and orchids, whose stamens branch into forms uncannily resembling open hands. Someworks carry a blue-green patina; others remain the cool silver of raw metal. Chrysalises dangle from the stepped edges, a reference to the monarch butterfly migration that Solana has documented in photographs taken in the forests of Michoacán. Two smaller photographs picture birds that Solana observed in his Houston garden, where he keeps sculptures whose polished, mirror-finish metal surfaces attract avian visitors. To render what the birds might see, Solana manipulated the images using a simulation of tetrachromatic vision. The four-cone color perception system that most birds possess, it extends into the ultraviolet spectrum beyond human sight. In these images, the surrounding world shifts into deep blues and periwinkles, while the birds appear as vivid thermal maps of orange, yellow, red, and lime green. One new work — What&nbsp;Feathers Know of Light (Orange-crowned Warbler), 2026 — is presented in a bleached maple frame with a cast recycled aluminum Nymphalis antiopa chrysalis suspended from its lower edge, the object and theimage in conversation about transformation and threshold. The show’s anchor is a large photograph of a female ocellated turkey — a bird native to the Yucatán Peninsula, and one of the more spectacular animals in the Americas. She stands at the edge of a road near Calakmul, an archaeological site, showing off her iridescent green-bronze feathers. The photograph’s frame is a vivid pink, and the gallery’s far wall matches — an invocation of Luis Barragán, the Mexican architect whose colorful walls defined the visual vocabulary of mid-century Mexican modernism. The turkey’s gaze turns slightly toward the camera, the observer suddenly observed. Houston sits at the edge of one of the great avian migration corridors in North America. Each spring, millions of birds crossing the Gulf of Mexico make landfall along the Texas coast, many touching down at High Island — less than an hour from the gallery — where roseate spoonbills, great blue herons, and dozens of other species rest and nest before continuing north. The timing of Another Sunset is not accidental. Solana’s interest in wildlife migration is long-standing and inseparable from his practice. The cocoons, the beetles, the orchids that look like hands, the birds seen in ultraviolet colors — these are not metaphors for something else. They remind us of all the actors and agents that coexist in the natural world, from which humans are not separate, above, or beyond. About the Artist Solana has presented his solo exhibition Instituto de la Neoprehistoria: Capítulo II at the Guachimontones Archaeological Site in Teuchitlán, Mexico, and participated in exhibitions like Eje Neovolcánico at Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Off to Elsewhere at Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich (curated by Çagla Ilk); Memory Shop at Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido (curated by Nicolás Bourriaud); Entre Irse y Quedarse at Palace Enterprise, Copenhagen; As to Be Inaudible at C/O Berlin (curated by Jörg Colberg); and&nbsp;Transatlántico at Mana Contemporary, New Jersey. In May 2026, he is completing a residency at Casa Nano in Tokyo. He is also the author of Systema Artificialis, a photo book that examines the consequences of the Anthropocene and proposes new relational models between humanity, culture, and the more-than-human world. Solana holds a diploma in Forest and Wildlife Conservation, a photography degree from the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, and an MFA in Photography from the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut. For inquiries or additional materials, please contact info@laurathegallery.com. <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd4238acc2e7949daeb81c29ffd5859ca608c666fb6c8a9b9a5dabec79eb1aeb/Works.png" style="height: 32px; width: 88px;"> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e77c4d8802d3bb635ee56880c1b10c6cfcef3d136bd3aa643b816e389624847/ES_Another-Sunset_low-2.jpg" data-mid="249845142" border="0" alt="Ernesto Solana, The Anecdote Reveals Something Else V, 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 41.3 x 28.9 x 33.3 cm (16.26 x 11.38 x 13.11 in)" data-caption="Ernesto Solana, The Anecdote Reveals Something Else V, 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 41.3 x 28.9 x 33.3 cm (16.26 x 11.38 x 13.11 in)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e77c4d8802d3bb635ee56880c1b10c6cfcef3d136bd3aa643b816e389624847/ES_Another-Sunset_low-2.jpg" /> Ernesto Solana, The Anecdote Reveals Something Else V, 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 41.3 x 28.9 x 33.3 cm (16.26 x 11.38 x 13.11 in) <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b93cd509230fbd1105b652d83ddbc3e6c85248d073aa2ab877bdb74ae43faeb4/ES_Another-Sunset_low-18.jpg" data-mid="249845111" border="0" alt="Ernesto Solana, What Feathers Know of Light (Mourning Dove) (1/2 + 1 AP), 2026, Archival pigment print, red frame, 13.875 x 10.875 in (35.24 x 27.62 cm)" data-caption="Ernesto Solana, What Feathers Know of Light (Mourning Dove) (1/2 + 1 AP), 2026, Archival pigment print, red frame, 13.875 x 10.875 in (35.24 x 27.62 cm)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b93cd509230fbd1105b652d83ddbc3e6c85248d073aa2ab877bdb74ae43faeb4/ES_Another-Sunset_low-18.jpg" /> Ernesto Solana, What Feathers Know of Light (Mourning Dove) (1/2 + 1 AP), 2026, Archival pigment print, red frame, 13.875 x 10.875 in (35.24 x 27.62 cm)<img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1395ad8be496b934973fe6debae35e2115749015890e9b3257c3e489ea46bd8/ES_Another-Sunset_low-7.jpg" data-mid="249845107" border="0" alt="Ernesto Solana, The Effortless Manner in Which Like-Ness Propagates Through Us XV, 2026, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, 43.2 x 43.5 x 27.3 cm (17.01 x 17.13 x 10.75 in)" data-caption="Ernesto Solana, The Effortless Manner in Which Like-Ness Propagates Through Us XV, 2026, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, 43.2 x 43.5 x 27.3 cm (17.01 x 17.13 x 10.75 in)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1395ad8be496b934973fe6debae35e2115749015890e9b3257c3e489ea46bd8/ES_Another-Sunset_low-7.jpg" /> Ernesto Solana, The Effortless Manner in Which Like-Ness Propagates Through Us XV, 2026, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, 43.2 x 43.5 x 27.3 cm (17.01 x 17.13 x 10.75 in) <img width="5038" height="3360" width_o="5038" height_o="3360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53eba71c1526db5d05ff52a483a0f9bafb1e411adc94cbd4024dba4e6dd9dbe7/LTG_ES_install_003.jpg" data-mid="249845143" border="0" alt="Ernesto Solana, An Ornament for No One (Snail), 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 8.6 x 15.9 x 11.7 cm (3.39 x 6.26 x 4.61 in)" data-caption="Ernesto Solana, An Ornament for No One (Snail), 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 8.6 x 15.9 x 11.7 cm (3.39 x 6.26 x 4.61 in)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53eba71c1526db5d05ff52a483a0f9bafb1e411adc94cbd4024dba4e6dd9dbe7/LTG_ES_install_003.jpg" /> Ernesto Solana, An Ornament for No One (Snail), 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 8.6 x 15.9 x 11.7 cm (3.39 x 6.26 x 4.61 in) <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6e42a1dad87018f916bd93b081153bcbfa0411a80c806e6cc70a9746e9915f6/ES_Another-Sunset_low-16.jpg" data-mid="249845110" border="0" alt="Ernesto Solana, What Feathers Know of Light (Orange-crowned Warbler) (1/2 + 1 AP), 2026, Archival pigment print, bleached maple frame, neodymium magnets, recycled aluminum, 15.25 x 11.625 x 0.375 in (38.74 x 29.53 x 0.95 cm)" data-caption="Ernesto Solana, What Feathers Know of Light (Orange-crowned Warbler) (1/2 + 1 AP), 2026, Archival pigment print, bleached maple frame, neodymium magnets, recycled aluminum, 15.25 x 11.625 x 0.375 in (38.74 x 29.53 x 0.95 cm)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6e42a1dad87018f916bd93b081153bcbfa0411a80c806e6cc70a9746e9915f6/ES_Another-Sunset_low-16.jpg" /> Ernesto Solana, What Feathers Know of Light (Orange-crowned Warbler) (1/2 + 1 AP), 2026, Archival pigment print, bleached maple frame, neodymium magnets, recycled aluminum, 15.25 x 11.625 x 0.375 in (38.74 x 29.53 x 0.95 cm) <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa7f31d8a9ff06da8b3e050f66657455f608eac4b012411e396a5a1b1b299af6/ES_Another-Sunset_low-9.jpg" data-mid="249845108" border="0" alt="Ernesto Solana, The Effortless Manner in Which Like-Ness Propagates Through Us XVI, 2026, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, 36.2 x 38.7 x 24.1 cm (14.25 x 15.24 x 9.49 in)" data-caption="Ernesto Solana, The Effortless Manner in Which Like-Ness Propagates Through Us XVI, 2026, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, 36.2 x 38.7 x 24.1 cm (14.25 x 15.24 x 9.49 in)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa7f31d8a9ff06da8b3e050f66657455f608eac4b012411e396a5a1b1b299af6/ES_Another-Sunset_low-9.jpg" />Ernesto Solana, The Effortless Manner in Which Like-Ness Propagates Through Us XVI, 2026, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, 36.2 x 38.7 x 24.1 cm (14.25 x 15.24 x 9.49 in) <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/122c2940052e76e1d7e48e9b61566045aba9bf72ec3c00cce978ac392ee74179/ES_Another-Sunset_low-11.jpg" data-mid="249845109" border="0" alt="Ernesto Solana, The Effortless Manner in Which Like-Ness Propagates Through Us XVII, 2026, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, 36.2 x 42.9 x 21.6 cm (14.25 x 16.89 x 8.5 in)" data-caption="Ernesto Solana, The Effortless Manner in Which Like-Ness Propagates Through Us XVII, 2026, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, 36.2 x 42.9 x 21.6 cm (14.25 x 16.89 x 8.5 in)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/122c2940052e76e1d7e48e9b61566045aba9bf72ec3c00cce978ac392ee74179/ES_Another-Sunset_low-11.jpg" /> Ernesto Solana, The Effortless Manner in Which Like-Ness Propagates Through Us XVII, 2026, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, 36.2 x 42.9 x 21.6 cm (14.25 x 16.89 x 8.5 in) <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/877b9054a4da1d32f6ebf84787d2fefaceda81a2b761dd2fa82287c91d319290/ES_Another-Sunset_low-5.jpg" data-mid="249845106" border="0" alt="Ernesto Solana, The Anecdote Reveals Something Else IV, 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 40.6 x 25.1 x 34.3 cm (15.98 x 9.88 x 13.5 in)" data-caption="Ernesto Solana, The Anecdote Reveals Something Else IV, 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 40.6 x 25.1 x 34.3 cm (15.98 x 9.88 x 13.5 in)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/877b9054a4da1d32f6ebf84787d2fefaceda81a2b761dd2fa82287c91d319290/ES_Another-Sunset_low-5.jpg" /> Ernesto Solana, The Anecdote Reveals Something Else IV, 2025, Recycled aluminum, neodymium magnets, stainless steel, 40.6 x 25.1 x 34.3 cm (15.98 x 9.88 x 13.5 in) <img width="1990" height="568" width_o="1990" height_o="568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c7898a8abdd9918823bb6fa284fbe874b6e1c81251373ce348ce5a5ff68ac84/62CED9B3-A18B-49A6-B4FE-09ECBD738B55.jpg" data-mid="249844990" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c7898a8abdd9918823bb6fa284fbe874b6e1c81251373ce348ce5a5ff68ac84/62CED9B3-A18B-49A6-B4FE-09ECBD738B55.jpg" /> Coming soon. Photography courtesy the artist.