FOUR, AFTER ALL: An exhibition of new work by Througline members Luisa Duarte and Carolina Otero and, invited artists Gabriela Gamboa and Toña Vegas opens at THROUGHLINE Saturday, April 4, 2026

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, April 4- Sunday, May 3, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday April 4, 2026, 6-9 pm.

Where: 3909 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002

Open Hours: Fridays/Saturdays 12-6 pm and by appointment

(*Email throughlinecollective@gmail.com to make an appointment.)

Throughline will open its second two-person collective member exhibition, with two invited guest artists. FOUR, AFTER ALL, features new works by Luisa Duarte,Carolina Otero, Gabriela Gamboa, and Toña Vegas. It opens on Saturday, April 4th, at 3909 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002. An opening reception will occur from 6 to 9 pm the same evening.

F o ur , a f t e r a l l , is an exhibition that brings together four (Venezuelan) women artists whose practices span paper, video, sculpture, and expanded media. Working across distinct formal languages, they share a deep engagement with memory, territory, and the interconnectedness of shifting energies. Each artist approaches material as both witness and archive—fragile surfaces, moving images, and dimensional forms become sites where personal and collective histories converge. Together, their works create a dialogue that resists singular narratives and expands notions of both internal and external landscapes.

PROGRAMMING 

- Opening: Saturday, April 4, 2026 with invited Venezuelan Chef Janize Mendez

- Walkthrough in Spanish with curator Rosa Ana Orlando, Thursday, April 23rd 2026 at 11:30 am.

- Artist Talk: Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 11 am

- Video Workshop: Sunday, April 26, 2026 11– 1 pm

-Closing: Cocktail and Walkthrough, Sunday, May 3rd., 4-6 pm..

About Throughline:

Throughline is a network of artists committed to providing exhibition space free of the constraints of the traditional gallery model. Throughline’s culture empowers artists to develop their creative and professional ambitions, continuously culminating in a wide range of events, from art shows to educational programs, to cooperative partnerships with diverse organizations.Throughline believes that the empowerment of artists is a transformative force that transcends the boundaries of mere creativity.

www.throughlinecollective.com

3909 Main Street

Houston, Texas 77002

Five in Motion features five women artists from Venezuela. | July 10th, 2020 – October 11th, 2020.

“ Cuerpos Confinados” is an online call by three women curators from Venezuela, living in Canada, Argentina and Colombia

to see the exhibition go to https://cuerposconfinados.wixsite.com/home

elmaczul

Los invitamos a seguir visitando la exposición virtual Cuerpos Confinados, que dentro de su plan de desarrollo continuo ya ha publicado la siguiente galería de la tercera semana (N+2) con obras de los creadores: Elsy Zavarce, Corina Lipavsky, Luisa Duarte, Andry Hernández, Kelvin Arevalo y Denise Morales.

El MACZUL y las curadoras están muy satisfechos ante la respuesta por parte de los creadores participantes, que han aceptado el reto de dialogar con su arte dentro de esta propuesta.

Cuerpos Confinados propone explorar las experiencias de nuestros cuerpos en este momento de amenaza inmunológica que ha conducido a gran parte de la humanidad a confinarse en sus casas. La muestra tiene un carácter de diálogo y proceso que se irá dando durante el tiempo de confinamiento.

La convocatoria estará abierta mientras esté vigente el contexto de cuarentena.

#ElMaczul #CuerposConfinados#Arteencuarentena#ArteContemporaneo

Opening Reception / Alternate Pathways

Saturday, October 19, 2019
6-8 p.m.
The Union HTX
2315 Union St, Houston TX 77007
Free and open to the public

Featured Artists:
Eduardo Portillo /Arte
Celan Bouillet
Hedwige Jacobs
Luisa Duarte Art
Karen Navarro PH

Join us to celebrate the public opening of Alternate Pathways: A group exhibition highlighting Houston's cultural diversity.

“A sense of home, a layout of a place that once was habited or will be. Fine lines, some of them made with thread, will limit the boundaries of a once occupied place. Prints that resemble a footprint of a past. Displacement is a question for everyone who left their home. That is the approach of the work by @luisaduarteart at “Alternate Pathways” show @theunionhtx . This space always welcomes the visitor with a warm feeling just as Luisa’s work about home.” ~ Verónica Ibarguengoitia

Luisa Duarte// www.luisa-duarte.com
Luisa Duarte is a Houston-based visual artist. A diverse blend of cultures, have shaped her ideas and understanding of what constitutes “home”. A vague sense of displacement, and, at times, an underlying yearning to ‘belong,’ has lead the artist to create imaginary spaces that appear to straddle multiple worlds, perspectives and forms all this using a wide range of techniques.
Throughout her upbringing in Venezuela, Duarte was widely exposed to contemporary non-figurative art,this aesthetic, loosely informed her professional practice as an architect, and currently continue to influence her practice as a visual artist.
Luisa Duarte was recently selected as the Artist of the Month at the Museum of Geometric and Madi Art in Dallas, her work was part of the 6th Latino Art Now conference, The Texas Biennial, among other important art venues and she has shown her work nationally and Internationally.

Eduardo Portillo// www.eduardoportillo.com
Portillo’s paintings conduct a negotiation between the literal edges and the surface of the pictorial plane, realizing his personal desire to deviate from the rectilinear into real space. The juxtaposition is established between what is considered a painting and what is categorized as a sculpture, subverts the allotted space each is normally given. In this way, his work breathes life into these ordinarily lifeless areas, celebrating the tension between implied capacity and imposed boundary.
Eduardo Portillo was born in El Congo, El Salvador in 1986 and currently lives and works in Houston, TX. He received a BFA in painting at the University of Houston in 2011. His work has been exhibited in numerous art venues throughout Texas including Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, Site 131 in Dallas, RULE Gallery in Denver, Colorado and recently in Galerie Richard in New York City. In 2013 his exhibition with the Houston Community College was included as part of the Texas Biennial. He has been awarded artist residencies with the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas as well as the Vermont Studio Center.

Celan Bouillet// www.celanbouillet.com
Celan Bouillet is a mixed media painter based in Houston, Texas. Her upbringing in the American South influenced her love of spinning a good tale, textiles, and sublime landscapes. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Bouillet is a Vermont Studio Center Fellow, a two-­‐time recipient of the Houston Artist Association Individual Artist Grant, and was selected to participate in the 2017 New Texas Talent exhibition. Most recently, she was included in 44 Artists From Texas a survey of Texas artists at LHUCA in Lubbock, Texas and World of Frida exhibit at Bedford Gallery in California. With the support of a 2019 HAA Grant, Bouillet will be displaying a new body of work “Cosmic Garden” that includes her first large scale installation in Fall 2019.

Hedwige Jacobs// www.hedwigejacobs.com
Hedwige Jacobs is a Singapore born Dutch artist. She currently lives and works in Houston.
She holds a BFA from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in The Netherlands and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Selected shows include: Women & Their Work, Austin; Lawndale Art Center, Houston; Box 13 Artspace, Houston; The Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo; Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hague; Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Drawing Center, New York City; Friedman Benda, New York City; and the Red Dot Design Museum in Singapore. Her work is included in private, corporate and museum collections.

Karen Navarro// www.karennavarroph.com
With a background in fashion design, Argentina-born artist, Karen Navarro, works with a highly stylized aesthetic on a diverse array of mediums that includes photography and collage. Her constructed portraits are known for the use of color theory, surreal scenes and minimalist details. Navarro’s work explores themes related to identity and femininity. It expresses self-referential questions that connect in a much larger scale to ideas of social construction of reality.
Navarro lives in Houston since 2014 where she completed the certificate program in photography at Houston Center for Photography. In 2018 Navarro has been awarded a scholarship at Glassell School of Art| The Museum of Fine Art Houston where she studied analog photography. Most recently she has received the Artadia fellowship 2019. Navarro's work has been widely exhibited in the US and abroad.

Made possible in part through the City's Initiative Grant.
Houston Arts Alliance Houston Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs
Fiscally sponsored by Fresh Arts

Photo flyer: Eduardo Portillo
Design: NETO Estudio Creativo

Serrano Gallery and PrintMatters are proud to present “Transformed Surfaces,” a group exhibition coordinated in concert with Print Houston, a city-wide celebration of original prints, the artists who create them and the people who collect them. Print Houston is a biennial event presented by PrintMatters.

Shanti Conlan

Luisa Duarte

Maria Hughes

Ann Joelle Galley

Armando Rodriguez

Exhibition Dates
June 8 - 29, 2019

Opening Reception
Saturday, June 15
5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

ARTIST OF THE MONTH:

Museum of Geometric and MADI Art

I am pleased to announce that my work will be on display at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas from April 1-30, 2019, at the generous invitation of Dorothy Masterson. The Museum is the only museum in the country dedicated to abstract art and the MADI movement, which was founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the 1940s. The museum's permanent collection includes popular works by Joseph Albers, Gyula Kosice, Orna Feinstein, Venezuelan artists Carlos Cruz-Diez, Jesús Rafael Soto, Inés Silva, and even Carmelo Arden Quin, from Argentina, one of the founders of the MADI movement. In addition to the permanent collection, the museum sponsors four exhibitions each year.

Art League Houston is excited to present “The New Border”, by Houston-based Venezuelan artist, Luisa Duarte. The exhibition features a site specific installation from the artists’ ‘Borders or Territories’ series, comprised of wax thread and thumbtacks that encapsulate space, and envision each pathway as a memory or anecdote. The vertices of each ‘territory’ are held in place by a simple thumbtack, pinned to the wall to hold the shape of each line. By using one continuous thread throughout the site of installation, the artist creates a tridimensional space traced on and over the walls, where seemingly single lines come together to form one unit.

LUISA DUARTE

Opening Reception: 6 – 9 PM Friday, June 8, 2018

Artist Talk: 6:15 PM Friday, June 8, 2018   

Exhibition Dates: June 8 – July 21, 2018

Hallway Space

Williams Tower Gallery

2800 Post Oak Boulevard

January 13,2016 - February 26,2016