McClain Gallery

04/16/2026

NOW OPEN: McClain Gallery at Dallas Art Fair | Booth G6

📍 Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, TX

Our presentation brings together a curated selection of works by John Alexander, Donald Baechler, Dorothy Hood, Aaron Parazette, Nick Vaughn & Jake Margolin, and Bernar Venet, alongside a few blue-chip gems.

We look forward to seeing you in Booth G6 this weekend!

For more information about our booth presentation, please contact us at [email protected] or send us a direct message!

03/06/2026

Spotlight on Stephen Dean

Gallery artist, Stephen Dean presents “ECHO”, a new spatial installation created for the former neoclassical church, Elleboogkerk, in the Netherlands.

Five monumental ladders of dichroic glass hang within the space, activating a play of light, color and movement.
The work is an adaptation of “Crescendo”, the site-specific installation Dean realized at the Basilique de Saint-Denis in 2024.

For more information about Stephen Dean and his work, please contact [email protected]

“ECHO” will be on view at the Elleboorgkerk until August 30, 2026

Image: Photography by Mike Bink

02/27/2026

McClain Gallery is honored to highlight a powerful initiative supporting “Elizabeth Speaks”, an upcoming documentary written and directed by about her grandmother, revolutionary artist and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett.

Gallery artist, Delita Martin has created a limited edition print, “La Zarzamora de Ebon: Monumento a la Niña Soberana”, with 100% of proceeds directly funding the film. The edition is being pulled in Elizabeth Catlett’s own studio in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on her personal press, making this initiative both artistically and historically resonant.

Visit the link in bio to learn more and support. The fundraiser closes March 7.

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02/27/2026

01/14/2026

Opening Tomorrow | Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin: “Around the Corner and Two Blocks Down”

The exhibition features a group of new “wind drawings” depicting fragments of architecture and details of sites throughout Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas that formerly housed q***r spaces. Nick and Jake make beautifully material work that spans media to reveal q***r histories from all 50 states. In their ongoing series of “wind drawings”, the artists have developed a technique that uses dispersal in order to engrain charcoal into paper. They translate photographs into laser cut stencils and lay down charcoal powder onto the page. Then, they blow the charcoal away using pressurized air. Nick and Jake’s drawings teem with symbolic gestures: charcoal recalls the ruinous potential of fire on wood and paper; wind evokes erosion and objects lost to time and space; paper is the historical material for the official record, fraught with sensitivity to the elements.

This exhibition marks our second solo exhibition with artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin at McClain Gallery

🗓️ Please join us for an artist reception celebrating the opening tomorrow, Thursday, January 15, from 6–8 PM.

For sales and press inquiries, please email [email protected].

Artwork:
Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin
“Showboat (Fort Smith, Arkansas)”, 2023
charcoal powder and wind on paper
overall: 42 x 112 inches
each: 42 x 46 inches

01/09/2026

McClain Gallery is proud to announce our second solo exhibition with artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin: “Around the Corner and Two Blocks Down”.

The show features a group of new “wind drawings” depicting fragments of architecture and details of sites throughout Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas that formerly housed q***r spaces. Nick and Jake make beautifully material work that spans media to reveal q***r histories from all 50 states. In their ongoing series of “wind drawings”, the artists have developed a technique that uses dispersal in order to engrain charcoal into paper. They translate photographs into laser cut stencils and lay down charcoal powder onto the page. Then, they blow the charcoal away using pressurized air. Nick and Jake’s drawings teem with symbolic gestures: charcoal recalls the ruinous potential of fire on wood and paper; wind evokes erosion and objects lost to time and space; paper is the historical material for the official record, fraught with sensitivity to the elements.

📅 Please join us for an artist reception celebrating the opening on Thursday, January 15, from 6–8 PM.

Artwork details:
Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin
“Round Up (Kansas City, Missouri)”, 2025
charcoal powder and wind on paper
overall: 93 x 230 inches
each panel: 93 x 45 inches

12/24/2025

✨McClain Gallery Holiday Hours:
December 24–25: Closed
December 31–January 1: Closed
We’re open by appointment December 26–27. Please email us at [email protected] to make an appointment.

Normal business hours resume Friday, January 2, 2026.

Best wishes to all for a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year! 🎊

Thank you everyone for a fantastic art year!

Image:
Christian Eckart
“Endless Line (4 works)”, 1997-98
gold leaf over wood
9 x 9 inches each

“Gold: Devotion and Desire” will be on view through January 3, 2026

11/26/2025

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We will close early today, Wednesday, November 26, at 2 PM, and the gallery will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 27–28. Normal opening hours will resume on Saturday, November 29.

Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving spent with loved ones and family!

We look forward to seeing you back in the gallery!

Images:

Tim Braden
Mountain lake (card), 2024
Oil on card
11 5/8 x 14 5/8 inches

Curacao, 2018
Acrylic on card
16 3/8 x 23 1/4 inches

10/31/2025

✨ Opening Next Saturday ✨
Gold: Devotion and Desire at McClain Gallery

🗓 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 8, 3–5 PM
📍 McClain Gallery, Houston

Gold: Devotion and Desire brings together masterworks from two distant but resonant worlds: the sacred gold ground paintings of the Italian Trecento and the explorations of gold by contemporary artists Christian Eckart, Robert Kushner, Katsumi Hayakawa, and Salle Werner Vaughn.

“Gold: Devotion and Desire” will be on view through December 27, 2025

🔗 Learn more via the link in our bio or contact us at [email protected]

Images:
Robert Kushner
detail of “Two Orchids One Palm”, 1997
Oil and acrylic on canvas
30 x 60 inches

Katsumi Hayakawa
“Blue Pulse”, 2025
acrylic on panel
21 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches

Paolo Veneziano (circa 1300–1365)
“Madonna and Child Enthroned”
tempera on panel, gold ground, shaped top
33 3/4 x 23 3/8 inches