Moody Gallery

05/21/2026

Pat Colville's exhibition, Conversations (for Walter Benjamin), is currently on view in our garden gallery through the end of the week. Come visit us this holiday weekend, Friday, May 22, 10:30am-5pm and Saturday, May 23, 11am-5pm.

Also featured is Dan Sutherland in our front gallery and in our middle gallery is a Group Exhibition of works by Stephen Greene, Tracye Wear, Helen Altman, Jim Love, Melissa Miller, and James Drake.

View the exhibition - https://www.moodygallery.com/exhibitions/pat-colville8

View the exhibition catalogue - isu.pub/kUGWSJ8

Watch the Artist Talk - https://www.moodygallery.com/exhibitions/pat-colville8/videos?view=multiple-sliders

Read the exhibition review - https://www.artsrescue.com/patcolvillemoodygallery

05/14/2026

The Films of Roy Fridge, Special Guest: Betty Moody
Saturday, May 16, 4 pm , Location: Aurora Picture Show, 5601 Navigation Blvd., Houston, TX 77011
Free Admission.
Visit this link for more information- https://www.aurorapictureshow.org/programs/the-films-of-roy-fridge

05/08/2026

Dan Sutherland | What I had - Reception for the Artist Saturday, May 9, 3-5 pm, Artist Talk 4 pm.

Moody Gallery is proud to present What I had, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Dan Sutherland. What I had, Sutherland’s seventh solo show at the gallery since 2006, is on view May 9 – June 20, 2026.

Dan Sutherland utilizes visual devices and strategies from a diverse array of art-historical sources, including Medieval Illumination, Analytic Cubism, and Dutch still-life painting. The paintings in this exhibition feature convincing, true-to-life illusionism and dynamic, colorful abstraction. In some compositions, Sutherland weds these two modes to create otherworldly constructions that seem to exist in a state of flux, appearing like transitory windows or portals. In other compositions, Sutherland forgoes illusionism almost entirely, focusing primarily on the colorful, rhythmic elements of abstraction. He often works on irregularly shaped surfaces made of metal or wood. Through a process of responsive painting and revision, Sutherland tunes the painted structure and space to the shape of the support to exaggerate movement and toy with perceived depth and stability. In his achromatic drawings, Sutherland renders scenes with precision and refinement. Though replete with detail and delicately rendered tonal changes, the scenes in his drawings remain playfully inconclusive and elusive, yet imbued with movement, instability, and a sense of transition. The scale and complexity of Sutherland’s paintings and drawings lure the viewer closer, rewarding concentrated viewing.

Dan Sutherland (b. 1966, Dover, New Hampshire) currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. He recently retired from teaching painting and drawing at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia in 1988 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University, New York in 1991. Sutherland’s work has been included in exhibitions at the McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas; McAllen Museum of Art, McAllen, Texas; Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas; Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas; Diverse Works, Houston, Texas; Metcalf Gallery, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana; Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida; Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York; and The Laholm Drawing Museum, Hasttorget, Sweden. He is also a recipient of an ArtPace Foundation London Studio Program Grant and a Leopold Schepp Foundation Grant.

Image:
Dan Sutherland
Looking Out Looking In, 2025
oil on paper on wood
51" x 38"
DS 207

05/07/2026

Works by Jay Shinn and Michael Bise are included in ’s 25th Anniversary Auction! Visit this link to view and bid on the auction- https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/86550/auctions/199344?r=1&t=all.

The Party & Auction takes place Friday, May 8, 2026, from 7-11 pm @ Garage HTX. Make a gift to the Party in support of Glasstire's anniversary and get your tickets to the event here- https://glasstire.square.site/shop/the-glasstire-25th-anniversary-party-auction/RVAYV5U256755KIFHS7ZEHYT!

This year’s event honors Glasstire's founding Publisher, Rainey Knudson, and celebrates the publication's 25th anniversary. Over the past quarter century, Glasstire has published more than 650 writers, whose work has connected Texas’ art communities with each other.

Images:
Jay Shinn
Samba 8, 2024
gouache and mylar on panel
16 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Moody Gallery

Michael Bise
Stone-Cold Killer in the Mirror I, 2024
graphite on paper
9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Moody Gallery

04/29/2026

Dan Sutherland | What I had - Reception for the Artist Saturday, May 9, 3-5 pm, Artist Talk 4 pm.

Moody Gallery is proud to present What I had, an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Dan Sutherland. What I had, Sutherland’s seventh solo show at the gallery since 2006, is on view May 9 – June 20, 2026.

Dan Sutherland utilizes visual devices and strategies from a diverse array of art-historical sources, including Medieval Illumination, Analytic Cubism, and Dutch still-life painting. The paintings in this exhibition feature convincing, true-to-life illusionism and dynamic, colorful abstraction. In some compositions, Sutherland weds these two modes to create otherworldly constructions that seem to exist in a state of flux, appearing like transitory windows or portals. In other compositions, Sutherland forgoes illusionism almost entirely, focusing primarily on the colorful, rhythmic elements of abstraction. He often works on irregularly shaped surfaces made of metal or wood. Through a process of responsive painting and revision, Sutherland tunes the painted structure and space to the shape of the support to exaggerate movement and toy with perceived depth and stability. In his achromatic drawings, Sutherland renders scenes with precision and refinement. Though replete with detail and delicately rendered tonal changes, the scenes in his drawings remain playfully inconclusive and elusive, yet imbued with movement, instability, and a sense of transition. The scale and complexity of Sutherland’s paintings and drawings lure the viewer closer, rewarding concentrated viewing.

Dan Sutherland (b. 1966, Dover, New Hampshire) currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. He recently retired from teaching painting and drawing at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia in 1988 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University, New York in 1991. Sutherland’s work has been included in exhibitions at the McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas; McAllen Museum of Art, McAllen, Texas; Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas; Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas; Diverse Works, Houston, Texas; Metcalf Gallery, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana; Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida; Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York; and The Laholm Drawing Museum, Hasttorget, Sweden. He is also a recipient of an ArtPace Foundation London Studio Program Grant and a Leopold Schepp Foundation Grant.

Image:
Dan Sutherland
Overt Lean, 2025
oil on aluminum
40" x 39 1/2"

04/23/2026

Thank you to Ericka Schiche and PaperCity Houston for the wonderful article on MANUAL's (Ed Hill / Suzanne Bloom) current exhibition at the gallery, on view through April 25. This is the last weekend of the show!! Read it here- https://www.papercitymag.com/arts/galleries/houston-photography-exhibitions-artificial-intelligence-moody-gallery-rice-university-moody-center-manual/ #723409

Be sure to check out MANUAL's work at the The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in the Kinder Building and at the Sawyer Yards Galleries for FotoFest's "Global Visions - FotoFest at 40" exhibition through May 10. At the University of Houston, their work is also on view in the Architecture, Design, and Art Library in the College of Architecture and Design through May 10.

"Houston’s groundbreaking photographic duo MANUAL, co-founded by Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom, reshaped the artistic landscape of photography with their innovative approach. Their work has long challenged how images are made and understood.

When Bloom passed away in 2025, it was a stunning, poignant moment for the Houston arts community and beyond. Still, her legacy endures through her art and her decades as a University of Houston professor and mentor.

“MANUAL — The Collaboration of Ed Hill & Suzanne Bloom, 1974-2024” highlights the duo’s enduring love for art history, nature and literature.

“This exhibition was a pleasure to curate, for Ed and Suzanne have been close personal friends for many years,” Moody Gallery owner Betty Moody says.” The gallery recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. “It gave me the opportunity to revisit all of the exhibitions we have had together,” Betty Moody says.

Moody began representing MANUAL in 1982. The duo’s first exhibition, “Videology,” followed in 1984. Over the years, the gallery has presented 19 MANUAL exhibitions.

That long relationship culminated in the 2024 “BEECH//BOOK; An Emblematic Pairing,” a multifaceted project. The duo was honored with a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship for the work. The exhibition also marked 50 years of collaboration.

Literature and Nature as Throughlines
MANUAL’s love of literature appears throughout the show. Along the north-facing wall of the gallery, works draw directly from foundational texts.

French author Joachim Gasquet’s 1921 memoir of painter and friend Paul Cézanne inspired the archival pigment print “Gasquet’s Cézanne” (2017). Walt Whitman’s proto-naturalistic Leaves of Grass (1855) is the subject of a 2017 print of the same name.

Nature has also been a focal point of their work. “Worldmaker” (1992) represents a juxtaposition of a natural forest milieu with a brightly colored artificial orb suspended in the air. Other works, including “Wildflower (jewelweed)” (2002), “13 Ways of Coping with Nature (Hawthorn)” (1980-81), “Natural History” (1988) and “Mother Tree,” continue that exploration." - Ericka Schiche for Paper City

Two new Houston photography exhibitions are taking the familiar somewhere unexpected. One looks back. The other looks ahead. Together, they explore how

04/18/2026

MANUAL:
The Collaboration of Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom, 1974-2024
March 7 – April 25, 2026
In conjunction with FotoFest Biennial 2026

One more week to see the exhibition before it closes!

Partners in life and art, Ed Hill (b. 1935) and Suzanne Bloom (1943-2025) met while serving on the faculty of the art department at Smith College in the early 1970s. By the time they met, Hill, a Massachusetts native, had already earned his master of fine arts degree from Yale University under the tutelage of Josef Albers. The Philadelphia-born Bloom had completed her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied with Piero Dorazio, a disciple of the Futurists. Bloom and Hill married in 1974. Not long after, they formed MANUAL. In 1976, the duo relocated from Massachusetts to Texas to teach at the University of Houston. Moody Gallery began representing MANUAL in 1983. From 1984 to 2024, Moody Gallery orchestrated nineteen exhibitions of MANUAL’s work, beginning with Videology (1984) and ending with BEECH // BOOK; An Emblematic Pairing (2024). The latter show drew upon work created during their Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography.

From the beginning, MANUAL sought to explore uncharted artistic and conceptual territories. Though they shared extensive training in other media, namely painting and drawing, MANUAL adopted photography as their primary means of expression. Their first photographic project was the Hand Series (1974), a collection of gelatin silver prints showing hands in action, perspectively isolated from bodies and faces. For their next series, entitled Art in Context (1974-1980), MANUAL created fifteen images that probe the relationship between original works of art and their reproductions, as well as separate art and art history from the museum context. Additionally, MANUAL executed two series that deal with nature as a primary theme: Woodland Rituals (1975-1976) and 13 Ways of Coping with Nature (1981-1982). Shortly before acquiring a Sony computer in 1985, MANUAL completed Videology (1983-1984), a series of 120 photographic images shot from a monitor screen using a close-up lens. Videology features a wide array of pop-culture subjects, from a plastic Mickey Mouse to televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

In the mid-1980s, MANUAL began incorporating digital photographic methods into their artmaking, layering words, lines, drawings, and images in their compositions. Additionally, they further experimented with appropriated and constructed imagery and superimposed text. Though MANUAL remained keen on photography throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the duo also experimented with video installations in their projects After Nature (1988) and Forest\Products (1990-1991). The latter was mounted as a show at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. From the mid-1990s onward, MANUAL focused on finding new ways to explore and express the relationship between the natural and man-made worlds. In 2002, Edward W. Earle curated MANUAL: Two Worlds (The Collaboration of Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom) at the International Center of Photography in New York City. This retrospective later traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where it was expanded and reorganized by curator Anne Wilkes Tucker. More projects followed, including a site-specific installation entitled Archive Fever: A Digital Wonder Room (2005) that was commissioned by the Hood Museum of Art. During their career, MANUAL received numerous awards and grants, including four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.