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Koelsch gallery outsider, folk, self-taught, visionary art, and visual storytelling since 1994.

Affordable Art Fair Texas
10/16/2026

Affordable Art Fair Texas

We are at Booth A2 at the Affordable Art Fair, Houston! Displaying works from Eddie Arning, Nancy Josephson, Geoff Winni...
10/16/2026

We are at Booth A2 at the Affordable Art Fair, Houston! Displaying works from Eddie Arning, Nancy Josephson, Geoff Winningham, Claire Cusack, Sally. Bennett, Lance Letscher, Carlos Hernandez, Darden Smith, Gail Siptak, Kelly Moran, Jeff F. Wheeler, W. Tucker, Callie Luhrman, and Shane Drinkwater. Come see us.

Hours:
Friday, October 16th, 12pm – 8pm
Saturday, October 17th, 11am – 8pm
Sunday, October 18th, 11am – 6pm

Closing Reception & Artist Talk with Kelly Moran in honor of her latest exhibition “Timeless Stories”. Alongside Moran, ...
10/10/2026

Closing Reception & Artist Talk with Kelly Moran in honor of her latest exhibition “Timeless Stories”. Alongside Moran, fellow artist Gail Siptak will give a talk in honor of her latest exhibition “Rescue”, both displaying at koelsch gallery. Join us for an engaging evening with two significant figures in the Houston art scene. As always, admission is free.

Saturday, October 10th
First Artist Talk: 4:30 pm
Closing Reception: 5:30 - 8:00 pm

1020 Peden St. Houston, Texas 77006

Closing Reception & Artist Talk with Gail Siptak in honor of her latest exhibition “Rescue”. Alongside Siptak, fellow ar...
10/10/2026

Closing Reception & Artist Talk with Gail Siptak in honor of her latest exhibition “Rescue”. Alongside Siptak, fellow artist Kelly Moran with give a talk in honor of her latest exhibition “Timeless Stories”, both displaying at koelsch gallery. Join us for an engaging evening with two significant figures in the Houston art scene. As always, admission is free.

Saturday, October 10th
First Artist Talk: 4:30 pm
Closing Reception: 5:30 - 8:00 pm

1020 Peden St. Houston, Texas 77006

Thank you Lena Young for highlighting some of Gail Siptak’s works. Instead of illustrations, Gail will be showcasing gou...
09/09/2026

Thank you Lena Young for highlighting some of Gail Siptak’s works. Instead of illustrations, Gail will be showcasing gouache paintings in her latest exhibition, Rescue, debuting tomorrow evening from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. Join us for an opening reception with the artist.

Lena wrote:

“Gail Siptak is a wonderful American artist, whose paintings I have posted before. This time I am choosing her pen and ink drawings and more detailed works which I like very much.

Gail tells: ‘I paint to communicate what I see of human and animal condition in all its pathos and hilarity. I am fortunate to have a long career as an artist, exhibiting in galleries, museums and other venues in the U.S., France and Denmark, London and St Petersburg, Russia.’

‘Being a secret shy person I like to conjure stories from glimpses of life seen and overheard. I like incomplete stories, moments unresolved, experienced, read, remembered, witnessed. When I had so many of these pieces on my studio walls this past year it seemed I was looking at apartment building windows with bits and pieces of life. And I, the on looker.’”

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1020 Peden St. Houston, Texas 77006

koelsch gallery is pleased to announce a dual exhibition of works by Houston artists Gail Siptak and Kelly Moran. Join u...
09/02/2026

koelsch gallery is pleased to announce a dual exhibition of works by Houston artists Gail Siptak and Kelly Moran. Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, September 10th, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. As always, admission is free.

In Rescue, Gail Siptak illustrates wildlife and humankind floating aboard meandering vessels at sea. Although without essential instruments, her folksy figures remain at ease as they are painted to safety. In Time Keepers, Kelly Moran displays her large-scale paper dolls and mixed-media assemblages of framed collages and globes. Throughout the works, she incorporates time-telling objects—evoking dialogue on time, how it is measured, and our relationship to it. Together, the two artists bring us into their imagined worlds, defined by personal whim, character, and color.

Rescue and Time Keepers will be on display through October 10, 2026.



1020 Pesten St. Houston, Texas 77006

Geoff Winningham, Fiesta de Nuevo Año (1985)Sparks from the fireworks in the sky fall on the streets of Mineral de Pozos...
08/05/2026

Geoff Winningham, Fiesta de Nuevo Año (1985)
Sparks from the fireworks in the sky fall on the streets of Mineral de Pozos, Guanajuato, during a New Year’s Eve fiesta. Archival pigment print from a film negative.

Available works by Shane Drinkwater through koelsch gallery of Houston, Texas. The Australian-based artist offers an ong...
07/31/2026

Available works by Shane Drinkwater through koelsch gallery of Houston, Texas.

The Australian-based artist offers an ongoing collection of mixed-media works. Often described as “cosmic cartographies”, Drinkwater’s compositions evoke the aerial landscapes and solar systems of Medieval manuscripts, rendered in acrylic, ink, and collage. His works are currently on display in part of koelsch gallery’s ongoing exhibition, “Raw, Unfiltered, Intuitive Creators”, closing August 22, 2026.

“There is beauty in repetition. Seeing the same motif produced again and again is like a symphony of form. And while it’s satisfying to see carbon copies, it’s perhaps more compelling when created by the human hand. As hard as we may try, a pattern drawn by hand will never be completely perfect—and that’s part of its charm. Artist Shane Drinkwater creates works on paper that are replete with repeats. He uses dots, plus signs, arrows, and straight lines to form structured compositions that read like maps and diagrams of worlds we don’t yet fully understand.”



1020 Peden St. Houston, Texas 77006

Works by Eddie Arning featured in koelsch gallery’s latest exhibition, “Raw, Unfiltered, intuitive Creators”, featuring ...
06/18/2026

Works by Eddie Arning featured in koelsch gallery’s latest exhibition, “Raw, Unfiltered, intuitive Creators”, featuring works from 11 different outsider, folk, and visionary artists. Join us today for an opening reception from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. As always, admission is free.

“Arning, like many self-taught artists, used magazine advertisements and illustrations as models or inspiration for his work. Nonetheless his work is highly individual; the link with the original source is often difficult to discern. Most of the print sources for Arning’s drawings have been saved. Institutionalized for most of his adult life, Arning was introduced to drawing in 1964 by a hospital worker who supplied him with materials. Arning’s medium from 1964 to 1969 was Crayolas. In 1969, he switched to oil pastels, or “Cray-pas.” Regardless of his media, Arning always worked in the same manner, covering the entire surface of the paper with dense strokes of color. He stopped drawing in 1974; a year after leaving his nursing home.”

Words from Smithsonian

1020 Peden St. Houston, Tx 77006

koelsch gallery is pleased to announce our latest exhibition, “Raw, Unfiltered, Intuitive Creators”, featuring an array ...
06/13/2026

koelsch gallery is pleased to announce our latest exhibition, “Raw, Unfiltered, Intuitive Creators”, featuring an array of works from 11 outsider, folk, and visionary artists. With some works created as early as 1964 and others as recent as 2026, the exhibition spans more than six decades while remaining unified by a shared spirit of uninhibited creativity, self-taught artistry, and the incorporation of found materials. Through this thoughtfully curated exhibition by franny koelsch, visitors are invited to step into the personal worlds of both emerging and established figures within the outsider movement and its surrounding scenes. “Raw, Unfiltered, Intuitive Creators” features works by Purvis Young, Eddie Arning, Big Al Taplet, Nancy Josephson, Claire Cusack, Gerard Cambon, Richard Kurtz, Sally S. Bennett, Darden Smith, W. Tucker, and our newest artist, Shane Drinkwater. We invite you to join us for an opening reception on Thursday, June 18th, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. As always, admission is free.

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1020 Peden St. Houston, Texas 77006

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Wednesday 12pm - 5pm
Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm

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