Hooks-Epstein Galleries

Hooks-Epstein Galleries Founded in 1969, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Inc., is one of Houston's longest running art galleries.

Representing established, mid-career and emerging artists, the gallery pioneered the museum area. Along with a particular emphasis on works on paper, the gallery is also Houston's premier resource for works in the secondary market. Hooks-Epstein Galleries is the only gallery specializing in fine art glass in this part of the country. The gallery's inventory includes such artists as Toots Zynsky, A

lex Gabriel Bernstein, and Bertil Vallien, along with many other established glass artists. Over its 45 years of existence, the gallery has mounted many exhibitions, which received national and international acclaim. The gallery has published catalogues which continue to be used as a source of information and has produced exhibitions which have traveled from the gallery to museums and other venues.

SUMMER ‘25 EXHIBITIONCURRENTLY ON VIEWHAYUN SURL’S “LIMINAL FIGURES”MAIN GALLERY The artwork of Hayun Surl explores cult...
07/02/2025

SUMMER ‘25 EXHIBITION

CURRENTLY ON VIEW
HAYUN SURL’S “LIMINAL FIGURES”
MAIN GALLERY

The artwork of Hayun Surl explores cultural fluidity and adaptation, using ceramics as a form of record-keeping and self-examination. In “Liminal Figures”, Surl reflects on the in-between spaces—between identities, places, and experiences—where meaning is shaped and reshaped. These ceramic forms inhabit this threshold, capturing the tension and reciprocity between interior and exterior, content and container, and self and society. Hand built and high-fired, the physical vessels function as enduring metaphors—records of memory, influence, and belonging shaped by, and still shaping, Surl’s evolving Korean identity.

Hayun Surl
“Guardian 11”
2025
ceramics
37 x 17”

Available works: http://www.hooksepsteingalleries.com/liminal_figures

SUMMER ‘25 EXHIBITIONCURRENTLY ON VIEWLYNN BENNETT-CARPENTER’S “UNSHADOWED LANDSCAPES”Lynn Bennett-Carpenter’s handwoven...
07/02/2025

SUMMER ‘25 EXHIBITION

CURRENTLY ON VIEW
LYNN BENNETT-CARPENTER’S “UNSHADOWED LANDSCAPES”

Lynn Bennett-Carpenter’s handwoven drawings in “Unshadowed Landscapes” unify the distinct actions of drawing and weaving, inviting viewers into a creative process that mirrors the cycle of creation, destruction, and reintegration. Beginning with hand-drawn and painted imagery on soft wood, Bennett-Carpenter then slices the surface into thin strips and weaves the fragments together on a floor loom. The result is a transformed surface—woven drawings that explore the symbolic and emotional power of trees as central figures in her work.

Lynn Bennett Carpenter
“Belle Isle | Central Avenue”
2021
handwoven drawing on basswood with acrylic and ink, woven with cotton
36 x 24”

🥳 NEW ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! 🥳Welcoming and introducing Angel Oloshove to the Hooks-Epstein Galleries fam! Angel Oloshove is ...
07/01/2025

🥳 NEW ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! 🥳

Welcoming and introducing Angel Oloshove to the Hooks-Epstein Galleries fam! Angel Oloshove is a ceramic sculptor whose work transcends the boundaries of functionality and delves into the realm of emotional expression.

Her journey began with studying painting at the California College of the Arts, followed by a unique 6-year period in Tokyo working in graphic design and toy development.

These diverse experiences fueled her artistic vision, shaping her signature style that blends painterly glazes with organic forms to evoke transcendental experiences.

Oloshove navigates the worlds of fine art and functional design. Her sculptural ceramics have garnered critical acclaim, with exhibitions like “Floating Worlds” receiving recognition as a Critic’s Pick in ArtForum magazine. Simultaneously, in 2015, her functional pottery line prompted AnOther Magazine to name her one of the “Ten Modern Ceramists Shaping the Future”, highlighting her impact on the contemporary ceramic scene.

In the summer of 2024, she was one of two ceramic artists to represent America in the Milan-based Officine Saffi Award for contemporary ceramics. Permanent collections include MD Anderson, the City of Houston’s Civic Art Collection, and Meow Wolf Houston. Her artist book “Spontaneous Presence”, is in the library collection of SFMOMA.

New works by Angel Oloshove is now available and on view at the gallery!

SAVE THE DATE 6.28.2025HAYUN SURL“Liminal Figures”The artwork of Hayun Surl explores cultural fluidity and adaptation, u...
06/19/2025

SAVE THE DATE 6.28.2025

HAYUN SURL
“Liminal Figures”

The artwork of Hayun Surl explores cultural fluidity and adaptation, using ceramics as a form of record-keeping and self-examination. In “Liminal Figures”, Surl reflects on the in-between spaces—between identities, places, and experiences—where meaning is shaped and reshaped. These ceramic forms inhabit this threshold, capturing the tension and reciprocity between interior and exterior, content and container, and self and society.

Hand built and high-fired, the physical vessels function as enduring metaphors—records of memory, influence, and belonging shaped by, and still shaping, Surl’s evolving Korean identity. Through intuitive and deliberate decisions, each gesture in clay is a layered response to presence, contemplation, and transformation, allowing the past to inform the present in enduring, evocative ways.

Image:
Hayun Surl
“Guardian 7”
2025
ceramics
48 x 17”

SAVE THE DATE 6.28.2025LYNN BENNETT-CARPENTER “Unshadowed Landscapes”Marcelyn (Lynn) Bennett-Carpenter earned her B.F.A....
06/19/2025

SAVE THE DATE 6.28.2025

LYNN BENNETT-CARPENTER
“Unshadowed Landscapes”

Marcelyn (Lynn) Bennett-Carpenter earned her B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting from the University of Colorado (Denver, CO) and M.F.A. in Fiber at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, which is the largest hand-weaving studio in North America (Bloomfield Hills, MI).

Bennett-Carpenter’s artwork has been featured in numerous group exhibitions; her work will be in the upcoming 2026 exhibition, “Material Girl”, at the Muskegon Museum of Art (Muskegon, MI). In 2023, she was a resident artist and workshop instructor at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (Deer Isle, ME). She has also been a workshop instructor at the Penland School of Craft (Bakersville, NC).

Image:
Lynn Bennett-Carpenter
“Janus”
2024
handwoven drawing on basswood with acrylic, ink, and gold leaf woven with lurex and cotton
5.5’ x 4’

We are very proud to announce the completed commission of the official portrait of Texas State Representative Senfronia ...
06/05/2025

We are very proud to announce the completed commission of the official portrait of Texas State Representative Senfronia Thompson, by Hooks-Epstein Galleries artist, Kermit Oliver. The portrait was presented this past Monday, June 2, 2025, at the Texas Capitol on the lady day of Texas State Legislature. In addition, Oliver was recognized with a resolution acknowledging him as a significant Texas artist.

Hooks-Epstein Galleries and Kermit Oliver have been honored to work alongside House Democratic Chair, and his staff, and to coordinate this surprise portrait for , which will be displayed in the Capitol. We were also honored to accompany Kermit Oliver’s daughter, Kristy Oliver, for the unveiling.

In Texas political circles, Rep. Thompson is considered to be a living legend. Rep. Thompson is the longest-serving woman in the chamber's history and in any state legislature nationwide. For over 50 years, she has been a civil rights icon, a champion for women, and a defender of children. She has a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Master's in Education from Texas Southern University; a Juris Doctor from the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, and a Master of Law in International Law from the University of Houston.

ON VIEW | JOHN MARK SAGERImage: John Mark Sager, “A Tale of Two Cities”, 2025, assemblage, 14 x 19 1/2 x 14”After 25 yea...
05/21/2025

ON VIEW | JOHN MARK SAGER

Image: John Mark Sager, “A Tale of Two Cities”, 2025, assemblage, 14 x 19 1/2 x 14”

After 25 years of dreaming and imagining, artist John Mark Sager presents “for the city and for the world”, a striking new exhibition of altered books inspired by the spirit of cities, architecture, and gratitude. The series features ten sculptural ‘towers’—each constructed from found books and materials—shaped by Sager’s enduring love for design, structure, and the stories embedded in form. Rooted in a lifetime of artistic exploration and a deep appreciation of material—steel, paper, glass, wood—this exhibition is as much a personal tribute as it is a personal achievement.

John Mark Sager completed his B.A. in Art at Texas Lutheran University (Seguin, TX).
In addition to Texas, his work has been exhibited in New Zealand, Oregon, New Mexico, and Washington D.C.

In 2023, there was a retrospective exhibition of Sager’s work, “50 Years of Building Beauty”, at Davis Gallery (Austin, TX). Sager has also earned numerous jurors’ awards. From 2007-2021, he participated in the Cultural Arts Program Exhibition at the People’s Gallery in Austin City Hall and served as Juror in 2018.

His work is in various private and public art collections; select public collections include the Art Center of Waco (Texas), the Amarillo Museum of Art (Texas), and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (North Carolina).

Sager was featured in Robert Craig Bunch’s “The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists”.

ON VIEW | WARD SANDERS “Opus 4”, 2025, assemblage: discarded piano and pump organ pieces, 44 x 8 x 4”Ward Sanders explor...
05/21/2025

ON VIEW | WARD SANDERS

“Opus 4”, 2025, assemblage: discarded piano and pump organ pieces, 44 x 8 x 4”

Ward Sanders explores the lingering presence of music through the physical remnants of early 20th-century instruments in “Piano Pieces”. The concept of the exhibition emerged after Sanders dismantled two upright pianos and an old pump organ from this era of the early 1900s; he was struck by the sense that the soul of the music still resided in their worn and weathered parts.

Ward Sanders earned a B.S. in Biology at Sul Ross University (Alpine, TX) and completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Arizona. He was a high school educator in Biology and Art for 33 years in Houston, Lytle, and San Antonio. In 2018, Sanders participated in the group exhibitions, “The Art of Found Objects: Enigma Variations”, at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (Beaumont, TX) and “Art Vinyl” at the McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, TX). His work is in numerous private and public art collections.

Sanders was featured in both of Robert Craig Bunch’s publications, “The Art of Dreams, Visions, Other Worlds: Interviews with Texas Artists” and “The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists”.

𝐉𝐎𝐇𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐑𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅Save the Date for the opening of John Mark Sager’s “for the city and for th...
05/08/2025

𝐉𝐎𝐇𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐑

𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅

Save the Date for the opening of John Mark Sager’s “for the city and for the world” on May 17th!

2:00pm – 4:00pm
Robert Craig Bunch + Artists Book Signing

5:00pm – 7:00pm
Opening Reception

After 25 years of dreaming and imagining, artist John Mark Sager presents “for the city and for the world”, a striking new exhibition of altered books inspired by the spirit of cities, architecture, and gratitude.

The series features ten sculptural ‘towers’—each constructed from found books and materials—shaped by Sager’s enduring love for design, structure, and the stories embedded in form.

Rooted in a lifetime of artistic exploration and a deep appreciation of material—steel, paper, glass, wood—this exhibition is as much a personal tribute as it is a personal achievement. The title, translated from the Latin phrase ‘Urbi et Orbi’, refers to a papal blessing addressed to the entire world.

𝑷𝑰𝑨𝑵𝑶 𝑷𝑰𝑬𝑪𝑬𝑺Save the Date for the opening of Ward Sanders’ “Piano Pieces” on May 17th!2:00pm – 4:00pmRobert Craig Bunch ...
05/08/2025

𝑷𝑰𝑨𝑵𝑶 𝑷𝑰𝑬𝑪𝑬𝑺

Save the Date for the opening of Ward Sanders’ “Piano Pieces” on May 17th!

2:00pm – 4:00pm
Robert Craig Bunch + Artists Book Signing

5:00pm – 7:00pm
Opening Reception

Ward Sanders explores the lingering presence of music through the physical remnants of early 20th-century instruments in “Piano Pieces”.

The concept of the exhibition emerged after Sanders dismantled two upright pianos and an old pump organ from this era of the early 1900s; he was struck by the sense that the soul of the music still resided in their worn and weathered parts. The interplay of the observable and the imagined forms the foundation for “Piano Pieces”; with this body of work, Sanders seeks to restore a sense of dignity and presence to the once-sounding mechanisms.

Drawing on the structure and repetition found in musical composition, each piece becomes a visual opus—a variation on a theme—assembled from the same source materials and united by a quiet reverence for their shared history. The result is a visual symphony—works that resonate with memory, materiality, and the silent echo of sound once played.

EMERGING ARTIST POP-UP A ONE NIGHT ONLY EVENT!DEAN MILLS “INWARD / OUTWARD”EXHIBITION RECEPTIONSaturday May 10, 20254:00...
05/07/2025

EMERGING ARTIST POP-UP

A ONE NIGHT ONLY EVENT!

DEAN MILLS
“INWARD / OUTWARD”
EXHIBITION RECEPTION
Saturday May 10, 2025
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Featuring Work by Lamar High School Senior and Emerging Artist, Dean Mills. Be sure to come by this Saturday and help us celebrate and support the next generation of young artists! 🎉

ARTWORK IMAGE
“Gemini”, watercolor on paper, i.s. 9 x 12 3/4”

ABOUT THE ARTIST + EXHIBITION
Hooks-Epstein Galleries proudly introduces “Inward / Outward”, the first solo pop-up exhibition of emerging visual artist Dean Mills. The great-grandchild of gallery founder Geri Hooks, this personal milestone merges artistic growth with family legacy, offering a meaningful setting for work rooted in identity, memory, and reflection.

A senior at Mirabeau B. Lamar High School, Mills explores the contrast between inner emotional life and outward societal presentation. Through layered acrylic and delicate washes of watercolor, Mills’ paintings investigate themes of gender, vulnerability, and self-perception. Layered, abstract works evoke moments of introspection and emotional residue, while other pieces suggest the conscious performance of identity under external expectation. Together, the exhibition forms a visual conversation between what is felt and what is shown—an ongoing negotiation of the self.

Dean Mills has received a Scholastic Art & Writing Silver Key and has exhibited at the Holocaust Museum Houston, traveling HISD exhibitions, and Hardy & Nance Studios. Mills will attend the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) this fall to continue developing an artistic practice.

SANDI SELTZER CLOSING RECEPTIONJoin us this Saturday, May 3rd from Noon – 4pm for mimosas and sweet treats while enjoyin...
04/29/2025

SANDI SELTZER CLOSING RECEPTION

Join us this Saturday, May 3rd from Noon – 4pm for mimosas and sweet treats while enjoying the artwork of Sandi Seltzer Bryant!

View the available works on our website (🔗 in bio) and in person! Reminiscent of spring, the work is vibrant and joyful, and would make a wonderful addition to any collection!

“In Bloom Series #13”
2025
mixed media on canvas
20 x 20”

Sandi Seltzer Bryant earned her B.F.A. in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University in 1974 (Pittsburgh, PA). Her work has been exhibited in a number of collections nationally and internationally, in places including California, New York, Washington, D.C., The Netherlands, and South Korea. In February 2020, all media associated with Bryant was archived by the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston as well as the Art Museum of South Texas (Corpus Christi). In March 2025, a conversation with Bryant was featured in Voyage Houston’s “Local Stories”.

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