Moody Gallery

Moody Gallery Houston gallery whose focus is contemporary American art with an emphasis on work by Texas artists.

Betty Moody opened Moody Gallery in 1975 and exhibits work by contemporary American artists. The emphasis has always been on artists living and working in Texas, as well as artists who have had a strong connection to Texas. The gallery is interested in a wide range of artistic ideas and in showing all media. Many of the artists represented are recognized on a national (and in some cases, internati

onal level); however, the gallery also represents mid-career and emerging artists. The gallery is committed to showing the best work possible from this region and putting the work in context with work by established artists from other parts of the country.

Dornith Doherty | Cross-pollinate - Reception for the Artist Saturday, September 12, 3-5 pm, Artist Talk 4 pm. Please jo...
09/01/2026

Dornith Doherty | Cross-pollinate - Reception for the Artist Saturday, September 12, 3-5 pm, Artist Talk 4 pm.

Please join us for "Cross-pollinate", an exhibition of recent photographs by Dornith Doherty. "Cross-pollinate", Doherty’s second solo show at the gallery, is on view September 12 – October 24, 2026.

For artist Dornith Doherty, making art is a form of advocacy. Doherty, who primarily works with photography, video, animation, and scientific imaging, uses her art to address and illuminate the grave ecological and environmental issues of today. For this exhibition, Doherty spent two years imaging mid-twentieth century scientific microscope slides. In her own words, “I have combined these slides with herbarium specimens spanning different time periods and parts of the world, creating layered palimpsests that collapse temporal boundaries and evoke the tension between preservation and erasure.” Though the philosophical and ecological issues Doherty deals with are complex and consequential, her visual poetry is far from gloomy or somber. Her compositions are sophisticated, lively, and dynamic and her palette is sublimely vibrant at times. The works on view in "Cross-pollinate" exhibit Doherty’s immense appreciation for botanical life. In her artmaking, she utilizes the beauty and intricacies of plants with the hopes that viewers will reconsider the history of entanglement between people and plants.

Born in Houston, Texas, Dornith Doherty (b. 1957) received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rice University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Yale University. She serves as Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas. Doherty has received grants for her artmaking from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the US Fulbright Program, the Japan Foundation, the United States Department of the Interior, the University of North Texas, the Houston Center for Photography, and the Indiana Arts Commission. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, and the Dayton Art Institute among others. Doherty’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Lamar University, the Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University, University of Texas at San Antonio, Museum of Texas Tech University, Milwaukee Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Yale University Library, Brandts Museum of Art and Visual Culture in Denmark, UT Southwestern Medical Center, MD Anderson, City of Denton, Federal Reserve Bank, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Centro de Fotografía in Spain.

Doherty’s work is on view in the exhibitions Simulacra: Dornith Doherty, Etsuko Ichikawa, and Bill Viola at the GOCA, ENT Center for the Arts, Colorado Springs, Colorado through October 10, 2026, Ellas Ilustran Botánica at the Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain through November 1, 2026, and Prairie Festival Exhibition, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas September 16 - December 16, 2026.

Moody Gallery is open Tuesday - Friday 10:30 am - 5:00 pm and Saturday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm. For more information, please call or email the gallery at 713-526-9911 or [email protected]. Cross-pollinate can also be viewed online at www.moodygallery.com.

Upcoming Exhibition:Dornith DohertyCross-pollinateSeptember 12 - October 24, 2026Reception for the Artist Saturday, Sept...
08/15/2026

Upcoming Exhibition:

Dornith Doherty
Cross-pollinate
September 12 - October 24, 2026
Reception for the Artist
Saturday, September 12, 3-5 pm
Artist Talk 4 pm

Image:
Dornith Doherty
Magnolias, 2026
archival pigment print, ed: 5
36" x 24"

William Christenberry | Artist HighlightArtist William Christenberry (1936-2016) moved through different media with unco...
07/22/2026

William Christenberry | Artist Highlight

Artist William Christenberry (1936-2016) moved through different media with uncommon ease. Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Christenberry initially studied painting and earned a Master of Arts in Painting from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1959. However, at the encouragement of his friend and mentor Walker Evans, Christenberry’s artistic focus shifted to photography in the early 1960s. By the mid-1960s, Christenberry was working primarily in photography and found object sculpture. In 1974, he began crafting “building constructions,” freestanding sculptures inspired by architectural structures, dwellings, churches, and stores, located in his home state. Six years later, he commenced the “Southern Monuments” sculpture series. Christenberry’s “Southern Monuments” series recalls the histories and cultures of the American South, as well as explores themes of time, place, and memory. For Christenberry, a monument did not have to be grand, nor did it have to be made of traditional bronze or marble. Rather, in his own words, he sought to “evoke a feeling of a monument, albeit a somewhat abstract one that one might find in the landscape.” For Southern Monument XXII (1989), which is currently on view at Moody Gallery, Christenberry crafted a box-like structure out of repurposed, rusted steel. Scattered around and in this structure, which rests in red soil that Christenberry collected from Alabama, there are symbolically charged objects: a gourd, ladder, and cannonball. The artist associated these objects with his homeland, using them as talismans to conjure feelings and evoke a sense of place. Today, works from the “Southern Monuments” series are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Yale University Art Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Phillips Collection, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Hunter Museum of American Art, and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

Exhibition history:

The Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C., 20th Anniversary Exhibition, February 20 - July 31, 2014

Hemphill, Washington D.C., William Christenberry, June 10 - August 1, 2015

Hemphill, Washington D.C., William Christenberry, November 10, 2020 - January 16, 2021

Additional works by William Christenberry can be viewed here- https://www.moodygallery.com/artists/william-christenberry

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2815 Colquitt Street
Houston, TX
77098

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Wednesday 10:30am - 5pm
Thursday 10:30am - 5pm
Friday 10:30am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm

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