FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2026 Exhibitions & Events Calendar
All the information posted below is provided by participating artists or venues. We have edited for clarity and styling. Dates and times may vary due to unexpected circumstances. We try to post updates on any changes or cancellations, but since we may not receive the necessary information in a timely manner, we strongly recommend contacting each venue or artist to confirm posted schedules for exhibitions and events. Listings are posted in chronological order by opening/artist reception dates.
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FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2026 Online Galleries (Online September 1, 2026)
FELIPE GARZA (Monterrey, Mexico)
Oaxaca – Nuestros Muertos
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2026 Online Gallery (Online September 1, 2026)
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ROMAN BUTYM (Ukraine/Poland)
the UNSEEN
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2026 Online Gallery (Online September 1, 2026)
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FAUSTINUS DERAET (Austin, Texas)
Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beerholder
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2026 Online Gallery (Online September 1, 2026)
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MICHAEL MEHL (San Antonio, Texas)
Bees In My Bonnet (Animated GIFs)
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2026 Online Gallery (Online September 1, 2026)
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FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2026 Exhibitions & Events
• FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
TRISH SIMONITE (San Antonio, Texas)
Exquisite Entropy
Photographs 1972 – 2025
Curated By Paula Owen
Presented by UTSA Arts and UT San Antonio School Of Art
Russell Hill Rogers Galleries
Santikos Building – UTSA Southwest Campus
1201 Navarro Street, San Antonio, TX 78205
art.events@utsa.edu | https://arts.utsa.edu
Opening reception: Friday, August 28, 2026, 6 – 8 pm
Artist talk: Saturday, September 26, 2026, 1 – 3 pm
Exhibit on display: August 28 – October 3, 2026
Viewing hours: Thu – Sat, 12 – 5 pm
Contact: Breanna Castillo breanna.castillo@utsa.edu
Free and open to the public
In the Pentland Hills outside of Edinburgh is an enchanting landscape of sculptural installations by the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, including a work of massive stones laying in the grass, each with one word carved into the top: THE PRESENT ORDER IS THE DISORDER OF THE FUTURE. Attributed to Saint Just, this admonition echoes a central theme of the fifty some years of photographs by Trish Simonite. She is drawn to subjects that reflect the randomness of physical change and decay found in the man-made and natural worlds, and this principle concern is unwavering despite varying formal elements, locations, and subject matter.
Having grown up in England, she acknowledges a British sensibility and employs an embodied respect for history and the passage of time to explore her subjects. Whether botanical, architectural, or prosaic, her works often refer to the past: a past glory, a past use, a past civilization. What is as remarkable, however, is the enigmatic beauty she finds and/or appends to the image by technical manipulation, due to her skillful consideration of formal elements of color, texture, light, and composition. It is also derived from her ability to create a distinctive mood through perspective and atmospherics such as haze, shadow, and double exposure. The works regularly project a quality of intentional approach or stillness in which the viewer is beckoned into a darkened foreground that opens up to a light-filled interior or distant land or seascape.
Often, she layers images to convey both past and present, revealing the evolving and metaphorical nature of reality expressed through her deft handling of formal and narrative choices. In Curtains, Happisburgh, a bygone era is suggested by the dated pattern of the curtains in a picture window layered over a view of the sunless and uninviting beach. In Hidden Histories, a deteriorating rock wall is superimposed over the landscape telling a story of centuries of use. Likewise, the double exposures of jawbone, amphorae, and shell over views of several coastlines communicate the timelessness of nature no matter how ancient or rich the civilization.
The exhibition’s title, Exquisite Entropy, reflects the unmistakable essence of Simonite’s work. Referring to a state of being studied primarily in cosmology and physics where it is a measure of chaos or uncertainty, entropy suggests that all systems, natural or constructed, bend toward entropy because it requires less energy or effort. Simonite draws inspiration from this truth to express a philosophical or existential stance, but also because she is attracted by the aesthetic qualities of transformation. In Franziska, for instance, she finds beauty and pathos in the once full rose petals, darkening and curling.
Even in those works that do not include obvious deterioration or decay, Simonite chooses to tell us a story of transformation, sometimes through actual or implied absence. In the series taken on the Norfolk coast at Yarmouth Beach, she reflects on the place where she spent summers as a young girl, emphasizing vastness and emptiness. She says that she has begun to think of these images as being about her own absence as much as her presence. By framing the foregrounds with colorful signs implying the gaiety of a beach holiday but also emphasizing the distant horizon and deserted sand and sea, she intensifies our own contemplative arc.
Though she seldom includes people in her pieces, the elderly man having tea alone outside his beach cabin evokes palpable melancholy, and in Wendy Lying Down, a field of lush grass overlays a youthful girl wearing a white dress, both works intimating the cyclical nature of life in its vibrancy and loss. Likewise, seldom does even a boat appear in the many expansive sea views, implying a dreamy but improbable infinity. Empty chairs await at Gregor’s House and on the street in Seville. A lopsided bench in a deserted courtyard and an old mattress propped up against a corrugated fence are unlikely subjects, among the many images emphasizing corporeal impermanence.
In part because the reality captured by the camera is transient, photography is a master of paradox. The youth will age, the leaf will shrivel, the sunlight will never fall in such a way again, the stone wall will crumble, the door will fall off its hinges. Simonite spotlights these contradictions and does so with an aesthetically elegant eye. Her works stir awareness of the tenuousness of our material world and mortal selves, reminding us that while we too must submit to entropy, the process is often exquisite. –Paula Owen
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• SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
ED MALCIK (Austin, Texas)
Urban Buzz
Mockingbird Handprints
4303 McCullough Avenue, San Antonio, TX 78212
(210) 262-6698 | https://mockingbirdhandprints.com
Opening reception: Saturday, August 29, 2026, 3 – 5 pm
Exhibit on display: August 29 – October 3, 2026
Viewing hours: Tue – Sat, 11 am – 5 pm
Contact: Jane Bishop (210) 262-6698 | mockingbirdhandprints@gmail.com
Free and open to the public
Cities have a vibe, a feeling, a buzz, when its denizens, places, and activities come together in situations of critical mass. I prowl urban streets seeking scenes where multiple factors come together in something visually special. Then I photograph it. What I look for is elusive, and it shows up in the darndest places, like back alleys, a sorority rush, a political rally, a bar prohibiting sagging, and a boot return—really, a boot return. For this exhibition the buzzing is from Austin. This is my ninth solo exhibition for FOTOSEPTIEMBRE at Mockingbird Handprints. –Ed Malcik
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• SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
PATRICK ZELLER (San Antonio, Texas)
Himalayas By Motorcycle
Presented by Angela Martinez
The Ridge At The Hill
2119 IH-35 Frontage Road (Government Hill), San Antonio, TX 78208
(210) 212-5727 | https://theridgeatthehill.com
No opening reception
Exhibit on display: August 30 – September 30, 2026
Viewing during regular restaurant hours: Mon – Fri, 11 am – 10 pm; Sat, Noon – 10 pm
Contact: Patrick Zeller pzrider3@gmail.com
Free and open to the public
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2026 (Austin, Texas)
AYASH BASU, NICK BERARD, RODOLFO GONZALEZ (Austin, Texas)
Cuba – Un Colectivo, Tres Miradas
Curated by Cynthia Perez
La Peña Gallery
227 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701
(512) 477-6007 | lapena@lapena-austin.org | https://lapena-austin.org
Opening reception: Thursday, September 3, 2026, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibit on display: August 27 – September 24, 2026
Viewing hours: Mon – Fri, 8 am – 5 pm; Saturday, 8 am – 3 pm | Closed Sunday
Contact: Rodolfo Gonzalez (512) 809-6102 | gonzofotoz@gmail.com
Ayash Basu (404) 398-5049 | ayashbasu@gmail.com
Nick Berard (512) 962-2501 | nick@nickberard.com
Free and open to the public
Havana doesn’t wait for anyone; neither does the rest of Cuba. Crumbling façades in impossible color, salsa spilling out of doorways, vintage cars idling next to satellite dishes, a country that feels like five decades happening at once. It’s magnetic. It pulls you back. It pulled us back twenty times over ten years, between the three of us.
Rudy Gonzalez, a Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist, brings the eye of someone who has spent a career finding truth in a single frame. Ayash Basu, an avid visual storyteller, brings a narrative instinct, building images into arcs that carry you past one moment into a fuller story. Nick Berard, a working commercial photographer, brings a director’s eye for light and composition, framing each scene to pull you in and hold you there.
Forty photographs. One Island. Three points of view shown side by side, because Cuba isn’t one story, it’s many, happening at once. Come see all of them.
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
AL RENDON (Lead Artist), OSCAR CASTILLO, RUBEN CHAVEZ, GLORIA CRUZ, CHRIS HERNANDEZ, NOE HERNANDEZ, RAMON HERNANDEZ, DESTINY MATA, VICTORIA MARTINEZ, ENRIQUE NAVARRETE, DAVID ORTEGA, JOEL SALCIDO, MONICA SALDANA, KATHY VARGAS (Texas)
Cultural Imagination Across Generations
Curated by Ricardo Romo Ph.D
Centro Cultural Aztlan
1800 Fredericksburg Road, Suite 103, San Antonio, TX 78201
(210) 432-1896 | https://centroaztlan.org
Opening reception: Thursday, September 3, 2026, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibit on display: September 3 – 24, 2026
Viewing hours: Mon – Thu, 10 am – 4 pm, except holidays
Contact: Malena Gonzalez-Cid or Ruth Guajardo (210) 432-1896 | centroaztlan@sbcglobal.net
Free and open to the public
This photographic exhibition at Centro Cultural Aztlan, Cultural Imagination Across Generations, presented in conjunction with FOTOSEPTIEMBRE, offers a powerful meditation on Mexican American life as lived, remembered, and continually reimagined. Rooted in everyday experience, the works on view illuminate the intimate textures of Tejano and Chicano communities –moments often overlooked, yet deeply embedded in the cultural imagination across generations. Through images of quinceañeras, birthdays, religious observances, and quiet scenes of domestic and communal life, the exhibition captures both the extraordinary and the everyday, revealing how cultural values such as family, resilience, cooperation, and continuity are actively lived and sustained.
These photographs function as more than visual documents; they are acts of preservation, affirmation, and storytelling. Collectively, they form an alternative chronicle of Mexican American familial and cultural practices –a lifelong endeavor for many of the photographers represented. As visual historians and cultural workers, these artists construct narratives that challenge historical absence in mainstream representation while expanding the scope of American art. Their work transforms fleeting moments into enduring records, creating a visual archive that complements written histories and ensures that lived experience is neither forgotten nor marginalized.
San Antonio emerges as a central presence throughout the exhibition –a wellspring of memory, identity, and meaning. Viewed through a South Texas lens, the images ground broader cultural themes in specific places, faces, and traditions, reflecting how the community sees itself and wishes to be seen. At the same time, the works foster empathy and cultural understanding, inviting viewers into a dialogue between past and present. Especially for those unfamiliar with these cultural worlds, the exhibition opens a space for recognition and learning.
Ultimately, this exhibition underscores photography’s vital role in shaping cultural memory. These images do not simply record; they speak. They carry forward stories of identity, place, and belonging, contributing to a broader, community-rooted, culturally affirming arts movement. In doing so, they help ensure that Mexican American life is seen, valued, and understood within the evolving narrative of American art.–Ricardo Romo Ph.D
In addition, Centro Cultural Aztlan is honoring Al Rendon with the Aguila Aztlan Lifetime Achievement Award. Al Rendon, a San Antonio-born photographer, is being honored for his extraordinary contributions to documenting the cultural life of South Texas. Over a distinguished career spanning more than five decades, Rendon has captured the spirit of Mexican American and Tejano communities through powerful images of music, tradition, and everyday life. From his early work photographing rock concerts in the 1970s to his iconic portraits of Selena, conjunto musicians, and charreada participants, his photography reflects both artistic excellence and cultural stewardship. His work, featured in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and exhibited internationally, affirms his role as a vital visual historian. The Witte Museum’s retrospective further recognized his enduring impact. Through his lens, Rendon preserves the stories, resilience, and identity of San Antonio, leaving an invaluable legacy for future generations.
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
ANGELA BARTELS (San Antonio, Texas)
Hover
Curated by Mitzi Moore
Et Hus Gallery
Blue Star Arts Complex – Upstairs Studios
1420 South Alamo Street, Suite 208, San Antonio, TX 78210
Opening receptions: Thursday, September 3 and Friday, September 4, 2026 (First Friday), 7 – 10 pm
Closing reception: Thursday, September 17, 2026 (Third Thursday), 7 – 10 pm
Exhibit on display: September 3 – 17, 2026
Viewing hours: By appointment
Contact: Angela Bartels (210) 846-2676 | angela.bartels@gmail.com
Free and open to the public
As a portrait photographer, my latest obsession is capturing hummingbirds mid flight. With the camera I can capture details that are impossible to catch with the naked eye. These magnificent birds exist in a high-speed world entirely separate from ours, yet they visit us often. Have you ever been curious about the fine details of hummingbird feathers or the shape of their tails? Come see this show, which celebrates their athleticism, beauty, and charm.–Angela Bartels
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
REBECCA DIETZ (San Antonio, Texas)
Fortune And Fables
Un Grito Gallery
Blue Star Arts Complex – Upstairs Studios
1420 South Alamo Street, Suites 211 – 212, San Antonio, TX 78210
Opening receptions: Thursday, September 3 and Friday, September 4, 2026 (First Friday), 7 pm – 10 pm
Closing reception: Thursday, September 17, 2026 (Third Thursday), 7 pm – 10 pm
Exhibit on display: September 3 – 17, 2026
Viewing hours: By appointment
Contact: Verena Gaudy (210) 992-0585 | verenagaudy@gmail.com
Martín Rodriguez (210) 997-6095 | martin.c.rodriguez@gmail.com
Rebecca Dietz (210) 315-2131 | rebecca.dietz@gmail.com
Free and open to the public
Fortune And Fables – Short Stories for Restless Souls
I search for moments of mysticism in ordinary environments, locations where time is displaced through juxtapositions of objects, unnatural light, or spatial dynamics. The camera is a device to trap time and bend light. Through the lens the world is transformed into mysterious spaces, lost fragments, or chance encounters. This unknowing of the known world creates images that linger between familiar and fictional, or dreaming and conscious states.
The exhibit contains two short series. Fortuna captures gritty, cinematic, black & white images of Italian street culture with a nod toward Italian Neorealism and a Noir-ish sense of angles and dark shadows. The images are hand transferred onto metal plates. Subconscious Dreaming occurred individually over time and reflect my fascination with low-fi technology and analogue film tricks. They embody unvoiced emotions, prescient thoughts and yearnings for unknown lands. They are shot on film and developed using traditional darkroom color and black & white processes.–Rebecca Dietz
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
PATRICK ZELLER (San Antonio, Texas)
The Bros
Ragtag Group Of Motorcycle Riders From La Tuna’s Old-School Days
Organized by Tim Olsen
Foyer At The Upstairs Studios – Blue Star Arts Complex
1420 South Alamo Street, San Antonio, TX 78210
Opening receptions: Thursday, September 3 and Friday September 4 (First Friday), 2026, 7 – 10 pm
Closing reception: Thursday, September 17 (Third Thursday), 2026, 7 – 10 pm
Exhibit on display: September 3 – 30, 2026
Viewing hours: Daily
Contact: Patrick Zeller (210) 803-8326 | pzrider3@gmail.com
Free and open to the public
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
DEBORAH KELLER-RIHN (Lead Artist), JOSHUA BLANKMAN, EMILY BLASE, MARIA J. BROWN, CHEL DELANEY, EDUARDO C. GARZA, CRYSTAL GREEN, LE GREEN SCHUBERT, CHRISTINE ELIZABETH JUAREZ, ANNETTE LOPEZ LANDRY, BHAGAVAN NARADA DASA, REBECCA OHLHAUSEN, EDUARDO RAMIREZ, RIVER STEPHENS (San Antonio, Texas)
Demolition And Reconstruction
Blue Star Arts Collective
Blue Star Arts Complex – Upstairs Studios
1420 South Alamo Street, Suite 110, San Antonio, TX 78210
kellerrihnd@gmail.com
Opening receptions: Thursday, September 3 and Friday, September 4 (First Friday), 2026, 6 – 10 pm
Closing reception: Thursday, September 17 (Third Thursday), 2026, 6 – 10 pm
Exhibit on display: September 3 – 30, 2026
Viewing hours: By appointment | Text Deborah (210) 800-5441
Contact: Deborah Keller-Rihn (210) 800-5441 | kellerrihnd@gmail.com
Free and open to the public
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• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
ELVA GARCIA, JULEN NAVARRETE, ALEX RAMIREZ (San Antonio, Texas)
In Focus – People, Places And Things
Curated by Ashley Perez
Oh Yeah Gallery – Oh Yeah Cakes
713 South Saint Mary’s Street, San Antonio, TX 78205
Opening reception: Friday, September 4, 2026, 6 pm
Exhibit on display: September 4 – October 24, 2026
Viewing hours: Tue – Sun, 11 am – 6 pm
Contact: Ashley Perez (210) 834-4120 | ashleyperezart@gmail.com | https://ashleyperezart.com
Free and open to the public
Photography has the power to transform the ordinary into something worth lingering over. In Focus – People, Places And Things brings together three photographers whose distinct perspectives explore the subjects that shape our everyday lives. Through portraits, landscapes, and still life, the exhibition invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and discover beauty in both the familiar and the unexpected.
Presented at Oh Yeah Gallery, this exhibition embraces the idea that art belongs everywhere. Visitors may arrive for cupcakes, but they’ll leave having encountered a thoughtful collection of images that celebrate observation, curiosity, and the shared experiences that connect us all.
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
BRENT ANDERSON, PATTY DE ALTERIS, BRIAN DUCHIN, PETER FLORCZAK, JOHN KAIN, RON KARPEL, STEVE MANCHESTER, ROBERT MORENO, MICHAEL OSBORN, ANTHONY SHEARIN, TRISH STONE, BARRY WATSON (Greater San Antonio Camera Club)
The Way We See
A Collective Exhibition
Curated by Greater San Antonio Camera Club
Barshop Jewish Community Center
12500 NW Military Highway, Building 275, San Antonio, TX 78231
(210) 302-6820 | heissc@jcc-sa.org | https://www.jccsanantonio.org
Opening reception: Thursday, September 10, 2026, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibit on display: September 1 – 30, 2026
Viewing hours: Mon – Thu, 8 am – 9 pm; Fri, Sat, Sun, 8 am – 6 pm
Contact: Trish Stone (210) 315-5431 | gsacc.sa@gmail.com | https://www.gsacc.org
Free and open to the public
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• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
SCOTT BALL (San Antonio, Texas), ADRIAN BUCKMASTER (Brooklyn, New York), ANTHONY GARCIA (San Antonio, Texas), STEFANI LACKEY (San Antonio, Texas), JORGE LOPEZ (Havana, Cuba)
Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover
Curated by Angela Martinez and Anthony Garcia
The Beacon At Midtown Gallery And Studios
1136 West Woodlawn Avenue, San Antonio, TX 78201
Opening reception: Friday, September 11, 2026, 7 – 10 pm
Closing reception: Saturday, October 3, 2026
Exhibit on display: September 5 – October 3, 2026
Viewing hours: By appointment
Contact: Angela Martinez (210) 393-9909 | angela@slabcinema.com
Free and open to the public
Give a group of artistic photographers a catchy 70’s pop song for a prompt and see what happens. Some of the resulting photos will make you laugh and some will probably make you uncomfortable.–Angela Martinez, Anthony Garcia
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• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
TIMOTHY SUMMA (1950 – 2025) (San Antonio, Texas)
Summa Erotica
Organized and curated by Ramin Samandari and Deborah Keller-Rihn
Magical Realism Studio
107 Lone Star Boulevard, 107-B, San Antonio, TX 78204
Opening reception: Saturday, September 12, 2026 (Second Saturday), 6 – 9 pm
Exhibit on display: September 12 – 30, 2026
Viewing hours: By appointment
Contact: Ramin Samandari (210) 861-4325 | magicalrealismstudio@gmail.com
Free and open to the public
Summa Erotica is a celebration of Timothy Summa’s distinctive vision as a photographer and his exploration of the human body, intimacy, desire, and vulnerability. Through his lens, the erotic becomes more than an image of the body –it becomes a language of emotion, identity, and human connection. Tim’s photographs are at once sensual and contemplative, revealing a fascination with gesture, form, light, and the quiet tension between photographer and subject. His images invite us to look beyond conventional ideas of beauty and sexuality and to encounter the body as both landscape and portrait.
This posthumous exhibition celebrates Tim’s contribution to San Antonio’s photographic community and offers an intimate glimpse into an artist who approached the camera with curiosity, honesty, and an unflinching eye. The exhibit is comprised, mostly of Tim’s erotic photography, experimental Polaroid Transfer images, and some his early work while at UTSA’s MFA program. Tim hardly, if ever exhibited any of his work. After he passed away in 2025, through contact with his sister, we were able to go through his storage space and gather a selection of his prints to assemble this retrospective in honor of his legacy and lifelong passion for photography. –Ramin Samandari & Deborah Keller-Rihn
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• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
ANTHONY FRANCIS, PAOLA LONGORIA, JON MANZKE, BOMA MUAKA, THERESA NEWSOME, JO E. NORRIS, SHAGGY, JARED TAYLOR, JACLYN VALDEZ (San Antonio, Texas)
Picture Thinking
Curated by Calvin Pressley
SMART Project Space
1906 South Flores, San Antonio, TX 78204
smartsatx@gmail.com | https://smartsa.org
Opening reception: Saturday, September 12, 2026 (Second Saturday), 7 – 10 pm
Closing reception: Saturday, September 26, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibit on display: September 1 – 26, 2026
Viewing hours aside from opening/closing receptions: September 19, 2 – 5 pm
Contact: Mark Anthony Martinez (210) 376-1836 | markmartinez.mfa@gmail.com
Free and open to the public
Picture Thinking is a group exhibition of photography and photo-based works curated from the perspective of a painter. Rather than adhering to a prescribed theme, the exhibition seeks images that resonate through visual language –works that demonstrate a compelling use of composition, light, color, texture, atmosphere, or narrative. Picture Thinking celebrates photography as a medium capable of moving beyond documentation, inviting viewers to engage with photographs that reward sustained looking and thoughtful observation.–Calvin Pressley
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• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
OSCAR CASTILLO, RUBEN CHAVEZ, GLORIAMARIE CRUZ, MONICA ESTRADA-SALDANA, CHRIS HERNANDEZ, NOEL HERNANDEZ, RAMON HERNANDEZ, VICTORIA MARTINEZ, ENRIQUE NAVARRETE, DAVID ORTEGA, AL RENDON, RICARDO ROMO, JOEL SALCIDO, KATHY VARGAS, GUILLERMINA ZABALA (Texas)
Close To Home
Curated by Ricardo Romo Ph.D
Organized by Emma Garcia, Gallery Manager
Lone Star Gallery
107 Lone Star Boulevard, San Antonio, TX 78204
(210) 887-9744 | admin@billfitzgibbons.com
Opening reception: Saturday, September 12, 2026, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibit on display: September 12 – 24, 2026
Viewing hours: Tue and Thu, 10 am – 4 pm
Contact: Bill Fitzgibbons (210) 723-3048 | bill@billfitzgibbons.com
Emma Garcia (210) 887-9744 | admin@billfitzgibbons.com
Free and open to the public
This FOTOSEPTIEMBRE exhibit explores the people, places, and traditions that shape Mexican American life in San Antonio. Through photographs of everyday routines, family gatherings, cultural celebrations, heritage, and community, the exhibit honors the intimate moments that create a sense of belonging.
Photography serves as both witness and storyteller, preserving gestures, rituals, expressions, and relationships that might otherwise fade from memory. These images document festivals, migration, social movements, personal histories, and shared experiences while reflecting the vitality and resilience of local communities.
More than a record of events, Close To Home invites viewers to recognize the beauty and meaning found in familiar spaces—at the kitchen table, in neighborhood streets, at celebrations, and among generations. Together, the photographs form a visual archive of lived experience, affirming how communities see themselves and how they wish to be remembered.–Ricardo Romo Ph.D
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• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
BRAIN (San Antonio, Texas)
Brain’s Estate Sale
Presented by The Birdman
Birdman Studio
3803 West Commerce Street, San Antonio, TX 78207
Opening reception: Saturday, September 19, 2026, 7 pm
Exhibit on display: September 19 – 26, 2026
Viewing hours: By appointment
Contact: Bryan De La Garza (210) 992-2772 | brain@brainold.com
Free and open to the public
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• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
GINA ACORD (San Antonio, Texas)
The Things We Keep
River Alchemy Of Creative Arts
2600 South Flores Street, San Antonio, TX 78204
(254) 371-7712 | riveralchemyarts@gmail.com | https://riveralchemyarts.com
Opening reception: Saturday, September 19, 2026, 6:30 – 9 :30 pm
Exhibit on display: September 16 – October 14, 2026
Viewing hours: By appointment
Contact: Gina Acord (210) 999-1779 | mulberries.milkweed@gmail.com
Free and open to the public
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• SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2026 (New Braunfels, Texas)
FRANK BAYERQUE, BARBARA BEVERSDORF, SHELBY CAESAR, SUZANNE DAUNT, SHARLANA DILLARD, SANDRA GILBERT, MIA HENDRICKS, PATRICIA JONES, SAM LAWSON, BECKY LOVE, CHRISTIANE MENELAS, JAMES MOSELEY, CRAIG PELLERIN, HORST SCHONINGER, MARTY WATSON, VICTOR WATSON, DAVID DUANE WILSON, JACKIES WISE, EDWARD ZUKOWSKI (Greater New Braunfels Photography Club)
My Favorite Photo
Curated by Greater New Braunfels Photography Club
New Braunfels Civic/Convention Center
375 South Castell Avenue, New Braunfels, Texas 78130
(830) 221-4013 | nbcc@newbraunfels.gov | https://www.newbraunfels.gov/3476/Civic-Convention-Center
Artists reception: Sunday, September 20, 2026, 1 – 4 pm
Exhibit on display: September 1 – October 4, 2026
Viewing hours: Mon – Fri, 10 am – 5 pm; Sat – Sun, 10 am – 4 pm
Exhibit available for viewing: September 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21
Exhibit not available for viewing: September 7, 25
Contact: Edward Zukowski (210) 445-4711 | ez1024@hotmail.com
Victor Watson (210) 439-0570 | victor@schertzphoto.com
Civic/Convention Center Contact: Tristan Garner (830) 221-4012 | tgarner@newbraunfels.gov
Free and open to the public
The Greater New Braunfels Photography Club is proud to present its 2026 Fall Exhibition, My Favorite Photo, as part of FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2026. Each year, the club selects a new exhibition theme to showcase the creativity, skill, and personal vision of its members. This year’s theme invites each photographer to share one image that holds special meaning to them –whether because of the story behind it, the technical challenge it represents, the emotion it captures, or simply because it remains one of their personal favorites.
The exhibition features a wide range of photographic images that reflect the individual styles, interests, and experiences of local photographers. It includes landscapes, wildlife, portraits, travel, documentary images and creative works –all celebrating the beauty of the photographic image and the personal connection each artist has with their chosen work. Each image reflects a moment, a memory, a challenge, or a creative achievement that has stayed with the photographer. The result is an exhibition filled with variety, meaning, and strong visual storytelling.
The artist meet-and-greet on September 20 is a wonderful chance for the community to connect directly with local photographic artists, hear about their creative process, and celebrate the outstanding artwork being produced by members of the Greater New Braunfels Photography Club.
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 (Austin, Texas)
FAUSTINUS DERAET (Austin, Texas)
Mientras Vagaba Por La CDMX
Curated by Gabriela Gamez
Consulado General De México En Austin
5202 East Ben White Boulevard, Suite 150, Austin, TX 78741
(512) 478-2866 | mexicoenaustin@sre.gob.mx | ConsulMexAustin Website
Opening reception: Thursday, September 24, 2026, 5 pm
Exhibit on display: September 24, 2026 – January 22, 2027
Viewing hours: Mon – Fri, 8 am – 5 pm
Contact: Faustinus Deraet (512) 413-2954 | faustinusderaet@yahoo.com
Free and open to the public
While Wandering Through CDMX is a photographic exhibition that explores Mexico City through three distinct bodies of work: While Wandering Through El Deh Effeh, Chilango Subconscious, and The Street Is a Museum (CDMX).
Rooted in the experience of living in Mexico City, the exhibition reflects a particular way of seeing, one shaped by wandering, observation, and an openness to the unexpected. Moving through the streets without a predetermined destination, the photographer encounters the city in its most spontaneous and intimate moments, transforming everyday observations into visual narratives.
Ordinary objects, fragments of architecture, and memories are photographed with intimacy and curiosity, revealing unexpected identities and layers of meaning within the urban landscape. What might initially appear mundane becomes a window into the character of the city. The resulting images are authentic and deeply personal, capturing the vitality, contradictions, humor, and surrealism that permeate Mexico City. Together, these three bodies of work form an evolving portrait of a city that is constantly in motion, where the everyday becomes extraordinary, and where the street itself becomes both subject and museum.–Faustinus Deraet
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• WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
ROBERT CASIAS, ABIGAIL CRUZ, ERIC HERNANDEZ, ELLORY HULCE, VICTORIA LARSON, ISABELLA LORENZANA, JOHNNY MORENO, JAMES MOSES, EVAN NEWBERRY, SHANNON NEWBERRY, ALEX ROSARIO, ALYA TRIMBLE (San Antonio, Texas)
Prospettive – Italy Through The Student Lens
Curated by Rebecca Dietz, Professor of Art, Visual Art Program, The Arts Department, San Antonio College
San Antonio College – Moody Library
Room 409 (Library Performance Area), 4th Floor
1819 North Main Street, San Antonio, TX 78212
Moody Library (210) 486-0556 | ask@sac.libanswers.com
Event Webpage: https://saclibcal.libcal.com/event/17407468
Library Calendar Webpage: https://saclibcal.libcal.com/calendar/classes
Opening reception: Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 11:30 am – 1 pm
Exhibit on display: September 28 – October 30, 2026
Viewing hours. Mon – Fri, 7:30 am – 7 pm; Sat, 7:30 am – 1 pm; Closed Sunday
Contact: Rebecca Dietz (210) 486-1046 | rdietz4@alamo.edu | Library Contact: (210) 486-0556 | ask@sac.libanswers.com
Free and open to the public
Welcome to Prospettive (Perspectives), a collection of photographic works captured by students enrolled in Alamo College’s 2026 Study Abroad to Italy program. For many of these artists, this journey represented their first time navigating an unfamiliar culture and documenting the experience with digital camera. The photographic techniques studied in class became a catalyst to explore the light, colors, textures and layered history of the Italian landscape. The resulting collection is an intimate look at Italy through fresh eyes –combining artistic experimentation, cultural exploration, and personal discovery.
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• THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026 (San Antonio, Texas)
ROBERT ZIEBELL (Houston, San Antonio, Texas – Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan)
Locations
Michael And Noémi Neidorff Gallery
Trinity University – Dicke Art Building
One Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX 78212
Closing reception: Thursday, October 8, 2026, 5 – 7 pm
Exhibit on display: August 27 – October 8, 2026
Viewing hours: Tue – Sat, 1 – 5 pm, and by appointment
Contact: (210) 999-7682 | neidorffgallery@trinity.edu
Free and open to the public
Locations brings together Robert Ziebell’s photographic images of the vernacular architecture and natural wonders of the Keweenaw in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where he has resided part time for over thirty years. The term locations refers to worker housing originally built by mining companies, which have been transformed over the years with an idiosyncratic array of styles and materials. Small photographs on canvas of these structures are interspersed with large-scale prints of the rugged landscapes of Lake Superior which surround the former mining towns.
Robert Ziebell has worked as a lens-based artist in diverse media for over 35 years. His film, video and photography have been shown and supported by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, the Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Andy Warhol Foundation among others.
The Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery serves the Trinity University and San Antonio communities by presenting a wide variety of visual media that contributes to an ongoing dialogue in the visual arts. The gallery programming supports the mission of the Department of Art and Art History by providing a venue for contemporary exhibitions that complement course content. Gallery programming regularly features work by students, faculty, as well as curated exhibitions by nationally and internationally recognized artists.
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