October 24 - November 22, 2025 Exhibitions

Name: October 24 - November 22, 2025 Exhibitions
Start: 2025-10-25T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-25T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 6700 Harrisburg Blvd, Houston, TX, United States, Texas 77011

Schedule

Sat Oct 25 2025 at 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

6700 Harrisburg Blvd, Houston, TX, United States, Texas 77011 | Houston, TX

BOX 13 ArtSpace is pleased to present four new exhibitions opening Friday October 22, 2025 6pm to 9pm.
Box 13 ArtSpace is pleased to present, “Snap It Up” by artist Mitchell Reece at Front Box Gallery reimagines family memory through paintings, artifacts, and archival materials inspired by the artist’s grandmother’s journey with Alzheimer’s. Blending discovery, faith, and Black familial resilience, the exhibition transforms domestic space into a sacred timeline of intimate histories and collective strength. Back BOX gallery PrintHouston is pleased to announce “PressForward 2025”, a national student printmaking exhibition to be held at BOX 13. Juried by J. Leigh Garcia. There will be exceptional works from current student printmakers that explore the wide range of traditional and innovative printmaking processes. Next we have “Map of the World (Blinds)” fills BOX13's window gallery with small paper pulp shapes and standing wood sculptures that feature repeated motifs like spirals, crescent moons, and stars. Through representing images related to the cosmos, these multimedia works explore an entity that is unable to be touched or held. The objects are small and textural in nature, creating tender and tactile representations of a grandiose concept. Moving upstairs “IT’S B*LLSHIT!!” is a critique of our inadequate system that aims to keep our diverse communities silenced and indifferent towards adversity. Sirena Nieves’s collection of curious sculptures can be located in the upper box, at Box13.
The exhibitions continue through November 22, 2025. An Opening Reception will be held on Friday Friday October 24, 2025 6pm to 9pm at BOX 13 ArtSpace, 6700 Harrisburg, Houston, TX 77011.
A special thank you to Houston Arts Alliance , the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs, The Brown Foundation Saint Arnold Brewing and all who have helped to support our programming.

Snap It Up | Mitchell Reece
Front BOX gallery
“Snap It Up” is a collection of paintings dedicated to my observations of my grandmother
during her stages of Alzheimers. These works narrate recollections of my mother, aunt, and
family interacting with my grandmother as caretakers and extensions of her maternal presence.
The exhibition also underscores the tethering of black families to their maternal domestic
spaces and how those domestic spaces are sacred against the tentacles of Neo-colonialism.
The colors are palettes of primaries and earth tones. Neutral colors will be present in the
documents supporting the context of hand-wrought work. My themes are discovery, faith, and
black familial resiliency.

The display will consist of stretched and un stretched paintings. I aim to reimagine the Box 13
gallery as a fragmented timeline of intimate events documenting the recollections of my
grandmother’s experience while receiving support.

The paintings, artifacts - archival items, and “fabric family” paintings are reflections of my
pastimes growing up in and around my grandmother’s home. Engulfed with discovery, the work
weaves in and out of my maternal histories and intimate moments I always found
unique. This installation consists of several extensions. Documents of faith, like church
programs, family reunion programs, books with discourse on faith, politics, education, and
black liberation, will all be correlated. These are notions I believe shaped my ethos as an artist.

Mitchell Reece (born 1990) is a Houston-based graphic designer, educator, and
interdisciplinary artist. He is a graduate of Prairie View A&M University and the School of Visual
Arts. During his studies, he began his practice of narrating the histories and intimate
experiences of his family. As a social practice, Mitchell examines infrastructural shifts of
historically Black neighborhoods in Houston, TX. Currently, he lectures in the Digital Media Arts
Department at Prairie View A&M University. Mitchell has exhibited his work at Prairie View A&M
University, Texas Southern University, Martha’s Contemporary, SanMan Studios, and BOX 13
ArtSpace. He spoke at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Artist in Dialogue.

Website: mitchellreece.com
Instagram:@asiaticyouth

PressForward 2025| PrintHouston Juried by J. Leigh Garci
Back BOX gallery

PrintHouston is pleased to announce PressForward 2025, a national student printmaking exhibition to be held at BOX 13. Juried by J. Leigh Garcia, artist and Associate Professor in Printmaking at the University of Tennessee School of Art. There will be exceptional works from current student printmakers that explore the wide range of traditional and innovative printmaking processes. Original works in all printmaking media including lithographs, screenprints, relief prints, intaglio, monoprints, and letterpress will be on view.

Artists Include: Jennifer Avey, Kim Craig, Alexandra Fernandez, Harper Folsom, Mackenzie Greenville, Alejandro Guerrero, Kayla Hall, Emmi Hasselbach, Claire Havenhill, Zach Larkin, Ang Le, Peng Liu, Kari Miller, Mable Ni, Lorena Ortiz Jasso, Svetlana Pavlova, Michelle Jeanette Riestra de la Rosa, Alexandra Splittgerber, Mary Striegel, Kate Swayze, Kalinda Tran, Mai Tran, Shelby Welt

Since 2009 PrintHouston has grown into an art organization representing a growing global community of printmakers and print supporters.

Website: https://www.printmattershouston.org/
Instagram @printmatters

Map of the World (Blinds) | Claire Kennedy
Window BOX gallery
Claire's practice consists of small object-based works and multimedia paintings that create a "library" of marks. Within this body of work, themes of collection, curio cabinets, and constellations are prevalent. With an emphasis on material exploration, the artist utilizes a range of materials including paper pulp, clay, pom poms, wood, and fibers. Sentimental crafts like ornaments, Valentines, and painted rocks influence modular sculptures and two-dimensional paintings.
Map of the world (blinds)
The map of the world today sits tightly in my stomach.
Crumpled space that is surely just beyond the blinds,
Just before the moon.
My first real experience of spirituality was watching those lines
Wiggle and shake.
I’m finding it harder to see, now.
Texas has stout buildings politely dispersed and then
Just the field.
Sand mixed with dirt,
Orange mixed with green and gray
All suddenly meeting blue.
The best things shimmer and then break apart.
I’m repeating myself–
Light beam on roof, gridded panel,
invisible stars, love I can’t have.
But now a young couple reads the newspaper
Six yards away.
They can see clearly
Next to the glass.

Claire Kennedy (she/her) is a Fort Worth-based artist originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. She currently teaches studio art courses at the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas Christian University, and the University of North Texas. She has also taught creative workshops at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Nasher Sculpture Center, and Arts Fort Worth. Claire has participated in artist residencies at Arts Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas, Azule in Hot Springs, North Carolina, and with Nectar in Les Guilleries, Spain. She has exhibited throughout Texas at Galleri Urbane, Clamp Light Gallery, and 500X Gallery among others. She has been published in New American Paintings, VoyageDallas, and Southwest Contemporary. Claire is a studio member at Easyside, an arts nonprofit based in East Fort Worth.

Website: @clairekenn6
Instagram: clairekennedyart.com

“IT’S B*LLSHIT!!”| Sirena Nieves
Upstairs BOX gallery
I find that with our current political atmosphere, the series “IT’S B*LLSHIT!!” is more relevant than when it was initially created. This series is rooted in the constant grief, sacrifice, and resilience marginalized communities often experience while trying to survive in a system that rejects diversity, equity, and Inclusion. A primary example is the portrayal of the Latino experience. It is often depicted in a manner of celebration and unity, which denies the realities of generational hardships, such as coerced assimilation, poverty, and discrimination.
This exhibition features a collection of mixed media installations and sculptures that echo curiosity, morbid, and familiar forms and symbols central to the product of our post-colonized society. An integral fragment of this exhibition is the experience as an unhoused graduate with no mode of transportation, in a foreign environment. Despite facing hurdles of humiliation, questions of self-worth, and the lack of financial security, inspiration and determination were equally found through the Chicano Rasquachismo movement. Originating from the Spanish words’ “leftover” and “no value”, these sculptures are constructed with discarded, recycled, and found miscellaneous materials. No matter the amount of policy and policing of our existence, there is always power in the manifestation of expression.
Sirena Nieves is a Latino, multi-disciplinary artist raised on the East side of Houston who explores the nuances of mundane domestic materials to reflect on the inadequacy of our current system, which aims to dismantle communities, harm families, and ultimately, exhaust the soul of the individual. Confronting the growing disparity between the cost of traditional art materials and accessibility for working-class creators, she champions the use of readily available resources to create meaningful work. Sirena received her BFA from Lamar University in 2020 and graduated with her MFA from Stephen F. Austin State University in 2024. Sirena’s work has been presented at the ICOSAS Collective gallery in Austin, 2024’s Texas Nationals at the Cole in Nacogdoches, and at the Performing Arts Community Center in Waco. Sirena currently teaches ceramics at Lamar University.