steven J. cabral:
Between Presence and Pause
EXHIBITION DATES: september 30 - october 25, 2025
RECEPTION: Thursday, october 9, 5 - 8 pm
The Painting Center is pleased to present Between Presence and Pause, a solo exhibition by Steven J. Cabral in the Main Gallery. This exhibition features a new body of work that meditates on the nuanced space between action and stillness—presence and absence, chaos and calm. Cabral’s practice is rooted in experimentation and attentiveness. His process is iterative, intuitive, and materially responsive: surfaces are poured, stained, sanded, added, removed, broken, and recombined. Rather than working toward a fixed meaning, he moves in conversation with sensation, memory, and emotional resonance. Between Presence and Pause is a meditation on what’s left behind and rises to the surface—a study in holding space for uncertainty, discovery, and transformation.
david willburn:
canyons and plains
EXHIBITION DATES: september 30 - october 25, 2025
RECEPTION: Thursday, october 9, 5 - 8 pm
The Painting Center is pleased to present Canyons and Plains, a solo exhibition by David Willburn in the Project Room. This exhibition by David Willburn draws on memories of the Texas Panhandle’s Palo Duro Canyon and the cultivated fields of the Southern Plains, translating their layered geologies and patterned expanses into textured abstractions. Using found materials—cardboard packaging, fabrics from disused clothing, painted muslin, and acrylic applied both directly and as paint skins—Willburn constructs surfaces that echo weathered rock strata, furrowed fields, and the shifting light of wide skies. The work does not depict these landscapes literally, but distills their rhythms, erosions, and repetitions into a personal visual language shaped by queer embodiment, memory, and place.
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