MOVEMENT | Aug 10-Sep 28
MOVEMENT: August 10-September 19, 2026.
Reception August 15, 2026 - 2-6pm
A curated exhibition from the Mark Lesly Smith Flatbed Press Collection, featuring work from Sterling Allen, Laura Crehuet Berman, Ann Conner, Margaret Garrett, Sue Heatley, Matt Magee, Winston Lee Mascarenhas, and Joan Winter. Register for the event.
MOVEMENT Event Card
LAUNCH | John Alexander
John Alexander, Red Roses, 32/35, 2002, Color lithograph, 30x22
John Alexander was born in 1945 in Beaumont, Texas. John received his MFA from Southern Methodist University in 1970 before joining the faculty of the University of Houston. In the late 1970s, he left Texas for New York, where his reputation as one of America's most compelling figurative painters flourished.
He is known for his satirical approach to rendering the relationships between nature and man. Alexander describes his approach as “nature at its grandest and man at his worst”.
His work appears in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among many others.
S|O Gallery will be featuring four of John Alexander's pieces: "Strange Fish", "Red Roses", "White Lilies," and "Raven on Flag".
LAUNCH | Sue Heatley
Sue Heatley, Natural Order: Lagoon, Flatbed II/II, (2020), 28-1/2 x 23-3/4
Originally from Aurora, Illinois, Sue Heatley honed her ceramics skills in Richmond, Virginia, before turning to printmaking and relocating to East Hampton, New York.
She references natural forms or shapes rather than literal forms in her work, "like wind or currents or waves." Her printmaking process often utilizes multiple linocut layers and various mediums such as collage, stencil, paint or gauche.
Sue Heatley's work is featured in the collections of Estée Lauder Companies, the Medical College of Virginia, and the United States Department of State.
See Sue Heatley's "Natural Order" series: Natural Order: Poppy, Natural Order: Moss, Natural Order: Lagoon, and Natural Order: Firefly" at S|O Gallery's LAUNCH exhibition June 19 - August 1.
LAUNCH | Luis Jimenez
Luis Jimenez, The Mares, Flatbed VI/X, (1998), 15x11
Luis Alfonso Jiménez Jr. (1940–2006) was born in El Paso, Texas, the son of a neon-sign artist who instilled in him a love of color, craft, and the vernacular traditions of the American Southwest.
He received his degree from the University of Texas at Austin and later studied the great Mexican muralists in Mexico City before launching a celebrated career in New York.
Jiménez became internationally recognized for his monumental, polychromed fiberglass sculptures. He was also skilled with color lithography and colored pencil drawings. His works celebrated Hispanic culture in America, from barrio workers and vaqueros to Native American dancers.
Luis died tragically in 2006 in a studio accident.
His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum among many others.
The Mares is featured in our Launch exhibition.
LAUNCH | Robert Levers
Robert Leavers, Terrorists Juggling Plates, Flatbed Impression, (1998), 30x22
Robert L. Levers Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930. He received his BFA and MFA from Yale University.
He served in the U.S. Navy before joining the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 1961, where he taught painting and drawing for over thirty years. Among those he taught were many talented artists such as Luis Jimenez and others.
His work moved through abstract expressionism and geometric abstraction before arriving at a richly colored figurative style coined " mixture of the playful and apocalyptic".
In 1992 levers passed.
Named the Leslie Waggener Professor of Fine Arts in 1987, he was also a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. His art in is the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and others.
Terrorists Juggling Plates is included in our LAUNCH exhibition from June 19 - August 1.
LAUNCH | Lawrence Matthews
Lawrence Matthews, Sentinel, Flatbed II/III, (2001), 30x22
Lawrence Matthews is an artist, fine art dealer, auctioneer, and collector whose career spans more than five decades and whose passion for contemporary American printmaking has made him a key advocate for the Flatbed Press tradition.
Together with his wife Linda, Matthews operated a celebrated gallery in Denison, Texas, where they first partnered with Flatbed Press to bring its publications and collaborative editions to North Texas audiences. In 2002, they relocated their enterprise to Santa Fe, New Mexico, founding Matthews Gallery and Lawrence Auctions.
Sentinel is on view at our LAUNCH exhibition through August 1st.
LAUNCH | Bob Schneider
Bob Schneider, The Blue of Heaven, 16/25, (2006), 22-1/4 x 17-1/4
Bob Schneider was born in 1965 in Ypsilanti, Michigan. At the age of two, his father moved the family to Germany to follow a passion for opera. He studied at the University of Maryland in Munich and later in the United States at the University of El Paso before dropping out.
After he moved to Austin, Texas, he established himself as an accomplished and highly celebrated musician. Bob spends most of his time writing and performing music. He makes art for himself, taking time to express his visual art side when he feels the time is right.
His media range from multimedia collage to etching. He describes his process as surrealist at heart. Bob's artistic process stems from his subconscious. Images come together, suggesting others in an open-ended, continuous process.
The Blue of Heaven is on display through August 1st as part of our LAUNCH exhibition.
LAUNCH | Julie Speed
Julie Speed, Sleepers, Cadmium, Flatbed II/III, (2005), 22×15
Julie Speed was born in Chicago in 1951 and raised on the East Coast. At the age of nineteen, Julie dropped out of the Rhode Island School of Design. In the following years, she worked a myriad of jobs before arriving in Austin, Texas, in 1978. She spent the next thirty years immersed in her studio practice and perfecting her painting style. Later in 2006, she relocated to Marfa, where she continues to create artwork prolifically.
Julie's works have often been described as "surreal" or "absurdist." She described her process as a composition-centric approach where shapes, balance, and rearrangement take priority. She takes inspiration from current events, relying on the viewer to create their own applied narratives. Her mediums include paint, gouache, and printmaking.
Julie Speed's work is held by the National Gallery of Art, the Chinati Foundation, and the El Paso Museum of Art, among others.
Two Julie Speed pieces, Cadium Sleepers and Nightfishing will be on view from August 1st as part of our LAUNCH exhibition.
LAUNCH | Darden Smith
Darden Smith, Woman With Her Dog, Flatbed II/IV, (2018) 15×11
Darden Smith was born in Brenham, Texas in 1962. He was raised in Austin. He began writing songs at a young age and since then has been recording and touring since 1986. He has garnered a reputation as a very successful and respected American singer-songwriter. Darden sees art making as a natural expansion of music.
He works in a variety of mediums including: drawing, photography, illustration, video, and printmaking. His works are centered around storytelling and a music like sensibility to "rhythmic visual dissidence-the objects and repeated patterns in our lives."
Darden Smith has released seventeen albums, composed music for film, TV and theater. His works are featured in the collections of the Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Collection and numerous private collections.
Rastas, Ageless Beauty, Woman with Her Dog, Bank Holiday, The Lobbyist and Black Eye are included in our LAUNCH exhibition through August 1st.
LAUNCH | Charlotte Seifert
Charlotte Seifert, Huddle, Flatbed II/II (?) 15×17-1/2
Charlotte Seifert is a Houston-based painter and printmaker whose work explores themes of memory, transformation, and the inner life of the spirit. She holds both her BFA and MFA in painting from Southern Methodist University.
Literature, theology, and experience inspire her works. She uses the natural world as a metaphor for emotional and spiritual reflection. Her works seek to honor the rhythms and beauty of ordinary time.
Seifert is a member of PrintMatters Houston and Burning Bones Press, and her work is represented by galleries in Houston, Dallas, Jackson, and Birmingham.
Cows, Cows II and Huddle are on view our LAUNCH exhibition through August 1st.
LAUNCH | James Sullivan
James Sullivan, “Box” 1, II/II, (2023) 22-1/4 × 30
James Sullivan, of Dallas, Texas, is well known for his remarkable cast sculptures. He is also a printmaker who uses printmaking media to explore unseen spaces and shapes that are often difficult to see. This makes for interesting printmaking, as he pushes the boundaries of methods and processes to capture ideas about mass, space, and light. .
In 2023, Sullivan developed two images at Flatbed to become polymer gravure etchings. First was the image “Box” 1, a hand-drawn skeletal probing of the space of a simple box. He had drawn this image with a certain hand-carved reed dipped in a sepia-toned ink. The second was Popular Mechanics 8 + 3, a diptych intaglio image based on Sullivan's landscape drawings, printed on sheets from a Popular Mechanics magazine with the raised-dot patterns of Braille. The images, though starkly different from each other, share Sullivan’s search for the unseen.
The “Box” 1 drawing began with a drawing of the space and frame of Sullivan’s studio in Wyoming, while at an art residency at Jentel. He sees the drawing as exploring the shallow structure, its space, and the light which joins the inside to the outside. A new direct-to-plate process that transferred the drawing to a light-sensitive plate was used, and the image was etched into the polymer plate. Ink was mixed to be transparent and even more luminous than the drawing, then printed onto a near-square of fine-laid Japan Sekisui paper, which was later colléd to a support paper. It stands complete, in a post-minimalist form, while its interior is active, full of lines that describe its inner boundaries and the spaces between them.
Sullivan’s drawing practice has included drawing with charcoal directly onto Braille sheets from a Popular Mechanics magazine for the blind. The sheets he draws on have wonderful, raised dots that catch the charcoal on one side of the mark and resist on the other. His drawings on these sheets can be read as landscapes that feel like the kind you’d see at deep dusk. They are blind-scapes, perhaps drawn at dusk, when only the minimum light reveals dense and open areas. Using the direct polymer gravure process, two of the drawings were scanned, and etching plates were made that faithfully recorded them and captured the physical texture of the Braille dots. Sullivan made decisions as plates were proved for printing side by side. The plates were selectively inked and wiped to emphasize the subtle tonal contrast between the sky and the tree, and between the tree and the land. The resulting print is a rich tour de force of Braille texture, but the images demand our searching and our experiencing of the landscape of the night.
courtesy of flatbedpress.com/blog/james-sullivan-new-works-in-ink
An evening with Steve Bartlett
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 from 6-8pm
S|O GALLERY is honored to welcome Steve Bartlett — former U.S. Congressman, Mayor of Dallas, and Hill Country resident — for a special book signing of his inspiring new memoir, Ah Ha! The Power of Purpose: Family, Faith, and A Life Well-Lived.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of stories, conversation, and connection. Steve's book shares the real people and "AH HA!" moments that shaped a remarkable life — including Presidents, legends, and the woman whose first words to him were decidedly not "I love you." (You'll have to read it to find out what she said.)
Steve Bartlett truly personifies a life well-lived. His family and faith have always been paramount. From his early days on the farm to his work with Young Republicans, from business to politics to mentoring young people, he has lived a life with purpose.”
— Publisher's Description, Ah Ha! The Power of Purpose
Hosted by friends Gloria Campos-Brown and Paul Sumrall. Arrived by 6pm for refreshments before the program. Come early and learn about S|O GALLERY and our upcoming exhibitions.
RSVP required, seating is limited.
S|O Gallery is located in the Casablanca Center, rear side of the complex, at 1514 N US Hwy 281, Ste 103, Marble Falls TX 78636. Questions? (830) 203-6277.