Lora Reynolds Gallery

Lora Reynolds Gallery Lora Reynolds established the gallery in March 2005 after working with Anthony d'Offay and Matthew Marks Galleries in London and New York.

Work by emerging, mid-career and established artists is presented in all media including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, film and video. The gallery consists of one main exhibition space, with six to eight exhibitions annually, in addition to a project room, with four to six installations per year.

BOOK SIGNING PARTY!Saturday, February 21, 2–6pmLora Reynolds Gallery1126 West Sixth StreetAustin, Texas 78703Free and op...
02/20/2026

BOOK SIGNING PARTY!
Saturday, February 21, 2–6pm

Lora Reynolds Gallery
1126 West Sixth Street
Austin, Texas 78703

Free and open to the public.

Please join us for an afternoon soirée on the occasion of the debut of a Michelle Stuart book produced by LRG, the Haas Brothers’ first comprehensive monograph, and the final day of Lora Reynolds Gallery.

Artists NIKI + SIMON HAAS and writer COLM TÓIBÍN will be in attendance and signing books.

MICHELLE STUART
Lora Reynolds is pleased to announce Boats: Horizons before the Mast, a book about the boat sculptures Michelle Stuart began making in the 1980s that were the subject of an exhibition at LRG in 2021. Colm Tóibín contributed a story to the book. designed it. produced it.

Two versions of Boats will be available for purchase:

An edition of 100 perfect-bound paperbacks

And a special edition of 18 hand-bound hardcover artist books, signed by Michelle Stuart, each in a clamshell housing and accompanied by an archival inkjet print of one of the sculptures in the book.

“The boat is a beautiful metaphor for everything,” Stuart says.

Watch a trailer for the forthcoming documentary about her work, Michelle Stuart: Voyager, here.

THE HAAS BROTHERS
The new book, Uncanny Valley, accompanies their first major touring mid-career retrospective at the Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan). It highlights more than 100 of their most iconic works, from almost-ridiculous conversation-starting furniture to cheeky life-size sculpture.

The New York Times Book Review included Uncanny Valley on their list of 13 gift-worthy art books in December 2025.

For more information, email [email protected].

* please note: books may be purchased at the event via Venmo, cash, or check (credit cards not accepted).

Our final exhibition 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳? will remain on view *by appointment only* until Friday 20 February.pictur...
02/11/2026

Our final exhibition 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳? will remain on view *by appointment only* until Friday 20 February.

pictured:
Jessica Halonen
wood, paper, brass & blue, 2025
acrylic on canvas over panel
20″ x 16″

From an essay by Kelly Baum: “PM” is a particularly evocative combination of letters. An acronym with a variety of meanings, including post meridiem, postmortem, and palliative medicine, “PM” is suggestive of endings, both temporal and physical. For her part, Halonen had something else in mind when she selected “PM” for the title [of this body of work], specifically “particulate matter,” which is to say microscopic particles that are felt in the body but barely seen with the eyes, bits of solids and drips of liquids that are impactful but almost invisible.

Investigatory in spirit, Jessica Halonen’s practice is resolutely research-driven…[For PM], this led Halonen to a library in her home state of Michigan, where she sought out a study published by R.C. Kedzie of the Michigan State Board of Health in 1874. Titled Shadows from the Walls of Death; Arsenical Wall Papers, it comprises a “book of specimens of poisonous papers,” more specifically, a sampling of mass-produced wallpapers—the type found in lower- and middle-class homes—whose inks contain the deadly chemical arsenic. The book includes a selection of the wallpapers in question. It was also printed on what its title page identifies as “poisonous” sheets of paper. In so doing, the authors made the deliberate, if baffling decision to correlate their publication’s content and material, anticipating by exactly ninety years Marshall McLuhan’s famous phrase, “the medium is the message.”...

Halonen does not end up dwelling on the more macabre aspects of Shadows from the Walls of Death. Instead, she focuses on the wallpapers themselves, forging an artistic and conceptual dialogue with her source material.

For questions and more information email [email protected]

Our final exhibition 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳? will remain on view *by appointment only* until Friday 20 February.On Sat...
01/28/2026

Our final exhibition 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳? will remain on view *by appointment only* until Friday 20 February.

On Saturday 21 February—please save the date—we will be hosting a final champagne reception to celebrate the closing of the gallery and a book launch/signing for MICHELLE STUART/COLM TÓIBÍN and THE HAAS BROTHERS. Colm Tóibín and Niki and Simon Haas will be in attendance and signing books between 2 and 6pm. Gallery hours on the 21st will be 11am to 6pm.

pictured:
Xavier Schipani
Ethan, 2022
watercolor on paper
15-1/4″ x 12-1/4″ (frame)

Tender Daddy, 2022
watercolor on paper
15-1/4″ x 12-1/4″ (frame)

Most of the figures Xavier Schipani paints are men—because his work is largely a reckoning with masculinity. What is manliness? What has it meant in the past, what does it mean now, and what are its shortcomings?

History may never have seen another time when the idea of masculinity has been in deeper crisis and more dramatic flux than during the last ten years. Analogously, Schipani’s life has been a continuous reckoning with his own masculinity. For almost twenty years now he has lived as a man, after a lifetime of feeling out of place in the female body he was born into.

In his article for the New Yorker about masculinity, Joshua Rothman quotes an essay by Thomas Page McBee, a trans man who wrote about his experience training at a boxing gym: “I love the beauty I find in masculinity, the way it can hold a bloody nose and a hug, a sharp razor on the jaw under the tender watch of a barber, the muscle that must be nursed carefully to its potential, the body that can make a puppy or a child feel sheltered, cocooned.” Rothman wonders: “Perhaps this is what virility without misogyny could sound like.”

Perhaps—but we still have a long way to go.

For questions and more information email [email protected]

CLOSED TODAY DUE TO WEATHER!!Our final exhibition 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳? will remain on view *by appointment only* un...
01/24/2026

CLOSED TODAY DUE TO WEATHER!!

Our final exhibition 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳? will remain on view *by appointment only* until Friday 20 February.

On Saturday 21 February—please save the date—we will be hosting a final champagne reception to celebrate the closing of the gallery and a book launch/signing for MICHELLE STUART/COLM TÓIBÍN and THE HAAS BROTHERS. Colm Tóibín and Niki and Simon Haas will be in attendance and signing books between 2 and 6pm. Gallery hours on the 21st will be 11am to 6pm.

pictured:
Lucas Simões
Gradil, 2025
copper-plated carbon steel
35-1/2″ x 21-1/4″ x 4-3/4″

Lucas Simões’s practice is rooted in looking closely at modernist architecture. His most recent work arose from his investigations into blurriness, which is how he describes the separation between how an architect intends a building to be seen and used—and how the public feels about and lives with it in the real world. Norman Foster once said, “Architects design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.” No matter how thoroughly an architect might anticipate the future needs of a building’s occupants, people are irrational and unpredictable. They use the spaces and objects around them in whatever ways make sense at a given moment, whether or not that use was forecast.

Simões’s sculptures have always seemed to defy the basic rules of physics. Through clever engineering, he can make concrete feel as airy as a marshmallow, or steel as drapey as a ribbon of fabric. Despite the intellectual rigor of his practice, Simões is a sensualist forever enthralled by the erotics of tension and balance. Throughout his work, connections abound to the body and its many pleasures.

For questions and more information email [email protected]

LAST LOOKLRG is open today until 6pm. We will be closed tomorrow for the winter storm.Our final exhibition 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 ...
01/23/2026

LAST LOOK
LRG is open today until 6pm. We will be closed tomorrow for the winter storm.

Our final exhibition 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳? will remain on view *by appointment only* until Friday 20 February.

On Saturday 21 February—please save the date—we will be hosting a final champagne reception to celebrate the closing of the gallery and a book launch/signing for MICHELLE STUART/COLM TÓIBÍN and THE HAAS BROTHERS. Colm Tóibín and Niki and Simon Haas will be in attendance and signing books between 2 and 6pm. Gallery hours on the 21st will be 11am to 6pm.

For questions and more information email [email protected]

**POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER**NEW DATE: 2/21Unfortunately due to oncoming weather in the Austin area, we must postpone our...
01/22/2026

**POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER**

NEW DATE: 2/21

Unfortunately due to oncoming weather in the Austin area, we must postpone our book signing with Haas Brothers and Colm Tóibín. New date Saturday, 2/21.

More information to come.

For questions, please email [email protected]

BOOK SIGNING PARTY THIS FRIDAY!!Please join us for an afternoon soirée on Friday, 23 January from 2 to 6pmon the occasio...
01/21/2026

BOOK SIGNING PARTY THIS FRIDAY!!

Please join us for an afternoon soirée on Friday, 23 January from 2 to 6pm

on the occasion of the debut of a Michelle Stuart book (with a story by Colm Tóibín) produced by LRG,

the Haas Brothers’ first comprehensive monograph,

and the second-to-last day of Lora Reynolds Gallery.

Artists NIKI and SIMON HAAS
and writer COLM TÓIBÍN
will be in attendance and signing books.

* please note: books may be purchased at the event via Venmo, cash, or check (credit cards not accepted).

BOOK SIGNING PARTY THIS FRIDAY!!Please join us for an afternoon soirée on Friday, 23 January from 2 to 6pmon the occasio...
01/19/2026

BOOK SIGNING PARTY THIS FRIDAY!!

Please join us for an afternoon soirée on Friday, 23 January from 2 to 6pm

on the occasion of the debut of a Michelle Stuart book (with a story by Colm Tóibín) produced by LRG,

the Haas Brothers’ first comprehensive monograph,

and the second-to-last day of Lora Reynolds Gallery.

Artists NIKI and SIMON HAAS
and writer COLM TÓIBÍN
will be in attendance and signing books.

* please note: books may be purchased at the event via Venmo, cash, or check (credit cards not accepted).

For more information contact [email protected]

On view through January 24th: 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳?pictured:Karla GarcíaDe su aliento convertido en viento / From he...
01/18/2026

On view through January 24th: 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳?

pictured:
Karla García
De su aliento convertido en viento / From her breath becoming wind, 2025
terracotta, glaze
22″ x 14″ x 13″

In her own words:

My artistic practice is grounded in clay, a medium through which I explore the intersection of the land and the symbolic realm of myth. I sculpt forms based on the desert flora of the Texas-Mexico borderlands, where I grew up, in various states of bloom and decay. Barrel cacti and clusters of wild grasses, the pinched and coiled primary characters of my recent work, are resilient creatures that can thrive in particularly harsh conditions—and have done so for millions of years.

I’m exploring what it means to be a Mexican woman, sister, daughter, and mother, especially in today’s uncertain and volatile political climate. My work is a reflection of how I feel as I move through time and space, how I have changed over the course of my life, and how I aspire to bring my roots—my cultural, literary, and metaphysical heritages—into my every present moment. I don’t always have the perfect words, but I know this is where the work comes from. Each of my sculptures is the result of a private conversation I’m having with the world, expanded into an imagined landscape shaped by folklore, intuition, memory, and the teachings of philosophy.

For more information contact [email protected]

On view through January 24th: 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳?The gallery is open 11-6pm.pictured:Mike SmithAvuncular Quest, 20...
01/18/2026

On view through January 24th: 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳?

The gallery is open 11-6pm.

pictured:
Mike Smith
Avuncular Quest, 2011
archival inkjet print, frame
30″ x 41″ (frame)

In the summer of 2011 Smith was a resident artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where this photo was staged. The roadhouse-like setting offered Smith the perfect backdrop for a picture where he appears to be the mentor of these younger musicians.

For more information contact [email protected]

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Austin, TX
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Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm

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