Rule Gallery

Rule Gallery RULE Gallery, founded in 1991, has locations in Denver and Marfa.

RULE represents emerging and mid-career contemporary artists and artist estates, with a focus on fostering investigative art practices while developing artists’ long-term careers. RULE Gallery, founded in 1991, operates in both Marfa, TX, and Denver, CO, representing emerging and mid-career contemporary artists and artist estates. Committed to fostering investigative art practices and supporting a

rtists’ long-term careers, RULE presents a dynamic range of exhibitions and projects. Alongside its consistent programming in Marfa, the gallery engages audiences through institutional collaborations and exhibitions in non-traditional settings.

What a wonderful, amazing turnout! Thank you as always, Marfa, Texas - your hospitality makes us feel like VIPs. 🥹 The M...
05/30/2026

What a wonderful, amazing turnout! Thank you as always, Marfa, Texas - your hospitality makes us feel like VIPs. 🥹

The Martha Invitational ends today at 5 PM, Saturday, May 30. Swing by for the first time or join us again to enjoy another view.

Many thanks to the artists for organizing such a fantastic weekend show.






Exodus, 2018, acrylic on canvas40 x 120 inNathan Abels’ evocative diptych contemplates a future on Mars, using as its in...
05/30/2026

Exodus, 2018,
acrylic on canvas
40 x 120 in

Nathan Abels’ evocative diptych contemplates a future on Mars, using as its inspiration images taken on two planets brought together by the human imagination.

Visit us in Denver for a close up view, and to tour more that 80 pieces of art on view.

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Martha Hughes ( presents recent works from her Garden series as part of the Martha Invitational pop-up at RULE, Marfa.Dr...
05/28/2026

Martha Hughes ( presents recent works from her Garden series as part of the Martha Invitational pop-up at RULE, Marfa.

Drawing inspiration from private gardens and public spaces like the Denver Botanic Gardens, Houston Arboretum, and Dallas Arboretum, Hughes continues her long engagement with landscape and the natural world. These paintings approach the garden as a constructed yet living field of color, line, shape, and movement.

On view Friday and Saturday, from 11 AM to 5 PM. Public reception Friday, 5–7 PM. Located at RULE, Marfa. Hughes joins three other artists—, , and —in this show. Don't miss it! 👀

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👀 can’t stop thinking about this oneRULE artist ’s ‘Cardinals’ installation at The Fitzgerald Apartments, placed by . At...
05/27/2026

👀 can’t stop thinking about this one

RULE artist ’s ‘Cardinals’ installation at The Fitzgerald Apartments, placed by .

At mural scale, DeMarte’s constructed world becomes an transformative environment and completely unforgettable.

For more details about this work and other works by the artist, contact [email protected]

New at Rule 👀 Colorado-based artist Susan Blake creates vessels that blend painting and ceramics.Instead of glazing her...
05/24/2026

New at Rule 👀

Colorado-based artist Susan Blake creates vessels that blend painting and ceramics.

Instead of glazing her clay forms, Blake paints them with acrylic and enamel, layering geometric patterns onto hand-built shapes that bend, slump, and defy symmetry. For her, the vessels symbolize feelings of containment, and their rhythmic patterns evoke transcendent escape—viewing them as ‘personal artifacts’.

Works by Susan Blake are available to view in Denver and Marfa, as well as on RULE Gallery’s Artsy profile.

‘Bandeau’
2025
Acrylic on ceramic
12x6 inches

Final transmission from Signal and Return.Only two days remain to see Joe Clower’s watercolor paintings alongside Polaro...
05/22/2026

Final transmission from Signal and Return.

Only two days remain to see Joe Clower’s watercolor paintings alongside Polaroids by El Disco, the artist collaborative formed in Los Angeles in 1987 by Clower, Steve Thomsen, and Tennyson Woodbridge.

On view through May 23 at RULE Marfa.

Blink and it's gone.

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(1) El Disco, Downtown LA
c. 1988
Polaroid
4.25 x 3.375 in
*print available

(2) Joe Clower, Untitled
2005
watercolor on paper
10 x 13 in (paper) / 16 x 19 in (framed)
JOCL0131

As we enter the final week of Signal and Return, we’re spending time with Joe Clower’s unique visual language. This piec...
05/20/2026

As we enter the final week of Signal and Return, we’re spending time with Joe Clower’s unique visual language. This piece has long been a favorite among the gallery team.

Clower’s watercolors often juxtapose familiar references, instruments, architecture, and landscapes in unexpected arrangements, causing the images to exist somewhere between plan and proposition.

Joe Clower (1937–2024) was part of a circle of Colorado artists whose work was influenced by structure, pattern, and ongoing artistic exchange, from Boulder’s Armory Group to the Criss-Cross artist co-operative. This history of friendship and shared inquiry also runs through El Disco, the collaborative project Clower formed with Steve Thomsen and Tennyson Woodbridge in 1987, which is also currently on view in the adjacent gallery.

On view through May 23 at RULE Marfa.

Joe Clower
Untitled
1992
watercolor on paper
30 × 22.5 inches
Sold

Thinking about…. restAnne NoggleThe Old Nymph1985silver gelatin print20 x 23.87 in / 50.8 x 60.64 cmIn the flat file at ...
05/17/2026

Thinking about…. rest

Anne Noggle
The Old Nymph
1985
silver gelatin print
20 x 23.87 in / 50.8 x 60.64 cm

In the flat file at our Denver HQ 👁️
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Anne Noggle (1922–2005) was an American photographer, pilot, and educator whose work brought unique directness, humor, and tenderness to ideas of aging, femininity, and the body. A former World War II pilot, Noggle turned her camera toward women, often older women, with a refusal of idealization. Her photographs treat age as presence, experience, and self-possession rather than disappearance—a true icon in photography.

Currently on view as part of ‘Signal and Return’ in Marfa. Show closes in a little over a week 👀Stop by for in-person vi...
05/14/2026

Currently on view as part of ‘Signal and Return’ in Marfa. Show closes in a little over a week 👀

Stop by for in-person viewing, Wednesday - Saturday 11a-5p or online at www.rulegallery.com

Joe Clower
Untitled
2011
watercolor on paper
19 x 15 in (paper) / 26 x 23 in (framed)
JOCL0140

Her one, sage-green edge 🥵Andrea Caretto Borrowed, 2025blouse, printed sheet, turmeric, house paint, in plaster9.5 x 5 x...
05/09/2026

Her one, sage-green edge 🥵

Andrea Caretto
Borrowed, 2025
blouse, printed sheet, turmeric, house paint, in plaster
9.5 x 5 x 3 in
$1,300

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