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CO-OPt Research + Projects is an artist-run studio space and gallery located in Lubbock, Texas.

08/28/2026

Join us next Saturday, September 5th, for our next Longitudes with Coach Campa! We’re also excited for the Lubbock Harsh Noise Collective to open the show!
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07/31/2026

Exhibition Title:
BOOM AND DUST
Jason Reed and Barry Stone

Artist Statement:
BOOM AND DUST is a 58-foot accordion-fold photobook depicting a 40-mile stretch of highway between Midland and Odessa. Inspired by Ed Ruscha, Reed and Stone made hundreds of photographs from the back of a pickup truck of this roadway, which serves as the backbone of the oil industry known as the “Petroplex.” The exhibition features large-scale photographs, video, a radio transmitted soundscape, and the unfurling of the full length of the book. Together, these works form a dense scroll of mancamps, pumpjacks, and oil outfitters, conjuring the unrelenting industrial landscape situated in the Permian Basin, the most productive oil field in the world.

The visual works are accompanied by a soundscape of acoustic guitar improvisations made in the former company town of Texon in the shadow of the Santa Rita no.1 and layered with field recordings of gas flares, produced water lakes, and lap steel, which accompany the video and can be accessed via the CO-OPt hyper-local radio station, FM 89.9.

A limited number of books and soundtrack cassettes have been set aside for this exhibition and will be available during the closing reception and performance.

07/21/2026

Join us Friday, July 31st when Noah Alonzo returns for a show! We’ve also got Happy Disasta opening! It’s going to be an incredible show!

The excellent poster made by Brandon Blair ❤️
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07/01/2026

Join us on July 14th for our next Longitudes show with Kole Galbraith! Spencer Gaydon will be opening. Doors open at 7, show starts at 8!

Kole Galbraith is a musician and sound artist originally from Wenatchee, Washington. He settled in Seattle after living in Germany, Mexico, and Austria. While traveling, Kole immersed himself in improvised experimental music across multiple genres ranging from free-jazz, harsh noise, new-music, and metal. He has exhibited his works in galleries and venues throughout the west coast and in Austria. Kole is a descendant of the Colville and Sinixt Tribes, and an enrolled member of the Peoria Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma.
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05/30/2026

Join us next Friday for the return of Coach Campa! Always a good show but make sure you have ear plugs! Ethan will be joined by our own Happy Disaster who’s kicking off the show!
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04/15/2026

On Sunday, April 19, in conjunction with class on manifestos, .opt will be screening Manifesto (2015), by Julian Rosefeldt.

Originally presented as a multi-screen film installation, Manifesto features actress Cate Blanchett as 13 different characters, delivering a collage of various political and artistic manifestos—from Futurist to Fluxus, Communist to Situationist.

According to one IMDb reviewer: “Too artistic for me.”

📽️Screening: Sunday, April 19
⏰ Doors at 1, film starts at 2 (running time: 94 min)

04/04/2026

Thanks yall for coming out to the opening of Fidalis Buehler: Along the Fence! 🏀

The show will be up through June 27. Keep an eye on our stories for when the gallery is open or dm for an appointment.

03/29/2026

Join us on Thursday, April 2, for the opening of an exhibition of works by Provo-based artist Fidalis Buehler.

“My work represents identity seen through the complexity of American culture and South Pacific traditions. Image-making is an act of playful conjuring – reassembling personal histories and inventing mythologies laden with fear, anxiety, dreams, revelations, magic, and mysticism.”

Along The Fence continues that dialogue, rummaging through the intersection of familial summertime experiences and the metaphysical.

Address

4202 Boston Avenue
Lubbock, TX
79413

Opening Hours

10am - 2pm

Website

http://www.co-opt.art/

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