Conduit Gallery

Working in acrylic, iridescent mineral pigments, and metal leaf on canvas, Howe creates a lyrical world where minuscule flowers speak to universal notions. The paintings are flower portraits born of nature’s capacity to reflect our human qualities, connecting to a long thread of animism. They exist as a bridge between the world within and the world without, animating earthly materials into being, an imprint of action and agency.

Catherine Howe, LIFE-SIZE

on view through July 25

image: Catherine Howe, Tiny Bloom No. 11, 2026, acrylic, interference mica pigments, metal leaf on canvas, 18x14”

Untitled 26-18 (Body Double III), 2026, mixed media on canvas, 60 x 35 inches

Currently on view:
Michael Frank Blair, Safety in Numbers
Catherine Howe, LIFE-SIZE

Gallery is open for regular hours this summer. 11-5PM Tues-Sat

A beautiful Saturday evening with so many of you here. Thank you for celebrating the opening of two new exhibitions with us⭐️

On view:
Michael Frank Blair· Safety in Numbers
Catherine Howe · LIFE-SIZE

Through July 25

Tuesday through Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM.

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image:Catherine Howe, Big Bloom No. 2, 2026, acrylic, iridescent mineral pigments, aluminum leaf on canvas, 52 x 60”

TOMORROW NIGHT!

Please join us tomorrow evening for the opening of two new exhibitions.

Michael Frank Blair, Safety in Numbers
Catherine Howe, LIFE-SIZE

Opening Reception
Saturday, June 13, 2026
5 to 7 PM

The gallery will also be open during regular hours, 11am to 5pm. Come see the work up close and say hello.

See you then!

image 1: Michael Frank Blair, Untitled 26-13 (Electric Shield), Untitled 26-12 (Cobn), 2026, mixed media on canvas, 60x35”
image 2: Catherine Howe, Big Bloom No. 8, 2026, acrylic, iridescent mineral pigments, copper leaf on canvas, 55x45”

TOMORROW NIGHT!
Please join us tomorrow evening for the opening of two new exhibitions, featuring Dallas based artist Michael Frank Blair and New York based artist Catherine Howe.

Opening Reception
Saturday, June 13, 2026
5 to 7 PM

Michael Frank Blair, Safety in Numbers
Catherine Howe, LIFE-SIZE

The gallery will also be open during regular hours, 11am to 5pm. Come see the work up close and say hello.

See you then!

image 1: Michael Frank Blair, Untitled 26-13 (Electric Shield), Untitled 26-12 (Cobn), 2026, mixed media on canvas, 60x35”
image 2: Catherine Howe, Big Bloom No. 2, 2026, acrylic, iridescent mineral pigments, aluminum leaf on canvas, 52x60”

Glasstire’s Picturing Texas Art series is commissioning photographers across the state to document more than 80 important Texas artists, arts workers, and gallerists throughout 2026, spotlighting those who have shaped their regional scenes. Dornith is among those featured, photographed by . She has spent 30 years teaching photography at the University of North Texas and recently received the UNT Foundation’s Eminent Faculty Award. We are so happy to welcome her as our newest gallery artist!

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Congratulations, James Sullivan () on being featured in Patron Magazine’s June/July Arts Influencers issue⭐️

In his post-academic life, James continues his own art practice while engaging with the next generation of artists. As he says, “I’ve always treated students as co-artists, as collaborators in some way, shape, or form.”

With more than 40 years of experience, James works across sculpture, installation, performance, drawing, and prints, and has exhibited in over 25 solo and two-person exhibitions across the Americas, Asia, and Europe, including at the Meadows Museum of Art in Dallas, Amerika Haus in Berlin, and the Museum Moderner Kunst in Passau. He is Professor Emeritus of Sculpture at SMU, where he served as department chair for 17 years, and currently serves as President of the Board at the Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency. He has been represented by Conduit Gallery since 1990.

Thank you and for this recognition.

image credit: Victoria Gomez for Patron Magazine

We’re pleased to present LIFE-SIZE, an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Catherine Howe.

Opening reception Saturday, June 13 | 5–7 PM

Howe’s botanical paintings move between representation and abstraction, rendered in iridescent mineral pigments and metal leaf that shift with the light. Flora uprooted from earthly constraints, animated into something between the physical and the ethereal.

On view through July 25

image 1: Catherine Howe, studio view, image 2: Catherine Howe, Big Bloom No. 3, 2026, acrylic, iridescent mineral pigments, aluminum leaf, powdered pigment on canvas, 55x45”

Gallery artist presents Fortune at this Saturday, May 30th, 3–6pm.

Members of the public are invited into an intimate exchange. Present your palms and receive your fortune, transcribed onto paper for a small fee. The reading and writing is entirely silent, structured around two questions: where are you coming from? where are you going to?

The project inquires into trust, intimacy, and power. Through the figure of the fortune teller, it raises questions about belief, desire, class, and cross-cultural interaction. Note: fortune telling is illegal in New York City.

In conjunction with the closing of Same Time, Same Place.

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Fortune has previously been performed at Conduit Gallery (2014) and (2019).