SUMMER DAYS

JUNE 6 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 2025


with
Louise Bourgeois, Ramon Deanda, Jack Pierson,
Jana Renée, Matt Stevens, Yosdy Valdivia, Françoise Watin

Exhibition view of Yosdy Valdivia at The Dreamers Gallery in Presidio TX in Big Bend

“Summer Days” brings together a group of works that move between lightness and weight, immediacy and memory. Across different generations and practices, the artists share an attention to fragments of lived experience – gestures, forms, images, or materials that carry something both personal and quietly universal.

There is no fixed narrative, but a rhythm that unfolds through the exhibition. Moments of intimacy sit alongside more distant or ambiguous presences; humor and tenderness appear without insistence. Some works feel almost casual, while others hold a density that reveals itself more slowly.

Presented within the space of The Dreamers Gallery, the exhibition invites a slower kind of looking – one that follows associations rather than conclusions. Like the season it evokes, “Summer Days”resists definition, lingering instead in a state of suspension, where time stretches and meaning remains open.


SELECTED WORKS


Provincetown, 2003 — Jack Pierson

Chromogenic print on Fujiflex Crystal Archive paper, 20 × 24 in


Topiary, 2005 — Louise Bourgeois

Drypoint in colors on wove paper, 15.5 × 8.25 in


Sainte Catherine, 2012 — Françoise Watin

Watercolor on Etival rough acid-free paper, 4 × 6 in


Allá en el Cielo, 2014 — Ramon Deanda

Woodcut, ink on BFK paper, 19 × 14 1/2 in


Paso Seguro, 2023 — Matt Stevens

Acrylic and metallic paint on reclaimed wood, 18 × 41½ in


Garden, 2024 — Jana Renée

Acrylic on wood panel, 5 × 7 in


River Run, 2025 — Yosdy Valdivia

Acrylic on Masonite, 38 × 48 in


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