I am delighted to announce my solo exhibition ‘ The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the Menil House’ to open at the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, May 23 - Nov 2, 2025.
It is a profound honor and deep joy to work with my favorite museum in the world, the best curator #pauldavis and most wonderful support team.
@menilcollection
more spring things (this was supposed to be part of the previous post)
Fascinating exhibition at HCCC @crafthouston@sarahdarro about our space city with NAsa artifacts, grills, boots, and bricks including gorgeous work by @annawmayer
Mel Chin @mel.chin drawing exhibition at @pac_arthouston curated by Jennifer Teets @jenniferlinnieteets
and I got to see Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue on the second to last day at Lawndale @lawndaleartcenter thinking about dirt and maybe how we grow @piedrinita
some spring things:
Maggie Hills @maggiehills_ and her beautiful show @inmangallery . I have known Maggie since 1995 when we were fellows together in Cheltenham, UK. such a treat to hang out. last week of the show!
Extra! Extra! release of The Haep @thehaep such a fabulous endeavour helmed by @adam_marnie and @esmalling The paper is in different locations in Houston and Galveston and can definitely be found @basketbooksandart
lari Garcia’s workshop and beautiful work at TransArt Foundation for one day @larmagar #transartfoundation
Steffani Jemison’s talk for Core @steffanijemison@coreprogram (sorry my pic was the wrong format)
Natasha Bowdoin @nmbowdoin talk at @galvestonartistresidency
‘Spotted Mug’ is a handpainted edition in acrylic on cotton rag. In keeping with the iterative nature of my work, I chose to handpaint rather than print this 12/12 edition for CAMH’s 77th gala in honor of Sissy and Denny Kempner and their long support of Houston artists and institutions.
The edition depicts ‘Spotted Mug,’ a sculpture in fired clay and oil I made in 2016. I’m also referencing a painting of mine owned by Sissy and Denny, Dishrack (2008), which shows the ceramic spotted mug upside down drying on a dish rack.
I worked with Dan Schmahl @beachtrul@risingtideprojects to make a custom screenprinted glassine sleave for each piece.
so deeply honored to have work installed throughout the de Menil house. a selfie in the mirror with my ‘Fleurs Coquillages’ (based on Max Ernst’s) in this same corridor.
This F just broke my heart and back. I cried and laughed and haven’t even read it all. Death is so omnipresent. And love threads its way deeply and tenderly through this February 2026 issue ‘In Memoriam’
Thank you for including ‘January.’ I feel so honored to be part of this edition.
🖤🖤🖤 @adam_marnie
🖤🖤🖤 @f_magazine
Excerpts:
F cover
F index
@_blueingreen
January
@_baskette@aurarosenberg@cerny_studio
PS:
I love the fingerprints on my cover. They remind me of the labor of love and care in printing and assembling.
so delighted to find this beautifully published and considered magazine in the post on this last day of the 2025! Congratulations @evie_marie and @jessemorganbarnett on #mortadella’s first edition ‘binder.’
I feel so honored you invited me to participate and that you chose to publish pieces from the dead dad desk series with the original essay ‘Thinginess’ by @piedrinita
‘cus I like her personality I like the way she lets me be touchy I like her voice her smile the way she talks to me litterly everything about her’
found on the sidewalk. for Danna.
thank you for deciphering ‘voice’
Thank you Lauren Moya Ford @laurenmoyaford for naming ‘The Space between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House’ at @menilcollection as one of your best shows of 2025 on @glasstire . So honored to be paired with Toshiko Takaezu ❤️❤️. And thank you even more for your lovely, tender, and thoughtful review of the exhibition on LMF writes.
the closed doors of the show at the end of the night! Thank you @annawmayer for this lovely photo. thank you @_jillianconrad for the beautiful flowers I can look at this morning. thank you both for celebrating this moment with me.
‘The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House’
Now closed | Menil Collection
@menilcollection
On this last day of the exhibition a reminder that the panel discussion about the de Menil House is upcoming on Thursday, Nov 6 at 7 pm with @andycampy@fox8035@piedrinita #paulrdavis ❤️❤️❤️
‘The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House’
through Nov 2| Menil Collection
@menilcollection
