We all have our burdens to bear — sometimes physically and sometimes emotionally. Evoking the title of Texas-based author Tim O’Brien’s famous 1990 novel, Laredo artist…
For art destinations, from large museums to small galleries, the coronavirus shutdown has meant the loss of the only thing more valuable to these institutions than the art…
This art exhibit pulls no punches. Created by San Antonio artist Gabi Magaly. “Yo no nici para aguantar a nadie, which translates into I wasn’t born to put up with anybody,”…
Magaly was a sophomore at Bryan Collegiate High School when a professor suggested art school as her higher learning path. “And she told me, ‘You know you can go to school for this,’…
Presa House Gallery has been nominated as a finalist in San Antonio Magazine’s “Best of the City 2020” for “Best Art Gallery.” This is the second nomination…
Purchase our Official Presa House T-Shirt illustrated by artist Albert Alvarez. A prolific draftsman and painter, Alvarez’s meticulously composed works have been exhibited throughout San Antonio and are in the permanent collection…
A show at Presa House gallery titled Four Rooms is one of the more immersive and unconventional exhibitions the small Lavaca district house gallery has hosted to date.
Lewis Rodriguez ventured into photography in the late ’90s, when his first camera was a disposable Kodak. Rodriguez was one of two artists featured at Presa House Gallery, a small space nestled in Southtown…
Glasstire staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for 2019. Jose Villalobos’ performance art is rigorous and densely coiled with ideas and symbols.
You might know Eva Marengo Sanchez from her recent mural at the San Antonio International Airport featuring “the rise of the concha,” but if anything is on the rise, it’s her!
As a first-generation Salvadoran-American, born and raised in Southeast Los Angeles, Galileo Gonzalez explores honor, resilience, and memory in his upcoming exhibition at Presa House Gallery…
Corpus Christi has an emerging (and delightfully surprising) graphite scene. There’s Ashley Thomas, whose exquisitely detailed dreamy works of botanica candles…
There is a ceaseless, almost hungry quality to the creativity of Robert Jackson Harrington. He paints or draws every single day, runs the Museum of Pocket Art…
If you like your costumed revelry served with a side of conceptual enlightenment, look no further than this multipurpose pre-Halloween gathering at Presa House.
Brandon Zech and artist and Glasstire programmer Seth Mittag run down a host of shows in San Antonio, the meaning of a “good crisis,” and how to win a wad of cash by hacking into Glasstire’s database. “Even more…
Presa House Gallery is celebrating its third birthday with two exhibitions featuring new work by three Texans. Austin-based artists Robert Jackson Harrington and…
As we continue to make our way through the 21st century, we are increasingly made aware of the significance of technology and social media have on our daily lives. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram battle for our attention…
From a traveller standing on sand dunes littered with ephemera cast out from a giant’s pockets to a person prostrated nude before the LED screen of a smartphone displaying the unmistakeable F of Facebook’s logo…
Presa House continues to be the prime gallery in San Antonio for showcasing a daring and original array of Latinx artists. Treviño is an artist who is emblematic of the renaissance of a generation of young artists…
As we mentioned in the Around Town section of this year’s Best of San Antonio issue, Southtown’s award-winning Presa House Gallery…
Presa House Gallery was selected as the winner of Best Art Gallery in the Around Town Category in the San Antonio Current’s Best of San Antonio® 2019 poll
Austin-based artist, musician and curator Steve Parker has earned considerable accolades for projects that blur boundaries between disciplines and often turn viewers…
We’re excited to announce that Presa House Gallery Director, and Curator Rigoberto Luna has been selected as a 2020 Tito’s Prize Curatorial Panelist…
Presa House Live @ KTRU 91.7, recorded May 27, 2019 on the campus of Trinity University. Hosted by Marco Brotello, and Guest Curated by Rigoberto Luna of Presa House Gallery.
Proof that big things can indeed come in small packages, Southtown’s quaint and homey Presa House Gallery…
Jose Villalobos was born and raised in the El Paso/Juarez region, steeped in the canonically masculine and generally conservative western and Norteño culture. His current show, Cicatrices, at Presa House Gallery…
Brandon Zech is with guests Adrian Aguilera, Tammie Rubin, and Betelhem Makonnen to talk about their show in Austin called constant escape, an important group show in College Station, and an alternative art fair…
A man who may be beating the odds and is now following his dreams Fox San Antonio’s David Norris tells us why people are taking notice…
The trappings of South Texas Latino culture get an irreverant, flamboyant spin in the work of multimedia artist…
Work by gay San Antonio artist Jose Villalobos will take center stage at the Presa House Gallery in an exhibit that opens on March 1…
Rainey Knudson, the outgoing publisher of Glasstire, and Brandon Zech, the incoming publisher, run down the top five art events in Texas this week. Also: the first work by a Texas artist that Rainey ever bought.
San Antonio-based artist-run space Presa House Gallery was founded in late 2016. In Corpus Christi, at K Space Contemporary, there’s an exhibition titled Ctrl+A, which is the second part of a gallery exchange…
Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a show that calls for flash photography in Houston, all women of color exhibit in San Antonio, an explosion of prints in Austin, and a retrospective of Sterling Ruby’s work in Dallas.
Although often considered a solo endeavor for singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Chazwick Bradley Bundick, hard-to-categorize Toro y Moi…
Beyond consistently highlighting the work of local artists via exhibitions year-round, Presa House co-directors Rigoberto Luna and Jenelle Esparza do a commendable…
Founded in 1993 by the community-minded trio of Manuel Diosdado Castillo, Cruz Ortiz and Juan Miguel Ramos…
In addition to their commendable efforts to showcase the work of established, emerging and practically unknown San Antonio artists…
The Texas-Mexico border has taken on multi-level heft since the election of Donald Trump. There is the racist myth…
Neil Fauerso, Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on a museum that fits in your wallet, a long-awaited retrospective, and a drawing show in San Antonio…
Glasstire Editor-in-Chief, Christina Rees and News Editor, Brandon Zech on the evolution of a Texas sculptor, a rising star in Houston, and a much-anticipated show…
Presa House Gallery particapated in UTSA Football Fan Day on Saturday, Aug. 25th at the Alamodome. A collaboration between UTSA Athletics, the Alamodome…
Glasstire’s guest editor Neil Fauerso and San Antonio-based Artpace resident Jenelle Esparza on an exhibition of works inspired by the culture of Mexico…
For the past 28 years the San Antonio current has held their annual Best of San Antonio® Readers’ Choice poll. Current readers were…
We’re excited to announce that Presa House Gallery co-owner, co-director, and artist Jenelle Esparza has been selected as a recipient of Artpace San Antonio’s…
Around 20 years ago, Saturday Night Live ran one of my favorite sketches, a fake gameshow called Who’s More Grizzled. The contestants (Will Ferell as a kind of Grizzly Adams, Robert Duvall as basically himself) answered questions demonstrating their…
Opening on First Friday and on view throughout April, Presa House’s latest exhibit, whether intentionally or not, pairs…
An Oklahoma native with a strong background in Native American art history, artist Joan Frederick moved to San Antonio in 1986 and taught at Taft High School…
There is a real seriousness to Jimmy James Canales’s playfulness. His videos, object mutations, installations, and endurance performances put on airs of self-deprecation, but Canales’ work knocks over masculine…
Presa House has been nominated as a finalist in San Antonio Magazine’s “Best of the City 2018” for “Best Art Gallery.” Vote for all your local favorites, Dec. 1 through Dec. 22, 2017
Despite its melancholy overtones and references to “bad memories” and a relationship that never was, the dreary Smiths classic “Back to the Old House”…
Canales’ playful and brilliant show, Para Chrome, cleverly finds the patterned bridge of the vanity of male fantasia, one that spans science fiction and south Texas…
To call local artist Jimmy James Canales a “wildcard” might distract from the conceptual depth and technical mastery of his work, but it accurately alludes to the fact that he’s…
Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on death row last suppers, how to stage a massive video show, and sex in Fort Worth.
#4 Jimmy James Canales: Para Chrome, presented by Presa House Gallery @FL!GHT (San Antonio), October 6 – October 29, 2017
Presa House Gallery has been invited to participate in this year’s 7th annual Art to the Power of Ten hosted by the McNay Art Museum. This one night event benefiting the McNay’s acquisition fund…
Kristeen Young new video “You Always Win,” directed by Jenn Alva of FEA and Girl in a Coma and recorded Presa House Gallery. The video features artwork of Suzy González and Allison C Valdivia.
With the St. Mary’s Strip, a lively downtown and several dive bars throughout the city, it’s never a challenge to find a place to find a drink in San Antonio. Finding sober ways to have fun, however, can sometimes be a challenge…
For some youth artists at San Anto Cultural Arts, the first time they’ll be inside of an art gallery will also be the first time they’ll sell a piece of their own artwork…
Every year, CAM recognizes excellence and diversity throughout the city’s rich landscape with the presentations of the CAMMIE Awards. We are excited to announce the following cultural organizations as judges…
Despite an unassuming facade one could easily mistake for a private residence (built in 1910), Presa House Gallery packs a well-executed punch with monthly offerings…
Over the weekend, Presa House Gallery in Southtown celebrated an opening of critically acclaimed San Antonio painter. Our John Salazar was there to listen to artist Rolando Briseño talk about his retrospective…
On January 6, Presa House Gallery will unveil a new exhibit, Sex, Race, Science, featuring works by San Antonio artist Rolando Briseño.
Borderwavve, the current exhibition at San Antonio’s Presa House Gallery, features abstract paintings and assemblage works by four Texas-based artists who have strong ties to the Texas/Mexico border.
Fans of British emo icon Morrissey are famous for the depths of their devotion. With a sold-out show by the former Smiths frontman coming up at the Tobin Center…
As excitement builds for a rare, already-sold out Morrissey show at The Tobin Center on November 17, fans, barely able to contain their delight…