Seven weeks, July 12 to August 30

Texas Sculpts V
Bold forms. 13 Texas artists. One unique exhibition.

You’re invited to the opening reception on Saturday, July 12, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Come as you are, bring a friend or the whole family, and enjoy an afternoon surrounded by bold, inspiring sculpture. Many of the artists will be on hand—happy to talk about their work, share their process, or simply connect.

The event is free and open to the public.

"Heavy Lifting," a sculpture by Robbie Barber.

Pull up a chair for our Lunch and Learn artist talk

Wednesday, July 23
Wednesday, August 13
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Join us for our popular Lunch and Learn series—casual midday conversations where you’ll hear directly from the artists about their work, their materials, and what inspires them to create.

Each session offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process in a relaxed, welcoming setting. You’re welcome to bring your lunch—or not. Whether you come with a sandwich or just your curiosity, all are invited to spend the lunch hour surrounded by art and conversation.

The event is free and open to the public. A $10 donation to the ArtCentre, in support of Texas Sculpts IV, is always appreciated.

"Big, Bad, Brass Nest," by sculptor Larry Whiteley.

A juried exhibition of emerging and established Texas sculptors

This year’s exhibition, now in its 4th year, brings together artists gaining momentum and those whose work has helped shape the sculptural landscape in Texas for decades. It’s this mix of fresh perspective and seasoned vision—carefully selected by a panel of collectors and arts professionals—that makes Texas Sculpts IV so dynamic.

The result is a rare opportunity to explore a wide spectrum of artistic voice, process, and potential in one cohesive, curated experience.

Texas Sculpts IV is made possible through the generous support of sponsors who believe in the power of art to inspire, challenge, and connect. If you or your business would like to support this one-of-a-kind exhibition, learn more about sponsorship opportunities here.

"Back to the Start," by sculptor Fari Rahimi.
Texas Sculpts on View Soon

From above: Robbie Ellis, Heavy Lifting, 2017, wood, steel, paint, found objects, 77 × 27 × 51 inches; Larry Whiteley, Big Bad Brass Nest, 2025, brass, 8 × 20 × 6 inches; Fari Rahimi, Back to the Start, 2024, powder-coated steel, acrylic glass, 3D printing, 45 × 45 × 11 inches.

Meet the sculptors shaping this year's exhbition

These 13 sculptors represent some of the most compelling voices in Texas sculpture today. Individually, their work speaks to mastery of material, clarity of vision, and a deep commitment to craft. Together, they form a powerful survey of contemporary sculpture across the state—inviting collectors, curators, and art appreciators alike to experience what’s possible when concept and craftsmanship align.

Scroll below to read their bios.

Hadi Asgharpour

Dallas, Texas

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My work explores the emotional weight of environmental loss through interactive installations grounded in personal memory. Growing up in Guilan, Iran, I witnessed firsthand the disappearance of rivers, forests, and marine life. These experiences drive my practice, which uses digital technology, sculpture, and sensor-based interaction to create poetic spaces that reflect on ecological grief and resilience. I often leave electronic components visible to emphasize the presence—and consequences—of human intervention. By engaging viewers physically and emotionally, I aim to foster awareness and reflection on the Anthropocene and the fragile relationships we hold with nature. My installations speak to those who understand displacement, memory, and environmental change—not just as distant issues, but as lived realities. Through this lens, my art becomes a gesture of mourning, care, and an invitation to imagine more sustainable futures.

Hadi Asgharpour is an interdisciplinary artist from Iran, based in Dallas, Texas. He holds an MFA in Art, Technology, and Emerging Communication and is currently pursuing a PhD in Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Texas at Dallas. His practice examines ecological crisis and the entangled relationship between humans and the natural environment, with a focus on sustainability, memory, and the Anthropocene. Working across interactive installation, sculpture, and digital media, he builds multisensory experiences that invite reflection on deforestation, water scarcity, pollution, and overfishing. By combining traditional materials with emerging technologies, his work offers poetic, participatory encounters that foster empathy and ecological awareness. His work has been exhibited internationally, including in Italy, Brazil, and the Netherlands, and has been shown in exhibitions at the Ulrich Museum of Art and the Amarillo Museum of Art.

Grace Atchison

Manvel, Texas

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Grace Atchison is a multidisciplinary artist based in Houston, Texas. She will receive her bachelor's degree in 3D Studio Art with a teaching certification from Sam Houston State University in Fall 2026. Within her work, Atchison discusses women's rights, the social pressures and stereotypes women face, and the bonds that women create and share through their hardships. She expresses these ideas through ceramics, oil painting, woodwork, drawing, collage, embroidery, weaving, and mixed media. Her work has been displayed in the Student Art Association's Juried Show for the past 2 years at the Satellite Gallery in Huntsville, Texas. Her work was also featured in the Huntsville Item Newspaper in 2024. She was awarded the James and Carol McTee Roach Art Endowed Scholarship and the Smither Family Art Endowed Scholarship for the 2026-2027 academic year, as well as the Penland scholarship, the Distinguished Art Faculty Endowed Scholarship, and the Patrick E. Brown Scholarship in the 2025-2026 academic year.

Since the late 1800s, women have been fighting for their rights, and yet we still aren't equal. Our work is viewed as lesser than, and we must fight twice as hard to get the recognition we deserve, all while having to uphold the standards society has forced upon us. In my work, I depict the female experience and challenge the societal pressures and stereotypes that women face. I express these ideas through ceramics, oil painting, woodwork, drawing, collage, embroidery, weaving, and mixed media. My body of work features repeated elements of polka dots and the color pink, both of which have been associated with femininity, empowerment, and community-building through fashion throughout the decades. Also depicted in the exhibition are women's domestic techniques that have historically been regarded as craft, such as embroidery, weaving, and ceramics. I use these materials as an ode to the female artists before me and as a defiance of the terminology.

Elyssa Austerklein

Plano, Texas

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As a Cuban American Jew, my art is strongly influenced by both tribal elements and high culture; the natural world and the created world. As a religious person, my art is consistently in dialogue with biblical images and ideas. As a woman, the feminine form and experience of motherhood interface with my work.

Elyssa Austerklein is a devoted spiritual person, artist, musician, educator, and rabbi expressing her creative flow through multiple artistic mediums, primarily acrylic painting and lost wax casting. She has participated in group exhibitions around the country since 1999. When teaching art-based courses, she focuses on meaning and process rather than achieving aesthetic excellence. She recently moved to Texas with her family.

Portrait of Waco, Texas sculptor Robbie Barber.

Robbie Barber

Waco, Texas

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Robbie Barber is currently Professor of Art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and has taught Sculpture there since 2000. Born in Williamston, North Carolina in 1964, he was raised on a farm near the Roanoke River in Martin County. He received his BFA degree from East Carolina University in 1987 and his MFA degree from the University of Arizona in 1991. He has gained notoriety as a sculptor working in a variety of media, and is the recipient of numerous awards. These include a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship and a Southern Arts Federation/NEA Fellowship in Sculpture. He has exhibited at Redbud Gallery in Houston, Texas, Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, New York, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art in Auburn, Alabama, Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum in Tokyo, Japan, to name a few.
Portrait of Dallas, Texas sculptor Melissa Drumm.

Melissa Drumm

Dallas, Texas

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Experimenting with different materials and techniques and their combinations has been a longstanding fascination. It is in the process of working through an idea and relying on disparate ideas along the way that bring together a painting or sculpture. One of the most active parts is in the development of the idea, whether drawing by hand or a CAD program. Integrating parts helps strip away and tone down any extraneous components. Using my own inventive wax and blowtorch process to draw on large roofing sheets of copper led to teaching myself to weld from YouTube. The chosen YouTubers were carefully vetted over time with a few mishaps. It is the mishaps that are usually the most informative. Although classically educated as a Painter and Printmaker, it is fun to learn from many different possibilities online. Working in copper, aluminum, iron, lost wax cast bronze and hot rolled steel has produced welded, laser cut, poured and cast pieces. One large work, Deconstructing Gutenberg, is permanently installed outdoors of the Phillip Johnson Cathedral of Hope Interfaith Peace Chapel in Dallas, Texas. More recently, my work has involved the use of concrete shaped over chicken wire macquettes for large outdoor sculpture. Concrete is a newfound exploration, and its qualities continue to surprise. Molding, shaping, drying, and engraving concrete makes for a fast paced and exciting process which best suits my nature. Images to follow as the learning curve reaches a higher apex in shape and form. The adventure of learning new techniques and materials has always brought the most joy to my practice. Also, installing sculpture with earthly elements intertwines manmade work with the natural world and the new concrete works will continue to be completed as part of a soft and hardscape.
Portrait of Plano, Texas sculptor Howard Greisdorf

Howard Greisdorf

Plano, Texas

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I have always believed, contrary to popular opinion, that “art is in the eye of its creator.” Whether others consider the work to be artistic has mostly been a commercial enterprise depending on the “quantity of others”. With that said, my work over the past 80 plus years has included pen and pencil drawings, paper-mâché, ceramics, jewelry, essays, paintings, acrylic skins, miscellaneous constructions, and published works. The mission has always been to please my own interests at a particular point in time. This current series of painted wood constructions stems from my personal outlook on the future of mankind and its basic preference for living and working in rectangular spaces. Historically, that premise has proven to be accurate considering the efficiency and functionality of rectangular spaces, the psychological comfort provided through stability and predictability, construction practicality, ease of navigation that offers clear boundaries, and the influence of architectural factors that dictate a sense of normalcy through the use of squares and rectangles. I have taken that historical premise and projected it into a future where earthly habitation may no longer be sustainable as we know it. With the advent of increasing threats from pollution, climate change, uncontrollable pandemics, and nuclear holocaust, continued existence for homo sapiens, as we know the species today, may need to rethink its earth-based living habits and/or find it necessary to settle elsewhere in the universe. Scholars, already attuned to the existing and potential threats, are starting to suggest the need for an exodus from the planet by the year 3000. This collection represents an architectural vision of that habitable future. Each maquette consists of a stationary sustainability port (black) purposed for supplying clean air, clean water, power generation, and waste recycling to an assembly of attached cubes (red). Each cube, designed for public space, living space, offices, shops, classrooms, laboratories, medical or manufacturing space, will be transportable and designed to attach or detach from another cube and/or a sustainability port. Whether stationary or in orbit, each structure will be self-sustaining and reconfigurable as needed to support the inhabitants. The title of each maquette speaks for itself, whimsical as that may be.
Portrait of Dallas, TExas sculptor Aron Kapembeza

Aron Kapembeza

Dallas, Texas, and Zimbabwe

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Aron Kapembeza is one of Zimbabwe’s most accomplished and widely represented stone sculptors. Introduced to the artform by his aunt, renowned sculptor Colleen Madamombe, Aron began carving off-cuts as a child. Under her guidance, he learned the fundamentals of sculpting and developed the confidence to carve larger stones, eventually establishing his own distinctive style. Focused on human figures—especially women of all ages—Aron draws inspiration from his upbringing surrounded by strong female influences. Without formal training, he relies on instinct and the natural characteristics of each stone. “Just let the stone speak to you, and finish the rest,” he says. His work is defined by expressive detail and graceful, flowing lines. Aron has exhibited extensively across Zimbabwe, Europe, Asia, North America, and Canada. His international career includes over 50 exhibitions and several solo shows in the Netherlands, where he also taught sculpting—becoming the first Zimbabwean sculptor to do so in Europe. In 2007, he worked for three months at Gallery De Buffel in the Netherlands. His sculptures are held in private, public, and corporate collections around the world. He has permanent installations at the Muttart Conservatory and various botanical gardens in Canada and Korea, and his work is regularly featured in U.S. botanical garden exhibitions. Aron also mentors emerging artists and conducts workshops wherever he travels, sharing his passion for sculpture with students, patrons, and collectors alike.
Portrait of Dallas, Texas sculptor Stephen Lee.

Stephen Lee

Dallas, Texas

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Stephen Lee is a Korean-American sculptor based in Dallas Texas. He studied sculpture at Occidental College in Los Angeles and industrial design at California State University, Long Beach. After a career of 20+ years designing a wide range of consumer products and retail merchandising at companies such as KitchenAid, JCPenney, and Samsung, Lee returned to making sculptures in 2021 and has been gaining recognition professionally. His small scale sculptures are showing at prominent art fairs nationwide and has been awarded public art commissions in Texas and Oklahoma.
Portrait of Dallas, Texas sculptor Carmen Menza.

Carmen Menza

Dallas, Texas

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Carmen Menza is an interdisciplinary artist creating fine art and technology-based installations utilizing light, language, interactive software, and music composition. Her work explores themes of time, perception, current political and social climates, and human connection. Her installations have been created for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, the Dallas Aurora Light & Sound Festival, Meow Wolf, UTSW Clements University Hospital, Baylor University Medical Center, RO2 Art, Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art, Octavia Art Gallery, and more. Her films have screened at the Dallas International Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, and KERA. She is a TACA New Works Fund Grant recipient, a Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs- Arts Activate Grant recipient, and a Cedars Union Artist Residency recipient. She is a founding member of Texas Vignette, a non-profit organization that amplifies the work of women artists throughout Texas, and received her BFA in jazz guitar performance from the University of North Texas.

“We believe in the power of sculpture to move people—and in the importance of lifting up Texas artists whose work deserves to be seen and celebrated.”

Amy Darrow,
Exhibition Chair, Texas Sculpts IV

Texas sculptor Fari Rahimi.

Fari Rahimi

Denton, Texas

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I am a contemporary sculptor using a range of media and technology. I’ve worked largely with glass and steel, but also have included processes like 3D printing and unexpected materials like hospital supplies in my pieces. The elemental significance of material drives my work. For instance, steel and glass represent the conflicting themes of oppression and empowerment from my feminist perspective. The contrast of these materials elicit opposing feelings of power and fragility from the viewer. In addition to materiality, community is also important to my work. I was in the first cohort of artists at the Cedars Union, a nonprofit arts incubator in Dallas. While I was there I met artists, curators, collectors and supporters, which led to collaborations and connections that are still going strong. In 2022-23, I co-founded a group called Woman Life Freedom, a collective of artists focused on showing solidarity with women of Iran. We had an exhibition at the Irving Arts Center, the Fort Worth Arts Center and Tin District Arts Gallery in 2023. Over 35 artists participated and the events were covered by media such as the Dallas Morning News, Glasstire, and NBC. Later in 2023, members of Woman Life Freedom gathered together to paint a mural on the side of Full City Rooster at 1810 S Akard St, Dallas. Being an Iranian woman is a challenging experience, and banding together has eased the feelings of loss and longing we share.
Portrait of Plano, Texas sculptor Larry Solomon

Larry Solomon

Plano, Texas

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After high school, I had the opportunity to study fine art in Paris, France. On my return to South Africa, I studied at the Johannesburg School of Art and began my career in graphic design and silk screening. Rising through the ranks of management, fine art took second place to other forms of creativity in the leadership of teams within the corporate world. In 2013, I stepped down from an executive position in Corporate America to invest time in pursuing my God-given talents to paint and sculpt. As a pragmatist, I love to create art to serve a purpose and meet clients’ needs. I enjoy making clients’ artistic ideas come to life, so please commission me to work with you. With my passion to serve others less fortunate, I am donating 50% of all art sales to a not-for-profit organization, My Possibilities, serving individuals with special needs. Please check out this very special organization: mypossibilities.org.
Texas sculptor Kat Warnack

Kat Warwick

Dallas, Texas

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Kat is a local sculptor, raised in Garland, and currently residing in Dallas. Kat Warwick holds a BFA from the University of North Texas and has continued to educate herself in the fine art of sculpture through a variety of other avenues. In addition to her studio practice creating works for exhibitions, collectors, public art programs, Kat is an event sculptor who loves to showcase her art form for folks in unexpected places. She also teaches stone carving at The Creative Arts Center of Dallas. In 2023 Kat joined the Board of Directors of the Creative Arts Center of Dallas as a teacher liaison to the board and also became manager/curator for their gallery program. Kat has works of art on loan and in permanent collections across the metroplex. She routinely exhibits work and has a successful record of winning awards for her sculpture. Kat hopes you enjoy her work and that it leads you to create stories and contemplate wonderful possibilities.
Texas sculptor and educator Larry Whiteley

Larry Whiteley

Dallas, Texas

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Larry Whiteley is a Dallas-based sculptor who transforms brass and steel into organic, lyrical works of art. Inspired by the textures and quiet intricacies of nature, his pieces blur the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, and design. Known for turning raw metal into delicate forms—branches, birds, trees, and nests—Whiteley brings a poetic sensibility to both ornamental and functional work. His talent has attracted the attention of top designers, architects, and creatives across the country. In 2021, he created an 18-foot inverted Tree Chandelier for the Kips Bay Decorator Show House in Dallas—a dramatic entry piece that sparked further commissions in Texas, Colorado, and Florida. He has continued as a celebrated contributor to Kips Bay Dallas, with multiple bespoke installations. In 2023, he partnered with Daniel Hourchard to craft a custom brass and steel floral chandelier for a private garden, and collaborated with Tanner Morgan of Morgan Madison Design on a suite of patinated brass elements for their Kips Bay space. Whiteley’s long-standing creative relationship with design entrepreneur Brian Bolke began in the early 2000s, with his work featured in the Forty Five Ten collection. Their collaboration culminated in Whiteley’s sculptural contributions to The Conservatory at Hudson Yards in New York, and later locations in Dallas and Houston. In 2016, he was commissioned to fabricate ten sculptural Juliet railings for the Forty Five Ten flagship in downtown Dallas. Additional commissions include the Ritz-Carlton Dallas Spa, Crescent Court Spa, Four Seasons Las Colinas, Reunion Tower, ExxonMobil Campus, Devon Energy HQ, and the George W. Bush Presidential Center. His work is held in private and public collections across the U.S. In 2017, Whiteley was named Artist/Craftsman of the Year by AIA Dallas, recognizing his rare ability to fuse craftsmanship, beauty, and architectural presence. Whether crafting an 18-foot chandelier or a single brass nest, Whiteley brings collaboration, intention, and wonder to every project.
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