ON VIEW MAY 21–JULY 25, 2026
CLOSING RECEPTION: Saturday, July 25, 2026 | 12–1:30 PM
ARTIST TALK: Saturday, July 25, 2026 | 12:30–1 PM
Artist Rebecca Pugh presents a solo exhibition of abstract paintings, To the Horizon in the North Gallery at Sabine Street Studios. Pugh is a Canadian-born artist currently living in Houston and working as an Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. The exhibition features a selection of paintings from Pugh’s recent body of work that she created while living in Texas since 2020, including new works such as an 18 ft. long painting installation abstracting a memory of driving past a fallen wooden fence during summer drought. To the Horizon is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
Pugh is inspired by colors and shapes that she sees in the landscape, most recently on her long-distance commute between Houston and College Station. She is drawn to repetition of line, shape and color – like grass, wildflowers, cattle and ranch fences on the side of highways. While driving, she records voice notes and works from her memories and ideas in her studio. In her paintings, she uses angular shapes inspired by spaces in between fence posts, railings and twisted barbed wire in the Texas landscape. She often mounts shapes of paper containing graphite mark-making to suggest wind in grass, speed or direction of traffic. Pugh’s title for this exhibition refers to her interest in abstracting the landscape below sky, as well her feeling of driving to the horizon when she sees the downtown skyline in the distance from the top of a stacked I-45 interchange on her way home.
About the Artist:
Rebecca Pugh is a Canadian-born artist based in Houston. She is an Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University and earned her MFA in Studio Art in 2015 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Creating bodies of work about the places that she lives, her recent works are abstractions of the Texas landscape inspired by driving. Pugh’s recent solo exhibitions include Highways to Houston at Lone Star College – University Park (2026), and Fences and Fields at the Dougherty Arts Center (2025). Paintings from her recent body of work have been featured in several juried exhibitions such as the Marfa Invitational Open (2025), Amarillo Museum of Art’s AMoA Biennial – 600 (2025), and The University of Southern Mississippi’s 2025 National Juried Painting Exhibition.