COMFORT — MixHaus Gallery will present their upcoming exhibit entitled “disturbances” featuring work by Texas artists Kari Englehardt, Nate Cassie and Parker Duke. The show opens on September 20 and runs through October 27, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 21 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 716 High Street in Comfort, Texas.
Englehardt is a part-time Marfa resident, and Duke is a Fort Davis resident and McDonald Observatory telescope operator. The exhibit coalesced around three artists’ perspectives of the interplay between humans and the environment of West Texas. Englehardt’s botanical works of petroleum phytoremediators, Nate Cassie’s oilfield-glazed ceramics and the environmental sound collage of Parker Duke offer individual examinations of this sometimes-fraught relationship. The result is an exhibition of chance sensory beauty derived from the Permian Basin.