Current Exhibition
Studio Show 2026, Part 1
Through Saturday, June 6, 2026
Gallery Hours
Saturday May 9, 11am-3pm
Saturday May 16, 11am-3pm
Saturday May 23, 11am-3pm
Saturday May 30, 11am-3pm
Closing Reception Friday, June 5, 6-9pm
Saturday June 6, 11am-3pm
Every year we put on summertime exhibitions showcasing the artists who practice and work at Spellerberg Projects. This year to celebrate our 10 year anniversary, we are curating 3 shows including current studio residents, studio alumni, and all the talented artists who make up our gallery staff! The Studio Shows are an opportunity for visitors to see the work produced behind the front gallery and connect the ways this community of artists influences each other working within a shared space. This year’s shows are a glimpse at the evolution of that community over the past 10 years.
Artists participating in Part I of Studio Show 2025:
Aji, also known as ‘Aji The Alchemist’, is an Gambian-African American multimedia artist from Houston, Texas. Her work depicts explorations and observations of the Diaspora through a feminine lens. She synthesizes her experiences in America as a black woman with her deep-seated interests in African history, science, nature, culinary art, and pop culture to express abstract concepts using a vibrant contrast of colors and thought-provoking imagery.
“My intentions for this collection are to make sense of my ever-evolving universe through color, texture, shape, and shed light on the unseen trials and tribulations my life has brought me; emphasizing how beauty and strength can grow in darkness. In a time where I had to persevere with what I had (whether that have been a lack of resources, wisdom, or sense of belonging), I gave these same elements to my artwork by using what most people would call “scraps”, and combined it with my main medium of choice: watercolour. Creating has always been a tool I’ve used to harness self-conviction in a world filled with doubt and uncertainty.”
Maya Endsley is an emerging artist based in Austin, Texas, whose work centers on identity and inner experience, using art as a tool to express personal narrative. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Texas State University, with a minor in Psychology. Prior to that, she attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas.
Endsley’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, and mixed media, resulting in unique, layered compositions. Her work blends delicate linework with bold textures, often incorporating personal symbols and handwritten elements. These pieces function as visual journals, exploring themes of identity, transformation, and growth.
Deeply committed to the therapeutic potential of art, Endsley uses her creative process as a form of self-discovery while advocating for mental health awareness. Her work has been exhibited in local galleries, including Spellerberg Projects in Lockhart, Texas. She continues to use her practice as a platform for connection, reflection, and positive social change.
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life, and I’ve never let it keep me from a single thing that I wanted to do.” — Georgia O’Keeffe
My work is rooted in exploring identity and one’s inner world through the process of making art. Working across painting and mixed media, I use experimental self-portraiture and symbolic imagery to reflect on the complexities of life. Drawing from both traditional techniques and non-traditional materials, I create textured, layered pieces that function as visual journals. These works invite viewers into an intimate space of reflection, where emotion, memory, and transformation intersect with vivid colors and textures. Influenced by artists such as Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Remedios Varo, I approach art as both a process of self-discovery and a means of communication. My practice is grounded in the belief that art can be a powerful therapeutic tool. Through making, I navigate personal experiences while hopefully creating a place for connection and understanding. Ultimately, I want my work to hold space for being vulnerable about the complexities of the lived experience and to encourage others to reflect on their own identities and recognize the value of our inner worlds.
Amelie Esquivel is a Hispanic artist born, raised, and based in central-Texas. Amelie combines their background in art history with technical painting skills to create a new wave of contemporary paintings that explore themes such as modern nostalgia and representational objects. Esquivel has shown in exhibitions throughout central Texas, with the most recents being their Leave The Bones U-Haul group show, the Mothership Studios San Marcos Tour, and their own BFA thesis show. They also have experience in working in galleries and installation.
Amelie’s compositions consist of contemporary, everyday subjects juxtaposed alongside relics and trinkets from our past. Nintendo games, dead pixels, Littlest Pet Shops, grandma’s Tchotchkes, Pinterest boards, and EBay listings are amongst the subjects that litter their canvases. Meticulously choosing these objects and compositions, Amelie aims to tell narratives through environmental storytelling– mostly representing the people in their life and their stories– and how it connects to Amelie’s own experiences.
In their free time, Amelie cherishes spending time with their friends, as well as playing video games and listening to music, all of which feed directly into their art. They are currently aiming to attend graduate school for painting and are applying to more exhibitions, which they greatly look forward to.
Avery M. Michel is a queer artist who through painting discusses the changing prescience of identity. Allusions to queer culture, graphic novels, and mythology/ religion are tools used by Michel in order to discuss their relationship with self and others. Michel received their AA from Blinn College, and BFA from Texas State University(pending).
“I am a painter who works with figurative subjects and self-portraiture. My work discuses introspection through the synthesis of queer identity, pop culture, and religion.
The ever-changing sense of self and exploration of my experiences are riddled with allusions to media that discusses what it means to be human. I like to play with juxtaposing references from comics and pulp with the vibrance of queer culture and the ancient sense of longing that comes from religious imagery.
The work has allusions to the various references I previously mentioned and is focused on using them to depict myself and others at various stages of my life. My work expresses the internal dialogues I have as a queer person. I through my work can express ideas like sexuality, objectification and feelings of being rejected by religion and biological family.”
Marie Tobola comes from a classical figurative background but leans on the abstract while searching the breadth of digital imagery for impulses of freedom in fleshy form. She graduated from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 and has been painting for over twenty years. She lives and works in Lockhart, Texas.
