UNTITLED ART, HOUSTON
DIANA ORVING, BRIAN RATTINER, MAXIMILIAN RÖDEL, ROSALIND TALLMADGE
SEPTEMBER 19–21, 2025, VIP PREVIEW SEPTEMBER 18
BOOTH A35, HOUSTON, TX
Untitled Art opened its inaugural Houston edition on, September 18. For the occasion, CARVALHO presented a 4-artist exhibition with Diana Orving (Stockholm), Brian Rattiner (New York), Rosalind Tallmadge (New York), and Maximilian Rödel (Berlin).
CARVALHO’s presentation centers on the sensation of weightlessness. Swedish textile artist Diana Orving’s semi-transparent organism floats from the trusses—sewn from abacá fiber and silk organza dyed in varying shades of blue—and hovers cloud-like at the entrance. American painter Brian Rattiner’s memory-scapes absorb the light, terrain, sounds, and sensations of his travels; in his most expansive works, evocations of landscape are unmoored from spatial limitations, and any sense of gravity is counterbalanced by a hypnotic feeling of floating. New York–based artist Rosalind Tallmadge meticulously shaves natural crystals such as lepidolite and selenite, applying them atop silk to conjure compositions that shimmer without anchoring. Maximilian Rödel's paintings open to vast, interlaced spaces where light and feeling move freely. Together, these works dissolve gravity's hold, tracing the thresholds between earth and aether, presence and atmosphere.
CARVALHO (est. 2019) A synthesis of the Director’s background in performing and visual arts informs a distinct point-of-view that shapes the gallery’s cross-disciplinary program, privileging the sensorial experience of the art object and space. CARVALHO features international emerging and mid-career artists whose practices reconsider distinctions of increasingly fluid categorization – of the visual art, performing art, and craft realms – through dedicated inquiry and meticulous approaches to material and process. Exhibitions work to activate the viewer’s environment, expanding space for engagement and discourse between disciplines. At the close of 2023, on the cusp of its five-year anniversary, CARVALHO expanded its galleries into the adjacent building, doubling its exhibition space and program. The second gallery focuses on installation and performance, echoing the Director’s foundations, and allowing artists to realize more ambitious collaborations and projects.