Texas Design Now features fashion, accessory, furniture, and industrial designs by artists and artisans living and working statewide. The participants hail from Austin, Dallas, Houston, Marfa, San Antonio, and Wimberley, and their creations demonstrate the diversity, vitality, and originality of Texas’s creative communities. These 35 participants were chosen by Guest Organizers Chris Goins and Garrett Hunter, who drew on their extensive experience in fashion and interior design.
Texas Design Now features work by: Mary Lou Artz, Esé Azenabor, Amy Blakemore, Rob Bradford, James Brummett, Xavier Castillo, The Community Cloth, Andy Coolquitt, Johnny Dang Diamond Grillz, Chloe Dao, Kate de Para, Kate de Para with Shane Tolbert, Sameera Faridi, Finell, Alyson Fox, Garza Marfa, Peter Glassford, Manoosh with MarilynBiles, Judy Masliyah, Dennis Nance with James Hays, Yasmina Johnston, Angel Oloshove, Oudvark, David Peck, Ryan Reitmeyer, Alyce Santoro, s.t.e.f., Warbach, Claire Webb, Michael Wilson, Michael Yates, Michelle Yue, and Peter Zubiate.
The participants’ works cover a broad range of styles, from exquisitely bejeweled clothing, hats, necklaces, and customgrillz (Artz, Azénabor, Bradford, Castillo, Johnny Dang Diamond Grillz, Faridi), to inspiring handcrafted garments and furniture (Brummett, Glassford, Nance, Hays, Wilson, Zubiate). The mixture of forms on view is similarly broad, ranging from utilitarian and sculptural vessels (Blakemore, Finell, Oloshove), to inventive lighting (Warbach,Oudvark), luxurious personal adornments and accessories (Finell, Johnston, Webb, Yue) and inspired home furnishings (Garza Marfa, Fox, Reitmeyer, Yates) that are available to a wide range of consumers.
“When we put on our clothes in the morning, or put pieces of furniture into our homes, we invite the outside world in. People understand us based on how we make these choices,” says CAMH Director Bill Arning, arguing that fashion and interior design are an accessible form of conceptual art.