Pop-Up Exhibition | Houston Museum District
January 23rd – March 21th 2026
Six10 Art Gallery, near the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2308 Bissonnet St Unit A, Houston, TX 77005
The Mission Projects returns to Houston in collaboration with Six10 Art, a newly established contemporary gallery located near the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. This limited-time pop-up exhibition brings together well-known artists from across North, Central, and South America, presenting a curated dialogue between historical influence and contemporary practice.
Running from January 23 through March 20, the exhibition highlights artists whose work reflects the evolving visual language of the Americas bridging geography, generations, and cultural narratives.
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Kenji Nakama
Untitled (Tiffany Turquoise), 2023
bond paper collage, acrylic paint
20 x 20 x 2 in
About the Exhibition
Hosted at Six10 Art, this pop-up exhibition continues The Mission Projects’ long-standing commitment to promoting art of the Americas, with a special focus on Latin American contemporary art. The exhibition features established and mid-career artists whose work has shaped and continues to influence the contemporary art landscape across the Western Hemisphere.
Set within Houston’s Museum District, this collaboration creates a temporary but intentional space for collectors, curators, and the public to engage with significant works in an intimate gallery setting.
Event Nights
Select evenings at Six10 Art will offer an elevated viewing experience designed to engage the senses and deepen connection to the work on view. Guests are invited to enjoy complimentary beverages for those 21+, and guided walkthroughs led by curators and art experts who provide insight into the artists, materials, and concepts shaping the exhibition.
These intimate event nights transform the gallery into a fully immersive environment where sound, space, and conversation unfold alongside the artwork. Each evening is thoughtfully paced, allowing guests to experience the exhibition beyond the visual and engage with the work in a refined, social setting.
Opening Night Event: January 23, 2026 | 4:30-7:30pm
Closing Night Event: March 20, 2026 | 4:30-7:30pm
Florence Solis
Forager, 2025
acrylic on canvas
20 x 16 in
Featured Artists
The exhibition brings together a distinguished group of artists from across the Americas, whose practices span painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and conceptual work. Collectively, these artists engage with materiality, identity, memory, and place offering diverse perspectives that reflect both regional specificity and shared contemporary concerns. The featured works create a dynamic dialogue between established voices and evolving practices, reinforcing the exhibition’s focus on cross-cultural exchange and artistic continuity.
Jean Alexander Frater
Jean Alexander Frater is a painter based in Chicago, IL. Her abstract works investigate structure, rhythm, and spatial tension through layered color and form. Taking painting as a physical object rather than a pictorial surface, there is emphasis materiality, gesture, and process. Treating canvas like fabric; folds, weaves, and disrupted painted forms, allowing the work to retain its own presence and voice. The practice integrates abstraction with histories of making, transforming familiar visual systems—such as grids, stripes, and gradients—into tactile, sculptural compositions. Frater’s work has been exhibited internationally and reflects an ongoing investigation into how physical gestures generate meaning.
Luciana Rondolini
Luciana Rondolini is a contemporary Argentinian artist whose work explores perception and memory through subtle shifts in representation and material restraint. The multidisciplinary practice explores time, decay, and impermanence. Working across photography, video, sculpture, and installation, she often incorporates organic materials, to examine the tension between natural cycles and society’s obsession with preservation, surface, and permanence. Drawing on the tradition of vanitas still life, Rondolini’s work presents beauty as fleeting and unstable, confronting themes of consumerism, memory, and the human condition through visually striking yet quietly unsettling forms.
Rodrigo Lara
Rodrigo Lara is a Mexican born artist whose ceramic works reinterpret functional forms through a contemporary sculptural lens. The artist explores memory as fragmented, fluid, and unresolved. Trained in classical art yet intentionally breaking from its conventions, their work preserves visible marks of process—gashes, gestures, and structural seams—as evidence of becoming rather than completion. Drawing from personal experience as a Mexican immigrant in the United States, the sculptures reflect themes of displacement, faith, and collective history, while ultimately prioritizing materiality, transformation, and the act of making itself.
Pablo Chiqui Garcia
Pablo Chiqui Garcia is a Guatemalan artist known for ceramic works that merge ancestral forms with contemporary sculptural language. Working across sculpture, painting, and assemblage, the artist explore Earth’s materials as both physical strata and conceptual language. Through a cross-disciplinary dialogue, the works reflect a shared interest in geology, material composition, and the slow, transformative processes that shape the natural world.
Nicola Costantino
Nicola Costantino is an Argentinian multidisciplinary artist whose practice bridges craft, concept, and material experimentation. Specializing in sculpture, pieces are used for sites of political, historical, and personal inquiry. Working from a feminist perspective, her practice merges autobiography with historical revisionism, and performance. Trained as a sculptor, Costantino’s work reflects the influence of both surgical precision and garment-making, often collapsing boundaries between fashion, body, and identity to question ethics, aesthetics, and representation
Anna Elise Johnson
Anna Elise Johnson works across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, examining ecological systems, geology, and the human relationship to the natural environment. Los Angeles–based artist examines how images shape ideology, politics, and our understanding of landscape. Through layered painting and image-based strategies, she juxtaposes visual material from different places and historical moments to disrupt fixed ways of seeing. Her work interrogates the constructed divide between nature and culture, proposing new frameworks for understanding art’s role within the Anthropocene and our evolving relationship to the world.
Florence Solis
Florence Solis is a Filipino-Canadian painter whose work blends narrative, symbolism, and architectural space to reflect community and place. Self-taught painter and designer the work explores womanhood, resilience, and cultural memory. Using a deconstructive process that moves from digital collage to acrylic painting, she creates fragmented female figures that reflect the complexity and fluidity of identity. By layering color, texture, and form, Solis challenges traditional portraiture and examines how background, experience, and contemporary modes of image-making shape the way we see ourselves and others.
Matt Magee
American contemporary artist Matt Magee's art work draws from industrial materials and regional histories to explore process, labor, and materiality. Magee's multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, assemblage, and photography. Known for minimal geometric abstraction, his work organizes shape, repetition, and symbolic language into expressive systems informed by personal history, numerology, and collecting. Drawing from early experiences with geology, archaeology, and archival practice, Magee’s compositions balance conceptual rigor with visible gesture, merging hard-edge abstraction with contemporary scientific and ecological thought.
Kenji Nakama
Kenji Nakama is a Peruvian multidisciplinary artist working in collage and painting, blending graphic abstraction with layered material processes. Transforms everyday and discarded objects into contemplative works that disrupt perception and invite renewed attention to the ordinary. Through sculpture, works on paper, painting, and installation, his practice balances quiet contemplation with meticulous material engagement. By reactivating overlooked materials, Nakama reveals the poetic tension between the ephemeral and the enduring, asking viewers to slow down and reconsider the value of what is often unseen.
Rodrigo Zamora
Rodrigo Zamora is a Chilean artist whose watercolor works examine architecture, light, and spatial perception. Perception is explored as a fractured and evolving experience through painting, drawing, and sculpture. His practice balances intuition and structure, chance and control, often emerging from meditative observation and material experimentation. Working with both deliberate composition and residual traces of process. Zamora uses color, repetition, and gesture to blur the boundaries between intention and accident, inviting viewers to dwell within the instability of seeing itself.
Cole Pierce
Cole Pierce is an American painter whose abstract compositions emphasize time, gesture, and atmospheric color relationships. Working through a deliberate, formulaic process, the artist develops paintings through gradual variation and repetition. Each body of work unfolds across multiple canvases with related color palettes and compositions, allowing subtle shifts to emerge over time. Built through layered acrylic, carefully taped geometric structures, and oil-painted gradients, the final image is revealed through acts of interruption and release. Pattern, control, and intentional “glitches” coexist, emphasizing process as both structure and discovery.
Mariana Sissia
Mariana Sissia is an Argentinian born artist known for her ultra-detailed graphite drawings that explore perception at the limits of visibility. By reframing the monumental work as individual images, the project invites close attention to detail and reveals drawing as both an immersive landscape and a site of quiet contemplation. Grounded in the gestural traditions of 20th-century art and informed by Eastern artistic practices, this artist’s work engages calligraphic tension, sustained patterning, and the disciplined control of instinct. Drawing resonance from traditional Chinese drawing, her pieces operate as self-contained visual worlds that resist verbal translation and instead invite immersive attention. Through the use of scrolls and rice paper—formats rooted in Buddhist visual culture—the work encourages intimate viewing, fragmented observation, and a gaze that follows forms as they expand, dissolve, and reemerge.
Antonio De Loayza
Antonio De Loayza is a Peruvian artist whose practice engages painting, collaboration, and curatorial research. Trained at Corriente Alterna, his work intersects contemporary art with cultural memory and Indigenous knowledge systems. Works with collection as a core artistic method, assembling industrial and found materials such as metal mesh, brick, iron, cement, and gravel. Installed as interconnected environments, his works form urban “gardens” that bridge natural and constructed spaces while referencing cultural diversity and ancestral continuity. Grounded in Peru’s physical and symbolic landscapes, De Loayza’s practice reflects on territory, fragility, and resilience.
Mariella Agois
Distinguished artist and photographer Mariella Agois marks a decisive geometric turn in the career of one of Peru’s most significant contemporary painters. Through the interweaving of lines, surfaces, and permutations, Agois transforms structures historically associated with mathematical systems into devices of pure visuality. Rooted in a trajectory that moves from photography and expressive painting toward rigorous abstraction, her work engages pattern, repetition, and structure as perceptual experiences, culminating in a sustained exploration of geometry as both visual language and conceptual framework.
Carlos Runcie Tanaka
Carlos Runcie Tanaka is a Lima-based artist whose practice bridges ceramics, installation, and cultural inquiry. Trained in pottery in Brazil, Italy, and Japan, he draws from philosophy, archaeology, geology, and biology to create works that investigate identity, history, and material memory. His installations often combine clay with collected objects and diverse media, transforming ceramic practice into spatial and conceptual exploration. Runcie Tanaka has represented Peru in major international biennials and his work is held in prominent museum collections worldwide.
About Six10 Art
Six10 Art is a new contemporary gallery in Houston, Texas dedicated to presenting thoughtful, curatorial driven exhibitions. Located near the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Six10 Art serves as a platform for emerging and established artists while fostering collaboration with national and international art organizations.
Location & Visiting Information
Dates: January 23 – March 20, 2026
Location:
Six10 Art
2308 Bissonnet St. Unit A
Houston, Texas 77005
Admission: Free and open to the public
About THE MISSION PROJECTS
THE MISSION PROJECTS has showcased emerging and mid-career artists from the United States and Latin America in various spaces, including brick-and-mortar galleries, alternative installation project spaces, pop-up exhibitions, art fairs, and most recently THE RESIDENCE, a residential exhibition space in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. THE RESIDENCE is a continuation of THE MISSION PROJECTS’s ongoing objective to promote art of the Americas, maintaining a special interest in Latin American contemporary art.
The Mission | Chicago (2010-2017)
THE MISSION | CHICAGO was the first exhibition space by THE MISSION PROJECTS. Located in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood, THE MISSION | CHICAGO’s seven-year tenure included over 40 exhibitions by emerging, mid-career, and established artists from the United States and Latin America. After an inaugural year focused on historical exhibitions of Latin American artists and movements, the exhibition program evolved to showcase a range of artists spanning the 20th century, as well as currently practicing contemporary artists. THE MISSION | CHICAGO presented pioneering exhibitions of innovative contemporary and historical art, including numerous US debuts for influential artists from South America, with the mission of opening a dialogue between emerging artists and their predecessors.
The Sub-Mission (2012-2017)
THE SUB-MISSION was an alternative installation project space dedicated to the development of artists living and working in Chicago. Located below the main gallery at THE MISSION | CHICAGO, THE SUB-MISSION was created to foster the investigation of new ideas and artistic processes and to facilitate an exchange between artists and the artistic community. Exhibiting artists were selected annually by a selection committee of Chicago-based curators, artists, writers, critics, and collectors who were invited by THE MISSION PROJECTS to lend their expertise in selecting the most thought-provoking, innovative proposals.
The Mission | Houston (2013-2014)
THE MISSION | HOUSTON (2013–2014) was a year-long outpost located in Houston’s Museum District in the 4411 Montrose building. Initially intended to be a pop-up gallery in conjunction with Texas Contemporary Art Fair, THE MISSION | HOUSTON went on to organize seven exhibitions over the next year and featured Houston-based artists, as well as emerging and mid-career artists from Latin America and the United States.
The Residence | Chicago
Most recently, The Mission Projects launched The Residence, a residential exhibition space in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, continuing its commitment to intimate, thoughtfully curated exhibitions that bring contemporary art into lived spaces.
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