From Texas with Love
Prints from Flatbed Press

Curated by Bale Creek Allen

September 10 - October 9, 2026
Exhibition Reception, Thursday, September 10, 2026, 5-7 pm

From Texas with Love features a selection of prints from Flatbed Press. Founded in 1989 in Austin, Texas, by artists and printmakers Katherine Brimberry and Mark Lesly Smith, Flatbed Press is a collaborative printmaking workshop known for working closely with artists to produce innovative editions of etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, and monotypes. Over more than three decades, Flatbed has collaborated with artists including John Alexander, Terry Allen, Michael Ray Charles, Luis Jiménez, Julie Speed, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Peter Saul, and James Surls, among many others. The press has established a national reputation for experimentation, technical excellence, and its commitment to both emerging and established artists.

“I really saw a need as a printmaker and artist myself – I’d just come out of graduate school and needed a studio with a press to continue my practice. Printmaking takes specialty equipment and it takes space and most people don’t have that equipment or a space for it. That’s why all over the world, you find printmaking communities sharing a community space. Austin just didn’t have one, and that’s what I wanted to create.”

- Katherine Brimberry, Founder, Flatbed Press

The exhibition features prints by John Alexander, Terry Allen, Bale Allen, Alice Leora Briggs, Katherine Brimberry,  Michael Ray Charles, Suzi Davidoff, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Luis Jiménez, Sharon Kopriva, Gareth Maguire, Liliana Porter, Linda Ridgway, Dan Rizzie, Bob Schneider, Peter Saul, Julie Speed, James Surls, and Randy Twaddle. 

ABOUT THE CURATOR: 
Bale Creek Allen is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and gallerist whose practice encompasses sculpture, printmaking, painting, photography, neon, installation, music, and performance. Educated at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Allen moved to Austin in 1991, where he became an active part of the city’s contemporary art community. He founded Gallery 68 at Flatbed World Headquarters in 2002 and developed an early connection to Flatbed and its community of artists and printmakers. Allen later founded Bale Creek Allen Gallery in Fort Worth, Texas, presenting the work of contemporary artists alongside his own continuing studio practice. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally and is perhaps best known for transforming tumbleweeds, tire treads, and other objects encountered along the American road into meticulously cast bronze sculptures.