Rebecca Pugh: To the Horizon

• Thu, May 21, 2026 - Sat, Jul 25, 2026  9am - 5pm On View
• Thursday, May 21, 2026  6pm - 8pm Artist Reception

Artist Rebecca Pugh presents a solo exhibition of abstract paintings, To the Horizon in the North
Gallery at Sabine Street Studios. Pugh is a Canadian-born artist currently living in Houston and working
as an Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. The exhibition
features a selection of paintings from Pugh’s recent body of work that she created while living in Texas
since 2020, including new works such as an 18 ft. long painting installation abstracting a memory of
driving past a fallen wooden fence during summer drought. To the Horizon is funded in
part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance. It is on view May 21st – July 25th, 2026, with
an opening reception on May 21st from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Pugh is inspired by colors and shapes that she sees in the landscape, most recently on her
long-distance commute between Houston and College Station. She is drawn to repetition of line, shape
and color – like grass, wildflowers, cattle and ranch fences on the side of highways. While driving, she
records voice notes and works from her memories and ideas in her studio. In her paintings, she uses
angular shapes inspired by spaces in between fence posts, railings and twisted barbed wire in the
Texas landscape. She often mounts shapes of paper containing graphite mark-making to suggest wind
in grass, speed or direction of traffic. Pugh’s title for this exhibition refers to her interest in abstracting
the landscape below sky, as well her feeling of driving to the horizon when she sees the downtown
skyline in the distance from the top of a stacked I-45 interchange on her way home.

About the Artist: 

Rebecca Pugh is a Canadian-born artist based in Houston. She is an Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University and earned her MFA in Studio Art in 2015 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Creating bodies of work about the places that she lives, her recent works are abstractions of the Texas landscape inspired by driving. Pugh’s recent solo exhibitions include Highways to Houston at Lone Star College - University Park (2026), and Fences and Fields at the Dougherty Arts Center (2025). Paintings from her recent body of work have been featured in several juried exhibitions such as the Marfa Invitational Open (2025), Amarillo Museum of Art’s AMoA Biennial - 600 (2025), and The University of Southern Mississippi’s 2025 National Juried Painting Exhibition.