Liz Gates: Pulling Threads

On View January 23, 2026 through April 12, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, 2026 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. 
(Free & open to the public)

The Art Museum of Southeast Texas is proud to present “Liz Gates: Pulling Threads”. This exhibition opens January 23, 2026 and is on view through April 12, 2026. 

Liz Gates, a native of Houston, creates mixed media works of art centered around themes of gendered labor, self-manifestation, and feminist mother identity through incorporation of found maternal materials. 

Gates’ embroidered tea towels and cloth diapers transmute into seemingly weightless banners, structures, and tree-like columns, inviting the viewer into an ethereal world of white fabric and red embroidery. The exhibition also incorporates symbols selected from drawings created by AMSET staff and 8th Grade students participating in the Odom Junior Docent program. 

“Pulling Threads” deconstructs domesticity by juxtaposing the familiar and seen with the unseen moments and memories of maternity while questioning conventional gendered labor roles. 



Loc Huynh: Beyond Sài Gòn

On View January 23, 2026 through April 12, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, 2026 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. 
(Free & open to the public)

The Art Museum of Southeast Texas is proud to present “Loc Huynh: Beyond Sài Gòn”. This exhibition opens January 23, 2026 and is on view through April 12, 2026. 

Loc Huynh is a Vietnamese American artist whose work bridges personal history, cultural memory, and place. Originally from Texas and now based in New York City, Huynh draws from both Vietnamese heritage and Texas culture to create bold, visually striking works that reflect the layered identities of Vietnamese and Vietnamese American communities.

“Beyond Sài Gòn” offers an intimate exploration of the contradictions and tensions of Vietnamese American life in Texas, viewed through the lenses of family, place, and material culture. Pop art–inspired portraits of friends and family evoke singular identities, rendered with warmth and a distinctly contemporary perspective.

Huynh expands his practice with an original mural installation, a large flag representing both Vietnam and the United States, which speaks to belonging and identity.

This exhibition is generously funded in part by awards from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts,the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, MD and Lulu L. Smith MD Endowment Fund, the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation, Beaumont CVB, Jefferson County and the members of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. To find out more about how the National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.