Four, After All

Throughline is pleased to present Four, After All, with new works by member artists Luisa Duarte and Carolina Otero, and their invited guests Gabriela Gamboa and Toña Vegas, opening with a reception on Saturday, April 4, 2026, from 6-9pm. The exhibition will be on view at Throughline, 3909 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002, from April 4th through Sunday, May 3rd, 2026.

Four, After All, features the work of four Venezuelan women artists whose media range from paper to video, sculpture to mixed media. Through distinct modes of expression, they all engage deeply with memory, territory, and the interconnectedness of shifting energies. Each artist approaches material as both witness and archive - fragile surfaces, moving images, and dimensional forms become sites where personal and collective histories converge. Together, their works establish a dialogue that resists singular narratives, expanding upon notions surrounding internal and external landscapes.

Luisa Duarte works across disciplines including drawing, printmaking, collage, sculpture, murals, and site-specific installation. Born in Venezuela and based in Houston, her work envisions spaces of recovery, building emotional cartographies that hold memory while offering balance and renewal. Through color, repetition, and spatial tension, she creates spatial environments with geometric forms and layered structures. Her work has been exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Venezuela; Holocaust Museum, Houston; and The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi. Duarte has completed residencies at the Asia Society Texas Center and PAC Art Residency, and is a Houston Arts Alliance grant recipient. She was selected by Rice University, ION Houston, and Piper Faust Public Art to exhibit her installation Urban Sentinels, a series of large-scale sculptural forms that explore protection and belonging.
https://www.luisa-duarte.com/

Carolina Otero is a Venezuelan-American multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses drawing, collage, printmaking, plaster, ceramics, collaborative video, and photography. She uses automatic drawing, photography, and chance-driven collage to explore nature and urban spaces—their shifting rhythms, interrelations and emotional tones—as reflections on solitude,  perception, displacement, and grounding. A graduate of The Cooper Union in New York, Otero won two residencies at Sol Art Studio, Baltimore (2018, 2019) and received a Transart Foundation work and exhibit grant in 2022. She is the recipient of the Jones Artist Award (2025), and the Wendy Wagner Foundation 2025 Winter Trio First Prize. She has mounted solo exhibitions at venues in Caracas, Maracay, Houston, Miami, Paris, and Oslo, and was included in group exhibitions at the Amarillo Museum of Art, the Holocaust Museum Houston; the Health Museum Houston; National Gallery of Art, and Mario Abreu Contemporary Art Museum in Venezuela, among others.
https://carolinaotero.com/

Gabriela Gamboa is a multidisciplinary artist born in the United States and raised in Venezuela. Through performance, video and photography, her work addresses displacement and its ecological, political, social, and personal effects. She has exhibited at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, Peru; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Venezuela; and the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami. Gamboa was an Artist in Residence at Vermont Studio Center (2012), and a recipient of the Harris Barron Alumni Fellowship to attend Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She received an Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts in Miami, Florida, in 2021 and 2025. Gamboa holds a BFA in Art and Design from the University of Chicago and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. A current artist-in-residence at Bakehouse Art Complex, she has lived in Miami since 2018.
https://www.gabrielagamboa.com/

Toña Vegas is a Miami-based Venezuelan mixed-media artist. Toña has a BFA in Psychology from Catholic University, Venezuela, and art training from Hornsey College of Art in London, UK, and the Center for  Graphic Arts in Caracas. Her practice incorporates photography, collage, printmaking, mark-making, mosaic, and metal and fabric perforations. Through observations of natural elements and cultural processes, she explores patterns and transformations to create spaces of revelation and interconnection. Vegas’ work has been shown internationally, with solo exhibitions at Miami International Fine Arts; The Contemporary Art Museum of Maracaibo; Imago Arts in Action, Miami; and The Clemente Center, New York. Vegas’s sculptural interventions appear in buildings and private collections throughout Caracas and Miami; her mosaic mural Matrix, a commission for the Zelda Glazer Soundscape Park / Art in Public Places, Miami-Dade County, is currently being installed. She is an artist-in-residence at Bakehouse Art Complex.
https://tonyavegasofficial.com/

Scheduled Programs: 

• Opening Reception: Saturday, April 4, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  With appetizers prepared by Venezuelan Chef Janize Mendez

• Walkthrough in Spanish: Thursday, April 23, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
  Led by Independent Curator Rosa Ana Orlando

• Artist Talk: Saturday, April 25, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Video Workshop: Sunday, April 26, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 

  • Ticketed Event

    This hands-on video art workshop explores the use of iPhone as a tool for conceptual and abstract image-making. Participants will experiment with movement, duration, texture, light, and sound to create non-narrative works that challenge perception and conventional representation. Through guided exercises, the workshop emphasizes process, chance, and material exploration, encouraging participants to engage their surroundings in unexpected ways. Basic filming and mobile editing techniques will be introduced to support intuitive composition and transformation.

    Open to beginners and experienced artists alike, the workshop highlights the iPhone as an accessible device for rigorous, experimental video practice.

• Cocktail Closing Reception and Walkthrough: Sunday, May 3, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm