Taco Talk with Meredith Dean

Join the Contemporary for breakfast tacos and a gallery walk-through with our Red Dot Artist Honoree, Meredith Dean. The walk-through will focus on Dean’s multifaceted artistic practice spanning the last 40 years and will dive into her work and process. This event is free with registration and open to everyone.

About the Exhibition 

The Red Dot Show is an annual survey exhibition of San Antonio-based artists contributing their work to Red Dot in support of the Contemporary. It features more than 100 artworks exhibited throughout all four of the Contemporary’s galleries. As Above, So Below is a small survey of work by 2025 Red Dot Honorary Artist Meredith Dean, which highlights her multifaceted practice of the past 40 years. It foregrounds her approaches to observation and mark making as vehicles to connect to deep time and place. Meredith often references various types of maps in the structure of her compositions while building her own language of record keeping. The formal relationship to star charts, topographic and geologic maps, aerial and microscopic imagery are ever present, yet shifted into gestural and abstracted impressions, reliant on color, repetition, and the presence of the hand.

Thank You, H-E-B!

This event is made possible with the generous support of H-E-B, celebrating 10 years of South Flores Market! The South Flores Market is home to multiple artworks by the late, great, local artist Chuck Ramirez. Before the artworks debuted at the South Flores Market for its grand opening, they were presented right here at the Contemporary for a special preview. We are so grateful for their support of this and upcoming programs in celebration of the South Flores Market!