Member Meetup for "Land's Brooches" Exhibition Reception

Join your fellow HMAG members for an evening of art, conversation, and community at the opening reception of Lands’ Brooches, a new exhibition by Dongyi Wu at BOX 13 ArtSpace.

Dongyi is the recipient of HMAG’s recent Member Development Grant, which helped support her work on this exhibition. Come celebrate her accomplishment, see the exhibition, and connect with other members of Houston’s metal arts community. This exhibition will be on view from October 30 - December 5, 2026.

Lands’ Brooches brings together No Longer Human and The Black in Dark, tracing a longer development in Dongyi Wu’s practice: from constructing situations and placing figures within them to investigating the conditions that make those situations possible. Across the exhibition, the “brooch” emerges as a spatial logic beyond adornment: a way of setting apart a field within a larger land.

In No Longer Human, Wu constructed three imaginary landscapes-a beach, street, and…