Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino

www.sicardi.com

1506 West Alabama Street
Houston, TX 77006
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713 529 1313

Established by María Inés Sicardi in 1994, Sicardi Gallery was among the first in the United States to represent avant-garde and contemporary artists from Latin America. Today, the gallery is known as Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, recognizing its founder’s twenty-three-year partnership with Allison Ayers and Carlos Bacino.

The gallery represents a provocative range of artists, from such modernist masters as Jesus Rafael Soto, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), and Carlos Cruz-Diez, to internationally recognized contemporary artists, including Oscar Muñoz, Liliana Porter, Miguel Angel Rojas, Marco Maggi, and Gabriel de la Mora, as well as the Estates of León Ferrari, Manuel Espinosa, Mercedes Pardo, and Alejandro Otero. These artists have been instrumental in shaping the character and dynamics of the gallery, inspiring an innovative program of solo and cross-generational exhibitions, and promoting experimental artistic urban projects worldwide. Growing in tandem with the emerging field of modern Latin American art in Houston and the US, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino extends its reach by advancing new models of artistic production and intellectual collaboration with universities, museums, and other cultural organizations.

Through solid relationships with artists, curators, art historians, and art collectors, the gallery continues to place its represented artists’ work in seminal museums and collections, build and disseminate research on these artists, and remain a stimulating platform for intellectual debate and creative exploration within the community.

Designed by Brave Architecture, the gallery building is located in the heart of Houston’s Museum District, directly across from The Menil Collection. The 5,900 sq. ft. gallery includes two floors of exhibition space, a research center with archives, and a library. Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), an invitation-only organization that recognizes the highest levels of expertise and professional standards in the art market.

Artists Represented:

Antonio Asis

Maria Fernanda Cardoso

Elias Crespin

Carlos Cruz-Diez

Gustavo Díaz

Sérvulo Esmeraldo

Estate of Manuel Espinosa

Rodrigo Facundo

Magdalena Fernández

Estate of León Ferrari

Gego (Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt)

Thomas Glassford

Graciela Hasper

Marco Maggi

Sandra Monterroso

Gabriel de la Mora

Oscar Muñoz

Reynier Leyva Novo

Marie Orensanz

Estate of Alejandro Otero

Estate of Mercedes Pardo

Liliana Porter

Miguel Angel Ríos

Miguel Angel Rojas

Fanny Sanín

Pablo Siquier

Melanie Smith

Joaquin Torres-García & The School of the South

Jorinde Voigt

Works Available By:

Geraldo de Barros

Martha Boto

Dias & Riedweg

Clemencia Echeverri

Elsa Gramcko

Hugo De Marziani

Pedro S. de Movellán

Julio Le Parc

Antonio Lizárraga

Francisco Sobrino

Xul Solar

Jesús Rafael Soto

John Sparagana

Ana Maria Tavares

Luis Tomasello

Gregorio Vardanega

Carlos Cruz-Diez, "A Legacy in Color" Installation at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino. Photo by Anthony Rathbun.

Past Exhibitions

Graciela Hasper

Graciela Hasper: Here Comes the Sun

March 15, 2025 - May 3, 2025

Miguel Angel Ríos

Miguel Angel Ríos: Merged with Vastness

January 18, 2025 - March 8, 2025

Beyond his clear technical virtuosity in both painting and video, Rios defies the conventions of European-Western visual language by fusing painting techniques of pre-Columbian tradition and diverse American cultures. His open landscapes are not a representation of the physical territory, but an emotional and symbolic map that reflects the relationship of the being with it’s environment, with it’s history and it’s own existence. In works such as They stole the map of my town, Different time in the same frame (2023) and in the video Landlocked (2014), the pilgrim not only crosses mountains and deserts; he also crosses the limits of perception, leading us to “see ourselves differently. Hasn't that always been the challenge of painting?”

Carlos Cruz-Diez, GEGO, Elsa Gramcko, Mercedes Pardo, Fanny Sanín, Jesús Rafael Soto

Color and Line

December 14, 2024 - January 11, 2025

Gustavo Díaz

Gustavo Díaz: Wild Wind, Subtle Breeze

September 28, 2024 - December 7, 2024

There appears to be a central paradox in Diaz’s practice. How can temporal flows and exchanges of energy be expressed in static works of art? Each work consolidates a constellation of ideas, imprinting them onto a final form (however dynamic that form may be). An exhibition extracts a moment from an artist’s practice and isolates it from the flows of time. For Díaz, who has devoted himself to the study of complexities, there is something unsatisfying in all of this. But it is precisely the impossibility of resolving this dilemma that pushes him toward constant innovation and evolution. This is the ongoing and limitless work of the studio.

Antonio Asis, Martha Boto, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Julio Le Parc, Francisco Sobrino, and Luis Tomasello

Summer Masters

July 20, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Sebastían Gordín

Sebastían Gordín: Two of Us

July 13, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Sebastián Gordín (b. 1969) is an Argentine artist well-known for his whimsical boxes, cartoonish magazine covers, and intriguing miniature maquettes of things like The Museum of Zombie Art, the Odeón movie theaters, libraries, bar scenes, etc. For Two of Us he has crafted works the size of an album cover using marquetry; i.e., inlaid work made with thin wooden laminates cut and sliced with a laser cutter. Besides drawing, Gordín performs the acts of designing, fitting, and gluing that marquetry requires. Those skills separate him from many conceptual artists who either lack a craft or chose not to use it in order to focus on ideas...

Alejandro Otero

Drawings for Sculpture: The Dimension of Flight

June 8, 2024 - July 6, 2024

Alejandro Otero: Drawings features a grouping of Alejandro Otero's works on paper and three-dimensional works from the 1960s-1980s that demonstrate the relationship between the two media in the artist's productive process. The selected works on paper include sketches for large-format outdoor sculptures Otero designed during his time at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Additionally on view are studies on paper the artist made for his iconic Coloritmo and Tablón series as well as a selection of realized Coloritmos.

Liliana Porter

Liliana Porter: The Question of Scale

May 18, 2024 - July 13, 2024

The Question of Scale features a selection of Liliana Porter's recent assemblages that showcase the artist's visual exploration of time, space and the limits of representation. By mismatching the scale of her chosen objects and engaging human-like figurines in impossible tasks, Porter sheds light on the human condition. Moreover, the random groupings of objects and figurines in a decontextualized white pictorial space invite the viewer to question their roles and identities, and our own.

Jorinde Voigt

Jorinde Voigt: Shadows & Dyads

March 23, 2024 - May 11, 2024

Voigt understands her artistic practice as a “performative act out of the creative action with the objective to draw spaces of potency within an endless spectrum of possibilities.” Her series of drawings entitled Hills unite the performative characteristics of the creative process to the resulting creation, using the representative formation of earthly hills to develop conceptual fields of activity. Wing-like drawing elements gently nestle into the surfaces of the hills, reminiscent of the intuitive and emotionally inspired artistic gesture that creates them. In these, Voigt establishes a performative language that, in its diversity and consistency, symptomatically corresponds to the impact of the finished work: origin and work are one and the same in terms of form.

Fanny Sanín

Fanny Sanín: Eyes Wide Open

January 18, 2024 - March 14, 2024

Fanny Sanín’s rigorous, methodical, self-reflexive approach does not preclude content and expression. Instead, her use of repetition and refinement lead by ever-closer approximation to an ultimate goal of personal and spiritual revelation. It is a process that can be compared to making one’s way in the dark with eyes wide open, illuminating the world with a light from within.