RUBY Projects presents “Epoch,” a solo exhibition by Brian Zievert
On view at La Ruche HTX from September 14 – October 12, 2025
RUBY Projects is proud to present Epoch, a solo exhibition of new work by Brian Zievert, on view at La Ruche HTX from September 14 – October 12, 2025.
The exhibition opens with a Family Dinner celebration on Sunday, September 14 (5–8PM) featuring guest chefs, music by local talent, and community table conviviality. A public reception will follow on Wednesday, September 17 (12–8PM) at the RUBY Projects home.
Coinciding with Untitled Art Fair Houston, Epoch will be accompanied by a week of programming in collaboration with Houston Airports System, The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, and Melrose. Highlights include pop-up Happy Hours at RUBY Projects and Melrose, a special offsite takeover with RUBY’s NoMames gallery artist Nika Koplatadze and LaRucheHTX alumna Margo Lunsford, and a pop-up presentation by Josh Allen (Chemise), who will also unveil a collection developed during his December 2024 residency at La Ruche HTX.
About the Exhibition
In Epoch, Zievert continues his exploration of material memory, transformation, and the passage of time. The works function as meditations on cycles—creation, erosion, and renewal—rendered through a tactile language of surface, structure, and light. Each piece captures a quiet tension between the natural and the constructed, echoing both geological strata and the architectures of contemporary life.
Zievert’s practice is rooted in a deep sensitivity to process: pigments are layered, distressed, and rebuilt in ways that reveal traces of their own becoming. Through this, Epoch becomes less a fixed moment than an unfolding—an inquiry into permanence, decay, and the poetic act of making itself.
“Brian’s work invites viewers into a space of reverence,” says curator Megan Olivia Ebel, founder of RUBY Projects. “He builds environments that feel timeless yet alive—anchored in material intelligence and open to spiritual interpretation. Epoch reflects our ongoing commitment to artists who expand the language of abstraction and the experience of presence.”