Seven Sisters is pleased to announce its participation in the inaugural edition of Untitled Art, Houston, September 18–21, 2025. The gallery will present a focused two-artist installation featuring Jamie Sterling Pitt and Daniel Rios Rodriguez, exploring the roots of artistic inspiration through a distinctly regional lens.
Grounded in Texas, their works celebrate the material and metaphysical textures of place—where provenance, memory, and transformation intertwine. Pitt’s contemplative practice engages ritual, nature, and community, shaped by his recent immersion in Houston’s bayous and geological terrain. Rodriguez’s paintings—raw, exuberant, and uniquely framed—channel visionary energy through nature-inflected abstraction.
Both artists embrace a kind of Gulf Coast magical realism: swampy, sticky, radiant. Their presentation captures the funk, pulse, and specificity of Texas—an aesthetic shaped as much by sweat and salt as by history and displacement. Together, their works suggest a new kind of American constructivism—intimate, spiritual, and inseparable from place.
Jamie Sterling Pitt (b. 1977, Warwick, New York) earned their BFA from the University of New Mexico and his MFA from Mills College, and resides in Houston, TX. Their artistic process is one of exploring and honoring the often abstract and unknown realms of memories and their emotional counterparts. Even in their most austere form, the sculptures allow for intimacy and tenderness, while the playful and illustrative forms maintain a sense of gravity. For many years, Pitt’s artistic practice served as an autobiographical image bank, representing particular memories, places, and sensations. Fleeting sightings and experiences were reinterpreted as two and three-dimensional reconstructions, standing as surrogates for images lost during momentary, perceptual shifts. Having suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident over ten years ago, this way of working began as a tool to help cope with short-term memory loss and difficulties with language. Through a process of drawing and sculpture, he was able to give form to the less concrete and harder to articulate aspects of the mind, such as something sensed or a fading memory.
Pitt’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, New Mexico, and Berlin, and in group exhibitions at the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MI, and the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, OR, as well as throughout the Bay Area and New York. Most recently their work was shown in dialogue with JB Blunk at Blunk Space. Pitt's work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Blanton Museum, Austin, TX, and the Berkeley Art Museum.
Daniel Rios Rodriguez (b. 1978, Killeen, TX) lives and works between San Antonio and Dallas, TX, and received his MFA in Painting from Yale in 2007. He has sought to use his canvas as a space to chart and evolve the personal history of 21st-century Mexican American experience in relation to place. Rodriguez has had solo exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; Cooper Cole, Toronto; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; Feuilleton, Los Angeles; Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL; Artpace, San Antonio; Lulu, Mexico City; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio (2015), and White Columns, New York (2011), among others. Group exhibitions include Various Small Fires, Dallas; X Museum, Beijing; Camden Arts Centre, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Galeria Fortes D'aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo; Michael Benevento, Los Angeles; Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles; and Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, among numerous others.
Rodriguez was a 2018 Artist in Residence at the Chinati Foundation, a printmaking resident at the Wingate Studio in New Hampshire (2017), and a 2013 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award recipient. Over the past fifteen years, he has supported diverse student populations, from painting at the college level, working with Veterans and first-generation college students as faculty at a federally-designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), and as a graduate-level Guest Critic at UTSA. His work was featured in the exhibition "Right Here, Right Now: San Antonio" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2018 and is included in the public collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art.