DENTON, TX.- In 2023 PDNB launched a successful group show, Deep in the Art of Texas, which celebrated Texas Artists. This year, he gallery repeats the goal of promoting Texas artists with an exclusive focus on women artists.

Another variant to this exhibition features not only photo-based work, but painting and works on paper.

PDNB includes artists that are new to the gallery. These women are respected artists in Texas with long careers that PDNB has followed. They include Joan Winter, Debora Hunter, Dornith Doherty, Elaine Pawlowicz, Carroll Swenson-Roberts, Loli Kantor.

Delilah Montoya is being featured with her collotype print, El Aborto in Homage to Frida Kahlo, which is included in the new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Frida: The Making of an Icon. Delilah’s career will be celebrated with a large retrospective, Activating Chicana Resistance, opening this month at the Albuquerque Museum.

New work by Marcy Palmer debuts from her Seeds of Strength & Resilience series. These are exquisite plant studies using nineteenth Century print processes and sometimes using parts of the plant chemistry in the work. Her use of gold leaf emphasizes the preciousness of the plant, and the deep meaning of its medicinal use.

Elaine Pawlowicz is known for her Suburbia paintings giving a nod to surrealism. A pink lawn with a red truck in the driveway might exist in Palm Springs, but on canvas it is pure, entertaining fiction. Carroll Swenson-Roberts’ painting, Goat Hill, from her series, At Home in this World, reaches back to Medieval art’s domestic storytelling. Goats, horses, dogs, birds, flowers are layered together on a hill creating a unique, joyful pastoral scene.

Dornith Doherty’s research into seed biology became a signature of her career. She has traveled around the world to visit seed banks, hoping to emphasize, through her art, the importance of these tiny seeds to the survival of the planet. Her photograph, Pycnantha, procured from a seed bank in Australia, is a composition of microscopic branch-like figures with flowers swimming gracefully across the stark white background. The Acacia Pycnantha is the national flower of Australia and has many uses for the indigenous peoples, and blooms profusely attracting insects and birds.

This show covers a long expanse of time, since the 1940’s. The work of Texas Woman’s University icon, Carlotta Corpron will be included. She is one of the Forgotten Nine artists that taught at the college of art when its modernist studio art program thrived. Carlotta’s abstract photographs are included in many photography history books and numerous museum collections in the U.S. and Europe. Her archive is placed at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.