CURRENT Exhibition
Semicentennial Breakdown: Window Dressing at 50
Curated by Leon Alesi & Matt Rebholz
Exhibition Dates: January 16, 2026 – February 14, 2026
Artist Reception: Friday, January 16, 7-10pm, 2026 with a performance by Diana Sexton at 7:45
Curator and Artists Talk: Sunday, February 1, 1-2pm
Open Hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12-6pm or by appointment
Image: Rebecca Marino, Lady Baltimore Garden Cake, 2025
Semicentennial Breakdown: Window Dressing at 50
Curated by Leon Alesi & Matt Rebholz
Exhibition Dates: January 16, 2026 – February 14, 2026
Artist Reception: Friday, January 16, 7-10pm, 2026 with a performance by Diana Sexton at 7:45
Curator and Artists Talk: Sunday, February 1, 1-2pm
The ICOSA Window Dressing Project celebrates its 50th exhibition with a curated selection of 21 artists that have participated in the exhibition series since its inception in the Summer of 2019. Window Dressing was originally established as an experimental endeavor to make use of ICOSA’s storefront window during the installation/deinstallation cycle of the main gallery. As the Project evolved, it became a platform for emerging, local, and underrepresented artists to engage with the 11’x4’x10’ window space for one-week exhibitions that explored the possibilities of limitation.
Curated by Leon Alesi and Matt Rebholz, Semicentennial Breakdown invites conversation within a group of artists with diverse approaches and philosophies who utilize a wide range of media including painting, photography, installation, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, beadwork, textiles, video, and pyrography.
Featured Artists: Emma Hadzi Antich, Ms Cashmere, Jessica Blaustein, Sev Coursen, Ryan Cronk, Rakhee Jain Desai, Stephen Hal Fishman, Sean Michael Gaulager, Megan Hildebrandt, Taylor Holland, Jamal Hussain, Rebecca Marino, Timothy McCool, Erin Miller, Damian Noll, Sono Osato, Christos Pathiakis, Diana Sexton, Sarah Sudhoff, James Edward Talbot and Ariel Wood.
About the curators:
Leon Alesi (he/him) is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist and longtime member of the ICOSA collective. His work explores transitional states and themes of spiritual, communal, and physical loss. Alesi has exhibited throughout the U.S. and previously co-curated Blackbox, an Austin-based gallery supporting local artists.
Matt Rebholz (he/him) is an artist, educator, and graphic novelist from Austin, TX where he is a founding member of the ICOSA Collective, a Lecturer at St. Edward’s University, and an Instructor at the Contemporary’s Art School at Laguna Gloria. He received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from the University of Texas, Austin. He has
attended artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and Masereel (Kasterlee, Belgium). His work has recently been exhibited at Artspace111 (Ft. Worth, TX),
Throughline (Houston, TX), Clamp Light (San Antonio, TX), and Antenna Collective (New Orleans, LA).
Semicentennial Breakdown: Window Dressing at 50
Curated by Leon Alesi & Matt Rebholz
Exhibition Dates: January 16, 2026 – February 14, 2026
Artist Reception: Friday, January 16, 7-10pm, 2026
Curator and Artists Talk: Sunday, February 1, 1-2pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays & Saturdays 12-6 pm or by appointment
ICOSA Collective Gallery
916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2, #102, Austin, TX 78702
www.icosacollective.com