Evelyn Pustka: My World's On Fire, How About Yours?

If you find yourself in Houston craving a substantive visual adventure, look no further than Blank Check Gallery. The space’s current exhibition, Evelyn Pustka’s ‘My World’s On Fire, How About Yours?’,  brings a frank, funny, stark, and beautiful new look to the Houston art scene. Last Saturday’s opening crowd displayed the wide appeal of the artist’s work, which will remain on display for one month.

For her most recent project, Pustka constructs and captures hypothetical disaster scenes, paired with sculpture and video, to explore the grotesque nature of privilege, consumerism, and excess.

According to gallery owner London Ham, his interest in Evelyn’s work derived from a conversation the two shared about the place of contemporary photography in the fine art canon:

“We both see photography in a post-internet society situated in a similar place to postwar abstract painting. Her use of painterly composition elements in approaching lens-based work is conceptually immediate, yet uniquely her own.”

Through her striking, cataclysmic imagery, Pustka creates microcosmic spaces that challenge the viewer to question the assumptions, structures, and realities of our increasingly dystopian society.

Guiding her visual narratives past abstraction through religious iconography, climate concerns, and absurdist mise en scene, Pustka develops challenging but often humorous work that is uniquely her own.

Don’t miss this important work, by appointment only, at Houston’s Blank Check Gallery.

Evelyn Pustka, a Houston native, received her BFA in Painting from the University of Texas in 2015 and her MFA from Yale University in 2018. Selected past group exhibitions include Co-Lab projects, Austin, Tx ; David Zwirner, New York, NY; and LTD, Los Angeles. This is her first exhibition at Blank Check Gallery, and her first in her Houston. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.