Hooks-Epstein Galleries proudly presents new drawings by Houston-based artist, Mark Greenwalt. The exhibition, "Drawing on Drawing" opens Saturday, February 28, 2026 with a Reception for the Artist taking place from 5:00PM-7:00PM. The exhibition will continue through April 4, 2026.
Mark Greenwalt’s "Drawing on Drawing" (2026) explores drawing as a quiet act of listening, memory, and ethical attention. Spanning works made across several decades, the exhibition treats drawings as a living process that is layered, uncertain, and responsive. At the center of the series is "Bird Man" (2026), a large-scale panel informed by Greenwalt’s travels to Rapa Nui. The work reflects on Hoa Hakananai’a, a Moai removed from the island in the 19th century and later absorbed into the British Museum.
Another work in the exhibition emerges from a December 2025 visit to the British Museum to see Hoa Hakananai’a, where Greenwalt planned to ritually steal from the British artifact via drawing. At the National Portrait Gallery, he decided to draw instead from a portraiture of a symbolic British ancestor—quietly subverting institutional authority through the intimacy of drawing, “smuggling” memory, lineage, and speculation back into the present.
Also interwoven throughout Greenwalt’s work are drawings made with his 98-year-old mother as a model. Shaped by time and cognitive transformation, these works introduce a newly shaped presence and relationship. Unframed works spanning decades form a constellation of images that are part archive and part reunion. Through addition, erasure, synthesis, and analysis, this body of work invites viewers to consider how images come into being, what they carry forward, and what they release.
Mark Greenwalt earned his MA from Stephen F. Austin University in 1986 (Nacogdoches, TX) and MFA from The Pratt Institute in 1990 (Brooklyn, NY). Greenwalt has been a tenured professor with The College of the Mainland (Texas City, TX), since 2005 and an Instructor at the Museum of Fine Art Houston’s Glassell School of Art (TX) since 2019. He previously taught at the University of Houston and Rice University (Houston) from 1993-2000. Greenwalt’s work has been shown in various solo and group exhibitions, primarily throughout Texas. In 2021, he had a solo exhibition at South Texas College in McAllen, TX. In 2022, his work was featured in group exhibitions at Lamar University (Beaumont, TX) and The Glassell School of Art.
