Free juried group exhibition at the artist-run cooperative gallery ICOSA Collective, curated by Dennis Nance, with an opening reception.
ICOSA Collective opens The Overview Effect on Friday, November 13, at their space on Springdale Road. It's a juried group exhibition curated by Dennis Nance, and it runs through November 22. The opening reception is that Friday from 7 to 10 PM.
The title comes from a term popularized by author and space philosopher Frank White to describe the shift in perspective astronauts experience when they see Earth from space. The show takes its cue from the research of artist Laura J. Lawson, whose oil-on-panel piece Europan surface (2026) is among the work on display. From there, the exhibition pulls together artists working across a range of materials and styles, finding connections through personal histories and offering new perspectives on the current moment. It's the kind of show that asks questions it doesn't necessarily answer, aiming to disrupt habitual ways of seeing through observation and discovery—much like the overview effect itself parallels the awe of looking out at a vast natural landscape.
It's a wide-reaching lineup. Along with Lawson, you'll find work by Eric Acuña, Megan Baker, Lindsay Barras, Olivia Kristina Bell, Matthew Bourbon, Dario Salvatore Bucheli, Lauren Janelle Butler, John Dickinson, Cindy Elizabeth, Sean Michael Gaulager, Meg Griffiths, Kelsey Hughes, Jessica Lambert, Laura J. Lawson, Mathew McIntyre, Hope Mora, Zezelia Olson, Dana Perrotti, Seth Prestwood, Hilary Rochow, S Rodriguez, Andrew Sakamoto, Lynn Wilkes Armstrong, and DM Witman. The artists were selected from an open call, so the work comes from a variety of backgrounds rather than a single school or style.
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ICOSA Collective is an artist-run non-profit cooperative gallery, and curator Dennis Nance is a Houston artist and curator who has also served as Curator of the Galveston Arts Center and Exhibitions & Programming Director at Lawndale Art Center. Admission is free. The show runs from November 13 to 22 at 916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2, #102, Austin, TX 78702. If you can't make the opening, the Austin Studio Tour runs November 14–15 and 21–22 from 11 AM to 5 PM, and there's a curator meet-and-greet on November 22 at 5 PM.
