Abigail Reyes: Sutura
Jaime Acker: Observer Observed
C.J. Davis: Selected Works
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 1st 5-7 pm
Exhibition: November 1 – December 27, 2025
Closing Program | 2025
Liliana Bloch Gallery is honored to conclude its 2025 programming with three concurrent solo exhibitions by Abigail Reyes, Jaime Acker, and C.J. Davis—each presenting deeply personal bodies of work that explore themes of healing, identity, and the intimate intersections of art and life.
Abigail Reyes:
Sutura
November 1–December 27, 2025
Abigail Reyes, Sutura 2, 2025, Cotton, Dimensions Variable
Liliana Bloch Gallery presents Sutura, a new body of work by Salvadoran artist Abigail Reyes. Comprising four works, the exhibition offers a poetic reflection on healing, memory, and the fractured nature of both the human body and built environments. Created during a period of illness, Sutura parallels the artist’s own process of physical recovery with the cracks and tremors of her home in El Salvador, where the region’s telluric movements mirror emotional and bodily fragility. Through visible mending and layered materials, Reyes transforms damage into resilience—her stitches serving not to conceal, but to illuminate repair as an act of strength.
Reyes lives and works in La Libertad, El Salvador. Her multidisciplinary practice uses language, text, and poetry as tools for healing and resistance. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Museo Jumex(Mexico City), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Swiss Institute (New York), and Norton Museum of Art (Miami), and is held in the permanent collections of the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid) and Museo Marte (San Salvador).
Jaime Acker:
Observer Observed
November 1–December 27, 2025
Jaime Acker, Emily, 2024, Book Detail
Observer Observed is a photographic installation and social art project by Dallas-based artist Jaime Acker. The project originated as a reciprocal portrait exchange between artists and evolved into a meditation on vulnerability, authorship, and the act of looking. Over the course of multiple collaborations, Acker photographed subjects within their self-curated spaces, producing fifteen handmade books—each containing portraits and texts that probe authenticity and identity. These intimate works are both personal and participatory, blurring the lines between observer and observed.
Acker’s installation features fifteen small book-like constructions accompanied by large-scale images that anchor the narrative flow of the exhibition. Through this format, the artist invites viewers to walk through—and back through—the exhibition, creating a poetic, cyclical experience of reflection.
Acker’s practice explores gender, power, and performance through portraiture, often centering queer and feminist identities. His work has been exhibited at the Goss-Michael Foundation, 500X, and Plush Gallery in Dallas, as well as internationally in Barcelona, Berlin, and Vienna. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois in Chicago and Southern Methodist University, and currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas.
C.J. Davis:
Selected Works
November 1–December 27, 2025
C.J. Davis, Shine, 2011, Ceramic, 5 x 3.5 x 2 inches
Liliana Bloch Gallery presents a selection of works from C.J. Davis’s long-running series Good Morning Mr. Cow. Spanning sixteen years, this deeply personal exhibition traces Davis’s relationship with his late partner and lifelong muse, Bill. Through sculptures, drawings, and paintings—many originally created as gifts for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays—the artist chronicles love, loss, and devotion. The exhibition culminates with large-scale drawings made during Bill’s final days in 2025, offering a profoundly moving reflection on life shared through art.
Influenced by post-minimalism and informal aesthetics, Davis’s work embraces imperfection and intuition through materials that feel both raw and deliberate. A graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington (BFA, Summa Cum Laude), Davis has been a vital figure in the Dallas art community for over two decades, with exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art, Goss-Michael Foundation, Owens Art Center, and Oliver Francis Gallery. He lives and works in Dallas, Texas.