Inman Gallery is pleased to present, I have decided not to be hungry, a solo exhibition of new work by Angela Fraleigh, on view Septemebr 12–October 31, 2026. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, September 11 from 6–8pm. An artist talk between Fraleigh and Michelle White, Senior Curator at the Menil Collection, will take place on Saturday, September 12 at 1pm.
Angela Fraleigh’s newest paintings enter the charged terrain of the feral feminine, unleashing a cast of unruly figures animated by desire, instinct, and an irrepressible appetite. Maenads, witches, and animals emerge and recede through lush layers of paint, carrying an energy that shifts between the ecstatic and the intimate, the violent and the tender. Fire runs through the work not simply as an element, but as a condition: flame, fever, intensity, slow burn, illumination, and the heat through which one thing becomes another. Guided by a logic closer to ritual than narrative, Fraleigh approaches painting as a form of alchemy, allowing images to collide, dissolve, and transmute.
Drawn in part from works in Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Menil Collection, fragments of art history become material to be summoned, disrupted, and recast, creating a quiet dialogue with the city’s collections. The resulting works operate like spells themselves. Lush and volatile, the paintings ask what becomes possible when the familiar slips its boundaries and something wild emerges.
