Roaming Mexico: Laura Wilson Pictures Exhibit at The Meadows Museum

Roaming Mexico: Laura Wilson, an exhilarating new exhibit at The Meadows Museum, runs Sept. 14, 2025 by Jan. 11, 2026. The exhibit options almost 90 of the celebrated Texas artist’s pictures, most of them not beforehand revealed. Wilson took the pictures over the previous 40 years on various private visits to Mexico.

Wilson is greatest identified for her documentary-style photographs of the American West, together with her travels with iconic photographer Richard Avedon. (The fortieth anniversary exhibit of Avedon’s In the West is at present on show on the Amon Carter Museum of Art in Fort Worth). Wilson’s hanging portraits of famend authors have been featured in quite a few publications, and he or she is herself an writer of six books. Based in Dallas, the internationally famed photographer is also called the mom of three artistic sons–Andrew, Owen, and Luke Wilson.

Roaming Mexico: Laura Wilson’s Vision

“It is a privilege to open the fall season with Laura Wilson’s vision of Mexico. She is a truly gifted artist who has so eloquently captured the story of the American West. It seems only right that she should have turned that penetrating lens toward Mexico,” stated Amanda W. Dotseth, The Linda P. and William A. Custard Director of the Meadows Museum and Centennial Chair within the Meadows School of the Arts, SMU.

“Roaming Mexico speaks to Wilson’s admiration for and deep ties to Mexico but does so in ways that are at once sensitive, beautiful, challenging and complex. Mexico is part of the American experience. The Meadows Museum is committed to fostering cross-cultural understanding through Spanish art and its global connections. This exhibition offers a rare and moving look at Mexico through the eyes of one of Texas’ most compelling visual storytellers,” Dotseth stated.

At age 85, Wilson continues to seize the human expertise with unmatched curiosity and beauty. In Roaming Mexico, she makes use of photographs from colourful festivals and quiet village scenes to non secular rituals and enduring traditions. Numerous the photographs had been created as not too long ago as 2024 and particularly for this exhibition.

Spanish Influence in Mexico and American West

“It’s not every person’s Mexico — it’s my Mexico,” stated Wilson. “Much as in the American West, the Spanish influence is elemental in Mexico. Things we consider icons of Western culture — the horse, the longhorn — came from Spain and gave rise to the vaquero or cowboy. Mexico is culturally vibrant — the literature, the art, the sculpture, the architecture. The architects, the writers, and even the collectors that I have focused on are as much a part of modern Mexico, and of my appreciation of Mexico, as the laboring paisano or the fire-breather.”

The artist’s pictures current not a singular narrative however a colourful tapestry of contrasts, depicting a Mexico that’s equally rural and concrete, spiritual and secular, timeless and evolving. The photographs exemplify Wilson’s present for capturing the poetic within the on a regular basis, from handbook labor to road festivals.

Curating the Exhibit

Wilson was carefully concerned in curating the exhibition and overseeing its set up, working in collaboration with Dotseth and her longtime collaborator, designer Gregory Wakabayashi. She credit Wakabayashi’s considerate method for bringing an added layer of intimacy and narrative readability to the exhibition and to the totally illustrated guide that accompanies it. The guide, produced in affiliation with Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., is accessible for buy within the Meadows Museum’s present store.

Running concurrently with Wilson’s exhibit, Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Visions of Mexico options pictures by probably the most important figures in Latin American images. The photographs had been drawn from the collections of the Meadows Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art.

The Meadows Museum

The Meadows Museum is the main U.S. establishment targeted on the examine and presentation of the artwork of Spain. In 1962, Dallas businessman and philanthropist Algur H. Meadows donated his non-public assortment of Spanish work and funds to begin a museum to Southern Methodist University. The museum opened to the general public in 1965, marking step one in fulfilling Meadows’s imaginative and prescient to create “a small Prado for Texas.” Today, the Meadows is dwelling to one of many largest and most complete collections of Spanish artwork exterior of Spain. The assortment spans from the tenth to the twenty first centuries and contains medieval objects, Renaissance and Baroque sculptures, and main work by Golden Age and fashionable masters.

For extra details about the exhibitions or The Meadows Museum, please go to them on-line at meadowsmuseumdallas.org.