“Rapt in Wonder”

Houston Center for Photography (Sep 18 - Nov 9, 2025)

featuring the work of River Claure, Jason DeMarte, Adam Ekberg, Julianna Foster, Thomas Jackson, and Xuan-Hui Ng

Whimsy, delight, and the sublime—Rapt in Wonder draws on these emotional and aesthetic threads, bringing together artists who stage reality in order to construct photographic images evocative of our universal capacity for awe. Each body of work provokes a sense of wonder: at times playful and joyous, at others contemplative and profound.

Featuring artists whose practices explore their environment through joyous interventions, ingenious discovery, and careful observation, Rapt in Wonder exhibits the work of River Claure, Jason DeMarte, Adam Ekberg, Julianna Foster, Xuan-Hui Ng, and Thomas Jackson.

In this exhibition, the natural world serves as medium and subject, co-author and muse, resulting in a generative tension between spontaneity and control. Each photographer explores today’s act of seeing as both instinctual and constructed—a process shaped by curiosity, intervention, and the fleeting nature of perception itself.

Rapt in Wonder is a companion exhibition to Surface (September 18 - November 9, 2025) by Alejandra Regalado.

Source: Houston Center for Photography website