On Spilled Fruit: A Guest Exhibit By Chance Weick
In July 2025, Future Front hosted Spilled Fruit, a curated selection of portraits and multidisciplinary works by LGBTQIA+ artists in or from Texas.
Continue reading to learn more about the exhibit.
★ about the show, Spilled fruit
Spilled Fruit brings together artists exploring themes of body, memory, survival and joy through radically personal practices that spill across medium and genre.
In a region where queer visibility often demands courage, Spilled Fruit offers a space of abundance and resistance, inviting audiences to witness Texas-based queerness in all its lush complexity. Together, the works reflect a bold reclamation: “Fruit that spills is not wasted—it is bold, vibrant, uncontained and there for nourishment.”
★ PARTICIPATING ARTISTS INCLUDED:
JEFFREY JIN
Jeffrey Jin is a queer, Chinese American photographer born and raised in the suburbs of Houston within the confines of a pious Chinese church community. Since taking their first Are You Gay? quiz at age twelve, religious faith has been supplanted with a devout interest in both analog and digital photography as tools to strengthen identity and preserve what’s most familiar: their family and queer friends of color. In doing so, their work unveils narratives surrounding upbringing, corporeality, and a deep affection for the physical and virtual landscapes they inhabit—from Texas' winding roads to the Internet’s deep caverns.
Their images have been featured in publications including Dazed, Far-NEAR, and Nowness, and have been exhibited across Houston, New York City, and Shanghai. They are an alumnus of the Eddie Adams Workshop, a member of Diversify Photo, and hold a degree in Asian American Studies and Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. They are based between New York City and Texas.
SCOTT MABE
Scott Mabe's work exists somewhere between the analog and the digital, the landscape and the figure. It is this space, the in between, where he finds a point of view that is ultimately queer.
Born in Texas on a dairy farm to a Baptist preacher and a schoolteacher, the youngest of six children, Scott began taking photographs of the rural landscape and the people who inhabited it at a young age using disposable Kodak cameras. After studying Photography and Art History at the University of North Texas, Scott moved to New York City where he has honed his skills in digital photo manipulation. This has led to his current body of work, which bastardizes the rural landscape of his childhood, documented in analog, with found digital erotic images. Scott is also heavily (and happily) influenced by the horror and weird fiction genre, as well as heavy metal music.
SETH PRESTWOOD
Seth Prestwood was born and raised in lower Alabama and at eighteen moved to Nashville, TN to attend Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, where he graduated with a BA in Fine Art with an emphasis in sculpture. For the last fifteen years he has worked for several studios (as well as his own) producing murals, logos, sculptures, sets and faux finishes. In his personal work he weaves images and symbols collected from travels, lovers and nature with scenes from his past, creating dreamscapes for his characters while leaving enough anonymity for the viewer to form their own narrative. Themes in his work are loss, longing, resilience and the tensions between his Southern Baptist upbringing and navigation of where he belongs in the queer community. Consistent in his practice are painting, printmaking, sculpture, writing, drawing, and photography.
Steven Foley
Steven Foley, based in Athens GA but raised in Taylor TX, works as a professor of linguistics at the University of Georgia. A lifelong artist, he is especially passionate about collage as a medium of texture, fate, and recontextualization.
CHANCE WEICK
Chance Weick was born in Dallas, Texas and has resided in Austin, Texas for 8 years. He studied photography at the University of Alabama. He currently works for Texas Student Media at the University of Texas at Austin which publishes The Daily Texan and multiple print and digital publications produced by students. He is a big advocate for freedom of speech.
Much of his work is centered around portraits and highlighting vulnerabilities that make us human.
TONY KRASH
Tony Krash is a photographer, videographer, and conceptual visual artist born and raised in Oak Cliff, Dallas, TX who currently resides in Austin, TX. Inspired by documentary photography and the juxtaposition of traditional and contemporary Latinx culture, Tony has been professionally practicing since 2017. He documents people with whom he forms relationships and who are part of his brown and queer community. His photographic approach typically involves portraiture and still life, using objects to evoke queerness, sensuality, confidence, nostalgia, and a hint of darkness. His work often carries a political undertone, aiming to establish a history of full representation in the South. As a queer Brown creative, his interests span emo and Hispanic cultures, evoking unapologetic queerness.
STEPHANIE GONZALEZ
Born in Monterrey, Mexico, in 1988, Stephanie Gonzalez's art journey is a fusion of Mexican and American influences. Inspired by her grandfather's admiration for Bob Ross, she began creating at 14. Stephanie's work evolved from landscapes to powerful abstractions, where she embraced intuition over technique. Stephanie draws from her experiences as a lesbian Mexican woman, channeling her emotions into mixed media works using vintage magazines and discarded materials. After earning a Bachelor's in Interior Design from the Art Institute of Houston, she pursued a Master's in Fine Art, broadening her scope to sculpture and conceptual art. Stephanie's art now graces international collections, including prestigious venues like Starwood Hotels and the CICA Museum in South Korea. Stephanie's work has been shown in museums such as The Masur Museum of Art in Louisiana and the Holocaust Museum in Houston, and she shows her work in various galleries around the U.S. She has received awards from the Glassell School of Art, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, and Rising Eyes of Texas.
Her recent work explores geometric landscapes, delving into the spiritual and the interconnected. Stephanie Gonzalez's art continues to captivate and evolve, leaving an indelible mark on contemporary art.
JET TREVINO
Jet Treviño’s body of work reflects a self-taught journey, shaped by raw exploration and relentless practice. Bursting onto the Austin scene in 2012, his natural talent and vision carved out a space in the Austin art world, helping shape the vibrant, rebellious creative culture the city is known for today. His canvas spilled beyond studio walls, pouring onto the streets—quite literally—alongside a community of artists he grew up with, learned from, and inspired in return.
With a sharp eye for haunting portraiture and arresting surrealist imagery, Jet’s work commands attention, pulling viewers into a space where reality fractures and reshapes. His art doesn’t just invite contemplation; it stops you cold, forcing you to reconsider your own reality—and your place within it.
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