Opening Celebrations: Friday, September 20, 2024, 5–8pm

Curator & Artist-led Walkthrough: 5:30pm

Please join Ballroom Marfa for the opening of Julie Speed, The Suburbs of Eden on Friday, September 20, 2024 from 5–8pm. The exhibition brings together a selection of over 70 works on view including paintings, collages, and gouaches from Julie Speed created over multiple decades.

We hope you can join us in Marfa for a memorable weekend! Ballroom exhibitions & programs are free and open to all.

The Suburbs of Eden coincides with Ballroom Marfa’s twentieth anniversary year, 2023-2024. The Suburbs of Eden brings together work from multiple decades of Speed’s practice. Speed moved to Austin in 1978, settling in Marfa in 2006 devoting herself full-time to her painting practice.

Julie Speed: The Suburbs of Eden is organized by Fairfax Dorn and Holly Harrison with Alexann Susholtz.