Women & Their Work Gallery

Meet the artists behind MARK:⁠
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Han Zhang is a Texas-based Chinese artist whose practice explores the unstable terrain between language, meaning, and perception. Working in the space between the symbolic and the imaginary, she examines how meaning is formed, disrupted, and reimagined through reading and interpretation. Her work treats language as a symbolic field that shapes subjectivity, where meaning emerges through slippage, absence, memory, and translation. Using materials such as paper, thread, ink, glass, and mirror, Zhang draws from and reconfigures calligraphic traditions, her installations and works on paper dissolve boundaries between text and image, inviting viewers into an active process of meaning-making. ⁠
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Ami Mehta is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in pencil, inks, enamel, fabric and metal. Ami is South Asian American but grew up in the Middle East. Belonging everywhere and nowhere, amid the onslaught of cultural collisions and shapeshifting, drawing became Ami’s way of staying whole. Her current work explores personal and collective memory; how we curate, inherit and eventually lose the fragments of our past. How our memories form the architecture of our lives. And how for refugees, displaced people, and immigrants like Ami's family, that unreachable past world lingers not as nostalgia but as a phantom limb, a presence born of absence. At its core, Ami’s work examines how an outsider's grief for a sense of belonging can quietly sediment into the bones of their future generations.⁠
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Zezelia Olson is an artist based in Austin, Texas, whose work delves into the intersection of psychology, perception, and the subconscious mind. Olson’s journey reflects a profound exploration of human experience and the patterns that shape our lives. Olson’s drawings begin with a single line, evolving through an intuitive process that mirrors life’s unpredictability. Her work takes shape through a delicate interplay of intention and spontaneity. Her art invites viewers to reflect on the unseen patterns in their own lives, revealing how the smallest moments and decisions accumulate to form something greater than the sum of their parts.

Women & Their Work is honored to announce that we have been selected to receive an unrestricted $50,000 grant from Ruth Arts (), an artist driven philanthropy that supports creativity, experimentation, and access in the visual and performing arts.

We are among 28 art organizations across the country who were nominated for this honor by nationally recognized visual artists, choreographers, performers, writers, and musicians. Nominators were asked to select an organization “that is generating and encouraging deep study and strengthening their communities’ critical understanding and investment in art and ideas.” Buoyed by this recognition, Women & Their Work is deeply thankful to Ruth Arts for its support of art organizations and the artists they champion.

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About Ruth Arts: National in scope, Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts) is dedicated to meeting the evolving needs and lived experiences of artists, communities, and arts organizations whose work is anchored by the visual and performing arts. For more information about the awarded organizations, visit rutharts.org.

Women & Their Work is now accepting applications for summer internships, with several positions that are tailored to developing a career at an arts non-profit. Internship dates range from June-August 2026, and are eligible for course credit. Positions will be available for:⁠
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🗓️ Programming
📸 Visual Communication and Outreach⁠
📍Gallery Assistant⁠
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For more details on roles and how to apply, head to the link in our bio!