OC3 GALLERY
Forget Me Not
August 8 – September 18, 2026
Reception: August 8, 6:00 – 8:00 pm (Artist talk 5:00 – 6:00 pm)
featuring Flower Shop Artist Residency spring 2024 cohort artists Sue Montoya, Sam Rawls, Sarah Reagan, Cecilia Sierra, Jesus Treviño, and Cielo Zuñiga.
Forget Me Not is a group exhibition featuring Flower Shop Artist Residency spring 2024 cohort artists Sue Montoya, Sam Rawls, Sarah Reagan, Cecilia Sierra, Jesus Treviño, and Cielo Zuñiga. The exhibit opens with an artist talk from 5-6 pm followed by a reception from 6-8 pm on August 8, at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center.
“Forget Me Not” examines the preservation of memories around love, self-exploration, and grief toward collective healing after living and cross-pollinating on the border town of Brownsville, Texas, in March 2024 as part of the Flower Shop’s Artist in Residency. This exhibition is a token of keeping love and memories alive through photography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, textiles, and animation to explore ideas of remembrance, healing, placemaking, re-building, and nostalgia.
In this exhibition each artist explores how personal history informs our lives, how we navigate the world, and the art we create. With a focus on representations of the body, Sam Rawls explores the impact of societal standards and family dynamics on self-worth while the exaggerated expression and gesture in Sarah Reagan’s carved busts collapse of binaries between high art and play, “perfection” and improvisation. Through cyanotypes, textiles, and photography, Cecilia Sierra and Cielo Zuñiga commemorate loved ones and growing up in international generational homes, engaging physically and emotionally in an act remembrance and resistance. Sue Montoya and Jesus Treviño explore ideas around protection, literal and spiritual, to explore ideas around constant processes and mending through meditative processes that speak to healing. Speaking to memory, place, and transformation, Forget Me Not highlights the interwoven experiences of these artists and invites viewers into their personal experience.
ARTIST BIOS
Sue Montoya (b. 1990) was born in Los Angeles, California and raised between Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Miami, Florida. She received a BFA from New World in Visual Arts in 2014, and her MFA from the University of Florida in May 2018. She has exhibited in Berlin (Radialsystem), Mexico City (FainFeria), and Miami (CIFO). She has completed artist residencies at 4Most gallery in Gainesville, FL, Home+Away at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO, SOMA Summer 2019, Radio 28 in Mexico City, and Home+Away at Artpace in San Antonio, TX. She was shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022 for Change Atlas, a transmedia exhibition exploring climate change in Miami. In March 2026, She completed a three-month artist residency at the National Young Arts gallery in Miami, FL.
Sam Rawls (b. 1990, Brownsville, Texas) received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in 2016 and her Master’s in Fine Arts in 2021. Her work centers on feminism and self-love to portray the variety and uniqueness of each female figure to represent that everyone has the right to be comfortable in their skin. Rawls, along with Alexandria Canchola and Monica Lugo, make up the HER.MOSA Collective a South Texas-based muralist group that promotes sisterhood within the Latina culture. She is also the co-creator of the Mujer-Eres exhibition, which brings women artists from diverse backgrounds together to exhibit their work in the Rio Grande Valley annually in March. She has completed a residency with Truchas’s De la Casa Residency (2021). Rawls was also one of four Texas women artists invited to present at the National Museum of Women in the Arts Texas National Committee’s Spring Artist Talk (2023) at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas.
Sarah Reagan (b. Minneapolis, MN) is a sculptor who investigates queer notions of value through materials often associated with blue-collar labor. Using a combination of traditional woodworking techniques and digital fabrication, her large-scale sculptures shift between deep reverence and humor, questioning what labor gets to be seen. After serving in the Peace Corps in both Togo and Mexico, Reagan received her MFA in Furniture Design & Woodworking in the Craft/Material Studies program at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has taught at Evergreen State College, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Arizona State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Virginia Commonwealth University, Universidad Tecnológica de San Juan del Río, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and Penland School of Craft with residencies at Anderson Ranch Art Center, The Wassaic Project, Stove Works, Radio28 Creative Studios, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and the Flower Shop Art Studio. Reagan has exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at Corrente de Ar (Lisbon, Portugal), IA&A at Hillyer (Washington, D.C.), the Appalachian Center for Craft (Cookeville, TN), and the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art (Brownsville, TX).
Cecilia Sierra (b. 1997) is a Brownsville, Texas-based artist whose work explores South Texas ecology, migration, and generational memory. Working across relief printmaking, cyanotype, embroidery, and found objects, she reflects on the Rio Grande Valley as both home and a migratory corridor. Her practice considers how land, nostalgia, and border dynamics shape identity and community. Through layered material processes, Sierra honors cultural and ecological abundance of the frontera while acknowledging its histories of movement and resilience. Sierra was selected as Texas Artist in residence Laguna Madre 2025, Art Center She of Corpus Christi and Texas A&M Corpus Christi Center for Costal Studies, she recently had her solo exhibit highlighting the experiences of the Texas coast. She has been included in various group exhibits, such as Desde la Frontera, Dock Space Annex, San Antonio, TX (2022) , Quince, Schaudies Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX (2022), Huellas, 201 Gallery & CultivArte Art Residency, Laredo, TX (2023), Brick by Brick, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX (2024), Bitter/Sweet Longing, Salam Diaz, San Antonio, TX (2025), and most recently Southern Soliloquies, Kinfolk House, Fort Worth, TX (2026). Sierra continues her work through community engagement activities with Flower Shop Art Studio and activism art workshops with the collective Resistencia Fronteriza.
Jesus Treviño (b. 1995)is an artist from Brownsville, Texas. He received a BA in Studio Art from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (2018) and his MFA in Painting/Drawing at the University of Texas at Austin (2022). His work is rooted in his experience raised on the U.S./Mexico border. It deals with the history of movement in the region and its residual personal, emotional, and social effects. He has had six solo exhibitions at South Texas College, Weslaco (2026); Laredo College (2024), the International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen (2023); Martha’s Contemporary, Austin (2022), and the Presa House Gallery, San Antonio (2023, 2019). He has been included in group exhibitions and art residencies nationally including the Desert Door Residency through Big Medium, Austin, TX (2022); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME (2022); the Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (2023); and the Studios at Mass Moca with Assets 4 Artists in North Adams, (MA). He founded a nonprofit organization 501(c)(3) called “Frontera Arts in Bloom,” (2023) which hosts an artist-in-residence program called the “Flower Shop Art Residency” in Brownsville, Texas and is a part-time lecturer at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Cielo Zuñiga (b. 2000) is a self-taught multimedia artist from Edinburg, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. Zuñiga primarily works with textiles, video and found material to explore the nostalgia and impermanence of memory. Cyanotype, weaving, and needlepoint allow her to reconstruct her fragmented memories, which shape her self-perception and identity. She has exhibited across Texas at the International Museum of Art and Science (McAllen, TX), Brownsville Museum of Fine Art (Brownsville, TX), San Benito Cultural Center (San Benito, TX) Daphne Art Gallery (Laredo, TX), Future Traditions Fest (Austin, TX), and Immerse Fest in Orlando, FL. She has been a part of artist residencies and fellowships including Flower Shop Art Residency (Brownsville, TX), Cultivarte Laredo (Laredo, TX) De La Casa Residency and Movimiento Screen Printing Fellowship (McAllen, TX).
