26 february 2026 – 3 april 2026

Opening: thursday 26 february

Bruce Lee Webb

Curtains on a gravel road

curated by Antonio Colombo

After thirty years of activity, Antonio Colombo’s gallery has decided to change its visual identity with a new logo, a new name, and a new website. On 26 February 2026, the first exhibition of Colombo’s gallery opens. The gallery is pleased to present Curtains on a Gravel Road, a solo exhibition by Bruce Lee Webb (7 August 1966, Waxahachie, Texas), in the gallery’s Project Room, curated by [curator’s name].
The idea of exhibiting Webb’s work in the Magic Bus Project Room confirms Antonio Colombo’s long-standing attitude of often weaving his passion for music into the exhibitions he presents, an approach shared with his longtime friend and art critic Luca Beatrice, with whom he first introduced Bruce Lee Webb to the gallery. In this way, the Texas of travelers and migrant writers and its borderland poetics resurface; hobo culture, Austin’s music, and the colors of Santa Fe and New Mexico feel less distant, more intense, and certainly real.
Bruce Lee Webb’s works form a faithful record steeped in the artist’s passions and interests. Forceful lines and meaningful words imprinted on old seed bags follow the road less taken, heading straight in the direction of the tradition and folk art of American South.The apparently simple painted features, similar to notes made in a diary, speak of a visceral authenticity that reminds us of the powerful stride of a wild horse described by Cormac McCarthy.
The characters depicted by Webb are treasures and inspirations, essential for the making of the work itself. Blues, folk music, country and zydeco are central to the artist’s perspective, transforming every canvas into a story.

BRUCE LEE WEBB è nato il 7 agosto 1966 a Waxahachie, in Texas. He currently lives and works between Waxahachie and Fort Davis. Webb’s eclectic work ranges across folk art, spirituality, and fraternal history. His childhood was influenced by the stories and esoteric objects brought back by his grandparents, who were missionaries in India during the 1930s and 1940s. This background has left an indelible mark on his artistic style, characterized by elements of folklore, occultism, and spiritualism. In the 1980s, Webb was involved in the Dallas punk rock and skateboard scene, where he met his future wife, Julie. Together they created the fanzine Bad Karma, beginning to explore art through drawings and layouts. In 1987, they moved to Waxahachie and opened an antique shop called Beyond Time Antiques, which later evolved into the Webb Gallery, a landmark for folk and visionary art of the southern United States. Webb uses salvaged materials such as vintage canvases, seed sacks and old ledger pages for his works, which often explore themes of spirituality, fraternal history and hobo culture. His works have been shown in numerous international galleries and exhibitions, including the Bluecoat Museum in the United Kingdom and the Wrong Gallery in Marfa, Texas. In addition to his artistic output, Webb collaborated on a book with Lynne Adele entitled As Above So Below: Art of the Fraternal Lodge, published by the University of Texas Press in 2015. Webb currently continues to live in Waxahachie, where he runs the Webb Gallery together with Julie, keeping alive an interest in folk art and Southern popular culture. Since 2023, the Webb couple has also opened Webb’s Fair and Square gallery in Fort Davis, near Marfa, Texas.