Harrod Blank & Cody Ledvina
October 1 - 4, 2026
Booth N22
George R. Brown Convention Center, Hall A3,
1001 Avenida De Las Americas, Houston, TX
Nature of Things is pleased to present new works by Cody Ledvina and photographs by Harrod Blank for the second edition of Untitled Houston.
Ledvina and Blank are both fascinated by, and deeply involved in “Weird America”—the folk, visionary and self-taught art practices, found along roadsides and in the front yards of homes across the country. Houston’s art scene has hosted a strong current of artist outsiders, honored annually with the Houston Art Car Parade, which will be in its 40th annual celebration next year.
Blank has been involved with the Art Car scene since its outset in the 1970s with his first art car, named “Oh My God!”, a 1970s VW Beetle that is heavily decorated and hand-painted, with a chalk board on the back that often reads: QUESTION AUTHORITY. Blank has also made two other art cars and cares for many others, in his Art Car museum on the Southern border of Arizona: Art Car World. He has also made two films about the art car scene: Wild Wheels and Automorphosis.
Ledvina works as an archivist at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art which hosts the Art Car Parade, and cares for visionary art environments around Houston. Blank’s photographic archive is rife with gems of that “Weird America” from the countless art-on-wheels people he has met and documented over the past 45 years. Ledvina makes work that is typically made from a different material almost any time, and formed into something that feels like transformative, cumulative, comical, and weird.
Ledvina and Blank are documenting and participating in the gleaning—at mass with the popes of trash.