When a gallery changes its name after 34 years, the program it puts its name to first becomes a kind of statement. William Bardin, who acquired the Dallas institution formerly known as Craighead Green in 2025, chose to open under the Bardin Gallery banner with a pairing of solo exhibitions whose common subject is, in the broadest sense, what it feels like to not quite belong. The transition, Bardin has said, is not a departure from the gallery’s history but an extension of it — and the programming reflects that continuity: two artists working at a serious remove from the obvious, in the same building where serious work has been shown for three decades...