Featuring new work by polymath James Cobb, Things Into Thoughts - on display at The Contemporary at Blue Star through early October - explores systems, form and color with the syncopation of a jazz solo.

This suite of new work is one of four exhibitions by San Antonio-based artists that opened at the Contemporary on First Friday.

Sign up Packed with the frenetic energy and bizarrely totemic imagery audiences have come to expect from Cobb - an artist featured in the first-ever exhibition at Blue Star back in 1986 - these large-scale paintings and digital works delight through precision and whimsy in equal measure.