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Presenting a group show celebrating 16 years of FL!GHT Gallery. Artist list to be announced…

Enjoy live music, gallery tours inspired by the Contemporary Aboriginal Art exhibition Of Country and Culture at 5:30, 6:15, and 7:15 p.m. (space is limited), specialty cocktails by The Esquire Tavern (cash bar) and art making!

Art Party is a collaboration between the San Antonio Museum of Art and KRTU Jazz 91.7.

In the event of inclement weather, Art Party is held indoors.

Art Party generously funded by the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation, a fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation.

https://www.facebook.com/events/273177213079502/

Welcome to Scary stories to tell in the art! A very dark lush collection and exhibition of local and international artists inspired by the art of Stephen Gammell’s “Scary stories to tell in the dark”. The location of this event will be Brick art gallery. March 10th 2017. 7pm-12 am. Full bar provided! Free admission. Keep checking back as the event page will be updated accordingly. Thank you for your support!
-curator-Vidvad Scare
Costumes inspired by Scary Stories to tell in the dark are welcome!
Cosplay something spooky or even your favorite character, story from the books! A raffle for specific items will also be held for artwork, shirt, prints, and even a signed book by Gammell himself (donated by a fan).

Music provided by Dj Rickbats

Performance by Black water revival
https://www.facebook.com/BlackwRevival/

This exhibition is also to be included in an upcoming scary stories documentary! Check out the link for details on the documentary.

http://www.scarystoriesdoc.com/
more info on event page

PSW opens the doors to our Olmos Park community to welcome you to our first “Art in Spaces” opening! In support of the arts, we’re featuring light bites, art, and conversation with artists Katy Silva, Abraham Vasquez, Melissa Sanchez, Eric Morse, Garcia Art Glass, Lida Steves, and Max Woodward. We’re excited to host them and look forward to your company.

PSW opens our door to welcome you to our Olmos Park community by supporting the arts in high style! Join us for PSW’s first “Art in Spaces” opening featuring art and conversation with artists Katy Silva, Abraham Vasquez, Melissa Sanchez, Eric Morse, Garcia Art Glass, Lida Steves, and Max Woodward. We’re excited to host them and look forward to your company.

Papalote Day ~ Kite Day is part of a city wide, month long celebration of kites! The Kites of March includes events in north, south, east and west neighborhoods, because, the winds of San Antonio blow in all directions.

Land Heritage Institute, 1349 Neal Road between Applewhite & Pleasanton/Moursund, SATX  78264

Enjoy the music of local favorites, the singer songwriters Rex Foster and Claude “Butch” Morgan while viewing the paintings of Claire Casseb and Neka Scarbrough-Jenkins.

Please join me for the opening of my show at Cappy’s from 3:45 to 5:00 sharp!

“GOOD FOOD GOOD PEOPLE”

AY PAPIS PUERTO RICAN FOOD TRUCK specializes in authentic food from the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. We currently alternate locations from West to East and different locations around San Antonio, TX. Check our facebook & Instagram pages for up-to-date locations and times. Call /txt 210-712-7941.

We specializes on making our customers HAPPY!

Pinchos/kabobs pork & chicken, Cuban sandwich, pernil sandwich, tripleta sandwich with 3 meats, empanadillas stufffed with chicken, beef, pizza, shrimp, alcapurrias, rellenos de papa, bacalaitos, tostones with special home made chimichurri salsa. We also make mofongos, carne frita y traditional plates.

Our menu changes daily. We are available to cater private parties and events. For more information please contact us.

Thank you!

Deviation – an action, behavior, or condition that is different from what is usual or expected.

Deviation: Artistic Expression and Actualization
Brick – 108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX
Saturday, March 11, 2017
6:00 pm | Free Event | Open to the Public

We proudly present the second installment of Deviation; featuring new and returning artists, for a night of creative wonderment.

Mixed Media Artists
Zach Espinoza
Robert Mata
Caroline Adam

Photographic Artist
Vincent Gonzalez

Musical Artists
George Garza Jr.
Polly Anna
Matt Canning

Facebook Event: http://bit.ly/2kqp6qp

Mantle is pleased to present “Spacial Fragments”, a collaborative show from San Antonio artists Sara Corley Martinez and Sarah Lawrence.

The work strives to strike a balance between the micro and the macro, the cosmos and earthly plane.

Sara Corley Martinez explores micro biology and macro ambiance. Her work explores things that can’t be seen, energies and experiences on otherworldly planes.

Sarah Lawrence works primarily digitally, creating large scale prints intended to confront the viewer and place them in the aetherial vastness of space.

Art Show and House Concert.
Group art show featuring works by local artists Rainey, Jennifer Khoshbin and Ann Michele Morales.

Musical entertainment for the evening will be provided by Sweet ‘Shine & Honey

Provenance Gallery is pleased to present, “Dreams Are for Those Who Sleep,” an exhibition featuring recent works on paper by San Antonio-based artist, Jose Fidel Sotelo. These large-scale graphite drawings are a departure from the intimate, primarily black-and-white drawings Sotelo is best known for. In this body of work, Sotelo continues to explore the meditative quality of repetitive symbolic imagery, but on a larger scale and in a more subtle tonal palette. This aesthetic shift imbues the work with an ethereal feeling, and the scale of the work envelops the viewer in Sotelo’s nocturnal world. Based on his experience of dreaming and insomnia, these autobiographical dreamscapes combine imagery from Aztec mythology and memories of the first stages of existence of a Mexican American family.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jose Fidel Sotelo has been active in the arts since 2005. He started his studies in design and photography in 2004. A year later he was moved to start painting. Sotelo considers himself a self-taught artist, but his paintings carry a lot of influence from his studies in design – using patterns and symmetry to express his relationship with the seen and unseen world and his experiences. In more recent years his work has moved from colorful paintings to black and white illustrations, prints, and drawings. As Sotelo’s art moves through its process, one thing that continues to hold true throughout its stages, is his effort to bring together the ancient symbols of his Mexican ancestors, the natural world, and the beauty of the mundane things from everyday life.

ABOUT THE GALLERY
Provenance Gallery is an independent art space dedicated to featuring innovative work by local and regional emerging artists.

Sculptor Ken Little will be exhibiting works from 2017, as well as, other recent work. The works incorporate a number of media, including bronze, neon, $1 bills, shoes, and found objects. Little has been a resident of San Antonio since 1988 and teaches sculpture at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Little will also be performing original music at the opening. After the Opening night Dock Space Gallery will be open by appointment.

Lady Base Gallery presents a pop-up art show for contemporary art month featuring the work of Michael Martinez. Martinez presents, Lujuria, a body of work that expresses and celebrates Queer endurance that articulates the pressures of “coming out” and a lust for life, freedom, and respect. The pop-up art show will take place at AP Art Lab.

About the Museum of Pocket Art (MoPA)

The Museum of Pocket Art began thirteen years ago with an idea that everyone should carry with them a small artwork in a pocket to enrich their day and share with others. MoPA developed this idea and organized it into a formal venue for contemporary artists and patrons.

MoPA introduces artwork from contemporary artists in an intimate and personal way. The Museum displays works of art created to fit in the pocket, usually around the size of a business card, in galleries selected to best frame the work, which range from wallets to mobile devices. MoPA shows at the opening of other art exhibits, or “leaches” the reception. At the reception, a MoPA representative approaches people individually and asks if he or she would like to visit the museum, and then shares the works on display. Currently MoPA hosts two shows a year.

Gil Rocha-Rochelli

Bio

Rocha-Rochelli currently resides in the U.S.-Mexican border city of Laredo, TX. He has a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Texas in San Antonio (1999) and Masters of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2006). Rocha-Rochelli is currently an art instructor at a fine arts school and is represented by Zoya-Tommy Contemporary Gallery in Houston, TX.

Statement

Since the invention of fabric, its purpose has become vast. From clothing, to art, it may be transformed into almost any form yet it has no defined form in many ways. With this series of works I embrace the gestural forms a fabric maintains while at rest; as it awaits to become something “useful”. I love the way fabric hangs, the way it melts unto the floor when thrown, the way it tells a story. By embellishing and hardening fabric with vivid colors and tangled forms, my intention is to visually destroy every object around it. I want it to take a stance and visually yell, “I am not here awaiting another use! I will no longer abide to your will and time. After today you will see me everywhere!”

Image: Comet with flower seed

Roberto Jackson Harrington

Bio

Harrington creates drawings and sculptural installations from everyday materials that center on the concept of potential. Recent exhibitions include The IV Bienal Ciudad Juárez- El Paso Biennial 2015, Ciudad Juárez, MX & El Paso, TX and TEXAS DRAWS IV, at the Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX.

Currently he directs the Museum of Pocket Art and is a member of the Center for Experimental Practice and the curatorial collective, Los Outsiders, based in Austin, TX.

Driven by a passion to make her art available to everyone, Mexico City-based urban artist, Paola Delfín creates highly technical paintings depicting the complex relationship between the human body and other organic forms. In addition to gallery exhibitions, her public artworks are marveled at worldwide in countries such as Mexico, Germany, Ukraine, China, USA, Spain, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil and Romania, to name a few.

Curated by Hillarey Jones, Paola Delfín | Effloresce, is a new iteration of the feminine ideal stemming from techniques the artist has consistently used throughout her career. In an effort to address the constant development of, not only our biological physiology, but also the link to the natural world around us, Delfín has created a series of new work that radiates with the metaphor of blossoming femininity anchored in the roots from which we came.

“The focus is about having an identity and remembering that much like a plant..or a flower…we all have a growing process, and we are able to transform our lives in many ways. The reason I focus on women is because the world has a way of portraying them as being fragile, or having the idea that because you are beautiful you cannot be strong…what I try to convey is that a woman can be everything in one.” –Paola Delfín

Ro – Matúm

Ro-Matúm:  Exploration of one’s culture helps reveal and enhance your underlying identity – your unique meaning, value and character – of the physical and social form.  This identity is reflected through a community’s character and sense of place.  A community’s sense of place is not a static concept; rather, it evolves and develops over time, reflecting the spectrum of social values within and around.  As a first generation mainland Puerto Rican, I have been creatively connecting with my Taino heritage through performance and multidisciplinary work incorporating my indigenous past.

Exhibition runs March11, 2017 – April 29, 2017

For more information contact Nina Hassele at (210) 630-0235. ninafrombrooklyn@gmail.com

Opening Reception

Second Saturday – March 11, 2017, 7:00-10:00pm

Closing April 1, 2017

The Wong Spot Retrospective honors the original concept of an artist run and curated space Robert Tatum, Alex Rubio, Gary Sweeney, George Schroeder, James Cobb, Regis Shephard (Posthumous) collectively curated contemporary exhibits and events at the wong’s Grocery building in 1995. This show documents the progression of each artist’s work with visual timelines, as well as showcases current works and the influence each artist has had on the local arts community over the years. The Wong Spot Retrospective will not only inspire, remind, and expose the current local community to the idea of artistic cooperation but seeks to revive the direction of artistic collaboration in contemporary vision.

Shop . Sip . Sit . See . Storytell . Smack
Shop Local. Choice Goods and have fun.. See people . Sip from our bar…$2.00-$5 beer, wine and mimosas — Cool Jewels, Art, Photography, Fashion, Cards, Vintage looks, Astrology — come eat Rene’s empanadas for brunch, lunch, or high tea

The documentary movie “Las Tesoros de San Antonio: A Westside Story” will be shown. It features Rita Vidaurri, Perla Tapatia, Beatriz Llamas, and Blanca Rosa. Learn more about these amazing local songbirds. The paintings of Claire Casseb and Neka Scarbrough-Jenkins will be available for viewing in our gallery.

Travis Tile Design Center and SAC Art Guild Present:

“Contemporary Textures” Art And Tile celebrates a new collaboration of visual art and tile design.

In Association with Contemporary Art Month

Tuesday, March 14th – 31st, 2017

Curated by Jody Baker and SAC Art Guild

Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 14t

“Señor Rodeo” (Ken Little, Paul Farrell, and Bart Nichols) will be playing original Music as well as classic covers of Western Swing, Country, and Rock and Roll. They will be joined by Mitch Webb for an opening set. Great Food and NO Cover!

Since it was conceived in 1986, Contemporary Art Month (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) has been supported by a loose but dedicated coalition of institutions, artists, private art supporters, and commercial entities. This support comes in many forms, from financial and in-kind donations, to the time and energy each artist, curator and gallery director invests in the myriad individual projects that occur throughout the month.

Support Contemporary Art Month.  Wednesday, March 15, from 7-10pm the Liberty Bar will give 10% of all food sales and CAM specialty cocktail to Benefit Contemporary Art Month.

http://www.liberty-bar.com/

https://www.facebook.com/LibertyBarAtTheConvent/

Galeria Ecos y Voces del Arte tiene el honor de invitarles a un exposicion colectiva de Mujer con la participacion de los artistas Hector Garza,
Pamela Ortiz Swart, Giselle Diaz, Ruth Guajardo, Caroline Adam, Denise Homer, Lucy Llera,
Yvette Benavides, Giovanna Diz Zurita, Gloria Diaz, Gloria Urrabazo. Comisario de Hector Garza.
Abierto Martes-Sabado 11:00-6:00pm
Cita cualquer dia.
Hours Tuesday -Saturday 11:00-6:00pm
Call for appointments any day

Join us to celebrate new exhibitions by artists-in-residence Kate Newby (Auckland, New Zealand), Nicholas Frank (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), and Robert Hodge (Houston, Texas). Enjoy food truck fare and live music on the rooftop, free and open to the public.

BECOMING

New Works by Jesse Amado

On View March 16 through April 29, 2017

RUIZ-HEALY ART 201-A East Olmos Drive, San Antonio Texas 78212

Public Opening Reception Thursday, March 16, 2017 6 – 8pm

Artist Talk 2:00pm Saturday, March 25 moderated by Rainey Knudson

Fest of Tails ~ Kite Festival & Dog Fair is part of a city wide, month long celebration of kites! The Kites of March includes events in north, south, east and west neighborhoods, because, the winds of San Antonio blow in all directions.

A San Antonio Parks Foundation event.

Four young artists, Walden Booker, Faith Fisher, Tirzah Lawson and Leroy Winter come together to display their most recent work in an art exhibit during San Antonio’s yearly Contemporary Art Month (CAM) opening March 18th at the Leal Art Gallery titled “Imagination is the Only Weapon (in the war against reality)” curated by Kimberly Garza.

In this exhibit, the talented young artists negotiate between the formal academic structure they have experienced the past four years and the inevitable shift as they transition from Senior’s at the North East School of the Arts (NESA), a competitive Fine Arts magnet program, to their post graduation educational goals. The work covers a range of interpretations of traditional/non-traditional portraits and still lifes that engage the viewer on a creative journey through the visual language of a generation of artists confronted with inevitable growing pains that segue into adulthood.

“Imagination is the Only Weapon (in the war against reality)” is a quote from Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland that illustrates a common thread woven in the work of these four artists. Although the styles vary, the dedication to the development of their skills combined with a creative innate talent is a testament to the power of the imagination and the exploration of art in a contemporary and sometimes skewed social reality.

Opening Reception
Saturday, March 18, 2017
6pm-10pm
Work on view thru May 2017
Closing Reception TBA

Border & Boujie is a collection in which artist Jose Balli chooses to juxtapose high-class society and place them in the shoes of the poor & hungry. Balli intervenes society-type magazines with oil paint assaulting the lifestyle of the rich and famous, transforming the background into the urban landscape of the border.

Urban self-employment is the means for many people to create and establish an income for the families. Whether the job be selling chicle, chips, chile del monte, windshield-wiping or panhandling, people are proactively seeking to survive.

Studio will be open from 11-5 pm.

www.joshhuskin.com

Come see my new works on linen, wood panel, and paper created during “Open,” and learn more about what I’m doing and working on here at Artpace. Also, get a more personal view of some of my past works hanging here at Artpace. The event will be LIVE on Artpace’s Facebook page and Instagram.

REALITY CHECK …
Shop . Sip . Sit . See . Storytell . Smirk with Nina Hassele
Shop Local. Choice Goods and have fun.. See people ..Healthy Juices Sip from our bar…$2.00-$5 beer, wine and mimosas –Cool Jewels, Art, Photography, Fashion, Cards, Vintage looks, Astrology . Fresh empanadas….New merchants
photo cred: http://www.hooplaha.com/photographers-create-surreal-images-of-paris-metro-2078397550.html

Established in 2009, Clamp Light Studios and Gallery is an organization of visual artists who have come together to support one another’s creative process, to network as artists and build an established relationship of creative community.
Our current resident artists are: Carol Cunningham, Sarah Fox, Sarah T. Roberts, Jen Frost Smith, Tom Turner, Jose Villalobos

Established in 2009, Clamp Light Studios and Gallery is an organization of visual artists who have come together to support one another’s creative process, to network as artists and build an established relationship of creative community.
Our current resident artists are: Carol Cunningham, Sarah Fox, Sarah T. Roberts, Jen Frost Smith, Tom Turner, Jose Villalobos

Visit the Contemporary Art Month calendar for individual “Open Studio” listings.

Christine Zuercher is an honorary astronaut and member of the American Interterrestrial Society. Her work focuses on shortwave radio, the Space Race, and transmission technologies with a focus in interdisciplinary and alternative photographic processes.
Distant Transmissions dissects shortwave radio and space travel as landmarks of exploration and includes photographs, shortwave spy codes, and a handmade spacesuit.

If you missed the Opening Reception on Second Saturday, here is another opportunity to view Dreams Are for Those Who Sleep, an exhibition featuring recent works on paper by San Antonio-based artist, Jose Fidel Sotelo.
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This series of large-scale graphite drawings are a departure from the intimate, primarily black-and-white drawings Sotelo is best known for. In this body of work, Sotelo continues to explore the meditative quality of repetitive symbolic imagery, but on a larger scale and in a more subtle tonal palette. This aesthetic shift imbues the work with an ethereal feeling, and the scale of the work envelops the viewer in Sotelo’s nocturnal world. Based on his experience of dreaming and insomnia, these autobiographical dreamscapes combine imagery from Aztec mythology and memories of the first stages of existence of a Mexican American family.

You may find his work at the San Angelo Museum of Fine art, San Antonio Museum of Fine art, both private and public collections and Dimension Gallery in Austin.  You may find a video athttps://vimeo.com/165021064 of his recent exhibit and conversation with Rene Barilleaux at the McNay Museum.  On November 17, 2016 KLRN aired his work on “PBS/ARTS”.  You may also find his work published in the New Earthworks: and Sculpture Magazine.  In April, 2017 he will be participating in ArtAroundRoswell / Roswell, Georgia.

Come out and enjoy Justin Parr’s new Upstairs Studio at Hotwells from noon to 4pm.

Our glass blowers are stepping it up a notch for this demo! Working in larger teams on larger pieces, more fire and more fun are certainly in store! Watch as our artists manifest beautiful art from molten glass.

Studio available for viewing noon to 4pm – view paintings, sculpture and works on paper by artist Larry Graeber. www.LarryGraeber.com, light refreshments.

Come sit a spell with a loom in a living room, pet a precious puppy, peruse favorite reads, pilfer through a pantry, generally talk shop.

Topics up for discussion include, but are in no way limited to, natural dyeing, worm bin composting, textile history, material culture, Texas lore, arts management, library science, preservation, education, and where to find the best frozen margarita.

Studio available for viewing noon to 4pm – view Drawings, paintings, sculptures by artist Fernando Andrade. www.arte-2020.com, light refreshments. Please call for gate code.

Visit my studio and display room. View many of my paintings including new works. Light refreshments.

Mercury Project, artist studios, art gallery and creative venue
Establish 2012
CAM open studio tour
March 19th 12-4p

Viewpoints from The Artists & Open Studios at The Millworks:
A conversation on Art, The New York Project with The Hispanic Society of America & Open Studios at Hausmann Millworks.

March 19th, 2017, Noon to 4pm
Hausmann Millworks
925 W Russell Place, San Antonio TX 78212
www.hausmannmillworks.com

Spend a Sunday afternoon in Chris’s world. His art and music are intense and passionate – unique and personal. You’ll enjoy the visit! In addition, the delightful paintings of Claire Casseb and Neka Scarbrough-Jenkins will be on display.

Fun Family gathering.  Bring your lawn chairs.

Free and open to the public.

Join us for a GREAT Open Studios after party at Zollie Glass Studios with live glass blowing, Ay Papi’s food truck, music and more.

Fun for all ages.  Bring your lawn chairs.

Free and open to the public.

Lee and Fiona introduce Upholstery as Functional Art.

They will show a line that they invisioned when they got together over two years ago. Using exotic woods and natural organic fabrics they will delight and amaze. Hemp, the strongest, natural grown fabric will be featured in this new collection as a ecological material in this new line of functional and usable art

Please join us for Walter Salas-Humara, Sunday, March 19, at Wolverton Home Concerts in San Antonio — an intimate setting with great acoustics, so please get ready to surrender your heart and mind.
https://www.waltersalashumara.com/

Joe Reyes and Ignacio Salas-Humara will accompany.
In the gallery, Bale Creek Allen & Allison Walton: https://www.balecreekallen.com/GET-LOST/thumbs

To reserve a seat (and get the address, which we do not publicize) please send a message to Wolverton Home Concerts, email floatingteacup@gmail.com or call 210.473.9062 Cover is $15, all of which goes to the artist, as do any album sales. Doors at 7:30. Music at 8:00. BYOB, Coolers with ice are provided.

Join The Rivard Report LOOP, and Glasshouse Policy for this rescheduled Transportation Game Night and Regional Happy Hour to mix with regional policy makers, talk about the future of the region, and design your ideal street!

The San Antonio-Austin region is booming. Yet, as our cities expand, how can we ensure that growth is smart and sustainable? Now’s your chance to decide. We’ll start the evening at a happy hour sponsored by the Austin Chamber of Commerce. From there, you’ll be assigned a mode of transportation to our next venue where you’ll work in groups to design your ideal street. A panel of judges will choose the winning group.

Sponsored by the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, VIA Metropolitan Transit, San Antonio B-Cycle, and Alamo Beer.

5pm – 6:30pm – Regional Happy Hour at Hemisfair’s Yanaguana Garden. Parking is free at Hemisfair and City-owned parking lots and garages after 5 pm as part of Downtown Tuesdays! Join us for a happy hour and networking opportinity with regional policy makers, civic leaders, and advocates before we move on to our next location.

6:30pm – 7pm – Multimodal Street Ride: Participants can take San Antonio B-Cycle or a VIA Metropolitan Transit bus, ride their own bikes, walk, run, Uber, Lyft, or drive from the happy hour location to game night location, Brick at Blue Star

7pm – 9pm – Transportation Game Night at Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex: Participants work in groups of five to ten to reimagine Central Texas’ streets using an online interactive tool.

We look forward to seeing you there and continuing this important regional conversation. Tickets are $10 each. LOOP members are free! Check the 12/28 newsletter for more information or email info@loop-sa.com.

“Señor Rodeo” (Ken Little, Paul Farrell, and Bart Nichols) will be playing original Music as well as classic covers of Western Swing, Country, and Rock and Roll. They will be joined by Ray and Donna Manley for an opening set. Great Food, Great Drinks, and NO Cover!

Opening Reception:  Thursday, March 22, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at UTSA Main Art Gallery.

The 33rd Annual Student Art Exhibition is a juried competition featuring recent work by UTSA undergraduate and graduate students. This year’s jurors are Sarah Cusimano Miles and Doug Clark, from Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama. The exhibition includes work representing the full range of materials, methods, and techniques, ranging from traditional processes to contemporary digital photography and video. Themes range from representations of the human figure, to cultural commentary, and exploration of conceptual concerns.

Show runs from March 22 to April 12, 2017.

Normal Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm & Saturday 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

For more information contact the University at (210) 458-4402.

There will be open studios and work on exhibit from students and faculty at all levels of the Department of Art and Art History at UTSA, including candidates for the Terminal Degree of Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art and members of UTSA’s New Media Collective. A partial list of the artists included is John Atkins, Eden Collins, Verena Gaudy, Greg Elliott, Buster Graybill, Ken Little, Ovidio Giberga, Mark McCoin, Zachary Slough, Martin Rodriguez, Mary Wuest, Suzanne Miller, Juan Vallejo, and others!!!

Join us at Brick in the Blue Star Arts Complex for the latest installment of Shop Rare Marketplace.

The party starts at 5pm and will continue until 11pm.

Shop Rare Marketplace is a monthly event that acts as a platform for up and coming businesses, artists, and musicians from San Antonio and the surrounding areas. The next Shop Rare will be held on Friday, March 24th at Brick in The Blue Star Arts Complex. The event includes over 15 vintage and handmade clothing vendors as well as artists. Music provided by a rotating lineup of local DJs and bands. The party goes from 5pm-11pm and is free and all ages.

On March 3 – 24, 2017, SAY Sí celebrates 20 years of showcasing the best local art, culinary fare and refreshing libations at its Small Scale • Big Change events. The exhibition and month-long silent auction features the region’s most esteemed artists with over 200 unique artworks – all up for auction in support of SAY Sí’s tuition-free creative youth-development programs.

In honor of this Small Scale • Big Change milestone, SAY Sí is channeling the Summer of Love: the summer of 1967 where like-minded young people converged in San Francisco to celebrate love, peace, community and acceptance. So get groovy and show up in your favorite 1960’s garb!

SAY Sí closes out Small Scale at the Final Auction Night, with a cultural confluence that highlights chefs and mixologists, with cuisine and cocktails that feature specialty items from each participating bar and restaurant. During the evening, patrons can also explore the SAY Sí galleries and place their final in-person bids on artwork. As part of the evening’s festivities, SAY Sí’s annual Arts Education Award will be presented to Liz and Bill Chiego for making a creative difference in San Antonio.

Opening Night Event | Free & Open to the Public | Friday, March 3, 2017, 7 – 10 p.m.
Final Auction Night | $60 Presale, $75 At the Door | Friday, March 24, 2017, 7 – 10:30 p.m.
FREE Public Exhibition Viewing, March 3 – March 23, 2017
Gallery Hours: Mon. – Thu. | 10 AM – 7 PM, Fri. & Sat. | 10 AM – 5 PM
Full details and tickets available at bit.ly/smallscale2017

Time for a “Tune Up”!!
Find Balance, clear your Mind, Lift your Spirit and Re-Charge your Body

Metaphysical and Holistic practitioners focused on wellness guidance and tools.

Held at the historic Blue Star complex dating back to 1860, you will enjoy the atmosphere and interacting with all the different practitioners.

You can get answers to your most important questions from an intuitive or astrologer, appreciate the fine work of nature through crystals and mineral lamps, and relieve your aches and pains with a holistic healer.

Have a great afternoon learning about yourself and the ways to get in touch with what is really important for you. Spend time and find the modality that resonates with your highest good. This could be life changing, come out and take a look!

Intuitive and clairvoyant readings, Reiki, massage and reflexology, crystals, artisan products and much more!

*Drumming will be held at the beginning of Holistic fair.

The Best Metaphysic & Holistic exhibitors focused on Alternative Wellness/Living Guidence & Tools, Intuitive Tarot, Psychic Astrology & Angel Readings, Mediums,Reiki Masters,Massage, Reflexology Therapist, Chakra & Aura Readers, Numerology , Crystals, Rocks, Artisan Jewelry, Pop-Up Boutique, Skincare & Artisan products and much more.

Free admission & Free parking
The Mystic Market will be offering FREE Intuitive sesions to anyone who invites 20+ guest or more on this event page to the Mystic Market!! thats a FREE reading for every 20 or more guest invited..
**we will verrify your invites at the door!

Call: 7149264131 for more info. or email
iloveinunctus@inunctus.com

Join us for a special Family Day  featuring spring artist-in-residence Robert Hodge. This free hands-on event celebrates contemporary art in its many forms from collage to screen printing. Enjoy food truck fare, live tunes, and explore our galleries!

Join R Gallery at Southtown 101 on Saturday, March 25th for a sale featuring reasonably priced works by local artists.

The sale starts at noon and will continue until 6 PM. Stop by and support local artists while enjoying the burgers, beers, and craft cocktails at Southtown 101!

Featured artists include:
Bad Chad
Bexar Bellamy
Ana Hernandez-Burwell
Christy Campbell
GJ Castro
Xavier Gilmore
JASON
Eric Mathis
Rhys Munro
Rani Reynolds
Seven of Wands
Madison Somerville
Jeremiah Teutsch

Curator: Liz Paris

Come explore Contemporary Art through an installation and special workshop created by local artist Richard Armendariz. The Dream Keeper will bring to life visions of an instructive, fable-like narrative grounded in the framework of an interactive childhood bedroom. March 25, Special artist workshop where kids and families will make artwork. Activities continue while supplies last.

Explore fashion and how art history, fashion and contemporary society overlay. Show up ready to draw with Rex Hausmann and have a Neiman Marcus artist beautify your fabulous face.

The 8th Annual Art Kite Festival is now a part of a city wide, month long celebration of kites! The Kites of March includes events in north, south, east and west neighborhoods, because, the winds of San Antonio blow in all directions.

ON THE EASTSIDE

Build a kite and Fly it! Or just enjoy the live music and food trucks.
Saturday, March 25, 2017 2PM-6PM

Pittman-Sullivan Community Garden 8th Annual Art Kite Festival

Pittman-Sullivan Community Garden at Dakota & Palmetto aka Pittman Sullivan Softball Field, SATX

DOWNTOWN

Kite Flying Fandango
Saturday, March 4, 2017 12NOON-2PM
Great Lawn, Yanaguana Gardens, Hemisfair Park, 434 South Alamo, SATX 78205 www.hemisfair.org

ON THE WESTSIDE

Güilas de Viento ~ Community Kite Flying
Saturday, March 4, 2017 2PM-4PM
Woodlawn Lake, SATX www.centroaztlan.org

A Centro Cultural Aztlan event

ON THE SOUTHSIDE

Papalote Day ~ Kite Day
Saturday March 11, 2017 10AM-12NOON
Land Heritage Institute, 1349 Neal Road between Applewhite & Pleasanton/Moursund, SATX 78264 www.landheritageinstitute.org

ON THE NORTHSIDE

Fest of Tails ~ Kite Festival & Dog Fair
Saturday, March 18, 2017 9AM-4PM
McAllister Dog Park, 13102 Jones Maltsberger Road, SATX www.festoftails.org

A San Antonio Parks Foundation event

BECOMING

New Works by Jesse Amado

On View March 16 through April 29, 2017

RUIZ-HEALY ART 201-A East Olmos Drive, San Antonio Texas 78212

Public Opening Reception Thursday, March 16, 2017 6 – 8pm

Artist Talk 2:00pm Saturday, March 25 moderated by Rainey Knudson

Artist Claire Casseb’s paintings of pop icons are colorful, fun, and evocative. Enjoy viewing (and perhaps purchasing) her art while listening to one of San Antonio’s most talented local musicians. His music is Good Ol’ American Roots Rock and Blues!

Tafsiri (Interpretations)” Highlights Kenya’s history with a modern perspective
in Works by Naomi Wanjiku Opening March 25 at Bihl Haus Arts

In her work “Gitiiro,” Kenyan-born artist Naomi Wanjiku has cut, dyed and linked pieces of sheet metal to assemble her wall hanging that mimics the swaying movement of a dancer.

Wanjiku explained that sheet metal is used mainly for roofing materials and walls and is particularly associated with Mabati women’s groups of the 1960s in Central Kenya. They organized to improve their communities by upgrading the roofs of their homes using sheet metal.

“I observed the success of their efforts, the harvesting of water from the new roofs, and the consequent ageing of the material itself,” Wanjiku said. “I mirror these effects in my own artistic process that weathers the surfaces of the materials. I occasionally add dye to create color and more complex effects. The delicate transformations etched in metal by the effects of weathering, chance, and time emphasize an ethereal, transient beauty.”

Bihl Haus Arts will host an opening reception for “Tafsiri,” which means “interpretations” in the Kiswahili language of East Africa, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 25 at the arts center, 2803 Fredericksburg Road. The exhibition, which is in conjunction with Women’s History Month, Contemporary Art Month and Poetry Month SA, runs through May 5. Wanjiku will give a gallery talk at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 1 at Bihl Haus.

At first glance, “Gitiiro” resembles a large, multi-colored, Spanish folding hand fan, or even small propeller blades swirling in circular motion. But, after a while, one begins to see the shape of a woman twirling round and round. The inspiration for the work comes from the artist’s pride in the traditional Kikuyu women of Kenya.

“It is a woman only song-dance that facilitated mentorship of courtship, sexuality and family life, for younger women, by older women,” Wanjiku said. “The mentorship would facilitate the gradual transition of these women from youth, to adulthood, and into respected members of their communities. This was a time for women to bond, to inspire and empower each other, in the absence of the male figure. It was their dance, their space, their time.”

The artist studied design at the University of Nairobi, where she explored the dynamics of fiber arts. During her graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, she merged the old fiber arts and imagery of Africa with contemporary techniques. “There is no doubt that my American experience interacts with my Kenyan heritage and influences my art,” she said.

In response to “Tafsiri (Interpretations),” which touches on environmental issues, Bihl Haus presents Stone In Stream/Roca en el Rio, reading by environmental writers, artists and activists Mobi Warren, Kamala Platt, Janice Campbell, Rebecca Burroughs, Toni Falls, Jim LaVilla-Havelin y mas, on Thursday April 27, 2017 at 7:00 PM

For more information, visit www.bihlhausarts.org or call (210) 383-9723.

title: (non)commercial: share alike
(FREE ADMISSION)

Participating Artists:
Stacey Villalobos: @huixola
Carly A. Garza: @carlyagarza , www.carly-garza.com
Daryan Arcos: @chula_dair*
Jon Tyson: @prayxplot , Pray X Plot
Jose Villalobos: @jvillalobos29 , www.josevillalobosart.com
Michael Martinez: @detribalizedaztec , www.michaelmartinez.org
Rafael Gutierrez: @greyhellos

(non)Commercial:Share Alike, is meant to reflect the ideas and subject matter broached by each of the 7 artists. Curator mark anthony martinez has selected a roster of artists, who employ conceptual practices within their works, straddling the line between fine art and commercial but who, more importantly are unapologetically rooted in identity. Most artists inevitability make work for sale, however, it is this particular selection of artists where the line between the commercial and concept becomes blurred.

More to the point, the phrase “noncommercial: share alike” is directly lifted from the ethos of the Creative Commons, wherein “If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original,” and alludes to the noncommercial ideas, typically associated with conceptual practices. Ideas that are constantly being remixed for every new generation.

In the context of the exhibit, the “material” is in fact, the world in which we live — remixed, in order to shift perspectives on assumption or highlight opportunities to unlearn oppressive modes of being. This ethos applied to the ideas these artists tackle, serve as the lens in which to view the works on display. In this exhibition the works become strategies to subvert oppression, declarations of personhood and challenge puritanical assumptions placed upon each of our bodies. Transgressive artistic liberties that disrupt normative stances towards Race, Gender and Sexuality are ultimately what is displayed in this exhibition with the hope to, not only get a viewer to reevaluate their relation to injustice but, ultimately to SHARE ALIKE the values of an intersectional and equitable future.

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About the Curator:
Born in San Antonio, Texas; Mark Anthony Martinez has lived, worked and exhibited in Portland, Oregon and Chicago, Illinois. Mark received his BFA in Intermedia at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (2011) and MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland State University (2014). He’s curated exhibitions in Portland, Oregon and San Antonio, TX. Currently, Martinez resides in San Antonio, Texas where he is Visual Arts Director at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center.
Instagram: @forevermarkanthonymartinez
Website: www.markanthonymartinez.com

Exhibition Opens: March 25, 6–10p
Show Run: March 25 – April 19, 2017
*cover image: “Flaccid PeePee,” Daryan Arcos, 2017

Join us for the opening of “Aquí Estamos y no nos Vamos” Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 6pm at the Esperanza (922 San Pedro Ave.)

The exhibit, Aquí Estamos Y No Nos Vamos, highlights the resistance, solidarity, anger, hope, and healing women of color are experiencing in response to the abusive and oppressive rhetoric that is/was disseminated during Trump’s campaign and carried on into his presidency. The art speaks to a transformation of a social or personal strife that translates into piercing visions of the present and a futuro con Esperanza. The artists featured in this exhibit believe that art must address the abuse on our bodies, communities, and lands.

This exhibit is part of our 30th Anniversary celebrations of the Esperanza. This exhibit is curated by Rebel Mariposa.

This event is FREE to the public with a small reception and performance art by various artists featured in the exhibit.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
The women of color artists featured in this exhibit are working class, immigrant, queer, and create artwork ranging from traditional visual art to sound art to sculpture to textile and much more. Exhibit artists: Alejandra Casas, Alicia Galvan, Alina Rayas, AnaKaren Ortiz Varela, Anel Flores, Brenda Pina, Carmen Cartiness Johnson, Caroline Arteaga, Delilah Montoya, Elida Bocanegra, Elva Salinas, Elva Treviño, Ëricka Bolta, Erika Casasola, Ester Hernandez, Esther Guajardo, Giomara Bazaldua, Iris Rodriguez, Juanita Luna Lawhn, Katherine Jenings, Katrina Gorman, Kriss Abigail Paredes, Laura Lopez, Laura Rios Yohualtlahuiz, Liliana Wilson, Lisa Sanna, Magdalena Mata, Margarita Benavides, Marisela Barrera, Michelle Rodriguez, Patricia Bayon, Patricia de la Garza, Pearl Sanchez, Priscilla Carrion, Sarah Castillo, Suzy Gonzalez, Tamara Becerra Valdez, Teri Borrego, Yacatsol feat. 4Rios of Calmeca Skwad, Yvonne Herrera-Rendon, y más.

ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Rebel Mariposa has been active in the performance and visual art world in Tejas, Califas and Mexico for over 15 years. Rebel has curated many shows specializing in emerging artists and new works. She most recently co-curated a show at R Space with Sarah Castillo of Lady Base Gallery by Arlene Mejorado titled Califas Lens, San Anto Heart: Outside Looking In. The exhibit won a 2016 FotoSeptiembre USA Choice Award for Thematic Development, Production, Curation, & Presentation, and Branding Integration & Execution.

For more information about the exhibit please contact the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center at 210.228.0201 or at esperanza@esperanzacenter.org.

Collection for the Community”

Where: MBS Yoga Studio 1115 S. Alamo (bottom floor of St. Benedict Lofts)

Date: March 25th, 2017

Time: 6pm-11pm (it says 7pm currently on the listing. Sorry about that. My mistake)

Description:

ART SALE- One of the best private collections of local artists in the city offered for sale to the community and local collectors to free the walls up for revolving art openings for local artists.

Enjoy small bites by Tim the Girl and immerse yourself in the sounds of Garrett T. Capps and some of the best emerging young musicians in the city: Bygoe Zubiate, Abel Grace & Victoria Acuna.

Collection includes a wide range of artists including Vincent Valdez, Sarah Fox, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Chuck Ramirez, Mignon Harkrader, Jorge Villareal, Nicholas Hay, Jayne Lawrence, Dennis Olson, Justin Parr, Katie Pell, Cruz Ortiz, Julie Speed and many more.

Guests will enjoy small bites provided by Tim the Girl Catering and music by Garrett T. Capps (at 7pm), Bygoe Zubiate, Abel Grace and Victoria Acuna.

Sponsor, Artist & Art-Buyer area will include heavier fare and augmented drink options.

Collection for the Community will further promote the arts by sharing any appreciation on the original sales prices on each piece with the artists as well as providing an area for education booths of local arts- related non-profits to promote additional ways of supporting the arts.

Following the sale of the collection, MBS Fitness plans to complete some much-needed updates to the studio and begin holding regularly scheduled art openings for the public.

Josh Levine, serial social entrepreneur and Founder of MBS Fitness explains, “It’s hard to say goodbye to these pieces- they each mean a lot to MBS Fitness… but part of what we are about is breaking down barriers and making things accessible. Art and fitness have a lot in common- people can be really intimidated by both. I want these events to inspire people to view the respective communities with more curiosity and eventually to become more active or creative.”

To learn more about the event or how you or your company may become a sponsor, please contact Anne Wolfe-Andersen by emailing anne@mbslife.com.

Gallery 20/20 will be filled with new works by gallery artists including: Gary Schafetr, Larry Graeber,Henry Stein, Twyla Arthur, James Joffe, Gloria Brockman, Tim Olson,Patricia Jane Fugitt, Ernie Davis, Scott Mueller, Richard Conn, Brian St. John, Tim Beard, Joel Lardon, and Guest artists: Tim McMeans, Billy Keen, Miguel Cortinas, Christina Ramsey, David S. Rubin, Dror Baldinger  and more….

Jeff and Jess DeCuir have collaborated on music, art, and multidisciplinary projects since 1997. The Texas electronic art/punk duo will adorn the walls and space of K23 Gallery with flyer art, fashions, video, and a live music performance. In celebration of this Contemporary Art Month event, Hyperbubble will release a 22-song, career spanning retrospective of tracks only previously released on vinyl and compilation albums around the world, available at the event.

Visionary space cowboy, Garrett T. Capps, opens the show.

S P R I N G B R E A K !!!!
Support Local Artists and Merchants… Sip from our Bar..$2 – $5 beer, wine and mimosas!
Rare Finds, Art, Photographs, Fabrics, Cards, Vintage Looks, Thai Fashions, Astrology readings, Groovy Jewelry, Fashion, Health Products, Soaps, Leather Goods Sweets, Handmade Tiles, Oddities and people watching…

Photo Cred: James’s Flamingo mating ritual.jpg – Wikipedia, the en.wikipedia.org

Norman Avila is a talented local artist and musician. He recently re-discovered photos he had taken of the Rolling Stones 1975 Concert in San Antonio. These photos will be seen in public for the first time at Tex Pop. We’ll also be showing a documentary of this tour “Tour of the Americas” 1975.

Installation by Ethel Shipton.

“Señor Rodeo” (Ken Little, Bart Nichols, and Paul Farrell) will perform original music as well as classic covers of Western Swing, Country, and Rock and Roll. They will be joined by Mr. Joe Reyes for an opening set. Great Food, Great Drinks, and No Cover!!!

We are honored to invite you to visit our group expo closing reception Friday March 31st. We open at 11:00am reception begins at 6:00pm – 12:00am

Every year, CAM recognizes excellence and diversity throughout the city’s rich landscape with the presentations of the CAMMIE Awards. We are excited to announce the following cultural organizations as judges for the 2017 CAMMIE Awards; San Antonio Museum of Art, McNay Art Museum, Southwest School of Art, Blue Star Contemporary, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Carver Community Cultural Center, Artpace and the Peoples Choice/Best of CAM Popular online voting. 

Mini Art Museum closing exhibition.  Sweet treats by Honeysuckle Tea Time. 

CAMMIE Awards created and designed by Make San Antonio.

Cocktails by Bellion Specialty Vodka & Dorćol Distilling Company Highwheel Beerworks.

A special THANK YOU to the  Linda Pace Foundation. 

In the past 16 years, FL!GHT has never asked for money or had a (fun)draiser. Often times running (and paying for) the gallery is a labor of love shared between Ed Saavedra, myself and our myriad of friends and supporters ( Anthony, Josh, Robbie, Andy, Rigo.. there’s so many of you who make it work time and time again) .. I have often struggled with .. “is it worth it ?” and I’m quickly reminded that it is when I see new and old faces enjoying our exhibits and hear compliments on what we choose to show. Unfortunately not everyone can afford to be an art collector, and we recognize and understand the value of just SHOWING good work in our community more than selling it. I’ve long wanted to have a FLIGHT Camp Out Fun-Raiser at The site of the old Hotwells Hotel in San Antonio and this Contemporary Art Month we have our chance … Mar 31 through April 1 (and unofficially the 2nd).

Send FL!GHT a private message (through facebook) to register/reserve your campsite number now (there’s a limited amount, first come, first serve and some of the locations are quite swell.

Your $125 donation / ticket comes with :

Campsite reservation for one tentsite and two people
Free music and beer all night / live music / performance/ etc
FOOOD FOOD FOOD – chef & garden inspired Dinner, chef inspired midnite snacks, special breakfast by Robbie Nowlin & myself.
A !secret! midnite ghost tour of the ruins.
Morning Rock & fossil Hunting Expedition on the SA river banks.
Morning after Yoga..
More surprises to come !!

Additional $40 individual tickets are available if your camp holds more than two people. Groups who want to camp together on one or two adjacent sites just need to coordinate with me. Poor artists who can’t afford any of this and really want to come and donate their time as volunteers or performers .. we need you as well, just send me a message!!!

Let’s do this! Thank you for 16 years San Antonio !!

The Spare Parts MINI ART MUSEUM proudly presents “Fine Print” featuring 16 contemporary artists working in an range of printmaking techniques and styles, from letterpress and lithograph to photogravure, photopolymer etching and chine collé. Editions of these limited-edition miniature-sized original prints will be available to benefit museum programming and “Fine Print” artists. Free admission.

ARTISTS: Cynthia Emma Alderete, Sabrina Alfaro, Linda Arredondo, Kim Bishop, Lisette Chávez, Danielle Cunningham (DC), Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Janet Lennie Flohr, Michael Menchaca, Amada Claire Miller, Sable Mirelez, Anthony Rundblade, Michael Stoltz, Hiromi Stringer, Luis Valderas and Rikkianne Van Kirk.

Special thanks to Hotel Emma, Rotary Club of San Antonio Mission Trail & Spare Parts.

The Spare Parts MINI ART MUSEUM proudly presents “Fine Print” featuring 16 contemporary artists working in an range of printmaking techniques and styles, from letterpress and lithograph to photogravure, photopolymer etching and chine collé. Editions of these limited-edition miniature-sized original prints will be available to benefit museum programming and “Fine Print” artists. Free admission.

ARTISTS: Cynthia Emma Alderete, Sabrina Alfaro, Linda Arredondo, Kim Bishop, Lisette Chávez, Danielle Cunningham (DC), Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Janet Lennie Flohr, Michael Menchaca, Amada Claire Miller, Sable Mirelez, Anthony Rundblade, Michael Stoltz, Hiromi Stringer, Luis Valderas and Rikkianne Van Kirk.

Special thanks to Hotel Emma, Rotary Club of San Antonio Mission Trail & Spare Parts.

Join the fun at Dorćol for music, beer, cocktails following the CAMMIE Awards at CHRISpark.

In conjunction with the exhibition Tafsiri/Interpretations, Kenyan-born sculptor Naomi Wanjiku will present a gallery talk. The artist studied design at the University of Nairobi, where she explored the dynamics of fiber arts. During her graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, she merged the traditional fiber arts and imagery of Africa with contemporary techniques. “There is no doubt that my American experience interacts with my Kenyan heritage and influences my art,” she said. Learn more about Naomi at http://www.naomiwanjiku.com/about

Come meet the painter, A.J. Rodriguez, to hear him explain his painting techniques and describe his latest works. HIs works are on display to celebrate Contemporary Art Month in the King William Cultural Arts District.

Come explore Contemporary Art through an installation and special workshop created by local artist Richard Armendariz. The Dream Keeper will bring to life visions of an instructive, fable-like narrative grounded in the framework of an interactive childhood bedroom. April 8, Special artist workshop where kids and families will make artwork. Activities continue while supplies last.

San Antonio’s Premier Underground Art Show featuring:
-50+ Emerging Artists
-Live Body Painting
-Live Music
-Live Art
-$5 Presale
-$10 at the door
-ALL AGES

Music by:
DJ Jon Chris

Art Call – Submit here: pancakesandbooze.com/#submit

Last month we brought you Hope…this month we bring you our Fears. In a group showing of local artists, discover the varied things that send us shivers and make our hearts drop in terror like that moment you miss a step heading downstairs.

Hijole SA is located in Studio 205 in the Upstairs Studios, Building B in the Blue Star Arts Complex.

AND NOW: New Works by 10 Artists

In the course of artistic expression’s long history as a chronicle of the human experience, a large number of movements and descriptions of art have transpired. Contemporary art’s most defining element is that it is rooted in the here AND NOW. This exhibit is a survey of work very recently created by artists who live in Texas but who represent a diverse array of backgrounds, experiences and influences.  In their own way, each examines a sense of place and identity amidst the technological changes and cultural shifts that propel the new century.

Curated by Arturo Infante Almeida 

ANA HERNÁNDEZ VELA

ERNESTO IBANEZ

JUAN DE DIOS MORA

RHYS MUNRO

CARMEN OLIVER

RICARDO RUIZ

MARTÍN C. RODRIGUEZ

JOEL SALCIDO RUIZ

HUMBERTO SAENZ

RAUL SERVIN

8:00 P.M. Performance by artist Martín C. Rodriguez

Art Image: Raul Servin “El Cholo y La Chola”

Join us for the opening reception of the 11th annual On & Off Fredericksburf Road Studio Tour! The tour weekend kicks off Friday evening, February 16, 6 to 9 pm, with the not-to-be-missed “On & Off Fred Autograph Party” at Bihl Haus Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg Road. This preview exhibition showcases one work by each of more than 70 featured artists on the tour this year. They will be on hand to autograph your personal copy of the tour catalog (available at the gate for $10, includes admin. for 2 to reception and all Tour events). Lavish hors d’oeuvres,wine, beer provided by San Antonio Bewwing Co., live music by Latin fusion band Los Nahuatlatos, with jazz vocalist Carol Cisneros performing between sets, hands-on art making with Jane Madrigal, flash performances and the opportunity to mingle with artists, event sponsors and community leaders fill the evening.

The 11th Annual On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour, presented by Bihl Haus Arts (bihlhausarts.org), offers art enthusiasts and the public a personal glimpse into the private homes, art studios and galleries of more than 70 established and emerging artists including painters, sculptors, metal smiths and photographers. Additionally, some 200 musicians, poets, theater troupes and dance groups help make this community event the biggest art studio tour in San Antonio. A full-color brochure in both hardcopy and online versions consisting of a map and information on participating artists and their work is available for $10. For more information, www.OnAndOffFred.org or call 210.383.9723.

The 11th Annual On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour, presented by Bihl Haus Arts (bihlhausarts.org), offers art enthusiasts and the public a personal glimpse into the private homes, art studios and galleries of more than 70 established and emerging artists including painters, sculptors, metal smiths and photographers. Additionally, some 200 musicians, poets, theater troupes and dance groups help make this community event the biggest art studio tour in San Antonio. A full-color brochure in both hardcopy and online versions consisting of a map and information on participating artists and their work is available for $10. For more information, www.OnAndOffFred.org or call 210.383.9723.

Señor Rodeo is a honky tonk band with Bart Nichols on bass, Paul Farrell on fiddle and guitar, and singer/songwriter, Ken Little, on guitar and vocals. Señor Rodeo performs Little’s original songs, and covers of a wide range of other artists including: Bob Wills, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Terry Allen, Billy Joe Shaver, and David Byrne. Liberty Bar has great food and drink specials. No Cover. Show up ready for a good time!

Every Tuesday in  March from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Join noted scholars Dr. Tomas Ybarra-Frausto and Bryce Milligan for one of several platicas, public conversations considering San Antonio’s rich, multi-cultural literary history. Ybarra-Frausto and Milligan will be reading from the newly published Literary San Antonio (TCU Press). Other writers and literary luminarios will also be present, including texas Poet Laureates Rosemary Catacalos, journalist Cary Clack, San Antonio and Texas Poet Laureate Jenny Browne and San Antonio book collector Bill Fisher.

Market 12pm – 5pm.
Shop local! Sip on wine, mimosas, champagne and lots of craft beer selections — Shop for rare Vinyl Record finds, Custom Art, Photography, Vintage Clothing, Pet Goods, Groovy Jewelry, Artisan Soaps and Oils… Plus out of the blue art performances… You never know what’s going to happen!

Join Gemini Ink members and others from the literary community for a literary talk on Margaret Atwood’s crime fiction thriller, which is now a popular Netflix series. UTSA Librarian William Glenn, Noir fiction expert Eusebio Diaz, and Literature Professor Patricia Portales will be leading the discussion. Wine reception included in price of ticket.

PING PONG TOURNEY FEB. 28!
Signup/warm up 5pm.
Start time 7:30pm.

Beginners $3 Advanced $5 Doubles $5

Sponsored by: @southalamode @stellapublichouse @choicegoodssatx @bluestarbrewco and the San Antonio Table Tennis Club.

BALL OUT WITH US

#southtown #sanantonio #texas #bluestar #pingpong #ballout #brickatbluestar

Thursday, March 1, 2018
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Meet at Front Desk

Price:  Free for members | $5 non-members

Take an art bite out of your lunch hour with a two-object tour and learn the back story about art you may have missed. To celebrate Women’s History Month and Contemporary Art Month, this gallery talk will focus on contemporary women artists.

https://www.samuseum.org/calendar/event-detail?eid=8840

Exact Change

In 1880, the art patron Charles Ephrussi purchased Edouard Manet’s Bunch of Asparagus for 1,000 francs. The original price for the painting was 800 francs, however, Ephrussi would become the owner of Bunch of Asparagus with the fervor of overpayment in the amount of 200 francs. The gesture of appreciation of both patron and artist was equally palpable. In fact, Manet quickly sent Ephrussi a smaller painting of a single asparagus with a note that remarked that one spear had “slipped from the bunch”. The artist’s One Asparagus was a gesture of appreciation for Ephrussi’s patronage. Manet could have easily reimbursed the difference in the over payment for Bunch of Asparagus. Further, he could have painted a second One Asparagus to make up for the initial over payment of the original painting by accounting for the smaller scale format and the exact change of 200 francs. Each remaining asparagus spear would have been valued at 100 francs each. Nevertheless, it would be difficult to determine the Parisian practice of selling bunches of asparagus at the tail end of the 19^th century without an extensive anthropological survey being conducted. Also, there are no contemporaneous examples to refer to since the number of asparagus spears sold is often determined by weight.

It is admittedly difficult to curate a personally inclusive two-person exhibition; the endeavor seemingly becomes a pursuit of finding a likeminded individual that engages their practice in a similar way. Eventually, the incentive in my choice to include Daniela Cavazos Madrigal revealed a delight that there are differences despite the visceral ethos shared. In any case, the narrative regarding the exchange between artist and patron serves as a conceptual prelude for the Spring 2018 exhibition at San Antonio College’s Visual Arts Center. It employs the comparative qualities that individually autonomous works have in common with generative ideas in the latter cycle of a body of work. As the curator, the metaphorical appropriation of Manet’s Bunch of Asparagus and the subsequent One Asparagus helps create loaded indices that reveal purposeful modification that are seemingly infallible. It is the work of art with in the art that becomes the transitive wholeness that is the ontological proxy for the momentum in an artist’s practice. At times the autonomy of a work is contingent on a singular aspect, not a focal point or symbol but an emphasis of attraction that comprises of a wealth of information. It is not a specific iconographic marker that is associated with signage, rather a particular sublimated object that becomes the trope. But, it manages to avoid the follies of complacent creative apostasy because of the reverberated layers of simultaneous subversive and progenitive inquiry. Perhaps this collective creative process is the trope of exact change. It is a seemingly ephemeral utilization found in the two artist’s works of required beliefs and practices assisting in identifying a hybrid moment. It is an idiomatic hybridization contextualized by specific media, mythology and modalities of presentation. Daniela Cavazos Madrigal and myself are the featured artists in the two-person show that explore the ontological through the inquiry in the fondness and aversion of media choices and revelatory content.

In the original aforementioned painting, the transformative change is affected by the inclusion of the second painting. It obviously continues to exist as an autonomous painting. But, it has been transitively harvested as the impetus for the second singular asparagus spear painting. The deductive sequentiality in this 2D harvesting is analogous to the transformational utilization of unconventional media found in both our work. In fact, the gallery installation will comprise of work from different time periods of each of our practice, all the while maintaining the consistent trajectory that allows for the readability of the exact change in the deductive sequentiality. Madrigal’s body of work is built around the illusive notion of the American Dream. The understanding that inequity is systematic and difference is often met with hostility is the driving force behind her practice. Her work challenges the barriers, both material and transcendent, that exist in our current sociocultural climate. Her work is often informed by the border politics that fracture the immigrant work force and the current emphasis on deportation. Additionally, I’ve always been fascinated with familial rituals and the mythology that initiates them. The use of diaristic iconography that spawns from a variety of visual dialects help create the identity of the work that is forged by past and present experiences with archetypal subject matter. I’ve utilized recent work to navigate through an identity that once was, in order to reach an identity that now is. In the end, our work explores narratives that have some type of moral derivative.

There are difficulties with compartmentalizing our two practices, however the layout of the Visual Arts Center gallery is conducive to the notion of installing two bodies of work that run congruently on an ontologically conceptual horizon. Like most work, the installation will help create complicated discursive examination through its multilayered structures. Again, the appropriation of Edouard Manet and Charles Ephrussi’s exchange is analogous to the unapologetic transformational harvesting that allows the viewer to gain access of critical content in the work.

“Nothing, it would seem, could possibly give to such a motley of effort the right to lay claim to whatever one might mean by the category of sculpture. Unless, that is, the category can be made to become infinitely malleable.” – Rosalind Krauss

Plus, the Blue Star Hallway Galleries & Shops will be OPEN! Check out a “Sneak Peek” of Artflix – A Netflix Originals Inspired Group Exhibition at CREATIVE CREATURES (Gallery-Shop-Studio), Small Ideas – 2 Artists: Paco Felici & Andrea Guttman at Mockingbird Handprints and Photography of Linda Rogers Vivenza at ArtMatter’s.

Then head over to Brick at Blue Star from 7pm-Midnight for Brick’s Contemporary Art Month Kick-off  (Mural Viewing After-Party) for Live Music by Verisimilitude & Dolphin Dilemma, DJ, Visuals (that document the mural’s development process) and Art Show that will include the Local Artists that contributed to the mural project. This will be one evening not to be missed!

 “Birds of a Feather” Blue Star Hallway Mural Project Artists: R. Tatum, Scotch!, Rubio, Andy Benavides, Eva Sanchez, Paul Garson, Daniel Anguilu, Evil Dave, Christina Sparrow, Rooster, Linda Monsivais, Zane Thomas, Chris Montoya, Rachael Oelsen, James (Werds) Rose, Manny (Squid) Garcia, Carol Martelle, Taco Boy, Cassidy Frittz, A/S/L, Craig Patterson, Courtney Davis, Gerardo Garza, Stevan Zivadinovic, Izzy Tatum & Isabella Humphries.

AnArte Gallery is delighted to be hosting the opening reception of Analy Diego’s “Icons” on Thursday, March 1, 2018 from 6-8pm! Mojitos & vino reception, DJ music, & an art talk with Analy at 6:45pm! A portion of all art sale proceeds will benefit the Landa Gardens Conservancy. All are welcome!

Sarah Fox will have a solo show exploring the idea of female sexuality and the struggle for control by employing empowering images of women hybrids reclaiming their bodies.

Unheimlich
Collaborative and solo works by Elizabeth McDonald Schwaiger and Seth Orion Schwaiger

Anthem gallery, Suite 115, Blue Star Arts Complex
First Thursday and First Friday

About the exhibition:

At the crux of both artists’ practices are dynamics of power, both subtle and overt. Working collaboratively, the subject becomes much more specific — the dynamics of power is they play out in the home, or rather, the home’s role in building personal power and deflecting external pressures. “Unheimlich” is a distortion and reimagining of you i i i everything else, the couple’s first entirely collaborative exhibition. Here the Austin bungalow-based De Stijl Gallery was transformed back into a residence-like space complete with sculpture/dining table installation/bedroom, painted digital fireplace, and artist chandelier. In Unhemlich, the stricture of the theme is loosened, and the more uneasy qualities native to the artists individual practices seep in. Unheimlich, the German word for uncanny, would be literally translated as un-home-like. This relation between the home and the taboo, the normal and the unspeakable, infuses the works within the exhibition — a fever dream domicile where symbolism is made flesh and invisible dynamics of power take palpable shape.

v e r s u s
An art exhibition by Houston Fryer

Houston Fryer’s artwork is focused on the violence of visual systems. Violence is explored in Fryer’s work to reveal how it operates as a system of consensus. v e r s u s is an installation of paintings, props, green screen technology, and interactive digital projections that transforms the gallery into equal parts theater and playground. Visitors are invited to play with the exhibitions interactive features. v e r s u s features extremely graphic imagery of human bodily violence. Viewer discretion is advised.

www.houstonfryer.com
Image: Houston Fryer, Snake Fight, Oil on panel, photo collage, gold foil mylar

The opening reception of Houston Fryer’s art exhibition v e r s u s will be at Terminal 136 on Thursday, March 1st, 2018 from 6pm until 9pm. Open First Friday, March 2nd, 2018 from 6pm until 9pm.

What: v e r s u s
When: March 1, 2018 through March 17, 2018
Where: Terminal 136

136 Blue Star

San Antonio, TX 78204

In the Blue Star Arts Complex on corner of S. Alamo and Probandt St.

Cost: Free

Contact: Houston Fryer, Terminal 136 Coordinator, houston.fryer@utsa.edu (210) 758-6246

Terminal 136 is free and open to the public.

Gallery hours: First Thursday & First Friday: 6pm until 9 pm

All other Thursday through Saturday: 12pm until 5pm

By appointment through Houston Fryer at houston.fryer@utsa.edu

Two Heads Are Better Than One is an exhibition of large-scale sculptures inspired by traditional funeral death masks. A death mask is a wax or plaster cast made of a person’s face following their death, often by taking a cast or impression directly from the corpse. For this exhibition, Teutsch sculpts the heads in clay, makes a mold from the sculpture out of plaster, and casts the heads in paper mache before painting them. “The idea of this show came about after my father passed away. I started drawing enormous Big Giant Heads sinking into the ground, as mountainous monuments of grief. These are scaled-down monuments of grief. They’re similar in form and function to death masks. The day before my father died, he asked me to make a death mask of him. He was cremated before I got to see him. So, now I’m making these big giant heads as recompense for not being able to make his.”

Jeremiah Teutsch was born in Lubbock, Texas in 1982. He graduated with a BFA in painting and drawing from the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in Denver, Colorado. He now lives and works in San Antonio. He is involved in many different creative avenues: art, music, illustration, film, invention, curation, and design.

Hello Studio is an independent artist-run gallery and studio residency that hosts exhibitions showcasing emerging visual artists in and around Texas directed by Amada Miller and Justin Korver.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, please email hellostudiosa@gmail.com.

Hours by appointment or during open receptions.

Plus, the Blue Star Hallway Galleries & Shops will be OPEN! Check out a “Sneak Peek” of Artflix – A Netflix Originals Inspired Group Exhibition at CREATIVE CREATURES (Gallery-Shop-Studio), Small Ideas – 2 Artists: Paco Felici & Andrea Guttman at Mockingbird Handprints and Photography of Linda Rogers Vivenza at ArtMatter’s.

Then head over to Brick at Blue Star from 7pm-Midnight for Brick’s Contemporary Art Month Kick-off  (Mural Viewing After-Party) for Live Music by Verisimilitude & Dolphin Dilemma, DJ, Visuals (that document the mural’s development process) and Art Show that will include the Local Artists that contributed to the mural project. This will be one evening not to be missed!

“Birds of a Feather” Blue Star Hallway Mural Project Artists: R. Tatum, Scotch!, Rubio, Andy Benavides, Eva Sanchez, Paul Garson, Daniel Anguilu, Evil Dave, Christina Sparrow, Rooster, Linda Monsivais, Zane Thomas, Chris Montoya, Rachael Oelsen, James (Werds) Rose, Manny (Squid) Garcia, Carol Martelle, Taco Boy, Cassidy Fritts, A/S/L, Craig Patterson, Courtney Davis, Gerardo Garza, Stevan Zivadinovic, Izzy Tatum & Isabella Humphries.

For this year’s Contemporary Art Month, the Gallery at MBS will present a solo exhibition by French/Chilean photographer, Catalina Sour Vasquez, organized by independent curator, Hillarey Jones.

Vasquez’s series Projets Dissolvants is the catalyst for what has become her own unique, surrealist style. Superimposing imagery that caters to the senses with her delicately designed mise en scene, while utilizing color and über surrealist elements, she allows the viewer to focus on one specific, if not subconscious, component of the photograph – often addressing the social impact of our mundane everyday lives and the toll that it infiltrates on our mental and physical well being. There are direct references, colors or details that placate to a specific smell, touch or often taste. She will shamelessly critique society’s tendencies for mass consumption utilizing a candy coated stage that is easy for us to digest…and almost impossible to resist.

The opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 1, 2018 from 7:30-9:30pm inside the gallery space at MBS. The artist will be present to greet guests and answer any questions. Light refreshments will be provided.

ON THE WILL NAYLOR SMITH PLAZA
EVERY FRIDAY IN MARCH 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Start your Friday night off right and celebrate Contemporary Art in San Antonio! Join us on the Will Naylor Smith Plaza every Friday night for an hour of short films by and about San Antonio Artists!

Good Food ~ Good People 

Ay Papi’s team Hector Faberlle & Nick Monda are excited to be a part of this  years Contemporary Art Month Kick-off at Blue Star Contemporary located at the Blue Star Arts Complex.  They will be cooking up some great Puerto Rican, Caribbean eats First Friday, March 2, 2018.  Food truck opens at 6:00 pm.  Vegetarian options available as well.  

The wait is on for our 2018 CAM Kick off Party

Do not miss this event!  Join the fun and  help us start off Contemporary Art Month 2018 at our annual kick-off party.  Music provided by DJ Novasoul (Labkids), with delicious eats provided by Ay Papi’s Food Truck.  Free and open to the public!

Visit our CAM Calendar for more information at http://contemporaryartmonth.com/calendar/ or contact Contemporary Art Month at (210) 630-0235/info@contemporaryartmonth.com.

Free and Open to the Public!

CREATIVE CREATURES Presents: ARTFLIX (A Netflix Originals Inspired Art Exhibition)

First Friday Opening Reception
March 2nd, 2018
CREATIVE CREATURES (Gallery-Shop-Studio)
at Blue Star Arts Complex
FREE // All Ages Welcome // 6-11pm

ARTFLIX will be our next Group Art Exhibition that will be a collection of works from over 50 Local & Regional Artists that are inspired by NETFLIX Originals (Film, Documentary, Special or Series)!

Join us on FIRST FRIDAY during CONTEMPORARY ART MONTH in Southtown this March at CREATIVE CREATURES! This month’s gallery show will be curated and hosted by Husband & Wife, Karen G. Rios (Nouveau Nostalgic) & Eddy Rios (Taco Boy Designs), the Founders & Owners of CREATIVE CREATURES (Gallery-Shop-Studio).

SHOWCASING ARTISTS:

Ant Lopez
Ashley Tristan
Bryanna Derderian
Carissa Gonzalez
Carlos Morfin
Catherine Collier
Cecilia Arce
Cheyenne Horner
Claudia Peña-Martinez
Connie Chapa
Dariela Alejandra
Eddy Rios
Elon Morena Alaniz
Eric Perez
Erin Perry
Genevieve Sheyanne Ashcraft
Gerardo Cazares
Heather Rodriguez
Israel Rico
Jaclyn Valdez
Jair Hernandez
James King-Sinnett
Jess Guerra
Jocelyn Trask
John Pena
Jonathan Estrada
Julian Garza
Justin Rice
Karen Rios
Kep Foe
Kristi-Ann Gustin
Kyle Otto
Levon Montez
Lorraine San Miguel
Lyric Garcia
Maggie Alvarado
Michael Finnegan
Michael Ruffo
Mira Perez
Missy & EPSR Martinez
Paul Garson
Rebecca Gonzalez
Regina Morales
Samantha Rubio
Skylar Richter
Sonya Marie Sky
Stephanie Saenz
Teeny France Revilla
Timothy McVain
Valerie Brown
Zane Thomas

Folksonomy:#Art#Science#Evolution#Reverse#Sex#Universe#DarkMatter#Chaos

New Work from FLIGHT old home favorite Patrick Visentin of Montreal, Canada in celebration of Contemporary Art Month.

Patrick Dominic Visentin is an Artist and Educator living and working in Montreal. He studied in Canada, receiving a Masters degree in Print Media from Concordia University, a BFA from Mount Allison University and a BA from St. Francis Xavier University. He has participated in various group and solo
exhibitions throughout Canada, the United States and Europe.
Stay tuned here for more details!

You can always expect BEER FROM FREETAIL at our openings ! Cheers!

Daniel Armstong takes over the walls of South Alamode Gelato and Paninni Co in the Bluestar Arts Complex. The show presents a number of fantastic space narratives set against the backdrop of some of San Antonio’s forgotten architectural marvels. Open throughout March. Come see it before it disappears.

Flax studio hosts Tell Me What it Feels Like, a solo show by Texas based photographer India Treat for Contemporary Art Month 2018.

About the exhibition:

The media depicts women as one-dimensional bodies. Our canons are limited to cleaning, laundry, and eating salads while smiling. The average woman portrayed in the media is young, thin, and white. This limited scope is outdated and stifles young women’s confidence and thus, their potential. A narrow depiction of our sex has allowed for the continued oppression of women and systemic patriarchy, which limits our growth and potential as a culture.

Frustration with this limiting canon lead me to answering this important question: “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” (Muriel Rukeyser, “Käthe Kollwitz”). In order to begin answering this question, I asked the women I knew. “What is your truth? Where do you feel most powerful? Vulnerable? Or Whole?” This work is an exploration of their answers.

The women I photographed wanted to be seen in far more complex ways than the stories we’ve been told. With each new subject I documented, the definition, by which women want to be portrayed, grew. Subsequently, this body of work became more accurate through the representation of a diverse group of women. Their images challenge the male gaze and disrupt a tired narrative. I’ve found that if women told the truth about their lives, “the world would split open” (Muriel Rukeyser, “Käthe Kollwitz”).

About the Artist:

India Treat is a Texas based photographer whose work addresses standards of femininity.

indiatreatphoto.com

Unheimlich
Collaborative and solo works by Elizabeth McDonald Schwaiger and Seth Orion Schwaiger

Anthem Gallery, Suite 115, Blue Star Arts Complex
First Thursday and First Friday

About the exhibition:

At the crux of both artists’ practices are dynamics of power, both subtle and overt. Working collaboratively, the subject becomes much more specific — the dynamics of power is they play out in the home, or rather, the home’s role in building personal power and deflecting external pressures. “Unheimlich” is a distortion and reimagining of you i i i everything else, the couple’s first entirely collaborative exhibition. Here the Austin bungalow-based De Stijl Gallery was transformed back into a residence-like space complete with sculpture/dining table installation/bedroom, painted digital fireplace, and artist chandelier. In Unhemlich, the stricture of the theme is loosened, and the more uneasy qualities native to the artists individual practices seep in. Unheimlich, the German word for uncanny, would be literally translated as un-home-like. This relation between the home and the taboo, the normal and the unspeakable, infuses the works within the exhibition — a fever dream domicile where symbolism is made flesh and invisible dynamics of power take palpable shape.

Hijole SA houses three art shows a year for the visual arts students at North East School of the Arts. Come check out their amazing budding talents in their Spring Show.

First Friday at Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex
Brick Market and Music
Friday, March 2
FREE EVENT | All Ages
Music Starts @ 7pm

The Gentlemen Swank – 7:00pm

The Lost Project – 9:00pm

Join Revenant Gallery for a closing reception featuring the work of mixed media and performance artist Megan Solis.

In her current body of work, Solis continuously strives towards a forceful intimacy with viewers, persistently questioning our communal pursuit of happiness. For Solis, it is paramount to reveal flawed behavior that presents malfunction through both contemporary theories and portraits of desperation and loneliness.

Join us for the Mural Show at Carbon Bloom inside of The Upstairs Studios at Blue Star. Carbon Bloom is presenting four artists: Cassidy Fritts, Paul Garson, Ramon Martin, and Jesse Guevara. Each artist showcasing their work at a larger scale. The merging of styles and techniques all in a small space creates a large unique experience.

Carbon Bloom is a studio run by artists Jesse Guevara and Ramon Martin.

ARTIST STATEMENT
Essentially, my work is concerned with evoking spiritual or primal states. I use simple organic forms in suggestive conjunctions that elaborate metaphorical issues of ambiguity, morality, accident/intention, contradiction, or existence itself. There is often an allusion to circumstance, contextual or ritual usage, and time, but in a peripheral, indirect, or generalized way. The works seem interrelated, part of some culture with an elaborate but undefined mythological structure. I’m interested in the intellectual speculation we make about other cultures, especially primitive or ancient ones, based on observation of their artifacts. My forms, materials, and processes imply cultural attitudes that are harmonious with nature and the passage of time. Clay has associative power archeologically, responds well to the expressive needs of my ideas and is relatively permanent. Wood, stone, fiber, bone, and found objects also have connotative powers. This anthropological perception is a key issue in my work.

Image: Danville Chadbourne, Unexpected Marker on the Path of Impulse, acrylic on earthenware, 21″H x 12.5″W x 10″D, 2017

Three Walls pops up at a gorgeous space on the near east side! Please join us for the opening Saturday, March 3 from 7-10 pm at 1160 E. Commerce in St. Paul’s Square (parking available in multiple lots around Sunset Station) for Jeffrey Dell’s “Future Castles.” Exhibition runs March 3-24, by appointment only. Please email for appointment.

Continuing Jeffrey Dell’s focus on the confluence of perception and desire, “Future Castles” draws upon pre-digital populist art histories ranging from ukiyo-e prints to US national park posters and sci-fi novel cover art. The forms in Dell’s screen prints linger between abstraction and realism, accommodating the graphic economy of Japanese print tradition and the visual seduction of trompe l’oeil. Dell is interested in the graphic shorthand that exists between image and symbol; it is a language that preserves mystery and reflection. The use of starscapes and cloud-like forms evoke the cosmos, and the deft use of color and shading produces astonishing visual depth. Dell’s restraint leaves room for the viewer to forge their own personal associations between poetry, mysticism, and nostalgia.

Jeffrey Dell heads the Printmaking Department at Texas State University and lives in San Marcos, TX. Recent exhibitions include the International Print Center of New York; The Print Center of Philadelpia; Rochester Contemporary Art Center; and Galleri Urbane, Dallas. Dell received his MFA from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.

Market 12pm – 5pm.
Shop local! Sip on wine, mimosas, champagne and lots of craft beer selections — Shop for rare Vinyl Record finds, Custom Art, Photography, Vintage Clothing, Pet Goods, Groovy Jewelry, Artisan Soaps and Oils… Plus out of the blue art performances… You never know what’s going to happen!

Join artists Nicole Geary and Sophia Healy for a guided tour/ lively talk about their new works that grace our walls.

From conception to process and seeing the bodies of work together, this discussion will be an inside look as well as an open forum for questions.
The work is up now through March 30th.
Light refreshments will be provided.

Daniela Cavazos Madrigal was born in 1991 in Laredo, Texas. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2017 and her Bachelor of Arts from Texas A&M International University in 2013. Currently, Cavazos Madrigal is a self-employed artist living in San Antonio, Texas. Born and raised in a border town, Cavazos Madrigal’s work reflects her interest in socio-cultural issues along the U.S./ Mexico border from the perspective of a woman and mother. Her work employs processes such as embroidery, sewing, and weaving to honor the lineage of “Women’s Work”, as seen in art history, as well as blur the line between high and low art.  As a bilingual, Cavazos Madrigal is interested in how language fails and explores the facets of translation. Cavazos Madrigal comes from a long line of makers and crafters, and through her work, she continues to reinterpret the relationship between discarded materials and language.

http://danielacavazosmadrigal.com/

Tuesday, March 6, 2018
6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Meet at Front Desk

Price: Free | Space is limited

Got a minute (or 30)? The average person spends 18 seconds in front of a work of art. Spend some quality time with Museum favorites in this slow-looking gallery conversation. Each session will focus on breaking down the formal and informal elements of one work of art through discussion, games, and other gallery activities.

To celebrate Women’s History Month and Contemporary Art Month, this gallery talk will focus on contemporary women artists.

https://www.samuseum.org/calendar/event-detail?eid=9049

Señor Rodeo is a honky tonk band with Bart Nichols on bass, Paul Farrell on fiddle and guitar, and singer/songwriter, Ken Little, on guitar and vocals. Señor Rodeo performs Little’s original songs, and covers of a wide range of other artists including: Bob Wills, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Terry Allen, Billy Joe Shaver, and David Byrne. Liberty Bar has great food and drink specials. No Cover. Show up ready for a good time!

Every Tuesday in  March from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

“As luck would have it” we have another seven storytellers for Worth Repeating. Our March show honors our luckiest holiday, St Patrick’s day, with stories of luck, both good and bad.

Join TPR as we bring you the stories of San Antonio on March 6 at Brick at Blue Star. Music and a couple of free beers makes it the best deal of your week.

Worth Repeating is brought to you by Texas Public Radio in partnership with The 80/20 Foundation, and sponsored by Niche Clothing Co.

Come one, come all to meet the big idea artists who created wee artwork for the Spare Parts MINI ART MUSEUM’s current exhibition. Following the artist-led discussion, grab a magnifying glass to explore the exhibition and join in a one-of-kind wee art making workshop.
The artists are:

Anna Carbajal
Benjamin Powell
Claudia Salinas
Sarah Sheafe

WEE ART WEDNESDAY Creative Workshops at Mission Branch Library

Every Wednesday for the month of March the Spare Parts MINI ART MUSEUM’s exhibiting artists will lead wee art workshops inspired by our 2018 Contemporary Art Month exhibition “Shrinking Island.” There will be DIY screenprinting, a mini zine make & take project, exquisite collaging and more. You won’t want to miss these! Every Wednesday, 4:30 – 6pm. Open to all ages. Admission is free. Email gabrielas@sparepartssa.org to RSVP or for more information.

ON THE WILL NAYLOR SMITH PLAZA
EVERY WEDNESDAY IN MARCH from 5:30pm – 6:30pm

Do something different on Wednesdays in March! Enjoy a selection of short films featuring choreography after work.

With an expansive definition of dance and an appreciation for highly experimental and interdisciplinary forms, this unique festival exposes diverse audiences to a variety of film, video, and performance possibilities.

Sans Souci has exhibited 317 works submitted by about 200 artists from countries all over the world, including: Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, and USA. Our international tours have brought works to Mexico (2004, 2006 & 2012), Germany (2007 & 2009), Spain (2010), and Trinidad & Tobago (2004).

The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present this Happy Hour sampling of some extraordinary work!

Attention comics, poets, musicians, story tellers and friends! On Wednesday, March we’ve got our inaugural Brick by Brick Open Mic night hosted by John Tuttle. Every First Wednesday join us for laughs, poetry, music and drink specials. Starts at 9:00. No cover. #openmic #comedy #poetry #performance #satx #210openmic

Please joins us for an art exhibition reception in celebration of Women’s History month with artist Stefani Job Spears. Stefani will be presenting her works: Printing, Painting, Pastels in the Blume Library Gallery on March 8th from 4:00-5:30. Light refreshments will be served.

Travis Tile Design Center and the San Antonio College Art Guild collaborate to present a visual feast of art and design. Paintings and sculptures are paired with a variety of materials to extend the art works into the surrounding environment.
Opening reception March 8th 5:30pm – 8:00pm.

Showcase of art and clothing from local artist in San Antonio.

ENLIGHTMENT
Friday March 9, 2018 6PM-11 PM
High Wire Arts Gallery 326 W. Josephine
http://highwirearts.com/A Contemporary Art Month Event

ARTISTS:      

JONATHON DAVIS:  Jon, a graduate of the UTSA School of Fine Arts, is an all-around artist with a flair for sculpture. His taste and work are eclectic, pulling inspiration from myth, science, psychology, politics and general life experiences. “I tend to focus on themes of understanding of others through the understanding of the self, cultural perception, and visual perception.”  http://helvenink.com/

RANDY GAY:  Randy makes digitally hand-crafted images using photographs he has taken. “While I consider myself a traditional artist, technology has given me new and different tools to work with. Most of all, technology has given me control of my work. I now have the final say every step of the way from concept to how the ink is applied to the page.” His client list is a “Who’s Who “of San Antonio.  http://www.randygay.com/

PAIGE HOLLAND:  Paige pays the bills by helping clients artistically transform their homes.  She is a skilled craftsman as well as a creative artist.  “Sometimes my service is translating people’s own vision for them in their homes in the form of murals or commission paintings.  I experience life as a productive, fruitful, ever-enriching present and future.”  Her colorful and creative artwork will add immeasurably to this show.                                         http://www.paigehollandartist.net

CINDY PALMER:  Cindy, owner of High Wire Arts Gallery, is both a creative and prolific artist. “My acrylic canvases incorporate the stains and scratches of modern culture revealed by the application and removal of textures and relevant objects that encompass years of unfolding stories. I love to re-create these histories in my work through different materials; sand, flat metal pieces, tossed out wrappers – a chronology of human life and the passage of time.” http://cindypalmerart.com/

BILL SIMONS:  Bill builds art that glows in the dark. The self-proclaimed “Illuminator” was a Featured Artist at the 2017 Luminaria. Several of the pieces he made for that show will be on display, as well as his wearable art, Night Jewelry. “I have always been a builder of things, mostly functional things. Art has offered me the ability to let my imagination soar as I make things that just look cool!” https://www.wgsart.com/

STEVE SMITH:  Steve is a figurative and landscape painter who has exhibited his work in San Antonio for 20+ years. His paintings of musicians have been in books about music and his work was on a Jazz’SAlive festival poster. He was recently named as the San Antonio Art League and Museum’s 2018 Artist of the Year. “In figurative work my goal is to convey the emotion and/or motion of the subject. In my landscapes, I hope to convey a ‘sense of place’ and enable the viewer to experience that location through my painting.”  http://www.sgsmithoriginalart.com

RESA Wohlrabe:  Resa is a San Antonio native. She received her undergraduate degree in ceramics from Texas Tech and her Masters of Fine Arts from Florida State. She teaches art and is a published book illustrator. She has exhibited in front of an international audience at Art Basel in Miami Beach and, among many other accolades, her design was selected as the Official Poster of Fiesta 2016. Her greatest creation is her new child that she welcomed into the world recently! “I just hope that my art brings joy to someone”. http://www.resagroffwohlrabe.com/Instagram: @resacreates

Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery is pleased to announce Thread, a dynamic exhibition centered on artists using needle and thread in contemporary techniques, narratives, and conceptual practices. Guest curated by Alana Coates and featuring artists from across Texas and beyond, the exhibit will open with a reception for the public Friday, March 9, 2018 from 7:00-10:00 pm as part of Contemporary Art Month San Antonio (CAM). The featured artists include: Bianca Alvarez, Linda Arredondo, Sara Barnes, Sarah Castillo, Martha Elena Flores, Sarah Fox, Abby Hinojosa, Sol Kesseler, Justin Korver, Michael Martinez, Nicole Tovar and Jose Villalobos.

Image: Justin Korver “A flower crown isn’t a laurel wreath, trees are more manly” (detail) 2017  Dad’s hat & embroidery floss, 11.5 x 6.25 x 6”

The Linda Pace Foundation announces its 2018 exhibition, Reclaimed, a presentation of 25 monochromatic works by some of the most influential contemporary female artists working today, all drawn from the Foundation’s diverse collection. Artists include Laura Aguilar, Dorothy Cross, Judy Dater, Annette Messager, Lorraine O’Grady, Robyn O’Neil, Linda Pace, Tracey Rose, Lara Schnitger and Kiki Smith, with works spanning 1975 through 2009.

As the title implies, the exhibition addresses the concept of ownership—both literally and figuratively—and the notion of “reclaiming” what’s ours, from our lands and governments to our physical bodies and basic human rights. Central to each of the works on view are themes of nature, identity and the female form, often times as a depiction of non-traditional feminine ideals. For instance, in Mexican-American photographer Laura Aguilar’s self-portrait series, Stillness, the artist displays her large, naked body against the natural landscape. By fusing the cracked earth, bulbous rocks and knotted tree trunks of the San Antonio wilderness with the curvatures and folds of her own unconventional shape, Aguilar asserts her beauty as an extension of nature.

Other artists in the exhibition address these themes by exploring the decentralization of the human body. In Annette Messager’s sculptural installation Mes voeux sous filets, dozens of photographs, each containing a single foot, mouth, ear, nose, breast, etc. hang beneath a layer of netting. Inspired by religious relics historically hung from church ceilings, Messager employs these symbols as a commentary on blurred gender binaries and the widespread objectification of the physical form.

Similarly, in Landscape (Western Hemisphere), a single channel video installation, Lorraine O’Grady’s hair serves as the primary subject. Filmed at an extreme close-up and presented without context, the gently-blowing strands are reminiscent of a dense forest, and by drawing this comparison between African American femininity and the western world, O’Grady points to the fraught history of colonization and its continued effects on racial equality today.

Throughout the exhibition, the color palette—or lack thereof—and focus on photography, film, cast sculpture and works on paper, underscores the seriousness of the subject matter and harkens back to more traditional methods of artistic production. A departure from the Foundation’s typical spotlight on experimental and new media works, this unexpected selection provides insight into the depth and variedness of the permanent collection.

About Linda Pace Foundation

Linda Pace Foundation is committed to the charitable vision of its founder. Guided by the donor’s conviction that contemporary art is essential to a dynamic society, Linda Pace Foundation fosters the creation, presentation and understanding of innovative expression through contemporary art.

Linda Pace Foundation publicly exhibits its collection through loans to museums and Space Gallery, its public exhibition gallery. Free and open to the public Wednesday through Saturday, 12 noon – 5pm, Space Gallery showcases the collection of late philanthropist and artist Linda Pace, as well as related contemporary art exhibitions on an ongoing basis. Visitors enter through Chris Park to access Space Gallery, experiencing the meandering beauty of another of Linda Pace’s creations.

Since 2007, the Foundation has loaned hundreds of works to institutions such as: Pulitzer Arts Center in St. Louis, Missouri, Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, Tate in London, MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., Brooklyn Museum in New York, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey – MARCO in Mexico and others.

The Foundation fulfills Linda Pace’s vision of supporting the work of international contemporary artists. Acquisitions typically echo the themes and character of Pace’s own collecting, which favored works that reflected a feminist perspective, engaged social issues and considered aspects of spirituality and beauty.

Since Linda Pace’s death in 2007, the Foundation has steadfastly worked towards realizing her vision, in fact her mandate – to create a contemporary art center for the community, artists and the world to experience contemporary art. Sir David Adjaye has designed a building, which will open to the public in 2019 in San Antonio, Texas. The building will exhibit the Foundation’s growing collection and serve as a destination for visitors to contemplate and experience adventurous artwork from the recent past.

For more information visit http://www.lindapacefoundation.org

Aidan Fay will show drawings in the Wolverton Home Gallery in tandem with a house concert by Walter Salas-Humera and Buttercup.

LOVING VINCENT
H-E-B Cinema on the Plaza – FREE EVENT
Friday, March 9, 2018
The Will Naylor Smith River Walk Plaza opens at 7PM
The movie begins at 8PM

This feature-length painted animation — the first film of its kind — explores the life and unusual death of Vincent Van Gogh via depictions of his artworks. Directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman.

Full concessions and bar available. Bring your own lawnchair or blanket and enjoy the movie on our 32 foot LED video wall (Chairs also available at the venue). No outside food or drinks allowed on the plaza. No pets allowed on the plaza please.

Br8kthroo Media premieres Juarez VR, a web series full of action. Get ready for an intense 10-minute scene. VR goggles will be available to use and for purchase.

If you are in the South Texas area for #sxsw2018 , come checkout #juarezvr Friday March 9 at San Antonio’s The Brick at Blue Star.

WARNING: This video contains explicit language and violence in Virtual Reality 3D.

Adults Only!

This action sequence stars Jorge Guevara as detective Juarez. In the film, he enters a bar in search for a girl. The bar is owned by a ruthless human trafficking gang. Using virtual reality technology, you go into the scene and experience what Juarez has in store for these mobsters.
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Linda Pace Foundation announces its 2018 exhibition, Reclaimed, a presentation of 25 monochromatic works by some of the most influential contemporary female artists working today, all drawn from the Foundation’s diverse collection. Artists include Laura Aguilar, Dorothy Cross, Judy Dater, Annette Messager, Lorraine O’Grady, Robyn O’Neil, Linda Pace, Tracey Rose, Lara Schnitger and Kiki Smith, with works spanning 1975 through 2009.

As the title implies, the exhibition addresses the concept of ownership—both literally and figuratively—and the notion of “reclaiming” what’s ours, from our lands and governments to our physical bodies and basic human rights. Central to each of the works on view are themes of nature, identity and the female form, often times as a depiction of non-traditional feminine ideals. For instance, in Mexican-American photographer Laura Aguilar’s self-portrait series, Stillness, the artist displays her large, naked body against the natural landscape. By fusing the cracked earth, bulbous rocks and knotted tree trunks of the San Antonio wilderness with the curvatures and folds of her own unconventional shape, Aguilar asserts her beauty as an extension of nature.

Other artists in the exhibition address these themes by exploring the decentralization of the human body. In Annette Messager’s sculptural installation Mes voeux sous filets, dozens of photographs, each containing a single foot, mouth, ear, nose, breast, etc. hang beneath a layer of netting. Inspired by religious relics historically hung from church ceilings, Messager employs these symbols as a commentary on blurred gender binaries and the widespread objectification of the physical form.

Similarly, in Landscape (Western Hemisphere), a single channel video installation, Lorraine O’Grady’s hair serves as the primary subject. Filmed at an extreme close-up and presented without context, the gently-blowing strands are reminiscent of a dense forest, and by drawing this comparison between African American femininity and the western world, O’Grady points to the fraught history of colonization and its continued effects on racial equality today.

Throughout the exhibition, the color palette—or lack thereof—and focus on photography, film, cast sculpture and works on paper, underscores the seriousness of the subject matter and harkens back to more traditional methods of artistic production. A departure from the Foundation’s typical spotlight on experimental and new media works, this unexpected selection provides insight into the depth and variedness of the permanent collection.

About Linda Pace Foundation

Linda Pace Foundation is committed to the charitable vision of its founder. Guided by the donor’s conviction that contemporary art is essential to a dynamic society, Linda Pace Foundation fosters the creation, presentation and understanding of innovative expression through contemporary art.

 Linda Pace Foundation publicly exhibits its collection through loans to museums and Space Gallery, its public exhibition gallery. Free and open to the public Wednesday through Saturday, 12 noon – 5pm, Space Gallery showcases the collection of late philanthropist and artist Linda Pace, as well as related contemporary art exhibitions on an ongoing basis. Visitors enter through Chris Park to access Space Gallery, experiencing the meandering beauty of another of Linda Pace’s creations.

Since 2007, the Foundation has loaned hundreds of works to institutions such as: Pulitzer Arts Center in St. Louis, Missouri, Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, Tate in London, MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., Brooklyn Museum in New York, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey – MARCO in Mexico and others.

The Foundation fulfills Linda Pace’s vision of supporting the work of international contemporary artists. Acquisitions typically echo the themes and character of Pace’s own collecting, which favored works that reflected a feminist perspective, engaged social issues and considered aspects of spirituality and beauty.

Since Linda Pace’s death in 2007, the Foundation has steadfastly worked towards realizing her vision, in fact her mandate – to create a contemporary art center for the community, artists and the world to experience contemporary art. Sir David Adjaye has designed a building, which will open to the public in 2019 in San Antonio, Texas. The building will exhibit the Foundation’s growing collection and serve as a destination for visitors to contemplate and experience adventurous artwork from the recent past.

For more information visit http://www.lindapacefoundation.org

SPACE, the Linda Pace Foundation Gallery, is free and open to the public Wednesday through Saturday, 12 noon–5PM.

Artist Robert Wurzbach will be exhibiting satirical paintings of San Antonio’s annual Fiesta Coronation. Some of the painting titles are: “”Her Royal Majesty of Surly Squat”, “Princess Good Ole Girl”, and “Duchess of Insincerity and Refined Fake Laugh”.

Contemporary Art Month Second Saturday Art Walk in the Lone Star Arts District.

Lone Star Art Space present “Entre Seres (Between Beings) ”  featuring Flor Ameira Parada Villarreal and  Ashley de la Montaña Casillas.

AND NOW: New Works by 10 Artists

In the course of artistic expression’s long history as a chronicle of the human experience, a large number of movements and descriptions of art have transpired. Contemporary art’s most defining element is that it is rooted in the here AND NOW. This exhibit is a survey of work very recently created by artists who live in Texas but who represent a diverse array of backgrounds, experiences and influences.  In their own way, each examines a sense of place and identity amidst the technological changes and cultural shifts that propel the new century. Curated by Arturo Infante Almeida

Artists:

ERNESTO IBANEZ

JUAN DE DIOS MORA

RHYS MUNRO

CARMEN OLIVER

RICARDO RUIZ

MARTÍN C. RODRIGUEZ

JOEL SALCIDO RUIZ

HUMBERTO SAENZ

RAUL SERVIN

ANA HERNÁNDEZ VELA

8:00 P.M. Performance by artist Martín C. Rodriguez

Art Image: Ricardo Ruiz “La Santa Obscura”

Good Food ~ Good People 

Ay Papi’s team Hector Faberlle & Nick Monda  will be cooking up some great Puerto Rican, Caribbean eats Second Saturday, March 10, 2018.  Food truck opens at 6:00 pm.  Vegetarian options available as well.

Last month we brought you Hope…this month we bring you our Fears. In a group showing of local artists, discover the varied things that send us shivers and make our hearts drop in terror like that moment you miss a step heading downstairs.

Hijole SA is located in Studio 205 in the Upstairs Studios, Building B in the Blue Star Arts Complex.

Freight Gallery & Studios presents KIMURA Ramen Pop-up

Second Saturday, March 10, 2018

Food kicks off at 6:00 pm

Artists Kim Bishop and Luis Valderas will be presenting their exhibition “OM”.
Their artwork will consist of paintings, prints and sculpture.

Join us for Second Saturday – Mantle is proud to present “The Light That Remains” from artist Dana Lynn Harper.

“The Light That Remains,” is as much about my emotional recovery as it is about astral dreams and after-life communication. Light is explored as a literal concept through reflective and opalescent materials but also as an abstract idea of light as spiritual power and presence. The works that appear in the exhibition are abstracted visual representations of my metaphysical experiences where I am often thinking about portals that connect our physical and spiritual worlds.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

New work by Alejandro Augustine Padilla.

The Museum of Pocket Art (MoPa) will present an artwalk exhibition during Second Saturday,  March 10, 2018 that will start at Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co.

About the Museum of Pocket Art (MoPA)

The Museum of Pocket Art began fourteen years ago with an idea that everyone should carry with them a small artwork in a pocket to enrich their day and share with others. MoPA developed this idea and organized it into a formal venue for contemporary artists and patrons.

MoPA introduces artwork from contemporary artists in an intimate and personal way. The Museum displays works of art created to fit in the pocket, usually around the size of a business card, in galleries selected to best frame the work, which range from wallets to mobile devices. MoPA shows at the opening of other art exhibits, or “leaches” the reception. At the reception, a MoPA representative approaches people individually and asks if he or she would like to visit the museum, and then shares the works on display. Currently MoPA hosts two shows a year.

Roberto Jackson Harrington

Bio

Harrington creates drawings and sculptural installations from everyday materials that center on the concept of potential. Recent exhibitions include All on the Line, The Backdoor Biennial 2018, Kyle, TX and C wut stix, at Bill’s Junk, Houston, TX.

Currently he directs the Museum of Pocket Art and is a member of the Center for Experimental Practice and the curatorial collective, Los Outsiders, based in Austin, TX.

The Museum of Pocket Art (MoPa) will present an artwalk exhibition during Second Saturday,  March 10, 2018 that will start at Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co., featuring artist Elaine Bradford.

Bradford is a collector. She mines thrift and antique stores to find discarded pieces of people’s lives. The collectibles, which viewers might find on a shelf in their house, are transformed. For the Museum of Pocket Art exhibition she is embroidering vintage photographs.The found family photos have been repurposed. The pieces in the exhibition become physical representations of mental relationships, real or imagined. The extensions of embroidery represent hopes, thoughts and fears that can bind people together, or tear them apart. The fibers are  literal portrayals of being wrapped up in another person, and the distance or closeness that can be created between them. There is a lot about longing and unrequited love.

Elaine Bradford lives and works in Houston, TX.  She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (2003) and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin (2000). Her work has been included in shows both nationally and internationally. She was one of the founding members BOX 13 ArtSpace, an innovative artist run studio and gallery space in Houston’s East End. She was a resident artist at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in 2010. In 2011 she completed a permanent civic art commission for the City of Houston at Vinson Neighborhood Library. Throughout 2017, she worked with Houston poet Sara Cress on a project called Routine Fables, where they created a “sculpture poem” every week of the year, which can be viewed at routinefables.com. Their collaboration will be exhibited at Lawndale Art Center in May 2018.

The Museum of Pocket Art (MoPa) will present an artwalk exhibition during Second Saturday,  March 10, 2018 that will start at Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. at 7:00 pm and end at Dorćol Distilling + Brewing Co. at 10:00 pm. 

About the Museum of Pocket Art (MoPA)

The Museum of Pocket Art began fourteen years ago with an idea that everyone should carry with them a small artwork in a pocket to enrich their day and share with others. MoPA developed this idea and organized it into a formal venue for contemporary artists and patrons.

MoPA introduces artwork from contemporary artists in an intimate and personal way. The Museum displays works of art created to fit in the pocket, usually around the size of a business card, in galleries selected to best frame the work, which range from wallets to mobile devices. MoPA shows at the opening of other art exhibits, or “leaches” the reception. At the reception, a MoPA representative approaches people individually and asks if he or she would like to visit the museum, and then shares the works on display. Currently MoPA hosts two shows a year.

Artist Statement

Balancing fact and fiction, Marino’s work carefully constructs light-hearted attempts to objectify a personal interest in certain places and objects. This interest often stems from an ongoing fascination with cosmic perspective and the astronomical or scientific qualities of everyday life. By acknowledging and investing in what is often overlooked or disregarded, there is a hope to reassign value. By manipulating context, new implications arise and connections are made between the mundane and the remarkable. A Testament to Their Fortitude is a playful nod to the Food Systems Engineering Facility at the NASA Johnson Space Center and their history of testing, analyzing, and packaging food mobile and compact enough for space travel.

Bio

Rebecca Marino is an Austin-based visual artist whose work focuses on cosmic perspective. She has been featured in TX National, grayDUCK Gallery, Art Palace and by the Humble Arts Foundation. For the past four years she has acted as co-director and curator for pump project, but recently took on the role of associate director for Texas State University galleries in San Marcos, Texas. Marino is also co-editor and co-founder of Conflict of Interest, an online publication highlighting literature and visual art in Texas.

Rebecca L. Marino

rebeccalmarino@gmail.com

www.rebeccalmarino.com

Join Revenant Gallery for an opening reception featuring works on paper by UTSA’s Bon A Tirer Print Guild.