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Surface Treatment: Local artist takes a contemporary approach to biblical portraits
STC art faculty member, Pedro Perez, imagines images of saints, martyrs, and deities with a contemporary twist. His sabbatical research exhibit, “Pentimento”, currently on display at the Library Art Gallery, transforms portraits of friends into modern day saints by slipping them into the visual iconography traditionally used to depict images of Catholic saints. During his … → Read More
Witty exhibition of familiar spaces on display at Harlingen art studio
Ruth Keitz’s shifts from flat space to illusion and actual space is masterful as demonstrated in her show, “View / No View,” at the D’Arte Centre Gallery in Harlingen. She presents witty works that appear to be flat renderings of 3-dimensional spaces, but are not actually flat. Found objects mingle with graphite lines and watercolor … → Read More
Exhibit boldly addresses world duality
McAllen artist, Manuel Zamudio, has created a extraordinary collection of paintings and drawings that unflinchingly address our current world duality. His paintings speak of art now — contemporary spray paint → Read More
Woodcut prints impress at continuing exhibit in Harlingen
This is the second round of Jesus De La Rosa’s curated “Wild Horse Desert Print Fair & Exhibition.” → Read More
Artist uses native Colombia as source of inspiration for latest exhibit
For her new exhibit, “Melted Vibrancy,” Cristina Materón creates fantastic scenarios for her precisely rendered paintings of birds and sea life along with other works on display at the Kika → Read More
SURFACE TREATMENT: Evolving Tensions
Local artist Carla Thorman Hughes explores the tensions between her materials and life’s choices in Push and Pull, a series of sculptures and ceramics currently on exhibit at Beyond Arts → Read More
Earthenware ceramics worth the visit to South Texas College exhibit
Ceramics by Jim Bob Salazar and Pat Johnson is the professional guest’s exhibit of the 10th Annual South Texas Ceramic Showdown: Constants & Variables. → Read More
Art exhibit first at new space in Mission
This new venue for art exhibits may be as notable as the art on display. → Read More
SURFACE TREATMENT: Artist blends Chicanismo and Vietnam experience
Celerino Castillo plunges us headlong into his blended world of Chicanismo and the Vietnam experience with his current show at Art Studio by Design. Moving further away from his 1950s → Read More
New IMAS exhibit a lesson in Taiwanese culture
The new exhibit at IMAS, “Indigenous Weaving: An Exhibition of Native Objects from the National Museum of History, Taiwan,” leaves the viewer curious for more. The exhibit features 40 native → Read More
SURFACE TREATMENT: Local artist returns to passion
With her master’s degree in art from the University of Denver, Shirley Ingram was off to a strong start, but then abandoned her creative output for a few decades. → Read More
Artist’s humorous nature shines, comes together nicely in new exhibit
Colorado artist, Ezra Stiegitz, returns to Beyond Arts Gallery with a new and well-organized exhibit. → Read More
Artist provides a geometric experience in IMAS exhibit
With its new “Gisela Colón: PODS” exhibition, IMAS introduces us to the California-based fascination with light as art. Installed in the central gallery, the series of blow-molded acrylic forms exist as floor pieces and wall mounted bubbles, asking that you move closer to view their ever shifting colors. → Read More
SURFACE TREATMENT: New exhibit plays it safe
This year’s Artist Unanimous Juried Exhibit, on display at the Kika de la Garza Art Center in Mission, has an air of categorical restraint about it. → Read More
Follow artist’s transition from negative to positive in new exhibit
Leila Hernandez’s “Preciosa Mandala Aqua Exhibition,” now at Beyond Arts Gallery in Harlingen, brings the Indian spiritual concept of the mandala into the Decorative Arts movement. Using embroidered pieces from ropas, thrift shops and old stores, her intricate combinations of textiles, plastic, glass, wood, and metal objects are repurposed into intensely process-based artworks. → Read More
Fast frozen art
Philip Field, UTRGV Professor of Art, takes his imaginative Daily Diary allegories beyond their usual narrative with his new exhibit, “Life with Wrath,” at the McAllen Public Library. → Read More
Salvador Dali IMAS exhibit offers entertaining take on artist’s favorite meals
Did you know that the great Surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, wrote a cookbook? Yes, in 1973 his “Les Diners de Gala” — a reference to his wife — was published. → Read More
Fiber Arts Exhibit in Mission surprises
The Upper Valley Art League’s Fiber Arts Exhibit is a pleasant surprise. This year’s showing has a decidedly more polished look than its predecessors, and the works on display go beyond their craft techniques by incorporating relevant ideas and unique design decisions. Many of the works in this show could comfortably slide over into a fine arts exhibit and not seem out of place. → Read More
Sculpture raises the bar with IMAS exhibit
George Tobolowsky’s sculpture has been referred to as form and substance. And it’s true. → Read More
Mexico City plays host to one of World’s important art fairs
Wow! Latin America’s biggest art fair opened in Mexico City on Feb. 3, and I had the good fortune to be there. Getting to experience some of the best art in the world gave me a transfusion of exhilaration. → Read More