A Retrospective on The Serie Project, Inc.
CMAS PláticArte Series
Texas Union, Sinclair Suite (3.128)
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Date: October 30, 2008, 12-1pm
Sam Coronado, founder and director, will discuss the development of The Serie Project, Inc., a non-profit Latino arts organization that produces, promotes, and exhibits seriegraph (silk screen) prints created by established and emerging local artists. The Serie Project, Inc. is celebrating fifteen years of fostering artistic creativity and expression in Austin, Texas.
For more information, contact 512-471-4557, or visit www.utexas.edu/depts/cmas.
Ofrendas 2008
Tropico de Nopal Gallery-Art Space
1665 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles (Echo Park), CA 90026
Date: October 30-November 15, 2008
Reception: October 30, 7-10pm
Día de los muertos altar/installations by Ofelia Esparza, Juana Flores, Ana Serrano, and Marianne Sadowski. Pan de muerto y xocolate mexicano will be served.
For more information, contact 213-481-8112, or visit www.tropicodenopal.com
San Antonio: Marketa de Muertos
Galería Tonantzin
723 S. Brazos
San Antonio, TX
Date: October 25, 12-6pm
Check this out! We're having a Marketa de Muertos open-air market and you're all invited. We will be selling anything to do with Dia de Los Muertos, artwork, t-shirts, flowers, caña, lo que tu quieras (etc.)
We will also have workshops going on in the Galerìa Tonantzin, on papel picado, sugar skulls, altar building, etc. And our wonderful Mariachi Guadalupe, Guadalupe Dance Academy, the Puppet Master will be performing in addition to Conjunto Taller. At 5:30 p.m., we will be screening Pan de Vida, a film by Laura Varela, followed by a discussion with Varela on the film
So come join us to prepare for Dia de Los Muertos and make this event a success!
For more information, contact 210-271-3151, ext. 13, or visit www.guadalupeculturalarts.org.
Benjamn Murguia Archundia: Los SECRETOS del encuentro
The Los Angeles Mexican Consulate
2401 W. 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Reception: October 23, 7-10pm
The Los Angeles Mexican Consulate is presenting an exhibition of recent work by abstract Mexican painter Benjamn Murguia Archundia. This exhibit wil be the first time that Benjamin’s artwork will be presented outside his native Mexico City. Benjamin’s paintings project themselves from the multiplicity, the saturation, and simultaneous images that the contemporary visuals impose, and of course from the raise of a new perception influenced by the processes of change and present substitution in our daily relationships with the most recent technological information. The artwork then projects itself from the technological supports, the digital photography, the video screen and Photoshop.
RSVP to 213-351-6845 or email apelayo@sre.gob.mx
Luis De La Torre: Saints and Sinners
DeLaTorre Fine Arts Studio
1200 W. 35th St. - 3rd Fl.
Chicago, IL
Date: October 25, 2008, 12-6pm
Reception: October 24, 6-10pm
This Fall, artist Luis DeLaTorre has assembled a mass of paintbrushes, canvas and bits of found material preparing for his new Saints and Sinners Art Series opening on Friday, October 24th at DeLaTorre Fine Arts Studio. He will be unveiling 150 new paintings in watercolor, oil and mixed techniques for the public to come and enjoy. The new series focuses on singular figures as individual pieces (but like a giant jigsaw puzzle) and forms a narrative crowd of yellows, violets, reds full of rich glazes, and a dazzling movement of color.
More information can be found at: www.delatorrearts.com
El Día de los muertos: Contemporary Artists Celebrate the Day of the Dead
CHAC Norte
775 Santa Fe Dr.
Denver, CO 80204
Dates: Through November 23, 2008
This exhibition is on view in the museum's north wing, now through November 23, 2008. The Day of the Dead is an annual event, common throughout Mexico and in many communities across the United States–especially the Southwest. This centuries-old event is a festive time in which the continuity of life is celebrated by reconnecting with those who have departed.
More information can be found at: www.ci.ontario.ca.us/index.cfm/34413
El Día de los muertos at CHAC
CHAC Norte
775 Santa Fe Dr.
Denver, CO 80204
Dates: October 24-November 8, 2008
Reception: October 24, 6-10pm
Día de los muertos, the Day of the Dead, is a day to honor and celebrate those who have departed. Come down and join CHAC on first Friday for Aztec dancers, traditional pan de muertos and Mexican hot chocolate, Dia de los muertos altars, art and merchandise.
More information can be found at: www.chacweb.org
El Día de los muertos Installation and Performance at the Met
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd St.
New York, NY
Dates: October 25, 2008
Time: October 25, 1:30-2 pm
Tlisza Jaurique and Marcus Zilliox write: Please join us for our installation and performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art October 25, 2008 @ 1:30-2pm for Dia de Los Muertos in the Uris Center for Education, ground floor of the museum. (As you walk thru main doors of museum, go all the way left.)
Performance includes artists Alyssa Wendt, Charlotte Henderson, and Roger Gibian.
For more information contact tlisza.jaurique@asu.edu.
Call for Artists: Art Fiesta @ Mesa Fiesta
Mesa Fiesta Shopping Center Pavillion
S. Alma School & W. Holmes
Mesa, AZ 85210
Deadline: October 31, 2008
Event: November 15, 4-8pm
Art Fiesta @ Mesa Fiesta is a free interactive outdoor venue created for local artists. This free event is made possible by the generous support of local businesses and sponsors who wish to promote their involvement for the community they serve. Deadline for all contributing artist applications who wish to participate in this free venue is October 31st, 5pm.
More information can be found at: ArtFiesta.ColourMD.com
Mary Agnes Rodríguez: Cuentos y Dichos
Gallista Gallery
1913 S. Flores St.
San Antonio, TX 78204
Date: October 11, 2008
Hours: 1-10 pm
Second Saturday: Gallista Gallery presents artist Mary Agnes Rodríguez. Part of the San Antonio Día de la Raza Festival.
Arte Chicano: A discussion on collecting Chicano Art
Gallista Gallery
1913 S. Flores St.
San Antonio, TX 78204
Date: October 13, 2008
Reception: 5-6 pm
Presentations: 6-8 pm
Dr. Gary Keller, co-author of The Cisco Kid: American Hero, Hispanic Roots, will be available to sign copies of his newly released book. Many of the artists featured in Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art, Chicano Art for Our Millennium, and Triumph of Our Communities will also be present to sign books. All of the above-mentioned books will be available for purchase. We will be taking orders for the DVD, Yo soy/I Am: Chicano/Latino Artists in Historical Context, The San Antonio Gallista Community.
Marcos Dimas: A Retrospective, 35 Years of Selected Works
Taller Boricua Galleries
at the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center
1680 Lexington Ave at 106th Street
New York, NY
Dates: October 3 - November 8, 2008
Reception: October 3, 6pm
Community Works and Taller Boricua -- The Puerto Rican Workshop in association with the Harlem Arts Alliance invites you to the opening of Marcos Dimas A Retrospective: 35 Years of Selected Works.
La Pachanguita: Auction to Benefit Galería de la Raza/Studio 24
Galería de la Raza/Studio 24
2857 24th St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
Date: October 11, 2008, 7-10pm
An auction of small artworks by 70+ artists, lively music, refreshing cocktails & tasty treats! General admission $20; VIP $50 (includes drinks and special gift). Bidding by proxy is allowed. Please register online for proxy bidding by Friday, October 10, 5pm. Check out the online catalogue on October 3, 2008.
All proceeds will benefit La Galería de la Raza/Studio 24.
For more information contact www.galeriadelaraza.org.
Caras Vemos, Corazones no Sabemos:
The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Dates: October 5-December 28, 2008
Consider Mexican migration into the United States—one of the defining factors in the American socio-political landscape—as seen through Chicano/Mexican visual arts. Featuring paintings, works on paper, photographs, video, retablos and more, these works explore the struggles and visions of migrants, as well as their spiritual practices and the roles of these traditions during difficult journeys. Work by more than forty artists—including Salomón Huerta, Patssi Valdéz, Gronk, Victor Ochoa, Magú, Felipe Ehrenberg, Delilah Montoya, Malaquías Montoya and others—consider themes of journeys, boundaries, and barriers, urban landscapes and human geographies, and negotiating identities.
For more information contact www.fowler.ucla.edu.
LATINO ART MUSEUM INVITATIONAL
SAC Arts Gallery at the Santora Building
207 N. Broadway, Suite Q
Santa Ana CA 92701
Dates: October 9-November 1, 2008
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, noon-4pm
Reception: October 4, 7-10pm
Participating artists: Vibiana Aparicio Chamberlin, Ramón Ramírez, Rigo Rivas, Mariana Montes-Shaw
Guest curator: Gradiela H. Nardi, Director, Latino Art Museum
For more information contact ext.sac.edu/academic_progs/art/galleries/.
Ancient Ofrenda: Elements of an Altar
ASU Museum of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution
and Social Change Building
Tempe, AZ
Dates: October 2, 2008 - January 23, 2009
Reception: October 30
For the past nine years, the Arizona State University Museum of Anthropology has hosted an annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Festival Exhibit. Traditionally, the museum has featured a gallery filled with individual altars. This year, the gallery will be transformed into one altar through individual works of art. Each piece of art in the exhibit will represent one of the many offerings that compose a traditional altar. Emphasis will be placed on the four elements (earth, wind, water and fire) found on traditional altars that tie this celebration to its Aztecan roots. The opening celebration will include music and food.
The 9th Annual Día de los Muertos Festival Exhibit is a joint collaboration between the ASU Museum of Anthropology, the CALACA Latino Cultural Arts Collective, and the community.
For more information visit asuma.asu.edu/AncientOfrenda.
Soy americano: Contemporary Chicana/o Political and Civic Art
Estrella Mountain Community College
3000 N. Dysart Rd.
Avondale, AZ 85392
Dates: Sept. 12-Nov. 1, 2008
Since the Chicano Civil Rights Movement began in the 1960s, many Chicana/o artists have used their work to communicate with their communities and to comment on United States culture. The works in this exhibit, selected from the art collection at the Arizona State University Hispanic Research Center, illustrate common political and civic themes in Chicano art, such as heritage, heroes, bicultural identity, the border, labor and the future.
For more information contact hrcartprojects@asu.edu.
On the Wall
Galería de la Raza
2857 24th St. @ Bryant
San Francisco, CA 94110
Dates: Thurs., Aug. 28 - Fri., Sept. 26, 2008
Times: Tues. 1-7pm Wed.-Sat. 12-6pm
Celebrating a shared and longstanding history of innovative grassroots movements, Kearny Street Workshop and Galería de la Raza join forces again to present On The Wall, a multifaceted and multidisciplinary exhibition and video series featuring narratives of human survival and cultural transformation prompted by the experience of immigration. Based on the premise of building cross-cultural dialogue, On the Wall includes a large-scale mixed media installation created by a culturally diverse crew of social activists, painters and free spirits known as the Trust Your Struggle artist collective, as well as a selection of video shorts produced by artists associated with Kearny Street Workshop.
Participating Artists:
TRUST YOUR STRUGGLE CREW - Borish, Cece Carpio, Eric Camins, Mike Coredero, Miguel “Bounce” Perez, Scott La Rockwell, Shaun Turner, Robert “Tres” Trujillo, & Erin “Yoshi” Yoshioka
KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP/VIDEO ARTISTS - Tanuj Chopra, Tze Chun, Amber Field, Pia Infante & Stephanie Yang
For more information and an application form, contact 415-826-8009.
Meso-Americhanics (Maneuvering Mestizaje): de la Torre Brothers and Border Baroque
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 4th Street SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Dates: Sept. 12, 2008 - Feb. 22, 2009
This exhibit features the intricate, yet monumental, blown glass and mixed media works of Einar and Jamex de la Torre which mirror and address the complex experiences of living in a global society. Visually and socially timely, their work excels in peeling off the layers to get to the real issues of the twenty-first century.
For more information visit www.nhccnm.org.
Third Annual Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Exhibit: Invitation to Participate
Church of St. Paul the Apostle
405 W. 59th St.
New York, NY
Deadline: Oct. 20, 2008
Event: November 22, 2008, 11am-6pm
In keeping with its mission to promote Puerto Rican culture and art, as well as to commemorate its 22nd anniversary, Comité Noviembre invites you to particiate in its Third Annual Puerto Rican Artisans Fair and Exhibit. A nominal fee of $50 will be charged. Artist must be Puerto Rican or of Puerto Rican descent.
For more information and an application form, contact Luis Cordero, 914-505-5482, lcordero@galeriacemi.com.
Tempe Center for the Arts seeks artists for temporary Sculpture Garden piece
Deadline: December 5, 2008, 5pm
Notification of Artists: December 22, 2008
TEMPE, Ariz. - The Gallery at Tempe Center for the Arts (TCA) is issuing a Temporary Outdoor Ceramics Exhibition Application for ceramic pieces to be on display from Jan. 24-April 11, 2009, in the TCA Sculpture Garden, 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway.
This temporary outdoor exhibition will take place in conjunction with the NCECA 2009 Juried Regional Student Exhibition presented by the TCA and the National Council on Education for the Ceramics Art.
The exhibition in the sculpture garden will include ceramic work by alimited number of artists chosen by a professional jury panel. The chosen artists will be asked to display current outdoor ceramic work or install new site-specific outdoor installations during the run of the
exhibition. Work may include other media but the majority of the work
must be ceramic.
For more information download www.tempe.gov/arts/News/Sculpturegarden.pdf.
Meso-Americhanics (Maneuvering Mestizaje): de la Torre Brothers and Border Baroque
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 4th Street SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Dates: Sept. 12, 2008 - Feb. 22, 2009
This exhibit features the intricate, yet monumental, blown glass and mixed media works of Einar and Jamex de la Torre which mirror and address the complex experiences of living in a global society. Visually and socially timely, their work excels in peeling off the layers to get to the real issues of the twenty-first century.
For more information visit www.nhccnm.org.
Chicana/o Artists at Jose Vera Fine Art and Antiques
Jose Vera Fine Art and Antiques
2012 Colorado Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Dates: Sept. 10-Oct. 5, 2008
Reception: Sat., Sept. 13, 6-9 pm
Irene Carranza, Joe Bravo, Sergio Hernández and Xilomen Rios in historic Eagle Rock, and formerly the location of Carlotta's Passion Fine Art Gallery.
For more information visit www.joseveragallery.com.
Low and Slow: The Art of the Lowrider
Mesa Arts Center
1 East Mesa St.
Mesa, AZ
Dates: Sept. 12, 2008 - Jan. 11, 2009
The Main Gallery will showcase the art of customized cars by a unique collection of lowrider artists. From the art of pin striping, muraling, and car customizing, the culture that came from the streets is now being featured in art galleries and museums around the world. The Low and Slow exhibition in the Main Gallery at MCA will include Estevan Oriol's lowriding lifestyle photography, a 1979 Monte Carlo with a one of a kind flake paint job fully customized by Mister Cartoon, and car part "canvases" interpreted by top artists. Participants include lowrider artists: Mister Cartoon, Efrain "Bugs" Gonzales, O.G. Abel, Danny D and Mike Pickel as well as contemporary artists Sandow Birk, Vincent Valdez, Ben Beshaw, and MAC. The artists' car part "canvases" are for sale with a portion of the proceeds benefiting Free Arts of Arizona.
Mesa Contemporary Arts is an extraordinary visual art exhibition space at Mesa Arts Center showcasing contemporary art from today's emerging and internationally recognized artists in five stunning galleries. Groundbreaking and provocative, the exhibits represent the finest in contemporary art.
For more information contact 480-644-6500.
Recent Works by Becca, Leigh Salgado, and Harry Gamboa Jr.
Patricia Correia Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave., E-2
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310.264.1760
Dates: September 6- November 1, 2008
Patricia Correia Gallery is proud to present three solo exhibitions of contemporary art opening this September, showcasing recent works by Becca, Leigh Salgado, and Harry Gamboa Jr..
In our Main Gallery, Wild West Wonderland by Becca will continue the journey of this renowned street-to-gallery artist. Becca delves into themes of femininity, childhood innocence, and the rugged demands of authenticity in art in the era of manufactured, corporate street culture. Her mounted paper paintings on panel continue to delight with their vibrant, accessible compositions and challenge the viewer with their origins in the urban L.A. jungle of the 1990s.
In Project Room I, So Big It Hurts by Leigh Salgado is an installation of works on paper with this artist’s signature style cut-ins that add a 3rd dimension to the work while creating the ambience of delicacy usually reserved for cut crystal or Faberge eggs. This exhibit will explore the theme of the perils in abundance. With sculptural drawings of chocolate cake, doomed lovers, opium addiction and other excessive obsessions, Salgado’s intense drawing and cutting style underscores the completeness of abandoning reality for a fictive fetish.
In Project Room II, Harry Gamboa Jr. returns to Patricia Correia Gallery with Faintless. In his third solo exhibtion at the gallery, Gamboa Jr. new works explore precognative persistent images that trigger memory, toy with primal urgency and infuse the visual realm with anti-allegories.
Long recognized as a pioneering Chicano artist in Southern California, Gamboa has established an international reputation for his contributions to contemporary art. He has resisted a signature style and has thus influenced and simultaneously reflected the diversity and myriad “isms” within the Chicano contemporary art movement. Since 1972, Harry Gamboa Jr. has been actively creating works in various medias/forms that document and interpret the contemporary urban Chicano experience.
For more information contact Gabriela M. Corchado @ 310.264.1760 or e-mail @ correia@earthlink.net.
Juntos Art Association, El Paso: Fall Exhibition Schedule
Jalando Juntos (Working Together)
El Paso Community College
Administration Bldg. B
9050 Viscount Blvd.
El Paso, TX 79925
Exhibition thru November 24, 2008
Recuerdos/Memories
Galeria Aztlan
721 S. Ochoa (rear building)
in the lobby of Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe
Exhibition: October 3 – 24, 2008
Reception: October 3, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.Juntos Border Art
For additional information, contact (915) 203-2309.
"Black Mirror/Espejo Negro: A Museum Installation" by Pedro Lasch
Nasher Museum of Art
Duke University Central Campus
2001 Campus Dr
Durham, NC 27705
Dates: May 22, 2008- January 19, 200
This large-scale installation by artist Pedro Lasch incorporates his sculpture with more than a dozen works from the Nasher Museum's permanent collection. The museum commissioned the work to accompany "El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III" and also in anticipation of the upcoming exhibition "Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City" in spring of 2009. With "Black Mirror/Espejo Negro" Lasch brings his own poetic and aesthetic reflections to the museum's pre-Columbian collection, one of the most important of its kind in the world.
Lasch teaches art and art theory in Duke's Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies. He was born and raised in Mexico City and has been based in New York and North Carolina since 1994.
For more information, contact 919-684-5135.