Enmascarados: An Homage to Lucha Libre
Pump Project Art Complex
702 Shady Lane
Austin, TX 78702
Dates: Sept. 25-27, 2008
Reception: Sept. 25, 1-5pm
Exhibiting artists: José Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández, Ángel Quesada, Fidencio Durán, Marcela Morán, Federico Archuleta, Enrique Martínez, Gerald López, Matthew Rodríguez, Beto Gonzales, Faustinus Deraet.
For more information contact 512-351-8571.
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.
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.
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
Reception: Sept. 12, 6-9 pm
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
Reception: September 12, 7-10pm
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.
Juntos Art Association, El Paso: Fall Exhibition Schedule
Juntos Border Art
El Paso Public Library
501 N Oregon St
El Paso, TX 79901
Exhibit Dates: Aug. 26 – Sept. 20, 2008
Reception: Sept. 3, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
REFORMA
REFORMA National Conference
Civic Center
El Paso, TX
Dates: Sept. 18-21, 2008
For those attending the REFORMA National Conference Sept. 18 – 21, at the Civic Center in El Paso, Texas, look for the JUNTOS Booth # 036.
KERMEZAAR
International Museum
El Paso, TX
Dates: Sept. 25-28, 2008
Look for Juntos members, Gabriel Gaytan, Candy Mayer, Krystyna Robbins, María Almeida Natividad exhibiting at this regional juried art exhibition at the International Museum in El Paso, Texas September 25-28th, 2008.
Jalando Juntos (Working Together)
El Paso Community College
Administration Bldg. B
9050 Viscount Blvd.
El Paso, TX 79925
Exhibition thru November 24, 2008
Reception: September 24, 2:30 – 6 p.m.
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.
For additional information, contact (915) 203-2309.
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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
Reception: September 13, 5-8pm
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.
"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.