On March 19, I am collaborating with Hills Snyder on a piece called Cat Tois et Monsois in a one night only event at Three Walls from 7-9pm. Come visit the green fairy…
Cat Tois et Monsois
I will have a video entitled tabletalk at Luminaria on March 13. Luminaria is San Antonio’s blow-out party and “celebration of the arts” that takes place during Contemporary Art Month.
tabletalk
on view through October 24!
This post is the press release of the next exhibition I am in at David Shelton Gallery. I’m excited to be included in the show, as I’m a huge fan and supporter of David’s vision. Come and join us for the opening Sept. 26–food/bevs by Ciao!!
David Shelton Gallery Hosts Opening Reception for A Communion of Saints: Santa Barbara and San Antonio Artists on September 26, 2009. Exhibit Runs Through October 24, 2009.
Contact: David Shelton at 210 787-0260 or david@davidsheltongallery.com
Working Outside the Traditional Art Market Grid, Santa Barbara and San Antonio Artists Create an Alternative Visual Dialogue Influenced by Local Culture and Heritage
A Communion of Saints: Santa Barbara and San Antonio Artists examines the practices of artists living and working in two cities that share overlapping characteristics. Curated by Miki Garcia, Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, A Communion of Saints features 12 visual artists, pairing six from Santa Barbara with six from San Antonio. Both Santa Barbara and San Antonio exist outside the traditional art market centers (such as New York, London, and Berlin), are influenced by Spanish and Mexican colonial culture, and have rich artistic and cultural traditions. This show represents a wide variety of disciplines and artistic expressions–including photography, installation, performance, video, painting, ceramics, and printmaking–that convey the depth and breadth of artistic activities in these two American outposts.
Making the decision to live and work in either Santa Barbara or San Antonio, for reasons that often include family, community, and personal preference, the featured artists face both the potentialities and challenges of location and context. These cities are steeped in a Spanish and Mexican colonial heritage that is steadfastly and strictly maintained by civic boosterism and cultural tourism. Where these historic traditions thrive and folkloric and craft arts often take center stage, contemporary artists in these cities are able to offer alternative visual expressions that are critical, risk-taking, and sophisticated.
The artists in A Communion of Saints do not limit their scope to their surrounding communities. On the contrary, they pursue successful careers on a national and international scale, which ultimately places innovative, geographically specific expressions into the larger contemporary artistic dialogue.
Artists represented in A Communion of Saints include, from Santa Barbara: Stephanie Dotson, Servando Garcia, Kimberly Hahn, Saul Gray-Hildenbrand, Neil Kennedy, and Wayne McCall; and from San Antonio: Judith Cottrell, Joey Fauerso, Diana Kersey, Michele Monseau, Ann-Michele Morales, and Cruz Ortiz.
The opening reception on Saturday, September 26, from 6 to 10 pm, will feature food and wine from Ciao 2, Damien Watel’s latest restaurant. The exhibit runs through October 24, 2009.
About the curator: Miki Garcia, originally from South Texas, is the Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF), a non-profit, non-collecting alternative art space. Garcia has also worked in New York City at the Public Art Fund and in La Jolla, CA, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. She participates as a guest curator, lecturer, and panelist for various organizations including El Museo del Barrio and Independent Curators International, both in New York, and contributes to a range of publications and exhibition catalogs. She holds a MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, TX, and a BA in Art History from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
About David Shelton Gallery: Opened in June 2009, David Shelton Gallery is the newest contemporary art space in San Antonio. David Shelton spent 20 years in marketing, advertising and branding, and has worked with and represented artists since 2005. In 2007, he conceived the gallery, and moved home to South Texas from New York City to create a venue that showcases some of the area’s most accomplished and recognized talent. The gallery represents and promotes Texas artists, with a strong emphasis on San Antonio.
David Shelton Gallery
20626 Stone Oak Parkway, Suite 202
San Antonio, TX 78258
This exhibition is comprised of a new 2-channel video piece that runs from August 13-October 4, 2009. It is part of the Artists Looking At Art series presented by the Contemporary curator Rene Barilleaux and the Contemporary Collectors Forum at the McNay Art Museum. The piece is housed in the Octagon of the museum.
Regis Shephard
Veronica Fernandez
Randy Wallace
Buttercup's Erik Sanden climbed into the storefront window at the Beauty College Building and serenaded the passers-by.
This city-wide arts festival was a much more cohesive event than last year, and the contemporary art that was exhibited was actually curated by an arts committee. they did a great job, both in quality of work, and the presentation of it. We (CAM-Contemporary Art Month) put on our own event in a building on Travis St., and it became the gravity that eventually drew pretty much everyone in our arts community down for a drink and a good time in our cozy lounge. Buttercup played and blew everyone away. Footage of my projection across the street from the Alamo on the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not building (yeah, believe it) titled isabel is uploaded here, as well as some of Buttercup’s show, which I am documenting for a future project of theirs. A good time had by all!
Meditations on Place, South Texas College, McAllen, TX, January 29-February 27, 2009
float was shot in Barcelona and is accompanied by a live soundtrack of a band in the park playing Nino Rota.
This piece is the first in a new body of work that captures popular objects that are buffeted by the wind, and at the same time seem to be jockeying for position or interacting with each other (and subsequently the viewer) simply because of proximity.
float
I took a trip to Mexico City a couple of months ago with Anjali Gupta and Reagan Johns, in celebration of Anjali’s birthday. We had many splendid encounters, but this one sent us all into gales of laughter…
mmmmm, yummy
All Ladies Video Revue UTSA Satellite Space, Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, TX January 1-31, 2009
Curated by Leslie Raymond and Connie Swann
Without You I’m Nothing Box 13 Gallery, Houston TX Sept. 27-Oct. 28, 2008
Curated by Teresa O’Connor
