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PLEASE JOIN ARTIST BRUNO ANDRADE FOR A CLOSING ART RECEPTION ON SATURDAY MAY 8TH AT ANARTE GALLERY FOR MIMOSAS AND SNACKS BETWEEN 12-5..PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE WELLNESS PROGRAM OF ALAMO HEIGHTS.
HOPE TO SEE YOU..ANA, ALICE, BRUNO & ELVIA
Image:Smile200660″x48″ oil / canvas
VIEW EXHIBIT AT:http://www.anartegallery.com/artists/bruno_andrade/index.html

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New Works by Didier Bardon, Valerie M. Horne, Sonia Garcia-Paschall, and Pascale Vial.

Exhibition Dates: May 8th-June 5, 2010

Music by Latex Chihuahua

What is the microgallery?
More than just a place to view and buy art. The microgallery plays host to a myriad of art “happenings” such as near spontaneous art shows, guerrilla art shows, artists collaborations and more. Come join us!!!

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ArtTalks: Jim Hodges
Renowned (and former Hudson (Show)Room) artist Jim Hodges offers truly unique insight into the work of former IAIR resident Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996), whose billboards are on view in a yearlong, statewide Artpace exhibition of 13 seminal works created between 1989 and 1995. This exhibition, which engages viewers through mesmerizing images of poetic life moments, marks the first-ever comprehensive survey of Gonzalez-Torres’s seminal billboard artworks in the U.S.

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“Techjano/a: Hybrid Logic,” a show opening — and closing — with a reception 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Museo Alameda, began with a simple proposal: Give young artists unfettered access to the museum’s Smithsonian Gallery.

The sprawling first floor space sat empty after “Jesse Treviño: Mi Vida” came down at the end of February, and the cash-strapped museum had nothing to fill it.

“You came in, and it was like a ghost town,” said operations manager Ruben Luna. “So we said, ‘We’ve got to bring some life to the (gallery).’”

Luna called visual artist Albert Alvarez to float the idea of doing an artist lab in the museum in Market Square. Alvarez called performance artist Jimmy James Canales, who called fellow performance artist Maria Palma, and before Luna knew it, he had six artists lined up. Oh, and a disc jockey.

In addition to Alvarez, Canales and Palma, the show will include work by visual artist Pedro Luera, video artist Kristin Gamez and photographer Mari Hernandez. DJ Ernest Gonzales is creating a soundscape for the opening/closing.

The artists were given round-the-clock access to the museum for a week beginning Monday with the idea the museum-goers could watch the show come together. They came up with the concept for the show as a group, based in part on Canales’ concept of the “Techjano” — a mash-up of the words “technology” and “Tejano.”

“Basically, Techjano is a word I use to describe myself and my art,” he said. “So the idea of referencing the past, but putting our own little mix on the now.”

The artists were also given free rein, more or less.

“Well, there was some criteria,” Luna said. “We said, ‘OK. There isone rule. Albert, you gotta be. …’ But they understood.”

Alvarez, who sometimes uses explicit imagery in his drawings and paintings, worked directly on the wall, creating a Fiesta tableaux in black and white. With Fiestas Fantasias percolating outside in Market Square, Alvarez was able to take his sketchbook outside and take “notes” for the piece, or simply look out through the bank of large windows facing the plaza.

“I like being in here. It’s like a big science experiment,” Alvarez said in an interview last week. “Like I’m just walking around in my lab coat by the windows.”

Canales mounted serapes and blankets on a wall, “basically collaging them, and remixing them into different forms, to create different ideas about this commodified identity that we have, where you can buy your culture all around,” he said.

During a performance for the show, Palma will take the textiles from the wall and wrap them around Canales.

“So the idea (is) not only I put on this identity, but also the people around me help me to put this identity on, so almost like bondage, but then also like a skin,” Canales said.

With “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964” opening in the Smithsonian Gallery May 22, it was necessary to plan for the show to come up and come down quickly.

“It would be great to keep it up (longer), but part of the whole concept — which they came up with — is the fleeting moment, like Fiesta,” Luna said. “Fiesta just comes and goes, and they kind of liked that whole idea. It’s more about the experience than the end product.”

Museo Alameda is at 101 S. Santa Rosa. Call . Visit www.thealameda.org.

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You are invited to a backyard tea party to celebrate World Wide Pinhole Day! Next Sunday, April 25, is World Wide Pinhole Day. Folks all around the world will take a pinhole photograph on this day and publish is on the website http://www.pinholeday.org/.

Come on by, between 2-5pm, hang-out, make a pinhole photo, develop it and post it online. Refreshments, snacks, pinhole cameras, photo paper and a makeshift darkroom will be supplied along with some backyard swings and (hopefully) sunshine!

This is my first event in the new house in the Highlands!

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Presented by the Visiting Artist Committee and PaceProjects.

Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body.

Painting, photography, performance art and installation works shown at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and most recently in a retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York entitled “Up To And Including Her Limits”. Film and video retrospectives Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Film Theatre, London; Whitney Museum, NY; San Francisco Cinematheque; Anthology Film Archives, NYC.

She has taught at many institutions including New York University, California Institute of the Arts, Bard College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recipient of a 1999 Art Pace International Artist Residency, San Antonio, Texas; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1997, 1998); 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship; Gottlieb Foundation Grant; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME. Lifetime Achievement Award, College Art Association, 2000.

Schneemann has published widely; books include Cezanne, She Was A Great Painter (1976), Early and Recent Work (1983); More Than Meat Joy: Performance Works and Selected Writings (1979, 1997). Forthcoming publications include Imaging Her Erotics, from MIT Press. A selection of her letters edited by Kristine Stiles is also forthcoming. From her biography on Caroleeschneemann.com

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John Phillip Santos’ New Memoir Inspires Ephemeral Exhibition at Bihl Haus Arts

San Antonio, Texas – In a special reading from his new, recently released memoir, “The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire (A Tejano Elegy),” John Phillip Santos will present at Bihl Haus Arts surrounded by the work of some of his artist friends whose work inspired him during the years he was writing the book.

This ephemeral exhibition, up only for the reading on Thursday, April 22nd at 7:00 p.m., includes a unique cross-section of San Antonio art visionaries, including Ricky Armendáriz, Norman René Avila, Rolando Briseño, Joan Frederick, Raphael Guerra, Pedro Luján, Cesár Martínez, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Angel Rodríguez-Díaz, Terry Ybañez, and Davíd Zamora Casas.

“San Antonio’s artists are at the vanguard of transforming our city,” says John Phillip Santos, “Our artists are leading the way to becoming a cultural capital of the new República Cósmica of the United States.”

Bihl Haus Arts Executive Director Dr. Kellen Kee McIntyre welcomes this exceptional multi-disciplinary event. “The collection of works on exhibit will envelop John Phillip Santos and his audience in an intimate atmosphere that reflects the author’s own sophisticated aesthetic and underscores his deep personal relationship with each of the remarkable artists included in the show,” said McIntyre.

The reading and exhibition are free and open to the public. Books will be available for signing.

John Phillip Santos, a San Antonio native, is the first Mexican American Rhodes Scholar to study at Oxford and whose awards include the Academy of American Poets’ Prize at Notre Dame and the Oxford Prize for fiction. His articles on Latino culture have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and the San Antonio Express-News, among numerous other publications. Santos served as writer and producer for more than forty television documentaries for CBS-TV and PBS-TV, two of them Emmy nominees. Santos’ 1999 family memoir, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation (Viking / Penguin) was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2006 it was selected for the “One Book, One City” reading program in San Antonio. After a 21-year stay in New York City, Santos moved back to his hometown several years ago, where he resides with his wife, poet Frances Santos, and their new born daughter.

Bihl Haus Arts is located at 2803 Fredericksburg Road, across the street from Tip Top Café. Parking is outside the gates of the Primrose Apartments, over flow parking is in the Redeemer Church parking lot on Fredericksburg Rd. @ Quentin.

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Artist Competition at Bent Easel Gallery
$15 entry fee
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CALLING ALL ARTISTS

April 17, 2010 an open artist competition will be held from 2-5 P.M. at the Bent Easel Art Gallery, 121 Blue Star, suite 6 located in the Blue Star Arts Complex. This is a “mystery bag” competition.
Each artist will be given a bag of materials and a canvas to create an original work of art. All materials in the bag must be used in the work and a theme will be given for the composition. There will be a one hour time limit for the creation of artwork.
Artists are allowed to bring any additional items they wish to use in the creation and are asked to bring their own supplies such as paint, brushes, pens, pencils, charcoal, crayons, found objects etc. The will be a table of supplies provided but these will be limited and on a first come first serve basis.
There will be an audience present so performance pieces are encouraged. Artists are also allowed to collaborate on a piece if desired.
The competition will be judged by several well known local artists and curators, as well as the audience. Gift certificates from Asel Art will be given for the top 3 winners of the competition as well as a special “people’s choice” award given for votes from the audience.
There is a $15 entry fee to help cover the expense of prize money and supplies provided. Once the judging is complete the artists are allowed to sell their work. Pricing is up to the individual artist.

Please forward this to any and all artists who might be interested in participating and contact me no later than April 1st if you wish to participate in the competition.

Kimberly Newsome

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