Sun, Nov 8
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The San Antonio Art League & Museum opens an invitational exhibition featuring

Henry Cardenas, Miguel Cortinas, James Hetherington, and Pat Safir with a reception on Sunday, November 8 from 3-5 p.m. The exhibition will run through December 13.

Henry Cardenas works in multiple media, including wood, glass, stone, steel, oil, acrylic, watercolor, plastic and wire. He says he brings his imagination into focus by creating exciting, energy transforming, sometimes deceptive pieces of art. His landscapes of the open expanses of West Texas and New Mexico evoke, he says, the serenity of the past. Cardenas is a resident artist at the Little Studio Gallery in La Villita. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from St. Mary’s University and has exhibited in numerous juried competitions in San Antonio. He is represented in numerous collections throughout the U.S., including The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Miguel Cortinas says the self-portrait is a means by which to address the phobias and manias of contemporary times. He says he has always seen magic in the confines of ritual. A printmaker and mixed media artist, Cortinas has exhibited across the United States as well as in Germany, Peru, and Mexico. He received his B.F.A. from Texas A & M University, Kingsville and his M.F.A. from The University of Texas at San Antonio. He is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of the Incarnate Word. Cortinas’s work is included in numerous collections throughout the U.S.

James Hetherington works in a variety of media, including painting and assemblage, but is predominantly a sculptor working with remnants of structural steel and stock components. His concern is with relationships and juxtaposing common materials in new configurations. A spiritual aspect evolves out of the balance of combined forms reduced to their essence to become instruments of meditation – whether in steel, on canvas, or in salvaged found objects. Hetherington has exhibited across the United States and in Mexico, and is represented in numerous corporate and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

Pat Safir is a member of the San Antonio Watercolor Group, Texas Watercolor Society and a signature member of National Watercolor Society. She has won awards in local and national watercolor competitions. She was included in Watercolor Magazine’s Fall, 1996 edition; in the Composition category of Rockport Publishers’ Best of Watercolor, 1997; and in Watercolor Magic’s “2002 Yearbook” under “Ones to Watch.” Safir’s paintings hang in the lobby of the South Texas Agency of MassMutual Life Insurance Company and at the San Antonio Conservation Society.

The San Antonio Art League & Museum is located at 130 King William Street across from King William Park. Regular hours are 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday

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