January 27- March 11, 2023
January 27, 6 - 9:00 pm
Curated by Dr. Scott A. Sherer, Professor of Art History.
This exhibition features twenty artists whose works span a broad range of approaches in exquisite large-scale and intimate paintings, drawings, photographs, and mixed-media sculptures regarding themes of power and pride in cultural legacies, spirituality, family, and everyday life.
Connie Arismendi, José Luis Rivera Barrera, Enrique Chagoya, Adriana Corral, Ana Laura De La Garza, Alejandro Diaz, Gaspar Enriquez, Jenelle Esparza, Ana Fernandez, John Hernandez, Benito Huerta, Luis Jimenez, César Martínez, Esteban Ramón Pérez, Gloria Osuna Perez, Alfred Quiroz, Chuck Ramirez, Al Rendon, Rubio, John Valadez, Vincent Valdez, Kathy Vargas, Joanna Armijo Zamarron
Supported with funds from the Texas Commission on the Arts, Flora Cameron Foundation, and Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992.
Russell Hill Rogers Galleries, UTSA Southwest Campus
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday: 9 am - 5 pm and by appointment.
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Location: San Antonio Museum of Art
Date: January 28, 1 - 4:00 pm
Contact: info@samuseum.org | www.samuseum.org/events
Respected curator, activist, and author Lucy Lippard will make the keynote presentation focusing on the powerful work of contemporary Latino artists. It will be followed by a conversation with exhibiting artists Adriana Corral, John Valadez, Vincent Valdez, and Kathy Vargas.
Lucy R. Lippard is a writer/activist/sometime curator, author of 25 books on contemporary art activism, feminism, place, photography, archaeology, and land use, including Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics and Art in the Changing West (2014), Time and Time Again (on Chaco and Mesa Verde, with photographer Peter Goin) and Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin, 1250-1782, (2010) and Pueblo Chico; Land and Lives in the Village of Galisteo Since 1814 (2020) as well as Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (1990) and The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (1997). Recipient of nine honorary degrees, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and grants from Creative Capital and the Lannan Foundation, among other awards, she lives off the grid in rural New Mexico. where for 26 years she has edited the monthly community newsletter, El Puente de Galisteo.