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| Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 5:30 PM |
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Two Photographic Installations by Ansen Seale |
Visit an installation commissioned by Public Art San Antonio to Ansen Seale at the newly renovated Lila Cockrell Theatre:
Ansen Seale's current work for the Lila Cockrell Theater is all about flow--the flow of water and the flow of time. The confluences of people in this area have been, at times, harmonious, violent, constructive and often surprising (like building Toyota trucks on the site of the oldest ranch in Texas along the Medina River). Just as the numerous smaller waterways around San Antonio all converge to form one life-giving system, we as individuals and individual cultures work together throughout time, to produce the continuous flow of history.
Ansen's work celebrates the confluence of water and people in and around San Antonio.
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| Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 6:45 PM |
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Visit to the Corn Crib Installation |
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The Corn Crib is located in south Bexar County on a 1200 acre plot of land along the Medina River. It was commissioned by the Land Heritage Institute and FotoSeptiembreUSA. On this land are several human habitation sites that vary in age from 10,000 years old to the mid 1970's when it ceased operations as a farm. One of the complexes of buildings was constructed in the 1850s using the stacked-stone method of construction. Most of the buildings have fallen to ruin, but the one that remains was a place where corn was stored in the winter to feed animals (and perhaps humans as well).
To light his photographs in this dark space, Ansen constructed back-lit LEDs panels and powered them with solar panels. Other than the glowing photos, the interior of the space is dark. |
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| Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 6:15 PM |
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| Visit to Gallery Nord to see the paintings of Sylvia Benitez and the sculptures of Stewart Reuter |
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Sylvia Benitez: Paintings --- "A Preservation of Another Time/The Romantic Beauty"
Seguin, Texas resident and Maryland native Sylvia Bentiez is exhibiting an impressionist
body of work interpreting - in an abstracted way - the landscape near her home. A landscape
that provides the artist with an unending source of light, color and form from which to draw
inspiration.
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Stewart Reuter; Wall Pieces --- "Geometric Abstractions"
Retired Chairman of the Radiology Dept. UTHSC, Stewart Reuter is presenting a series of
sculptural plywood pieces characterized by motion and color. The artist believes that art
should be pleasing to the eye, so to that end he mainly uses primary and secondary colors.
A sense of motion is imparted by the extra dimension of depth. |
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| Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 7:30 PM |
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| Studio visit with Joey Fauerso - watercolors and videos |
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Over the last few years I have become interested in the dominant themes of Romanticism in the literary and visual arts, and how these themes, including nature, imagination, erotic love, and the development of self, are influenced and in many cases defined by gender.
My most recent paintings, solitary male nudes that are simultaneously obliterated and realized by their environments, pay satirical homage to the Romantic cult of individualism while introducing an eroticism usually reserved for the female body. |
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