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For over 19 years, Hank Lee’s San Ángel Folk Art
Gallery has emerged asa world-renowned institution
featuring the finest folk, visionary, outsider,and
self-taught art from the U.S., Mexico, Latin
America, Europe, Haiti, and Africa. San Ángel
curates and shows work by the most legendary artists
ofthe current and bygone eras: retablos, textiles,
masks, baskets, paintings, ceramics, woodcarvings,
metalwork, jewelry, found object sculptures,and
artworks made from recycled materials. Works from
San Ángel have been purchased by museums and
collectors worldwide. Often noted as a place to
visit when San Ángel Folk Art has been
featured in Raw Visions, The New York Times, Texas
Monthly, The Boston Herald, Tradiciones, Rumbo, The
Los Ángeles Magazine, Lifescapes, and The Southwest
Gallery Guide as well as on the BBC, Telemundo, and
Televisa networks, as well as the television series
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Funky Folk Art is often how my work is described. I
design and hand produce a line of “jive jewelry”,
home accessories and whimsical art pieces all from
recycled materials. I love to collect old, vintage
pieces of Americana – soda pop bottle caps, milk
caps, old comics, pin-up girl posters and any sort
of ephemeral paper that defines the era it was from.
I enjoy the unassuming nature of cast-offs – they
have their own inherent nostalgia from days gone by.
Recycle, Reuse, Redeem, Reborn!
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Self-taught artists have always made art from
whatever has been available to them. Often a
self-taught artist's blending of created and found
objects has been far less calculated but no less
inventive than that of his trained counterpart. In
this tradition I have for years made or decorated
furniture, mirrors and functional household objects
using cast-off materials. I enjoy using cast-offs
because of their own inherent nostalgia and
unassuming nature. I strive in my art as well as in
life to straddle the vision of earlier artists and
that of true outsider-artists. The outsider
vernacular reflects my Southern upbringing and a
belief that not much be thrown away "Waste not, Want
not".
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Marcia Dahlman has been a full time potter in San
Antonio since 1978. Her work consists mainly of raku-fired
vessels and wall pieces in five series: ancient
instruments, map series, fertility figures,
southwest vessels, and masks. In addition, she makes
high fired stoneware fountains and garden art.
Marcia Dahlman’s work is exhibited in galleries in
several states.
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