tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45527850820444669572024-03-13T13:44:18.713-05:00ART & PROVENANCEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552785082044466957.post-71401935955178152062017-02-04T10:49:00.000-06:002017-02-04T10:49:43.753-06:00Provenance Gallery February Exhibition <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #4b4f56; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jenelle Esparza<br /><br /><b>ABOUT THE ARTIST </b><br />Jenelle Esparza is a photographer originally from Corpus Christi, Texas. Though primarily a photographer, Esparza also works in multi-media installation and creates abstract photo-based pieces. She received her BFA in photography from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2010 and continues to exhibit annually. She was recently awarded the 2015 NALAC (Nat’l Association of Latino Arts and Culture) Artist Grant for her project ‘El Color de la Obra’ on Latinos in the South Texas cotton industry. She has exhibited nationally and currently manages her photography studio working for local artists and arts organizations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This series of digital collages was developed over the past year and was primarily made for online viewing through the artist’s Instagram feed. This exhibition is the first time the collages will be displayed off-line and the artist, who until now has remained anonymous, will reveal her identity for the first time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Acidwinzip is a multimedia project developed by artist Ursula Zavala with works in digital and video art. Acidwinzip began November 2015 as a personal Instagram art project. She has remained mostly anonymous up until this point in an attempt to let her work to speak for itself and obtain its own identity or “persona.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She has worked on numerous art collaborations with other digital artists who share her vision for internet-inspired art. She recently made the shift to video and has created animated versions of her usually static images, sometimes adding music submitted by musicians.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zavala was born and raised in San Antonio’s South Side. She studied Fine Arts at San Antonio College and Our Lady of the Lake University. She currently works as the second half of a local freelance company called VLH Illustration + Design. She is available for commissions and artists collaborations. </span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Artist’s Website: <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-content="http://www.acidwinzip.tumblr.com" data-type="external" href="http://www.acidwinzip.tumblr.com/" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">www.acidwinzip.tumblr.com</a></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.acidwinzip.tumblr.com/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">ACIDWINZIP</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is the featured artist at Provenance Gallery during the month of January. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Her digital collages are inspired by nostalgia, Internet culture, Religion, and Art History and are comprised of computer-generated images and other elements, cut and pasted onto a digital canvas. The work is mostly a humorous take on modern internet consumer culture, our obsession with nostalgia and the internet persona. It explores the contrast of traditional art -vs- modern computer-generated art and remixing the two to create something new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>N</i></span><i style="font-family: inherit;">ostalgia, internet culture, graphic design from the 80’s and 90’s, Religion, and Art History are the primary influences in my art. I was deeply inspired by the Vaporwave art genre starting out. I had never seen anything like it and wanted to make my own art, as I was already a part-time graphic designer at the time. I made very generic stuff at first, mostly to pass the time. I was constantly creating and when I started it wasn’t very good. I would make a piece every day and since I was creating as often as I was, I got better a lot quicker. I also figured out what I liked and discovered that I had a specific style all of my own. I have a very good sense of what kind of artist I am now. Now, instead of posting daily, I create maybe once or twice a week. </i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">What drives me is the growth that comes with creating. My art has changed so much in the last year. I am using new compositions and new ideas. I’m excited to see what I’m going to be up to next. I felt like this lost wandering artist for so many years. Now that I have a direction and have found a path, I want to see how far that path goes. Also, I am not made for a 9-5 desk job. I’ve done that gig and I was miserable. After I quit my desk job, I was like, “I never want to do that again.” I felt that if I applied myself to something I love, it would grow to something that would hopefully become my life’s work.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am highly influenced by the Baroque Art Period and Greek Hellenistic sculpture. I love dramatic art. I love taking elements of those periods and remixing them with images from the 80's and 90's. I am deeply inspired by beauty, chaos and drama in traditional art, but also by soulless consumerism in modern day American culture. Finally, I admire the friends that I have made on Instagram through my art. No joke, they are my greatest inspiration. These artists and musicians inspire me everyday and I have so much respect for them. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Acidwinzip is a multimedia project developed by artist Ursula Zavala with works in digital and video art. that began November 2015 as a personal Instagram art project. She and her </span>partner run VLH Illustration + Design and she is constantly collaborating with other Instagram artists. Her work is primarily web-based and you can see more of her work by visiting her website <a href="http://www.acidwinzip.tumblr.com/">www.acidwinzip.tumblr.com</a> or by following her on instagram <a href="http://www.instagram.com/acidwinzip" target="_blank">@acidwinzip</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Elyse Grams is the featured artist at Provenance Gallery during the month of December. The work that will be on view is from her "<a href="http://elysegrams.squarespace.com/dysfunctional-pottery/" target="_blank"><b>dysfunctional pottery</b></a>" series in which she takes beautifully crafted ceramic vessels and alters them in such a way that they can no longer serve their original purpose. The vessels are broken, missing sides, slit open in spaces that are later mended, woven with yarn or sewn up with string. They remain beautiful, despite the loss of functionality and are meant to represent how we, as a society, hide our own brokenness and grief. </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I grew up lucky enough to be surrounded by people, while not artists themselves, who were incredibly supportive of the things that I wanted to make. I read voraciously and I am incredibly interested in history, particularly women in history. While I am primarily a ceramic artist, I love learning new techniques and dabble in metal, wood, and fiber work whenever I’m able. I am still at university which enables me to develop and refine ideas over time and receive feedback on those ideas from peers and mentors. I operate under the idea of being a life-long learner. There is always a new skill or technique to learn and I want to develop and hone as many as possible. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">My hands have a life of their own. When I am upset or unable to express myself, I go to work. I believe that materials are a lot like languages and I am far more fluent in clay and fiber than I ever have been able to be in English. As a ceramic artist I think about the idea of functionality a lot and how that idea can be translated or talked about in different ways. In the majority of my work that idea expresses itself in conjunction with the idea of womanhood and what it means to be female. I created these works in response to an event that I could not, and still do not understand. I am passionate about art-making as a means to understand or begin to understand ideas, emotions, and events. I believe that we are a visual and tactile people, and art-making is a necessary part of life that should be nurtured.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I get most of my inspiration from poetry, history books, and novels. I have always loved to read, and find great solace in diving into someone else’s story. I am always looking for a new book to read, and if anyone reading this has any suggestions feel free to contact me with book titles! I have also been teaching art in some form or function since I was 16, to students ranging from 4 to 18. Although only a few years separates me from some of my students I walk into the classroom every day knowing that they are going to teach me something new. I am continually in awe of what they are capable of creating, and constantly think about their role in the world and how I am influencing it. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">This is always such a hard question for me to answer; Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Judy Chicago, Gustav Klimt, are up there, but I always come back to Rothko. I have grown up visiting the Rothko Chapel, and it has a special connection to this work in particular. I go to the Chapel to seek out comfort. Rothko paintings have always been a space of reflection for me. In the absence of content I find my emotions projected back at me, the colors enhancing and shaping my moods. I have never found a space more liminal or inviting as a Rothko Chapel, and the solace I have found there throughout my life always keeps me coming back.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">In addition to the exhibition at Provenance Gallery, you can see more of Grams' work at the closing reception of her BFA Exhibition on Friday, December 16th. On Saturday, December 17th, Grams will be selling pottery and small woven jewelry at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. She will also be showing new work</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"> in the S.M.A.R.T. Studio Space during Second Saturday in February. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Visit her website </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.elysegrams.squarespace.com/">www.elysegrams.squarespace.com</a> or </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">follow her on instagram <a href="http://www.instagram.com/lyseygirl" target="_blank">@lyseygirl</a> to see work in progress and pictures of some of her favorite art around the city.</span></span></div>
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"<i>Crux is a documentation of the the internal world of the psyche in the moments of upheaval. When I came across the the word crux, meaning, the core, or essence of something resonated with me. I knew that was the impetus of what my current paintings' theme had been revealing. While I created them I was battling my internal morass with the need to reconcile changes that had transpired within and without. Life’s trials and struggles produce alchemical reactions that forever transmute the self. In Crux, I longed to capture the beautifully chaotic process of transformation at the pivotal moment as it tr</i><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: transparent; display: inline;"><i>anspires, or in the wake of its aftermath. This mysterious process is depicted in the feminine embodiment with symbols from the natural world to reveal what is simmering beneath the surface of consciousness. At times devastatingly emotional, at other times existentially retrospective, these are the introspective journeys within that are seldom seen.</i>"</span></div>
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Kat Shevchenko was born in San Antonio, Texas. She studied illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA and painting at the University of Texas at San Antonio. In 2006 she ventured to Austria to study the Old Master’s/mixed technique of painting with oils over egg tempera under paintings. Guided by surrealistic automatism she continues to explore experimental approaches utilizing traditional oil painting techniques driven by inspiration from the natural world, dreams and life experiences which are interwoven into a personal mythology that has influences ranging across the spectrum from the Renaissance, surrealism, and symbolism and at times infuses a delicate touch of dark humor.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Kat Shevchenko is the featured artist at Provenance Gallery during the month of November. The series of paintings on view in her exhibition, <i>Crux</i>, </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">is the story of the feminine archetype: the animus’ story of self realization and the possibility that the hope of transformation offers.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Of this series of work, Shevchenko writes: "<i>The paintings are all developed from sketchbook drawings that I did during a turbulent time in my life, where a lot of self introspection and uncertainty was rampant. They embody different moods-I felt the need to express them more stylistically, to represent a feeling, coming from a more intuitive realm, all are different facets exploring the transformative theme. I plan to keep exploring the Feminine in a more surrealistic narrative fashion for my future bodies of work, I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface." </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i>I used to be overly fixated with perfectionism with painting flawlessly and rendering every minute detail. Yet working in that manner has made me feel like I was missing something. Reminiscing about how one of my past teachers was very encouraging to be savage and expressive with the physicality of the paint just being paint. Now I am endeavoring to just to let experimentation, surprise and chance happen serendipitously and let myself go for change. And to let the painting breath with a life of its own, rather than get hung up on overly planning every step methodically. </i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Someone once said that we are all bumping into the threads of a myth that has already been woven, I long to bring forth some clarity to the ones within my reach. This existence is fleeting and the ability to be able to express something that was unfathomable a moment ago is what keeps me enchanted with the art making process. When I receive feedback from someone that says they see something in the finished work that I unconsciously was unaware of-it is revelatory, it’s like the missing piece of the puzzle falling into place completing the cycle. </span></i></span></div>
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<i style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Mainly natural science and cosmology have been bewildering me and keeping me wondering. I was recently reading the essays of Carl Sagan, in one he describes how it is unfathomable to know a grain of salt, due to all the billions of atoms and their positions our mind can only hold onto one percent of that much information. I am completely enthralled with digesting tidbits like that. It’s the strange facts I’ll collect and stow away for later, like I was thinking about how a caterpillar completely breaks down its body as it transforms inside the chrysalis and how I could show that in a human expression. Natural curiosity of the world, culture, history, myth, metaphysics, cosmology, books, everything provides fuel for me, but nature always reigns supreme. </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>I have always truly admired Fr</i></span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">ancisco de Goya, because I feel he is the first artist to truly step into the path of the modernist who unflinchingly depicted atrocities through nightmarish visions of the events and upheavals he experienced in his lifetime. When I discovered Spanish painter Remedios Varo, I was enchanted with the multilayered approach that she used in her paintings with refined symbolism and allegory. She was intriguing being one of the pioneering female painters with an unique voice during that time; learning about her life story was also equally fascinating. From fleeing Spain’s Civil War to meeting the Surrealists in Paris, then having to escape France due to the World War and finally resettling in Mexico, her perseverance to not abandon her artistic pursuit despite the perilousness of life’s events was a testimony to the endurance of the creative spirit. </i></div>
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You can view her current exhibition <i>Crux</i> at Provenance Gallery until November 27th, by appointment. Visit her website, <b><a href="http://www.kosmosofkat.com/">www.kosmosofkat.com</a> </b>or follow her on instagram <a href="http://www.instagram.com/kosmosofkat" target="_blank">@Kosmosofkat</a> to stay up to date on her current projects.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Jen Frost Smith is the featured artist at Provenance Gallery in October. Her current installation, <i>Adorn the Mess </i>will be on view by appointment until October 29th. You can also view an interactive web-based performance online at </span><a href="https://adornthemess.persona.co/" style="color: #222222;">https://adornthemess.persona.co</a><span style="color: #222222;"> throughout the month. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">In addition, Smith </span><span style="color: #222222;">is the artist behind</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><a href="http://yogurtlump.co/" style="color: #222222;" target="_blank">Yogurt Lump</a><span style="color: #222222;">, </span><span style="color: #222222;">what she considers the "softer side" of her practice.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> It's a more commercial and light-hearted practice of illustration and fashion accessories. You can v</span><span style="color: #222222;">isit her website, <a href="http://www.jenfrostsmith.com/">www.jenfrostsmith.com</a> or follow her on instagram <a href="http://www.instagram.com/jenfrostsmith" target="_blank">@jenfrostsmith</a> to stay up to date on her current projects. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Stanya Kahn was a visiting artist when I was in undergrad at UT and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/1194817108589/harry-dodge-and-stanya-kahn.html" target="_blank">the work she did with </a></span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/1194817108589/harry-dodge-and-stanya-kahn.html" target="_blank">Harry Dodge</a> had a profound effect on me. You could be a woman and be fucked up and make videos that are surreal, yet comment on what is happening in the world without being outright political. Yet it was political in a sense where you feel this disconnect and awkwardness that drives you to the meaning. Basically, you could be a female artist that doesn't need to rely on beauty or mysticism. T</span></i></span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">hat being said there is so much influence in my work. </i><i style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px;">Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Michael Smith to name some that have influenced me from the start. I guess a big influence is graffiti culture, pop culture, and existentialism. Ha. But it's true.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I'm always making. It's how I cope with my nervous energy. I'm always doing something creative and worrying about it. If I look too much at what others are doing I can get too negative and spiral. So while I'm actively making I just go for it. And when I'm doing research I try to allow myself admire and try not to compare myself.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I'm the youngest of 7 children. My mother gave birth to me when she was 47. I grew up in a conflicted home. I've always been an artist and had a strong studio practice. In some ways, I feel this was a method to coping with abuse and trauma. My mother died when I was 21. I was in an abusive romantic relationship and everything happening to me kinda fell into itself. After I healed and cleansed myself of the dirt I was able to focus on making a career out of my artistic practice and decided to go to school to become formally trained.</i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">Lately, I find inspiration in what is happening on the East coast, Clamp Light, and Instagram. I have so many inspiring friends living in Baltimore: </i><i style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.madeleinecutrona.com/" target="_blank">Madeleine Cutrona (NYC)</a> and </i><i style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.margaretrogers.net/" target="_blank">Margaret Rogers</a>. T</i><i style="font-family: inherit;">he East Coast has a different vibe from here and we often exchange correspondence to flex our art muscles, so to speak. </i></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">I also find inspiration in the energy of San Antonio and the artists who hustle, <a href="http://www.artistraulgonzalez.com/" target="_blank">Raul Gonzalez,</a> <a href="http://www.megansolis.net/" target="_blank">Megan Solis</a>, and so </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>There are so many artists in any scene who are so full of themselves that you can't take them seriously. I appreciate artists who are working to fully support themselves in this community and artists whom I work with alongside in the gallery or who pass through. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I don't most admire any one artist. We are all out there trying to work through our ideas, struggles, and concepts in our own way. I admire any artist who gives it their all. Who overcomes critics and keeps fighting to show another day! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Smith uses methods of action painting and collage to create an immersive environment in which symbols and mark-making express the layers of self-worth within the language of contemporary art such as painting, video, and installation. She is a self-professed Maximalist. </span></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /><i>"Crippling self-doubt offset by the need to create and share images makes a curious cocktail. There is a constant war anthem in the head of some artists. There is no pretty bow t</i><span class="m_7814976097214992467gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><i>o wrap and deliver the flaws. Agoraphobic early morning sessions of wild mark making and late night impulses to record mundane processes form the curvature of the week. Let’s ignore the platitudes and face the mess. I’m the mess and my work is the mess. Let me adorn it for you to make it easier to look at.</i>"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444;">Accompanying the installation at Provenance Gallery, during the month of October, is an interactive web-based performance located at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://adornthemess.persona.co&source=gmail&ust=1475543897988000&usg=AFQjCNH1cofenWRA92CHLRkKRm6yYPy6-Q" href="http://adornthemess.persona.co/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">adornthemess.persona.co</a>.</span><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="m_7814976097214992467gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br /><br /><b>ABOUT THE ARTIST</b><br />Jen Frost Smith grew up in central Texas and attended college at the University of Texas at Austin where she studied Trans-Media and Sculpture. After completing her BFA she moved to Baltimore, MD to study at the Maryland Institute College of Art and completed her MFA in Photographic and Electronic Media. She has exhibited work nationally including, Austin Museum of Digital Art, Co-Lab, Transmodern Festival, Museum of Human Achievement, Current Gallery, Freight Gallery and most recently, Pink Box Collective. She currently lives and works in San Antonio, TX, and is Co-Director and Resident Artist at Clamp Light Studios & Gallery.<br /></span></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Artist Website: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.jenfrostsmith.com&source=gmail&ust=1475543897988000&usg=AFQjCNEm-uol5VQAiNL9b-KwwGdyYuts7Q" href="http://www.jenfrostsmith.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.jenfrostsmith.com</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By viewing old family photos as artifacts, Valdivia creates her own stories, projecting hidden philosophies based on personal experience, on what she sees in the object before her, and from the lack of family history shared with her. She asks the questions: What is a family? What makes a family? The photo presents and depicts the idea, but by asking these questions, Valdivia goes beyond the surface of the image of the “happy family” by playing up particular emotions hidden within the photo. Valdivia aims to find her answers by creating images that depict a story forgotten or withheld. </span></div>
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<i>“I of<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: transparent; display: inline;">ten find myself looking to the past, looking to my family and culture to find a sense of who I am. As a Latina, I feel a sense of guilt at times that I didn’t grow up knowing about my culture, about my family’s history. Growing up a military brat and an artist, I have felt a lot of pressure from my family, as I have strayed far from their concept of the ideal. In response to their rejection, I have felt an absence: myself in their lives, and them in mine. I am fascinated by the idea of motherhood, the relationship between a mother and a child, and the impact that the relationship has on both individuals. I am fascinated by both the idea of family and lack of family. Coming from a broken family, I try to see all perspectives, from the hurt child with the lack of the parent to the parent without a child.”</span></i></div>
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Allison C. Valdivia is a visual artist and former military brat who found her way to San Antonio, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Texas in San Antonio, graduating in the Spring of 2016 with a concentration in Painting/Drawing and a minor in Art History. Her work has been exhibited throughout San Antonio at R Space, High Wire Art Gallery, and The San Antonio Art League Museum. She was featured in UTSA’s College of Liberal and Fine Art’s 30th, 31st and 32nd Student Art Exhibition at UTSA’s main gallery. Recent exhibitions include Print Austin’s “The Contemporary Print” exhibition at Flatbed Press + Gallery, curated by Mary Heathcott, executive director of Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum and Delta National Small Print Exhibition at Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, Arkansas, jurored by Dennis Michael Jon, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I have found that I am incredibly taken by process, getting completely lost in it. There
are so many possibilities with every idea. In some ways, this causes anxiety for me, as I
try to find the correct way to follow through with an idea. </i></span><i style="font-family: inherit;">I am drawn to texture, finding beauty and a sort of metamorphosis where there was once
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Throughout my life, I’ve always felt the need to create. In my past, I found it difficult to
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In my current work, I am exploring the heartbreak and disarray that occurs between
broken families. I see the constant pattern of absence with the fathers, husbands, and
lovers in my family as a generational absence. I uncover old family photographs, and
blow the tiniest of them up into a larger size, exploiting the void that has occurred in our
lives. The absent father. The absent mother. The motherless child. The childless mother.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>After a study abroad trip to Peru, it became clear to me that I had been constantly
searching for my identity as a Latina artist. Since I was a child, I’ve been fascinated </i></span><i style="font-family: inherit;">seeing old images of my mother standing with the father that I never knew. I created
stories in my head of what their lives were like and continued to collect more
photographs with every opportunity I had. Some of the photographs show a trace of
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ethic, and her honesty. I enjoy her approach to creating her pieces, her collages,
paintings and sculptures. Her art is incredibly sincere and personal and that’s
something that I strive for in my own work. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Louise Bourgeois is someone that I look up to, as she created work as a form of
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I get to experience a moment of innocence by experimenting, discovering, feeling free, and being spontaneous with my work. I follow my instinct in order to know what I will do, what I am doing, and to know when I am finished. When creating each painting I try to be in the present and in the moment by forgetting what I created in the past or what will be the end result of my painting.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Andrea Reyes is a San Antonio-based abstract painter. Her artistic process began at an early age when she took pastel, clay, and painting classes in her hometown of Piedras Negras, Mexico. Her inspirations principally come by being in the present time and having moments of innocence, experimentation, discovery, and also by acting spontaneously in her work, following her instincts. The paintings are characterized by using a variation of colors and tonalities using primarily acrylic and oil paints, in addition to other mediums when using textural compositions. Drawing and photography are other mediums that are big elements of her artwork.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Reyes completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Painting and a Minor in Business Administration in the University of Texas at San Antonio in December of 2015. She taught painting courses in Piedras Negras, Mexico during the summer of 2015 and is currently working as an art professor at private schools in San Antonio, Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Reyes’ drawings and paintings have been exhibited in various group shows in San Antonio, Texas, including a Pop-Up Shop at Café Commerce, the 31st Art Student Exhibition at the University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, and the BFA Group Exhibition at the University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Andrea Reyes is the featured artist at Provenance Gallery in August. Please join us on August 13 for the opening reception. You can see more of her work at </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.andreareyesart.com/" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">www.andreareyesart.com</a></b><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">or by following her on instagram</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.instaram,com/andreaa.reyes" style="background-color: #ead1dc;" target="_blank">@andreaa.reyes</a></b><span style="text-align: justify;">.</span></div>
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<b>What are some of the influences on your work and artistic practice?</b><br />
<i>I find myself influenced by children, especially when they experiment with materials for the first time and expressions of contentment and astonishment reflect on their faces. I am also influenced by the beauty of corrosion, peeled paint, plants, or any kind of texture that is rough (or smooth), porous, and colorful. I am intrigued to touch different textures any time I see them. </i></div>
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<i>The idea that art is full of surprises and has endless possibilities of how materials can be utilized, and the random occurrences being a probability of accident, change, and chance in my artwork.</i> </div>
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<i>I am planning in creating larger pieces where I can create different experiences; probably create a bigger physical contact experience between the viewer and the painting to feel that moment of awe when observing the painting. Simply, just continue creating art with deeper experimentation, self-discovery, and by exploring boundaries. </i></div>
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I<i> find inspiration in being in a state of mind where the unconsciousness of things that I see, skim, observe, and touch in my ordinary life. I want my hands and the materials to speak by themselves, having moments of spontaneity and impulsiveness, focusing in the process of creation and trust.</i></div>
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<i>I truly admire Tom Friedman; his work is about everyday material in a way that art can be made out of anything. He makes the ordinary look unordinary. Friedman is one of those artists that when I look over his artwork I am like “Damn! Why didn’t I think of that first?” Other artists that I have total admiration for are Pia Fries, Liza Lou, Jonathan Lasker, Sheila Hicks, Leslie Wayne, Brice Marden, Yayoi Kusama, and Nick Cave. They all depict ideas of infinity, the impossibility of perfection, and relations between consciousness and unconsciousness. </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56;">In this body of work, Chavez uses texts to reveal personal confessions that imply shame. Hand-drawn images and the printed word serve as a biographical narrative, which document what she suppressed living in a conser<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: transparent; display: inline;">vative Catholic family. The “front” she carried became a way for her to conceal what she perceived then as a hypocritical household.</span></span></span></div>
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With her expansive collection of objects and icons, Chavez will transform Provenance Gallery into a sumptuous, shrine-like space, that will be simultaneously alluring and disturbing: </div>
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“<i>My intention is to convey the unease between purity, seduction and evil. Intricate drawings, repetition and pattern have become rituals in my process, which allude to the monotony of mundane rituals that occur in worship. Gaudy religious icons, which were once dull, have been heavily accessorized with “bling” in an attempt to make the object more interesting. They hint at the mass production of holy celebrities in order to sell faith.</i></div>
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<i>Although I feel reverence for these religious icons, I question my faith because I have no remorse for my actions and my sins. By revealing my personal confessions, I hope to confront myself with truth and disclose the discomfort in trying to balance religious beliefs and actions in everyday life.</i>” </div>
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Lisette Chavez was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, located on the southernmost tip of Texas near the Mexican border. An enduring interest in lithography resulted from a love of drawing at an early age. Her most recent work questions faith and confronts the discomfort in balancing religious beliefs and actions in everyday life.</div>
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She is an educator and printmaker, specializing in lithography. She earned her M.A. degree at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and her M.F.A. at the University of Arizona. She is the founder of Show Me Your Print Shop, an international online resource and blog for print shop organization.</div>
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Her work is held in numerous museum, university and private collections including: the Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock; Monash University, Gippsland, Australia; Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina; St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York and the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is currently an Artist Lab Fellow and resident of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas. Chavez is currently organizing Holy Press, a lithography workshop and residency slated to open in the Fall of 2016.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: inherit;">The exhibition Omissions is a culmination of work created during and after Geary’s residency in Scotland in the spring of 2016. She was selected for the Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency, and used the time to respond to place and the meaning she found in the rocks of the surrounding area: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: inherit;">“I traveled to particularly important geologic sites such as Siccar Point at the North Sea, and studied other ephemera as it applied to my memory of the visit, including smells, weather, and even the bruises I got in traversing the landscape. In Omissions, I make connections to the story in the rocks and the telling of our own stories: le</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #4b4f56; display: inline; font-family: inherit;">aving out some details, coloring the narrative, and the eventual erosion from our memories. These geologic sites helped me to see our stories much like a book, layered and lithified, but altogether a glimpse that is bright and tangible one minute and grayed out the next.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Artist's Website: <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nicolegeary.com%2F&h=pAQF-RqlW&enc=AZMS1CFXqIyOsDeJCcSbny0LIelcWLJVKVQbcrtSgeirEUoavqn1Ooe0mUBHdfc4hr8&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.nicolegeary.com</a></span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.nicolegeary.com/" style="background-color: #ead1dc;" target="_blank">Nicole Geary</a> </b>is a printmaker and sculptor whose work explores her response and connection to the environment that surrounds her. While deeply rooted in the scientific process, Geary imbues her work with complex layers of rational inquiry and emotional reflection.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i>I think the largest driver of my work is probably the world of geology. Underneath all the rock stories and collections are a confluence of things including the concept of landscape, which varies from traditional Romantic notions to contemporary reinterpretations of that. Scars, bruises, and other bodily records of events tell me a lot about a personal history (mine or someone else's that they want to share) and I see them as a kind of map to a place lived. I use these influences to correlate to our relationship with land and the earth's history, which is why I'm so enamored of stratigraphy and being able to "read the rocks." I can look at a bruise and remember what happened there, so a natural pattern emerged in my work.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i>I also love to think about the idea of heterotopias, which is really what geologists do all the time. They imagine a place that they can never physically travel to, and can picture worlds that used to exist and recreate them in their mind, with graphs and measurements, all by picking up rocks and seeing what they tell them. These ideas excite me and I like the feeling that art does this as well.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i>I believe that art can be a proving grounds for science, and that these two worlds shouldn't be seen as separate. I like to say that in my work I'm often applying scientific analysis to an emotional realm, which is an inherently Sisyphean task, but the process is what makes this appealing to me. (It is not lost on me that I just used a rock metaphor.) </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i>I like to overlap geological theories like uniformitarinism and apply them to our own memories to talk about fascinating ways that the earth is as much a living being as we are, and that our relationship to it should be explored. Ultimately, I want my work to help people understand science better, and to comprehend feelings and emotions about what it means to live in an age of global concerns, such as catastrophic climate change or the need to confront our use of fossil fuels.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i>I will have to answer this in two different ways, because the nature of inspiration comes to me in various ways. I will find myself surprised at the amazing patterns in a simple rock and be humbled at the beauty to be found in a square foot patch of dirt. These are truly "inspirational" in the sense of looking and being with the world. It's the first thing I learned in drawing class and the most resiliant lesson I think of again and again: to just look and to observe. But to be completely honest, inspiration must also come from being present in the studio, putting in work and meeting the goals that I set. It feels good to complete a piece that I have felt pent up inside myself.</i></span></span></div>
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<i style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">One of my favorite working arstis is Julie Mehretu, whose large scale drawings take on forms that at once seem analytical but have such built-up and beautiful layers that I love to think about the process and the human hand involved. Kiki Smith is one of the artists I admire most for her use of space and imagery in printmaking, and Ellen Gallagher for the way she incorporates text into image and reinterprets and examines race and the function of language. I've always been fascinated by the work of Mark Dion and his installations that question the authoritative voice of the museum. I'm (maybe obviously) influenced by the earthworks artists of the 1970s and include Goldsworthy and Smithson as some of my favorites to think about when I imagine new ways of working outside of the gallery space. I've been following Swoon for awhile now and one thing I admire about her practice is she consistently gives back to every community she works in, enabling people and artists where she goes. I feel I'd be remiss not to name several other artists that were early influences of mine including Nicola Lopez, Vija Celmins, Richard Long, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, and Eva Hesse. </i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i>I'm currently working on developing my sculptural work into a more full-fledged part of my artistic practice through a grant from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio. I am learning to incorporate ceramics into my work as part of this grant, which makes sense to me as the clay body is literally a geological form. I've worked in sculpture in the past, but not to the extent by which this grant will help me make new and larger forms.</i></span></span><br />
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A major aspect of <b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><a href="http://www.cait-makes.com/" target="_blank">Cait Sherwood</a></b>'s artistic process is her daily practice of working in her <b><a href="http://www.cait-makes.com/artjournals/2015/12/17/vnfpzwozx1a9lqj81gsbm6xonm7how" style="background-color: #ead1dc;" target="_blank">art journals</a></b>. She fills those pages with layers upon layers of intuitive imagery, created in a variety of mediums from gouache and acrylic painting, graphite drawings, and collage. I was fascinated by her journals, and her commitment to creating without expectation or knowing where it will end up. As a result, her work is dynamic and expressive, each page a work of art.</div>
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<i style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Journals, record-keeping, raw expression. I like to try to eliminate the space between thinking about something and making it. So, I am very influenced by stream-of-consciousness writing and drawing. Handwriting, mark making, colors, nature, paper, xeroxes, printmaking, reading books. And of course, artwork. I especially love the art of women around the Surrealist movement.</i></div>
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<span class="im"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i style="font-family: inherit;">Almost every day I think about how weird it is that I care about art so much. But the fact remains that I feel a strong and definite compulsion toward art making. I just have to trust that I am supposed to be doing it. There are other things I like to do (like running and playing music) that I enjoy but I don't have that same type of compulsion toward.</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="im"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i style="font-family: inherit;"> I</i><i style="font-family: inherit;"> very much like the aimless and comfortable feeling I get when I am making work. When I don't make art I start to feel anxious. I have realized that just a few minutes of writing or drawing will snap me out of that anxiety.</i></span></span></div>
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<i style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I just make lots of stuff by working into books and things, and other art will grow out of it--like paintings, comics, and collages. I simply make it and share it, and sometimes I hear that it resonates with people. </i></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">First and foremost, Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo -- I'm obsessed with them, due to their practice of honoring the subconscious mind. But mostly I love a lot of work that I see being made nowadays. Artists that I see online: Alexandra Levasseur, Monica Canilao, Jiha Moon, Melissa Loop -- those are just some of them. I am attracted to looseness and tightness mixed together, to neutrals and neons, to interesting juxtapositions of colors and forms. </i><i style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">I am amazed by abstraction. I like to practice abstraction but usually I feel like I must add something representational.</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">“</span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">As I painted the land and the sky, female figures and animals emerged. When I became immersed in painting, I would digress into patterns and line work. I collaged graphite drawings, images of fabric and pages from my art journals into the painted canvases.</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Patterns, colors, shapes, and drawings are expressed freely and intuitively using a variety of materials—most commonly water-soluble graphite, cut painted paper, gouache, acrylic paint, and xerox experimentation. Informed by patterns in na</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #666666; display: inline; font-family: inherit;">ture, and exploring the effect of both natural and artificial colors, neutrals and neons, the work lingers somewhere between landscape, abstraction, and personal visual record-keeping.</span></div>
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Cait Sherwood is a mixed-media painter who works into art journals. Through a daily process of working into books and journals, a painting will reveal itself. When she begins a painting, she doesn’t know exactly what it will end up like. She chooses to embrace that mysterious quality and proceed. She strives to allow her paintings to come into existence whether she like them or not. She lives and works on her family’s farm in Brookeville, Maryland.</div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hands are a prominent symbolic element in artist, Audrya Flores' work, and in this workshop, she will share her process for creating a "ghost hand" fabric and paper collage. Participants will be encouraged to explore this imagery by creating their own unique work of art. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Saturday, March 26, 2016</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 10:30 am - 1:30 pm</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Provenance Gallery, 1906 S. Flores</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cost:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> $5 Suggested Donation, includes all materials and light refreshments. </span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><a href="http://jaguar-opossum.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Audrya Flores</a>'</b><b style="background-color: white;"> </b><span style="background-color: white;">f</span>ascinating assemblages are representations of her innermost struggles and the subconscious imagery present in her dreams. I was drawn to Flores' work because of the way she is able to share this deeply personal symbolism in such a beautiful and powerful way. </div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I am very influenced by the occult. Since I was a small child, I have been intrigued (and terrified) by ghost stories. The supernatural has always been a very real thing in my world. I blame it on my Catholic upbringing: spirits, holy ghosts, body and blood, altars, devils, demons, all that good stuff. </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><i>I come from a long line of fiber artists. And while I have absolutely none of the sewing/crocheting/knitting/quilting skills of my mother, grandmother, great-grandmother (and so on and so on), I appreciate the nature of fabric. It flows and drapes and sometimes seems to be alive. Every once in a while, when I unroll a piece of particularly special fabric, it genuinely takes my breath away. This awe that I feel is the result of being around these women. I’ve picked up some tips for pattern-making, too, which plays a huge part in my artistic process. And I got my hair caught in my mom’s sewing machine once, so I feel fully initiated into the world of fiber. </i> </span></div>
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<i style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I am driven by a need to heal myself. I struggle with generalized anxiety disorder and creating art has been instrumental in keeping me healthy. It creates a quiet, dark place for me to go. I am able to examine and monitor my thoughts and feelings there. Showing my work has been a great way to relate to others. It starts a discussion. In the process of sharing, I have started to see this dark place that I go as a something special rather than a character flaw. I am passionate about revealing myself honestly, in a way that encourages others to share, too. </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I</i></span></span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"> have been pouring all of my efforts into the </i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Devil’s Trumpet </span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">show in March at <b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><a href="http://artandprovenance.blogspot.com/p/provenance-gallery.html" target="_blank">Provenance Gallery</a></b>. I am really excited for the opening as well as the artist workshop I will be facilitating. Beyond that, I plan on experimenting with incorporating light into my work this spring. I am currently very interested in burial customs and </i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">cristata</span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"> cacti. We’ll see where that takes me. </i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><i>I</i></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;"> find inspiration in my garden. It’s an obsession, really. I am very drawn to unusual plants: night-bloomers, succulents, toxic plants. These “creatures” of mine often make appearances in my artwork. Working with my plants is another self-soothing passion that was passed down through the matriarchs in my family.</span></div>
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<i style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">While not a visual artist, <b><a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3196/the-art-of-fiction-no-69-gabriel-garcia-marquez" style="background-color: #ead1dc;" target="_blank">Gabriel Garcia Marquez</a></b> will always be at the top of my list. His imagery is so vibrant that the stories are closer to experiences for me. His characters haunt me. I catch myself re-reading and re-reading and re-reading. Gabo forever! At the moment, I really admire the fiber and assemblage work of <b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><a href="http://www.monicacanilao.com/" target="_blank">Monica Canilao</a></b>. And <b><a href="http://www.katyart.com/" style="background-color: #ead1dc;" target="_blank">Katy Horan</a></b>’s subject matter speaks right to my witchy heart. </span></i></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Starting this Summer you can tour the home where </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/arts/design/a-look-inside-louise-bourgeoiss-home-just-how-she-left-it.html?_r=0&module=CloseSlideshow&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-3&action=keypress&contentCollection=Art%20%26%20Design&pgtype=imageslideshow" style="background-color: #ead1dc;" target="_blank">Louise Bourgeois</a></b><span style="text-align: justify;"> lived and worked in New York:</span><br />
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I loved reading this insightful article about the creative mind - <b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/artists-sensitive-creative_us_567f02dee4b0b958f6598764" target="_blank">Why So Many Artists are Highly Sensitive People</a></b>: <br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px;">"To highly </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px;">sensitive people, as Pulitzer Prize–</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px;">winning </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px;">writer Pearl S. Buck suggested, </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px;">the world may appear to be more colorful, dramatic, tragic, </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px;">and beautiful. Sensitive people often pick up on the little things in </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px;">the environment that others miss, see patterns where others see </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px;">randomness, and find meaning and metaphor in the minutiae of </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px;">everyday life. It’s no wonder this type of personality would be driven </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px;">to creative expression"</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/152752671">The Wander Society</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user39546731">Keri Smith</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span></div>
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When you scroll through <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/javi_glz/" target="_blank">Javier Gonzalez</a></b>'s Instagram feed you will find that it's filled with squares of bright colors, bold lines, and odd angles. It is through those minimal compositions that he captures the details of his everyday life. He takes the ordinary - drainage pipes along the side of a building, windows on the side of a neighborhood house, or the unruly greenery that crawls along walls and below windows - and magnifies it, turning it into art. He does this in such a way that it reminds us to pay closer attention to the beauty that already surrounds us. </div>
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<i>My work is influenced by many different sources. I’d say a huge influence comes from my daily life. My Mexican heritage has truly shaped the way I see and interact with the world around me and has been a constant source of inspiration. </i><i>Other influences come from the people I surround myself and those that I meet whom share the same interests or passion. </i></div>
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<i>My artistic practices have had a huge influence by social media, Instagram to be exact. With the ability to share my work in real time I’ve been able to create work as I go. A great amount of my work is done as I go through my daily routines. </i></div>
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<i>As an artist I am driven by the ability to share my perspective with the rest of the world.</i></div>
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<i>I aim to challenge what is photography and explore the medium further beyond what is commonly perceived as Art Photography. </i></div>
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<i>Inspiration comes in many forms. It comes from spending time with my family, walking around my neighborhood, or even when I'm at work. I find that living is the biggest source of inspiration.</i> </div>
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In 2015, Gonzalez was selected by the National Park Association to take part in a week-long expedition trip to Mesa Verde National Park. He shared his unique experience with the rest of the world through different social media outlets. You can read more about that experience on his <b><a href="http://www.javiglzphotography.com/blog/2015/12/23/finding-my-place-in-america" target="_blank">blog</a></b>.</div>
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Gonzalez will be the featured artist at <b><a href="http://artandprovenance.blogspot.com/p/provenance-gallery.html" target="_blank">Provenance Gallery</a></b> in February. Stop by the opening reception on February 13th to see some of his recent work. You can see more of his photography by visiting his website at <b><a href="http://www.javiglzphotography.com/">www.javiglzphotography.com</a></b> or his Instagram account - <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/javi_glz/" target="_blank">@javi_glz</a></b>. </div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Del Barrios' intricate and evocative drawings <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">explore t</span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">he divine mind transformation, a transformation of the worlds in between what you might call "Heaven" and "Hell": </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I draw shapes, forms, fragments, visions that cannot be described in words. When you close your eyes, what do you see? Yes, darkness. But darkness moves. It waves and dissolves until your subconscious takes over. These are my dreams, nightmares, memories, pain, happiness, beauty in all it's disguises. We are intimidated by what we cannot "see" in this "reality". But when we allow ourselves out of our bodies, what we once feared to be Hell is actually the most beautiful place to be in all existence. </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whether it is real or not, we control it, be it evil or good."</span></span></i></blockquote>
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As 2015 comes to a close, I'd like to express a heartfelt Thank You to those of you who read and shared blog posts, to the artists who so graciously allowed me to feature them here on the blog and in the gallery, and to all of you who have stopped by Provenance Gallery this year!</div>
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2015 was a great year, and I'm looking forward to an exciting, art-filled 2016!</div>
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