Rich with cinematic narratives and looming shadows, Casey McGuire’s works often reference her family history (including her father’s career as a taxidermist and her grandmother’s stint in The Rockettes). Using maps as symbols of continuity, Lindsay Palmer explores progress and movement in an ever-changing world. The accomplished visual artists find mysterious common ground with...
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Curious constructions and “reconfigured ready-mades” land at UTSA Satellite Space courtesy of artists Erin Elko, James Miller, and Lenise Pérez-Miller. Incorporating elements of sculpture and printmaking, Elko’s “In the Dreams of the Trees” conjures a destination where humans respond to life on half-submerged islands by constructing airships from readily available resources. Rooted in marine...
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Signs of construction abound, but it’s a bit quiet, art-wise, at the Blue Star Arts Complex these days. Here are some pix from last night’s opening at UTSA Satellite Space. “Delicate Sensibilities,” curated by Casey Arguelles Gregory, presents works by KC Collins, Lee Littlefield, Carly Silverman, Corey Stein. The artists reception continues tonight 6-9pm during First...
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Blue Star Contemporary Art Center opens three new shows for the summer season. “San Antonio Painters,” curated by Barbara MacAdam, Deputy Editor of ARTnews magazine, presents works by Andrew Anderson, Roberta Buckles, Marcus Garza, Carmen Cartiness Johnson, Elizabeth McDonald, Sammy Velasquez, Sandy Whitby and Rachel Ziegler. The “Texas Sculpture Group Interior Exhibition” presents works by Jerolyn Bahm-Colombik,...
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Here’s a preview of new First Friday shows for February: Gloria Trevino at Alba DeLeon Studio B, photographs of Erica Wilson-Perkins and the Erison Dancers. Installation view of photographs by Gloria Trevino at Alba DeLeon Studio 106B in the Blue Star Arts Complex in Southtown. Sculpture by Katy Heinlein at UTSA Satellite Space, “Movement...
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Things to check out this First Friday: The unveiling of Phillip King’s seminal work “Genghis Khan” at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center (6-9pm at 116 Blue Star)… The opening reception for the Culture Laboratory Collective’s “Land Portrait” at UTSA Satellite Space (6-9pm at 115 Blue Star)… and live “swampadellic Cajun hick-hop” by Slim Bawb...
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This season, Texas monster prints pressed by steamrollers are being made by crews in SA, Austin, and Houston. Sang-Mi Yoo’s installation, “The Anomalous Traces,” isn’t that stuff, but rows of tall lithographs and laser-cut felt. They’re huge, the size of plywood sheets. The allusion to construction materials is on spot, given that the...
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Sang-Mi Yoo’s laser-cut felt and large format lithography installation “The Anomalous Traces” at UTSA Satellite Space. Her show is the latest part of “New Village,” an ongoing project that blends childhood memories with a terrain every kid knows — the boring land of ticky-tacky houses, the “ideal home” banged-out by developers and gleefully hawked...
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“A Delivery To Your Senses” at UTSA Satellite Space launched a strong show last night with works by Nikki Anderson and Paul Northway. If you brave the heat and the crowds at tonight’s First Friday, make sure to stop by to check it out. Above, one of a handful of Anderson’s constructed scenes, shot in...
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Here are a few suggestions for tonight’s art hike: UTSA Satellite Space Black Sites / Black Sounds An ominous dark throbbing tone like a waiting locomotive’s pulse hits you before you enter the gallery, and once inside, continues to tap impatiently at the back of your neck. “Black Sounds,” made by Justin Boyd,...
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A slideshow of 64 photos of exhibits that opened on the first Thursday and Friday of April in the Blue Star Arts Complex in San Antonio, Texas
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A slideshow of visual art on view February 2011 in San Antonio and Austin, Texas
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