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  Content Under Pressure 5/19 12:00PM

   

  Twelve-ounce prophets from across the country descend on San Pedro this week for SA’s youngest aerosol art festival. After a successful inaugural edition in 2012, “Content Under Pressure” returns with 35 of the nation’s freshest graffiti artists and muralists including Chicago’s Debise CT and Bekit from New York City. Things kick off on Friday night with a gallery reception and artist meet and greet. Saturday includes a b-boy expo, artist panel, and performances by local hip-hop veterans Chisme and OBX. Live murals will be painted onsite by the FX Crew, I Wuz Here (CBS), IWS, Few and Far, and 4 Burners. Fans of the four elements should have plenty to rejoice in and enough vibrant street art to tide them over until Clogged Caps comes along.

  Place: Paint Yard Gallery

  Category: Visual art, Exhibits, Painting, Art
   

   
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  Beyond the Canvas 6: "Fairytales & Fantasy" 5/24 8:00PM

   

  G. Tomas V presents the sixth edition of SA's "only body art competition." Hosted by Anthony "The Poet" Flores, "Fairytales & Fantasy" features 30 artists (including special guests Oscar Galvan Jr. and Raul Castellanos) creating live art on 30 models, plus music by DJ Techneek (10pm-2am), a live visual performance by Matari Productions (10:30pm), and a photo shoot (11pm-midnight) followed by the presentation of contestants at midnight. Rewarding first, second, and third places with trophies and other prizes, the contest also guarantees winners a spot in the 2014 Beyond the Canvas calendar.

  Place: The Korova

  Category: Visual art, Exhibits, Painting, Music, DJ, Special events
   

   
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  Superhero Contest 5/25 12:00PM

   

  Centro Cultural Aztlan is hosting our 22nd Annual SUPERHERO contest and exhibit.  This exhibit is open to any students 6 to 18 years of age.  We ask students to identify a positive role model in their lives and create a drawing, illustration, painting, or sculpture of their Superhero.  The key word and subject of this contest is “Super Heroes”, who the students consider as positive role models in their school, community, or home.  Special attention will be to creativity and originality on the subject.  Artwork is open to any media.   Prizes will be awarded at different categories and grades.   Special reception will be Saturday May 18th, 2013 from 12-3pm with an Award ceremony and entertainment.

  Place: Centro Cultural Aztlan

  Category: Visual art, Exhibits, Art opening, Drawings
   

   
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  "Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art" 5/19 12:00PM

   

  Oppositional currents in 20th-century art converge in “Real/Surreal: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art.” Second in a series aimed at reassessing the Whitney’s permanent collection, the exhibition assembles works by Edward Hopper, Man Ray, Joseph Cornell, Yves Tanguy, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, Philip Guston, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, George Tooker, and Andrew Wyeth in a fashion The New York Times likened to “visiting your grandmother’s attic and finding it loaded with forgotten treasures.” With Jared French’s State Park among its examples, “Real/Surreal” visits bizarre worlds and finds an odd common ground between the imagined and the observed.  

  Place: McNay Art Museum

  Category: Visual art, Exhibits, Painting, Drawings, Photography, Art
   

   
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  "Artists of SAMOMA from the SAMA Collection" 5/19 10:00AM

   

   Founded by Norman Rene Avila, Donjon Evans, and George Horner, the San Antonio Museum of Modern Art (SAMOMA) presented exhibitions, performances, lectures and film screenings from two locations in Alta Vista between 1976 and 1979. In an effort to bring this important part of San Antonio art history to light, SAMA exhibits multiples, limited-edition prints, and other works by SAMOMA artists including Judy Bankhead, Rolando Briseño, Larry Graeber, Jim Harter, Marilyn Lanfear, Henry Stein, Kathy Vargas, Robert Willson, and Gene Elder (whose Time Capsule containing works by 100 San Antonio artists and writers remains sealed within SAMA’s walls).  

  Place: San Antonio Museum of Art

  Category: Visual art, Exhibits, Painting, Prints
   

   
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  “Essence” & “E Pluribus Unum” 5/19 12:00PM

   

  In her MFA thesis exhibition “Essence,” Jane Liang explores how clothing represents an essential part of our selves. Employing appropriated mugshots and Facebook profile pictures as source material, Lee Peterson’s MFA thesis exhibition “E Pluribus Unum” questions the parameters of fame and anonymity through a series of mixed media portraits.

  Place: UTSA Satellite Space

  Category: Visual art, Exhibits, Painting, Installations, Fiber, Art
   

   
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  Texas Impressionism: Branding with Brushstroke and Color, 1885-1935 6/15 10:00AM

   

  Paintings by Texas artists during the American Impressionism movement are displayed, following strict guidelines to insure that each is an impressionist piece, include the works of Julian Onderdonk, Robert Onderdonk, José Arpa, Edward G. Eisenlohr, Ella Koepke Mewhinney, Dawson Dawson-Watson, Seymour Thomas, Lucien Abrams, E. Richardson Cherry and Frank Reaugh. All included works must have been painted from 1885-1935, have a high-keyed palette and include active brushwork with short strokes applied quickly over the surface.

  Place: The Witte Museum

  Category: Art, Exhibits, Visual art, Painting
   

   

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