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Opening preview: Artpace AIR 9.3: Opening preview: Artpace AIR 9.3

By Sarah Fisch

Published: 11/18/2009

Types: The Arts, Art, Visual Arts

I was already pre-psyched to see the output of the current three artists in residence at Artpace: Adrian Esparza and Mario Ybarra Jr. represented in Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s phenomenal traveling exhibition, which stopped at the Alameda thi...[MORE]

El Veterano: Andale, Already: 5 reasons why Jesse Trevino's career retrospective at the Alameda matters more than you think

By Sarah Fisch

Published: 11/11/2009

Types: The Arts

1. Pioneer: *Pioneer: Jesse Treviño is one of the few Chicano artists whose work was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution, and arguably the first San Antonio hometown artist whose work gained international prominence. 2.Founding Father: He acts as a crucial branch of the San Anto paint...[MORE]

El Veterano: Mr. Trevino's Neighborhood: Any day of the week, you can find his work on the street

By Sarah Fisch

Published: 11/11/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

“La Historia Chicana,” Our Lady of the Lake University (1974) 411 SW 24th St., Our Lady of the Lake campus, Sueltenfuss Library  This majestic wall mural encircling the Sueltenfuss Library is generally acknowledged to be the first grand-scale work executed by Treviño after the loss of...[MORE]

El Veterano: The duke of Kelly Field: Anatomy of a painting

By Sarah Fisch

Published: 11/11/2009

Types: Cover Story

Jesse Treviño’s ouevre is puro San Anto landscape, no matter who you are; as a kid I absorbed posters of “La Raspa” in the Blanco Café alongside the sexy wall mural of the Aztec warrior carrying the princess, and the faux-wood sign reading “you don’t have to be crazy to work here, but it helps.” I l...[MORE]

Sins of the Flesh: Visual vespers at SAMA

By Elaine Wolff

Published: 11/4/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

It’s an intensely graphic month at the San Antonio Museum of Art, where antique suppurating martyrs are countered by modern meat, splayed, ground, stacked, and photographed for consumption. I’m a fan of the bacon, but most of the subjects of David Halliday’s still-life photographs are actually...[MORE]

Reclaimed:Paintings from the Jacques Goudstikker Collection: Lost & Found: a timeline of Jacques Goudstikker and his collection

By Sarah Fisch

Published: 10/7/2009

Types: The Arts

1897 Jacques Goudstikker is born in Amsterdam, into the third generation of a Jewish family of prosperous, influential art dealers. 1914-1918(approximately) Jacques studies at the Commercial School in Amsterdam, as well as with noted art historian Wilhelm Martin at Utrecht. 1919 Jacques j...[MORE]

Reclaimed:Paintings from the Jacques Goudstikker Collection: Unforgettable

By Sarah Fisch

Published: 10/7/2009

Types: The Arts

Marge Gregerman views the exhibition of Jacques Goudstikker’s collection at the McNay through two lenses. “As a docent at the McNay, this is an exemplary exhibit of 17th-century Dutch art, which [San Antonio does not] have. As art for art’s sake, it’s a wonderful contribution towards understan...[MORE]

Reclaimed:Paintings from the Jacques Goudstikker Collection: Emblems of a Golden Eye

By Sarah Fisch

Published: 10/7/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker is a history-haunted exhibition and the material survivor of decades of tragedy and injustice … but it doesn’t seem to know it. Goudstikker, a Jewish art collector and dealer from Amsterdam, lost his life in 1940 while fleeing with his ...[MORE]

Intrepid meditation

By Elaine Wolff

Published: 9/30/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

I think the Supreme Buddha himself would approve of Jeffrey Wisniewski’s approach to art, in which no material is too settled in its form (that’s what woodchippers are for, apparently) or beholden to consumer culture (electronics, meet deconstruction; deconstruction, meet repurpose). For his Artpace...[MORE]

Mind of the beholder: Abelardo Morell finds the universe in a pinhole

By Elaine Wolff

Published: 9/23/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

FotoSeptiembreUSA, the annual month-long celebration of all things aperture organized and curated by SA’s own Michael Mehl, causes both excitement and dread each year: Yes, there will be a few exceptional art shows, but many spaces will resort to showing pedestrian photojournalism, which as brillian...[MORE]

First Friday roundup: Home is where the art is

By Emily Seale

Published: 8/12/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

Lili Peña Dyer’s series of all-white wall sculptures in the lobby of the Aloft Hotel fosters a meditative environment, a rarity in this world of sensory overload. The collection is titled Release, and the canvases, numbered 1 through 5, are covered with objects that resemble eggshells and cast an as...[MORE]

Extraordinary machine: Daniel Saldaña’s high-low alchemy takes flight

By Elaine Wolff

Published: 8/5/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

It’s high noon on Monday, August 3, and Daniel Saldaña is showing us his studio, which happens to be the back seat of his two-tone Ford F-150 pickup. He slides the driver’s seat forward, pitches a half-empty soda bottle into the front of the cab, and starts pulling out objects that are on the...[MORE]

Growth spurt

By Elaine Wolff

Published: 7/22/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

Leigh Anne Lester's lovely illustrations of unnatural monstrosities are the art equivalent of a Venus Flytrap. Delicate flowers grafted to wicked-looking cacti capture you in a sticky conundrum: Is human meddling with DNA our greatest scientific achievement or a Vonnegut-penned epitaph? Lester doesn...[MORE]

It's not you, it's me: Art fatigue at Artpace

By Sarah Fisch

Published: 7/22/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

Maybe the heat has gotten to me. San Antonio's brutal, cognition-withering blast furnace this final July CAM seems enough, even without the previous weeks of arduous, near continual art-viewing, to make a girl weary. Equally confounding and airless: Artpace's International Artist-In-Residence New Wo...[MORE]

Have we already arrived at ecstasy?: The risks and promises of an autodidact

By Sarah Fisch

Published: 7/8/2009

Types: The Arts, Art, Visual Arts

ALL THAT STANDS BETWEEN US This is the title of Kristy Perez’s one-woman Contemporary Art Month show at Sala Diaz. The phrase is at once forbidding and entreating; the “all” that divides us could contain a list of obstacles, or the unnamed thing between you and I could be a triviality (what, is...[MORE]

Carefully drawn conclusions: A retrospective of Texas's handy men and women

By Dan Goddard

Published: 7/8/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

In “Confounded,” Corpus Christi artist Jimmy Pena seamlessly joins, at the mid-section, an upside-down male torso with the right-side-up torso of a female, forging a headless, two-bodied figure with polar-opposite genitals. The skin of this entity is plastered with headlines about last fall’s econom...[MORE]

Taste this: Dancing about architecture at the Alameda

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 7/1/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

Is anything more “Latino” than “spicy,” “hot,” or simply “sabor”?   Starting with its title, Museo Alameda’s entertaining American Sabor exhibit seems to be perpetuating the Babalú-meets-Azúcar cliché that Latin music is a party for dancers only. In case you doubt it, one of the first vide...[MORE]