Calendar
Upcoming Shows for 2020
Mantle Art Space - January
Lone Star Gallery Annex - January
Clamp Light Gallery - February
Lone Star Gallery Annex - January
Clamp Light Gallery - February
Clamp Light Gallery Resident artists will be participating in small business saturday on november 30th in san antonio, tx. join us at 1704 Blanco Rd, San Antonio, TX 78212!
Past Group exhibition
intersectionality of inquiry
curated by sarah castillo
past presentation
latino art now! conference
sat. april 6th at university of houston
Current feature -
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
powerhouse women in san antonio
UnfilteredSA is a contemporary art online
platform BASED IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
past Group Exhibition
borrando fronteras, 41st annual segundo de febrero
Curated by Centro Cultural Atzlan in san antonio, texas
Past Group exhibition
curated by ANdie Flores at Fancy Fancy Studios
Past Group exhibition at Movement Gallery
curated by desertflowerdesigners
Past PResentation
Past Event
REleasing one of a kind Chicana feelings zines Sat. OCt 20th at the Central Library for the 2nd Annual San Anto Zine Fest
past EXHIBITION
Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly takes the migration path of the Monarch butterfly, as a geographic range and a metaphor. The butterfly crosses the border of the United States at its junctions with Canada at the north and Mexico in the south along the entire length of both of these conceptual divides. Bypassing the hotter, desert regions of the country, Monarchs flock along its western and eastern coastal edges, but the busiest path of the orange-and-black butterfly is through the center of the United States. The Monarch travels through Midwestern states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, across the Great Plains of Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, onwards through the Texas Hill Country all the way to the state of Michoacán in Mexico. The path of the butterfly also connects the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline where it crosses the Missouri River at the border of the Standing Rock nation to the U.S.-Mexico border, but the butterfly itself is indifferent to these artificial borders and conceptual divisions. Apart from the name of the butterfly, the word “monarchs” has another meaning: Monarch signals an acknowledged ruler that is the head of a state or nation, and with that rule, the independence and freedom to rule; sovereignty. Artists in the exhibition take up this idea to present the perspectives of people native to the Americas.
This exhibition sees the defense of Standing Rock and the threat to build a border wall as continuous issues that pose challenges to people native to the Americas who have been separated by conceptual categories of indigenous, immigrant, and assimilated. Like the butterfly—which takes four generations to make the complete migratory path navigating its way through the center of the United States by drawing from inherited knowledge—these artists also pull from ancestral and cultural memory to reveal the profound conceptual legacies underpinning abstraction, reorient historical and art historical narratives, and explore centuries-old trade routes that moved aesthetics in addition to goods. Monarchs considers how objects, still and moving images, sound, and performances made by artists living in the path of the butterfly reveal their identities through form, process, and materiality rather than through content. To create the exhibition, Bemis Curator-in-Residence Risa Puleo looked to the butterfly for inspiration for the exhibition’s primary themes..
This exhibition is curated by Risa Puleo and organized by Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, where it was first presented December 7, 2017 – February 24, 2018. The accompanying catalog is supported, in part, by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Sandra Fossum, and Watie White.
Shown:
Gina Adams The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848, 2017 From the series Honor Is Hereby Pledged, 2014–ongoing, Hand-cut calico fabric letters and thread stitched onto antique quilt, 83 1⁄2 × 67 in. Courtesy the artist.
This exhibition sees the defense of Standing Rock and the threat to build a border wall as continuous issues that pose challenges to people native to the Americas who have been separated by conceptual categories of indigenous, immigrant, and assimilated. Like the butterfly—which takes four generations to make the complete migratory path navigating its way through the center of the United States by drawing from inherited knowledge—these artists also pull from ancestral and cultural memory to reveal the profound conceptual legacies underpinning abstraction, reorient historical and art historical narratives, and explore centuries-old trade routes that moved aesthetics in addition to goods. Monarchs considers how objects, still and moving images, sound, and performances made by artists living in the path of the butterfly reveal their identities through form, process, and materiality rather than through content. To create the exhibition, Bemis Curator-in-Residence Risa Puleo looked to the butterfly for inspiration for the exhibition’s primary themes..
This exhibition is curated by Risa Puleo and organized by Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, where it was first presented December 7, 2017 – February 24, 2018. The accompanying catalog is supported, in part, by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Sandra Fossum, and Watie White.
Shown:
Gina Adams The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848, 2017 From the series Honor Is Hereby Pledged, 2014–ongoing, Hand-cut calico fabric letters and thread stitched onto antique quilt, 83 1⁄2 × 67 in. Courtesy the artist.
PAST Workshop
This workshop will be facilitated by Laurie Ann Guerrero, Bonnie Cisneros, and Sarah Castillo. All three women carry the legacy of culture making and art through their mothers, who first taught them how to wield both ink and thread as children. Guerrero is a local writer, 2016-17 Poet Laureate of the State of Texas, and Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M-San Antonio. Cisneros has taught middle school English and Social Studies at an inner-city charter school and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University. Castillo is a local mixed media artist and earned her MA in Bicultural Studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
PAST conference presentation
PAST exhibition: What the Water Gave Me
In What The Water Gave Me, Sarah Castillo and Veronica Anne Salinas present embroidery, collage, sound installation, photography and cyanotype portraits as they center intuition and memory as a platform to reflect on their relationships with water, plant life, and landscapes to translate personal narratives that emerge from medicinal plants to lucid dreaming.
PAST EXHIBITION:
We Are
curated by sarah castillo
May 17, 2018 - July 13, 2018
PAST EXHIBITION:
SHADOW BEAST: CREATING SIN VERGÜENZA
CURATED BY JESS GONZALES, REBEL MARIPOSA, ELIZA PEREZ
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