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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The Value of Art in Todays Market.

Title: Lover (1992-94) Gabriel Trevino
Title: Coming or Going (1996-97) Gabriel Trevino

Title: Millenium (1999) Gabriel Trevino


Title: Sandy at the beach (1994) Gabriel Trevino



Title: The Virgen of Paradise (1997) by Gabriel Trevino




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1.How is the value of art created ?

2.Is the value of art imaginary suggestive to the current market or art movement ?

3.What backs the value of a million dollar painting, a million dollar deposit in a bank ?

4. Is art worth more in cash value or in spirit ?

Monday, June 29, 2009

Title: Welcome to the laughing world and the consumption of spray paint..


Title: Welcome to the laughing World!!!!....HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! HE HA HA HE HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HO!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HO HE HA HA HA HA HA HA HE HE HE!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA HE HE HE HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HO HO HA HA HA !!!!!!!HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HE HE HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!HA HO HO HA HA HO HA HA! HA HE HE HE HA HA HA HA........!!!!!!!! AND THE CONSUMPTION OF SPRAY PAINT....

1000dred Lopez en Galeria Municipal Albertina


Sunday, June 28, 2009

James Miller

"Stripes"

" Multisuns"
Art by James Miller
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coolartclasses@yahoo.com


EDUARDO IBARRA's GREATEST HITS















What is art and what is not, Eduardo is in my opinion one of those artist that tests those boundaries. On these works Eduardo incorporates his name into random album covers suggestive that he is the artist behind them and may as well be considered as the artist behind everything man has produced. The idea I think is somewhat a description of the history of eastern society and its rulers set out to conquer the western world, declaring everything such as land, people, ideas as part of there own creations.






Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Brownsville Museum of Fine Art - eNews #4 PRESS RELEASE


Brownsville Museum of Fine ArteNews
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Vol 1 No. 4
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June 23, 2009

David Freeman: Unstoppable Imagination of Information for ChangeJuly 18 - September 5, 2009David Freeman's art is as wide-ranging as his life experiences, which include growing up in North Africa and Saudi Arabia, running an art gallery, founding a magazine and now teaching at South Texas College in McAllen. In this bold and thought-provoking exhibition for the BMFA, Freeman uses a wild variety of media-digital photography, nail polish, sequins, bamboo, textiles, and found objects-to explore artistic themes of color and natural beauty as well as religious and political questions. Freeman uses the satellite tower as a metaphor for technology's increasing control over our access to information, and thus over our very lives. Conversely, a sensitive display of icons and found religious relics reinforces the power of individual spirituality and faith in humankind.
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Nancy Moyer: The Bicameral FaceJuly 18 - August 22, 2009Artist Nancy Moyer photographs her subjects up close, and then highlights the asymmetry of the human face by digitally manipulating the image. The resulting photographic portraits use two left or two right sides of the face-revealing the two sides of the brain, or what Moyer calls the Facilitator and Commander aspects of the subject's personality. A jeweler by training, Moyer began experimenting with the study of the bicameral mind in the early 1980s. Moyer turns her jeweler's eye from the external adornment of the body to the inner workings of the brain and the way we reveal or conceal our true personalities.
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Cultural Leader of the Year AwardThe Museum is proud to announce its 2009 Cultural Leader of the Year Award. Four individuals and an organization will be honored at the Museum's anniversary gala in October for their contributions to the cultural life of South Texas.Hortencia H. Sloss - Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the wealth of artistic creativity in south Texas / northern MexicoHortensia C. Tijerina - Enrichment of life in south Texas by supporting and encouraging organizations that promote and advance the arts through Education Outreach of K -12 YouthPerla & Roberto Robles, MD - Community leadership skills focusing on the development of core values, team effectiveness, organizational motivation and creativity, and personal renewal for the visual and performing artsInternational Bank of Commerce - Corporate leadership developing relationships between the business communities of south Texas and Mexico to enrich the quality of life in both nations through the cultural arts.
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Museum Summer Art Camp
The Museum's Summer Art Camp is underway! It's not too late to enroll your aspiring young artist, aged 5 to 17, in classes that explore art appreciation, painting, drawing and sculpture. Classes are held five days a week from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is $75. Two- and three-week courses are available. Contact Linda W. Marin for more information: 542-0941 x302.
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Coming this Fall -The Medieval Meditations of Benjamín DomínguezIn October, the BMFA will exhibit the work of Mexican artist Benjamín Domínguez. Domínguez is famous for his use of original Renaissance painting technique, which he combines with contemporary culture and art history. He creates a fascinating and startling concoction of lavish gold repoussé and luxurious fabrics contrasted with our current world of tattoos, motorcycles, political violence, and magic. Born in Jiménez, Chichuahua, in 1942, Benjamín Domínguez has exhibited all over the world. The BMFA will be premiering fifteen new paintings as well as displaying the famous Arnolfini Series from 1985. This exciting and provocative exhibition is made possible in partnership with the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mexican Consulate of Brownsville.
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Spice Up the SummerMany thanks to all who helped make Spice up the Summer a delightful and memorable event. Special thanks to Dr. Mahdavi Reddy and the India Cultural Center.
About the Brownsville Museum of Fine ArtThe Brownsville Museum of Fine Art strives to contribute to the art education and cultural enrichment of the community, exhibit works of art, arrange for and offer educational programs for children and adults, and encourage and develop the appreciation and advancement of art throughout the community.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The Art of Brownsville Pachanga # 2
























Pachangita TAOB style..Recently Mauricio Saenz, Cande Aguilar , Antonio Antinori, Jose Manuel Salas , and myself got together to talk about art over some chelas and some carnitas..I thought it was a real positive thing, I hope we can continue the dialogue and continue inviting more painters.





Thursday, June 18, 2009

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

IMAGENES ART STUDIO

Please note on website :
$50 Entry FEE must be paid in CASH ONLYMoney may be delivered in person by Registration Deadline. July 13, 2009

TAOB NOTES: What do you think, is $50 to high for this venue ? If you compare it to something like the flea market where you pay 15dlrs a day Saturday and Sunday total $30, on the other hand Imagenes is giving you 3days to exhibit in a pretty trafficky and nice looking Paseo Plaza, which features several good business all around, plus a reception which is included the $50 entry fee done on Friday night to compliment the art exhibit which is on eisels by the way which she provides. I think its ok, a good place to pass out some business cards or if luck has it sell a painting. Note you got to do your own pr and pass out your own invitations in order to work to your advantage, tell everyone and there mothers. Pricing is up to you, over and under pricing has work before.. ..I also recomend you to try to be there as much as you can for something like this, you should understand your purpose for this type of venue which is to sell or and or make contacts. Its a hustle, but worth the 50 I think..

Friday, June 12, 2009

“Unplugged” Gómez on Paper 3rd Edition








Carlos G. Gómez
“Unplugged” Gómez on Paper 3rd Edition
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Art Center of Corpus Christi
100 N Shoreline Blvd
Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
361.884.6406



Thursday, June 11, 2009

Still Life Painting by Gabriel Trevino

This is a painting (canvas 4x6 acrylic) I did last year 2008 , almost life size, a portrait of my wife, she pose for about 20 minutes, which I was able to sketch her from head to toe, a fast drawing using black paint and I had to put together the rest of it. The lamp and the glass were still life too, but were painted at different times. I did it in about 2 weeks 2 to 3 hours a day. This is a painting where I have enjoyed working with acrylics, because they dry fast and mix well, I tend to be a little impatient, and like to work fast. Its a freehand drawing, I don't care to much for taking a picture, graphing etc. I don't do projections either. There is nothing wrong with that, they are tools, but preference, I like to just let it come natural.. All the detail is concentrated on the face, very life like, three dimensional being life size, it helps I think build character between the viewer and the subject, distorting everything else , which is usually what happens when we look at things. And the face was most important to me, it had to look like my wife and not her imaginary twin or look alike, I mean it had to be her. One of the greatest things about painting someone you know and see every day, you already know a lot about them, there expressions, color of skin, eyes, hair, you remember all these things and you can simply paint by memory. The lighting in this piece is suggested coming from the obvious lamp,if you see the shadows all working on the opposite side of the lamp. The pallet - colors all work in contrast of each other, it was after I finished it that I realize I had painted a green floor. The flowers on the right are typical flowers, teresas, which I like, and compliments a portrait of a woman. The wine glass, and cross silhouette are symbolic of spiritual peace, which brings the story to the painting. I got a chance to exhibit this painting at the Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts - BISD Faculty Show and at the recent Historic Brownsville Museum- "Tres" Pintores. I like the idea of painting life size subjects, to where they can just walk out of the painting, its a surreal feeling. I had this painting hanging in my living room, and being life size I can feel the presence of my wife, sitting there at peace..

Gabriel Trevino - brownsvilleartform@yahoo.com

PAINTING BIO MORPHIC CREATURES TO SELL FOR 1 MILLION

"BIO MORPHIC CREATURES"
BY ANTONIO ANTINORI
"I predict this painting will one day sell for"
$1,000,000.00 US DLRS
SERIOUS INQUIRES ONLY
CONTACT:aaantinori@yahoo.com

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

PROVOCANDO AL OJO Y HECHO Y DES(H)ECHO






















El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas
Le invita cordialmente a la inauguración de las exhibiciones:

PROVOCANDO AL OJO
La aventura del color en el arte del siglo XX

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Hecho y Des(h)echo
Georgina Valverde

Inauguración:
Viernes 5 de Junio, 2009
20:00 – 22:00 hrs
Vino de honor

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas
Av. Constitución y 5ª s/n, Col. Jardín / 868 8131499

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas (MACT) had the opening for two new shows last friday. "Provocando al Ojo" includes works from artists such as Joan Miró, Georges Braque, Joseph Albers, Vasarely, and Robert Indiana among others in which the viewer can admire samples of op art where color and shape play a decisive role. However, what ironically stood out the most from this opening was the show "Hecho y Des(h)echo" by Mexican artist Georgina Valverde, living and working in Chicago (with family members in Los Fresnos, TX) where she undoes and redoes from inorganic, disposed materials within a consuming society. Valverde gives these objects a new image and context by recycling and redoing in a clever, extraordinary way; among these are staples, beauty items, food containers, human hair, etc. With this she intends to invite the viewer to consider the excess and wasted material resulting from mass consumption and how this can be reverted. Both shows will be up until August. http://www.georginavalverde.com/
by M. Saenz

Monday, June 08, 2009

Sunday, June 07, 2009

28 LAPS by Cande Aguilar

28 Laps_2009_mixed media on panel_84x96inches
CANDE AGUILAR
cande_avant@hotmail.com

TAOB INTERVIEW WITH EDUARDO IBARRA



IT'S FINALLY HERE...THE LONG AWAITED

TAOB INTERVIEW WITH EDUARDO IBARRA




TAOB: Where were you born and what do you remember most about your childhood ?
Eduardo: I was born in Brownsville , Texas . What I remember most about my childhood?, well there are a lot of things. But., In relation to art, I remember that I used to draw all the time. I would buy books and coloring books that they would sell in school, then I would draw the images from those books. The Flinestones, Mickey Mouse, Pluto, other Looney Toon and generic cartoon characters were just some of the characters I used to draw. I can remember back when I was in 5th grade..They woud take me out of class so that I would create posters that promoted reading. Thats as far back as I can consciously remember. I would also go to the Brownsville Herald because sometimes they would throw away large sheets of paper that they used to print the newspaper on. They would also throw away large white posterboards…..This is what I used to draw on. I remember I used to do the drawings and my mom would hang them around the house. At around this time my mom registered me to take art classes at Bellas Artes in Matamoros ..that’s where I decided that art was what I wanted to do, I was around 9 years old. I used to admire the work of the other students. I was doing abstract paintings at the time. I also remember that my teacher didn’t like my work too much…to tell you the truth I didn’t care much about that because I knew what I wanted to do. I remember that my mom would take me about three days out of the week we would walk from Tyler Street, we used to live in front of the Boys Club, all the way to Matamoros, take a pesera to Bellas Artes and she would wait for about 2-3 hours or as long as the class was then we would go home. She really pushed me to do art even though she knew nothing about it.. all she knew was that I liked doing art.

TAOB:Describe your art ?
Eduardo: In one word I describe it as Egotism… It all started in 1991. I decided that all my work would revolve around my name and my image. In 1990 at The Kansas City Art Institute they had a foundation department in which you chose different classes, they experimented with different ideas and views of art…I remember one of the toughest teachers I had was a lady named Yoshiko Sato ..she was a tough cookie. We took several classes with several teachers. I liked the diversity of the assignments but I felt they were just that.. assignments. It wasn’t until 1991 that I really started going with my own ideas about what my art would be .I remember I was taking an art history class at the Kansas City Art Institute..For the tests, I had trouble remembering all the artists names. I said to myself man If only the art had their names in big type, I would remember all the artists and their work….So I guess all that I do now is based on that one thought it has evolved into the idea of my ego, everything revolving around my name, my image, or my websites..or links to my website painted onto the painting surface using the largest size type I can use. I call it Egotism. Now when it comes to actual visual subject matter it is varied that’s why I use and keep my name or my website name constant so that they (everyone) will be able to recognize it as my own.. I want people to look at my work and automatically recognize it as being my own no matter what I paint

I try to do things that I haven’t seen before. For example one of my favorite series of works has been my internet series which I started back in 1993 where I painted websites, programs, webpage shots based on different programs. It all culminated in a show I had at UTB I believe in 1998…I wanted the show just to be about internet paintings but I sold several of them before the show and did not have enough paintings so I created paintings based on a series of paintings just using my name. I never stop doing the different series of works I do. As a matter of fact, I am working on digital capture images taken directly from the internet…I guess they are webpage photography I’m also working on a couple of internet paintings right now 16 years after painting the first one.

Another favorite series of mine was a series of record covers that I painted in 1991, I would collage my face or person onto the record cover. Some of them just involved changing the name of the singer or band to my own name

Another series that I did that I like very much was a series of political signs. I remember after exhibiting them people believed that I was an actual politician .One time people even stopped me in Walmart to shake my hand and tell me they were voting for me. I would always remind them to vote. I like this series so much I’m going to do more.

There are many other series of works that I like, I did a series of tombstones where I carved in my name the year that I was born and the year Im going to die which is 100 years..I guess you might call that positive thinking. Hopefully one of these days I will have a show with all this artwork I also like a series of paintings I did of myself and friends in precarious situations or odd combination of receptacles for example I painted my friend Olga and Laura were painted inside the mouths of sharks. The sharks are eating them and they have the biggest smiles you have ever seen or will see. I also painted myself, my former art teacher Sue Tarrant in trashcans, I painted my friend angelica in a trashcan she didn’t like it too much and painted over it…I thought it was the strongest painting until she completely painted over it. I’m also working on new paintings for a show in the near future. You can check out some of my work at www.eduardo-ibarra.blogspot.com/

TAOB: Why do you think art is important and how do you feel your art contributes to that purpose ?
Eduardo: I think art is important to the people who think art is important. I don’t know if my work contributes to that idea, but a lot of people don’t like me or my work. I am confident and smart enough to know that’s not such a bad thing ….there is a thin line between love and hate or love and envy.


TAOB:When was your first exhibit in Brownsville and in your opinion how has the local art scene change to the present day ?
Eduardo: My first serious show here in Brownsville was a one man show in 1998 at UTB. I have exhibited in the yearly teacher’s exhibit since 1995 first at the Art League Museum now at The Brownsville Museum of Fine Art. The local art scene has changed in that there are more artists making work and more venues to display your art.

TAOB: As an artist where do you think success comes from ?
Eduardo: Success is relative but I believe if you are true to yourself, you don’t copy other artists, you find your own vision and you believe in yourself and your work ….that is success in my eyes.


TAOB: What is one of the struggles you think an artist faces on a daily basis ?
Eduardo: The major struggle is actually making Art….let me rephrase….. making good and significant art without copying.



TAOB: What is your favorite type of music and what type of character would you say describes you ?
Eduardo: My favorite type of music has changed over the years..but one artist has been constant, that has been Rigo Tovar..I like the rhythm, melody and the persona or character he created. Looking back One of his record covers had a major influence on my work and that record was Rigo Tovar 81 it portrayed Rigo in a space suit and the title was above his head or below that said Rigo Tovar 81. I found it funny and intriguing at the same time. I imagined myself in the space suit and my name on the record. I believe that record was what started it all check it out sometime.

TAOB: As an artist what can you say you are afraid of ?
Eduardo: Sometimes I’m afraid of death…as an artist I don’t think I’m afraid of anything.

TAOB:Tell us your view on any particular political issue local, state or federal, that is of importance to you?
Eduardo: Even though I’ve painted my own political signs/ paintings..I’m not too much into politics.

TAOB:Do you believe in a community of artist to be beneficial, why or why not ?
Eduardo: I believe a community of artists to be beneficial because there would be more art being created.

TAOB:Besides family and art what else is important to you ?
Eduardo: Being Healthy….. I also believe you need to have goals, a personal vision and people you admire. I admire people I met and went to school with. I admire Chris Ketchie, Archie Scott Gobber, Jim E. Lane , Marc Mancuso, Ken Bini, Peter Caine and my former high school art teacher Sue Tarrant. You didn’t ask but well known artists that I admire are Francis Bacon, Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso.

I want to thank you Gabriel for asking me to do this.. sorry for taking so long.


Eduardo, many thanks of your time and reponses on this TAOB Blog Artist Interview....


CONTACT EDUARDO IBARRA AT : eduardoibarra2071@yahoo.com


Saturday, June 06, 2009

"Fusion de Matices" REVIEW










FUSION DE MATICES REVIEW
At a crowded Galeria Albertina in Matamoros, the exhibit "Fusión de Matices" by emerging female artists Samantha García and Yareth Fernandez opened last thursday. Both recent UTB graduates presented their work consisting of painting, drawing, and installation, the first artist portraying themes with a feminist approach and the latter giving life to faceless figures encountering universal issues. Garcia's imagery included breasts as an icon of the role of women in a society where they struggle yet strive to find equality in every sense. This vindication of the female gender is widely seen in her work; one installation in particular that shows this in an interactive way turns into a performance where she invites people to play and do as they like with breasts boxed in cake-like plastic containers placed on top of an elegantly decorated table. On the other hand, Yareth Fernandez gives her view on how she perceives humans and their relation with nature in surrealist environments. Her work intends to portray the division between humanity and nature where the figures lack facial features indicating that she believes in no labels to differentiate human beings. "Fusión de Matices" embodies two visions about ongoing problematics that are relevant to these artists and that they reflect in their work in a way that invites the viewer to give it some thought and probably perceive them in an alternative way.
Galeria Albertina - Matamoros

Art by Rosendo Sandoval - Title:"La que bailo con el diablo " contact: galloblanco03@yahoo.com

Art by Rosendo Sandoval - Title:"La que bailo con el diablo " contact: galloblanco03@yahoo.com

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