Eduardo Ibarra's Recent Paintings

Recent works of Eduardo Ibarra will be exhibited at the Richardson Art Gallery in the Art Building at The University of Texas at Brownsville , opening October 2nd at 6:30 P.M.

Location: Richardson Art Gallery in Art Building

Opening Reception: October 2nd, 2007, 6:30 P.M.

Last day to view work: October 18th, 2007
Admission: $3.00 (Free to Patron of the Arts members. Student semester passes available for $5.00)
Gallery Hours: Monday through Thursday 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M., 2:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M., Friday 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
Closed: Weekends and university holidays

Eduardo Ibarra is a Brownsville born artist who studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and spent his summer breaks in New York City . After completing his degree, he lived and worked in New York City for over a year. Ibarra’s works have been displayed in various exhibitions around the nation and has even had his paintings displayed in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Ibarra is back in Brownsville and is currently teaching at Vela Middle School.
Eduardo Ibarra has sometimes been compared to Robert Colescott. Both artists began by balancing the demands of junior high teaching with a passion for the act of painting. Both integrate humor with an appreciation of traditional works.
Eduardo Ibarra latest works will be on display October 2nd, 2007 through October 18th, 2007 at the Richardson Art Gallery in the Art Building at the University of Texas at Brownsville . The opening reception will start October 2nd at 6:30 P.M. Admission is $3.00. Semester passes are available for all UTB students for $5.00. Admission is free to all Patron of the Arts members.

Artist’s Statement:

For my upcoming show at the University of Texas at Brownsville , I will explore the idea of subject matter in Art History by combining images that cause the viewer to question the idea of traditional subject matter and style in art.

As part of the new series that will be presented, I will also expand on the idea of viewing work in a gallery by creating a link on the actual paintings. With the link, the viewers will later be able to see the images on their computers in the comfort of their own homes.

EDUARDO IBARRA

"What is art if not signed eduardoibarra.com or a self portrait of the artist in a trash can ? What does it mean ? Well it doesn't have to mean anything, it maybe possible that Eduardo Ibarra may not be out to change the art world but simply out to amuse himself and his friends. I think not. Even if it was, for me, it may not be so much that the characters are in the trash can but that they are wearing as if it was in style. Making the paintings Social, personal and controversial, a great exhibit way worth checking out."gt

ART EXHIBITION: SEPT.19 TO OCT. 14

WHAT: 12th Annual BISD Art Faculty Exhibition


WHERE: Brownsville Museum of Fine Art
660 E. Ringgold St; Brownsville
542-0941

WHEN: Wednesday, September 19, 2007; Reception at 6 pm. FREE ADMISSION
Sept 19 - Oct 14: Brownsville Museum of Fine Art and Brownsville Independent School District present the 12th Annual BISD Art Faculty Exhibition. Reception Wednesday at 6pm on Sept 19, Free Admission.

Note: For the duration of this exhibition, BISD and UTB/TSC students with valid school ID can come in free of charge to the museum (during regular visiting hours; children must be accompanied by an adult) to view this excellent exhibition! Don't miss it! For information call 542-0941.


Renata Lara-Ali
Assistant Director
Brownsville Museum of Fine Art
660 E. Ringgold St.
Brownsville, Texas 78520
lara@brownsvillemfa.org
Tel: 956.542.0941 Ext. 304
Fax: 956.542.6931

NO BORDER WALL PARTY!

You're invited to the NO BORDER WALL Kite-Making Party!

This Sunday, September 23, from 3:00 to 7:00 PM At the Galeria 409, 409 E 13th St in Brownsville

Come help us make kites for the children to fly at the Brownsville Pachanga! Come make stencils for your anti-border wall signs! Learn new skills! Meet new people!

Mark Clark's Galeria 409 is housed in a charming old building with views of the Rio Grande. He's going to show us how to make and decorate kites using inexpensive materials. Rene Z. Garza /Museo {i}menos will also show us the art of stencil cutting and 'spainting.'


DIRECTIONS TO GALERIA 409: From Expressway 77/83 in Brownsville, exit International and go south. Turn left onto Washington. Turn left on E 12th. Turn left on Levee St. Turn left onto E 13th. Galeria 409 is on the left in the middle of the block between Levee and Elizabeth streets. Parking is available at meters on Levee and Elizabeth, and there's a big parking lot on Levee and E 12th. Call Mark at 455-3599 for further directions or questions. -- --


René Z. GarzaMuseo {i}menos
623 S. Indiana Ave.Weslaco,TX78596 USA
1.956.534.1997mailto:1.956.534.1997museoimenos@gmail.com¡
Para los que hacen mas con menos !

"Museum of Ignorant and Secondhand Art"

Artwork by : Gabriel Trevino

77FLEA MARKET
ROOF:4
LOT:4040
September 22, 2007 - Saturday
8am to 2:30pm

Artists welcomed to join at no cost..Limited to 12ftx12ft

CALL FOR : BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY

Richardson Gallery
Press Release

Carlos Gomez will jury and curate an exhibition of black and white photography.

Important Dates:
October 16: Deadline to submit work by jpeg or gif on CD
November 1: Notifications of acceptance sent out
January 20: Selected artwork due in gallery office
January 28, 2008 Opening reception
February 14: Last day to view exhibition
February 22: All artwork must be picked up
· All black and white formats will be accepted. There is a 48 inch height limit.
· All exhibited artwork can be priced for sale and the Richardson Art Gallery will retain 30% of the asking price.
· All work must be framed, matted, and wired. Only Plexy or acrylic glass accepted. Frames must have wire on back and no saw tooth hangers.

Carlos Gomez and the Richardson Art Gallery are inviting all artists to enter their black and white photographs into an exhibit that Carlos Gomez will curate and judge. There is an entry fee of $10 dollars and only two photographs may be entered. All photographs must be submitted as a JPEG, GIF, or TIFF on a CD. The deadline for all entries is on October 16, 2007.

For more information, please go to http://blue.utb.edu/artgallery.
Link to the entry form and more information: http://blue.utb.edu/artgallery/Black%20and%20White.htm

The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College80 Fort Brown
Brownsville , TX 78520

Chris Leonard

Recent works of Chris Leonard will be on exhibition at the Richardson Gallery in the Art Building at The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

Location: Richardson Art Gallery in Art Building

The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

80 Fort Brown
Brownsville, TX 78520

Contact: Teresa Eckerman-Pfeil
gallery@utb.edu
Phone 956 882 7097

Opening Reception: September 17

Last day to view work: September 28

Admission: $3.00

(Free to Patron of the Arts members. Student semester passes available for $5.00)

Gallery Hours: Monday through Thursday 10:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M., closed 1:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M., and Friday 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.

Closed: weekends and university holidays

An exhibit featuring Chris Leonard’s recent works will be opening on September 17, 2007 at 6:30 P.M. at the Richardson Art Gallery in the Art building at the University of Texas at Brownsville. It will run from September 17 through September 28. Gallery hours are from Monday through Thursday, 10:00 A.M. to 7:00 PM, closed from 1:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M., and open Friday 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. The gallery will not be open on weekends and university holidays. Admission is $3.00, and it is free to Patron of the Arts members. Students may purchase semester passes for $5.00 dollars.

Chris Leonard is a ceramic artist and a painter. He is currently an art lecturer at the University of Texas Pan America, teaching ceramics. He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and received a Master’s of Fine Arts from the University of Texas Pan American. His work has been displayed nationwide. Exhibits include “From the Ground up 13” at the Las Cruces Museum of Art in Las Cruces, New Mexico, “CatManDoodad City OK” at the Murray State College, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, “International Tea Bowl Invitational Exhibition” at the NAU Art Museum, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, “Cuatro Gatos: Chris Leonard, Paul Valadez, Izel Vargas and Carl Vestwebber” at Murray State College, Tishomingo, Oklahoma and “Untitled Presents: Adapt: Adapt” at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville, Tennessee. He was awarded the Museum of Art Purchase Award for “Gato Borracho Bottles, Six Pack of Small Blue.” Leonard’s work has been featured in various publications, including Voices of Art Magazine.


Chris Leonard’s Artist Statement:
Clay/Paint/Imagination: Leonardland is the sort of place where anything could make sense. The pursuit of sensibility in our/my part of the physical world and the ongoing of assault of mixed messages and multi cultures is my focus. I am examining the human condition—specifically my own human condition—through a humanoid extension of the feline friends that cruise in and out of my life. Cats have taken center stage and certainly haven’t worked their way out of my system. I like the curious mix of independence and indifference almost any cat seems to possess. Plus, unless they’re black, nobody really seems to care much about what color a cat may happen to be. Humans don’t always land on their feet, but cats do.

I like the multiple possibilities of synonymous meanings that can originate with the word cat. Who wouldn't want to be a cool cat? A hep cat? A pussy cat! Current investigations into the multitude of feline friends include a variety of mediations on mortality. When compared to immortality, nine lives certainly seem like a happy medium. Nine times an average of an optimistic seventy years yields 630 years, a healthy dose of time here on earth: An optimistic imagination, pure impossibility? I’d certainly bargain for an additional four or five hours a day. One could get a bit closer to all the wonders that clay holds while quite possibly finishing a couple of cross word puzzles at the same time.

Cat’s aren’t the only meow: Leonardland seems to have become a haven for borrachos, maranos, as well as a few peros calientes. I like playing god with my little universe and matching the little creatures off two by two. And why not, a flood may be coming



Chris Leonard
(956) 457-5925
Leonardskirules@hotmail.com http://www.leonardski.com/

"El Centro" opening TODAY @ Galeria 409

Galeria 409 presents 'El Centro', an exhibition of photographs curated by Brad Doherty plus 'HistoricBrownsville, Heroic Matamoros', a show of paintings and photography of the Sister Cities. The show opens with a reception at 6:00 pm onThursday, September 6th. Galeria 409 is located at409 East 13th Street in downtown historic Brownsville, one block from the GatewayBridge. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from noon until 5:00pm. Admissionis always free.

Melissa Zamora

Melissa Zamora
Blogginallthingsbrownsville.com


Weathered


My body awoke to the stunning sound of rain tapping at my windowsill,
But my soul was never at rest.
For the thoughts in my head continued to fritter away the day's poison pill,
Passion oppressed.
Still, as I watched God's weary water embrace the battered soils,
I took comfort in its innocence.
Long had I seen such true spoils,
As I yearned to be those blades of grass with its deliberate defense.

Noemi Martinez

here's a piece called "reality"

The browning of America they say
but It's not evident
until you see who's cooking
your zen garden bowl of noodles
when we see brown brothers
working in snazzy yuppie catering
establishments on congress and sixth.
The browning of this meat
can't be seen in the strawberries,
grapes, oranges, onions that
we consume with no
second though on the thumbs
that blacken
and burn.
the browning in El Paso sand
where voiceless bones are bleached,
the sun tenderly loving the already dead.
tell me when
when this fucking new dawn
age of revolution will come
tell me when this fucking take over
is scheduled to appear
we've been waiting
for 500 years
with no release in sight.
we've seen too many too many
raza, the brown folks,
killed, scalped, beheaded, handcuffed, raped, gutted.
Too many of us sent, trained to kill
kill ourselves with lies
of a better tomorrow
a steady paycheck
and we have fucking killed ourselves,
killed each other, misled
signed up for a rich man's war.
We have this history in our blood
of assimilation, acculturation, murder and revelations
cultural genocide, ethnocide
riding on three white horses
yet we repeat the process
ingest, repeat
ingest, repeat
when will this browning of amerikka
be here
because I am so tired
so fucking tired of
having to reteach to my seven year old
who Christopher Columbus really was
and what really happened to the "Indians"
and how being brown is not wrong.
and there being one black history month
and one "his-panic" month
but i'm trying to teach him
to be proud chicano
12 months out of the year.
Calma, Mimi, Calma.
cuz i'm trying to teach him
to be nonviolent,
nonsexist,
unmacho
in this fucked up society
where our voice is constantly
being silenced,
repressed,
oppressed.
when the color lines became apparent
to him at two, the class lines at four.
reality
we were never meant to survive.

--
Noemi "hermana, resist" Martinez
http://www.hermanaresist.com
Edingburg, Tx