Archives for Visual Art

"True Believers: Benny Andrews & Deborah Roberts" and "Margarita Cabrera: Blurring Borders" opened Oct. 6 and run through Jan. 22.

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts Feature, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, art, contemporary art, McNay Art Museum, exhibitions, Margarita Cabrera, Blurring Borders, True Believers, Benny Andrews, Deborah Roberts, African Americans, Black, collage, El Paso, nepantla, The Way to the Promised Land, Revival Series, church, O'Say Can't You See, U.S. Mexico border, border, immigration, Mexican, Latinx, violence, labor practices, El Paso Strong, mass shooting, A Space Between, embroidery, immigrant community, mechanical parrots, AR, augmented reality, Cover Story

Cabrera's solo exhibition 'Blurred Borders' will be on view through January 22, 2023.

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, art, contemporary art, Margarita Cabrera, El Paso, McNay Art Museum, Blurred Borders, solo exhibition, Texas landscape, cactus, nepantla, Borderlands/La Frontera, A Space Between, digital chaos, mimicry, mechanical parrots, immigration, violence, migrant deaths, immigrant communities, Tequitl, video

The exhibition is on view at Trinity's Neidorff Art Gallery through Oct. 15.

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts Feature, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, art, contemporary art, Karen Mahaffy, Trinity University, Neidorff Art Gallery, exhibition, Objects of Absence, Arctic Dreams (Land is the Measure of Time), PLAYhouse, Yanaguana Garden, Hemisfair, arctic, polar expeditions, floriography, Victorian era, Sherwin-Williams, Raging Sea, Franklin Expedition, constellations, Cassiopeia, Polaris, Arctic, Arctic expeditions, Alaska, Columbia Glacier, language of flowers, recontextualizing objects, Antarctica, Eagle Island, sandblasting, etching, mirror, domestic objects, artifacts

The exhibition features works from 10 of Gwangju's leading artists.

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts Feature, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, art, contemporary art, Artpace, Our Step Our Hope, sister city, South Korea, Gwangju, Yonghyun Lim, Jeolla-do Province, Sister Cities International, Eunsol Cho, Youngsung Hwang, Seonhooi Cheng, Namjin Lim, Seol Park

'Tangible/Nothing' is the contemporary art space's second full-fledged exhibition and its first to be curated by Ruby City Director Elyse A. Gonzales.

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts Feature, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, art, contemporary art, Ruby City, Tangible/Nothing, exhibition, Linda Pace Foundation Collection, Linda Pace, David Adjaye, Elyse A. Gonzales, San Antonio artists, Chuck Ramirez, Katie Pell, Daniel Joseph Martinez, David Cabrera, Mona Hatoum, Paul Pfeiffer, Dario Robleto, Nate Cassie, Jim Mendiola, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Miguel Ramos, Adam Schreiber, Nina Katchadourian, Rick Lowe, Benjamin Moore, Ericson and Ziegler, Teresita Fernández, Milagros de la Torre, Alejandro Diaz, Yasumasa Morimura, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, David Avalos

Marquez spent nearly two weeks working in the heat, painting what he refers to as the 'Trailer of Death.'

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts Feature, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, Roberto Marquez, mural, painter, art, contemporary art, migrants, memorial, Quintana Road, activism, migrant deaths, tractor trailer, San Antonio migrant deaths, Robenz, Ukraine, Uvalde, South Texas

The show challenges preconceived notions about Asian Americans, particularly ones that ignore the challenges people face in their adopted homeland.

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts Feature, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, McNay Art Museum, McNay, art contemporary art, Reflecting Selves, Asian American Artists in Texas, Asian American, model minority, Philana Li, Leslie Straus, Ben Aqua, Theysians, AAPI, Asian American and Pacific Islander, LGBTQ, LGBTQ+, Antonius-Tín Bui, Not Sorry for the Trouble, Zoë Watts, Jana Ercilla, Brandon Tho Harris, colorism, photography, photographs, paper cutting, stereotypes

Isaac Julien's 2004 piece True North will be on display through Jan. 29 of next year.

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Arts Feature, San Antonio, Texas, art, contemporary art, exhibition, Issac Julien, True North, Arctic, expedition, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, American History Illustrated, Inuit, Ootah, Egingwah, Seegloo, Ooqueah, Black explorer, African American explorer, Vanessa Myrie, Matthew Henson, Robert Peary, film installation, film, Arctic exploration, Linda Pace, Ruby City

'Travel Distance' and 'The Veterans Book Project' will be on view through Sept. 25.

Tags: Things to Do, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, art, contemporary art, Blue Star Contemporary, things to do in San Antonio, art exhibition, Travel Distance, The Veterans Book Project, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, U.S. military, veterans, Monica Haller, Miridith Campbell, Joe Devera, Claudia Hare, Jenn Hassin, Gina Herrera, Monte Little, Jessica Putnam-Phillips, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Renee Romero, Sarah Sudhoff, armed forces, Amber Zora

Zavala opened Not For You Gallery at the Blue Star Arts Complex last year with her partner, Edward Perez.

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts Feature, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, art, contemporary art, Ursula Zavala, San Antonio artist, Blue Start Arts Complex, Upstairs Studios, art gallery, gallerist, Not For You Gallery, N4U Gallery, Not 4 U Gallery, Edward Perez

'Every Time We Say Goodbye' and 'Carbonate of Copper' will be on view through the end of the summer.

Tags: Things to Do, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, Every Time We Say Goodbye, Carbonate of Copper, Michael Guerra Foerster, Jennifer Teets, Gwenneth Boelens, Anna Mayer, Kate Newby, George Smith, Josie Ann Teets, Roberto Tejada, Artpace, Hudson Showroom, main space, art, contemporary art, ceramic, group exhibition, solo exhibition, things to do in San Antonio, opening reception

"Gaby Collins-Fernandez & Carlos Rosales-Silva: Applied Pressure" opens Wednesday, May 18.

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Carlos Rosales-Silva, art, contemporary art, San Antonio, Texas, things to do in San Antonio, abstract, Ruiz-Healy Art, exhibition

Ray Tattooed Boy has teased an exclusive drop of artwork exclusive to the show.

Tags: Things to Do, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, First Friday, art, contemporary art, Ray Tattooed Boy, BLK WHT GRY Gallery, Blue Star, Blue Star Arts Complex, street style, puro, screen prints, prints, new prints, print drop

'Time Has Changed My Mind' is Hall's first solo show in San Antonio.

Tags: Things to Do, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, art, contemporary art, FL!GHT Gallery, FLIGHT Gallery, Time Has Changed My Mind, Michael W. Hall, First Friday, Blue Star, Blue Star Arts Complex

"Rooted" will be on view from Apr. 16-Oct. 30.

Tags: Things to Do, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, Steve Tobin, Rooted, exhibition, art, contemporary art, sculpture, nature-inspired, San Antonio Botanical Garden, Botanical Garden, Steelroots, Bronze Roots, things to do in San Antonio

The "The Status of Women in San Antonio" opened March 22 and will be on view through the summer.

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts Feature, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, The Status of Women in San Antonio, Culture Commons Gallery, Department of Arts & Culture, City of San Antonio, art, contemporary art, women artists, exhibition, gender disparities, Rogelio Saenz, Lily Casura, Kallie Cheves, Sarah Fox, Mari Hernandez, Carmen Johnson Alexander, Megan Harrison, Ana Hernandez, Rhys Munro, Adriana Garcia, wage disparities, domestic abuse, suicide, lack healthcare access

Tags: Things to Do, Visual Art, Briscoe Western Art Museum, western, Briscoe, art, exhibition, auction, sale, benefit, event, San Antonio, Texas, West, Western, Wild West, exhibit, public, museum, cowboys, horses, art, creativity, creative, artists, contemporary, contemporary art, contemporary artists, wildlife, portraiture, paining, sculpture, craft, landscapes, landscape, night, fundraiser, auction, sale, public, in person, night of artists

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Arts Feature, Visual Art, San Antonio, Texas, art, contemporary art, Blue Star Contemporary, Blue Star, Contemporary Art Month, CAM, Berlin Residency, Jimmy James Canales, Megan Harrison, Justin Korver, From Your Brow Rise Leaf and Lyre, The Line Layer, Buck

Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Visual Art, Arts Feature, San Antonio, Texas, McNay Art Museum, McNay, Sarah Fox, Marion Koogler McNay, Marion McNay, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Xavier GiImore, Lisette Chavez, Alyssa Danna, Libby Rowe, art, contemporary art, video art, video, puppets, puppet show, sexual content, adult content, rejected, exhibition, rejection, C136, sexuality, women, feminism, censorship, San Antonio art, San Antonio artists, womanhood, sex, removal, removed artwork, Bad Bunny, commissioned

Tags: Things to Do, Visual Art, free, free event, free admission, McNay, art, museum, art museum, exhibition, family, friendly, family friendly, food, food trucks, picnic, outdoor, indoor, music, live, live music, spring, spring season, fun