Ed Saavedra: Ain’t Necessarily So
Sala Diaz
July 26 - August 24, 2014
San Antonio
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Sour Grapes: From Street to Studio
Last Chance - July 2 through 30, 2014
New work from the Dallas street art collective Sour Grapes.
Nurture & Nature
Last Chance - July 11 through 30, 2014
Works about "Sex, Animals, Dripping Cakes, Flowers, and the Everyday Object" from Ann Wood (Galveston), Clare Little (Santa Barbara, CA), Scotty Hensler (Lubbock), Carol Cunningham (San Antonio) and Wes Harvey (San Antonio).
C.J. Duron: Glass
Last Chance - July 13 through 31, 2014
C.J. Duron is a San Antonio-based glass carver.
Tommy Gregory: Lost Pines & Ben Judson: The Dying Words
Last Chance - July 3 through 31, 2014
A monumental steeple sculpture from Gregory and a video by Judson that features excerpts of final statements made by death row inmates.
Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers
Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
June 5 through August 3, 2014
Curated by Anne Leighton Massoni & Libby Rowe. Featuring works focused on photography as a medium for storytelling, from 23 artists.
Jenelle Esparza: Ancestral Archetypes
Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
July 2 through August 3, 2014
New work by the San Antonio-based artist.
Matisse and Picasso: A Friendly Rivalry
June 18 through August 10, 2014
The works in this two-person show are entirely sourced from the McNay’s holdings of Picasso and Matisse.
Summer Solstice
May 13 through August 13, 2014
A pop-up exhibition from Octavia Gallery featuring SA artists Waddy Armstrong, Jerry Cabrera and Rodolfo Choperena.
Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting
June 11 through August 17, 2014
13 emerging and mid-career abstract painters whose art is characterized in whole or part by high-key color, obsessive layering of surface imagery, use of overall and repeated patterns, stylized motifs, fragments of representation, and a tension between melancholy and the sublime. Including works by Jose Alvarez D.O.P.A, Ryan McGinness, Kamrooz Aram, Beatriz Milhazes, Charles Burwell, Jiha Moon, Annette Davidek, Paul Henry Ramirez, Fausto Fernandez, Rex Ray, Nancy Lorenz, Rosalyn Schwartz and Susan Chrysler White.
Hiromi Tsuji Stringer: As a Manner of Fact ... Graffiti for Civilized Tranquility
July 5 through August 23, 2014
New works from Japanese native Stringer, based on excerpts from Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior.
UTSA Art Collection: Texas Contemporary Artist Series
June 4 through August 29, 2014
Works from the university collection, by 11 San Antonio artists.
Vincent Valdez: The Strangest Fruit
May 8 through August 31, 2014
Large-scale paintings of the artist’s friends as victims of hanging in reference to the historical lynching of Latinos in the U.S.
Cathy Cunningham-Little: Within the Angles of Incidence
May 8 through August 31, 2014
A luminous, and color-saturated mural, using light as a primary medium.
All-School Exhibition
Southwest School of Art Russell Hill Rogers Gallery- Navarro Campus
July 19 through August 31, 2014
Works by recent SW School students. Shown: Victor Pagona
Matisse: Life in Color
June 14 through September 7, 2014
If you can't make Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at London's Tate Modern this summer, head to San Antonio to enjoy more than eighty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper of Matisse's, drawn from the Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Pace Gems: Selections from the Linda Pace Foundation’s Permanent Collection
April 18 through September 13, 2014
For the inaugural exhibition at Space, Executive Director Maura Reilly has co-curated, with Kelly O'Connor, an exhibition to highlight a selection of works from the Foundation's Permanent collection.
Summer 2014 International Artist-in-Residence Exhibition
July 10 through September 14, 2014
Congratulations to 14.2 residents Kader Attia (Algiers/Berlin), Margaret Meehan (Dallas) and Jungeun Lee (Frisco)!
Flatland
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
July 11 through October 11, 2014
A group show exploring globalization and the notion of flatness, via artists of the Americas. (Psst: guys, somebody for sure a really long time ago proved that the earth is round, but, you know. We like flat screen TVs too.) Featuring works by Carlos Aires (Málaga, Spain), Mark Hogensen (San Antonio), Leigh Anne Lester (San Antonio), Rigoberto Luna (San Antonio), Cisco Merel (Panama City, Panama), Ann-Michele Morales (San Luis Potosí, Mexico), Ricardo Rendón (Mexico City), Ansen Seale (San Antonio), Xochi Solis (Austin) and Jason Villegas (Houston).
UTSA Art Collection: Texas Contemporary Artist Series
UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures
May 3 through October 24, 2014
A group exhibition featuring: Luis Valderas, Leigh Anne Lester, Carmen Oliver, Henry Cardenas, Luis M. Garza, Rex Hausmann, Henry Catenacci, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Ana Fernandez, Luisa Wheeler, Pepe Serna and Lauren Browning. Exhibition Curator: Arturo Infante Almeida.
Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body
June 21 through November 3, 2014
"Sometimes it’s stinky; sometimes it’s crusty; and sometimes it’s slimy. Explore why your body produces mushy, oozy, crusty, scaly and stinky gunk." SIGN US UP!!
Coming to Light
April 12 through December 7, 2014
Works from 42 internationally acclaimed and emerging photographers, recently acquired by the Wittliff.
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