Purcell spoke with mother and daughter on why they’ve chosen to open a second space, the differences between the two cities’ art worlds, and the surprising ways in which they overlap.
Ruiz-Healy
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Interview
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Reviews of current shows by Jorge Alegría, Mario Ybarra Jr., and Jennifer Ling Datchuk.
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It is simply amazing how “something” takes up residence in “nothing” if one is able to surrender to it.
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Review
No Necessary Time Axis on Evolutionary Novelties: Leigh Anne Lester’s Cut Copies
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoLester uses blind contour — the act of drawing an object without looking at the paper — to physicalize the inherent impossibility of a perfect copy in the propagation of life.
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In an age of relentless, braying defenses and assertions of grotesquely 'fixed' concepts, Jiménez's and Cabrera's works say: "No, this is not the world, this has never been the world."
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The show carries on the lineage of Menchaca’s ancestors; with his wit, imagination, and intimacy with San Antonio, he's making a new "map" that despite its playful surrealism makes perfect sense.
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Many of the paintings have a gauzy logic just out of reach.
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The way culture engraves itself on you is the haunting core of Richard Armendariz’s show.
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Casas' work is an expansive and fluid vision — an enduring aesthetic of Chicano art while challenging what exactly that meant when Casas was alive, and what it could be going forward.
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"...be on the watch for the interval, the place where you are given a choice and a chance to add goodness to the world.”
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Amado's fascination with felt has been like a slow-drip I.V. as determined by his daily engagement with process—a certain amount each day is enough when it is all you do.
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For more than a decade, El Paso-based artist Margarita Cabrera has dedicated her art making to venerating the lives of Mexican immigrants