This year, San Antonio's "Best of CAM" award for most exceptional artwork was presented to Daniela Riojas, a young and adventurous emerging artist.
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As a conceptual artist and practicing DJ, Boyd approaches each project much like a recording artist developing a concept album.
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"I live in a world that cannot afford the luxury of progress. There are so few homes where the buffalo roam that they discontinued the nickel."
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Since the early 1980s, the San Antonio native has made highly eccentric painted reliefs, sculptures, and installations featuring loony, childlike imagery that’s often cleverly encoded with biting social commentary.
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A relative newcomer to the San Antonio art scene, Fernando Andrade is one of five artists who make up the inaugural class of the Guadalupe Cultural Art Center's Artist Lab program.
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Leigh Anne Lester is known for art that focuses on the changing conditions of humans and the environment.
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In the spirit of Fluxus, Kubo takes an "anything can happen" attitude, and his events can bring complete strangers a little closer together.
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"We continue to struggle with how we feel about Smithson’s words. ...one passage in particular claims flatly that Mexico is a violent and dangerous place. We are choosing consciously not to turn away from Smithson’s racism but towards it."
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The American Genre Film Archive in Austin rescues 35mm film prints and celebrates outrageous and overlooked cinema.
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A San Antonio-based artist who has been exhibiting since the early 2000s, Joey Fauerso is known for videos, animations, and works on paper that blur the boundaries between painting, drawing, and performance.
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On his website and business card, San Antonio native Rolando Briseño lists his profession as "Cultural Adjustor and Public Artist."
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Austin’s Punk/New Wave Cinema, Discovered and Re-Discovered
by Peter Lucasby Peter LucasA newly restored program of rarely seen short films gives a glimpse of Austin's DIY rennaisance in the late-'70s and early-'80s.
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At once humorous and unsettling, Lawrence's work treads the fine line between beauty and horror.
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His images are, by turns: beautiful, hallucinogenic, brutal, erotic, and subversively funny.
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For her latest exhibition, Eileen Maxson materializes iconic moments from the 1994 cult classic “Reality Bites”
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Saakred is a 26-year-old queer/trans artist, musician, filmmaker, and community activist living in San Antonio.
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I want to keep them excited about art! I look forward to helping them develop their skills and opening them up to new possibilities.
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The Houston art writer has paused writing and is publishing a new magazine of artists' works: "I’m not in love with my own voice. I’m in love with seeing things."
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Sauter undertakes the majority of his explorations using installation formats; it allows him to present his discourses with a physical immediacy on a very human scale.
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Functionating on Time Station Earth with Esther Pearl Watson
by Gene Fowlerby Gene FowlerDespite the instability caused by her father's obsession with space travel, most of the narratives in Watson's paintings are imbued with a sweetness of memory