January 11 - 30, 2025
From Dock Space Gallery:
“Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014), The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024), which has been longlisted for the National Book Award, and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize given by the Academy of American Poets, forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press.
Octavio is the founder and director of the literature & arts festival, VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely, including in the Mexican Cultural Institute in San Antonio, El Paso Museum of Art, Presa House Gallery, and the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University.
“My work is often mixed-genre and multidisciplinary, exploring the dynamics of belonging/not belonging in U.S./Mexico (and elsewhere). I explore oppositional dynamics such as cultural loss/assimilation, memory/fragmentation, migration/homeland, and often through the lens of poetics: visual poetry, video poetry, found objects, and text. Through visual abstraction, I investigate and document what it means to navigate geographic, cultural, and linguistic loss (and reacquisition).”
Opening Reception is Saturday, Jan 11th, 2025 from 6-9pm as part of the Second Saturday Artwalk in the Lone Star Art District. Octavio will be signing his books and we will have a poetry reading with him and invited poets: ire’ne lara silva, Jen Yáñez-Alaniz, and Zach Sokoloski.
107 Lone Star Blvd, San Antonio, TX 78204. The exhibition is up through January and the gallery is open by appointment. Call Bill FitzGibbons at 210-723-3048 to view outside of the reception times.”
Reception: January 11, 2024 | 6–9 pm
107 Lone Star Blvd.
San Antonio, 78204 Texas
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