Tsurikov was the director of the El Paso Museum of History and the interim director of the El Paso Museum of Art.
After his arrest was announced, the city of El Paso issued a statement saying: The City does not publicly comment on personnel issues. Mr. von Tsurikov is no longer an employee of the City of El Paso.
He was put in charge of the El Paso Museum of History in August 2018. He was named interim director of the El Paso Museum of Art in August 2019.
He still was listed as the director of both museums on their websites on Thursday afternoon.
About Julie Anand and Damon Sauer
Damon Sauer and Julie Anand are artists and educators based in Phoenix, Arizona. Anand and Sauer s current collaboration Ground Truth Corona Landmarks explores the the ubiquity of contemporary satellite technology filling the skies in the context of the remains of Cold War satellite calibration markers on the ground. The project was chosen as a Critical Mass Top 50 selection in 2016 and has recently been featured in Wired magazine and Places Journal with upcoming features in Lenscratch and Hyperallergic.
Both artists received their MFA degrees in Photography from the University of New Mexico in 2005 and have been collaborating for over a decade. They use an interdisciplinary, haptic approach to lens-based media to interrogate boundaries and to explore the body as a site of perception. Art New England favorably reviewed Anand and Sauer’s first formal collaboration in 2004. Since then, their collaborative work has been exhibited at venues includin
Gubidxa Guerrero Luis, Portrait of Juan Sandoval, Photograph on Paper, 29¾” x 19¾”. Mexic-Arte Museum Permanent Collection 2020.2.201.1. Gift of Juan Antonio Sandoval Jr. Courtesy the Mexic-Arte Museum
For the majority of prominent art collectors, their ability to buy art can be traced back to an abundance of personal or familial wealth. For Mexican and Latinx art collector Juan Sandoval, it can be traced back to the simple decision to not own a car.
“He always said the money he might have spent buying an automobile, maintaining it and buying gasoline, he had that amount of money available to purchase art,” says Claudia Rivers, head of Special Collections at UT El Paso Libraries and a close friend of Sandoval’s.
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Artist Ivan Calderon earned his degree in Painting & Drawing at UTEP and has since exhibited work nationally in New York and Texas.
Ivan has an active presence in the El Paso art scene, he has been a teaching artist at the El Paso Museum of Art and he’s also taught at Creative Kids.
Originally Broadcast on April 3, 2021