Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits and artist-run spaces across the state of Texas send us video walk-throughs of their current exhibitions. This will continue while the coronavirus situation hinders public access to exhibitions. Let’s get your show in front of an audience.
Cande Aguilar:
It’s only barrioPOP but I like it at grayDUCK Gallery, Austin. Dates: April 9 – May 23, 2021.
Via artist/writer Noe Hinojosa for Cultbytes:
“What is Cande Aguilar’s barrioPOP? In the United States, when you place the word ‘barrio’ in front of anything, it acts as a filter. It filters whatever words follow through a Mexican American context down to a common denominator: the neighborhood. If I say I can play barrio tennis, it means I may not have the fancy equipment or clothes, and my strokes may not be refined, but I do know the rules, and I can play. I might have to jump a
Five-Minute Tours: Donna Carnahan at La Donna Foto Studio at The Silos of Sawyer Yards, Houston glasstire.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from glasstire.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Via Big Medium:
“Inspired by stories of nature regenerating and reclaiming space during the Covid19 pandemic,
W I L D L I F E examines what happens when humanity removes itself from the natural world. The exhibition also introduces a new material for the artist the ceremonial bindi, worn for centuries on the forehead in Indian culture for spiritual, traditional, and fashion reasons. It can be seen as a third eye creating an opening to infinity or as a symbol of femininity. For the natural world depicted in the paintings, the renewed and rejuvenated flora and fauna are anthropomorphized with hundreds of bindis as wildlife reincarnated with third eyes. The twinkling of the jeweled bindis carry remnants of memory. The severed animal heads from which the new nature grows are depicted upside down to represent self-sabotage and the mistakes of the past.
Five-Minute Tours: Celia Eberle at Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas glasstire.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from glasstire.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.