Blue Star Contemporary presents the work of Doerte Weber, Joanna Keane Lopez, and Terran Last Gun
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SAN ANTONIO, TX
.-Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonios first and longest-running contemporary art nonprofit, announces the opening of three new summer 2021 exhibitions.
The solo exhibitions feature the work of Doerte Weber, Joanna Keane Lopez, and Terran Last Gun. Doerte Weber presents Shed, a collection of weavings reflecting on COVID-19, everyday life during the pandemic, and climate issues. Joanna Keane Lopez is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blurs boundaries between contemporary sculpture and architecture through the medium of adobe mud. Her BSC presentation will include a newly commissioned sculptural work. Terran Last Gun presents an exhibition of ledger drawings, a form which rose to prominence among Native American artists in the mid-1800s and continues today.
Posted By Bryan Rindfuss on Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 12:06 PM click to enlarge Carmen Cartiness Johnson,
The Octagon Room, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60”, Courtesy of the artist Given that it’s as old as the hills, including the ones in ancient Egypt, portraiture might not seem like an apt vehicle to convey contemporary ideas. But the age-old tradition has evolved continuously eschewing self-aggrandizing displays of power, wealth and beauty to become a wildly adaptable storytelling device. “The most famous portraits have this static sense to them. The point of painting the portrait wasn’t necessarily presenting this huge, broader narrative,” explained Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray, curator and exhibitions manager at Blue Star Contemporary. “But a lot of these portraits Dutch portraits, English portraits, the Mona
Posted By Kiko Martinez on Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 9:08 AM click to enlarge Courtesy of Contemporary Art Month A still from Julia Zipporah s #BIRDEATINGOTHER (2020), one of the film works featured in this year s CAM Perennial exhibition Here, the rivers run both ways. When COVID-19 hit the United States around this time last year, San Antonio’s Contemporary Art Month became one of the many events canceled in its wake. This year, things are different. CAM executive director Nina Hassele and the board were determined to get creative and hammer out a new way to carry on the celebration in a pandemic-safe way. As other event promoters have done over the past year, the organizers are giving artists and attendees a digital option. CAM will