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Please scroll down for more details about each event. If you have any questions, please contact pr@mexic-artemuseum.org or (512) 480-9373 x84.
15th Young Latino Artists: Consensus of Taste
July 16 - August 29, 2010
Serie Print Project XVII
July 16 - August 29, 2010
Promises of Independence & Revolution: Artists Interpreting Mexico
September 25 - November 21, 2010
Mix ‘n’ Mash Exhibit Opening and Art Sale / Trees of Life
December 3, 2010 - January 2011
Colors on Clay: Pottery of San Antonio
January 22 – April 17, 2011
Totally Cool Totally Art
February 14 – 28, 2011
Sam Coronado, Painter and Printmaker
May - June 2011
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 Curated by Claudia Zapata, M.A. in Art
History from the University of Texas at Austin, this exhibition features the
current visual artwork of artists from the past fourteen YLA exhibitions. American art critic Clement Greenberg's paper
“Can Taste Be Objective?” suggests there is a “consensus of taste” in which disputed
taste eventually is agreed upon by all parties.
The curator utilizes this concept to showcase past YLA artists' current
work and their development into professional visual artists.
In 1996, the inception of the Young Latino
Artists exhibition resulted in one of the most highly anticipated annual
traditions for the Mexic-Arte Museum. Originally, Sylvia Orozco, the Museum’s Co-Founder
and Executive Director, based the YLA exhibition concept and structure after
Mexico’s El Encuentro Nacional de Arte
Joven (ENAJ), an annual exhibition of selected artists 30 years old and
younger working in all forms of media.
Since 1966 (when ENAJ was founded), this Aguascalientes-based
exhibition has provided an invaluable forum for young Mexican artists to present
their work. Aspiring to achieve similar
programming success – and with the additional objective of creating a forum for
Latinos to gain museum experience as curators and visual artists – Orozco created
the Young Latino Artists exhibition. Now
in its fifteenth year, the current YLA exhibition looks back at previously
selected artists’ and presents their current artwork as professional visual
artists. YLA has become the most
energetic exhibition of the season, challenging Texas Latino artists under the
age of 35 to create their vision in an experimental reexamination of social and
aesthetic norms.
YLA 15 artists are Jesus Benavente, Candace Briceño, Margarita Cabrera, Bobby Dixon, Santiago
Forero, Eduardo Xavier Garcia, Ivete Lucas, Randy Muniz, Cruz Ortiz, Matthew
Rodriguez, Carlos Rosales-Silva, Abel Saucedo, Vargas-Suarez Universal, David
“Shek” Vega, and Jason Villegas.
Read the Austin American-Statesman article, "Mexic-Arte Museum's Young Latino Artists exhibit goes beyond cultural identity," by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin.
Click here to view images of the installation.
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The Serie Project, a Latino arts studio in Austin, will present to the public the latest editions of hand pulled fine art Serigraphy prints. The Serie XVII Exhibition, debuting at Mexic-Arte Museum, will showcase the work of 10 emerging and well-established artists that participated in Serie’s residency program. These fine art serigraph prints represent the unique perspectives of the artists and their background. This year the Serie Project was pleased to host the following:
- Byron Brauchli from Veracruz, Mexico
- Ruben Miranda from Grapevine, Texas
- Emmanuel Montoya from San Francisco, California
- Maria Natividad from El Paso, Texas
- Tony Ortega from Denver, Colorado
- Mike Parsons from Austin, Texas
- Eugene Rodriguez from San Francisco, California
- Paul Sierra from Chicago, Illinois
- Paul Valadez from Edinburg, Texas
- Micheal Velliquette from San Antonio, Texas
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The exhibition will feature art and cultural material from
private collections and Austin local artists, both historical and contemporary,
to commemorate the bicentennial and centennial anniversaries of Mexican
Independence and Revolution. The exhibit
will utilize various representations of history, related to the 2010
anniversaries, to highlight how artists in Mexico and in our community have
interpreted, recorded and celebrated these events through illustration,
documentary, and commentary. It will
include paintings, prints, documentary
photography, books, and historical material culture relevant to the theme.
Contemporary artists’
work will be featured, including sculptor Jose Acosta’s larger-than-life-sized sculpture, Pípila, based on one of the heroes of
the Mexican Independence. Eduardo Xavier Garcia will create a
video/sound installation based on historic photographs, from the Nettie Lee
Benson Latin American Library, of the 1910 commemorative parade organized under
Porfirio Díaz’ presidency. Renowned
Austin artist Fidencio Duran will
showcase representational drawings.
Click here for related education event programming.
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Derived from the terms "mix-and-match" (to combine elements in a harmonious and interesting way) and "mash-up" (a work that blends two or more songs or pieces of art from different genres), Mix 'n' Mash is an original concept by Mexic-Arte Museum, which refers not only to the mashing of genres into one work of art, but also to the mixing of work by various artists to create a unique collector's set.
Mexic-Arte Museum will invite over 100 local and regional artists to create works of art on 12” x 12” panels. The public may acquire one or more panels of artwork – ranging in all styles and media – and make their own diptych or triptych. The professional quality acid-free panels used by the artists are Gessobord, made in Austin, Texas and were generously donated by Ampersand.
In the Back Gallery, the Trees of Life exhibition will explore the historic roots of the “Trees of Life” tradition and the tree’s evolution as both ritual object and highly-prized collectible. Over time, and despite stylistic differences, certain motifs have emerged in trees made by artists working in these different communities.
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Drawn from the outstanding private collection of Susan Toomey Frost, this exhibition features a selection of brightly colored ceramic artwork decorated to reflect the imagery of Mexico and South Texas with depictions of every day culture and cowboy life. Generically referred to as “San José tiles,” the works were locally produced by small groups of artisans working in a succession of three workshops including Mexican Arts and Crafts, San Jose Potteries and Mission Crafts from 1931 to 1971, led by entrepreneur Ethel Wilson. A highlight of the exhibit is the artwork including drawings, sketches and paintings of Fernando Ramos, the principal artist for the first workshop, Mexican Arts and Crafts.
The Back Gallery will include ceramic work from Mexic-Arte Museum's Permanent Collection as well as a contemporary art work created by a local artist part reinterpreting traditional ceramic work. The Museum will also work with a tile workshop in Dolores, Hidalgo to create an art work by Austin Artists.
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| Mexic-Arte Museum’s partnership with the City of Austin is designed to encourage teenagers to create and learn from art features student-made artwork created in after-school workshops. The teenagers produce high-quality artwork in media such as photography, illustration, mixed media and video, which are then exhibited at Mexic-Arte Museum and celebrated with an opening reception annually in February. |
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| An exhibition reviewing 35 years of artist Sam Coronado’s work and his contributions to the local and national Latino art scene. Coronado, a prominent Austin artist and Associate Professor in the Visual Communication at Austin Community College, works in both media of painting and printmaking, and he is strongly influenced by his bicultural Mexican American background. He is the founder and director of the Serie Project, a non-profit organization whose mission is to create and promote serigraph prints by Latino and other artists. Coronado’s work is in international and national collections and has been exhibited in the US, Mexico, Europe, Africa, Colombia and China. The Back Gallery will feature some of Coronado’s contemporaries.
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