Monday, October 8, 2018

8 On A Hot Plate






















8 On A Hot Plate: Laredo College Art Faculty Exhibition

The Ben Bailey Art Gallery at Texas A&M University-Kingsville is the site of Eight On A Hot Plate Works by Laredo College Art Faculty. Artist include, Eva Soliz, Dale Short, David Bausman, Gary Brown, Lestat Alexander, Mark Johnson, Mary Bausman and Alvaro Perez. The exhibit is on display through November 30. A reception will be held from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. Friday November 9, 2018.

The Bailey Art Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more
information, call 361-593-3401

Monday, August 20, 2018

KIN Cassie Normandy White



















Art exhibit revolves around intelligence of non-human life
Ben Bailey Art Gallery - 08/30/18 - 09/28/18





























  

Contact: Julie Navejar
julie.navejar@tamuk.edu or 361-593-2590

The Ben Bailey Art Gallery at Texas A&M University-Kingsville is currently the temporary home of an art exhibit entitled KIN, by Texas native Cassie Normandy White. The exhibit will be on display until Friday, Sept. 28. An artist reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21.

The title of White’s exhibit comes from the proposal of environmental forest biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, who suggests “we replace the standard ‘it’ with the pronoun ‘ki’ for singular use and ‘kin’ for plural use so that we may shift our worldview of non-human life as objects, and instead recognize their being-ness.”

“Kimmerer’s research catalyzed a curiosity and passion for learning from the natural world, which led me down paths of inquiry across fields of forest ecology, animal behavior and plant cognition,” White said. “This research revealed who we live within a culture that assumes a hierarchy of value where humans, and especially human intelligence, is placed on top.

“We are now learning how non-human life is capable of behaving in ways that suggest intelligence, through mechanisms different than our own. Steeping in this research has shifted the way I engage with my natural surroundings and has molded my current creative process,” she added.

“My subjects reflect the overlooked: they are either miniscule, common or hidden, easily receding into the background of everyday experience. Given time and observation, these seemingly banal subjects are reminders of the mystery, complexity and coincidence of life on earth,” White said.

“My work weaves curiosity with materials, an interest in process, and unforeseen results that occur when these two meet,” she said. “This leads to a type of generative darkness, where experimentation guides decision-making and surprises drive me to explore further. This body of work uses three distinct ways of working to address common forms of life interacting with water, soil and air.

“I utilize man-made materials to evoke natural phenomena, and reveal the complexity of these unseen worlds through visual representation. I hope to encourage observation, so that we may begin acknowledging and appreciating the wonders and mysteries of kin who surround us,” White said.

 About Cassie Normandy White
Cassie Normandy White was born in San Antonio and grew up in Austin. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from Texas State University. She has worked at Flatbed Press in Austin and was the printmaking studio technician at Austin Community College prior to moving to Corpus Christi. More recently, White completed her Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Tulane University in New Orleans.

The Ben Bailey Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 361-593-3401.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Jorge Puron: Works from 2015-2017



















The Ben Bailey Art Gallery at Texas A&M University-Kingsville is the site of Works from 2015-2017 by San Antonio artist Jorge Puron. The exhibit is on display through Saturday, March 31. Puron’s artist talk and reception will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 1.

“My work is starkly geometric and founded upon hard-edged forms,” Puron said. “I explore the concept of spatial relationships and how they are affected by the application of line and color. My purely geometric work confronts perception by subjecting form, and the practice by which it is painted.
 “The resulting, reductive images both suggest and resist the need for detail and narrative myth by denying the viewer symbolic references. The effect is blunt and aesthetically confrontational. It negates conventions about form and art-historical references while hinting to a system of order hovering just beyond perception,” he added.

Puron was born in Piedras Negras, Mexico but he currently lives and works in San Antonio. His art is influenced by a life lived on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. With over 100 national and international solo and group exhibitions, his work has been shown at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas, Museo Alameda in San Antonio, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, El Paso Museum of Art, Museo Reyes Meza in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and many more.

In 2002, he co-founded Jardin del Arte, a project to promote artists in San Miguel de Allende and in 2010, he was appointed advisor to the Municipal Council of Culture in Piedras Negras. In 2013, Puron received the Eric Schaudies Memorial Award at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, the top prize for the Third Coast National juried exhibition. His work was recently featured in documented exhibits, Un Provincial and Borderwave in 2016 and Practical Arts of Perception in 2017.

His work is part of private and corporate collections in North America and Europe. Puron also has worked in cinema as an art director and set designer for independent short and full-length films. Most recently, his work was selected for the juried Biennial Origins in Geometric Art.

The Bailey Art Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more 
information, call 361-593-3401