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Free Things To Do in San Antonio for all the Art Lovers ❤️🤸🏽♀️🎭🖌️🖼️
📍 Ruby City @rubycity
150 Camp St
San Antonio, TX 78204
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Just a few days left to see "Synthesis & Subversion Redux" at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts! Stop by during opening hours or reach out to make an appointment. Swipe for installation images featuring the work of artists Juan Carlos Escobedo, Jenelle Esparza, Bárbara Miñarro, Angeles Salinas, and José Villalobos.
"Synthesis & Subversion Redux" is on view through Saturday, May 2.
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts is open Wednesday-Saturday noon to 5 and by appointment. Our address is 3050 Waits Ave., Fort Worth, TX.
📞 817-257-2588
💌 [email protected]
or DM us!
"Synthesis & Subversion Redux" was organized by the Linda Pace Foundation, Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas, and curated by Elyse A. Gonzales, Director, Linda Pace Foundation, Ruby City and Mia Lopez, Curator of Latinx Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
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Hello, everyone! My work is currently on view in group shows across San Antonio.
Paper Trails at @ruizhealyart and Made by You at Common Grounds Gallery at ACCESS (both closing in May), along with Sensing Meaning: Abstract Painting at @rubycity , curated by @curatorgonzales , on view through August.
If you’re in town, I hope you’ll visit. Each exhibition is something truly worth experiencing!
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One week left to see "Synthesis & Subversion Redux" at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts! Stop by during opening hours or reach out to make an appointment. Swipe for installation images featuring the work of artists Juan Carlos Escobedo, Jenelle Esparza, Bárbara Miñarro, Angeles Salinas, and José Villalobos.
Synthesis & Subversion Redux is on view through Saturday, May 2.
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts is open Wednesday-Saturday noon to 5 and by appointment. Our address is 3050 Waits Ave., Fort Worth, TX.
📞 817-257-2588
💌 [email protected]
or DM us!
"Synthesis & Subversion Redux" was organized by the Linda Pace Foundation, Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas, and curated by Elyse A. Gonzales, Director, Linda Pace Foundation, Ruby City and Mia Lopez, Curator of Latinx Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
#FortWorthArt #SanAntonioArt #TCU #ContemporaryArt
We are excited to share a variety of free zines, books, stickers with the community at this event put on by @rubycity . Skip work and come hang with us in solidarity to start your protest for the day.
May Day of Action (5/1), at Chris Park, 10-12PM
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Took myself on an artist’s date this evening to hear Ben Luke talk about his book, What is Art For?
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Fascinating insights and made me feel good being a creator. Also made me feel good having had the privilege to teach art. Visual literacy is such an important skill to have! Also got to see one of my very favorite Joan Mitchell paintings and afterwards treated myself to some delicious food @indiapalacerestaurant
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Upcoming programming Reminder ⏰ this Saturday, we’re hosting panel discussion in context with “Synthesis & Subversion Redux,” currently on view at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts. Swipe for some details of works on view.
📍 Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 3050 Waits Avenue, Fort Worth, TX
🕰 Saturday, April 11 at 2 pm
🎟 Free and open to all, no RSVP required
Slide 1: Jose Villalobos
Slide 2: Bárbara Miñarro
Slide 3: Jenelle Esparza
Slide 4: Juan Carlos Escobedo
Slide 5: Angeles Salinas
About the panel discussion: Material Matter is a conversation exploring the evolution of materiality, identity, and regional influence in contemporary art in Texas. Moderated by artist and educator, Raul Rodriguez (TCU MFA ’25), this talk traces the lineage of the 1996 exhibition curated by the late Dr. Fran Colpitt, “Synthesis and Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art.” Thirty years later, “Synthesis & Subversion Redux” re-examines that foundation through a contemporary lens. The discussion, featuring panelists Fernando Alvarez, Jenelle Esparza, and Michelle Cortez Gonzales, will delve into the tactile specifics of material choice, exploring how each artist translates material into a nuanced language of resilience and heritage.
Synthesis & Subversion Redux was organized by the Linda Pace Foundation, Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas, and curated by Elyse A. Gonzales, Director, Linda Pace Foundation, Ruby City and Mia Lopez, Curator of Latinx Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
Join us Saturday, April 11 for Material Matter: a conversation exploring the evolution of materiality, identity, and regional influence in contemporary art in Texas. Moderated by artist and educator, Raul Rodriguez (TCU MFA ’25), this talk traces the lineage of the 1996 exhibition curated by the late Dr. Fran Colpitt, "Synthesis and Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art." Thirty years later, "Synthesis & Subversion Redux" re-examines that foundation through a contemporary lens. The discussion, featuring panelists Fernando Alvarez, Jenelle Esparza, and Michelle Cortez Gonzales, will delve into the tactile specifics of material choice, exploring how each artist translates material into a nuanced language of resilience and heritage.
📍 Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, 3050 Waits Avenue, Fort Worth, TX
🕰 Saturday, April 11 at 2 pm
🎟 Free and open to all, no RSVP required
About the panelists:
Fernando Alvarez (TCU MFA '22) is a Fort Worth-based artist and co-founder of Easyside. Alvarez had the privilege of studying under Dr. Fran Colpitt, while contributing to the scholarship surrounding her legacy and notably writing for the catalogue of "Do you really believe that?," an exhibition honoring her curatorial vision. As an artist his concept driven work uses industrial materials to explore the artists’ displacement from his home country of Honduras.
Jenelle Esparza is a San Antonio-based artist who uses cotton and found objects to explore the legacies of agricultural labor and resilience in South Texas, moving from documentary photography to a deeply conceptual, material-based practice. Her recent projects utilize textiles and found objects to explore the parallels between landscape and bodily experiences, and the implications of generational trauma.
Michelle Cortez Gonzales is a Texas interdisciplinary artist working across painting, collage, textile, and installation. She engages material as a site for care, protection, and cultural continuity, drawing on domestic processes to navigate intergenerational narratives shaped by assimilation.
Photo of Jenelle Esparza by Bria Woods
