2022 FOTOSEPTIEMBRE Exhibitions & Events Calendar
Please note: All the information posted below was provided by participating artists or venues. We have edited for clarity and styling. Dates and times may vary due to unexpected circumstances. We try to post updates on any changes or cancellations, but since we may not receive the necessary information in a timely manner, we strongly recommend contacting each venue or artist to confirm posted schedules for exhibitions and events.
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FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2022 Online Galleries
E. DAN KLEPPER (Marathon, TX)
A Secret History Of Flying
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2022 Online Gallery
Artist and photographer E. Dan Klepper likes to explore the real and the abstract characteristics of the natural world. His images are frequently composed of multiple photographs, sometimes taken in a day or throughout a season, and then combined as composites and mosaics into completed works. They can suggest transformation over minutes or centuries, depict altered realities, and often reflect the curious laws of nature that guide our existence.
Klepper was born and raised in south Texas and completed his BFA at the University of North Texas, finishing his coursework with an introduction to experimental video technology. Klepper’s interest in art and technology led him to Chicago, center of a thriving time arts scene that focused on the creative use of video, sound, and analogue and digitally-driven visualization and interactivity. Under a work/study program, he completed his MFA in video art and technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, his experimental videos were represented by the Video Data Bank, an international video art distribution organization based in Chicago. Since returning to Texas, Klepper has continued to explore innovative technologies, often applying them to traditional art-making processes like photography, painting and sculpture. Today, his work is represented by Foltz Fine Art in Houston and can be found at his gallery and studio in Marathon, the small, high desert community north of Big Bend National Park where he’s lived for over 20 years.
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DAMIAN BORGES (Canary Islands)
Indicios
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2022 Online Gallery
Damian Borges was born in Adeje, Tenerife, the Canary Islands. He currently lives and works in La Laguna, Tenerife. From his father he learned how to read music, and at age eight he began playing the clarinet. Damian has a degree in Social Work, and is a self-taught photographer, naturalist, and world trekker who has hiked, and photographed, throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. He co-authored the book Barranco Del Infierno (Hell’s Ravine) about a natural preserve in the south of Tenerife Island. He has been published in numerous scientific and art magazines, and has collaborated on doctoral theses for the Zoology and Biology Departments of the Universidad de la Laguna, and on photography projects for the Natural Science Museum in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Amnesty International, and Save The Children. He was chosen to be part of the Tenerife Fin De Siglo project of the Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife, and has exhibited frequently in that institution’s FOTONOVIEMBRE Biennial. He was one of the selected Discoveries of the PhotoEspaña Festival, and his photographic work has been featured in more than seventy exhibits throughout Spain, South America, and the USA.
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MICHAEL MEHL (San Antonio, TX)
First Light Cantrip Byway
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2022 Online Gallery
On the cusp of morning’s first light, the White Lady waves away darkness of night and summons brightness of day, with a lively cantrip flight along her favored dimensional byway.
Michael Mehl is the founder and director of FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA. He is a composer, musician, photographer, digital artist, writer and curator.
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TIMOTHY SLUSHER (San Antonio, TX)
Complex Vibrancy
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2022 Online Gallery
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FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2022 Exhibitions & Events
• THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
PAULINA LAVISTA (Mexico City, Mexico)
Instantes Del Teatro De La Vida – Personajes De La Cultura En México
Curated by Alfredo Avalos and Nain León
UNAM San Antonio Gallery
600 Hemisfair Plaza Way, San Antonio, TX 78205
(210) 222-8626 | aavalos@unamsa.edu | https://www.unamsa.edu
Opening reception: Thursday, August 25, 2022, 7 pm
Exhibit on display: August 25 – September 30, 2022
Viewing hours: Mon – Fri, 9 am – 2:30 pm
Contact: Alfredo Avalos (210) 222-8626 Ext 232 | aavalos@unamsa.edu
Free and open to the public
Legendary Mexican photographer Paulina Lavista has captured many iconic moments in Mexico’s cultural life in the 20th Century. She has photographed many subjects from the Mexican art and cultural scene as well as images of people in everyday activity. Lavista’s portrait work included images of Octavio Paz, Juan José Gurrola, Ofelia Medina, María Félix, Juan José Arreola, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, and Emilio Fernández.
The exhibit she has prepared for Fotoseptiembre USA 2022 Instantes del Teatro de la Vida – Personajes de la Cultura en México (Moments of Life’s Theater – Cultural Personalities of Mexico) includes portraits and everyday moments of life itself. It is a poetic approach to the image that captures both the action and the spirit of the fleeting moment.
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• SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2022 (Comfort, Texas)
LIZ POTTER (Alpine, TX)
Wind And Dust
Studio Comfort Texas
716 High Street (PO Box 887), Comfort, TX 78013
(830) 995-3750 | info@studiocomforttexas.com | https://www.studiocomforttexas.com
Opening reception: Saturday, August 27, 2022, 2 – 5 pm
Exhibit on display: August 24 – October 16, 2022
Viewing hours: Wed – Thu, 11 am – 4 pm; Fri – Sat, 11 am – 5 pm; Sun, Noon – 4 pm | And by appointment
Workshop: Intro To Polaroid Emulsion Lifts – Sunday, September 18, Noon – 5 pm
The Comfort Art Festival, Comfort Business District, Saturday, September 17, 2022, 10 am – 4 pm
Contact: Cara Hines (720) 299-0302 | (830) 995-3750 | info@studiocomforttexas.com
Free and open to the public
Liz Potter is an artist and photographer living in Alpine, Texas. Wind And Dust combines two bodies of work: Polaroid emulsion lifts and black and white panoramic self-portraits, each of which express interaction and observation of the elements in the West Texas environment.
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• SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
HAYWARD GAUDE (San Antonio, TX)
Musicians – Duets of Passion And Profession
Organized by Amanda Dominguez and Angela Lawson
In partnership with Musical Bridges Around The World
Digital Pro Lab
10103 San Pedro Avenue, San Antonio, TX 78216
(210) 377-3686 | mail@digitalprolab.com | www.digitalprolab.com
Opening reception: Saturday, August 27, 2022, 7 – 10 pm
Exhibit on display: August 27 – October 12, 2022
Viewing hours: Mon – Fri, 8:30 am – 6 pm; Sat, 10 am – 4 pm | Closed Sunday
Contact: Amanda Dominguez (210) 377-3686 | amanda@digitalprolab.com
Free and open to the public
This interactive exhibit includes elements of Augmented Reality (AR), allowing the viewer to experience conversations with, and performances by, featured musicians. Experience the magic of Augmented Reality by downloading the free LIVE PORTRAIT app from the App Store. Then point your phone towards the image above (or at one of the images in the Digital Pro Lab gallery) to watch a live musical performance or an interview.
When we think of a musician we imagine someone who performs music with a life-long devotion to the pursuit of the craft. Yet not all musicians choose this path. Many cultivate their talents but engage entirely different professions. Business owner, doctor, politician… to name a few. Musicians – Duets Of Passion And Profession, featuring portraits by Hayward Gaude, explores the duality of musicians who work in other professions, and how their passion for music has helped them with their professional lives. Featured musician/professionals include: Rick Cavender, Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, Mayor Ron Nirenberg, and others.
Hayward Gaude is a legacy portrait artist and photographer in San Antonio, Texas. This project is in partnership with Digital Pro Lab and Musical Bridges Around the World to raise awareness about the importance of music as a foundational building block for success and human connection.
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, AND FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS (San Antonio, TX)
This Is San Antonio
Invitational Photo-Projection Event Featuring San Antonio Photographers
Organized by Angela Martinez
Blue Star Arts Complex
1414 South Alamo Street, San Antonio, TX 78210
Event dates and times: Thursday, September 1, 2022 and Friday, September 2, 2022, 6 – 10 pm
Contact: Angela Martinez (210) 393-9909 | angela@slabcinema.com
Free and open to the public
Blue Star Arts Complex celebrates FOTOSEPTIEMBRE throughout the complex with numerous gallery, shop and studio displays. On September 1 and 2, images will be projected on exterior walls.
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
ANGELA MARTINEZ (San Antonio, TX)
Stay Home San Antonio
Olly Alley Arthouse
115 C Blue Star
Blue Star Arts Complex – 1414 South Alamo Street, San Antonio, TX 78210
Opening receptions: Thursday, September 1, 2022, and Friday, September 2, 2022, 6 – 10 pm; Thursday, September 15, 2022, 6 – 10 pm | And by appointment
Exhibit on display: September 1 – 15, 2022
Contact: Angela Martinez (210) 212-9373 | angela@slabcinema.com
Free and open to the public
On March 24, 2020, as Covid started to spread, San Antonians were ordered to Stay Home and Work Safe. Using a long lens, Angela Martinez photographed about 140 families on (or near) their porches over the weeks that followed. One hundred twenty three of these photos will be exhibited at Olly Alley Art House, 115 C Blue Star.
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
JOHNNY CAMACHO, ANTHONY GARCIA, STEPHANIE JUAREZ, JAIME MONZON, OSCAR MORENO, MARTIN RODRIGUEZ, CHUCK STANLEY, JD STARCLIFF, BEAU VINCENT AND OTHERS (San Antonio, TX)
Oxen Free Collective Fotoseptiembre Exhibit
Olly Alley Arthouse
115 C Blue Star
Blue Star Arts Complex – 1414 South Alamo Street, San Antonio, TX 78210
Opening receptions: Thursday, September 1, 2022 and Friday, September 2, 2022 6 – 10 pm
Closing reception: Thursday, September 15, 2022, 6 – 10 pm | And by appointment
Exhibit on display: September 1 – 15, 2022
Contact: Angela Martinez (210) 212-9373 | angela@slabcinema.com
Free and open to the public
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
SOL MACIAS (San Antonio, TX)
A History Of Devotion
Curated by Martin C. Rodriguez and Verena Gaudy
Un Grito Gallery
Blue Star Arts Complex Upstairs Studios
1420 South Alamo Street, San Antonio, TX 78210
Opening reception: Thursday, September 1, 2022, 7 pm
Exhibit on display: September 1 – 20, 2022
Viewing hours: September 1, 2, and 3, 7 – 10 pm | And by appointment
Contact: Ungritogallery@instagram
Free and open to the public
Sol Macias is a multi disciplinary artist living, working, and learning in San Antonio, Texas. Through methodology she finds ritual and meaning in the action of creating, leaning towards analog processes such as printmaking and darkroom photography. With her body of work, A History of Devotion, Sol explores space, myth, and geography through the lens of the bicultural experience having spent half her youth deep in the sierras of Coahuila, Mexico. Feeling displaced from one’s roots to family and homeland this series attempts to meld those cultural cracks.
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• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
REG CAMPBELL (1979 – 2020) (San Antonio, TX)
Septua
Presented by The San Antonio Center Of Photography together with Be The Match and the South Texas Blood And Tissue Center (STBTC), both subsidiaries of BioBridge Global.
The San Antonio Center Of Photography
724 South Alamo Street, Suite 3, San Antonio, TX 78205
info@thephotocenter.org | https://www.thephotocenter.org
Opening reception: Friday, September 2, 2022, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibit on display: September 2 – December 3, 2022
Viewing hours: Saturdays, 1 – 5 pm
Panel discussion: Saturday, September 17, 2022, 6 – 8 pm
Contact: Shannon Gowen, info@thephotocenter.org
Free and open to the public
Pop-Up Blood And Marrow Drives
Blood Drive: Saturday, September 10, 11 am – 3 pm, at The United Way parking lot next door to The Photo Center.
Marrow And Blood Typing Drive: Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 7 – 9 pm, at The Photo Center.
Blood Drive: Saturday, November 12, 2022, 11 am – 3 pm, at The United Way parking lot next door to The Photo Center.
The community is encouraged to donate blood for patients like Campbell, who was unable to receive a transfusion needed for his treatment during ongoing blood shortages. San Antonians aged 18-44 and in general good health can join the registry by completing a cheek swab kit. Kits can be picked up at any of the STBTC donor rooms or at monthly blood-drive pop-ups at The Photo Center during the exhibition duration. Participants can donate every 8 weeks.
Related Facebook Events
Septua exhibition FB event: https://fb.me/e/2akONOttG.
September 10 Blood Drive FB event: https://fb.me/e/1yHfK3hqv.
September 17 Septua Panel Discussion: https://fb.me/e/2DMQOXbrI.
October 26 Blood Marrow And Typing FB event: https://fb.me/e/3hgv2Y9Pb.
November 12 Blood Drive FB event: https://fb.me/e/eyeN5U8OV.
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The San Antonio community continues to support former cancer patient and photographer, Reg Campbell (deceased), with an exhibition of his work that was originally slated for the Southwest School of Art’s Urschel Gallery in March of 2020; the same week the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition Septua chronicles Campbell’s journey with cancer through his photography.
Reg Campbell was in his late 30s when he found out he had leukemia. The photographer was ready to fight and determined to document the process. With his cameras in tow, he began photographing his hospital stays, chemo treatments, and, in between, precious time at home with his wife and young daughter. He called the series Septua, from the Latin word for seven, referring to his initial 7 weeks of chemotherapy and 7 months of intermittent hospital stays. After receiving a bone marrow transplant from his sister, he went into remission, but a year later the cancer came back and again a year after that, in November 2019. He died on May 15, 2020.
Throughout the last years of his life, he shot and shared striking and honest photos. He wrote when he first started the project that he wanted to show what leukemia was really like. “Cancer is an anyone disease, anyone from any walk of life can get it. No one is immune. I feel it is my job to show others that having leukemia, isn’t what the TV shows and movies say it is,” he wrote.
“Septua is an ongoing personal project I started in my first run with cancer in 2017,” said Campbell. “Finding a visual representation of leukemia is very hard. Septua gives future patients a visual idea of what they will be going through.”
As Campbell searched for a marrow donor to save his life, he continued to require blood transfusions as part of cancer treatments. He hoped his exhibition would raise awareness about joining the Be The Match Registry and donating blood for cancer patients like him. Be The Match is a national database that connects potential donors to patients in need of a stem cell or marrow transplant. African American patients with blood cancers, like Campbell, have a lower chance of finding a matching donor who could give them a stem cell or marrow transplant, their best hope for a cure. To receive a transplant, patients must find a donor who closely matches the genetic tissue typing of their immune system, which is inherited from a person’s ethnic background.
No matches were available when Campbell was first diagnosed in 2017, so he received a 50% match transplant from his sister. Campbell relapsed several times, before passing away in May of 2020. He was, unfortunately, unable to find a perfect match to beat his cancer and return home to his wife and daughter.
Campbell was known for shooting on film in a digital age, and he’d been commissioned to work for brands and media outlets including Nike, Target, Garden & Gun, and Texas Monthly. He also shot many weddings and moving personal projects. He was a popular figure in the local photography community, well-liked, and well respected.
100% of all exhibition proceeds from the sale of prints will go to Reg Campbell’s family.
Purchase prints from the exhibition at The Photo Center or through the MD Anderson Fund website: https://regcampbellphoto.pixieset.com/americathebold/
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• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
ED MALCIK (Austin, TX)
The Horizontal Priest – Recent Photos From Italy
Mockingbird Handprints Blue Star
1420 South Alamo Street, Suite 112A, San Antonio, TX 78210
(210) 878-5711 | mockingbirdhandprints@gmail.com | https://www.mockingbirdhandprints.com
Opening reception: Thursday, September 1, 2022, 6 – 8:30 pm, and Friday, September 2, 2022, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibit on display: September 1 – October 2, 2022
Viewing hours: Thu – Sun, 11 am – 5 pm
Contact: Jane Bishop (210) 262-6698 | mockingbirdhandprints@gmail.com
Artist talk: Sunday, September 18, 2022, 4 pm, at Mockingbird Handprints Blue Star
Free and open to the public
Ed Malcik studied photojournalism at the University of Texas and worked as a staff photographer at Texas newspapers, including five years at The Austin American-Statesman. He freelanced for the wire services and publications such as Cosmopolitan, Us, Texas Monthly, and The New York Times. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in The Gambia, and as a Foreign Service Officer at U.S. embassies and consulates around the world. He returned to photography and worked on photographic projects in Paris 2010-12 and Chennai, India, 2013-15. He now lives in Austin where he photographs on the street in a documentary style. His work has been exhibited in Europe, India, and the United States, and is in the Wittliff Collections.
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I am a documentary photographer. My artistic practice is to wander urban areas looking for situations that tweak my interest and photograph them. I find the real world more fascinating than fiction, such an odd and humorous place that I don’t need Photoshop to enhance it. I generally work in public places without a preconceived idea as to subject, guided by what I see. I like to show people within an environment, and for this exhibition the environment is Italy, and the people, more often than not, are tourists. At least I think they are tourists because they gathered around tourist destinations, but while there was a time years ago when I could separate tourists from locals by their clothes and actions, that is no longer possible: nations of the world have united under Adidas and Chanel, Beyoncé and Lady Gaga.
I spent several months this year in Sicily, Capri, the Amalfi coast, Rome, Siena, and Florence. I hadn’t been to Italy in years and was curious to see what had changed. Not much, actually. Italy seems to measure time more in decades than years, and Italy looks old because it is. Italians are aggressive in maintaining their centuries-old pageantry involving medieval costumes, and not as a tourist attraction but for themselves; tourists are invited to watch but not touch. In particular, variations of the Palio horse race take place in town squares all over Italy. The Catholic religion has a high visual presence, with priests, nuns, and churches seemingly on every corner. On the streets and public places where I photograph, the past was more visible than the new, and the famous fashion, design, and technology that the country is known for was behind doors. I never saw a Ferrari. Also behind doors was any evidence of Italy’s difficulties with Covid, changes in national government, and economic fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine, which is not so far away.
I traveled by plane, ferry, car, bus, train, and foot, always by foot, relying on good footwear while gathering 25,000 steps a day. This series of images is what I found visually interesting except for the 11 days I had to quarantine with some new variant of Covid.
This exhibition is my fifth at Mockingbird Handprints Gallery during Fotoseptiembre, each time documenting an urban location. Previous exhibitions focused on San Antonio, Austin, New York, and, last year, Paris. All prints are made to the highest archival standards by me in my studio on an Epson Stylus-Pro 3880 printer with Epson Ultra-Chrome K3 ink on Epson Ultra-Premium Presentation Paper Matte, and framed with acid-free mats in aluminum frames with acrylic glazing.
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• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
MARIA JESSICA ALVARADO, EMILY BLASE, LENARD BROWN, JIAWEN CHEN, CHEL DELANEY, MICHAEL DRAPALA, LAUREL GIBSON, JAMES A. GONZALES, BEATA GOMOLA, YASMIN GUDINO, SIEGMUNDO HIRSCH, CHRISTINE ELIZABETH JUAREZ, DEBORAH KELLER-RIHN, ANNETTE XUCHITL LANDRY, ROBIN RAQUET, BECKI RINNER-DOEGE (San Antonio, TX)
Streetwise
Organized by Deborah Keller-Rihn
Blue Star Arts Collective
Blue Star Arts Complex, Upstairs Studios, Studio 209
1420 South Alamo Street, San Antonio, TX 78210
(210) 800-5441 | kellerrihnstudio@yahoo.com | https://www.deborahkellerrihn.com
Opening reception: Friday, September 2, 2022, 6 – 10 pm
Exhibit on display: September 2 – 30, 2022
Viewing hours: By appointment after opening reception
Contact: Deborah Keller-Rihn (210) 800-5441 | kellerrihnstudio@yahoo.com
Free and open to the public
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• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
ANAYANTZIN CONTRERAS (Monterrey, Mexico)
Todo Bajo El Cielo (Everything Under The Sky)
Curated by Gabriella Boschi Scott
University Of The Incarnate Word – Semmes and Condos Galleries
4301 Broadway Street, San Antonio, TX 78209
Born in Mexico City and currently residing in Monterrey, Mexico, Miss Contreras studied Photography in the Brigham Young University (Utah) program and Architecture at UdeM (Universidad de Monterrey) and works as a professional architect. Her photographic works have been featured in individual and collective exhibitions and are in private collections in Mexico and abroad.
JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ RITTE (Monterrey, Mexico)
Todo Bajo El Cielo (Everything Under The Sky)
Curated by Gabriella Boschi Scott
University Of The Incarnate Word – Semmes and Condos Galleries
4301 Broadway Street, San Antonio, TX 78209
Born and currently residing in Monterrey, Mexico, Mr. Ritte studied Architecture at UdeM (Universidad de Monterrey), and holds a Master of Arts Degree in Education from the same university; he has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Animation and Digital Arts from Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña in Barcelona, Spain; and studied Fine Arts and Art History in Florence, Italy. He is Professor of Photography and Digital Media at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (I.T.E.S.M) in Monterrey, Mexico.
Opening reception: Friday, September 9, 2022, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibit on display: September 9 – October 21, 2022
Viewing hours: Mon – Fri, 10 am – 5 pm (except UIW holidays)
Contact: Roland Sul (210) 829-3852 | sul@uiwtx.edu
https://www.uiw.edu/chass/academics/departments/art/semmesgallery.html
Free and open to the public
The work of Mexican photographers Anayantzin Contreras and José Luis Rodriguez Ritte explores the tensions embodied by their country’s syncretic heritage: tensions between nature and culture, instinct and intellect, design and improvisation, the local and the global, history and contemporaneity.
These works, created in Mexico and abroad, are informed by cross-cultural exchange but also deeply grounded in the history of Mexican visual culture, in which figuration and abstraction have alternated through centuries to deploy, respectively, spirituality and intellectualism. Some of the images are presented as traditional 2-D works, some others are seeking status as objects: through the use of tactile, non-traditional materials and arrangements they evoke presence and encounter, juxtaposing tradition and modernity.
In Contreras’ work, landscape becomes introspective, disembodied and ethereal, while natural forms are abstracted into line, texture and arcane geometry; Rodriguez Ritte explores idiosyncratic beauty without indulging in the narrow optics of the ethnographic gaze: the portrait is a convergence of personal and social truths, while architecture lays bare contradiction and paradox, but also imagination. Both artists focus on revealing the complexity and sophistication that, combined with a contemporary sensibility, reveal the adaptive, receptive nature of a culture in a constant state of renewal. Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente.
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• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
RAMIN SAMANDARI (San Antonio, TX)
Faces Of Islam
Dock Space Gallery Annex
107 Lone Star Boulevard, San Antonio, TX 78204
(210) 723-3048 | bill@billfitzgibbons.com
Opening reception: Saturday, September 10, 2022, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibit on display: September 10 – 30, 2022
Viewing hours: Wednesdays, 10 am – 5 pm | And by appointment
Contact: Ramin Samandari (210) 861-4325 | magicalrealismstudio@gmail.com
Bill Fitzgibbons (210) 723-3048 | bill@billfitzgibbons.com
Free and open to the public
This project started in 2017, as a continuation of my prior series on Immigration that I began in 2016. Both of these projects are my response to the anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic rhetoric fostered by the 2016 presidential elections.
In Faces of Islam, I portray the San Antonio Muslim community as a microcosm of the larger world of Muslims. I have photographed people of all walks of life, many of whom were transplanted to San Antonio from almost anywhere in the world. I wanted to show that these individuals living in our community are just like anyone else –they’re our neighbors, co-workers, classmates, etc. They just happen to practice Islam as their religion.
By the end of 2019, I had finished the series and was slated to be funded and permanently housed at the Institute of Texan Cultures. However the Covid-19 Pandemic changed all that. In 2021 I received an Individual Artist Grant from the City of San Antonio Department of Arts and Culture, which has enabled me to finally exhibit this series of portraits in our city.
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Burra/Anarchist
Photographs of Marisela Barrera as The Donkey Lady and Ricardo Flores Magón
Arthouse Cinema At Blue Star
134 Blue Star – Blue Star Arts Complex
San Antonio, TX 78210
Opening reception: Thursday, September 15, 2022, 7 pm
Contact: Angela Martinez (210) 212-9373 | https://www.slabcinemaarthouse.com
Free and open to the public
Burra/Anarchist features large-scale rasquache photo prints on architectural paper of Barrera as the Donkey Lady and Ricardo Flores Magón. Photographers include Al Rendon, Anthony Garcia, Antonia Padilla, Paul Escamilla and Guadalupe Acuña. ArtHouse also hosts indie band BUTTERCUP as part of the opening reception. Barrera teases an excerpt monologue from her verbatim performance sometime that evening. Reservations and/or tickets are not required for the September 15 event. Just show up.
Ricardo Flores Magón was a prominent 1900s Mexican journalist. He was exiled from Porfirian Mexico for revolutionary journalism; he spent time in San Antonio where he published some issues of Regeneración, a call-to-action newspaper. He died (murdered, probably) in Leavenworth Prison in 1922.
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• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
LOUIE PRECIADO (San Antonio, TX)
The Preciado Grandparents
Saint Mary’s University – Louis J. Blume Library
One Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, TX 78228
(210) 436-3441 | https://stmarytx.edu
Opening reception: Friday, September 16, 2022, 4 – 5:30 pm
Exhibit on display: September 16 – October 21, 2022
Viewing hours: https://lib.stmarytx.edu/home/hours
Contact: Brian St. John (210) 473-8331 | bstjohn@stmarytx.edu
Free and open to the public
The Preciado Grandparents began as way for me to preserve memories and conversations I had with my grandparents over the years. I was close with my grandparents and a lot of our time together centered around breakfast. Getting breakfast tacos was a little ritual we had since I was in grade school. I knew our time together was special and as a photographer, I knew I needed to document it. Over the course of 12 years, I captured over 4,000 photos. These are a few of my favorites.
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
CELIA ÁLVAREZ MUÑOZ (Arlington, TX)
Semejantes Personajes – Significant Personalities
Curated by Patricia Ruiz-Healy, Ph.D.
Ruiz-Healy Art
201-A East Olmos Drive, San Antonio, TX 78212
(210) 804-2219 | info@ruizhealyart.com | https://www.ruizhealyart.com
Opening reception: Thursday, September 22, 2022, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibit on display: September 22 – October 22, 2022
Artist talk: Saturday, September 24, 2022, 1 pm
Viewing hours: Wed – Sat, 11 am – 4 pm
Contact: Ellie Falcon (210) 804-2219 | ellie@ruizhealyart.com
Free and open to the public
Celia Álvarez Muñoz is a Mexican American conceptual multimedia artist who is known for her photography, painting, installations, and public art, as well as for her writing. Born in El Paso, Texas, Álvarez Muñoz’s work addresses the dichotomy of living between two cultures. Common themes in her practice include Catholicism, Mexican American experience, the past versus the present, and English versus Spanish language. The artist incorporates themes of family and “communal memories” in her pieces. She uses text and images in her work to explore the ambiguous signs and signifiers where cultures meet and to communicate stories of American history, culture, and society.
In the artist’s own words “this collection of forty-one portraits of San Antonio Latino visual artists is, yet, another experiment: a courtship between old and new technologies, and old and new friends.” For Álvarez Muñoz, the photography process and the distinctive medium of choice were significant. Álvarez Muñoz explains, “for Semejantes Personajes, I reached back to the Holga’s unique, flexible and unpredictable format as the perfect tool. Kin to an imperfect, edited grainy movie film strip, it allowed to cease a moment, and was still open for inspection once it started a digital dialogue.” Artists from the gallery roster, such as Chuck Ramirez, César Augusto Martínez, Ethel Shipton and Jesse Amado are included.
The artist has spent significant time in San Antonio and that has given her the opportunity to become familiar with the city and the vibrant artistic community. She says, “I did several multimedia public art commissions, two of which were for the City of San Antonio: The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center Expansion and El Rio Habla, a park for The River Link Project across Main Plaza. Thus, I became well acquainted with its vibrant group of visual artists. Nowhere in Texas does such a community of Latino artists exist! The city dichotomously retains a small-town historical ambiance within progressive economic expansion. These characteristics, I find well manifested in the work and personalities of this group of fellow artists.” Some of the artists are no longer with us like Mel Casas, Alberto Mijangos, Adan Hernandez, Alex De León, and Chuck Ramirez, which makes the exhibit even more meaningful. Other artists included are Haydee Suescum, David Zamora Casas, Vincent Valdez, Leticia Huerta, Maricela Sanchez, and Rolando Briseño, among others.
About Ruiz-Healy Art
Founded in San Antonio, TX in 2006 Ruiz-Healy Art represents an international roster of artists and places emphasis on Latinx and Latin American artists, as well as working with prominent Texas-based artists. Biculturalism and identity discourse plays an important role in several of the artists that we collaborate with. In the spring of 2019, Ruiz-Healy Art opened a gallery space in the Upper East Side of New York City that works in tandem with the San Antonio gallery as a platform to disseminate the artist’s work. The continuous investments in these underrepresented areas have remained a longstanding signature of the gallery program.
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• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022, (San Antonio, Texas)
MARIANGEL CASTAÑEDA, ALLYSON CHAVEZ, ALANNA DICE, MELANIE FIERRO, JADEN GARZA, ALFREDO GONZALEZ, YOHANDRY LOPEZ MORENO, MONIQUE MALDONADO, MARCOS MARTINEZ, ANTHONY MCKINLEY, KIMBERLY RUBIO, MARIAJOSE RUBIO, ASH SAN MIGUEL, KACEY SIERRA, FAIRA STARKS, YADIEL TORRES
(San Antonio, TX)
We Live Here
The Rec
1212 North Gevers Street, San Antonio, TX 78202
drcharles@me.com | https://www.thegoodhood.org/
The Light Catchers Society Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lightcatchers210/?hl=en
Opening reception: Friday, September 23, 2022, 7 – 9 pm
Exhibit on display: Friday, September 23, 2022, 7 – 9 pm (one day only)
Contact: Francisco H. Cortés (210) 488-8437 | lightcatcherssociety@gmail.com
Free and open to the public
The Light Catchers Society was officially founded in October of 2016 by Francisco H. Cortés. In 2017, The Light Catchers Society and SA Heals began a collaboration to provide leadership workshops and guidance for students, while providing planning and sponsorship for annual end-of-year photography exhibits, in spaces such as: AP Art Labs, Centro de Artes, and Brick at Blue Star.
The Harvard Place/Eastlawn neighborhood the Light Catchers reside in has been a community that has been historically under-resourced and shaped by policies that have had countless negative effects. Over the last five years, the Light Catchers Society has documented the positive and negative changes in the neighborhood, including: gentrification, mass incarceration, and the media portrayal of the community. Light Catcher representation is significant in that elementary and middle school students have been able to develop a voice and represent the East Side in general. Through their bodies of photography work, poetry, panel discussions, and testimonials to the City Council, the Light Catchers Society has been able to shift the perspective of several officials, change the narrative of the East Side, as well as become a point of pride for many in their community.
We Live Here is an ongoing body of youth work that aims to change the negative narrative of the near East Side. While addressing social justice issues that directly affect themselves, Light Catcher artists interview and document a cohort of East Side community members that range from immigrants and law enforcement, to youth and leaders, to those with a difficult past. Through photography and storytelling, We Live Here gives insight into the complexity of a community that has been consistently represented as one-dimensional.
Francisco H. Cortés is the founder, curator, and program director for the Light Catchers Society.
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• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022 (SAN ANTONIO, TX)
VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS (International)
TPS 30 – The International Competition
Juried by Liz Wells
Presented by Texas Photographic Society and UTSA
UTSA Southwest Campus – Russell Hill Rogers Lecture Hall And Gallery
Santikos Art Building
1201 Navarro Street, San Antonio, TX 78205
(210) 200-8200 | art.events@utsa.edu | http://Art.utsa.edu
Closing reception: Saturday, September 24, 2022, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibit on display: August 29 – September 24, 2022
Viewing hours: Mon – Sat, Noon – 5 pm
Contact: Ann Shaw (615) 967-6990 | ann@texasphoto.org | https://www.texasphoto.org
Free and open to the public
The TPS 30 – The International Competition jurying process coincided precisely with the international COP26 negotiations hosted in Glasgow, Scotland. Indeed, some entries explicitly addressed industrial legacies and the consequences of global warming. It also took place under the ongoing shadow of the Covid epidemic, so it was not surprising to find several images that suggested challenging social circumstances, isolation, or abandonment, explicitly or metaphorically. Happily, several images also implied caring and community, with many others drawing attention to places, lifestyles, and environmental phenomena.
The challenge of selecting 50 photographs from the 1369 submitted was challenging. I was required to select (only) 3 images from every 80 submitted! There were difficult decisions to be made; many aesthetically pleasing, and thematically interesting submissions could not be included. Originality, story-telling and contemporary relevance were key criteria, along with integrity of form and content, and how each exhibition print would be experienced as a distinctive physical object.
My many thanks to the 213 photographers who shared examples of their work, and congratulations to Texas Photographic Society on the 30th anniversary of this competition and exhibition. – Liz Wells
Liz Wells is a distinguished UK-based writer, curator, and lecturer on photographic practices whose research centers on landscape photography, people as related to place, and environment.
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 (San Marcos, Texas)
DANIEL RAMOS (New York, NY))
Tell Me Who You’re With And I’ll Let You Know Who You Are
Dime Con Quién Andas Y Te Diré Quién Eres
Curated by Carla Ellard, Photo-Archivist, The Wittliff Collections
The Wittliff Collections
Alkek Library – Texas State University
601 University Drive, San Marcos, Texas 78666
(512) 245-2313 | thewittliffcollections@txstate.edu | https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu
Artist talk and opening reception: Thursday, September 29, 2022, 5:15 pm | Reception follows talk
Exhibit on display: August 22 – December 8, 2022
Viewing hours: Mon – Fri, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm; Sat, 11 am – 4:30 pm; Sun, Noon – 4:30 pm | Closed Labor Day
Contact: Carla Ellard (512) 245-1399 | ce10@txstate.edu
Free and open to the public
The Wittliff Collections is proud to present work from visionary photographic artist Daniel Ramos. Tell Me Who You’re With And I’ll Let You Know Who You Are (Dime Con Quién Andas Y Te Diré Quién Eres) includes select works from two of Ramos’ photographic series, The Land Of Illustrious Men and Eres Muy Hermosa (You are Very Beautiful). Early in his career, Ramos decided that the people in his life —family, friends, coworkers— would be the subjects of his work. He used photography as a vehicle to magnify their presence in the world and has recently moved beyond the single image convention of picture-making to create 3-dimensional sculptures, large-scale collages, and mixed media installations.
Wittliff Collections exhibition link: https://www.thewittliffcollections.txst.edu/exhibitions/DanielRamos.html
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
THOMAS D. MANGELSEN (Jackson, WY)
A Life In The Wild
Briscoe Western Art Museum
210 West Market Street, San Antonio, TX 78205
(210) 299-4499 | marketing@briscoemuseum.org | https://www.briscoemuseum.org
Opening reception: Thursday, September 29, 2022, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibit on display: September 30, 2022 – January 29, 2023
Viewing hours: Thu – Mon, 10 am – 5 pm | Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Contact: Dawn Robinette (210) 564-9417 | marketing@briscoemuseum.org
Museum fees apply
Featuring forty of renowned nature photographer Thomas D. Magnelsen’s most resonant photographs, A Life In The Wild takes us on a journey across the West and around the globe, giving viewers a chance to peer into the wild through Mangelsen’s lens. Each image in Mangelsen’s portfolio was taken in the wild, in natural conditions, and often in hostile situations –the result of him waiting for the picture perfect moment across decades. One of the most prolific nature photographers of our time, Mangelsen is an award-winning photographer whose images have been exhibited internationally and published in iconic mediums such as National Geographic, Good Morning America, and 60 Minutes.
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• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 (San Antonio, Texas)
SAN ANTONIO AREA HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
Hotshoe Photography Contest And Exhibition At Saint Mary’s Hall
Saint Mary’s Hall
Juried by Joe Harjo, UTSA
9401 Starcrest Drive, San Antonio, TX 78217
(210) 483-9000 | https://www.smhfineart.com
Opening reception: Thursday, September 29, 2022, 6:30 – 8 pm
Exhibit on display: September 29 – November 4, 2022
Viewing hours: By appointment
Contact: Kyle Petersen kpetersen@smhall.org
Free and open to the public
The Tobin Fine Arts School at Saint Mary’s Hall is proud to announce the Hotshoe Photography Contest and Exhibition. The contest is open to middle school and high school students in the greater San Antonio area. Prizes will be awarded in each division, and select images will be included in an exhibition at Saint Mary’s Hall during FOTOSEPTIEMBRE. Images produced with any photographic process are eligible. There is no theme, all subject matter is acceptable.
Submissions due: Wednesday, September 14, 2022
For image submission and information: https://www.smhfineart.com.hotshoe
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