Strange art in Brownsville
January 21st, 2008, 1:25 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Mike Moody
I just received a press release about a new art exhibition in Brownsville called “Strange.” Read all about it below …
Strange’, an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and ceramicsby Rio Grande Valley artists Puente, Chris Leonard,Oscar Alvarez and Philip Field opens with a reception for the artists on 24 January from 6 to 9 pm. The exhibition will run until 29 February.
Strange’ an exhibition of paintings,drawings, ceramics and computer enhanced graphis images by four Rio Grande Valley artists, will open with a reception for the artists at 6:00 pm on Thursday, the 24th of January at Galeria 409 at 409 East 13th Street in historic downtown Brownsville.
Self taught Brownsville natives Oscar Alvarez and ‘Puente’ will exhibit works alongside UTPA art professors Phillip Field and Chris Leonard from McAllen.
Gallery owner Mark Clark proudly boasts that these four are undoubtly the strangest artists currently working in South Texas and challenges anybody to produce an artist inside or outside of an insane asylum) with a body of work that is stronger or stranger than the one that he
has assembled here. “You gotta see it to belive it”, says Clark.Oscar Alvarez paints large oils from his imagination to deal with the stress of his day job in a mortuary. Puente was forbidden to draw at age six by her parents because she negelected her school work and now depicts an imaginary story book work that resembles Hansel and Gretel on peyote. Chris Leonard creates animals in oil paint and clay that personify Walt Disney’s worst nightmares while Phillip Field depicts mundane scenes from his home life in digital technicolor. In his dream world, Field’s wife is a skinny, hairless red rat. The exhibition runs from January 24th to March 2nd. Gallery hours are from 12 to 5 Wednesday through Saturday and admission is always free. For information or directions phone 455 3599.
