FEATURED ARTISTS: Saturday - Sunday | January 27th - 28th, 2007 | Presentations are both days, beginning promptly at 1:30 pm | Free of charge
ANSEN SEALE |
Tangible
Transience: Photographic Explorations in Four Dimensions
artist / san antonio, texas
Ansen Seale is an artist living and working in San Antonio, Texas. He
received his degree in Studio Art as well as Journalism,
Broadcasting and Film from Trinity University in San Antonio,
1983. In 1996, Seale invented a digital panoramic camera. This
new camera captures a vertical slit of the scene over and over
in rapid succession, in effect, swapping the horizontal
dimension of the photo for the dimension of time. Instead of
mirroring the world as we know it, this camera records a hidden
reality. The apparent distortions in the images all happen
in-camera as the image is being recorded. There are no Photoshop
manipulations in these photos. His photographs have been
exhibited in museums and galleries and have been collected by
corporations, institutions and private collectors. |
www.ansenseale.com |
www.photography414.com
BETTYE HAMBLEN TURNER |
Sculpting the Longhorn Bulls
sculptor, artist / miles,
texas
"Although I most often build large animals, the true subject of my
sculpture is the organic energy that informs all life. Music,
religion, myth, and astronomy all describe this energy in their
respective vocabularies. My vocabulary has evolved from the shapes
of the things I love most: my dogs’ ears, Battenberg lace, leaves,
feathers, morning glory vines, rolls of hay, the shimmer of morning
dew. I can form these shapes in steel and combine them to articulate
the rhythm of energy that I feel so strongly, but can not verbalize.
Each sculpture, whether animal or abstract, quickly develops a voice
of its own. Surrendering to the creative process allows me to work
intuitively, guided by the voice of the sculpture." - b.h.turner |
www.bhtsculpture.com
JACK GRON | Sculpture: From Blue Collar to Academia and Back
sculptor / corpus christi,
texas
Jack
Gron, currently the Chairman of the Art Department at the College of
Liberal Arts at Texas A & M, Corpus Christi, Texas, was raised in the Greater Ohio Valley where industry reined
supreme during the 50's, 60's, and 70's. His family all worked in
the various mills, plants and mines around Steubenville. This
combined with summers spent working on blast furnaces would later
influence his commitment to the exploration of ferrous and
non-ferrous metals for his sculpture. Having a keen interest in
current and world events, he uses satire and humor to express his
views artistically. "In a culture of rapidly changing
images, we have become visually jaded as a defense mechanism from
the constant barrage of the advertising of products, news etc. I
hope to offer through my work, symbols that may allow the viewer to
stop and ponder upon the memories, reflections and meanings of their
own personal lives that these compositions may stir or unlock."
- jack gron
ROBERT
BYRON GOTTSCHALL
& DEBORAH ROBERTS
|
Shoulder to Shoulder II
sculptors / wimberley, texas
Gottschall's most recent installation is a 600 lb bronze on steel, a robust scenario of five half-life size carpenters, complete with industry specific tools. Shoulder to Shoulder II was installed September, 2006, the second in a series of original bronze sculptures created exclusively for the Training Centers of the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, Los Angeles, CA. His work with the United Brotherhood of Carpenter and Joiners began in 1990 and continues today. "Shoulder to Shoulder is a representational example of the way my sculptures link people to their creative roots, just as my organic abstracts in wood, stone and bronze serve to connect us to our mystical source." - robert gottschall | www.rbgstudios.com
THE BROTHERS FONDER | It Takes Time to Build Sickness, Take Time to Build Your Health
doctors / fredericksburg, texas
All of us, and especially sculptors who move heavy objects, benefit from attention to our skeletal and muscular systems. Chiropractic is based on the scientific fact that the nervous system, the brain and the spinal cord, control the function of every cell, tissue, organ and system of the body. The art of adjustment utilizes techniques of directed and controlled pressure to restore joints and spinal segments to more normal positioning and range of motion, aiding in increased flexibility, increased immunological function and increased life energy. www.fonderchiro.com