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There you can find dozens of performances, exhibitions, receptions, educational activities, and special events that display the creative force that drives the local community and challenges patrons to broaden their own artistic views.
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| Gregory Elliott, Pull Toy for the New Millennium, 2011, Photo Courtesy of Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center |
CAM kicks off March 3 at its original home, the Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center with the concurrent opening of six new exhibitions, including "Dam the Torpedoes" from sculptor Gregory Elliott in the main gallery and Brian Jobe's "Blank Tides," a series of installations and sculptures that transforms ordinary found objects. The CAM Kick-Off party begins at 6 p.m. and admission is free.
Also this week: "Versus" presented by Guadalupe Contemporary Arts Center. Described as a "literature intervention project," the exhibition will invade the El Tropicano Hotel and surprise patrons with poems and creative writings placed throughout the hotel. "Versus" begins with an opening reception tonight, from 6 to 9 p.m. The installation continues all month long.
For a complete listing of CAM events, visit. contemporaryartsmonth.com.
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Paroxysm Of Unintelligibilities
Mitos Gallery is pleased to announce the March 12th opening of its 2011 Contemporary Art Month exhibition, Paroxysm of Unintelligibilites, featuring the work of San Antonio artist Alejandro Augustine Padilla.
This series of eleven oil paintings is inspired by French intellectual Paul Valéry who once wrote,“Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.”
Padilla remains true to his distinct painting style and to his use of fluid, organic abstraction as he explores the inherent paranoiac fear of internal decay and illness. The monochromatic paintings are intimate and imbued with a sense of paranoia. Padilla’s statement for the show reveals this paranoia. In it he writes, “Every living cell is fear. Each an unwrapped fate, infected somewhere, waiting its turn to betray you through natural progression. Yet, mortality is endearing. Humankind is the insignificant result of significance.”
There will be an opening reception on Second Saturday, March 12, 2011 from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Mitos Gallery
913 S. Flores St.
San Antonio, TX 78204
(210) 978-6663
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