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For more information please contact: Carlos Rodriguez-Brondo
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October 2, 2009
Fall Sculpture Art Show @ Oak Springs Branch
Join the Oak Springs Branch of the Austin Public Library, 3101 Oak Springs Dr., for the Fall Sculpture Art Show on display September 28 through November 28. The exhibit features work from local artists Jose Acosta, Patricia Greene, Herb Long, Ambray Gonzales, Oscar Silva, and Aldo Valdez-Bohm. For more information please visit www.cityofaustin.org/library or call 512-974-9920.
Jose Luis Acosta
Jose Luis Acosta is a native of Eagle Pass, Texas, received a Master of Fine Arts in 1996 from the New York Academy of Art. He has worked for Jeff Koons as the lead sculptor on a large scale project and has executed a reproduction of Constantin Brancusi’s “The Muse” for the Solomon Guggenheim Museum. In 1998, he received the Edward Fenno Hoffman prize from the National Sculpture Society. Jose currently lives in Austin, Texas
Ambray Gonzales
Ambray Gonzales, Achievement Scholarship Recipient, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1981. She is a portrait, landscape artist, Public Art sculptor, puppeteer, dancer, and storyteller who works in a variety of media. She has worked for the Austin Public Library since 2002, incorporating all these skills as a Children’s Program Specialist. Her art resides in numerous private collections, the City of Austin Public Art Collection, St. Edwards University, Mexic-Arte Art Museum, La Pena (Austin), Scottish Rite Temple in San Antonio, and Corpus Christi Art Museum. As a fast sketch portrait artist, she has been commissioned to paint pastel portraits and oils for over a 1000 patrons. While attending U.T., Gonzales had the opportunity to study Mayan Art, with Professor Linda Schele, one of the leading authorities in Mayan studies…hence her interest in Mayan imagery and her painting which deals with the spirituality of sacrifice.
Patricia Greene
Patricia Greene is an artist who combines traditional weaving with an array of textural investigations. She experiments with a variety of materials ranging from natural fibers to metal and plastics – shattering misconceptions of the use of textile in art. Her three-dimensional sculptures woven in wire, range from life size to intimate statements. She achieves palpable textures by using different gauges of wire and weaving techniques that lend a physical presence and tactile sense of depth. The imagery is often drawn from nature, dreams, inner feelings, and personal hieroglyphs which suggest a visceral determination to be alive. She examines these visions through the exploration and effects of transparency, light, form, and texture. Greene’s artistic endeavors thrive on the impulse of new challenges and collaboration with other artists. Her work has been shown in the United States and Mexico.
Herbert Long
Herbert Long studied art at the University of Kansas, and at the Alfred C. Glassell School of Art in Houston, Texas. Mr. Long started painting in his teens and has studied the figure and portraiture since college. He started sculpting in 1986 while attending the Glassell School of Art. He has received numerous commissions, and critical acclaim. His artwork has been exhibited internationally. His paintings and sculpture are included in private, public and corporate collections around the United States. Mr. Long is a former president of the Texas Society of Sculptors, and is an instructor at the Austin Sculpture Center in Austin, Texas.
Oscar Silva
Nature and the structural Patterns found therein have always intrigued Oscar Silva and have had an effect on the way he perceives the world around him. In his work he strives to reflect the multiplicity and originality found in the underlying order, unity, and cohesion that nature so boldly experiments with. Through a broad array of textural investigation he seeks to explore that which the mind comprehends. By blending and reworking, he achieves these patterns to create an intermixture through which hidden implications emerge. Using material that nature provides, he endeavors to experience the complexities of the essential qualities that the surrounding landscape has to offer, and doing so, he hopes to bring a new perspective to beauty around us.
Aldo Valdez-Bohm
Aldo Valdés Böhm was born in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico in 1975. He was around workshops and carpenters throughout his childhood there. He has been working wood for the last 13 years. His work is inspired by a wide array of styles ranging from, among others, Asian temples, half-timbered buildings of medieval Europe and Arts and Crafts houses and Mexican alebrijes. Structure is important in his work and furniture is the perfect vehicle to celebrate structure. When structure is combined with an array of woods, it strikes a balance of natural material, grain pattern, color and hardness. In other words it becomes geometry — shape, form, line and volume. Böhm is the owner of Avalbo industries, where he designs and creates furniture and cabinets. This shop is also the birthplace of hundreds of sculptures from various series including the Chimera and São Paulo Series. He resides with his wife, Jeanne Claire, and cat, Sophia, in central Austin.
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