Artista Destacado: SANDRA GONZALEZ

Sandra Gonzalez es un artista independiente la cual nació y se crió en Tamaulipas, México. En la actualidad trabaja Y reside en Texas. Ella viene de una familia sólida eh un círculo familiar muy unido.
Su educación es estrecha y su amor por superarse ha sido siempre el motor recordatorio para continuar luchando y avanzando.
Su familia siempre an sido la ruta del amor contastnte, las cuales la guiaron Y an apoyaron a continuar con sus estudios. En el 2000 con el fin de apoyar sus deseos de cumplir con sus actividades artísticas se mudaron a vivir Laredo, Texas.
El amor de Sandra Gonzalez por las artes fue despertado durante sus primeros años. Mientras que en la escuela secundaria ella completó muchos cursos y actividades creativos. Sandra recibió una Maestría en Bellas Artes en "La Academia de Pensilvania de Bellas Artes".
Sandra Gonzalez trabajó muy duro y recibió dos "Premios de Arte del Estado" por sus obras anteriores, ganandose el "2013 Maestría en Bellas Artes" y "Pintura y Dibujo 2013 Y  Maestría en Bellas Artes de la tesis" titulado: "Orígenes de Patrimonio y Cultura "que explora la identidad a lo largo de los tejidos mexicanos y prendas de vestir de la familia" que fue seleccionado como uno de los mejor tesis escrita en los últimos 10 años en la Academia de Pensilvania de Bellas Artes.

Sus recientes ocupaciones profesionales consisten de ayudar en la creación e instalación de murales para el Programa de Arte Mural de Filadelfia, siendo la asistente de estudio del señor Charles Burwell y enseñando talleres de arte en diferentes instituciones en Filadelfia.
Sandra Gonzalez recientemente comenzó a dar clases de arte en "El United Independent School District" en Texas.
Las obras de arte de Sandra Gonzalez consisten en diferentes medios, a ella le gusta principalmente trabajar con los acrílicos y los aceites, pero en ocasiones sus obras han sido compuestos por telas, collage de fotos y transferencias. Sandra también ha hecho esculturas suaves y ha trabajado con papel gofrado. Sus obras varean en textura y estilos. Sandra le encanta integrar de la inspiración de su cultura en muchas de sus obras. Algunas de sus piezas consisten de poner juntos vestimientos personales eh usandos de la cultura Mexicana. Con la creación de estas piezas únicas le da al espectador una mirada más íntima a la idea transender eh envocar una essencia unica de crecimiento Y transformacion, como el ave fénix. El renacimiento de nuestra energía no se lleva a cabo en las prendas de vestir, zapatos, pinzas para el cabello o corbatas que pueden ser usados.

La educación de Sandra Gonzalez se compone de 2013 Maestria en Arte Fina, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Dibujo Y Pintura 2013 una Maestria de Artes Finas Un Thesis de nombre “Origenes de herencia Y cultura". En 2008 Licenciatura en Artes en Texas A&M "International University at Laredo", TX. EL certificasion de todo nivel en el "Estudio De Arte Magna Cum Laude" Phi Kappa Phi-Toda Disiplina Sociedad de honor estidio. Estudio en el estranjero Sesión de Verano en "Santa Reparata International School of Art" en Florencia, Italia. Sandra tambien recibio un "2006 Associado de Artes Mayores" en Laredo Community College at Laredo, TX. Cum Laude.
Sandra Gozalez participa actualmente como instructora de Arte de la secundaria asistiendo derectamente para el Programa de Arte Murales de Filadelfia, es la asistente de estudio de Charles Burwell.
Sandra es también un profesora de el lenguaje de español para el programa de arte de la familia en la Academia de Pensilvania de Bellas Artes.
Tambien es maestrs de la escuela secundaria en la Academia de Pensilvania de Bellas Artes. Naturaleza de pintura de bodegón el curso basado en la universidad.

Sandra Gonzalez afirma: : "La idea de "fibra" "se amplía para incluir la memoria forma y emoción creando una identidad personal, la fibra misma de ser, literalmente, a mí mismo surgió en mi cultura cubriendo mi cuerpo con los tejidos y prendas de vestir de la familia que es.. un cordón umbilical que me une con el pasado. Debajo de estas prendas pintadas laboriosos, disfraces y ropa reveals- que puede reflejar nuestro ser más íntimo o ocultarlo. En mi trabajo, el tema y mi patrimonio se unen, creando una interacción de ideas personales y los conceptos culturales. el uso de textiles y prendas de vestir mexicanas familia define mi identidad, pero también se ramifica mi tema mediante el uso de la tela como metáfora social donde cada prenda es una colección de fibras individuales que forman un grupo Y  sociedad ".
Sus exposiciones han sido:
"SELECTED JURIED AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS" 2014 Abstraction " A Seed on Diamond Gallery" in Philadelphia, PA. Corazon Sagrado also in "ChimMaya Gallery" in Los Angeles, CA
"Travel and Transportation Show" for " The Plastic Club" in Philadelphia, PA
"Small Works Show" at " The Plastic Club" in Philadelphia, PA 2013
“Feast” for " Alumni Gallery" in Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Sandra Gonzalez fue la estudienate elejida para pintar retratos en el Lloyds del evento de Londres en "The Hamilton Building" Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 2012.

Assistente de Earl Parr Photografia en Corpus Christi, TX. 2010-2011
Artista invitado en la Lectura en " Bokenkamp refujio de ninos" en Corpus Christi, TX. 2010.
Instructora en Assistente de la "Intitusion De Las Artes" en TAMUCC- Escuela lemental Y Escuela secundaria en un "Taller De Pintura" en Corpus Christi, TX. Summer 2009.
"Assistente de Galleria de Arte" en TAMUCC. Corpus Christi, TX. 2009
"Estudiante De Practicas"- Laredo Independent School District. Todo Nivel en 2006-2008 Texas "A&M International University Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library Special Collections & Archives". Bibliotecaria en el " Colejio Federal Workstudy- servicio Communitario" en 2006-2008.

Para obtener más información acerca de otras obras y exposiciones de este artista: www.sandragonzalezart.com
xxsandragonzalezxx@hotmail.com

Featured Artist: ESTHER MARIA PAGAN

Esther Maria Pagan

Describes herself: "I am a Butterfly Mermaid with Wings of Fire".
Is a Latin American Artist.She was born in Youngstown, Ohio. Her parents were both of a Puerto Rican background. She was raised in the South, West and North Bronx. Her roots are deep and full of beauty.As an inspirational local Bronx artist Esther Maria Pagan found that integrating herself in the world of Art was a given.
In her early career, Esther Maria Pagan studied Hair Design at the Robert Fiance Makeup Academy. She was a stylist and Photographer which helped to put her through school.
She continued her artistic journey working at F.I.T. and Parson’s studying Fashion Design, Communications, Millinery Design and Fine Arts. Esther has worked in the Garment Industry with many of Fashion’s Greats, like: Liz Claiborne, Badgeley Mischka and Escada.versatile in many areas she longed to work a more soulful type artwork, so she studied massage therapy at the Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences. She became a NYC licensed massage therapist. Enamored with her new platform she worked closely with doctors and became obsessed with the phenomenon called, “The Human Body.”

She has dedicated herself to learning as much as she could about different forms and Technic in order to make her craft perfect, by doing so she gained knowledge and learned how to guide her clients to better understand their pain and conditions. She also worked scheduling radiology appointments for patients in a CT. hospital which by chance led her to take notice that over 50% of the calls she handled where Cancer related. This inspired Esther Maria to design "Avant Garde Hats" , photographing them with nude models.

She looked to design and create a hat Calendar. The intent is to sell and allow part of the proceeds to help individuals with Cancer.Her hat designs vary in many mediums. The calendars demonstrate her designed hats in photographs featuring nude models, each hat and model are carefully selected.

Esther Maria was diagnosed with Breast Cancer on September 17th, 2012. She under went a double mastectomy on October 17th, 2012. She has undergone 6 surgeries and will undergo her last one this April 2014, making her journey will be complete. She looked to making this time a positive one, so she started writing her experience from the time she was diagnosed. Her blog: mycolorsofcancer.com takes a deep and personal look into the passages and the battle with cancer. She feels that she has a grand responsibility and her purpose is to educate and reach out to those with Cancer, specifically Breast Cancer.
Her inspiration takes her to create one of kind pieces. She has aspirations of getting published and becoming an inspirational speaker. Esther has found healing through art by placing the beauty of her surroundings thus creating a voice through her craft.

Her biggest influences have been her Puerto Rican roots and her family. Her struggles have made her and a strong, beautiful and humble human being. She loves abstract artists like Picasso, Dali, Kahlo, Matisse, Basquiat just to name a few of her favorite. She finds their work magical because they were artists whom thought out side of the box and their works were an example of such.
The women in her family also have had a huge influence on Esther Maria's upbringing.Her mother was a floral designer. Her maternal grandmother was a Floor Manager at a Button Factory in the garment district. Her paternal grandmother was a genius with the knitting needles, making beautiful pieces of art. Her "Titi" (aunt) Lola was a sample maker for Ann Klein. Yes these strong beautiful women were the ones that influenced her beginnings.
As she states: "Go to the large corporations and look on the sidelines and see who are the true artists." Yes, those are the women of her family. "My hands are my livelihood." "The women in my family have influenced and made my hands her heart and soul tick since age 5."

Esther Maria Pagan considers her work to be one of a kind, hand-made, unique, abstract, couture and eccentric. "I have been sewing since the age of 5. My mother was a floral designer on Bleecker Street and my maternal grandmother was the manager at a button factory in the garment industry. My fraternal grandmother was an expert crochet knitter. My mother would hand me a needle and thread with all the accessories needed to make dresses for my Barbie dolls. I attribute my talents and inspiration to my culture. My mother always dressed with style and etiquette, she never forgot her matching shoes, gloves, hat and clutch. This has been embedded in my head since I was a child. I love the glamour and beauty that go along with fashion. As an artist, I have always given back to my community, hence, “Artisan 4 A Cause.” As a body worker I find our community needs help with all medical conditions that affect our society. My goal is to give back to individuals with debilitating diseases."

Esther Maria Pagan: "My definition of art is to think out side of the box." Working with any form or medium. Creating with the human body, the human mind, the soul and spirit, allowing the flow of the color to spring out of her hands to form a creative process. One that is in tune with self and the rest the Universe. Using life as her Muse and creating Art with conviction and raw passion.That is Esther Maria Pagan's definition of art!.


*To know more about this artist and her craft you can contact Esther Maria Pagan with any questions or comments at her personal Email: atesty427@yahoo.com
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Featured Artist: PATRICIA ARIEL

 

 

Patricia Ariel 

 Was born and raised in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil where she lived for many years. Patricia was brought up with strong rooted influences that are the core of her personal maturity. Having lived in the working class of Rio De Janeiro she learned from a young age the wisdom and respect for the spiritual as well as the physical environment. It was easy to love and learn of the mystical world because she was present in many Afro-Brazilian rituals. She grew up within a powerful group of healers, exposing her to rituals of healing, channeling spirits, and later participating actively in spiritual seances. All of these colorful experiences marked her life very vividly, so much that she considers herself a cultural hybrid. The heavy influence of this spirituality became the pillar of her values which are very present in her artwork today and always. 

Patricia Ariel began to paint when she was about three years old, she had a very imaginative childhood, and in spite of having a lot of fun with her brother and cousins, her favorite time was really spent on her own. She would spend many hours creating stories, characters, drawing comic books, reading, and listening to music. Patricia's mother was very nurturing and encouraged her artistic interests. She would pay for drawing and dance classes, and would allow her to use their rooftop for rehearsals while Patricia was involved with theater and music activities. Patricia's love for the arts has always been a consistent and unconditional desire to create. Patricia balanced her shyness and through her art, she grew to deal with many emotional issues throughout her life like depression and social phobia. She feels that art has been therapeutic and healing and honestly does not know where or how she would be right now if not for the arts. Patricia Ariel is a self-taught artist, with some formal instruction in visual arts, that including training in academic drawing and fashion design. In her early years her art has also been expressed through theater, dance, and music. Patricia is a hardworker, she worked in several jobs relating to visual communication and teaching. She later returned to school to study fashion design, and gained a degree in Art Education in her early 30's. Patricia also had aspirations of becoming a graphic novel writter and illustrator so she wrote and illustrated a novel which she is hoping to publish one day. Although never published she thrilled in the idea of creation, she also started a project to teach arts to the poor children as her vision was to give and teach, although it did not grow this project remains part of her heart.


In 2005 Patricia Ariel took the decision to move to the US to get married, because she felt limited in my self-expression due to the language barrier she saw the visual arts as her only career path for that time. She worked feverishly drawing and creating as much as she could. She wanted to show her work on the internet, and it was just a matter of time before she began to sell, making commissions, and having her work recognized and displayed everywhere. Meanwhile her daughter Isobel was born. She was divorced few years later and moved with her to the Northwest, where she lives and works now. She never thought about becoming a gallery artist. This happened way later, after she moved to the United States. She found it practical to incorporate her work within graphic design and fashion so that she would have a successful working career. Her decision to become a professional fine artist Patricia Ariel's works are of many mediums, her favorites being acrylic and pencils. She also has dabbled in oil and watercolors.

Her biggest artistic influences have been the Pre-Raphaelites and art nouveau artists and designers. Klimt, Schiele, Evelyn de Morgan, the Mackintoshes, all those fine folks of the 19th century and early 20ths. Dave McKean has a special spot in her altar.The type of work she creates is heavily reflective of her strong spiritual insights and connections with the mystism the beauty of nature, the magic of the psychic it diverse dimensions the symbolist and movement in the arts and literature. She finds that a big piece of her is still lost in those contemporary times. Music is also an inspiration to the beauty and expressiveness of the human body she finds it to be a sacred role and agent of our spiritual evolution and how it contains the universe in it. These mysteries inspire Patricia. Her work is combined with the beauty of the human figure filled with dimensional patterns and expressive abstract designs.


Patricia Ariel's representation of the human form brings forth an uncanny realistic pressence of essence. Her realms of thoughts and imagination are combined with the realistic presence and the desire of dimensional dreams. She drowns her audience with pure electricity and fire. She is an artist that creates a vision of energy in it's purest form. Her work leaves the viewer with a deeper sense of the human heart and it's many conditons.Every element that appears in her images has a distinct symbolism or personal meaning. Her inspiration comes from her spirituality, and all that it involves: the natural world, the bonds spirit/matter, life cycles, darkness and light, the symbolic languages like the Tarot and astrology, the human emotions and psyche. Patricia Ariel considers her work to be a platform for healing and used to label herself as a Neosymbolism, but with growing interest in abstractionism and its incorporation to her figurative work.

She states: " I am becoming more and more confused about my artistic identity, I might find out someday".
The word Patricia Ariel describes herself as, is: Movement.
Her work: metaphysical poetry.

-Patricia is currently a member of the Energy Art Movement.
UPCOMING SHOWS

July
Temple of The Soul – Bodies and Sacred Systems, group show. Alexi Era Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
The Bees Knees, group show. Alexi Era Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
Hidden Kingdoms, group show. The Dream Factory, Frankfurt, Germany.

September
Irrelevant Roots, a Copycat Violence Collective show. Thumbprint Gallery, La Jolla, CA.

November
Children of Roscharch, group Show. Phone Booth Gallery, Long Beach, CA.

If you wish to learn more about this artist please visit the link:
http://www.patricia-ariel.com

Contact Email: ariel@patricia-ariel.com