Oaxaca Inspired A r t

Conjunction Of Genre And Culture Powered Through The Art Of O Axaca At Glassell School Of Art

BY WILLIAM HANHAUSEN

The legendary Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and one of the most innovative and dedicated Houston’s art colonnades, Serrano Gallery, summon to juxtapose artists and members of the MFAH exploring the creative sunlight and shadows of Oaxaca. To the world famous artists of the region with their latest and most daring and rarest works. A place where art and nature reconcile to explore and meet the mesmerizing fusion of the real and unreal. Woven with complex meanings and shearing a dystopian narrative which shares visual literacy alongside images dredged from the depths of the subconscious of a primitive expressionism.

On Thursday, August 10th 2023, for the first time in its history, the school will host three exhibitions that have a common denominator; “Oaxaca Inspired Art”, with works that have a preponderance of color and brightness striking contrasting communication.

The Levant Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of 4 artists assembled with works in a wide range of styles, but united by an energetic approach translated to the walls of the schools’ galleries. Saul Castro, Didier Mayes, Ixrael Montes, and Rolando Rojas.

The Bucher Gallery will present Glassell students that participated in one or more of Glassell sponsored Oaxaca fieldtrips in a juried exhibition.

The Orton Gallery will be introducing an exposition of women printmakers of Oaxaca, co-curated by Misayo Tsutsui & Mayuko Ona Gray.

This rudder that has been assembled thanks to the “mano a mano” determination between Patrick Palmer faculty chair and dean of The Glassell School of Art at the MFAH and Valentina Atkinson principal at Serrano Gallery.