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my professional work includes both art and design. both disciplines are a complement of each other and the resulting work does not exist without feedback. video installation is a way to give life to some of the images that result in my personal world.
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...a bronc swimmer never stop.
Bronc
this is a work in progress advertising BRONCS US swimming team. my students and I are preparing a promotional campaign to help the team grow and to become established in the Rio Grande Valley. leading by example is one way which I collaborate with my students that allows them to learn the practice of design and allows me to teach in a more dynamic way as a teacher.
“best swimming team in the RGV” UTPA indoor pool,
bronc.swim-team.us
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promotional flyer to promote professor De Souza lecture in the International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, TX.
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Angel Berrios
MFA Graduate Exhibition Charles and Dorothy Clark Gallery Art Department 1201 W. University Drive Edinburg, TX 78539
November 4 -14, 2010 Reception: Thursday-November 4, 2010 Time: 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
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MFA Graduate Exhibition November 4 - 14, 2010 Reception November 4, 2010 6:30 - 9:30 pm
For more information or special accomodations, contact Elena Macias (956) 381-3400 or e-mail emacias1@utpa.edu
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Viviana Sarrias COAS Gallery Art Department 1201 W. University Drive Edinburg, TX 78539
The existential essence of Women as Solitude
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displacement short video 2007 this video installation piece is part of my understanding of U.S. culture, and also my insertion into it. displacement speaks about the feelings that could disappear or may become stronger. it talks about self doubt as a foreigner and the differences in identity.
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still images for video: “displacement”
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“what you don’t know, won’t hurt you” short video 2009
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My video “Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente,” which can be translated into English as “What you don’t know; won’t hurt you”, is a discourse that presents the mode by which I feel and see this región: The Río Grande Valley. Here is captured what I have never expressed verbally before and even more specifically what I cannot demonstrate except through images. This project silently probes whom I have been and part of what has affected me here: I say “part” because there have been moments incapable of capture, impossible in their restitution except in the retelling. Because of this ephemerality, the river and some of the personajes I portray lack a specific name while at the same time reflecting all and everyone. Through video I saw the possibility of capturing that which it is impossible to explain rationally since it incorporates my feelings and critical posture toward this society. It is a strategy for formulating my ideas, for revealing what is difficult about it for me as I come to it out of a place such as Cuba. It is not the intention of this video to be used for criticism, but rather to describe how I feel this culture that is new to me. The video installation “Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente” is a revelation of cultural heritage via graphics and images that belong to a sector of this culture. Each image speaks to personal experience in contact with this culture. The video’s protagonists are solely the vehicle by which to reflect on what I have heard from so many people native to this region as well as those who came here from Mexico. In this zone of conflicts due to language and place of origin, I have discovered that diversity is the essence of this culture. Through acculturation, individuals express themselves to demonstrate that they belong in both spheres, both Mexico and the United States. And this is how I understand the term “Tex-Mex,” as a cultural process or verbal strategy to resolve this clash of cultures.
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still images for video: “what you don’t know; won’t hurt you”
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fashion design and fashion illustration combines different medias in the work process. color studies are fundamental in the design project.
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pattern design illustration fashion design and illustration
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