2024 Exhibits and Events at Dock Space Gallery
January 2024
February 2024
The February 2024 show featured artwork from four local San Antonio couples. Ansen Seale and Dorte Weber, Richard and Michele Mogas, Maria Brown and David Anthony Garcia, and Eric Ryberg and Leslie Hidalgo.
Ansen Seale’s photographic collages invite viewers to pause and experience the visual landscape in a new way while Doerte Weber’s experimentation with often-overlooked materials pushes boundaries in the pioneering spirit of the Bauhaus women weavers.
Richard Mogas layers color and texture to express his fascination with human manipulations of the landscape which plays well against Michele’s vibrant raised relief sculptural pieces.
Maria Brown has intimate, erotic paintings of oysters in contrast to her partner David’s mosaic stained glass transformed longhorn skulls.
Newcomer Leslie Hidalgo’s ceramic sculptures combine botany and anatomy to tell the story of healing and resilience while her partner Eric’s work showcases elements that create a sense of home, like pets providing comfort and company.
Richard Mogas layers color and texture to express his fascination with human manipulations of the landscape which plays well against Michele’s vibrant raised relief sculptural pieces.
Maria Brown has intimate, erotic paintings of oysters in contrast to her partner David’s mosaic stained glass transformed longhorn skulls.
Newcomer Leslie Hidalgo’s ceramic sculptures combine botany and anatomy to tell the story of healing and resilience while her partner Eric’s work showcases elements that create a sense of home, like pets providing comfort and company.
March and April 2024
Triple Digit Studies - Paula Owen
Paula Owen has been a practicing artist most of her adult life with work in museum, corporate, and individual collections. Owen taught professionally in secondary and university levels, in public relations and graphic design, as well as leading arts institutions in Richmond, Virginia and San Antonio, Texas. In her published writing she has focused on leadership, the elements and significance of human creativity, individual artists and their work, and the evolution of concepts in art and craft. Her service to the field also includes serving on national boards and panels, including the Pew Charitable Trust, the Bush Fellowships in the Arts, and numerous state and municipal commissions and panels.
The Triple Digit Studies are gouache on paper paintings completed during the extraordinarily hot 2023 summer months. This series is labeled studies because I intentionally challenged myself to experiment with a new approach that in some hypothetical ways reflected the severe weather - non-objective, flat, hard-edged, and vivid. |
Also featuring Joan Frederick, Sabra Booth and Daniela Oliver de Portillo
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May 2024
Tone Poems: Distant Dreams
by Alan Hollander A native of New York City, Alan Hollander has had a life-long passion for fine arts. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and has made a career as an art director and graphic designer in New York, Massachusetts and Texas.
After going on a fine arts hiatus for many years in order to pursue a graphic arts career, start and run an advertising agency in South Texas, raise his children and pursue music, Hollander began painting again in 2014, further exploring the creative vision he began in the late 70s in Western Massachusetts. |
Scenes of Nature
by Kathleen Baker Pittman, Cindy Tower, and Andrea Willems Tone Poems: Distant Dreams was “inspired by the interactions of musical patterns that manifest in my mind’s-eye as shapes and lines while listening to jazz, baroque and Indian classical music. Although influenced by the Bauhaus movement and Russian Constructivism, the paintings express my individual artistic language.”
Cindy Tower's Salado Series explores the concerns with the negative effects upon San Antonio’s local ecosystem that are caused by development and global warming. She uses painting, debris collected in situ, and fragments of discarded clothing to develop beautiful and resilient works. Andrea Willems’ the body is a landscape is an artist who uses parallels within nature and her surroundings by using paint to express internal musings. Through her work and loose painterly marks she reminds us that life might be messy, but it’s also beautiful like the flowers and trees that surround us. Kathleen Baker Pittman’s artwork features sculptural paintings and prints of the sea called Anamnesis: Evoking my Father. “This installation is a transformation of a legacy from my father to art. The legacy is a sailboat that he designed and built. The installation is comprised of repurposed and redesigned parts of this boat with traditional and nontraditional prints.” |