2024 Exhibits and Events at Dock Space Gallery
January 2024
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MultiColored Universes - Paul Martin
Paul Martin is a visual artist, writer, inventor, and investor living in San Antonio, Texas. He started painting in college and had his first art show in New York City in 1985 and has lived and traveled all around the world. Paul takes a “psychic automatistic” approach to creating art—meaning that he usually begins with a completely open mind as to where his ideas will go.
In keeping with the psychic automatistic approach of creating something from nothing, and being in alignment with the continual expansion of the universe, the MultiColored Universes collection has expanded from two dimensional canvases to three dimensional canvases, such as cubes and pyramids, and continues to evolve into fashion art, such as pocket squares, scarves, neckties and bow ties. |
Star Time - Meredith Dean
Meredith Dean is a printmaker, painter, mixed-media artist known for creating bold, colorful abstract works. After teaching at UTSA as a Senior Lecturer for many years she served on several important San Antonio and regional arts boards. Dean has been inspired by her interest in mapping (topographical, land, road, sky, magnetic flow patterns, earthquake fault lines, wind directions, cartographic projections, etc.) and the effects of natural forces (wind, weather, water, time, internal pressures, seasonal changes, etc.)
She is attempting to capture the world as fixed with maps and data is confronted by the reality of constant natural changes. Dean uses shifts of forms and color to create a personal, investigative system to express the inter-changeable, constantly shifting poetic, visual signs, and symbols with which we attempt to describe our world. |
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.
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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
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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
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Two shows and music by San Antonio Jazz Authority.
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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.” |
June 2024
Florecer and Exhibiting Emotions
Florecer and Exhibiting Emotions
June’s Dock Space exhibition Florecer features Mira Hnatyshyn and in the newly redesigned Dock Space Annex will have over 25 local artists' work either eliciting or Expressing Emotions.
Mira Hnatyshyn is a full time artist based in Texas who uses her art to reflect on issues of culture, gender roles and identity. Through the process of painting, collage, assemblage, digital and installation art, Mira explores patterns in socio-cultural development that define the female condition in contemporary and historical times.
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Exhibiting Emotions curated by Rachael Duke pulls together established and emerging artists from all over the area presenting works in a full range of emotional expressions. Sculpture, photography, abstract paintings, mixed media collages, printmaking, video and more.
Artists: Taylor Black, Ana Laura Hernandez Burwell, Amber Bushnell, Alex Chambley, Allyson Croom, Kaldric Dow, Juan Farias, Robin Gara, Sunny Harris, Mona Helmy, Vikky Jones, Sarah Little, J. Salvador Lopez, Symone Martinez, Kim McGarghan, Mauro Murillo, Alyssa Narvaez, Rigo Ortiz, Katlyn Powell, Montana Priest, Jonathon Rodriguez, Angelica Romo, Andy Tschoepe, Mckenna Tuveson, Juan Vallejo, Cody Vance, Marco Vargas, and Mary Wuest. |
July 2024
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Patterns & Petals by Nathan Scott
Nathan Scott’s Patterns & Petals: Pen & Ink is an intense zentangle like exploration of nature. Nathan Scott is an emerging San Antonio based artist studying at The School of Art Institute of Chicago. Born and raised in San Antonio by an art teacher and an architect. He has been surrounded by the principles of art his whole life. His art radiates patience, perseverance, and dedication.
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Closing Reception for Exhibiting Emotions
See previous month for description.
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August 2024
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UN POQUITO TODO by Jose Cosme
Westside San Antonio native, painter and muralist, Jose Cosme’s roots span the streets of the Westside, his welita’s ranchito in Puerto Rico, and back again. He credits art, spirituality, and the guidance of his grandfather for saving his soul, and is eternally blessed for the guidance and mentorships of an all-star cast of artists who actively created positive change for their San Antonio/ Chicano communities.
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Y Todo Lo Que Somos/Everything We Are by Gilbert Martinez, Lee Ortiz, Edward Perez, and Gloria Chavera Ramirez
Dock Space Annex will feature four San Antonio based artists: Gilbert Martinez, Lee Ortiz, Edward Perez, and Gloria Chavera Ramirez in a show called Y Todo Lo Que Somos/Everything We Are.
Born and raised in San Antonio, Gilbert Martinez’s work is heavily influenced by his surroundings and heritage as he combines illustration, screen printing and painting to create works on wood and paper. Lee Ortiz is a Chicanx mixed media artist with a current focus on analog media. Their work is a tribute to motherhood as they were surrounded by love and God growing up as a Chicana woman. Westside born street artist Edward Perez is often seen at his Not For You Gallery in the Upstairs at Blue Star. As a stencil artist, Perez creates striking, thought-provoking works of art that are recognized for their meticulous attention to detail and captivating visual impact. Local Mexican American Artist and Art Educator, Gloria Chavera Ramirez is influenced by discrimination she faced while doing farm work and these pieces are based on memories and experiences that connect her true culture with a bit of comedy. |
Coming on September 14, 2024
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