Press Release
Dock Space Gallery and Lone Star Gallery Presents
Special 2nd Opening Reception was on July 11th
(The original opening reception happened on June 13th, as part of Second Saturday. Due to the scheduling conflict with the Spurs game that evening, we decided to extend the exhibition and celebrate the artists with a new 2nd opening reception was held on July 11th.

Dock Space Gallery Presents : Paintings From Life by Jacinto Guevara Dock Space Gallery is proud to present an exhibition featuring the work of Los Angeles-born artist Jacinto Guevara, whose paintings capture the atmosphere, spirit, and evolving identity of urban life through deeply personal and evocative imagery.

Born in 1956, Guevara has pursued drawing and painting with relentless dedication since the age of six. Inspired in the early 1970s by the passion and iconography of the Xicano Movement, as well as the monumental influence of the Mexican muralists of the 1920s and 1930s, he developed a visual language rooted in culture, community, and social memory.

In 1986, Guevara began his celebrated Urban Landscape series — plein air paintings documenting the disappearing neighborhoods of Los Angeles. These works serve not only as records of changing cityscapes, but as emotional portraits of place and time. Alongside his visual art practice, Guevara is also an accomplished musician and composer, performing on diatonic accordion, organ, piano, bajo sexto, tenor banjo, and Andean quena.
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Since his first solo exhibition in 1988, Guevara’s work has been widely recognized for its authenticity, craftsmanship, and emotional resonance. A pivotal moment in his career came in 1990 with a landmark group exhibition alongside four prominent Xicano artists. His artwork is now included in the permanent collections of UTSA, the City of San Antonio, the San Antonio Public Library, and The Cheech in Riverside, California.

Reflecting on his work, Guevara states:
“I seek to create ambiente (atmosphere) and I use place, detail and randomness to awaken the past dreams and memories in the viewer.”

This exhibition at Dock Space Gallery invites audiences into Guevara’s richly textured world — where memory, architecture, culture, and everyday life merge into paintings filled with warmth, nostalgia, and humanity.

Lone Star Gallery  is proud to present a new body of work by photographer and visual anthropologist Eric O'Connell, featuring portraits of San Antonio artists captured in the spaces where they work, dream, and create.
Using a traditional pinhole camera — a simple light-proof box with a tiny opening instead of a lens — O’Connell creates richly layered portraits that explore the conceptual relationship between artistic process and photographic image-making. The resulting works are atmospheric and deeply personal, reflecting both the artists themselves and the environments that shape their creativity.

“The pinhole camera becomes more than a tool, it becomes a metaphor,” says O’Connell. “The dark box is the artist’s mind; the pinhole is a literal and figurative moment of inspiration. Light enters slowly and gradually builds an image, just as ideas form and evolve into works of art.”
Though pinhole photography is rarely used for portraiture, O’Connell embraces the medium’s unique visual qualities and conceptual resonance. The exhibition highlights San Antonio’s vibrant and multi-generational arts community, drawing connections across disciplines including murals, music, textiles, and technology — all elements contributing to the city’s creative pulse.

The photographs are printed using the platinum-palladium process, a historic hand-coated printing technique in which light-sensitive metal salts are applied directly to acid-free paper. Each print is one-of-a-kind, distinguished by subtle tonal depth and the visible brush marks left by the artist’s hand.

Among the featured portraits in the exhibition is a striking image of Bill FitzGibbons, artist and owner of Dock Space Gallery & Lone Star Gallery, captured by Eric O'Connell using his signature pinhole process. The gallery is especially excited to share this portrait with the public, highlighting both FitzGibbons’ artistic presence and his longstanding contribution to San Antonio’s creative community.

O’Connell is a photographer and visual anthropologist whose work explores cultural landscapes through photography and video rooted in visual anthropology. A former associate professor of photography at Northern Arizona University, he has photographed for publications including Time, Fortune, and The New York Times, and has exhibited internationally.

Several of O’Connell’s projects — including Cowboys: East Germany and 9/11 A New Reality, created in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks — are held in the The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. The 9/11 work is also included in the collections of the Monroe Gallery of Photography and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. A monograph of the 9/11 series has also been published.

O’Connell lives and works in San Antonio, where he teaches photography at Trinity University.

To schedule an appointment outside of designated hours, please contact:
Bill FitzGibbons — (210) 723-3048