Neo-Paganism & The Failed Gods, an exhibit of the work of artist Hector Hernández, opens April 11 at Laredo College’s Martha Fenstermaker Memorial Visual Arts Gallery.
An opening reception begins at 4:30 p.m., followed by Hernández’s Artist’s Gallery Talk at 5:30 p.m.
A multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Austin, Hernández is a founding member of Los Outsiders curatorial collective. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Getty Museum, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Queens Museum, UCArtsblok, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City, the Contemporary Austin – Laguna Gloria, Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum, and Kunsthaus Gallery in Germany.
Most recently Hernandez was part of the Getty Museum PSTLA (Pacific Standard Time: LA) in Los Angeles. He has been featured in ART FORUM, ArtNexus, Art in America, Artillery, Juxtapoz, VOGUE Magazine, Glasstire, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times, among others.
Hernández speaks thus of his work, “In formal terms, my current work is an exploration of form and color. It references the figure and explores its relationships utilizing basic geometric shapes. I am interested in the tension that exists between these forms and the space both occupy. My long history with mixed media and photography have driven my current work, as I have returned to traditional materials such as paper, fabric, photographed images, and fabricated artifacts to produce works that focus on the process of creating surreal characters/creatures.”
Ryan Cantu writes in the newly minted Laredo arts journal Tragaluz of the recent Los Outsiders’ exhibit at the Laredo Center for the Arts – Chai’n Brai Laika Daimon – as a significant nod “to one of the underrepresented voices Los Outsiders’ tries to elevate: the unique yet much derided language of the South Texas border.”
Neo-Paganism & The Failed Gods closes May 8. For further information, call (956)-721-5224 or e-mail arts@laredo.edu.
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