Join me for the opening,  Sat, Sep 26, 6:00 - 10:00 pm

Dates:
Sat, Sep 26, 2009 → Sat, Oct 24, 2009

David Shelton Gallery
20626 Stone Oak Pkwy, Suite 202
San Antonio, Texas 78258
210.481.5200

Artists

Judith Cottrell, Stephanie Dotson, Joey Fauerso, Servando Garcia, Saul Gray-Hildenbrand, Kimberly Hahn, Neil Kennedy, Diana Kersey, Wayne McCall, Michele Monseau, Ann-Michele Morales and Cruz Ortiz

Description

A Communion of Saints: Santa Barbara and San Antonio Artists examines the practices of artists living and working in two cities that share overlapping characteristics.  Curated by Miki Garcia, Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, A Communion of Saints features 12 visual artists, pairing six from Santa Barbara with six from San Antonio.

Both Santa Barbara and San Antonio exist outside the traditional art market centers (such as New York, London, and Berlin), are influenced by Spanish and Mexican colonial culture, and have rich artistic and cultural traditions.  This show represents a wide variety of disciplines and artistic expressions–including photography, installation, performance, video, painting, ceramics, and printmaking–that convey the depth and breadth of artistic activities in these two American outposts.

Plastic Planet
September 26th – October 24th 2009
Opening Reception - Saturday, September 26th - 5-7pm

Plastic Planet is a group exhibition at the AFS Gallery that explores some of the uses and reuses, abuses and excesses of plastic in our environment through art.  It celebrates the beauty and versatility of the material while also acknowledging that it is all pervasive.  The proliferation of plastic on this planet has had a profound effect on us all – facilitating beneficial creations and causing massive pollution problems on land and at sea.  These artists in their diverse ways will no doubt inspire environmental exploration and creative transformation of this omnipresent material.

Artists: Alver, Phil Argent, Michael Blaha, Jane Callister, Dianna Cohen, Emily Emanual, Julia Ford, James Gilbert, Kimberly Hahn, Penny Mast McCall, Mary Price, Keith Puccinelli, Joan Tanner, Dug Uyesaka, James Van Arsdale, Jen Vanderpool

THANK YOU to MarBorg Industries for sponsoring this exhibition

RELATED LINKS
Www.plasticpollutioncoalition.com;   http://www.algalita.org/