The one glass of wine post

A brief review of The McNays new art wing…under construction.

ALEX RUBIO AT ART SPACE

 

TONIGHT at [...]

Vallarta and illustration

Been working on these illustrations for a little while, but I plan to resolve them tonight. And mayb e later develop on bigger versions of them.

This is a video  just made today about my feelings on being back in Puerto Vallarta

Job hunting

It is the time of a new season and this meand I will be looking and applying for a job in the Houston area.
I would like it to be fufilling, rewarding and of course well paid.
My priorities are : art, design, culture, non-profit and the like……these can contribute to my life and I also have [...]

The UTSA Printmaking room

SInce graduation is close, I decided to take some pictures in order to remember my working space at the UTSA Printmaking Lab.

More will be posted soon.

FIRST SLIDES.

Last Saturday it was a very long day of slide taking and video making.
Both Victoria Tijerina and I stayed in the Media Lab all day setting uo the lights, background and art to make sure the slides were perfect and so far they do seem very professional. I also learned how to use Final Cut [...]

LATEST PROJECTS

Contemporary Studio:
 Chris Kubick is our visiting artist/ instructor for Contmeporary Studio. Here’s his webpage.
Stoppage of time is the subject of this last assignment.
MY CONCEPT:
I decided to work along the lines of time works realted to meditation.
Meditation is a way of parcticing isolation from the material, which in turn becomes an isolation form time, or time [...]

Linoleum cuts

This is a piece of mounted linoleum that I carved and that will take part of the imagery involved in my next pieces. I printed it by hand on Maylar with regular relief ink.
 
The others are pictures of the process of carving the linoleum.
Will be posting more videos and photos of [...]

SPRINGTIME SHOWS

Focus…..energy………………
CURRENT BOOKS: YOGA JOURNAL, PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR THE EMERGING ARTIST, A FRANCIS BACON ONE, THE UNCANNY, ETC.
CURRENT PROJECTS: BFA INSATLLATION “LIGHTER BEING” in which many of my prints will dispalyed in a collage-like manner representing the ego and its breaktrhough.
STUDENT SHOW : Series of 3 lightbox 3-d prints, same style as the installation but smaller [...]