Moving the Wedges - IMAS - McAllen, TX USA
M. Cloet - C. Stone exhibit at IMAS. Director Joseph Bravo of the museum moving very large wedges during a quick break between meetings and phone calls. Big boys have big toys.
Ran Hwang: “Game of Artifice”
IMAS visitors had the rare opportunity to witness and participate in the creation process of an installation piece by Korean artist Ran Hwang. The culmination of the project was the unveiling of the new piece in an opening reception on Thursday, March 5, 2015, in which IMAS Members and the public were welcomed to attend.
Hwang utilizes materials from the Fashion Industry like pins, buttons, thread, light, and color in order to give birth to her signature birds, vases, or Buddha’s. For her the process of creation is one of self-meditation so as to reach a state of Zen. Her works can be placed into two categories; one where buttons demonstrate the “human tendency to be irresolute” and the other where thread constructs “filled negative space…[that] suggests mortality at the heart of self-recognition”.
La Frontera exhibition at IMAS McAllen - opening
My La Frontera: Artists along the US Mexican Border exhibition at IMAS McAllen - opening January 23rd, through May 25.
IMAS: Sacred Visions Stained Glass Windows from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios, 12-4-13
From the private collection of Dr. Lawrence & Esperanza Gelman, Sacred Visions: Stained Glass Windows from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Studios is the third largest Tiffany Stained Glass window exhibit in the United States. It is on permanent loan at the International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen, Texas.
The Imaginary Protraits of Pablo Picasso Exhibition
After two yeas of planning, the National Museum of History (NMH) and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) are holding an exhibition of lithography, The Imaginary Portraits of Pablo Picasso International Exchange Touring Exhibition: From the Permanent Collection of the International Museum of Art & Science. Our collaboration with two museums in Taiwan started through a shared desired to expand our exhibition programming for our visitors and to share our permanent collections with museums throughout the world.
In 2016, NMH shared their collection of indigenous weavings with IMAS in a beautiful exhibition introducing South Texas to the history of native Taiwanese tribes and their exquisite craftsmanship. Now in 2017, IMAS has the privilege to share our Imaginary Portraits collection which includes a complete collection of 29 lithographs and proofs by Pablo Picasso from our permanent collection with the National Museum of History and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. This is one of only three complete Imaginary Portraits lithograph and artist proof sets in the United States. We believe this exhibition will give the Taiwanese people an opportunity to explore Picasso's timeless surrealist vision.
Inside Silence - McAllen IMAS
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From imasonline.org:
The exhibition, Inside Silence, by, Alejandro Benassini, will be on display at IMAS August 19th, 2010 to November 14th, 2010.
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 19, 2010 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m..
The title of the exhibit, Inside Silence, documents the personal journey into the void and silence of the interior experience, of a certain conscience that we may have with said concepts by the way of their symbolization in a tangible landscape. Inside Silence is a work in which each piece reiterates a particular way of seeing things, similar to a predetermined mental representation of silence. At the same time, the construction of a landscape where roots and foliage remain out of view, revealing itself as a repetitive image of a trunk and its exterior white space in a tangible form that occupies our whole field of vision.
Alejandro Benassini was born in Mexico City on august 6 of 1973. He studied Visual Arts in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (UNAM). In Mexico City and in Veracruz, he had worked as a professor in plastic arts, giving production workshop.
The International Museum of Art & Science acknowledges the Mexican Consulate in McAllen, Espect-arte for their invaluable support towards bringing Inside Silence to McAllen, and for helping to increase cultural awareness of the work of renowned Mexican artists.
The opening reception for Inside Silence will be on Thursday, August 19, 2010 from 6pm - 8pm and is FREE for IMAS members, and general admission for non-members.
For more information, please call IMAS at (956) 682-1564.
GISELA COLON : HYPER-MINIMAL : 2017
Film by Eric Minh Swenson.
Diane Rosenstein is pleased to announce HYPER-MINIMAL, a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Gisela Colon. HYPER-MINIMAL will present vivid and metallic hued blow-molded acrylic sculptures in an installation that invites the viewer to actively engage in an optical and perceptual experience. The exhibition opens Saturday, January 7th, 2017 with a reception for the artist from 6 - 8 PM. This is Gisela Colon's first exhibition with the gallery.
This exhibition will present fifteen new works (created since 2015) including two new freestanding pieces. One monumental piece is a twelve-foot monolith fabricated in iridescent carbon fiber. HYPER-MINIMAL also debuts a large-scale multi-part installation (spanning over twenty-seven feet), which introduces the formal aspect of seriality and repetition.
Taking a cue from Donald Judd’s notion of “specific objects,” Colon has dubbed her own works “non-specific objects” to highlight their deliberate fluid indeterminacy. Her color-infused acrylics and the interplay between light, perception, and lucid materiality embodies the ideals and the evolving investigations of the California Light and Space movement. The artist, who was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, identifies the early influence of Venezuelan artists Jésus Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez on her practice. This body of work continues a conversation with Latin American geometric modernism and the legacy of Op Art.
GISELA COLON (Canada, b. 1966) was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and received her BA from the University of Puerto Rico (1987) and JD from Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles (1990). Colon first exhibited abstract paintings (2005 - 2011), then, in 2012, moved into sculpture, focusing on perceptual phenomena, and the ideals and practices of the members of the California Light and Space movement, such as Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Craig Kauffman, DeWain Valentine, Helen Pashgian, Larry Bell, Doug Wheeler, and Peter Alexander. Colon’s friendship with mentor DeWain Valentine, and the writings of Donald Judd and Robert Irwin, generated a conceptual shift in her work increasing her interest in issues of visual perception, and materiality, which led to the creation of her plastic sculptures body of work. Through an industrial process Colon developed a unique fabrication method of blow-molding and layering various acrylic materials, producing mutable objects that appear to emanate light and color from within.
Colon’s work is the subject of a national museum exhibition tour which commenced at The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (Sept. 2015- Mar. 2016), [travelling to: International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS), McAllen, TX (Apr 14- Aug 7, 2016); Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, NY (Aug 28, 2016- Feb 12, 2017); Museum of Arts and Sciences (MAS), Macon, GA (Mar 3 – June 11 2017); Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM (June 30 – Sept 24, 2017); San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX (Dec 15, 2017 – February 4, 2018); Boise Art Museum, Boise ID (March - July 2018); Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO (Sept - Dec 2018).
Colon’s sculpture is in the permanent collection of The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; the Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, NY; the Grand Rapids Museum of Art (GRAM), Grand Rapids, MI; the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; and the Museum of Art & History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA. She was included in thematic museum exhibitions in the US and Europe at the Grand Rapids Art Museum (2016); the Kunstmuseum Wilhelm-Morgner Haus, Soest, Germany (2014); and the Chabot Museum, The Netherlands (2016); as well as upcoming shows at the Neuer Kunstverein, Kunstlanding, Aschaffenburg, Germany (May - July 2017) and the Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, PA (Fall 2017). The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.
For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at thuvanarts.com/take1
Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts :
The Top Five Museums in Texas
Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees count down the top five museums in Texas.
Living Laredo out exploring our history at our local Republic of the Rio Grand Museum!
Amazing artifacts, stories, and more as we explore The Republic of the Rio Grand Museum
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McAllen ArtWalk
Self-guided tour of art galleries and art hosts in one of the oldest areas in McAllen.
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MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY
About the Museum
...preserving and presenting the borderland heritage of South Texas and Northeastern Mexico
Prehistoric plants and animal fossils, native people and European colonization exhibits, and a steamboat replica are but a few of the fascinating displays to see at the Museum of South Texas History. For almost 40 years the Museum has chronicled the heritage of South Texas and Northeastern Mexico, preserving its rich history.
The Museum has been a part of the community since 1967. It first opened its doors as the Hidalgo County Historical Museum in the old Hidalgo County jail. Built in 1910, the Old Jail continues to be one the most important sections of the museum.
In 2003 the Museum completed a $5.5 million expansion, including a 22,500 square foot wing that includes the Museum Store, Grand Lobby, and permanent exhibits. At the time of this expansion, the Museum changed to its present name to reflect its mission to represent the history of the entire region.
McAllen, Texas (Hidalgo County)
A visit to Quinta Mazatlan, Nuevo Santander Gallery & International Museum of Art & Science by the Tropical Trail Region.
McAllen Habitat Tours
In 2010 one of the great controversies in McAllen City Limits but which generated interest throughout the Valley, the State and the Nation was the proposal to convert the closed McAllen Nature Center also known as the Botanical Gardens into a world class tennis center at the expense of what renowned biologists and botanists called a heritage forest. the ballot initiative failed and the city then set on a course of moving to renovate and open the gardens. On this tour sponsored by the city of McAllen, Mary Thorne of the Quinta Mazatlan conducts a tour of the Botanical Gardens.
In the first part of the video Botanist Sue Sill conducts a drawing session at the Keppler Property, a little known city property of twenty-three acres that includes a three acre lake.
IMAS Wireless Network by Frontera Consulting
Frontera Consulting was tasked with deploying new infrastructure for IMAS to support interactive exhibits, high-capacity data, and an overall improved visitor experience. For more information on Frontera, please visit
Video by: Image House Media of McAllen