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| Arturo Bolaños Paintings | |
| Visual artist. | |
| Education: | |
| Xilography and Drawing and Painting studies National School of Fine Arts, Mexico City 1991-93 Woodblock Printing Native Images Studio, Santa Cruz CA 1993-95 Painting Undergraduate Program San Francisco City College S. F. CA 1997 AA Fine Arts Hartnell College. Salinas, CA 2002 AA Behavioral Science Hartnell College. Salinas, CA 2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, CA 2003 | |
| Awards: | |
| “Persuacion” 1993 Charcoal on paper Collection Balmory family Buenos Aires, Argentina “Concevida por un mal pensamiento” 1993 Xilografia Centro Cultural Jesus Romero Flores Mexico City, Mexico “Bajo de la sierra” 1996 Acrylic and oil on canvas Collection Pajaro Valley Art council Watsonville, CA “The proposition of the Angel” 1997 “The Queen of Cups” 1997 Acrylic and Oil on canvas Collection Estefan Miami, Florida “Erendira” 1999 xilography Collection UC Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA “Erendira” 1999 Xilography Collection of the MoLAA Long Beach, CA | |
| Selected Commissions/collections: | |
| Mural and Public works on display “Semilla del Corazon” 1998 85’ x 14’ Acrylic on concrete, Alisal St. Salinas CA. “Horizontes” 1999 90’ x 20’ Acrylic on stucco, Wood St. Salinas CA. “Masks past and present” 2000 93’x 25’, Acrylic on canvas Alisal St. Salinas, CA. “Between Heaven and Earth” 2001 12’ x 16’ Acrylic on canvas, Community Center. Salinas, CA. “Homage to the Mariachi” 2001 13’ x 13’ tryptich, Acrylic on Canvas, Mexican Heritage Co. San Jose, CA. “Fuego Nuevo” 2002 70’ x 20’ Acrylic on stucco, El Sausal Middle School. Salinas, CA. “Dia de los Muertos” 2002 40’ x 8’ Acrylic on panel, San Francisco Art Institute. S.F. CA. “Indigenismo (Rebirth)” 2002 32’ x 8’ Acrylic on Panel, San Francisco Art Institute S.F. CA. | |
| Single Exhibitions: | |
| "Sublimidad Magica" 1992 El Sol Gallery, Mexico City. "Reminiscences and Allegories" 1993 Salinas Center LULAC, Salinas CA. “Initiation” 1999 Cultural Center at the Mexican Embassy in Santa Ana, CA. | |
| Group Exhibitions: | |
| "De Chile, De Dulce y De Manteca" 1992 Radio Educacion, Mexico City. "Grabado en Madera" 1992 Taller Jose Guadalupe Posada, Mexico City. "Fragmentos Del Ayer" 1992 Casa De La Cultura de la U.A. del E.M.Mexico City. "Las Guadalupanas" 1993 iglesia Tenango del Aire, Edo. de Mexico "Entre El Hechizo Del Camaleon y La Seduccion De La Luna" 1993 Galeria Santos Balmori, Mexico City. "Origins" 1994 Casa Gutierrez, Monterey, CA "Roots" 1995 Monterey Museum Of Native American Art, Monterey, CA. “World Contemporary Art—98” 1998 L.A Convention Center L.A. CA “Misfit 9” Group Exhibit 1999 Misfit 9 Gallery Santa Ana , CA “Arte Illegal/ Illegal Art” 1999 La Luz Gallery, Long Beach, CA “Images of Resilience” 1999 Mexican & Chicano Contemporary Art” National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA “La Mirada Humana” 2000 Galeria del Club de Periodistas de Mexico A.C. Mexico Df Mex “Latin Grami Awards” 2000 Hollywood CA “Reflexiones y Encuentros” 2001 Paulino Cobian Studio Gallery, Long Beach, CA “Exposicion de grabado” 2001 Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach CA “Virgenes” 2002 Encantada Gallery of Art, San Francisco, CA “Indigenismo” 2002 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA “The Space within” 2003 Encantada Gallery of Art, San Francisco, CA “About Women About Men” 2004 De Colores Gallery, Pasadena, CA “El Camino de la Vida y la Muerte” 2005 Encantada Gallery of Art, San Francisco, CA Mural and Public works on display “Semilla del Corazon” 1998 85’ x 14’ Acrylic on concrete, Alisal St. Salinas CA. “Horizontes” 1999 90’ x 20’ Acrylic on stucco, Wood St. Salinas CA. “Masks past and present” 2000 93’x 25’, Acrylic on canvas Alisal St. Salinas, CA. “Between Heaven and Earth” 2001 12’ x 16’ Acrylic on canvas, Community Center. Salinas, CA. “Homage to the Mariachi” 2001 13’ x 13’ tryptich, Acrylic on Canvas, Mexican Heritage Co. San Jose, CA. “Fuego Nuevo” 2002 70’ x 20’ Acrylic on stucco, El Sausal Middle School. Salinas, CA. “Dia de los Muertos” 2002 40’ x 8’ Acrylic on panel, San Francisco Art Institute. S.F. CA. “Indigenismo (Rebirth)” 2002 32’ x 8’ Acrylic on Panel, San Francisco Art Institute S.F. CA. | |
| Artist's Statement: | |
| My Artwork is a reflection of my necessities, both spiritual and terrestrial, to express experiences that fill me with courage and ideas that haunt me. The elements that I use are witnesses of the eternal search for that spirituality that has gotten lost in time. That gap is the fluid that fuels that motor, bringing common objects and animals into a magical world of balance and rhythm. I don’t deny the influences of the masters of old; instead I stand on their shoulders paraphrasing their ideas and techniques. The elements in my images are a mixture of European and Native American symbology. The artwork becomes a half blooded entity that claims its own space, its own land. Often, the work comes from explorations of my own cultural identity. In addition, I am intrigued by time, transfigurations of the spirit and different reflections of states of being. The many changes and variations of my artwork denote my preoccupation with the search of the “one voice”. I mean the true search of an ultimate individuality like that of our personalities: unique, complicated. My work shows the maturity of my concepts, of my images and my techniques. The result does not belong to a style or movement but is a type of work that lacks a category or current but it encompasses them all. | |
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