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Anita Valencia
A Conversation on Conservation
March 4 - 21, 2010
Opening Receptions, Thursday, March 4th, 5 - 8 pm
Friday, March 5th, 6 - 9 pm
After by Appointment
@
cactus bra SPACE
106 C Blue Star
San Antonio, TX 78204
210-226-6688
Over the years, Anita Valencia has used her Art to make a statement
about the need for Conservation. Many discarded elements find
themselves recycled into this conversation.
For this exhibition, Valencia uses discarded bottle caps that
discover their voice in these exhibited paintings at cactus bra
SPACE. Like the coffee filters, teabags, CDs, cigarette wrappers,
aluminum beverage cans, etc. in her recent works, these elements are
thoughtlessly discarded everywhere. And like their predecessors,
their abundance brings a message to us.
Valencia says,
"The ideas formed in my studio arise from the various used up
materials and their conversation within me. At one point,
imagination brought The Bottle Caps piled in the baskets of my
studio to become earthly treasure uncovered by future scavengers in
a resource challenged landscape. The way colorful gem-stones would
be uncovered by swashbuckling adventurers in the past, the
brilliance of jewel toned caps allow the viewer to be seduced.
My vision is that
the dialogue between my art and the viewer sparks urgency toward
recycling and conservation"
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