Current Exhibition:
Equinox Gallery is delighted to present Apparent Drawings, an exhibition featuring work by Ashley Mireles.
Ashley Mireles has completed drawings that explore curiosity; a series of portraits of people in the act of looking at art – blissfully unaware of our bodies in movement. The drawings focus on the subjects’ inspection, captivation, and loss of awareness.
Ashley Mireles is an interdisciplinary artist, public artist, and arts educator in San Antonio, Texas, producing drawings, prints, murals, and other functional artworks for public consumption. Employing homage, social critique, and often humor, she uses an illustrative style to explore her environment, cultural issues, and the human condition. Mireles exhibits nationally while creating public artworks for the City of San Antonio. Her work has been collected by the National Museum of Mexican Art, Mexic-Arte Museum, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Texas Christian University Print Collection, City of San Antonio, and University of Texas Libraries Special Collections. Her work has been published in The American Statesman, Huffington Post, Mitú, and Remezcla.
Exhibition on view until June 4th.
For further information please contact Jared Montemayor at (210) 281-0706 or equinoxexhibitions@gmail.com
For further information please contact Jared Montemayor at (210) 281-0706 or equinoxexhibitions@gmail.com
Past Exhibitions
Sarah T. Roberts
In-Between
I use sculpture, drawing and metalsmithing processes to examine themes of identity, memory, loss, and perception. Feminine forms connected to my childhood are fetishized through the transformation of patterns of lace, or clusters of flowers into intimate objects and spaces. This repetitive manipulation of the “fetishistic” object uncovers a fascination with contradictory concepts, which allows both fact and fantasy, acceptance and denial to exist side by side. Consistently my works examine what lies within and between the boundaries of otherness and sameness, isolation and intimacy, and the masculine and the feminine. -Sarah T. Roberts
In-Between
I use sculpture, drawing and metalsmithing processes to examine themes of identity, memory, loss, and perception. Feminine forms connected to my childhood are fetishized through the transformation of patterns of lace, or clusters of flowers into intimate objects and spaces. This repetitive manipulation of the “fetishistic” object uncovers a fascination with contradictory concepts, which allows both fact and fantasy, acceptance and denial to exist side by side. Consistently my works examine what lies within and between the boundaries of otherness and sameness, isolation and intimacy, and the masculine and the feminine. -Sarah T. Roberts
With(in) III
Steel, thread
2.5 x 2.5 x 2 inches
2020
With(in) VII
Steel, thread
4 x 2.5 x 3 inches
2021
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With(in) II
Steel, thread
4 x 4 x 3 inches
2020
Idee Fixe V
Steel, rust, handmade paper
4.5 x 4 x 3 inches
2019
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Roberts received her MFA in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing from Texas Tech University in 2010. Her works have been selected for many national exhibitions including Drawing Down at the Baltimore Jewelry Center in Baltimore, Maryland; Art Jewelry: Strong Voices at Dedee Schattuck Gallery jurored by Kerianne Quick, Renee Zettle-Sterling, and Elizabeth Williams in Westport, Massachusetts; and VisionMakers jurored by Emily Zibler in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Roberts has exhibited extensively in San Antonio including solo exhibitions at Clamp Light and Freight Gallery, and group exhibitions at Blue Star Contemporary, Fl!ght, and Saint Mary’s University. Esteemed jurors Marilyn Zapf and Gupta Wiggers selected Roberts’ work for Craft Action: Genre Bending on view at the College Art Association conference in New York, NY. Roberts spent six years as co-director and resident artist at Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery where she curated numerous exhibitions. She currently lives in San Antonio, TX and teaches at Southwest School of Art.
Comfort of the In-Between II
Rust on handmade paper
20 x 20 inches
2019
Ernesto Ibáñez
Justo en el Clavo
Right on the Nail’s Head
Originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, Ibáñez is passionate about creating work that is both ordinary and unusual at the same time. There is always a push and a pull between the materials he uses and the context of the work.
He uses nature as a means of inspiration; animal forms, organic forms in the water, land with trees, and also finds special inspiration in geometry. Straight lines in his work evaluate the apparent rigidity in forms to make them more functional in his abstract narratives. In his creative process, you will find a diverse use of materials as he first determines what to do and then decides what material is appropriate for weight, strength, aesthetics, and durability.
Ernesto Ibáñez has worked with various mediums such as ceramics, cement, wood, metal, fiberglass, and resin. Always aiming to take on new challenges and make full use of different materials, Ibáñez has concentrated his work on a technique that he developed in which the pieces are covered with thousands of nails that simulate fur. This idea emerged from the search to propose something new. He accomplished this by changing the nail’s context, from its original intent into something completely different. Creating a great impact between the spectator and the work.
Carlota, Ernesto Ibáñez, Foam, Fiberglass, Mesh, Stainless Steel Nails, Bondo, Spray Paint.
