Birthday Girl: A Show in Honor of Susan Klahr

On the occasion of her birthday and the summer solstice—the longest day of the year—a celebratory exhibition of the work of Susan Klahr (6/21/1943-1/1/2010) will be held. It is fitting that her birthday was also the longest day of the year, the day of the most light: She was known to her family and friends and to her fellow artists and students for her giving and her openness, for her love and light. She was a giver of light, through her art and her painting and through her life and example to others.

Through events such as these—by sharing her art and her passion—we can keep the strength of her life’s work bright and alive.

Selected Biography:

Born June 21, 1943, Susan grew up in the Bronx (Crotona Park and Boston Road), New York.

She went to public school at the Art and Design High School in Manhattan, graduated BFA at City College of New York, and attended Art Students League classes in NYC. She moved to Cape Breton, Canada where she worked on fabric collage, wall-hangings, and clothing with her husband David Klahr. Susan was awarded the first Master of Fine Arts degree at UTEP (along with our friend David Fleet). She taught hundreds of art students at UTEP, where she was an instructor in painting and other classes in the art department. She had solo and group exhibits in Long Island, Cape Breton, Halifax, Toronto, Santa Fe, Cincinnati, Dallas, Tucson, as well as in her adopted home of El Paso.

She lived her art in the broadest sense, through the private lessons she gave, through her choices of food and how she spent her time, her love for her family.

Cancer stole her (as it stole her own mother when Susan was just 15 years old) as she was entering such a beautifully creative, technically polished and productive period.

Fuck cancer! Long life to you, Sue!

Thoughts from David her husband:

She was a great mother and wife. She stayed up all night for Isabella’s birth—Everyone loved her—Was that her goal? She was my best friend and everything to me. She made life interesting—Always doing something—She respected my opinion—Was she beyond selfishness? What got her? Was she a genius? Was it stuff that pleased the eye? Was she beautiful? What is beauty? More questions than answers. A show at the Glasbox will be a fitting tribute on what would be her 69th birthday.

6-9 p.m. June 21 @ Glasbox, 1500 Texas (Cotton and Texas)

Music by Aisling & Arlo, love by family and friends.

Inquisitive Eyes: El Paso Art 1960-2012
June 17 – August 26, 2012
Woody and Gayle Hunt Family and Tom Lea Galleries

The exhibition "Into the Desert Light: Early El Paso Artists 1850-1960," 1/17 to 2/25/2010, examined the development of artistic trends and the primary artists and imagery of the period. It sought to demonstrate that in the El Paso region traditions were strong, exhibition opportunities were few, the desert landscape was the subject of choice and that European modernist influences, such as abstraction, did not have much of an effect on artists or collectors until the 1950s.

The exhibition “Inquisitive Eyes: El Paso Art 1960-2012" recognizes the contributions those artists made and acknowledges that realism and representational imagery form the basis of this earlier period as well as the period 1960 to the present. In addition to exploring examples of realistic imagery by some of El Paso’s best-known artists, the work of other, under-recognized artists from the same region and period who worked with new subject matter and new art-making practices will also be investigated. This exhibition will explain the various reasons for working with realistic, semi-abstract or completely non-representational imagery and will indicate how modernist ideas opened the door to the development of new art forms and new subject matter.

This exhibition will present a glimpse into a period when there was an ongoing discussion about traditions and new directions. This recent period was one when unique cross-border relationships developed to support artists, when new definitions of art resulted in temporary, performance based and site specific works of art and when organizations fostered opportunities for artists working outside of traditional practices. This exhibition includes contemporary art from painting and installation to multimedia and new genres, but most of all it identifies some of the many highlights of art during this period for the delight of the viewer’s inquisitive eyes.
Artists Represented

Manuel Acosta
Ray Lopez Aleman
Vladimir Alvarado
Celia Alvarez-Munoz
Susan Amstater
Marta Arat
John Arnold
Julia Barello
Earline Barnes
Ho Baron
Richard Baron
Kim Bauer
Therese Bauer
Phillip Behymer
Bruce Berman
Vincent Burke
Margarita Cabrera
Carlos Callejo
Julian Cardona
Robert Carlson
Frederick Carter
Melesio Casas
Antonio Castro
Jose Cisneros
Sergio Chavez
Carl Cogar
Holly Thurston Cox
Woody Crumbo
Suzi Davidoff
Rigoberto de la Mora
Francisco Delgado
Connie Dillman
James Drake
John Dunn
Gaspar Enriquez
Alberto Escamilla
Adrian Esparza
Noel Espinosa
David Fleet
Dave Ford
Gabriel Gaytan
Manuel Guerra
Carlos Gutierrez
Rudy Gutierrez
Virgil Hancock
Becky Hendrick
Ricardo “Rick” Hernandez
Jan Herring
Cesar Ivan
Loren G. Janzen
Anna Jaquez
Luis Jimenez
Charles Kistenmacher
Susan Klahr
William Kolliker
Winifred Stoddard Korf
Tom Lea
Annabel Livermore
James Magee
Ginny Malone
Hal Marcus
Frederick Martin
Ernesto Martinez
Ann James Massey
Robert Massey
Candy Mayer
Diana Molina
Tom Moore
Rudy Montoya
Aaron Mosley
David Nakabayashi
Maria Natividad
Carmen Navar
Mauricio Olague
Ruben Olvera
Ysela Fulton O’Malley
Mago Gandara Orona
Mitsu Overstreet and Noah MacDonald of the Keep Adding collective
Ray Parish
Mario Parra
Gloria Osuna Perez
L.B. Porter
Bill Rakocy
Paul Henry Ramirez
Sam Reveles
Hilda Rosenfeld
Rudy Royval
Ben Saenz
Steve Salazar
Joel Salcido
Bob Snead
Jacquelyn Stroud Spier
Rachel Stevens
David Taylor
Rachelle Thiewes
Aleksander Titovets
Lyuba Titovets
Eugene Thurston
Miguel Valenzuela
Willie Varela
Leo Villareal
Bob Wade
Shane Wiggs
Bassel Wolfe
Albert Wong

Art in the Heart of Downtown El Paso

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Urban Art show

Friday May 25th 5-10pm
Saturday May 26th 10-10pm

Join us For edgy Urban art from El Paso Artist

Looking for Tattoo artists, Graffitti artists, stencil art and urban art.

10ft x 10ft spaces filling quick!

Call Ryan at 915 526-7687 for more info, let him Know Joey sent you...

Big art show happening right across the street from The Neon Desert event on the corner of Mesa and Montana.

820 N Mesa st. El Paso Tx

Im open and available to collaborate with other artist, photographers, cosplayerz, and models. =D

The Deeper Understanding... The sun is the "Light of the World." Just as Jesus. The sun "cometh on clouds, and every eye shall see him." Just as Jesus. The sun rising in the morning is the "Savior of mankind." Just as Jesus. The sun wears a corona, "crown of thorns" or halo. Just as Jesus. The sun "walks on water." Just as Jesus. The sun can turn water (rain) into wine (grapes) Just as Jesus. The sun's "followers," "helpers" or "disciples" are the 12 months and the 12 signs of the zodiac or constellations, through which the sun must pass. Just as Jesus. The sun at 12 noon is in the house or temple of the "Most High"; thus, "he" begins "his Father's work" at "age" 12. Just as Jesus. The sun enters into each sign of the zodiac at 30°; (30x12=360 degrees) hence, the "Sun of God" begins his ministry at "age" 30. Just as Jesus. The sun is hung on a cross or "crucified," which represents its passing through the equinoxes, the vernal equinox being Easter, at which time it is then resurrected. Just as Jesus. Consider the fact that Jesus is surrounded by 12 disciples and the events of Jesus life are like the Sun of God surrounded by the 12 signs of the Zodiac that make up the way of the sun across the heavens in one year. Just as the 12 sons of Jacob and the 12 tribes of Israel are astro-theology personified and are in fact references to the zodiac and the story it tells. We might not watch the heavens anymore, and we know precious little about the zodiac, the characters and the revolving story they tell, but our ancestors read the heavens as we read books today. For instance, many of the world's crucified god men have their traditional birthday on December 25th ("Christmas"). This was a basic understanding we had in WCG and was not off the mark. Today, there is many times more material to show this connection. This is because the ancients recognized that (from an earthcentric perspective) the sun makes an annual descent southward until December 21st or 22nd, the winter solstice, when it stops moving southerly for three days and then starts to move northward again. During this time, the ancients declared that "God's sun" had "died" for three days and was "born again" on December 25th. So Xmas really is the Birthday of the SUN/SON in every way. The ancients realized quite abundantly that they needed the sun to return every day and that they would be in big trouble if the sun continued to move southward and did not stop and reverse its direction. Thus, these many different cultures celebrated the "sun of God's" birthday on December 25th. In reality, the sun "dies" for three days on December 22nd, the winter solstice, when it stops in its movement south, to be born again or resurrected on December 25th, when it resumes its movement north. For those three days it might be said the Sun is in the grave. In December, the Virgin, the constellation Virgo precedes sunrise and thus, "Behold, a Virgin shall bring forth the sun/son," would be part of the story in the heavens. Matthew literalized the story in his reacing back into Isaiah for a story about a young woman that had virtually nothing to with prophecy of a literal virgin birth or Jesus himself. Remember the alternative explanation of Isa. 14 and "how thou art fallen, oh Lucifer, (light Bringer-Venus precedes sunrise), thou bright and morning star," (Venus). Remember how Venus appears to rise and then descends back into the earth and how this IS the origin of the story of Satan's fall for trying to ascend to God's Throne, which is astro-theologically NOON. Everyone sees "Satan fall as lightening from heaven" at one time or another during the year if you know what Venus looks like just before Sun rise on the Horus-sun, or even shortly after Sun-Set. Something that bright got humanity's attention and the stories of it's apparent motion followed and then were literalized by the theologically ignorant. Venus always was and always will be a planet on the inside orbit between earth and the sun. It behaves as it does because it is as it is. Whole theologies have grown up around that which could not then be explained but now can be easily explained. Once you have the true explanation, you can drop the false one. source: http://ezinearticles.com/...-of-God&id=93709

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Still seeking Artists for participation in our upcoming Chuco Artist Anniversary Party! Please Contact us for details!!! =)

Texas Tattoo Showdown hits EP in July... Interested artists for a vendor booth contact me for more info... Find more info in Events.

Just got a last minute call to be part of the Texas Showdown Carshow at Cohen Stadium!!! Come out on Saturday from 11-6 & watch me on stage at 11:30 as well as at 4!!! Show some of that famous Chuco love/support!!!

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