“Wodaabe Wedding” by Gabrielle McNeese at Affaire d’art (left) and
“Digging” by James Phillips (below) at The René Wiley Studio and Gallery.
Galveston Galleries
Affaire d’art International Fine Art Gallery Africa, the world’s second largest and second most populous continent boasts unparalleled beauty. With the world’s largest combination and density
of amazing free-range fauna, and
extraordinary flora and landscape, Africa is a natural inspiration for artists and decorators alike. Artists like Picasso, Matisse, and van Gogh used African art as a source of inspiration. African art includes emphasis on sculpture, the human figure, visual abstraction, performance art, and non linear scaling. Join Affaire d’art March 10, from 6 - 10 p.m. as they bring a bit of Africa to Galveston. Featuring representational works by Carolyn McCullough, RQ fields, Chrissie Leigh, Ashley DeJaynes, Marilyn Lowry, Gay Fly, Barbara Rabek, Kent DeJaynes, Jim Adams, Gabrielle McNeese, Joe Clarke and Sharis DeJaynes. “Africa” will remain on view through April 15. Guest artist and photographer Irene Amiet Quiroga’s work has been featured
in Africa Geographic and is in National
Geographic’s prestigious stock library. A native of Switzerland, Irene has also lived in the Bermudas and in South Africa prior to moving to Texas. She has been active as a research volunteer with Leatherback Turtles in Panama and participated in big cat density research in Limpopo, South Africa. Her book, “African Reflections” is a must have, and available at the gallery as well. Affaire d’art is located at 2227 Postoffice Street, Suite B at the corner of Postoffice and 23rd Street. The gallery is open Thursdays – Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment. For more information call 409.789.0079 or visit
www.affairedart.com. Artist exhibition space is available.
DesignWorks Opening on March 10 at DesignWorks Gallery is “Point of Chance,” a show of new photographs by Don Glentzer from Houston. The opening coincides with the downtown Galveston ArtWalk. DesignWorks Gallery is one of over 100 exhibition spaces in and around Houston participating the FotoFest2012 Biennial celebration of art photography. Each Biennial, participating galleries may choose between a common theme or non-thematic “Discoveries of the Meeting Place” exhibitions. Don Glentzer’s newest body of work connects to this, Discovery of the Meeting Place, in that Glentzer emphasizes the point at which – the meeting place – chance and design intersect. In this new series, Glentzer uses found objects, combined and layered to create his images. In these studies, texture is one of Glentzer’s important tools in capturing the illusion of three- dimensionality.
The resulting images are perceptive compositions, and the found objects that are the subjects of the work allude to volumetric space that may – or may not – actually exist. Make no mistake these images are manipulated but not in a computer program. No, these images are manipulated in Glentzer’s mind and in his uncanny ability to control light, scale and texture to achieve the illusive point at which chance and design occur to create an image of lasting weight and permanence. The Gallery at DesignWorks is located at 2119A Postoffice Street in historic downtown Galveston. Hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, closed or by appointment, 409.766.7599.
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