Richard Armendariz: Smoke Signals And Other Reliable Means Of Communication

September 19 - October 17,2020

"Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking proudly invites the public to Smoke Signals and Other Means of Communication, an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by Richard Armendariz.

Richard Armendariz was born in El Paso, Texas, and resides in San Antonio, Texas. His artistic and conceptual aesthetic is heavily influenced by growing up on the US/Mexico border. Romanticism for the American landscape and the hybridization of Mexican, American and indigenous cultures have long informed the content of Armendariz’s work.  Images that have cultural, biographical and art historical references are carved into the surfaces of his paintings and the woodblocks for the woodcut prints.  The use of animals as surrogates to represent physical emotional and psychological difficulties is the conceptual backbone of his work.  “Smoke Signals”

features Armendariz’s new  Celestial Series, lighted paintings that reboot astrological signs and their meanings and the role that fate and luck play in shaping our destiny.

Included in the exhibition are new “burned” drawings on archival paper and woodcuts from the Border Movement series. Border Movement I, is a reference to Healers or Curanderos who do not recognize borders and have moved back and forth with little restrictions.  Today the environment on the border is very different.  Border politics and increased security measures have negatively affected the movement of people, the separation of families, and the adverse effects on the natural environment."

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