Barbara Felix: The Glorious Way She Moves
March 11 - April 07,2023
From Spellerberg Projects:
"Spellerberg Projects is excited to announce the sixth exhibition in its 6-month partnership with Clamp Light Studios & Gallery Director and resident artist Raul Rene Gonzalez. Beginning October 2022 and continuing through March 2023, Gonzalez is organizing and curating solo exhibitions featuring San Antonio artists: Sara Corley Martinez, Andrei Renteria, Kim Bishop, Donovan Martinez, Barbara Felix, and Gonzalez. Each artist will exhibit recent and new works, responding to the space’s storefront gallery setting.
About the Sixth Exhibition
Barbara Felix, “The Glorious Way She Moves” March 11, 2023 – April 7, 2023 Viewing hours are Saturday, March 11, 11 am-3 pm; Saturday, March 18, 11 am-3 pm; Saturday, March 25, 11 am-3 pm; Saturday, April 1, 11 am-3 pm and Friday, April 7, 6–9 pm
Barbara Felix is a San Antonio native and contemporary figurative artist. She received her BFA in Graphic Communication at Texas State University in 1991, where her TSU coursework fired her love of the human figure and inspired her long pursuit to work as an artist. Felix began taking community classes at the Southwest School of Art, San Antonio in 2006. After receiving a Best of Show award in 2007 at the All-Student exhibition she began a more dedicated pursuit of art, receiving a Certificate in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking in 2013.
Felix’s ongoing series of works include Bailando con Mi Misma (Dancing with My Self), The Color of Women, and The Glorious Way She Moves. Body movement, body language, facial expression, and relationships and identity are common themes she explores in her work. She received a 1st place award at the Round Rock Arts [Re]Imagine Exhibition in 2019 for her portrait of Thelma and Barbara, and recently her work was showcased in The Billboard Creative's We the People billboard exhibition in Los Angeles, CA. She is self-taught in animation, video, and audio editing. Her animation and performance videos have been screened in festivals and exhibitions across the United States and internationally.
Felix is actively engaged in her community, as an executive board member of Contemporary Art Month (CAM); and an active member of both San Antonio Ethnic Art Society (SAEAS) and Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association (GAGA). She has curated exhibitions for the Bijou Cinema Theater (2017-2019), Slab Cinema Arthouse (2022), and the City of San Antonio Department of Art & Culture (2022/2023). She recently early retired from corporate graphic design in 2022, to pursue her artistic passions full-time.
Artist’s Statement:
The Glorious Way She Moves explores the fullness and depth of the female form from youthful innocence to a glorious maturity. As a multi-racial and cultural artist, I strive to address inaccurate, misplaced labels put upon cultures, races, and the feminine gender. These interpretive portraits illustrate the exuberance and individuality of each muse I celebrate and emphasize the remarkable features and characteristics of women in every phase of womanhood. Through their poise and spirit, they pay homage to the legacy of generations of women who came before them. Symbolically, these portraits exemplify the self-esteem women exude as they move through their lives and the world.
The large-scale format brings the women I portray into a magnified view that recognizes their magnificence as multi-faceted human beings. In my process, I video record each woman dancing, then jump to the film’s individual frames, using them to help me expose and capture my subjects’ unique character and individuality. During their dance, I specifically look for physical and expressive nuances my subjects demonstrate, then use these individual signature movements to reveal each subject's aesthetic. By doing this I experience a connection to their beauty without stereotyping. It is that connection I share in my work.
About the Curator:
Raul Rene Gonzalez is a Multi-Disciplinary Artist, Airbnb Superhost, Director, Curator, and Resident Artist at Clamp Light Studios & Gallery. Gonzalez earned his M.F.A. in Art from University of Texas San Antonio and a B.F.A. in Painting from the University of Houston, Magna Cum Laude. Born in 1981, Gonzalez is a Houston native but now lives in San Antonio with his wife and two daughters. Gonzalez has been featured in Glasstire, Southwest Contemporary Vol. 5, Create! Magazine, The San Antonio Express-News, and the upcoming New American Paintings No. 162: West Issue. In 2021 he was selected as San Antonio Museum of Art’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence and was named San Antonio Art League & Museum’s 2021 Artist of the Year. Gonzalez’s work is included in multiple permanent collections, including The National Museum of Mexican Art, The National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, The McNay Art Museum, Benson Latin American Collection, Capital One, and The City of San Antonio.
About Spellerberg Projects
Spellerberg Projects (est. 2016) presents exhibitions and public programs featuring local, national, and international artists. This non-commercial gallery and artist-run DIY space is "
Reception: March 11, 2023 | 11-3 pm
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