Rosa Quintana
Visual Artist, Rosa Quintana, was born in Santiago, Chile and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1977, after fleeing two military dictatorships, she and her family arrived in Toronto, Canada.
There she attended the Toronto Art Centre where she received a solid technical foundation in painting and sculpture. Since 1989, she has worked for some of Canada’s most prominent West Coast First Nations artists, Bill Reid, Robert Davidson and Susan Point. Her primary work for these artists was the production of carvings, rubber moulds and castings in various materials. She has worked for the Vancouver Film Industry as a sculptor and Props maker, as a mould maker and caster for contemporary Vancouver artists and as an instructor at Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver and The Art Institute of Vancouver.
For the last fifteen years, she has worked on mixed media paintings out of her home based studio. Her work communicates an introspective reflection of psychology and nature. Immersing herself into the atmosphere of her surrounding environment is where she finds the catalysts needed to paint her inspired works. Her lines and textures are expressionistic conveying mood, affecting the surfaces in unpredictable ways. Her paintings incorporate mixed media acrylics, inks, waxes and glues. Her work is in collections throughout Europe, the US and Canada. Mexico is presently on her mind.
For the month of February, 2010, she has been painting her site specific series “Birds in Flight” which incorporates and focuses on the resident magical birds of the Nayarit coast and its magnificent skies.
Mike Edwards
Mike Edwards March 1 - 15, 2010 "Between the Blue"
One moment, one wave; a slice of air, water and earth held suspended for examination. A cross-section of a wave down through the water column, beneath sand reacts with ripples, further down the earth’s crust buckles into folds of stone. Art can drop the laws of physics, like a diagram in a science textbook, in an attempt to grasp the enormity of the world. The diagram is intended to promote understanding were art can inspire meaning.
Images of the local environment are conveyed with many layers of thick glazes to produce rich surfaces. These paintings are the latest in a long series of drawings and paintings include images of earth, clouds, waves and marine life. These artworks employ diagrams and my photos. Images used to orient ourselves, to define location and hint at possible destinations.
Mike has attended several artist-in-residencies and has worked as a gallery administrator, and as a public art gallery curator. He is also the recipient of several grants, including Vancouver Foundation and BC Arts Council Grants. Edwards is also a certified Yoga teacher, a Sessional Instructor at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and has been showing in galleries in Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Toronto.
One moment, one wave; a slice of air, water and earth held suspended for examination. A cross-section of a wave down through the water column, beneath sand reacts with ripples, further down the earth’s crust buckles into folds of stone. Art can drop the laws of physics, like a diagram in a science textbook, in an attempt to grasp the enormity of the world. The diagram is intended to promote understanding were art can inspire meaning.
Images of the local environment are conveyed with many layers of thick glazes to produce rich surfaces. These paintings are the latest in a long series of drawings and paintings include images of earth, clouds, waves and marine life. These artworks employ diagrams and my photos. Images used to orient ourselves, to define location and hint at possible destinations.
Mike has attended several artist-in-residencies and has worked as a gallery administrator, and as a public art gallery curator. He is also the recipient of several grants, including Vancouver Foundation and BC Arts Council Grants. Edwards is also a certified Yoga teacher, a Sessional Instructor at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and has been showing in galleries in Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Toronto.
The Mermaid Project 2010
Paintings, drawings, sculptures and other art objects of Mermaids from Jaltemba Bay Area Artists.
Charlene Woodbury, Susan Cobb, Dave Wallace, Victor Durazo, Duane Flatmo, Roberto Gil de Montes,
Duane Flatmo & Friends
Micki and Duane Flatmo came to La Peñita two years ago and since then have shared their time between the abundant Nayarit coastline, and Eureka California, where they are established as painter, and as muralist and kinetic sculptor respectively.
This winter they decided to bring Eureka to La Peñita and, coaxing them with tequila and the promise of sunshine, colour and riotous enjoyment, have gathered a group of their closest artist friends and brought them to stay in their house in Colonia Miramar, La Peñita.
For the occasion, their house has been transformed into a studio, display area, and all-round hive of activity, some of its inhabitants even taking off, easel in hand, paintbrush behind ear, to paint before sunrise to catch the best light.
This is not the first time the group have worked as a collective; “Flatmo and Friends” (as we shall refer to them) have also travelled as far a field as China and England together to flex their creative muscles, and have appeared on the English Scrapheap Challenge with elaborate kinetic sculptures made from recycled materials.
"Duane Flatmo & Friends""Duane Flatmo & Friends"
The pieces featured in the La Peñita exhibit reflect an eclectic, vibrant response to the extraordinary colours and sights of Nayarit and the exhibit proffers a privileged insight deeper into the exquisite coastline we all thought we knew so well…
For the occasion, their house has been transformed into a studio, display area, and all-round hive of activity, some of its inhabitants even taking off, easel in hand, paintbrush behind ear, to paint before sunrise to catch the best light.
"Duane Flatmo & Friends""Duane Flatmo & Friends"
The pieces featured in the La Peñita exhibit reflect an eclectic, vibrant response to the extraordinary colours and sights of Nayarit and the exhibit proffers a privileged insight deeper into the exquisite coastline we all thought we knew so well…
John Valadez - Photography / Victor Durazo - Paintings
JOHN VALADEZ AND VICTOR DURAZO: CHICANO ART
"Chicano" - a political and cultural term of identity specifically identifying people of Mexican descent who are born in the United States.
The end of this month sees the opening of the Feria Internacional del Libro 2009 (International Book Fair) in Guadalajara whose invited city this year will be Los Angeles, California. The fair will be host to a celebration of the rich cultural life of the city, arguably the most vibrant element of which has been the Chicano Art Movement. Since the movement’s nascence in the early 1970s, Mexican-Americans, or Chicanos, have been fighting for social reform and recognition through art, as well as exploring their rich and varied heritage through bold artistic expression.
To mark the exciting celebration of the Chicano Art Movement in Guadalajara, the Xaltemba gallery, curated by Roberto Gil de Montes, himself a part of the Movement in LA, has chosen this month to honour two different Chicano artists; the renowned photo realist, John Valadez and the self-taught fringe artist, Victor Durazo.
John Valadez, one of the foremost Chicano Art pioneers, has had a career as painter, muralist and photographer which spans 40 years, to date, and he continues to exhibit across the States, including pieces in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington DC. We are extremely honoured to be exhibiting original photographs from 1970s Los Angeles, the very hub of the burgeoning Movement, which represent his focus on an examination of the individual within their contemporary social context.
Victor Durazo, known as “King Scrappa”, was a Mexican folkloric dancer before becoming a self-taught artist. His expressive paintings display a unique sense of colour which is extremely refreshing to see. The exploitation of Chicanoism to humorous effect is central to his work.
Gallery Opens Tues-Sun
Exhibit 7-27th Nov
Lucy Foster
Cultural Director
Galeria Xaltemba
"Chicano" - a political and cultural term of identity specifically identifying people of Mexican descent who are born in the United States.
The end of this month sees the opening of the Feria Internacional del Libro 2009 (International Book Fair) in Guadalajara whose invited city this year will be Los Angeles, California. The fair will be host to a celebration of the rich cultural life of the city, arguably the most vibrant element of which has been the Chicano Art Movement. Since the movement’s nascence in the early 1970s, Mexican-Americans, or Chicanos, have been fighting for social reform and recognition through art, as well as exploring their rich and varied heritage through bold artistic expression.
To mark the exciting celebration of the Chicano Art Movement in Guadalajara, the Xaltemba gallery, curated by Roberto Gil de Montes, himself a part of the Movement in LA, has chosen this month to honour two different Chicano artists; the renowned photo realist, John Valadez and the self-taught fringe artist, Victor Durazo.
John Valadez, one of the foremost Chicano Art pioneers, has had a career as painter, muralist and photographer which spans 40 years, to date, and he continues to exhibit across the States, including pieces in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington DC. We are extremely honoured to be exhibiting original photographs from 1970s Los Angeles, the very hub of the burgeoning Movement, which represent his focus on an examination of the individual within their contemporary social context.
Victor Durazo, known as “King Scrappa”, was a Mexican folkloric dancer before becoming a self-taught artist. His expressive paintings display a unique sense of colour which is extremely refreshing to see. The exploitation of Chicanoism to humorous effect is central to his work.
Gallery Opens Tues-Sun
Exhibit 7-27th Nov
Lucy Foster
Cultural Director
Galeria Xaltemba
Ja'Qui Day of the Dead Altar, Nov 2, 2009 - by Sarah Walker
Sarah Walker Day of the Dead Altar Installation honoring local celeberity Ja'Qui.
Maurilio Orozco - January 2009
Vistas de La Peñita y Guayabitos is an exhibit of recent Oil Paintings by the Guadalajara based artist, Maurilio Orozco. Views of the Jaltemba Bay capture the spirit and beauty of this beautiful coast of the Riviera Nayarit. His paintings also include a stunning black and white painting of a young "gallero" (cockfighter) with an intense stare. (more...)
David Delgadillo - December 2007 & December 2008
“Sensuality Unbound”
New paintings and Sculptures
David Delgadillo at Xaltemba Gallery
Sarturday, December 13, 2008 6 –9 pm
After a very successful exhibition at Xaltemba Gallery last season, David was invited to exhibit his work at various galleries and venues in San Pancho, Sayulita, and Bucerias.
His work was also featured in the fall issue of the Rivera Nayarit magazine published by Vallarta Lifestyle. This past September he traveled to Los Angeles with his portfolio to show his work and was invited to show in several galleries next season.
David returns to Xaltemba Gallery with a new body of work entitled “Sensualidad en Libertad” (Sensuality Unbound) a meditation on sensuality and freedom of expression.
Please join us this Saturday December 13th for the opening of the exhibition with a wine reception for the artist at Xaltemba Gallery from 6 - 9 P.M.
Free to the Public[...more]
Antonio Oceguera - November 2007
Antonio Oceguera´s work says to us that “stopping to smell the roses” is not just a figure of speech but a reminder that if we stop and not only smell but observe closely, life’s misteries[...view gallery]
Guachabato January 2008
Colombian Artists - February 2008
Ann Chamberlin - March 2008
With assurance and great appropriation of reality’s various incidents, from every day themes to passages of political and social flavour [...more]
Guayabitos Collective - March 2008 & March 2009
The current members of the Guayabitos Artists' Collective: Bobbi Attwood, Nancy Milski, Mona Cavalli, Brenda Bitkoff, Rosalie Hope, Lin Chimes, Marilyn Bedaubing, Sheila Finer, Susan Cobb, Amy Buckingham-Flaming, Tosia Archer. [...more]