Alesi Art

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin announces WEST on austin360.com

May 17th, 2012 by admin | fine art, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

WEST: First West Austin Studio Tour launches May 19-20
By Jeanne Claire van Ryzin | Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 12:09 PM

Organized by the same folks at Big Medium who’ve made the East Austin Studio Tour one of the most popular arts events in town, the West Austin Studio Tour kicks off Friday with a party at the People’s Gallery at Austin City Hall.

Like EAST, the free, self-guided West Austin tour champions the eclectic abundance of Austin’s artistic talent, offering visitors the chance to take a peek in artists’ working studios to learn about their techniques, tools and inspiration.
If EAST is in a fairly circumscribed area, WEST sprawls out to include a vast swath of Austin west of Interstate 35 and east of MoPac and north and south of the Lady Bird Lake.
There are a whopping 162 designated destinations that are officially part of WEST. And while many destinations on the tour are individual artist’s studios, some are established galleries, some are temporary pop-up galleries and still others are special events.
West Austin Studio Tour
Kickoff party: 6 to 8 p.m. today at the People’s Gallery at Austin City Hall, 201 W. Second St.
Tour: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Tour headquarters: 241 W. Third St.
Cost: Party and tour are free
Information: Catalogs available at Austin Public Library branch locations and tour headquarters.
Downloadable maps and a guide at www.westaustinstudiotour.com

Image: “#195 from “The Wheel Series,’” oil on panel, 2012. Stella Alesi. No. 50 on the WEST map, artists Stella and Leon Alesi will be showing work at their Blackbox Gallery, a residential gallery in South Austin.

http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/seeingthings/entries/2012/05/16/west_first_west_austin_studio.html

exhibit at Texas Tech University opens today

May 17th, 2012 by admin | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Pilgrimage Sites in India 1988-1990
Photographs by Rick Dingus

On view through the first week of June, 2012—M-F, 8-5, West Gallery

Reception on May 17 from 5:00-6:30 pm (come and go)
At 5:30 pm TTU’s Dr. Sankar Chatterjee will discuss Indian spirituality

After photographing petroglyph and pictograph sites throughout the American Southwest, TTU Art Professor Rick Dingus became interested in the parallels between Native American and East Indian beliefs., practices, myths, and rituals. He received a grant from Art Matters, Inc., in New York, NY, which he used to travel to India. While there, he visited and photographed Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain caves, temples, and shrines. Ten prints from this project will be in the International Cultural Center’s West Gallery through May, 2012.

Dingus has participated in over 24 solo shows and over 100 group exhibitions since 1977. Dingus’ photographs have been collected by over fifty public collections including Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, TX, Getty Museum, Malibu, CA (Sam Wagstaff Collection), Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and various international museums. A recipient of numerous grants and purchase awards, Dingus most recently served as co-investigator with Robin Germany to create a “Millennial Collection” at The Southwest Collection with the aid of a Research Enhancement Funds grant at Texas Tech University, 1999-2000. More than 100 works have been published or reviewed in books, catalogues, and periodicals. Dingus is author of The Photographic Artifacts of Timothy O’Sullivan, UNM Press, 1982.

Mandalas
Paintings by Stella Alesi
East Gallery

mandala paintings by Austin Texas fine artist stella alesi exhibited at Texas Tech University in Lubbock Texas

The word “mandala” is from the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Loosely translated to mean “circle,” a mandala is far more than a simple shape. It represents wholeness, and can be seen as a model for the organizational structure of life itself – a cosmic diagram that reminds us of our relation to the infinite, the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds (from The Mandala Project).

An Indian Odyssey
Photographs by Naveen Rajendrapandian
Center Gallery

wheel #195 painting

May 15th, 2012 by admin | life energy paintings, mandalas | 0 Comments

I have just completed this 42×42 inch oil on panel painting. Part of a series I have titled the Wheel series, referring to one of buddhism’s eight auspicious
symbols, the wheel. This more specifically is a wheel of life, depicting the life cycle of the monarch butterfly, as well as the Texas native flowers shown,
the prickly rose and the indian blanket

exhibition of mandala paintings at Texas Tech in Lubbock

April 10th, 2012 by admin | fine art | Comments Off

There will be an exhibition of my newest mandala paintings, along with others dating back to 2001
at Texas Tech University’s International Cultural Center. The exhibition will open on April 23rd and run through the month of May.

The exhibit will coincide with an exhibit of photographs by Rick Dingus titled, “Pilgrimage Sites in India 1988-1990″
There will be an opening reception on May 17th when Dr. Sankar Chatterjee will speak about Indian spirituality.

“the wheels” series

March 1st, 2012 by admin | fine art, life energy paintings, Uncategorized | Comments Off

here is a glimpse of my latest work in progress.
the title of the series, “the wheels” makes reference to one of buddhism’s eight auspicious symbols, the wheel.
the oil on panel paintings serve to mark the days and give direction.
as well they act as a dharana, a single point of focus for meditation.

All of these paintings are 30×30 inches, oil on panel

KLRU Arts in Context

February 24th, 2012 by admin | fine art, thoughts, Uncategorized | Comments Off

So the KLRU Arts in Context program aired last night on public television.
Ed Fuentes created a 30 minute program highlighting some of the GenrousArt.org artists.

You can view the whole episode, (or just my part), here:

http://www.klru.org/artsincontext/

orange and blossom stil life photographs

January 23rd, 2012 by admin | fine art, nature photography, still lifes | Comments Off

unknown florida fruit still life photograph

January 23rd, 2012 by admin | fine art, nature photography, still lifes | Comments Off

perfume bottles still life photograph

January 3rd, 2012 by admin | fine art, still lifes | Comments Off

conch shell still life photograph

December 15th, 2011 by admin | fine art, nature photography, still lifes | Comments Off

The conch shell is one of buddhism’s eight auspicious symbols.

It is an emblem of power, authority and sovereignty whose blast is believed to banish evil spirits,
avert natural disasters, and scare away poisonous creatures.

Among the eight symbols, it stands for the fame of the Buddha’s teaching, which spreads in all
directions like the sound of the conch trumpet.