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Contact: Elia Arce
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Voices Breaking Boundaries presents
Living Room Art :: Featuring Jorge Galvan and Donna Huanca
7:00 pm, Saturday, April 19, 2008
At the home of John Pluecker (JP)
5036 Jefferson Street, Houston, TX 77023
$ : Free
(HOUSTON, April 07, 2008) – Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB) continues its exciting Living Room Art series by exhibiting new site-specific installations by Jorge Galvan and Donna Huanca in a living room party, this time in the home of John Pluecker. Voices Breaking Boundaries’ Living Room Art series brings the visual arts to local neighborhood living rooms outside the standard gallery and museum structure; thereby making art more accessible to different audiences. This version of Living Room Art will showcase art installations connected to Galvan’s and Huanca’s family histories and countries of origin—Mexico and Bolivia respectively. As always, the evening includes music, food and much more.
“Living Room Art visual exhibitions continue to be the most organic shows that we present,” says VBB Founding Director Sehba Sarwar. “The work of Galvan and Huanca will be site-specific, and in the end, the exhibit will be a conversation between the home, the art, and the people who are present for that one evening. JP has opened his home to the city and to the artists. We invite all to join us.”
About the Artists:
Jorge Galvan is a visual artist and designer in Houston, Texas. Originally from Tampico, Mexico, he grew up on San Antonio’s Southside where he developed a taste for pickle twang and mixed media. His work has been exhibited at Tampico Casa de la Cultura, SaySi Gallery, Lawndale Art Center among others. Currently, he is a student of industrial design at the University of Houston School of Architecture.
Donna Huanca was born in Chicago. She received her BFA in Painting from the University of Houston and in 2006 attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2004 she received the DeGolyer Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art, which funded research of her native Bolivian culture. Her recent installations include, Secret Museum of Mankind at Women and their Work (Austin), 12.23.12 at Program (Berlin) and Planeta de Fortuna at Meals and SUVS (London). Her work has been featured in Wire, NY Arts, Alarm Press, Art in America, ARTINFO.com, amongst others. Currently she is a Workspace Resident at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York City). Huanca’s upcoming residencies are hosted by Art OMI (Chent, NY) and the Headlands Center for the Arts San Francisco in Fall 2008.
Cosponsored by KPFT Pacifica 90.1 FM.
For more information contact VBB Arts Director Elia Arce at 713 524 7821 or email elia@vbbarts.org.
VBB also offers education programs for teens and adults. Please visit our website, www.vbbarts.org, for information
VBB also offers other programs such as education programs for teens and adults. Please visit our website for information. All events are subject to change. For more information about VBB’s programming, contact Elia Arce (713-524-7821 or elia@vbbarts.org), or visit our website at www.vbbarts.org.
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