Showing posts with label Artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artists. Show all posts

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Guayasamin

Guayasamin

Heimo Schmidt


his website

His work was on the cover of a Mexican art magazine and his work was so striking I had to find more.

Fanny Rabel


wiki

A Mexican Muralist and painter, I found a book on her in Toledo`s library. There were some really striking and lovely pieces of lonley women.

Mark Bradford

wiki

an American artist also found in the same book as the other`s in Toledo`s library

Moris (Isreal Meza Moleno)

view more of his work

street artist out of Mexico City, I also discovered his work in a book in Toldedo´s house gallery library.

Swoon (female street artist NYC)

wiki





I found her name while flipping throught an art book in the Toledo house gallery

Jose Luis Garcia

Jose Luis Garcia is a local ceramists who uses earthenware with coloured slips which he then burnishes. I first saw a large tile piece at the children`s libaray and I have noticed his work creep up all over town. I am pretty sure that the signs for the different rooms in the textile museum were done by him.

not much in the way of links to him I could find
guess this is something

Fransisco Toldedo

his website

Toldedo is not only a great artist in Oaxaca, but also an arts cultural purveor. Yesterday I went to the beautiful children´s library and the museum of his house, which has the most extensive and awesome arts library. The libarary here is only apart of his collection and there is more at the art school, which he helped found and his current residence as well as some other building, I forget what.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Eventurary & Izzy Cox

Last night my host took me out to a new music events spot in town and told the the history.
Apparently in the 80's Lincoln city had itself a rather shady business man. He owned a mortuary/ funeral parlor. It seems that while he was collecting fees to bury people in the graveyard, he was keeping the money and the bodies. Apparently he had a stash of dead bodies whose smell eventually lead to their discovery. Go figure since then, the place has sat empty. But not any more, Lincoln City has its own alternative events spot ( the casino is the only other venue) and it is called the Eventurary.

I got to see a one woman band perform who had an awesome voice
Izzy Cox
She is even a Canadian, a francophone. It was a great way to spend a Monday night.