At 6 p.m. today, the Art Gallery at Rusteberg Hall on the Brownsville campus will open its doors for the first senior show of the semester, “A Human Experience.”
The exhibit features work of art seniors Jesus Treviño, Cecilia Guzman and Andrea Avila.
“I am looking forward to what all these three students have to bring to the table,” Gallery Coordinator Alejandro Macias said. “I’m just excited to finally see them develop in a much more professional level.”
Works include oil on canvas, pastel on canvas, photography and ceramics.
“There may be more. There’s always surprises,” Macias said.
Treviño said he hopes students can attend the opening and have “an open mind.”
His work consists of five pieces of oil and pastel on canvas, including self-portraits, such as “Fragmentation of the Self,” in which the artist’s body is divided into fragments with the sky as a background.
“It’s the culmination of years of trying to interpret my own personal struggles and realizing it’s innate to all people,” Treviño said. “I want to highlight the passage of time and the relationship of ourselves and the world around us, and just highlighting the fragmentation of the way we perceive things as separate from each other.”
Macias said Treviño has a “great gift of being able to render a figure very well,” making his pieces enjoyable and showing movement.
“I really enjoy his experimentation with the use of panel and kind of dissecting the figure and showing movement,” he said. “I’m just excited to see him approach a different way.”
Guzman’s work has a ceramic approach, Macias said.
“Guzman is also a very good artist, in general, but she really tailored her work to a ceramic approach,” he said. “The last time I saw her work, she was playing with texture and she just has incredible skill.”
Avila’s pieces are photographs of people and animals with a lot of emotion, Macias said.
“Andrea is dabbling more toward what I believe is photography, so that’s a completely different approach to what I’ve seen her do in the past,” he said. “The work that I saw her do in photography was not only of people, but also of animals and so I think it was kind of making a close connection with her subject matter. There seems to be a lot of emotion as she tries to capture her subjects.”
As of press time Thursday, Avila and Guzman were not available to comment.
The exhibition will run through Friday. Admission is free.
For more information, email Macias at alejandro.macias@utrgv.edu.
