Artistas y RUP/Art auction
Art Auction will be available from September 16th during the 2022 reunion in San Antonio
An art auction at the RUP 50th Reunion on September 16. Auction artwork will be featured at the Raza Unida Party 50th Reunion at the University of Texas in San Antonio, downtown campus, September 15-17, 2022. The art auction includes some of the most well-known artists of the Chicano Movement. Luminaries such as Cesar A. Martinez, Amado Maurilio Peña Carmen Lomas Garza, Roberto Sifuentes, Jose Francisco Treviño, Vicente Rodriguez, Santa Barraza, and young artist, Dave Landeros have donated artwork to be auctioned to help defray reunion expenses.
Amado M. Peña
Mexican/Native American Artist
Amado Maurilio Peña Jr. is an American visual artist and art educator of Mexican and Yaqui ancestry. He is known as an important Mexican American artist who emerged from the historical Chicano Movement. He works primarily in printmaking.
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Title & description of art:
Mujer de Colores - Mestizo Series | Acrylic on Canvas
36″ x 24″
Opening bid: $500
Carmen Lomas Garza
Artist
An artist since the age of 13, narrates the everyday life of her childhood in a Mexican American community in South Texas where she was born in 1948. She has exhibited her paintings, prints, paper cutouts, and metal cutouts in museums throughout the United States, including several Smithsonian Institutions in Washington, D.C., the Oakland Museum of California, the Mexican Museum In San Francisco, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, and The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, all of which have her artworks in their permanent collections.
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Title & description of art:
Tamalada | Digital Print
Digital Print 23″X31 1/4
Opening Bid: $380
Cesar A. Martinez
Artist
Originally from Laredo, Texas, César Martínez studied art at Texas A&I University in Kingsville and got his Bachelor of Science degree in All-Level Art Education in 1968. He was drafted into the US Army in 1969 and after serving in Korea, he was honorably discharged in 1971. Since then, he has lived and worked as a professional artist in San Antonio. His interest and involvement in the Chicano political movement led his work to the Mexican American and Chicano cultural explorations and themes for which he is now well known. He has exhibited widely at the national and international level. In 1999, Cesar Martinez had a retrospective at the McNay Museum in San Antonio and his work is amply represented in many private and public collections, including the Art Museum of South Texas, the Houston Fine Arts Museum, the Austin Museum of Art and the McNay Museum and others.
Title & description of art:
Golden Bato | 3-color lithograph, print #48/100 (1990)
30″ x 22″
Opening Bid: $500
Dave Landeros
Artist
Dave Landeros was raised on the west side of San Antonio and has had many dreams which he has fulfilled. After graduating from Fox Tech, he joined the Navy and became a Navy diver, earned a Navy scholarship that led to a double BA in History and Spanish from the University of San Diego. He went on to become a Naval Aviator and a Naval Flight Instructor. After 22 years in the Navy, he earned his Master of Arts in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Worldwide University. Since retiring he continues to teach; supported contracted local youth as one of the Directors for Fiesta Youth, and is now focusing his time and passion to creatively make art with his wife’s collaborative input.
Title & description of art:
La Vecindad | Original acrylic on canvas
16″ x 20″
Opening bid: $250
Jose Francisco Treviño
Artist
Jose Francisco Treviño, was born June 9, 1941, in Austin, Texas and is primarily a self-taught artist.
He is one of Austin’s most gifted and productive artists; an art educator, teacher and mentor to many of Austin’s talented artists, including Liliana Wilson, Carlos Lowry, Herby Augustin. He is modest, down-to-earth, and with a wicket sense of humor. Jose is an intellectual without the trappings, a master artist without the ego, and in general, a person who takes his great talent in stride, as one would who is a great teacher, a spiritual leader, or simply, a talented person who loves his roots and his people. He honors the community in his paintings, he exposes its heart and soul, and above all, he inspires other emerging artists to do the same, just as he inspires the viewers of his art.
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Title & description of art:
Vendedor | Oil on Canvas [2005]
20″ x 24″
Opening Bid: $500
Santa C. Barraza
Artist
Santa Barraza (born April 7, 1951) is an American mixed-media artist and painter who is well known for her colorful, retablo style painting. A Chicana, Barraza pulls inspiration from her own mestiza ancestry and from pre-Columbian art. Barraza is considered to be an important artist in the Chicano art movement. The first scholarly treatment of a Chicana artist is about her and is called Santa Barraza, Artist of the Borderlands, which describes her life and body of work. Barraza’s work is collected by the Mexic-Arte Museum, and other museums around the United States and internationally. She currently lives in Kingsville, Texas.
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Title & description of art:
Imagenes de Nepantla A/P [2000]
18” x 15″
Opening bid: $500
Title & description of art:
Virgen Indigena Series 8/8 [2015]
23” x 26”
Opening bid: $500
Roberto Sifuentes
Artist
Roberto Sifuentes is a native San Antonian and earned a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from UTSA. Roberto has been painting for over five decades, has won various art awards and has been published and interviewed on DVD by Arizona State University’s Hispanic Research Center. Roberto’s work is at Arizona State University, Norte Dame’s collection and numerous private collections.
Title & description of art:
Virgen Conversing with Juan Diego | Giclee double matted/framed
16” x 20”
Opening bid: $150
Title & description of art:
The Last Supper | Giclee double matted/framed
16”x 20”
Opening bid: $150
Title & description of art:
Raybandana Vato | Reproduction of a two-run oil on water-color dry point art double matted/framed
16″ x 20”
Opening bid: $150
Vicente Rodriguez
Artist
Vicente Rodriguez was born in Villa Hidalgo, Mexico, and was raised in San Antonio, Texas. He pursued an education at the University of Texas in Austin, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 1972. He has a long and storied career as a visual artist and commercial graphic designer. Vicente was formerly associated with the National Migrant Information Clearinghouse and with historic Juarez Lincoln University in Austin, Texas. Owner of Rodriguez Graphic Design in Austin, Texas.
Title & description of art:
Maya Sarcophagus | Colored silk screen
17″ x 26″ with frame
Opening bid: $250
Title & description of art:
Aztec Design | Colored pencil design
10″ x 10″
Opening bid: $250