GREGG AT THE CERAMIC BOOTH

Ten-hour-volunteer-hours is one of the requirements for the Laguna Beach Festival of Art participants. Gregg volunteered at the ceramic booth while Hiroko helped a little at the paper hat making booth for the "Children's Art Day"


Hiroko

Mexican Visitors

Since 2002 Gregg has been exhibiting in Mexico many times mostly at ICBC (Institute de Cultura de Baja California) and IMAC (Institute Municipal Arte y Cultura). Through this connection we have made many friends. Gregg brought Roberto Rosique for one show in Cal Poly Pomona Art Center and Ramón Carrillo last year for trio show at OCCCA. Since it was a great success, Gregg put on another show "The Great Wall of Chinga" which I posted last month.

This time, we invited four Méxican friends from Mexicali for the opening of the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts. Eduardo is an art teacher and Israel works for the ICBC.

Currently Gregg is negotiating a "Day of the Dead" skull show in Méxicali Center for the Arts this fall including Chicano artists from California.

Hiroko

Laguna Beach Festival of Arts

We installed the booth at the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts.
This is Gregg's 9th year.
Anybody wants to have free grand pass, contact us.

Hiroko

"Great Wall of Chinga" Show Smashing Success!!

“There is a great article on LA Times about your show.” One of Gregg’s artist friends Mike Maas e-mailed us. I went to buy the paper and sure enough there was a powerful essay recognizing Gregg’s effort to bring two countries together through art rather than to divide by the wall.

‘The Great Wall of Chinga’ show was a smashing success! Nearly thousand people came to see, thanks to the LA TIMES and other magazine’s articles. An owner of ‘Juxtapose (prominent art magazine)’ came and took many photos. It was good to be exposed to an art connoisseur of his caliber.

Artists from Mexican side were absolutely flabbergasted to see so many people came to see the show and were very grateful to be invited. I saw many friendly exchanges between Mexico/US artists and I foresee that there will be more joint art exhibitions in the future. I am happy to say that Gregg constructed a friendly bridge between the two countries. However small it may seem, the friendship tree may bloom and multiply some day.

Hiroko

The Great Wall of Chinga

Curator for Mexico: Israel Ortega Castro
Curators for US: Barbara Thompson
Gregg Stone
Mexican Artists: Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez
Eduardo Kintero
Eduardo Zowie Bermudez
Fernando Corona
Fernando Garcia Revas
Ismael Castro
Israel Carrillo Madrid
Juan Francisco Quitero
Luis Alberto Curiel
Marina Alanis
Omar Escobedo
Pablo Castaneda
Ramon Carrillo
Rogelio Perez Cano
Victor Larios
Chicano Artists: Armando Peralta
David Flury
David Rosales
Guillermo Bejarano
Magu
Man One
Mario Trillo
Patrick Martinez
Sergio Hernandez
Sergio Selgado
Sonya Fe
Ricardo Duffy
Richardo Islas
Werc

The Great Wall of Chinga



This exhibit hopes to compare the similarity or distinction of Mexican and Chicano Artistas sharing life experiences yet distinctly juxtaposed in variant political worlds. With certain common bicultural traits as most border towns reflect this social phenomenon. This border phenomenon has existed historically in many cultures and early civilizations.

The border is a ‘Wall of Chinga (a colloquial term of abuse)’ because it has been the cause of much civic consternation. Some of the artificial and superficial elements of this interaction have made some unfortunate and deleterious misunderstandings. Artists by their assessments in their ‘obras’ help give visual articulations to some of those notions and proffered resolutions.

The turmoil and discord is met with diverse responses from the artists herein the gallery. Comparing these social realities make for the artistic responses which are displayed in this exhibition.


There are thirty artists from both countries.

Maguchi (Gilbert ‘MAGU’ Lujan)

'CINCO' at Crewest Gallery in L.A.

Gregg is participating this exhibition.
The opening was great as usual/

Take a look at this site.

http://www.crewest.com/

Mission Accomplished!

Mission Accomplished!


We delivered Gregg’s artworks to El Paso Museum of Art and returned home safely.
Gregg will be showing for the following exhibition.

Sister Cities: Testing Boundaries: Art and Artisans Along the U.S. - Mexico Border Contemporary Crossroads
May 20 - August 26, 2007

EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART

To be asked to show at notable museum is artist’s dream. Only few would make it.

Gregg’s art has been exhibited at Albuquerque Museum, San Diego Living Art Museum

and The Marjorie Barric Museum in Nevada. But that was just one of many art works

that were accepted in competition.

But this time is a special invitation by a curator of El Paso Museum of Art.

The curator picked three of his works and asked to be exhibited for three months among

notable Chicano and Mexican artists. This means his painting will be in a museum catalogue.

When I began supporting Gregg 9 years ago I made a ‘10 year plan’ and the goal were to show

at notable museum in ten years. Here today, at 9^th year, we reached to the first goal.

http://www.elpasoartmuseum.org/visitors.asp

Written by: HIROKO

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