Avis Frank Gallery is pleased to present Benito Huerta: Crown of Creation, an exhibition of new and recent paintings, drawings, prints and mixed media pieces. Artist reception Friday May 2nd 2014, 6-8pm. On view May 2 through June 6, 2014.
Huerta derives visual influence from many sources, including his Hispanic background, art history, pop culture, music, movies, and books.
A highly accomplished artist, Benito Huerta has exhibited work across the state and throughout the country, including shows at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, the Arlington Museum of Art, and the National
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Avis Frank Gallery is pleased to present Benito Huerta: Crown of Creation, an exhibition of new and recent paintings, drawings, prints and mixed media pieces. Artist reception Friday May 2nd 2014, 6-8pm. On view May 2 through June 6, 2014.
Huerta derives visual influence from many sources, including his Hispanic background, art history, pop culture, music, movies, and books.
A highly accomplished artist, Benito Huerta has exhibited work across the state and throughout the country, including shows at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, the Arlington Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, among many others. He is a BFA graduate of the University of Houston and received his MFA from New Mexico State University.
In 2005, the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi organized a thirteen-year survey and catalogue of his work titled Soundings: Benito Huerta, 1992-2005. The show traveled to the El Paso Museum of Art in 2007. Huerta takes a special interest in community-based art, and has participated in various public art projects.
Most recently, he was named lead artist of the Fort Worth Parks Enhancement Project, and also worked on a project for the Mexican-American Cultural Center in Austin. He has collaborated with other area artists to create the International Peace Monument for Arlington in Gene Allen Park, in addition to contributing to the design of the Fort Worth Convention Center Public Art Project. ??Huerta serves as an associate professor of art at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he is also the director of the university art gallery.
He was a co-founder, executive director, and now director emeritus of Artlies, a Texas-based journal devoted to contemporary art. He has won various awards, including the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art's 2002 Artist Legend of the Year Award and the 2008 Maestro Tejano Award from the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas.
His work can be found in museum collections nationwide, including the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Menil Collection, and Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; the DePaul University Museum in Chicago; the El Paso Museum of Art; and the Library of Congress. Corporate collections featuring Huerta's work include American Airlines, IBM, Microsoft, and Southwestern Bell, among others.
Pictured: "September Song” Benito Huerta 2014 (detail above, full image below).
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