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Paul Henry's Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to the opening weekend of our new art exhibit, a solo show by local artist Alejandra Mosqueda. For your convenience we will have receptions on Friday, April 4th, 5 to 8 pm and Saturday, April 5th,2 to 8pm. For additional information call(no texts please) 219-678-5015. The gallery is located at 416 Sibley, Hammond, IN.
ARTIST BIO--
Alejandra Mosqueda is an emerging artist based in
Gary, Indiana. She graduated from Indiana University
Northwest with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. Her
artwork takes on many different themes such as the
exploration of human expression, emotions, self-expression
and representative humanoid-like figures. Typically her
images are in black and white, but she has been moving
into the world of color recently as she looks for other
ways to expand her artistic reach and to better express her
ideas. Her process involves either finding inspiration within
her own experiences or from external observation of the world
around her. Her primary focus and drive is to share her art
to many, and perhaps to draw people into the world
of art experience so that they may find their own unique
viewpoints and interpretations within it.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In life we meet a lot of people, even just for a brief
moment. This body of work explores the idea of paths.
We all take them, whether it be for the right or wrong
reasons or for reasons we just never know. Paths of life
are never straight, they loop, they go up and down and
they can branch out like trees. But recently I have taken
paths that have lead to different people, previously unknown,
that have shown me that we unknowingly are all connected.
the connection might have been with an elderly person,
a woman, a man, or a child. Everyone's paths cross or some
not at all. Like a ball of random scraps of wire we are all
entangled in some way. The people we know are joined with
people they know and those people know people. But the
entanglement of these paths can also lead to dead ends, roads
that seem to have potential that somewhere along the way lost
direction, cut short of promise. Tracked, untracked, close by
or remote, filled with energy or abandoned in the end, these
are the paths I seek from the Entanglement.
Alejandra's work takes on this philosophical approach.
The viewer will find emerging figures among the
drawings. Those seemingly random shapes and complex designs
give way to recognition much as the random paths in our
lives become familiar as we gain experience. The artist uses
graphite and colored pencil to create her images on paper.
She intuitively allows the shapes to come into existence.
The organic process is allowed to develop and those images
inside the Entanglement appear like a vision at the end of
a road not traveled.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Paul Henry's Art Gallery, 416 E Sibley St, Hammond, IN 46320-1823, United States,Hammond, Indiana
