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FEATURED ARTISTS

Rocio Villarreal

Visual Artist – Surrealist, Abstract, and Figurative Painting

 

Born on September 10, 1973, in Monterrey, Mexico, Rocío Villarreal discovered her love for painting at a young age. Although she grew up in a small town with limited access to art supplies, her passion for creating never faded. As she got older, she became a preschool teacher, and it was during that time that she began to explore her natural talent for drawing and painting more deeply.

 

A self-taught artist, Rocío has forged her artistic path with sensitivity, perseverance, and a deep emotional connection to her work. Her surrealist style blends with abstract and figurative elements, using mainly acrylic and oil techniques. Her art reflects dreams, emotions, and inner worlds—compositions that invite the viewer to interpret them from a personal and introspective place.

 

Throughout her career, she has exhibited in various cultural venues and restaurants in both Mexico and San Antonio, Texas. Her work has been showcased in places like La Cazuela and El Chaparral in Mexico, as well as Frida and La Carreta in San Antonio. She has also been invited to several artistic events where her work has been recognized and appreciated for its authenticity and expressive power.

Robert Wilkens is blessed to be a purgatory artist; seeing two worlds and trapped in neither. Born Roberto (Toto) Alonso Dorantes, his adoption at age eleven, provides his Anglo name. Robert resolved to be an artist at age 23.


Inspired by Michelangelo and DaVinci, he began his work doing murals and trompe l'oeil. His commissions are in Texas churches, businesses, homes, and culminated with the Theater Room of the White House for First Lady Laura Bush, His work is collected throughout the United States and Mexico.


He remains open and continues to develop a diverse range of styles, subject matters, and mediums, including sculpture, plein air, portraits, still life, and is known in San Antonio for his Day of the Dead paintings. 


Determined to find his own voice as an artist, his current work uses realism, surrealism, and expressionism in an attempt to expand consciousness and challenge intellectual reality. 


AWARDS

  • 2nd Place for Standing Strong, Plein Air Brush Creek Art Walk, Kansas City, MO

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  • 1st Place for Surfing the Net, Sienna Art Festival, Sienna, TX

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  • Best of Show, Boca Raton Fine Art Show, Boca Raton, FL

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  • on Fine Arts Show, Richardson, TXMerchants Award for Irish Eyes, Richards

 

PUBLICATIONS

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  • Plein AIr Magazine, 2019

  • Architectural Digest, 2022


GROUP and SOLO SHOWS

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  • 92nd All-Texas Juried Exhibition, San Antonio Art League Museum, TX

 

  • 64th National Juried Art Exhibition, Rocky Mount, NC

 

  • 56th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Richardson Civic Center, TX

 

  • Lubbock Arts Festival, Juried Gallery, Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, TX

 

  • Bell Gallery, Beloit Art Center, Wisconsin

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GALLERIES

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  • SAAC, La Cantera Gallery, San Antonio, TX

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Joao Quiroz

Joao Quiroz is a Mexican visual artist, born in 1980. He spent his early years in the state of Zacatecas, in 1987 his family moved to the city of Monterrey, Mexico; where he would study graphic design to work mostly on print media until 2015
 
Quiroz's work is eclectic, outwardly impressionist and inwardly expressionist, exploring classical art and the avant-garde.  In 1998 he had his first solo formal exhibition, thus beginning an intense career with more than 40 collective exhibitions and 15 individual exhibitions spread between Mexico and the United States.
 
 In 2015 he travels to Europe and  immerses  himself into painting by soaking up  the Renaissance art and by  adopting the impasto technique that now defines his work. Upon his return; he relocates to Mexico City, where he would experience an explosive and prolific artistic activity. That city, being an enormous influence on his work. In 2017 he returns to the north of the country and spent a season in the artistic scene in   Zacatecas. In 2019 he settles in San Antonio Texas, traveling throughout the Lone Star State and consolidated himself as an urban landscape impressionist who is also currently developing his own style and technique

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