Art In the Open is a San Antonio River Foundation initiative and program to support artists and engage the San Antonio River community and our visitors with contemporary art experiences.
Artists are invited through an open call process to present projects at Confluence Park that align with San Antonio River Foundation’s mission to enhance the river as a vibrant cultural experience and promote and encourage the conservation, stewardship, and enjoyment of the San Antonio River Basin.
Art In the Open is supported in part by the San Antonio Area Foundation and the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.
May 4 – 31, 2024
Audrya Flores, Play and Decay at the Confluence
Using locally sourced flora, artist Audrya Flores will collaborate with workshop participants to create an organic assemblage depicting a giant flower-serpent. During late spring, when plant life is lush and temperatures are beginning to rise, this creature playfully coils in full bloom on a hillside near the San Antonio River in Confluence Park. Over time, with the help of the elements and local fauna, the installation decays, disassembles, and reintegrates itself back into the landscape of the park. This work celebrates cycles and the precious, fleeting nature of life.
Play and Decay at the Confluence is supported in part by the San Antonio Area Foundation.
Audrya Flores is a Tejana artist and mother who repurposes textiles and organic materials for her mixed media works. Through storytelling and myth-making, she explores trauma, healing, and identity. Her work is influenced by all things natural and supernatural as well as her roots in the border town of Brownsville, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has exhibited at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Mexic-Arte Museum, Lady Base Gallery, Provenance Gallery, Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival, Centro de Artes, Culture Commons Gallery, Central Library Gallery at San Antonio Public Library, Contemporary at Blue Star, and Sala Diaz. Flores lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.
For more information about Audrya Flores and her artwork, visit https://jaguar-opossum.blogspot.com/.
April 27, 2024
Infrarrealista Review, Viva La Confluencia
Infrarrealista Review seeks to take back the most powerful tool found in all humans — genuine expression, to debunk the biases barricading the arts, and to bring back popular culture; to provide a new entry to art powered by providing a space for poetry readings, gallery receptions, educational workshops; to elevate Central-Texan artists who don’t have a platform, and to activate people’s appreciation for expression; to publish local writers, cultivate a local culture that connects local political issues with the arts to eventually create a sustainable cultural economy. Expression lives everywhere.
Infrarrealista Review will host Viva La Confluencia at Confluence Park featuring an ecopoetics workshop with Connor Nielson (Austin, TX), readings by workshop attendees and regional poets including Jacinto Cardona, Dee Lalo Garcia, Connor Nielsen, and Camille Sauers, and a special performance by Poshlust.
Viva La Confluencia is supported in part by the San Antonio Area Foundation.
Infrarrealista Review is a Central Texas literary nonprofit that publishes creative work by Texans and prioritizes art that pushes against the borders of highbrow and lowbrow.
For more information, visit infrarrealistas.org/.
March 9, 2024
Antonio Martinez, Sonic Transmission
March 2024 Sonic Transmission featured sound artists and musicians Bill Converse (Austin, TX), Kelby Clark (Nashville, TN), Hal Lambert & Mitchell Mobley (Baton Rouge, LA), Patina Lush (Austin, TX), Fabian Moss (San Antonio), John Hernandez & Wizard Skin (San Antonio), and visual artists Forum Sound and Om.i.god (San Antonio).
Sonic Transmission performances are made possible in part by a generous grant from the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.
Sonic Transmission is an immersive sonic exploration through experimental sound, music, and visual art curated by San Antonio-based artist Antonio Martinez.