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From the collection: Thomas P. Kausel, Red, 2013, serigraph on paper, edition 34/45, 23.62”x 19.75”, El Paso Museum of Art, Gift of Erna Mayr, 2016.6.1
Thomas P. Kausel was born December 23, 1937, in Berlin. He began his career via an apprenticeship as a film copy maker, and later as a camera assistant and cameraman for film and television. Followed by his time studying composition, art history, and color design at The International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg, Germany. His work revolves around the study of color, its conditions, and the purest forms of pigment. Aiming to have an effect on the viewer with the use of the most vivid unmixed pigments in existence. He does this by emphasizing his study of three concepts and their representations, those being Red Vertical lines that are reminiscent of Man/ women, Blue horizontal lines associated with the sea and horizon line, and yellow or green polychromes evocating the Idea of Landscapes.
Happy New Year 2023 from The El Paso Museum of Art
El Paso Museum of Art and its Administration offices will be closed from December 31st through January 2nd in observance of the New Year Holiday.
We will be back to our normal operating hours on January 3,2023
From the Collection: Ismael de Anda, Luz Mutante/ Mutant Light, 78.75 in x 78.75 in. El Paso Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, 2015.2
Ismael de Anda is an El Paso, Texas-born artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His work revolves around the concept of the mutant or condition of unexpected evolution in which he melds different artistic processes in order to explore the ideas of multi-ethnic existence. His work is often times site specific and inspired by local culture and materials.
Save the Date! New exhibition opening on February 3, 2023.
There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art examines the representation of Black women over the past two centuries. Featuring work by Emma Amos, Elizabeth Catlett, Alma Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kara Walker, Mickalene Thomas, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Nyeema Morgan.
There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art is organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Support for this exhibition is provided by Art Bridges.
Gamin, ca. 1930, painted plaster by Augusta Savage, American, 1892–1962. Gift of halley k harrisburg, Bowdoin Class of 1990, and Michael Rosenfeld. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
From the Collection: Hari Kidd, Christmas Card, woodblock print on cardstock, 8 in x 5 in. El Paso Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Orr, ST.1999.4.12. Photography courtesy of Mary Snortum.
Hari Kidd was born 1899 in Detroit, Michigan and passed 1964 in Tucson, Arizona. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia before returning to El Paso, Texas in 1933. Hari’s work was considered social realism often depicting Mexican people and topics as subjects for his paintings.
El Paso Museum of Art and its Administration offices will be closed from December 24 through December 25, 2023, in observance of the Christmas Holiday.
From the Collection: Kim Bauer, Garden in Winter V, 1996. monoprint and monotype with chine colle on paper, 41.75 in x 29.50 in. El Paso Museum of Art, Purchase with funds provided by the Robert U. and Mabel O. Lipscomb Foundation Endowment, 1996.6.2
Born in 1956, Kim Bauer received his MFA from Eastern Michigan University and holds a BFA from Michigan State University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor for Printmaking in the Department of Art at UTEP. He was the Gallery Director at Michigan Guild of Artist and Artisans and has previously though printmaking and drawing at the Henry Ford Community College and Eastern Michigan University. His series, Garden in Winter, Contemplates the emotions revolving the passing of a loved one.
El Paso Museum of Art Proudly presents the piece chosen by our members to form part of our permanent collection:
vanessa german, The Work Boots/ Black Bird, 2021
Work boots found at the Santa Monica flea market given to me by a man who thought that i looked pretty in my red dress, love, rage, the heat of the skin of Black Men who worked in the steel mills and still couldn’t get a foreman to look them in the eye, love, heat, rage, meanness, clarity of purpose, Toni Morrison telling us about the flying Africans, the breeze from the wings of the flying Africans, love, the sight line from a downtown Los Angeles roof top, old nails from a house near my house, wood, hair grease, keys, forgiveness big enough to make us forget any other way of being, justice the shape of Black Women relaxing for years and years and years, astroturf, tears, pain, desperation, buttons, rhinestone patches, red shoelaces
Image courtesy of Kasmin Gallery
Registration for EPMA Art school is now open!!!
Classes will be every Saturday starting on January 21, 2023, through February 25, 2023,
• Printmaking for Teens and adults
*Saturdays 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM
• Painting for Teens and Adults
*Saturdays 10 AM – 1 PM
• Ceramic: Open Studio afternoon session
*Saturdays 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• Ceramic: Open Studio Morning session
*Saturdays 10 AM -1 PM
Follow the link to register
https://epma.art/art-school/classes-and-registration/teens-and-adults
From the Collection: Vernon Fisher, Headhunter, 1988. oil on wood, globe, variable dimensions. El Paso Museum of Art, Gift of Ms. June Mattingly, 1997.16.1
Vernon Fisher is an American artist who works in a variety of media. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas, he earned a B.A. degree from Hardin-Simmons University and an MFA in 1969 from the University of Illinois. Fisher’s work references his views on pop culture, the current political climate, and other works of art and history.
One of the many perks of an EPMA Membership? An exclusive invitation to our Members Choice Holiday Soiree, where members vote on a new acquisition for the museum! This year, members can choose from 3 works of art by artist Vanessa German. The Pittsburgh-based artist uses her sculptural assembalages to call for social justice and solutions to national and community challenges.
Want to join us and get a sneak peek of a new acquisition?
Become a member by clicking this link:
https://epma.art/membership/become-a-member-or-gift-a-membership
Your membership supports the Museum by funding exhibitions and exciting programming.
On December 17, drop in for our ornament decoration family day happening in the Museum Art School. Families will get to create a holiday keepsake inspired by the ornate frames of the Kress Collection.
Museum Art School Classroom C
December 17
12 PM to 4 PM (while supplies last)
EPMA is grateful for a grant received by the Louise E. Seymour Foundation.
The grant supports a series of free art classes for older adults, which culminates in a student art exhibition, allowing participants to share their masterpieces with the public!
Reminder for all members’ to RSVP for this years’ Members’ Choice in which members are given the opportunity to help build the EPMA Collection.
vanessa german is a self-taught citizen artist working across sculpture, performance, communal rituals, immersive installation, and photography, in order to repair and reshape disrupted systems, spaces, and connections. The artist’s practice proposes new models for social healing, utilizing creativity and tenderness as vital forces to reckon with the historical and ongoing catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir.
In 2022, german was awarded the Heinz Award for the Arts. Other awards include the Don Tyson Prize from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the United States Artist Grant in 2018, the Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant in 2015.
*Portrait By Joshua Franzos, 2022
Don’t Miss out on this relaxing sound bath session by Live Active El Paso.
December 10
12 PM -1 PM
El Paso Museum of Art C2 gallery space
Join us this Saturday, December 3 at the El Paso Museum of Art for this exciting snow-globe-making family day activity.
December 3
Time: 12 PM to 4 PM
Location: Classroom C in Museum Art School
*For more information on this and other family day activities visit this link
https://epma.art/
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