Exhibitions at the Southwest School of Art highlight provocative, beautiful images

Russell Hill Rogers Gallery I, Navarro Campus

The artists featured in Mock/Bite transform often kitsch ceramic and porcelain figurines into high art by infusing them with political images and social propaganda. Historically innocent subject matter is contrasted with edgy and provocative themes. The ceramic artists in this exhibition, while individually distinctive, are linked by their satirical use of these re-contextualized figurines to convey biting contemporary insights. Viewer discretion advised.

Exhibition artists:
Pavel Amromin (Florida)
Russell Biles (South Carolina)
Michelle Erickson (Virginia)
Benjamin Schulman (Maryland)
Linda Vallejo (California)

Russell Hill Rogers Gallery II, Navarro Campus



Artist Talk: Thursday, April 11 6:30 pm

Julie Speed's meticulous craftsmanship and attention to detail bring to mind the work of artists from the fifteenth and sixteenth century Renaissance. It is the emphatically open-ended and omnivorous nature of her work, combining anxiety and violence with the subversive power of beauty, which puts Speed in the vanguard of a return to the figurative in contemporary art.

Ursuline Hall Gallery, Ursuline Campus

Artist Talk: Saturday, April 6, 1 pm

A photographer earning her certificate at the Southwest School of Art, Lynch’s new body of work, Kindred Gestures, creates powerful images of the simplest and most direct human vulnerabilities. Using traditional film camera and darkroom techniques, she perfectly captures the symbolic language of the body.

Gallery Hours

Monday - Friday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
(Ursuline and Navarro Campuses)

Saturday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
(Navarro Campus only)

Sunday
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
(Navarro Campus only)

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Located on two adjacent campuses, the school’s Ursuline Campus is the former home of the Ursuline Convent & Academy, originally founded in 1851 as the first school for girls in San Antonio. On this campus are the school’s extensive ceramics and fibers studios, its Young Artist Programs area, the tranquil gardens, arching trees and historic buildings that make the school San Antonio’s favorite “downtown oasis.”

The Navarro Campus is the site of the school’s contemporary exhibition galleries and its high-tech classrooms and studios for photography, metals, printmaking, digital imaging, paper and book arts, as well as drawing and painting and 3-D media.