CENTER STAGE: The Found Object Assemblages of Mathey & Mahan

(San Miguel de Allende, March 1, 2008)  In 2006, French artist Claude Mathey captivated San Miguel with her theatrical matchbox and bottle cap miniature stages, inspired by her vivid imagination and the “trash” of the streets and bars of her new life in Guanajuato.  Her notable and almost disconcerting ability to make beauty out of the everyday things most of us are happy to throw out really caught the eye and heart of most every person through the gallery.  This March, Claude is back with a whole new medium, an equally spurned material that I will now omit mention to peak your curiosity.  And this year to complement Claude’s found object wall art is the assemblage sculptural work of the talented Patricia Mahan.  Two talented women, true to their womanly-instinct to make the most out of “nothing” have created a fascinating show of such intellectual and creative standards to compete with their European contemporaries and pioneers of the Found Object Assemblage movement.

ARTIFACTS REFLECTED

(San Miguel de Allende, January 19, 2008)  The New Year evokes thoughts of change in the minds of most everyone, whether it is as a reflection of the changes made in the past year for the betterment of oneself or the ones needed to be taken in the upcoming year in order to better oneself, as betterment is a common human goal of change.  The newest exhibit at Galeria/Atelier illustrates this very notion of change through the work of the extremely talented Mexican artists, Sebastián Canovas and Rodrigo Lara.