UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AT GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER

Rental and Sales Gallery
Recent works of Francisco Tellez-Giron
June 2-24, 2007
Opening Reception June 2nd 6-10pm

Grand Central Art Center hosts the first U.S. art exhibition for Latin American Artist Francisco Tellez-Giron. Originally a muralist and graphic designer from Mexico City, Tellez-Giron paints bold and insightful works about immigrant life. His painting style is rooted in a passion for life in all of it’s trials and rewards. Combining portraits of inspirational artists, poets, folkloric iconography and current global politics, Tellez-Giron paints abstracted works which contemplate a remarkable personal journey.

Poetic Sculpture by Southern California artist Grace Songolo

Main Art Gallery
Emerging Artists Collective
June 2-24, 2007
Opening Reception June 2nd 6-10pm
Over twenty Santa Ana high school artists and teachers who have participated in the GCAC after school arts classes will present their works which include, painting, photography, video, illustration and graphic design.

Artists featured: Leslie Abrajan, Alfred Acosta, Wendy Acosta, Heriberta Cruz, Marcos Cruz, Edgar Denicia, Antonio Escalante, Andres Flores, Monserrat Garcia, James Gil, Ruth Gonzalez, Esperanza Lopez, Jaime Lopez, Blanca Malfavon, Alicia Martinez, Andrea Martinez, Jessica Mendez,Aimee Murillo, Jessica Lopez, Jorge Morales, Israel Ochoa, Tony Pedraza, Nick Perez, Oscar Perez, Joe Pizana, Marco Priego, Adriana Rangel, Ralph Rangel, Karina Roldan, Nancy Roldan, Sheri Tierrablanca, Ernest Vega

Project Room
Jeffrey Vallance – Relics and Reliquaries
Curated by the artist
June 2-24, 2007

Opening Reception June 2nd 6-10pm
Grand Central Art Center presents an installation constructed in the form of a treasure chamber featuring reliquaries from the life of artist Jeffrey Vallance.
Excerpt from his book Relics and Reliquaries published by Grand Central Press:
“This reliquary project is related more to artist Chris Burden’s performance relics than to the California assemblage tradition. Burden displays his relics — such as the nails he used to crucify himself to a VW Bug — in high-tech Plexiglas cases. For my performance artifacts, I merge the idea of Chris Burden’s high-concept relics with the medieval tradition of ornate gilded reliquaries… Since early childhood I have been an obsessive collector, verging on neotoma (being a pack rat). I consciously started saving things in 1963, at the age of eight. I would collect objects that I thought were somehow significant, but I would also save relics from tragicomic events and personal traumas.”

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