North American Art Gallery

09/23/2022

I go all the way to the Venice Biennale thinking I may run into someone from Memphis, Tulsa, L.A. or S.A. and who do I run into except Chris LeOnadSki from McAllen Tx.

02/09/2020

North American Art Gallery invited Manuel Zamudio to host an exhibition of his design. The exhibition is titled 'Signal'. (A group show of 3 south Texas artists): Manuel Zamudio, Travis Trapp and Josh Castillo.
These 3 artists represent a bounty of contemporary critical processes, situations and concepts that embrace a visual lexicon of influential popular painting and printing attitudes. They allow their generation of aesthetics and icons to bounce off one another’s style and the resulting tension in the works both compliments and criticizes in an influential manner, they be decorating the complete destruction of their everyday routine and identity. Action painting, uber fantasy realism and a liberal posturing of imaginative drawing make up this eclectic mix of art. There are great ‘hidden’ responses of south Texas in this exhibit.

09/21/2018

Nathan Schiefelbein's Valley Premiere of his award winning film MotherShip

08/29/2018

Coming to the North American Art Gallery Sept 14th

“RE/SEARCH”

A 3 person show featuring:
David Alcantar, Benjamin McVey and Jason Willome.
Curated by David Alcantar

This trio shares a concern for research-based art, Alcantar states “that for us this is the reason for making art in the first place, and we use the research of our individual
ideas as the foundation for making the objects in the ways in which we make them.”

Jason Willome investigates space exploration as a metaphor for self-actualization and he plays off the cosmological and philosophical perspectives that suggest we ‘emerge’ from the universe as opposed to ‘existing as something separate’. This work presents exploration of the natural world as analogous to building self-awareness or looking into a mirror.

Benjamin McVey, utilizes the notion of Proxemics, and the study of the human use of space, he explores the amount of space people feel necessary to set between themselves and others. This study is mostly associated with population density, communication, and social interaction.

Alcantars’ recent work, ‘Skin in The Game” is entirely and fundamentally based and driven by research into public consumption of art, where tattoos are used as both an art product and a measurement of that consumption and patronage.

All 3 artists will be presenting performance/sculpture works that are exceptionally surprising and genuinely dissimilar from the expected.

07/01/2018

Lots of creative families turned out for the MOTHERSH1P premiere, the gallery was full of inspired conversation and did I mention they brought stupendous eats too.

06/30/2018

Tonight! One night only! A sci-fi music invasion of your mind from the mind of award winning Nathan Schiefelbein! Be there or be square!

Showings starting at 7pm!

06/12/2017

06/12/2017

Kirk Clark and Christopher LeOnardO exhibit.
North American Art Gallery
Presents
"'Enlightened' in a Blaze of Glory"
New works by
Kirk Clark
and
Chris Leonard
Opening 4. 20. 2017
6-9 PM
410 N 17th ST McAllen TX 78501
For info call 210 744 6253

N.A.A.G. presents new works, used works and works of erudite commentary by Kirk Clark. These works are not readily witnessed as relating to his outpouring of ecclesiastical tradition and advancement; they are of a more secular order. They are his archetypal model of design functioning as minimal form, his emphasis, a rubric of formal visual components are part of a machine that Clark draws from for his more colorful, attractive, ornate and cosmic patterned expressions.
These works are mostly simple, sophisticated and economic they are measured through their institutional dematerialization, the works are of a scholarly convention speaking of critiquing and abandoning beauty in order to pursue a less self conscious and self referential emphasis. These works have a language, which posses’ allusions of an academic embrace of our early 20th century symbolism.
They reveal a displacement from a modernist abstract to the paradigm shift toward a vulnerable direction and focus of an indeterminate spirit lodged in form.
The beauty lies in the concealed realities of form over content.

Lenard processes his stories of life into explorations of daily interactions, designing objects that interpret his world. His tiles, paintings and clay objects and vessels embrace a style and intensity that twist his reality into a multitude of narratives expounding on personal stories of personal,regional and community concerns.

11/20/2016

11/20/2016

"A Conversation About the Apocalypse or The End of The world as we Know it"Drawings by artist Rachel Camminos
An exhibit titled “ A Conversation About the Apocalypse”’ or “The End of the World as We Know It.”
A series of heavy-duty drawings that embrace and demonstrate quotes from our President Elect Donald Trump.
A lowbrow satirical visual essay reflecting what is a collective critique or a caricature of Trump campaign promise quotes. This is part of the American Public's grasp and alarm to Trump's crusade promises during the presidential campaign for president of the United States of America.
A concise series of drawings illustrating a specific political discourse embracing misogyny, racism, bias and prejudice toward women’s station and sexuality, overt sexualized denigration and censure of g**s and transgender people, war, taxes and education - to name but a few. Camminos parodies all these quotes by Trump within this collection of brilliantly simple yet powerful portraits of Trump. Her drawings of Trump and her commanding skill at drafting and the lettering accompanying each portrait produces a resistance poster of a comically disfigured celebrity character that falls somewhere between an arch criminal or a psycho celebrity politician drowning in his verbose speeches that incite and bring the public to an almost riotous participation. These drawings remind me of Mad Magazines cartooning of the late 60’s and early 70’s lampooning of America at the crossroads of a sexual, political and Cultural Revolution. These works ask the spectator to reconsider Trumps quotes and to re-evaluate ‘what ifs’ now that he is actually President Elect. She makes us feel a surreal reality that screams ‘we better have a plan B’ or the apocalypse really is at our front door.