Smile 🙂 by PANCA

This week, a collective exhibition opens in San Diego’s historic Barrio Logan neighborhood, showcasing work by the 4 2021 San Diego Artwork Prize finalists. Conceived to encourage dialogue and social interplay about San Diego’s creative and cultural life, the annual award honors artistic expression with this 12 months’s prize spotlighting artists within the San Diego to Ensenada, Mexico, area for his or her excellent achievements.

Honoring Creative Expression

Devoted to the concept that the humanities are a significant factor of any world-class metropolis, the San Diego Visible Arts Community first introduced the San Diego Artwork Prize in 2006. Reflecting the bi-national expertise that makes this space of Southern California and Northern Baja so distinctive, finalists Beliz Iristay, Hugo Crosthwaite, PANCA, and Perry Vásquez every supply a singular vantage level of life and work on either side of the border. 

Beliz Iristay

CALL by Beliz Iristay

Born in Izmir, Turkey, Beliz Iristay moved to the USA in 2005 and lives as a “border artist” between Baja California, Mexico and San Diego together with her household. She focuses on ceramic and mix-media and incorporates native clay into her follow whereas exploring conventional and modern methods. Traditions of her “dwelling nations,” Turkey, Mexico, and the US, usually characteristic throughout her work. Traditions, politics and gender problems with the nations she lives in additionally inform the topic supplies. Iristay has proven on the El Paso Museum of Artwork, El Paso, Texas, the Lux Artwork Institute in Encinitas, and lately constructed a ceramic studio within the Guadalupe Valley, Ensenada.

Hugo Crosthwaite

Ensueño No. 6 by Hugo Crosthwaite

An American citizen with household on either side of the border, Hugo Crosthwaite was born in Tijuana and spent his adolescence in Rosarito. With a deep respect for the narrative, Crosthwaite juxtaposes a variety of textural and tonal ranges permitting the act of drawing to dictate his compositions in works that vary from large-scale murals to intimate drawings. Winner of the Smithsonian’s 2019 Nationwide Portrait Gallery Outwin Boochever Portrait Competitors, his work is featured in everlasting collections on the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, the Nationwide Museum of Mexican Artwork, Chicago, and quite a few non-public collections around the globe.

PANCA

Illustrator, painter, muralist and set up artist PANCA resides in Tijuana and has labored between Mexico and the USA since 2004. Private but contrasting experiences from residing and dealing in Tijuana and San Diego function the inspiration behind this binational, bilingual, and bicultural artist’s work; stuffed with symbolism, her designs are sometimes stuffed with uncooked emotion, isolation, and nostalgia. PANCA has been proven in museums, galleries, magazines, and Netflix film units. Her most up-to-date work was featured in a guide printed in partnership with Bread & Salt Gallery and at La Doña restaurant in Ocean Seashore. As well as, a mural she designed for Volcan tequila was unveiled on Mexican Independence Day, September 16. 

Perry Vásquez

The Splendid Copy Sequence #15 by Perry Vasquez

Drawing inspiration from the area’s bi-national cultural milieu, Perry Vásquez lives within the San Diego/Tijuana space. Dropped right into a white, Protestant, and evangelical setting at a younger age in North Carolina resulted in Mexican, American, Catholic and Protestant cultural influences that includes closely in his work. Vásquez has produced a spread of labor throughout totally different media, together with Underneath the Excellent Solar, a portray collection that explores the myths of Southern California and its altering panorama. He was lately chosen to create murals for the brand new San Diego County Probation Constructing and has work within the everlasting assortment of the Museum of Up to date Artwork San Diego. 

Bread & Salt

Bread & Salt Gallery

House to a number of galleries and studios, Bread & Salt in Barrio Logan has served as a cultural hub and gathering place for the artistic group since 2010, usually internet hosting occasions and works by native and worldwide artists. The 2021 San Diego Artwork Prize Annual Exhibit opens to the general public at 5 p.m. on October 9 and runs till December 31. Masks are required indoors for security. Go to breadandsaltgallery.com for extra info.