Ruiz-Healy Art en Nueva York
Ruiz-Healy Art entró en operaciones en San Antonio Texas en 2006. Después de trabajar en privado y realizar algunas exposiciones neoyorquinas, Patricia Ruiz-Healy inauguró este 3 de mayo su primera galería en Nueva York.
La Crónica de Hoy
May 04, 2019
San Antonio art dealer breaks into NYC market
San Antonio’s art market is small, but it’s expanding, becoming more varied and complex — and Patricia Ruiz-Healy is one of its leading dealers.
San Antonio Express-News
April 30, 2019
The Otherworldly Abstraction of Argentinian Artist Cecilia Biagini Comes to Light at Ruiz-Healy Art
Abstraction maintains an appropriately nebulous identity: while the entire genre gets lost on some, others can instead get lost inside abstract art. For every obnoxious parent who claims their “5-year-old could do that,” there’s a thoughtful observer excavating meaning from a work of art or perhaps concocting a narrative all their own.
San Antonio Current
January 23, 2019
Fourth Installment of Hills Snyder’s ‘Altered States’ Series Sets Up at Ruiz-Healy Art
Hills Snyder, the longtime arts lecturer at UTSA, former gallery director at Sala Diaz, artist, writer, curator, musician and so much more, is leaving San
Antonio next year for Magdalena, New Mexico. He will be sorely missed in San Antonio’s arts and music communities, but before he goes he will share a new solo show, the fourth in his stunning travelogue/drawings series “Altered States.”
San Antonio Current
November 13, 2018
Made in Mexico
Simultaneously honoring age-old traditions and celebrating forward-thinking concepts, Ruiz-Healy Art’s fall group show assembles works by 11 artists who —as the overarching heading suggests — were, in one way or another, “Made in Mexico.” While that title might conjure irrelevant stereotypes, Trumpian tariffs and consumable imports like avocados and tequila, it’s quietly designed to challenge viewers to contemplate both “the long history of cultural cross-pollination between the USA and Mexico” and “the interchange between traditional art-making and contemporary art practices of the selected artists.”
San Antonio Current
September 13, 2018
Blue is Not a Color
From its earliest appearances on Egyptian ceramics, statues and tombs circa 2200 B.C. to the accidental discoveries of Prussian blue (1706) and YInMn blue (2009), the color blue boasts a rich history of inspiring creations that reach beyond the ocean and sky. Spanish master Pablo Picasso spent four years creating monochromatic paintings during his famous Blue Period; and French disruptor Yves Klein developed and trademarked his own intense shade of ultramarine, International Klein Blue. Noting that “one color can be interpreted in vastly different ways” and that blue specifically is “an almost universally favored color with the ability to instill trust, inspire creativity and even lower heart rates,” Ruiz-Healy Art zeroes in on a single hue with “Blue Is Not a Color,” a summer exhibition uniting four members of the RHA roster with four guest artists. Combining prints, sculptures, textiles, paintings, photographs and mixed-media works, the group show highlights the talents of San Antonio-based artists Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Ricky Armendariz, Jesse Amado, Andrea Reyes, Cade Bradshaw and Deliasofia Zacarias as well as Cecilia Biagini (who was born in Buenos Aires but lives in Brooklyn) and Cecilia Paredes (a Peruvian who divides her time between Lima and Philadelphia).
San Antonio Current
July 11, 2018
Ruiz-Healy Art presents and exciting and fresh take on the color blue
One color can be interpreted in vastly different ways. Some of the artists in the exhibition have been working with the color for years, for a very specific reason. Other artists were approached with the theme already set in place, and have created some truly remarkable work from that construct. Blue is a almost universally favored color with the ability to instill trust, inspire creativity and even lower heart rates. So, what is it that makes blue so appealing that it became vastly important to artists such as Giotto, Kandinsky, and Yves Klein? What is blue? In this exhibition, eight artists explore the nuances o the color and the viewer gets to explore various experiences through a lens of blue. Monochrome works will be on display within a diverse array of mediums including prints, painting, sculpture, textiles, and mixed media installations delving into the survey of a single hue.
ArtDaily
July 11, 2018
New Ruiz-Healy Art exhibit dives into the color blue
Casie Lomeli has spent a lot of time lately pondering the color blue. Lomeli, senior gallery assistant for Ruiz-Healy Art, is providing fodder for others to contemplate the hue via “Blue is Not a Color,” an exhibit she curated that opens Wednesday at the gallery.
The idea for the show, which includes both figurative and abstract works, was first sparked by an article in the online journal Artsy about blue, part of a series exploring various colors.
Lomeli noticed that a number of artists associated with the gallery often work in blue, include Jesse Amado, whose pieces frequently include the intense International Klein Blue. That indicated to Lomeli that she was onto something with her idea for the show.
San Antonio Express-News
July 10, 2018
Margarita Cabrera and Cisco Jiménez Exhibit at Ruiz-Healy Art
Both alumni of Artpace’s International Artist in Residence program, Jiménez in 1995 and Cabrera in 2008, their works are conceptually based in Mexican cultural objects and traditions and strongly connect with concepts of the collective/community. Director of Ruiz- Healy Art, Patricia Ruiz-Healy states, “I selected the work of Margarita and Cisco because of the dialogue they share with the hand-made and the conceptual way they converse issues of violence, migration, and memory.” Margarita Cabrera: Collaborative Work presents sculpture, textile, watercolor and prints that highlight the artist’s work produced collectively. Currently, Cabrera is working on a public art piece Arbol de la Vida: Voces de la Tierra [commissioned by the San Antonio River Foundation] near Mission Espada in San Antonio, Texas, which incorporates up to 700 participants. The massive public artwork is scheduled to be unveiled in October 2018, but Ruiz-Healy Art has correlating artworks from the project on display, along with some of the artist’s other community-centered projects.
Art Daily
May 23, 2018
Ruiz-Healy Art Welcomes Margarita Cabrera and Cisco Jiménez for Concurrent Solo Shows
Often reconstructing and reimagining everyday objects to address cultural and political concerns, artists Margarita Cabrera and Cisco Jiménez are bound by conceptual practices and masterful, reverent approaches to one of the fine art world’s most contested designations: craft. Known for works that are playful on the exterior but reveal deeper — and often darker — contexts upon closer inspection, the two artists were brought together for concurrent solo shows by Ruiz-Healy Art (RHA) to highlight “the dialogue they share with the handmade, and the conceptual way they converse issues of violence, migration and memory.”
San Antonio Current
May 23, 2018
Bryan Rindfuss
Michael Menchaca: Vignettes from San Antonio
Some cities have artists who become sort of visual ambassadors for the aesthetic and culture. When I imagine New York in the 1980s, all the graffiti in my mind is Basquiat pieces. In San Antonio, we’re quite lucky to have dazzling, insouciant artists like Cruz Ortiz and Michael Menchaca, rather than, say, New Orleans’ anointed chronicler James Michalopoulos whose, woozy, viscous oil painting are like if Thomas Kinkade went on a absinthe and Ambien bender. (This actually is sort of how Kinkade died)…
The show collects Menchaca’s free and mischievous drawings with three large, impressive collages of hubs of San Antonio culture, celebration, and vibrancy. Menchaca covered one wall with a green patter of wallpapered maize inspired by Mesoamerican aesthetics. The corn is symbolic — not just a staple of the cuisine of the region, but a nod to the “Cornyation” drag show that highlights Fiesta celebrations. Blessedly, San Antonio has not yet reached the stage of late capitalism and gentrification where it begins to take itself extremely seriously.
Glasstire
April 28, 2018
Neil Fauerso
Alumnus’ exhibit features Moody in landscapes of his youth
Former student Michael Menchaca is the mind behind the latest art exhibition, “Vignettes from San Antonio,” on display at Ruiz- Healy Art, 201-A E. Olmos Drive.
The collection includes images of locations, events and scenes around the city that generate nostalgia for Menchaca, which include Brackenridge Park, the Battle of Flowers parade and Moody Learning Center.
“This is a very personal exhibit for me,” he said March 30 in an interview. “It’s more for looking at my upbringing in San Antonio.”
the Ranger
April 9, 2018
Katya Harmel
Michael Menchaca; S.A. Artist, Continues Growth
Michael Menchaca’s “Vignettes from San Antonio,” at Ruiz-Healy Art gallery in Olmos Park introduces new works dedicated to celebrating his memories, his Latino heritage, and vision of San Antonio. The large mixed media pieces also connect us with history, folklore, and popular culture.
Menchaca is a gifted graphic artist and printer, but in these new creations he has expanded his artistic creativity to collage and portraits. He considers his work a reflection of his upbringing, his home, his city and family. It is for him a personal story including nostalgic memories.
La Prensa
April 5, 2018
Ricardo Romo
Contemporary Art Month 2018 Celebrates San Antonio Art, Nods to Tricentennial
When it comes to celebrating and commenting on San Antonio’s present and recent past, artist and printmaker Michael Menchaca is one of our sharpest, most nuanced artistic minds. In this exhibition, Menchaca, who has a special knack for combining the profound with the crude and often juxtaposes images from pop culture with traditional Mesoamerican iconography, offers up large- and small-scale works that speak to San Antonio’s cultural landscape and reference such recognizable landmarks as San Antonio College and Brackenridge Park.
SA Current
February 27, 2018
James Courtney
Ruiz-Healy Art Opens a Solo Exhibition of Works by Michael Menchaca
This series finds inspiration in the narrative works of Faith Ringgold and Carmen Lomas Garza. Menchaca creates original designs and motifs to explore personal memories with place. In his signature style, his works play with both repetition and scale with overlapping figures, patterns, and multiple windows of story line and fable. Menchaca harks back to a long tradition of visual storytelling spanning many centuries and across many cultures.
ArtDaily
March 30, 2018
Mark Schlesinger: Hello Stranger(s)
Mark Schlesinger has a show on view at Ruiz-Healy in San Antonio; he’s a New York native living in San Antonio who, in his home studio, engages in a fairly intricate process to make his abstract works that look simultaneously like close-ups of Easter eggs, human organs and plant cells under a microscope. Schlesinger adds additional segments of canvas to the main frame, giving his pieces a particular dimensionality. The paintings are sealed, giving them a waxy coat. Because he mixes his own paint, the colors have a strange resonance that sidesteps any feel of being mass-produced.
Glasstire
February 3, 2018
Neil Fauerso
Solo exhibition of paintings and watercolors by Mark Schlesinger opens at Ruiz-Healy Art
As a painter whose work concentrates on an exploration of lines, planes, and shapes, Schlesinger is enthralled with the formal elements of painting such as color and the visual tactility of material. He is especially known for creating his own paint for whatever support and ground he is using, from unconventional studio paints for use on traditional materials such as canvas, linen, and wood, to new paints for unusual materials such as plastic, stone, and concrete.
Art Daily
January 25, 2018
Abstract Exhibition from Artist Mark Schlesinger
Much like his public artworks on concrete along the San Antonio River, artist Mark Schlesinger’s recent paintings on canvas are focused on color, form and texture. Unlike most traditional paintings, Schlesinger’s canvases do not wrap around their wooden stretchers but are instead adhered to the front, a strategy that highlights the materiality of the artist’s constructions, leaving them exposed at their sides. Here, Schlesinger depicts amoeba-like figures, each touching, merging or perhaps overlapping, in what are heavily nuanced works begging for repeated viewings.
San Antonio Current
January 23, 2018
Marco Aquino
Ricky Armendariz “must see” exhibit for January
The show can be subdivided in to four topics: pain and healing; historical themes; professional and
inspiration; and animals and their primitive world. Typically, Armendariz adds phrase to his paintings
that touch on subject matter.
For example , he includes the phrase “The way to my heart is a bumpy road.” This phrase needs no
explanation; some do. Most of his phrases come from songs he enjoys and others, he says are phrases
he made up that should be in a song…
There is much to see and contemplate in this superb show. While some images may need further
explanation, the imagery in itself is powerful and engaging, As a body of work, it show superior
craftsmanship and creativity, Seeing it is a wonderful way to start the new year, a year of greater
appreciation of art.
La Prensa
January 13, 2018
Dr. Ricardo Romo
Ruiz-Healy Art opens exhibition of works by Ricky Armendariz
It doesn’t take a trained eye to regard the works of Ricky Armendariz and know that he is a rare kind of maestro.
From the outset of his career, nearly twenty-five years ago, he struck on an artistic persona that is an amalgam of artist, artisan, insurrectionist, and visionary, combining an ever more refined technical mastery of painting with an arduous practice of “crafting” his works, whether seeking out synthetic materials to etch upon that will achieve a greater granular fidelity for his block prints, or painstakingly wielding an industrial router to bevel and ornament his canny, mythic, and sometimes unsettling, narrative painted scenarios. He merged his long training as a painter with an early mastery of stone masonry (a vocation he practiced in Colorado), perhaps making it inevitable that his works would be exquisitely drawn, painted and carved.
Art Daily
December 11, 2017
John Phillip Santos
Personal Narratives, Politics ad Pop Culture Collide in Work of San Antonio Artist Richard Armendariz
This month, Ruiz-Healy Art presents “Tell Me Where It Hurts,” a new exhibition comprising the artist’s signature carved paintings and large-scale woodblock prints. The title of the show is inspired by the common phrase heard at the doctor’s office and refers to both a physical and mental state. “It’s about the body but it’s also about the mind and the psychological state that a person is in,” Armendariz explains. “Also, as a Latino, it revolves around the idea that we don’t always ask for help … we don’t go to the doctor or therapist. It’s funny to tell someone that you’re in therapy if you’re a Latino because it goes against this macho attitude.”
SA Current
December 05, 2017
Marco Aquino
From Buffalo to San Antonio and Beyond, Museums Woo Members
Richard Aste, who took over the leadership last year of the McNay Art Museum, is its first Hispanic director. “I think my coming to the museum is a matter of pride for everyone,” said Mr. Aste, who before was a curator at the Brooklyn Museum. “I want to include the Latino community in our conversation,” he said. Among his efforts is “Pop América 1965-1975,” a show of Pop Art from the United States, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Mexico and Peru that is scheduled to open next year. Currently on view at the McNay Art Museum, Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too. Multimedia works by the local artist Chuck Ramirez, including his photographs of single objects as well as video and installation work.
New York Times
October 25, 2017
Geraldine Fabrikant
Exhibition honors the life and career of iconic San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez
Chuck Ramirez’s large-scale photographs of everyday objects offer a humorous yet poignant perspective on our culture of consumption and waste, and the reality of fleeting life and mortality. Ramirez was inspired by opposing themes—life/death and humor/despair—and by his work as a graphic designer at Texas supermarket giant H-E-B. Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too opened at the McNay on September 14 and runs through January 14, 2018.
Art Daily
September 20, 2017
Jose Villarreal
Beloved San Antonio artist gets first career survey seven years after his death
Artist Chuck Ramirez used a camera lens to transform the detritus of everyday life into elegant reflections on mortality and the ephemeral nature of existence.
One of San Antonio’s most beloved artists, Ramirez was a galvanizing force in Southtown, creating a nexus for the art community in his half of a weathered duplex on Stieren Street that also housed the contemporary art gallery Sala Diaz. Some believe the artist, who started out as a graphic designer, was on the verge of breaking out when he died, with a string of exhibitions in Mexico City, Spain, Berlin and Paris to his credit.
San Antonio Express-News
September 14, 2017
Elda Silva
Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too
For San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez, the beauty of the world was often found in simple objects. Whether colorful plastic grocery bags, the interior of a handbag or a bouquet of flowers left behind at the hospital, Ramirez used his art to comment on pop culture and consumerism while also pointing out the elegance of the everyday. A survey of his career, which spanned from 1995 to 2010 when he died following a cycling accident in Southtown, goes on display in Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too, opening Thursday, Sept. 14 at the McNay Art Museum.
“It was important to translate the emotional quality of his work,” says René Paul Barilleaux, head of curatorial affairs, who organized the exhibition with the help of Hilary Schroeder, the Semmes Foundation intern in museum studies.
San Antonio Magazine
September 13, 2017
Kathleen Petty
Chuck Ramirez Career Retrospective Spans Venues, Decades and Distance
“He was a contemporary artist who [worked] in numerous media, and [made] use of photography,” says Rene Paul Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Affairs and chief curator of “All This and Heaven Too,” a stunning, close-to-comprehensive career survey exhibition which opens September 14 at the McNay Art Museum, one of several arts institutions celebrating Ramirez’s work this month.
If the name doesn’t ring a bell, if you’ve spent time in San Antonio you may have come across one of his images, likely a large-scale, micro–detailed, blazingly lit and colorful depiction of, say, a broom, a shopping bag, or a wilting bouquet. You can encounter these in private homes, in the downtown H-E-B, numerous collections public and private, in business and medical facilities, at the San Antonio International Airport, and on the covers of local publications.
San Antonio Current
September 13, 2017
Sarah Fisch
Chuck Ramirez: Works from the Dust of Everyday Life
That Chuck’s work was not along the traditional lines of Chicano art was disconcerting to some, said Patricia Ruiz-Healy, owner of the Ruiz-Healy Gallery that now manages Ramirez’s estate. His clean, iconic images ran counter to the overtly politicized, narrative, figurative muralist tradition. “There was a demographic shift happening” during Ramirez’s time, Ruiz-Healy said. “Many Chicanos were becoming doctors, lawyers, professionals. They had another kind of experience” of a more complicated identity, harder to place along strictly ethnic lines.
Rivard Report
September 12, 2017
Nicholas Frank
Glasstire Top Five Fall Preview, August 24, 2017
An exhibition focusing on the texted-based works of San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez. This is the first time Ramirez’s Words series has been show in its entirety.
Watch the full video HERE
Glasstire
August 27, 2017
Diversity, participation in focus for Fotoseptiembre
Embedded within the festival is a mini tribute to Chuck Ramirez, with a pair of shows of work by the San Antonio artist. The McNay Art Museum is hosting “Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too,” a survey show, and Ruiz-Healy Art is hosting “Chuck in Context,” focusing on never-before exhibited works.
The show at the Olmos Park gallery features works from the artist’s “Words” series of images emblazoned with a single word identifying the subject.
“We wanted to present something new that the public has not seen, and at the same time show something that the museum is not showing,” said gallerist Patricia Ruiz-Healy. “And then we’re going to have other works, of course.”
San Antonio Express-News
August 16, 2017
New Group Exhibition Sees Artists Exploring the Chaos of the Political Climate
RHA’s summer show takes shape in “Interval,” organized by artist, curator, musician and writer Hills Snyder. When reached for comment, Snyder described the exhibition as an “acknowledgment to the current chaos of the political climate as spewed by the White House and the concurrent reactionary spikes on social media.” Snyder selected six artists — Carlos Amorales, Fernando Andrade, Sarah Fox, Pedro Friedeberg, Nicolás Leiva and James Smolleck — he felt “were offering clearings in this messy fog.”
San Antonio Current
June 27, 2017
Person of Interest: Patricia Ruiz-Healy
Gallery owner sees San Antonio as burgeoning city for contemporary art
Along with her San Antonio space, Ruiz-Healy runs an appointment-only gallery in New York City. The combination allows her to stay plugged into one of the major art capitals of the world while still being grounded in San Antonio, a budding art hub of its own. Ruiz-Healy is one of only three International Fine Print Dealers Association members in Texas but she sees interest in South Texas continuing to grow worldwide. That’s thanks in part, she says, to the International Artists-in-Residence program at Artpace, where she is a board member. For the local contemporary arts community to continue growing, Ruiz-Healy says people have to be engaged –whether just by collecting art or simply viewing it. “It’s just a great way to learn different points of view,”she says.
San Antonio Magazine
June 2017
Insider Guide to the Best Contemporary Art Galleries in Texas
Specializing in contemporary and modern art with a focus on representing the work of both Latin American and Texas-based artists, Ruiz-Healy Art champions the highest standards of quality and is a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association, one of only three in the state. The gallery, which has a second location in New York, is a go-to for local art collectors seeking limited editions and prints from Colombian artists such as Johanna Calle, and photographs from Cecilia Paredes of Peru.
Culture Trip
May 16, 2017
Ruiz-Healy Art opens a solo exhibition by Johanna Calle
Calle bestows formalism with a social conscience. Rather than sensationalizing the grave issues and violent troubles of the world, she incorporates the heaviest of subject matters such as, environmental decay and the horrific conditions of the slums and presents the topics in a philosophical and contemplative manner. She sheds light on humanitarian tragedies while submerging them within a subdued aesthetic.
Johanna Calle earned her BA in Art History from Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia and received her MFA from the Chelsea College of Art at the London Institute. Calle’s work can be found in prestigious collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; and the National Museum of Colombia, Bogotá.
Colombian Artist Johanna Calle Pushes Lines to Unexpected Heights with ‘Trama’ at Ruiz-Healy Art
Whether drawing in pencil or flattening birdcages into sculptural compositions Colombian artist Johanna Calle pushes one of art’s purest elements — the line — to unexpected destinations, questioning and commenting on the growth of developing countries, environmental decay and humanitarian tragedies. Widely exhibited and represented in an impressive array of permanent collections (including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston), Calle’s typically black-and-white works have investigated the weird world of arachnids and built conceptual poetry from deconstructed anthropological texts.
San Antonio Current
May 9, 2017
Bryan Rindfuss
Jesse Amado: BECOMING
A key word for understanding Amado’s trip* is “sensorium,” a word that began appearing in the English language in the 1640s. It means pretty much whatever the human organism takes in through the senses, including everything psychological or cognitive in nature, the whole of what human consciousness perceives through the senses. So by extension the sensorium can be said to be the artist’s house—a veritable emporium of materials for him to play with—the suffix “orium” meaning “a place for.”
Never to be bound by terms such as “painter” or “sculptor” etc., Amado is in a constant search for new mediums. Somewhat ironically, this foregrounds the conceptual nature of the work—his boundless love of material intrigue ultimately makes the material manifestation secondary, even though his loving search for novel art supplies is where it begins. But that is only the spark…Gravity is the real key.
Glasstire
April 28, 2017
Hills Snyder
New works by Jesse Amado on view at Ruiz-Healy Art
Known for art that is conceptually based and highly formal Amado states “A synthesis is underway. Developing into a progression; steered by compositions and colorings … These current works represent seemingly the spiritual… Present with vestiges of beautiful Catholicism. It’s rituals and iconography. Subsequently appearing is the Metaphysical… presence of the natural with it’s necessary result of ART and it is all that exists.”
Art Daily
March 21, 2017
10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
San Antonio artist Jesse Amado presents his latest solo show, “Becoming,” smack dab in the middle of Contemporary Art Month. Continuing in the widely celebrated vein of his recent work, this new collection finds the consistently innovative and whimsically confounding artist playing with concepts as divergent as materiality, design, religion, politics and the social construction of meaning and beauty. Amado, who recently returned from Blue Star Contemporary’s Berlin Residency in partnership with Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Germany, is indefatigable — but also quite playful — in his creative pursuit of metaphysical meaning and astute artistic commentary.
San Antonio Current
March 15, 2017
James Courtney
The McNay Print Fair: A Thriving San Antonio Tradition
Patricia Ruiz-Healy, founder of Ruiz-Healy Art, told the Rivard Report that the fair is well respected in the Southwest region. Ruiz-Healy started studying prints 30 years ago. She founded her gallery in 2004 with a strong print inventory that included pieces from Mexican masters like Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo. Little by little, she has tried to bring prints from such artists to the McNay Print Fair.
“We get collectors from Austin and Houston, so it’s a very important regional fair since material is brought from many good galleries,” Ruiz-Healy said. “All the dealers are scholars so it’s very good for education purposes, and they don’t mind answering questions. It’s my 10th year participating and I have gained so much knowledge by working with dealers from New York and other places across the country – some have been incredible mentors.”
Rivard Report
March 3, 2017
Rocío Guenther
The Low Down on San Antonio’s Essential Galleries
Incorporated in 2004 as a by appointment only outfit and opened to the public in 2013 in the heart of Olmos Park, Patricia RuizHealy’s gallery represents both local and international artists while emphasizing “a Latin American, borderland, and Texas discourse.” One of two Texas members of the esteemed International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA), the gallery actively participates in art fairs in Houston, Dallas, Miami and New York. Beloved for shows that combine local and foreign talent with regional themes and big city aesthetics, Ruiz-Healy Art showcases legends and emerging artists alike and also acts as the exclusive representative of the estate of late local hero Chuck Ramirez.
San Antonio Current
February 22, 2017
Constance Lowe and the Deception of Appearances
Over the course of a career that spans more than thirty years, San Antonio-based artist Constance Lowe has created art in a variety of mediums, including sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, and collage. An artist who usually works in series that can span a number of years at a time, Lowe’s main interest is in the deception of appearances considered from a conceptual vantage point. No matter the medium, Lowe’s work is characteristically full of contradictions.
Glasstire
February 9, 2017
David S. Rubin
10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
“On the Curve,” a show that focuses on the multitude of possibilities within the realm of curvilinear artwork, is the latest from Olmos Park’s Ruiz-Healy Art. The group exhibit, which runs through February 25, features the work of artists Constance Lowe, Jesse Amado, Andrés Ferrandis, Nicolás Leiva, Nate Cassie, Laura Anderson Barbata, Ricky Armendariz and Ethel Shipton. While the curvilinear aspects are clearly evident in the clean lines and precise curves, each artist offers their own unique perspective, concerns, personality and process in the pieces. The resulting whole presents a compelling argument that within even the most rigid forms, endless permutations and explorations are possible based on an artist’s particular pursuit/approach. As the exhibit announcement explains, these artists “delve into curvilinear shapes and forms with a bold intellectual and playful practice using art history as an impetus.”
San Antonio Current
January 25, 2017
James Courtney
Ruiz-Healy Art opens a group exhibition exploring curvilinear works
Constance Lowe works in the legacy of formalism and geometric abstraction and infuses her practice with the influences of her Midwestern upbringing. Jesse Amado utilizes forms and materials as commentaries on the ambiguities of modern society. Andrés Ferrandis new works are part of an installation made of organically circular abstractions on paper. Nicolás Leiva’s new round aluminum works are painted repoussés that use a vocabulary of pure fantasy and cosmic inspiration. Both Nate Cassie and Ethel Shipton’s artworks carry innate, intuitive systems accompanied with a formal and conceptual practice. Laura Anderson Barbata’s drawings and sculptures are full of vibrancy and are a platform for explorations of cultural perspectives. Ricky Armendariz melds contemporary cultural symbols with icons of an ancestral past using figurative and animalistic expressions. On the Curve combines a group of artists all approaching creativity in a sinuous fashion.
Art Daily
January 25, 2017
Perennial Boundaries
Perennial Boundaries examines the infinite thread that a manmade confine such as a geographical divide creates. The works included in this show provide the viewers with insights into the interests and concerns that have guided the creative impulses of these artists in their careers. Each artist is working in a unique and individualistic practice informed by their personal experiences from living on either side of the border. This exhibition is an eclectic mix of homage and critical discussions of living in la frontera and immigration issues.
Terremoto
January 12, 2017
Art Here and There–Bridges the Gap
When Sonora, Mexico Native Patrica Ruiz-Healy, the proprietor and director of her company the Ruiz-Healy Art gallery, followed a year of study in Mexico City with a year in London, everything changed…
Home Design & Decor Austin
November 1, 2016
IFPDA Print Fair Bids Farewell to Park Avenue Armory and Prepares for Javits Center Move
At San Antonio’s Ruiz-Healy Art, a single-artist presentation by Colombian artist Johanna Calle catches the eye. One wall features her “Arañas/spiders” series, a suite of seriagraphs, a tangled spiderweb featuring the words of an anthropological text by Maria Margarita Ruiz-Roges.
Artnet News
November 4, 2016
Ruiz-Healy Art opens exhibition of art rooted in the socio-political experience of the U.S./Mexico border
In a time when the upcoming elections have border policies at the forefront of the agenda, RuizHealy Art has organized an exhibition of contemporary art rooted in the sociopolitical experience of the U.S /Mexico border. RHA is presenting Perennial Boundaries, an exhibition showcasing the artwork of Margarita Cabrera, César Martínez, Fernando Andrade, and Michael Menchaca.
Perennial Boundaries examines the infinite thread that a manmade confine such as a geographical divide creates. The works included in this show provide the viewers with insights into the interests and concerns that have guided the creative impulses of these artists in their careers. Each artist is working in a unique and individualistic practice informed by their personal experiences from living on either side of the border. This exhibition is an eclectic mix of homage and critical discussions of living in la frontera and immigration issues.
Art Daily
October 31, 2016
Rising Local Artist Fernando Andrade Draws Dark Inspiration from Border Violence
On October 27, RuizHealy Art will present “Perennial Boundaries,” an exhibition featuring four Texas artists whose work examines life along the U.S.-Mexico border: Margarita Cabrera, César Martínez, Michael Menchaca and Fernando Andrade. In anticipation of the group show, we spoke with Andrade, who opened up about his experiences on both sides of the border and revealed some of the driving factors behind his work. A 2008 graduate from the graphic design program at San Antonio College, Andrade has been making waves in the local art community with his stunning, lifelike drawings addressing sociopolitical themes.
San Antonio Current
October 25, 2016
Marco Aquino
A Lens to See: Graciela Iturbide
The images of Graciela Iturbide are endowed with great poetic force, as if emerging from a unique lyricism, where the photographer is not resigned to what is, to what the world is, but manages to reveal how visible it is through her eye. If the camera is a medium, Graciela’s imagination is the creation of her universe. It seems to follow the maxim of Novalis: “Nothing is more accessible to the innite spirit,” because “everything is related to the visibility of the invisible.”
Terremoto
September 25, 2016
Sueños en blanco y negro
Graciela Iturbide nació y creció en México en una familia de trece hermanos, acomodada, tradicional y católica. En su familia la consideraban la oveja negra porque quería estudiar literatura, y en ese entonces nadie en su familia vivía sólo del arte profesionalmente. Estudió cine, pero descubrió la fotografía buscando encontrarse a sí misma poco después de la muerte de su hija de 6 años. Estudió con el maestro fotógrafo Manuel Álvarez-Bravo en la Universidad Autónoma de México durante la década de 1970, período durante el cual realiza unos de sus trabajos más sobresalientes en el desierto de Sonora y en Juchitán, Oaxaca, trabajo que la lanza a un nivel profesional.
Revista Mujer
September 22, 2016
Lilia Davis
Fall Arts Preview: Upcoming Exhibitions and Events Range from Playful to Political
With a pointed nod to the upcoming election, Olmos park’s Ruiz-Healy Art unveils an exhibition gathering works by contemporary artists Margarita Cabrera, César Martínez, Fernando Andrade and Michael Menchaca. Titled “Perennial Boundaries,” the group show creatively mines the “socio-political experiences in Texas and along the U.S-Mexico Border.”
San Antonio Current
September 28, 2016
Bryan Rindfuss
#AgendaVogue: qué hacer en San Antonio
Un encantador y silencioso espacio que deja que el arte hable por sí mismo. Actualmente exhibe el trabajo de la fotógrafa mexicana Graciela Iturbide, con una serie de sombrías y serenas fotografías en blanco y negro.
Vogue Mexico
September 14, 2016
A Look at Graciela Iturbide’s Iconic ‘Magnolia’
In 1987, Iturbide received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial prize for Juchitán, a photo essay developed over a 10-year period during which she lived and worked among the indigenous people of the small town located in the state of Oaxaca. Among this body of work is Magnolia, a portrait of a Muxe (pronounced MOO-Shay), or an individual who identifies neither as male nor female.
Out in SA
September 15, 2016
Marco Aquino
Iconic Mexican Photographer Graciela Iturbide Comes to Light in ‘A Lens to See’
Taken together, the work in “A Lens to See” is an artist’s interpretation of life, tragedy, and the beauty found within, but most importantly, it’s among the finest contributions to contemporary art by a living artist. “She’s a worldclass artist,” RuizHealy said. “To have her show in this city is a great privilege.”
San Antonio Current
September 7, 2016
Marco Aquino
Ruiz-Healy Art to Welcome Acclaimed Mexican Photographer Graciela Iturbide
Four young “cholas” looking tough in East Los Angeles. A fearless woman in Juchitán, Mexico wearing several live iguanas on her head. An indigenous woman forging her way through the Sonora Desert with her long hair owing behind her and a boom box in hand.
These are all powerful images captured by Graciela Iturbide, one of the most acclaimed photographers in the world and one of the most proli c Mexican photographers alive today.
From Thursday, Sept. 8 to Saturday, Oct. 15, the Ruiz-Healy Art gallery will feature Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See, a solo exhibition of Iturbide’s work. The show is in conjunction with FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA International Photography Festival and features works from the Wittliff Collection at Texas State University.
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Rivard Report
September 7, 2016
Alexandra Alvarez
Six Fotoseptiembre USA shows you have to see
Ruiz-Healy Art was selected as one of the top six Fotoseptiembre USA exhibitions to see. With more than 30 events, Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See is an exhibition you don’t want to miss.
My San Antonio
August 31, 2016
Elda Silva
Fall arts season fully loaded
Ruiz-Healy Art was selected by Express-News arts and entertainment writers as one of the season’s “best bets.”
San Antonio Express-News
August 25, 2016
Dreamers and Realists at Ruiz-Healy Art
This exhibition is a place where dreams and real life co-exist. The viewer is allowed to meditate and question modes of perception and states of consciousness. Experience it for yourself and think about the ways in which you are both a dreamer and a realist.
Rivard Report
August 23, 2016
Alexandra Alvarez
A Surreal Thread Connecting ‘Dreamers and Realists’
“These artists are both dreamers and realists. The globalization of art means artists are being asked to respond to a broader view of the world and to not be so introspective and dreamy,” Amado said. I’ve always been fascinated by how surrealism can give extraordinary meaning to ordinary things. The works in this show are imbued with meaning that is relative to our existence in contemporary times, but maybe not in the way peole usually think.”
San Antonio Current
August 3, 2016
Dan R. Goddard
Dreamers and Realists: Group exhibition opens at Ruiz-Healy Art
Ruiz-Healy art is presenting Dreamers and Realists, a group exhibition featuring Jesse Amado, Andrés Ferrandis, Cisco Jímenez, Nicole Franchy, and guest artists Kaela Puente and Alejandro Augustine Padilla, curated by Jesse Amado.
Amado is known for art that is conceptually based and highly formal. Well respected for his artistic practice and situated within the main stable of Ruiz-Healy Art’s roster, Dreamers and Realists situates Amado in a new role at RHA as guest curator expanding on his mediums to encompass the dialogue that curating conjures for the audience.
Art Daily
June 28, 2016
Dreamers and Realists
Artist/curator Jesse Amado describes the six members of Dreamers and Realists as “artists who approach reality as dreamers,” but is quick to point out that, “they are dreamers and realists, not either/or.” Thus, the work in this group show…falls somewhere in the realm of magical realism, wherein skepticism is withheld and all that can be observed exists on one endless plane. Exploring questions of relativity, the exhibition unveiling features a special performance by Daniela Riojas.
San Antonio Current
June 22, 2016
Alejandro Augustine Padilla: Flirting with the Macabre
In the current exhibition at Ruiz-Healy Art, viewers will see the latest development of Padilla’s oeuvre, a series of small-scale found-object sculptures that use a ghoulish vernacular to muse on the meaning of life with a sardonic sense of humor.
Rivard Report
June 20, 2016
David S. Rubin
Straight from San Antonio: Ruiz-Healy Art collaborates to present exhibition in Mexico City
Patricia Ruiz-Healy doesn’t want San Antonians to be the only ones enjoying locally-made art. So when the opportunity to partner with Galería Karen Huber in Mexico City—a place Ruiz-Healy describes as the New York City of Mexico—the gallery owner was all in. She teamed up with curator Octavio Avendaño Trujilo to organize exhibitions in both cities. San Antonio’s exhibition, called Straight From Mexico City, closed April 23 and featured four artists from Mexico. Mexico City’s exhibition, Straight from San Antonio, opens Thursday, June 9.
“It’s really a wonderful opportunity for other places to get to know the gallery artists from San Antonio,” she said. “Art is a very global market.”
San Antonio Magazine
June 9, 2016
Kathleen Petty
Abstracción de los texanos, en México
Este jueves abre al público la exposición “Straight from San Antonio” en la galería Karen Huber, que con esta exhibición estrena su nueva sede en la antigua Casa Azul en la Colonia Hipódromo Condesa.
Como parte de un programa de intercambios internacionales, la galería Karen Huber trabaja en esta muestra con Ruiz-Healy Art, de San Antonio, Texas (Estados Unidos).
En “Straight from San Antonio”, curada por Octavio Avendaño, participan artistas de la galería estadounidense: Jesse Amado, Cecilia Biagini, Nate Cassie, Constance Lowe y Ethel Shipton. Ellos han explorado en la abstracción las implicaciones sustantivas del mundo contemporáneo.
El Universal
June 6, 2016
‘Straight from San Antonio’ to Open in Mexico City
Ruiz-Healy Art announces “Straight from San Antonio,” a collaborative exhibition, will open at Galería Karen Huber in Mexico City on Thursday, June 9, 2016. The exhibit will feature five artists on the Ruiz-Healy Art roster including: Cecilia Biagini, Jesse Amado, Nate Cassie, Ethel Shipton, and Constance Lowe. This exhibit is a continuation of the partnership formed with Galería Karen Huber for the exhibition held at Ruiz-Healy Art in March, “Straight from Mexico City,” which featured four artists from Karen Huber’s gallery. Also organized by curator Octavio Avendaño Trujillo, Straight from San Antonio maintains the quest to question the cultural context of our time with a critical construction of identity set forth in a pictorial and sculptural practice
Get Creative San Antonio
May 13, 2016
Ruiz-Healy Art spotlights work by noted Mexican surrealist
His work is in the collection of more than 50 international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art. There has been renewed interest in Friedeberg’s work in recent years, thanks in part to a retrospective at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in 2009. Friedeberg’s work continues to influence younger artists, said gallerist Patricia Ruiz-Healy.
“He (was) a multidisciplinary artist before it was a trend,” she said. “And by that I mean he has been involved in architecture, with theater design, with ballet design, besides being a visual artist.”
“Praise of Folly” reflects the eclecticism of his career with a mix of works that includes handwoven textiles, paintings, sculptures and prints.
San Antonio Express News
May 6, 2016
Elda Silva
Top Ten Things to Do this Week: Praise of Folly
In an art world riddled with esoteric concepts and highbrow commentary, a keen sense of humor is always a welcome breath of fresh air. A champion of this rare balance between wit and artistic prowess, octogenarian artist Pedro Friedeberg boasts a long and impressive exhibition history…”Praise of Folly,” Ruiz-Healy Art brings the “master illusionist” and his wideranging works to light in a solo show and companion catalog featuring an essay by Dan Cameron.
San Antonio Current
April 27, 2016
Ruiz-Healy Art exhibitis works by one of the master illusionists of late 20th century art, Pedro Friedeberg
Ruiz-Healy Art presents Pedro Friedeberg: Praise of Folly, opening April 27th with an artist reception from 6- 8 pm. The exhibition will feature an eclectic mix of Pedro Friedeberg’s art across a fairly broad range of media including: hand woven carpets, paintinpaintings, his iconic handchairs,fantastical sculptures and prints. A catalogue will be available with an essay by Dan Cameron.
Art Daily
April 27, 2016
Exhibition at Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio questions the cultural context of our time
Straight from Mexico City questions the cultural context of our time and the history of painting itself with a critical construction of identity set forth in a pictorial practice. Organized by guest curator Octavio Avendaño Trujillo, guest artist’s Eugenia Martínez, Kanako Namura, Manuel Solano, and Rafael Uriegas are selected from Galería Karen Huber’s roster. In June of this year, four artists from the RHA roster will be included in an exhibition at Galería Karen Huber in Mexico City as part of this exchange: Nate Cassie, Constance Lowe, Cecilia Biagini, and Jesse Amado.
Art Daily
March 29, 2016
Top Ten Things to do this Week: Straight from Mexico City
Having previously delivered diverse exhibitions shipped “Straight from Berlin” and “Straight from Spain,” Olmos Park’s Ruiz-Healy Art engages in an artistic exchange with Galería Karen Huber for “Straight from Mexico City.” Organized by curator and critic Octavio Avendaño Trujillo, the group show brings together artists Eugenia Martínez (Mexico), Kanako Namura (Japan), Manuel Solano (Mexico) and Rafael Uriegas (Spain) to collectively question “the cultural context of our time and the history of painting itself with a critical construction of identity set forth in a pictorial practice.” As part of the exchange, Galería Karen Huber will exhibit works by four artists from RuizHealy’s stellar roster (Nate Cassie, Constance Lowe, Cecilia Biagini and Jesse Amado) in June.
San Antonio Current
March 26, 2016
Glasstire Top 5: March 24, 2016
An exhibition by artists Eugenia Martinez, Kanako Namura, Manuel Solano, and Rafael Uriegas. Each artist has a unique relationship to Mexico City that impacts their practice.
Glasstire Visual Art Online
March 24, 2016
Galerias de Texas y CDMX intercambian artistas
Ciudad de México. Las galerías Ruiz-Healy Art, de San Antonio, Texas, y Karen Huber, de la Ciudad de México, han emprendido un intercambio de sus artistas. El espacio texano inaugura el jueves 24 de marzo la exposición Straight from Mexico, con obra de Manuel Solano, Rafael Uriegas, Eugenia Martínez y Kanako Namura. Para el mes de junio su contraparte mexicano exhibirá obra de Nate Cassie, Constance Lowe, Cecilia Biagini y Jesse Amado.
Curada por Octavio Avedaño Trujillo, Straight from Mexico plantea algunas de las problemáticas abordadas en la práctica pictórica en el contexto cultural de nuestro tiempo: la construcción crítica de la identidad a partir de la subjetividad, la forma y la historia misma de la pintura.
La Journada
March 23, 2016
Merry MacMasters
At a Generally Flat Art on Paper Fair, Some Cutting Works
Paper is one of the oldest media, so it’s hard to make it as new and exciting as, say, a diner full of sculptural gourmands. Many of the 65 participating galleries are showing safe, decorative, and trendy work. There are some hidden gems here, though: a Mickalene Thomas collage of a woman posing, odalisque-like, on a patterned couch (“You’re Gonna Give Me the Love I Need,” in the Van Deb Editions booth); Six Snapshots of Julie, a series of woodcuts by Grayson Perry on display in the Manifold Editions booth that chronicles the life of fictional Essex everywoman Julie Cope, who evolves from girl in barrettes to biker chick to world-traveling divorcee; and fantastic surrealist paintings by Pedro Friedeberg (Lisa Frank fans in the Lower East Side Girls Club might like his star-spangled neon horses) in Ruiz-Healy Gallery’s booth.
Hyperallergic
March 4, 2016
Carey Dunne
5 Must-See Booths at Art on Paper
Art on Paper 2016 opened last night to a record attendance of over 4,500 collectors, curators, museum directors, and art lovers, ushering in the fair’s much anticipated second edition with entertainment, drinks, food and an eye-popping installation by Li Hongbo presented by Klein Sun Gallery (above). Check out our list of must-see booths.
Ruiz-Healy Art, Booth 609
Pedro Friedeberg, La policía organizada, 2016
The mother-daughter duo behind Ruiz-Healy art is enough reason to check out this booth. Ruiz-Healy Art represents an international roster of artists and places emphasis on a Latin American, borderland, and Texas discourse.
Art Zealous
March 4, 2016
Julie Speed’s Engaging Puzzles for Inquisitive Eyes
A feast for inquisitive eyes, Speed’s exhibition at Ruiz-Healy Art features both representational and abstract imagery, much of which is delightfully overloaded with painstakingly crafted details. An avowed advocate of the philosophy that art is as much for the viewer as it is for the artist, Speed is of the school of artists who revel in open-ended content.
Years ago, believing that her own interpretation is only one of many possibilities for understanding what we see in her artwork, she coined the term “parareality” to refer to each alternative potential meaning, with the idea that no single explanation is any more valid than another.
Rivard Report
February 27, 2016
David S. Rubin
Review: Julie Speed at Ruiz-Healy Art
Speed’s paintings possess the delicate flair of miniaturist paintings and illuminated manuscripts from the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The medium for these historic artworks is gouache, an opaque watercolor, and this is also Speed’s medium of choice, which strengthens the similarity of her work to their historical precedents.
Six hundred years ago, the paintings’ narratives involved biblical references, or subjects generated by the patrons who commissioned them. Today, Speed’s zany, mysterious narratives act like like creative prompts, stirring viewers’ imaginations.
Art Confessions
February 23, 2016
Wendy Atwell
Pasion por el arte
Patricia Ruiz-Healy es una mujer orgullosamente mexicana, una galerista que rompe los marcos tradicionales de galerias y le gusta tomar riesgos, pero mas que todo transmite su pasion por el arte. A traves de su galeria, Ruiz-Healy Art en San Antonio, Texas, lleva a cabo su mision: dar a conocer y que se tome conciencia del arte contemporaneo emergente a traves de Texas.
Patricia Ruiz-Healy is a proud Mexican woman, a gallerist that breaks the frameworks of traditional galleries and likes to take risks, but most of all conveys her passion for art. Through her gallery, Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio, Texas, she carries out her mission: to make known and be aware of emerging contemporary art in Texas.
Mujer Magazine
December 10, 2015
Lilia Davis
A Joy and a Responsibility: Ruiz-Healy Art Helps San Antonio Connect to the International Art Scene
“My first significant aesthetic experience happened in London,” says the San Antonio gallerist and art dealer. “I was on scholarship and lived with a nice family. As I started going to museums, I absolutely fell in love with art. Since I had always loved history, after my year in England I returned home to Mexico and became a student of art history.”
Today, her Ruiz-Healy Art is a highly respected dealership and exhibition space that specializes in postwar and contemporary art in a variety of media,from painting and sculpture to photography and works on paper.
San Antonio Woman Magazine
November 16, 2015
Jasmina Wellinghoff
The A + C Top Ten: December
SAN ANTONIO—If abstraction began as a rejection of representation in favor of a focus on pure form, we’ve come a long way since its philosophical inception; today abstraction is far more charged, both conceptually and politically. Curator Octavio Avendaño Trujillo explores that idea in Why is the Sky Blue? A group show on view at Ruiz-Healy Art through Feb. 13. Featuring the work of twelve artists from the United States, Mexico and Argentina, Why is the Sky Blue? features work which although abstract in nature, is translatable, challenging the viewer in numerous ways, from “the poetic to the political.”
The A + C Texas
December 2, 2015
Jennifer Smart
From Under $1,000 to Over $1 Million, the 16 Best Buys at IFPDA
Cisco Jimenez, Bloque geologico | Ruiz-Healy Art Booth 210
Mexican artist Jimenez mixes cultural references from past and present to come up with his witty subject matter. The old accounting forms on which he’s printed this series provide a strangely appealing and nostalgic background for the subject matter-a topographical landscape cross-section engulfing a boom box, like it’s one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Artsy
November 6, 2015
Meredith Mendelsohn
Art Destination: Why San Antonio Deserves More Attention
San Antonio has a diverse, vibrant, and welcoming art scene that gets together in ever-fluxing arts initiatives and established spaces. In this city-the seventh largest in the United States-the scene is unpretentious, very relaxed, and largely community-based.
Art Slant
October 2015
Claudia Arozqueta
41 things to know about this weekend in San Antonio
A self-taught painter associated with the Neo-Mexicanidad movement, Ismael Vargas fills canvases with images of undulating textiles and objects from Mexican pop culture such as masks, painted skulls and sombreros. “Echoes of Mexico,” a solo exhibit of his work, is on display at Ruiz-Healy Art. A catalog with an essay by author John Phillip Santos is available.
San Antonio Express-News
October 15, 2015
Compiled by Robert Johnson, Written by Elda Silva
Cecilia Paredes: The Wandering Flight at Ruiz-Healy Art
The San Antonio gallery Ruiz-Healy Art jumped into the fray of the 21st Annual Fotoseptiembre USA photography festival with the exhibition Cecilia Paredes: The Wandering Flight. Openings at Ruiz-Healy tend toward good conversation with art aficionados and professionals. Paredes is known for her “photo performances,” incorporating herself into the photographs by blending into the surrounding environment. The immersion is so painstaking that it’s difficult to discern where she ends and the background begins. She says, “I think that in these works, aesthetics bind with the anthropologic in order to register fragments of personal and social memory.”
Glasstire Visual Art Online
September 15, 2015
Page Graham and Tami Kegley
What To See? Where To Go? Our Fotoseptiembre Picks
Internationally renowned artist Cecilia Paredes is konwn for blending in. Using paint and fabric to carefully camouflage her body against wallpaper backdrops, her “photo performances” make the viewer question where identity ends and environment begins. In “The Wandering Flight,” Paredes’ photographs tell the tale of a dream of flying; yet, as in her work before, her character’s body fades into the surroundings, inhabiting “a perfect symbiotic realm.”
San Antonio Current
September 2, 2015
Murphi Cook and James Courtney
Stunning Camouflage Artist Turns The Human Body Into A Canvas
Our bodies are permeable shields, protecting our glorious, gushy insides from harm’s way. They act as the barrier between our guts and veins and blood and the many wonders of the external world. Of course, get a little creative with your paint set, and this seemingly fixed blockade becomes far more muddled.
Take performance artist and photographer Cecilia Paredes, for example. The Peruvian artist — now based part time in Philadelphia — weaves herself into the fabric of her surroundings using paintstaking repetition and attention to detail.
The Huffington Post Arts & Culture
September 1, 2015
Prescilla Frank
Jesse Amado Presents Art As Placebo In ’30 Day Rx’
Jesse Amado considers his “30 Day Rx” a placebo, a placating reponse to a friend’s struggle to decide whether or not to take antidepressants. Cut out of felt and hung on the wall or placed on the floor like a rug, Amado’s newest work, on view through June 6 at Ruiz-Healy Art, is in brigh pop colors — baby blue, candy pink, lime green, tangy orange and goofy grape — and almost guaranteed to lift your mood.
San Antonio Current
May 20, 2015
Dan R. Goddard
Solo exhibition of new works by Jesse Amado on view at Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio
Known for art that is conceptually based and highly formal, Amado’s practice occupies the liminal space that hovers between life and art. The works in 30 Day Rx are informed by Amado’s recent personal experience with illness and prescription drugs. Focusing on the gamut of ways that pharmaceuticals inflect our daily lives, Amado reveals the beauty, power, and consequences of living in bodies consisting of and charged with, chemicals.
ArtDaily
May 6, 2015
Art is the drug for S.A.’s Jesse Amado
Artist Jesse Amado went to see his dentist with what he thought was a toothache. It turned out to be Stage 4 oral cavity cancer. At the time, he was working on “Days,” an installation composed of thousands of suspended glass teardrops commemorating the life of Linda Pace. The influential arts patron and artist had died more than two years before from a different form of cancer.
San Antonio Express-News
May 5, 2015
Elda Silva
Prescription Drugs Drive Jesse Amado’s New Work
Jesse Amado, one of San Antonio’s most accomplished artists, opened a new exhibition of recent works, “30 Day Rx,” at Ruiz-Healy Art on Thursday. The work in “30 Day Rx” draws from the gamut of consequences and effects on the body that come from the use of prescription drugs.
Rivard Report
May 1, 2015
Marco Aquino
Jesse Amado: “30 Day Rx”
Enigmatic, unpredictable and accomplished are but a few of the words that come to mind when considering Jesse Amado, a San Antonio artist who’s represented in collections stretching from the McNay to the Smithsonian. A former firefighter, Amado’s been known to turn everything from dangling crystals to yards of fringe into conceptual works exploring themes of seduction, beauty and romance.
San Antonio Current
More Than Words features Ramirez, Diaz
Text-based art is not new. As a practice, it has roots in various art movements of the 20th century and continues to evolve. The exhibition More than Words showcases the work of nine different artists, each with a unique perspective, who have incorporated text into their work through out their careers. The works of Chuck Ramirez and Alejandro Diaz, two of San Antonio’s most recognized gay artists, are included.
Out in SA
April 3, 2015
Marco Aquino
Text-based art at Ruiz-Healy
From Rene Magritte’s image of a pipe, Ceci n’est pas une pipe, to Jenny Holzer’s cryptic digital displays, text in art can be used to question the validity of art, trigger an emotion, conjure a memory, make social commentary, give instruction, or function as graphic design. However, text bears the burden of centuries of language and literature, often weighing down our passive consumption of visual delights with its insistent references to religion, history, philosophy, and psychology.
Arts + Culture Texas
March 25, 2015
Dan Goddard
The A + C Top Ten
Text-based art tends to conflate and disrupt two different, but enjoyable activities–looking and reading. What to do when you’re forced to do both at the same time? Ruiz-Healy Art’s More Than Words tackles the dilemma with a significant selection of text-based art from nine San Antonio and Latin American artists, who add an additional level of contemplation by using a combination of Spanish and English language in their work.
Arts + Culture Texas
March 31, 2015
Jennifer Smart
Contemporary Art Month: 30 Years Later
CAM started in 1986 by Jeffrey Moore, who was the director of the Southwest School of Arts & Crafts
Rivard Report
March 4, 2015
Tami Kegley
More than Words: Text-Based Artworks
From snippets of newsprint in works by Picasso, Braque and Gris to Robert Indiana’s and Jasper Johns’ embrace of signage and type fonts as sources of their signature gestures, text-based art was a recurring hallmark of modern art, and a fleet vehicle to ride the passage into Pop art and beyond.
Wall Street International
March 6, 2015
5 Shows to See During CAM’s First Weekend
San Antonio Current
March 6, 2015
Bryan Rindfuss and Sarah Fisch
Artist on Artist: Gary Sweeney Interviews Constance Lowe
San Antonio Current
February 25, 2015
Gary Sweeney
10 Events This Week
While some of us lived vicariously through last week’s reports from the party-packed Miami Beach edition of the storied Swiss art fair Art Basel….local gallerist Patricia Ruiz-Healy represented San Antonio live from the Sunshine State.
San Antonio Current
December 9, 2014
Bryan Rindfuss
5 Visual Art Shows to see this December
December is typically the season of group shows, and this year is no exception. It’s a slow month for galleries so it’s a great time to pull out your stock of art and artists and at least show it off for those who don’t completely tune out during the holidays. If you happen to be in San Antonio this month, we’d recommend you stop by Ruiz Healy, SA’s flagship for contemporary Latin American and Texas art.
Arts + Culture Texas
December 3, 2014
Jennifer Smart
Work by UTSA’s Ricky Armendariz is on display at Ruiz-Healy Art
UTSA TODAY
November 25, 2014
Artist Spotlight Ricky Armendariz: In the Belly of the Beast
Like much of life along the U.S.-Mexico border, art is often defined by the unique blending of two cultures–the Spanglish that peppers everyday conversation, the customs that have survived generations, and the imagery that evokes powerful emotions.
The City Magazine El Paso
December 2014
Natalie Eckberg
New Digs, New Collaborations Change Things Up for Ruiz-Healy Art
It has been a busy year for Patricia Ruiz-Healy, who made the leap last fall from showing art in a house by appointment only to an East Olmos Drive gallery, only to move next door in the spring. Devon Britt-Darby caught up with Ruiz-Healy to talk about how her program has evolved along with the gallery’s physical parameters.
Arts + Culture
May 3, 2014
Devon Britt-Darby
Straight from Berlin: Paintings and works on paper by Uwe Kowski and Jörg Herold at Ruiz-Healy Art
Ruiz-Healy Art, in collaboration with Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig / Berlin, presents Straight from Berlin: Paintings and Works on Paper by Uwe Kowski and Jörg Herold. Uwe Kowski and Jörg Herold are acclaimed as members of the New Leipzig School, a group of artists identified with Neo Rauch who were born in thenEast Germany and trained at the traditionallyinclined Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst Leipzig (Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts). Recognized and championed by galerist Gerd Harry Lybke of Galerie EIGEN + ART, Kowski and Herold have achieved international recognition for their use of highlytuned skills to express questions of value and direction in a time of indecision, loss, and anomie. This collaborative exhibition at RuizHealy Art offers American viewers a rare opportunity to see their newest work: Straight from Berlin.
ArtDaily
Andrés Ferrandis: “Numinos”
Varied in their materials, the new collage works also introduce another hybridity: elements are echoed in the compositions that bridge Ferrandis’ painting history with his design practice in furniture and architecture. Neobaroque flourishes, a bold but highly controlled palette, and pop art tactics of appropriation are also present. Seeing the pieces in person one is reminded of another era. Ferrandis’ collages are true descendants of the pioneering works by Kurt Schwitters a century ago. This is not just image-play within the picture plane; a tumultuous array of paper lifts above the embracing background in rich bas-relief. One is overwhelmed by the sculptural materiality of the works. So, are these images or objects? The tension between the threedimensional world and our reception of it through sight is a recurring question throughout this series. That the text snippets reference, among others, the existentialist concerns of Søren Kierkegaard is not an accident.
Wall Street International
April 4, 2014
Numinous: exhibition of new works by Andrés Ferrandis opens at Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio
Ruiz-Healy Art presents Numinous, featuring new works by Andrés Ferrandis. The exhibition will open on February 27, with an artist’s reception 6-8 pm. Ferrandis is known for his evocative abstract paintings redolent with the traces of perception, what the artist calls “footprints left behind.” His new constructions of collage on paper utilize photography, fragments of text, and cut-paper organic and geometric forms that seem to drift and swirl through landscapes of memory.
Art Daily
April 4, 2014
‘Straight from Berlin
Berlin is one of the hottest art scenes on the planet. For the first exhibition in its newly expanded space — the gallery has doubled in size — Ruiz-Healy Art presents “Straight from Berlin: Paintings and Works on Paper by Uwe Kowski and Jörg Herold.” It’s an opportunity for San Antonio art aficionados to see works by two prominent German artists, born in what was East Germany and associated with the New Leipzig School. Kowski and Herold are represented in many international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Deutsche Bank Collection.
San Antonio Express-News
March 26, 2014
Steve Bennett
Ferrandis’ collages a hybrid of forms, materials and impulses
In a crisp Spanish accent, Andrés Ferrandis talks animatedly about hybrids, and it is the Valenciaborn artist’s crossbreeding of photography and painting, handmade and digitally generated, representational and abstract images, organic and geometric shapes, that transforms his collages into a form of visual jazz.
There is music in new works such as “Transparente” and “Agua Rara,” with their warm natural tones overlaid with slashing circles of bright color grommeted onto the layered surface, more muted shapes resembling jigsaw puzzle pieces underneath, along with text, mainly from newspaper clippings.
San Antonio Express-News/My SA
March 14, 2014
Steve Bennett
Ruiz-Healy Takes Big Steps toward Becoming Olmos Park’s ‘It’ Gallery
In evocative collages and digital prints, Spanishborn artist Andrés Ferrandis, a Miami resident since 2002, explores intuition, perception and memory. But, more concretely next door to this exhibit, workmen are busy transforming the former Bistro Bakery into what promises to be a destination gallery for Olmos Park. After years of appointmentonly shows in the living room of a home in this upscale neighborhood, Patricia RuizHealy is creating a firstclass showplace for modern and contemporary works by Latin American and San Antonio artists.
San Antonio Current
March 11, 2014
Dan R. Goddard
Andrés Ferrandis: “Numinos” at Ruiz-Healy Art
This collection of collage on paper is very pristine and lush all at once. At first glance, the work seems very tight and graphic, and it is. But the more you immerse yourself in the works, the varied textures of the materials mployed blend and smudge in the mind’s eye. Felt, plastics, newsprint, painted and cut papers, printed photography on paper (some his own, some appropriated), all are mechanically joined with tiny, brightly colored rivets. As Ruiz-Healy puts it, “…organic and geometric forms seem to drift and swirl through landscapes of memory.”
Art Blog San Antonio
March 1, 2014
Tami Kegley
10 Things You Have to do This Weekend
After nearly a decade of operating on an appointment-only basis, Ruiz-Healy Art opened a public location last year and recently tripled its space by relocating to the triangular Olmos Park landmark that hosted Bistro Bakery. On Thursday, the gallery—which specializes in modern and contemporary works by Latin American and “Texas-connected” artists—kicks off its spring season by unveiling the new digs along with an exhibition showcasing Spanish artist Andrés Ferrandis. Titled “Numinous” (an adjective Merriam-Webster defines as “having a mysterious, holy or spiritual quality”), the solo show focuses on Ferrandis’ shift from abstract painting to collage-based constructions incorporating photography, references to existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and “cut-paper organic and geometric forms that seem to drift and swirl through landscapes of memory.”
The San Antonio Current
February 27, 2014
Bryan Rindfuss
