VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The G Gallery in the Heights presents the exhibition Ed Saavedra: Things Have Gone to Pieces. On view through April.  Opening Reception April 2, 2011 from 6:00 until 8:00pm.

For his first Houston solo exhibition, Ed Saavedra returns to the city of his birth with some of his latest: painting, sculpture, pieces that blur the line between the two, assemblage, and a new (limited edition) archival print series.

Ed Saavedra is a multimedia artist and senior creative co-conspirator for FL!GHT gallery who lives and works in the South Flores Arts District (just south of downtown San Antonio, Texas). Although painting on canvas remains his primary compulsion, Saavedra utilizes any means necessary.

”He paints tweaked yet commanding portraits with mesmerizing skill (if you’ve seen his Harvey Milk or Ramsey Lewis, you’ll never forget them), but steps out of hoary boxes of genre and medium with sly grace. To wit: His performance installation at last year’s Luminaria, one of that evening’s few truly bright spots, wherein he “acted” as an office copy clerk — eyeglasses, tie, smoke breaks and all — in a mocked-up corporate copy shop he used to run off hundreds of free prints for engaged onloookers. Ed Saavedra’s ability to render physical beauty and his rejection of preciousness combine astonishingly in Requiem for an English Major… You’ve got to see it to get it.” –Plaza de Armas

Pictured above:  Portrait of the artist as a gargoyle.