“Life is a Dream, and Dreams are dreams”

(San Miguel de Allende, April 5, 2008)  The words of the 17^th Century Spanish playwright, Calderon de la Barca, are the inspiration for Galeria/Atelier sculptors Angelina Pérez Ibargüen and Miguel Angel Morales in their upcoming show "...Y los Sueños, sueños son".  It is the discourse on the blurred lines of reality that can occur in everyday life; a life that often feels surreal to the living when one lives to create their own truths and surroundings based on their dreams.  It is most notable for the artist who dreams and creates art forms from their head as a profession, but these artists pose the question of their viewers “what is your home?, your family? or even your persona?, if not first a dream that was made into reality by your actions, and just because they have a physical shape, do they cease to be dreams?”.

CENTER STAGE: The Found Object Assemblages of Mathey & Mahan

(San Miguel de Allende, March 1, 2008)  In 2006, French artist Claude Mathey captivated San Miguel with her theatrical matchbox and bottle cap miniature stages, inspired by her vivid imagination and the “trash” of the streets and bars of her new life in Guanajuato.  Her notable and almost disconcerting ability to make beauty out of the everyday things most of us are happy to throw out really caught the eye and heart of most every person through the gallery.  This March, Claude is back with a whole new medium, an equally spurned material that I will now omit mention to peak your curiosity.  And this year to complement Claude’s found object wall art is the assemblage sculptural work of the talented Patricia Mahan.  Two talented women, true to their womanly-instinct to make the most out of “nothing” have created a fascinating show of such intellectual and creative standards to compete with their European contemporaries and pioneers of the Found Object Assemblage movement.