Bryan Rindfuss

Dec 13, 2024 | wmagazine.com | Bryan Rindfuss

There are some terse exchanges in Liora Spilk Bialostozky’s 2022 documentary Pedro that reveal lesser-known truths about her octogenarian subject, the esteemed Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg. For starters, Friedeberg does not identify with the artistic movement with which he’s most commonly associated. “How do you feel about being called the last Surrealist?” a young journalist asks him at the Zona Maco art fair, in Mexico City. “That’s a terrible mistake,” he retorts.

Oct 16, 2024 | mysanantonio.com | Bryan Rindfuss

Late Texas legend Emma Lee Turney couldn’t have known what a grand tradition she was sparking when she organized the first Round Top Antiques Show back in October of 1968.

Oct 15, 2024 | sacurrent.com | Bryan Rindfuss

Head-scratching moments are par for the course when Louisiana-born, San Antonio-based artist Leigh Anne Lester starts explaining her distinctive work. A brainy amalgam of drawing, painting and sculpture, Lester’s creative endeavors explore such heady topics as genetic modification and the myriad consequences of human intervention on Mother Nature.

Jul 9, 2024 | sacurrent.com | Bryan Rindfuss

Lynching victims, forcibly disappeared individuals and hooded monsters of the Ku Klux Klan are among the loaded subjects San Antonio-born artist Vincent Valdez tackles in his powerful drawings, paintings and prints. A decade ago, Valdez took over Artpace’s Hudson Showroom with The Strangest Fruit — an arresting exhibition of large-scale paintings exploring the oft-erased history of Mexicans and Mexican Americans lynched in Texas between the 1800s and the 1930s.

Jun 26, 2024 | sacurrent.com | Bryan Rindfuss

Blood does not family make. Those are relatives,” late ballroom legend Hector Xtravaganza once said. “Family are those with whom you share your good, bad, and ugly, and still love one another in the end. Those are the ones you select.”Xtravaganza (1965-2018) was one of the many brilliant souls immortalized by Jennie Livingston’s groundbreaking 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning.