First Friday Night Artwalk Feat. Juan Miguel Ramos Retrospective & New Work

Make your rounds during First Friday Art Walk and stop by the Casa de la Cultura. We are excited to feature the work of Juan Miguel Ramos.

Media Arts: Graphic Artist, Media/Visual Communications, New Media/Technology; Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms; Performing Arts: Band, Musician; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Illustrator, Mixed Media Artist, Muralist, Painter, Photographer

Throughout the course of my art career, I have been interested in the juxtaposition of modes of representation. What does the viewer think is more real, engaging or important; the supposedly objective machine-generated image or the subjective hand-drawn portraits? These combinations, of photos of places around San Antonio and freehand portraits of locals, collectively provide a kind of civic portrait. Is it the people that make the place or the place that makes the people? I, originally, made the first Secret City suite in 1999 as a body of work that I used to apply to grad school. The comic book style, photo-based Sharpie drawings included text that, in part, questioned the lack of representation of Mexican-Americans in mainstream media at the time. I make socio-political artwork incorporating elements from various graphic and photographic styles. Much of my work focuses on telling the stories of Latinx populations in Texas and reflects on their roles within the region. -- Juan Ramos

We have some live music and refreshments.