Ruiz-Healy Art

Ruiz-Healy Art San Antonio and New York will be closed on ​​​​​​​​​Thursday, July 4 and Friday, July 5, 2024. Both galleries will be open by appointment. ​​​​​​​​​
New York City
Contemporary Bodegones
On view until September 6, 2024

San Antonio
Madre Tierra
On view until September 7, 2024

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Thank you to the Brooklyn Rail and Rebecca Schiffman for highlighting "Whatacup" by gallery artist Chuck Ramirez. "Whatacup" is on view as part of Day Jobs. This exhibition features pieces reflecting the day jobs of their participating artists, highlighting careers that inspire them even outside of the studio. "Day Jobs" is curated by Veronica Roberts, John and Jill Freidenrich Director, Cantor Arts Center, with Jorge Sibaja, curatorial assistant, Cantor. The exhibition was organized by the Blanton Museum of Art and has been expanded at the Cantor. Visit Day Jobs at the Cantor Arts Center At Stanford University until July 21, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Happy birthday to gallery artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk.

Thank you to hyperallergic and Taliesin Thomas for including “Vorágine: Yente and Cecilia Biagini” in “15 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This Summer”. “Vorágine: Yente and Cecilia Biagini” is onview at the Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery at Skidmore College through September 22, 2024. Congratulations to gallery artist Cecilia Biagini on this incredible exhibition!

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

“For me, the role of a museum is that it needs to matter to people. It needs to be more than just a place that stores beautiful objects,” Stulen said in a phone interview. “I don’t want to be a museum [where] people go on their fourth grade field trip and never go back. …. It really should be a place that is part of your everyday life.” That could look like coming in to see an exhibit, but also stopping by to have lunch, or bringing your family to experience a festival on the weekend, Stulen said.

Scott Stulen will be missed at the Philbrook Museum.

Seattle Art Museum’s new CEO has a surprising background SAM has chosen an innovator known for expanding audiences with fun-forward programming — and co-creating the first Internet Cat Video Film Festival.

Thank you Artforum for including our New York City galleries current exhibition “Contemporary Bodegones”, a group exhibition of works by Pedro Diego Alvarado, Yvette Mayorga, Eva Marengo Sanchez, Vick Quezada, and Chuck Ramírez will be on view until September 6, 2024.​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​
For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Congratulations to Einar de la Torre and Jamex De La Torre for this well deserved article. Rene Barilleaux for his vision of bringing their amazing show to the McNay Art Museum I am honored to have two of their works at Ruiz-Healy Art San Antonio, stop by.

De la Torre Brothers Are Making the Most of Maximalism Working and living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste.

On view at our New York City Gallery, “Contemporary Bodegones”, a group exhibition of works by Pedro Diego Alvarado, Yvette Mayorga, Eva Marengo Sanchez, Vick Quezada, and Chuck Ramírez will be on view until September 6, 2024.

Thank you to Daniel Terna Photography for these wonderful installation images.

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Ruiz-Healy Art San Antonio and New York will be closed on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​New York City
"Contemporary Bodegones" on view until September 6, 2024

San Antonio: "Madre Tierra" on view until September 7, 2024

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Congratulations to San Antonio based artist Jenelle Esparza on being selected as a 2024 Latinx Artist Fellow. The gallery was fortunate to have featured her work in 2021 as part of “ Plurality of Isolations”.

Administered by the US Latinx Art Forum in collaboration with the New York Foundation for the Arts and supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation, this award is the first significant prize of its kind and celebrates the plurality and diversity of Latinx artists and aesthetics.

Janelle Esparza, Through the Threshold, 2020, Bronze cast spurs attached to brass tubes, 29x 17 x 2.5 in., 73.7 x 43.2x 6.3cm

EINAR AND JAMEX DE LA TORRE (Einar, b. 1963 and Jamex, b. 1960) are collaborating artists and brothers who live and work in México and California. The duo express their clever take on the Latino experience and American culture through humor combined with critical earnestness. They use a chameleonic-kaleidoscopic process to create art that explodes into a myriad of layered images and meanings to convey concepts such as identity, mestizaje, Latinidad, hybridity, globalization, and biculturalism.

Both brothers received Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees from California State University, Long Beach. Their work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including the nationally touring “Collidoscope: de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective” and is in many private and public collections, including The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum.

“Madre Tierra” is on view at our San Antonio gallery and includes works by Nate Cassie, Alejandro Diaz, Andrés Ferrandis, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Matt Kleberg, Leigh Anne Lester, Constance Lowe, Katie Pell, Chuck Ramirez, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Frank Romero, Maria Rosa Astorga, Eric Santoscoy-McKillip, Ethel Shipton, and Einar and Jamex de la Torre.​​​​​​​​ The exhibition will be on view until September 7, 2024.

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Einar and Jamex de la Torre, The Chosen Tribe - Pendejo y Ca**ón, 2010, Signed and dated on bottom edge of right panel, Blown glass, mixed media sculpture, 32 × 20 × 5 in., 81.3 × 50.8 × 12.7 cm

Chuck Ramirez’s Words Series explores the relationship between text and its impact on the viewer’s interpretation of an image. In addition to photography, Ramirez had a strong background in graphic design and was involved with contemporary poetry and music. While the physical aspects of the image remain unchanged by the bold yellow lettering, the viewer subconsciously interprets the relationship between the word and the scenery and, thus, the impact of human cognition on personifying or relating to the world around us.

“Madre Tierra” is on view at our San Antonio gallery and includes works by Nate Cassie, Alejandro Diaz, Andrés Ferrandis, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Matt Kleberg, Leigh Anne Lester, Constance Lowe, Katie Pell, Chuck Ramirez, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Frank Romero, Maria Rosa Astorga, Eric Santoscoy-McKillip, Ethel Shipton, and Einar and Jamex de la Torre.​​​​​​​​ The exhibition will be on view until September 7, 2024.

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Chuck Ramirez, Words: Airshow, 2004, 2017, Estate blind stamp on back of artwork label, Pigment ink on watercolor paper, 15.5 x 21 in., 39.4 x 53.3 cm, edition of 10

Happy birthday to gallery artists Cecilia Biagini (Born June 1) and Cesar A. Martinez (June 4)

Inspired by traditions of South American abstraction, Cecilia Biagini makes paintings, mobiles, photograms, and reliefs that flow seamlessly from medium to medium. Utilizing a bold sense of color, line, depth, and abstraction, the varied works find commonalities in their composition and playfulness. Evoking ideas of physics, the geometric shapes in her work are arranged in a manner suggesting movement and animation.

Martínez’s work reflects a broad knowledge of the Western art canon and finds inspiration from color-field paintings, Mexican architecture, and photography. Martínez is drawn to how Mexican American family photographs served as intimate, personal portraits when only white individuals or groups were iconized in paintings. Martínez offsets his melancholic subjects against a vibrant palette of clothes in tension against abstract backgrounds. The individuals in Martínez’s works are merely hybrids derived and elaborated from many photographs found in high school yearbooks, obituaries, newspapers, and other public sources.

Opening tomorrow, Vorágine: Yente and Cecilia Biagini, at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. Opening Reception and Performance, Saturday, June 1, 4:00 PM. Congratulations to Yente and gallery artist Cecilia Biagini.

Vorágine: Yente and Cecilia Biagini brings together modern and contemporary abstract artworks by Yente (1905–1990), a pioneering figure in abstraction from Argentina, and Cecilia Biagini (b. 1967), an artist of Argentine origin based in Brooklyn. The exhibition will present a selection of works by Yente from the 1930s through the 1960s, in which the artist experimented freely with the visual languages of the international avant-gardes by working across mediums, figuration, and abstraction. Biagini’s similarly omnivorous approach to artmaking has led her to embrace installation, sculpture, painting, and music, and how rehearsed improvisation leads to expressive interplay between form and color. Together, the two artists’ works narrate an often-overlooked history of women abstractionists in the Americas. The exhibition’s title comes from Yente’s artist book Vorágine, meaning “whirlwind” in Spanish, and serves as a vivid metaphor for the strong creative force and dynamic nature of Yente and Biagini’s approaches to artmaking.

The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College is at 815 N. Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York. For more information, call 518-580-8080 or visit tang.skidmore.edu.

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Ruiz-Healy Art New York City will be closed on Friday, May 24, 2024. We will resume regular business on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​New York City : "Contemporary Bodegones" on view until September 6, 2024

San Antonio: "Madre Tierra" Opening on May 29, 2024.

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Ruiz-Healy Art cordially invites you to an opening night reception in honor of "Madre Tierra" on Wednesday, May 29 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. "Madre Tierra" will be on view at our San Antonio gallery until September 7th, 2024.​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​
Landscape paintings, a genre that has spanned cultures and centuries, have evolved significantly since their peak during the European Renaissance. Initially serving as a backdrop to narrative subjects, these paintings showcased an artist’s technical skill in portraying the detailed beauty of nature. Over time, the genre transitioned from literal, naturalistic observations to personifying the Earth and its elements, effectively becoming the subjects of works like the ones featured in our exhibition. The visage of Madre Tierra, present among the depictions of flowers, trees, mountains, valleys, and other natural views, invites the audience to consider their relationship with the planet and forge a deeper connection.​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​
For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

"Madre Tierra" will open at our San Antonio on May 29 with an opening reception from 6:00-8:00 PM with works by Nate Cassie, Alejandro Diaz, Andrés Ferrandis, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Matt Kleberg, Leigh Anne Lester, Constance Lowe, Katie Pell, Chuck Ramirez, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Frank Romero, Maria Rosa Astorga, Eric Santoscoy-McKillip, Ethel Shipton, and Einar and Jamex de la Torre.​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​
In his latest work, Eric Santoscoy-Mckillip contemplates memory, place, and identity in a telescopic way. Santoscoy-Mckillip's stuccoed pieces are clusters of signifiers, such as a serape, a rock formation, or abstractions of NASA space photographs that inspire him. The colors in the work reflect those ubiquitous on the Southern border: a saddle blanket, neon flake flowers, and the garden's soil he remembers from his grandmother's house. Santoscoy-Mckillip includes a black sun and moon, referencing the terracotta ones he had in his childhood bedroom but also as a reference to the daily value that both of those celestial objects hold over our lives.​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​
Eric Santoscoy-McKillip, Between my feet and the stars, 2024, Stucco and acrylic on wood, 35 x 32 x 1.5 in., 88.9 x 81.3 x 3.8 cm

Looking forward to featuring Graciela Iturbide’s White Fence series next year.

Graciela Iturbide’s Luminous Portrait of Chicano Los Angeles — Blind Magazine The legendary Mexican photographer crafts a layered portrait of love, joy, and survival.

Save the date for "Madre Tierra" opening at our San Antonio gallery on May 29 with an opening reception from 6:00-8:00 PM. "Madre Tierra", a group exhibition of works by Nate Cassie, Alejandro Diaz, Andrés Ferrandis, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Matt Kleberg, Leigh Anne Lester, Constance Lowe, Katie Pell, Chuck Ramirez, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Frank Romero, Maria Rosa Astorga, Eric Santoscoy-McKillip, Ethel Shipton, and Einar and Jamex de la Torre and will be on view until September 7th, 2024. ​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​
From representational paintings, surrealistic works on paper, photographs, silkscreens, and intimate mixed-media abstractions, "Madre Tierra" will take viewers on a journey through visual styles and thematic experiences of the landscape. The featured artists in the exhibition, each with their unique visual language, capture the essence of their environment, inviting the viewer to explore tonality and emotion through varying layers of elevation, capturing liminality, and abstracting the terrain.​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​
For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Happy birthday to gallery artist Graciela Iturbide. Graciela Iturbide’s work is a mixture of history, lyricism, and portraiture. The subtle yet powerful photographs​​​​​​​​​blend the essence of the cultures of her native Mexico with her own personal vision and love of poetry. Her​​​​​​​​​photographs combine the story of a culture in transition with issues of identity, diversity, and selfhood. Iturbide
has studied the indigenous society of Mexico in different states offering photos of sublime magic realism.
Iturbide explores ways to articulate the “voice” of Mexico with an intricate interweaving of histories and
practices.

“My pictures are a sort of travel diary... As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new
things... And in the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.” – Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide, Cholas II White Fence, East L.A., 1986, Signed by the artist in ink on recto, Silver Gelatin Print, 20 x 16 in., 50.8 x 40.6 cm

Congratulations to gallery artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk whose work “Break Like a Girl” and “Ache Like a Woman” were acquired by the Cc Foundation Shanghai.

Both works are inspired by Dutch Delft blue ceramic vases. A garniture of three, five or seven pieces is called a kaststel, designed for display atop a kast—a type of high cupboard—or on a mantelpiece. In imitation of imported Chinese porcelain that was much admired in the Netherlands, the tin-glazed Delft earthenware was painted in blue against a white ground. But instead of rendering traditional decorative patterns, the artist gives her porcelain vases new meanings by adding motifs such as uterus and queen bee to tease out a feminist narrative. Artificial hair is tied to the vases that sit on the clear acrylic shelves high above. When looking up from beneath, the viewer is surprised to discover the images on the bottoms of the jars: viginas and cotton gussets wedged on panties that cover the crotch.

The World Made Wondrous: The Dutch Collector’s Cabinet And The Politics Of Possession, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 17, 2023 - March 3, 2024, photo © Museum Associates/ LACMA.

Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Break Like a Girl, 2021, porcelain, synthetic hair, clear acrylic shelf, wall brackets, each pot: 12 x 9 x 9 in. (30.48 x 22.86 x 22.86 cm), shelf: 36 x 11 1/2 in. (91.44 x 29.21 cm)

Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Ache Like a Woman, 2021, porcelain, synthetic hair, clear acrylic shelf, wall brackets, each pot: 12 x 9 x 9 in. (30.48 x 22.86 x 22.86 cm), shelf: 36 x 11 1/2 in. (36 x 11 1/2 in.)

Thank you ArtDaily -The First Art Newspaper on the Net for the shout-out to our exhibition NYC gallery. Vick Quezada

Ruiz Healy Art in New York exhibits 'Contemporary Bodegones' a href= http://www.ruizhealyart.com target= _blank Ruiz-Healy Art /a is pleased to present Contemporary Bodegones, a group exhibition of works by

Working within the borders of geometry, Cecilia Biagini explores the properties and relations between abstraction and construction, appearance and disappearance, lines and surfaces, as well as form and structure. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“Conjuring the ludic with pure geometry in space, my work at times refers and alludes to musical and rhythmic waves, pseudo-scientific models/diagrams and is always anchored in the purity of the medium itself.” – Cecilia Biagini

This work is on view at our San Antonio gallery as part of "The Pastoral and the Celestial" on view until March 20. For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Cecilia Biagini, Small Rock, 2018, Signed, titled and dated on the reverse, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 11 in., 30.5 x 27.9 cm

We look forward to welcoming you to the McNay Print Fair this weekend. This will be the galleries 17th year participating. Visit the link in our bio for more information or email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣

Location
McNay Art Museum
6000 N New Braunfels Ave, San Antonio, TX 78209

VIP Preview
Friday, May 3, 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Public Hours
Saturday, May 4, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday, May 5, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Join us this weekend for the McNay Print Fair. This will be the galleries 17th year participating. Visit the link in our bio for more information or email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Location
McNay Art Museum
6000 N New Braunfels Ave, San Antonio, TX 78209

VIP Preview
Friday, May 3, 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Public Hours
Saturday, May 4, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday, May 5, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Ethel Shipton, Guidance or Warning Series, 2024, Signed and dated bottom right, Archival print on Hahnemuhle paper, 20 x 30 in., 50.8 x 76.2 cm, Edition of 20

Featuring tropical fruit native to Mexico and Central America, Alvarado illuminates the Zapote. A green-skinned fruit with black flesh, whose name originates from the Nahuatl word tzapotl, meaning a soft, sweet fruit. Alvarado presents them elegantly placing them on and around a fine silver bowl. The rich, dark background causes the food to be the focal point of the work, highlighting the uniqueness of each piece of produce. The artist sees his work as a way to celebrate Mexico’s native flora and fauna, solidifying the Zapote’s place in history as a fruit that signifies a reverence for Mesoamerican foods and their role in indigenous and national culture.​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​
This work will be part of our upcoming exhibition "Contemporary Bodegones" opening at our New York City gallery on May 9 with a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. ​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​
For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email [email protected] or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219.⁣​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​
Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera, Reflejos de Zapotes, 2024, Signed and dated lower right, Oil on linen, 40.16 x 43.75 in., 102 x 118 cm