October 13, 2009

Contact:  Celeste De Luna

Gallery Director

(956) 882-7097

Email: gallery@utb.edu

The Art Gallery in the Rusteberg Building at UTB/TSC

Presents

“Unplugged: Gòmez on Paper”

4th Edition

·         Location: The Art Gallery in the Rusteberg Building at UTB/TSC

80 Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas 78520

·         Exhibition: Runs from October 19 to November 13 , 2009

·         Admission Fee: $1.00

·         Opening reception: Monday, October 19, 2009: 6:30PM

“As a person who has been painting for over thirty years, I have explored many ways by which one can apply paint on a support.  I have dealt with a vast amount of concepts and themes and still feel that I am barley scratching the surface as a painter’

Carlos G. Gómez

Born in Mexico D.F., Carlos G. Gómez found his first artistic expression in the “Tex – Mex” culture of the Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville where he was raised. “Brightly colored buildings and the surreal atmosphere of the Mexican border towns gave me the first appreciation of color, line, and the generalization that my chosen images would have to be bold and realistic," explains Gómez.  He obtained his B.F.A. at Pan American University and attended Washington State University for his M.F.A. in painting and drawing.  In the course of his studies he went, from an interest in Renaissance style art to a self ascribed “social-abstract-surrealism” and is currently exploring multi-technique painting and drawing.

           He has received positive critical reviews from the media where he has presented

exhibitions. He was included in Arizona State University Hispanic Research Center

publications; Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art Work: Artist, Works, and

Education and CHICANO ART FOR OUR MILLENIUM.