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The Sunday Express-News, San Antonio, June 30, 1991  Page 3-H

World taking notice of Hispanic artists

by Dan R. Goddard
Express-News Arts Writer

For decades, San Antonio's Hispanic artists fought political battles just to have their work shown in local museums and galleries.  Today, Hispanic art - locally and nationally - is hotter than a jalapeno.

The city's Hispanic artists are riding the crest of a wave of interest in Latin American art that has been building since the 1970s.  Major museums, galleries and collectors are all taking notice.

After years of rejection, critical and commercial success has to be the best revenge.

During Contemporary Art Month in July, three exhibits - at the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Jansen-Perez Gallery and the Mexican Cultural Institute - will focus on local Hispanic artists and the influence of Chicano art on Mexican art.

Consider Adan Hernandez, 39, who recently

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Jose Luis Rivera's mesquite wood 'El Cucaracha' is part of the 'Tejanos' exhibit at UTSA

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had two works, an oil and a pastel study, purchased by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.  His dreamy, neon-lit, romantic, night-time paintings of life on the West Side, "The Night Series," also have attracted the attention of Hollywood.

'Tejanos'

Hernandez's paintings are featured in "Tejanos," along with 17 other local Hispanic artists, which will open 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the UTSA Teaching Art Gallery.  The exhibit toured last fall to the Alvar y Carmen T. Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City and was organized by Jansen-Perez.

Hernandez is currently creating paintings for a movie, tentatively titled "Blood In...Blood Out," being made by producer-director Taylor Hackford and now being filmed in the barrio of East Los Angeles.  The story is about three cousins, including one who is an artist.  The movie character's paintings will be by Hernandez.

Hackford is already planning the sequel.  And Hernandez has painted photorealistic paintings for the first movie, which will change into his more mature expressive style as the movie character ages in the sequel. →