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El Paso Herald-Post, Thursday, May 28, 1992


Art of San Antonio, El Paso come together

 The Juntos Art Association has collected artwork for an exhibit that shows similarities and differences in Chicano art. 
 "Igual Pero Diferente (Equal But Different)" contains works by El Paso and San Antonio artists done in various media and styles that present ideas of similar cultures in two different cities. 
 The exhibt was on display at the Jansen-Perez Gallery in San Antonio and will open in El Paso with a reception from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Chamizal National Memorial gallery. 
 There will also be a breakfast discussion of the exhibit at 9 a.m. Sunday at Freddy's Cafe, 3027 Alameda Ave.
 "Igual Pero Diferente," which was [[Picture "In the Arts"]] created in conjunction with the 20th Annual National Association for Chicano Studies Conference, was curated by Kevin Donovan, curator of the El Paso Museum of Art, and Felipe Reyes, an artist and instructor at San Antonio College. 
 Gaspar Enriquez, one of the featured artists, entered two dimensional, foamboard cutouts that examine several generations of Chicana attitudes, from the pachucas of the 1930s and 1940s to modern-day cholas. 
 One of the cholas and a few cholos, their male counterparts, were part of the "Capirotada: Eight El Paso Artists" exhibit at the El Paso Museum of Art last summer. The cutouts are part of a series Enriquez is creating. 
 At the time, he said that while some may instantly think of gangs when they hear cholas and pachucas, that isn't necessarily the case. 
 "It's really a style of life, a style of dress,' he said last July. "A lof of people, when they hear the word, think, 'I bet it's gangs.' But it doesn't always mean that, because there are different kinds of gangs."
 Speaking last week about the Chamizal exhibit, Enriquez said there are some similarities between works by El Paso artists and those created in San Antonio, but there is a distinct difference in style. 
 "The artists from El Paso have closer ties to Mexico," Enriquez said. "The San Antonio artists try to re-establish their roots. Ours are sometimes taken for granted; we use themes of our culture automatically whereas they search for themselves."
 Other artists from El Paso featured in the exhibit include Luis A. Jimenez Jr., Celia Muñoz, Willie Varela and Anna Ruth Jaquez. 
 The San Antonio artists are Mel Casas, Diana Cardenas, Rolando Briseno, Kathy Vargas, Cesar Martinez, Christina Quiroz, Jose Luis Rivera, Quintin Gonzalez and Sofia Gonzalez-Perez. 
 For more information, call 851-3302.