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Blue Star art show overlooks local art

By Dan R. Goddard
Express-News Arts Writer

Curator Annette DiMeo Carlozzi's well-intentioned "Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas" at the chip Lone Star Artists, but for former Austin Museum director cast a mostly blind eye toward San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Lubbock.
An Extension of Carlozzi's book, "Fifty Texas Artists" the exhibit will open with a free public reception 6-8 p.m.  Friday at the Blue Star. She is director of the Aspen Art Museum, which organized this show.
Carlozzi selected only three artist from San Antonio, as compared to nearly 20 from Austin, 15 from Houston and 11 from Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Are we to believe that Austin is the state's most important art center, Houston is only slightly more active the DFW and San Antonio is only slightly less sleepy than Helotes, Crowley, Shepherd and Waco?
Hardly. And the isolated artists in the Coastal Bend, Lubbock and El Paso may be doing some of the best work in the state.
Perpetuating myths
In many ways, this exhibit only helps to perpetuate some of the old myths the Blue Star was organized to rebel against. Are San Antonio artists really all so bad?
Or does the city simply lack the system - the galleries, museums, curators, critics and art publications - that can identify the city's most talented artists and help them become know outside the region?
After all, the Blue Star had an excellent chance to supplement this show with an exhibit of the city's leading artists.  Calozzi even encouraged Contemporary Art for San Antonio to come up with additional show of local artists.  Although CASA has decided to stress more shows by San Antonio artists, beginning with Rolando Briseno, there wasn't time, money or manpower to put one together to round out "The Third Coast Review," said Jeffrey Moore, CASA President. 
Contemporary Art Month in July is designed to focus attention on new art, Moore added, and he's hoping this summer's event will help reinvigorate the local art community.  The Blue Start is still struggling financially, and has yet to come up

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