WHY ARE YOU NOT GIVING UP? BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE WHAT IS MY THRESHOLD!
William Hanhausen
Successful creators should be weighed on their own merits.
Successful creators should be weighed on their own merits. Despite their variances in values and ways, these artists constantly collaborate to reach equality. In today’s art world, there is no such thing as fairness! When one side gets what they want exactly, the other can’t complain. Nothing happens until the artist passes the threshold, where the works cease to be political and mediocre!
With a distinctive approach to leadership, three Latino artists: Gabriela, Alessandra and Verny, are captivating the collectors’ attention.
Wassily Kandinsky said, “Abstract means to separate something from something else.” Alessandra and Verny examine their expressive potential to create striking compositions with bold strokes in an “Outstanding Magical Figurative World.” While Gabriela, in a passionate way as an artist herself, alludes to the patron’s attention to the artists she represents with creative skills, evoking an instinctive emotional reaction.
Gabriela Monterroso (Guatemalan-American) / Gallerist
A unique curator and imaginary artist turned gallerist. She has built a unique space and a strong reputation as a maverick for emerging artists in the Houston art scene. Her strategic vision is sought-after by some of the most esteemed collectors in the region, with a reputation for showing works of merit.
“I get my inspiration from teachers, curators and fellow artists involved in the process to make sure Monterroso Gallery could show and represent excellent. I have two main goals. The first one is to provide a great space for artists to show their artwork proudly. Most artists are thrilled their pieces could be part of a more in-depth cultural conversation, and Monterroso Gallery provides not only the physical space to achieve that but a virtual connection to showcase just their art. The second is to help collectors adjust their perspectives, focus on the local talent, and become part of the network that supports artists who’s work they get to know and admire.”
Alessandra Albin (Mexican-American) / Sculptor
She is a fantastic figurative sculptor. Her work is the intersection where sensuality, mysticism, and excitement mingled in one glimpse of the human body, allowing the viewer’s imagination to fly. Her vocation can be summarized by not being a career but a decision to listen to her deepest self to become an artist. She considers the relationship between gesture and language nonverbal communication.
“It’s a fragment. I don’t want complete pieces; I don’t like them. I have to leave things to the imagination and leave space so you can put your stuff in it. You don’t see the complete piece, but you complete it, not me. So, that is my fragment and your fragment. If we connect, that’s it. The magic is done.”
Verny Sanchez (Venezuelan, Spanish-American) / Multimedia
He is a master of applying the interplay between abstraction and figuration closely. The term abstract does not attempt to portray reality. His object of worship, the “human figurative rhetoric”; his aim, “minimalism”; and “abstraction,” his tool.
“As a Latino artist, he believes all obstacles are in the same Latinos mind. There is a wrong preconception of the excessive defense of the race, a pattern of ego that incites the same Latinos to react to something that provokes us to believe that we are much better than others. When in reality, it is not a competitive system, but an act of symbolic integration.”
These artists keep us guessing who gives us more to see, a rare example of perseverance and conviction. One that is not only entitled to admiration and respect but one that should serve as inspiration for how to cope without sociopolitical misfeeds and “stupid terminologies” against unfairness. These are Latinos suitable to break through several more thresholds.