Oscar Aguilar Olea: La Esencia de Mujer

Join us for a festive celebration of our THREE new exhibitions:

The world premiere of: Modern Women | Modern Vision: Works from the Bank of America Collection
featuring leading female Modernist photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham and Margaret Bourke-White.

Featured image is by Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946) Revenge of the Goldfish, 1981, © Sandy Skoglund

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Oscar Aguilar Olea: La Esencia de la Mujer and The Artist Studio: explore the female form with this treasured figurative painter, and visit a recreated artist studio featuring the paints, materials and techniques deployed by the artist.

Wines by Gen7 Wines and light bites.
$20 ticket for non-members; free for members, available on Eventbrite

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Explore the female form with Mexican-born, Napa Valley painter and sculptor Oscar Aguilar Olea. In a companion exhibition: The Artist’s Studio, visit a recreated artist studio to learn the techniques and materials used in the artistic process. Art instruction including life drawing and painting classes will be available.

Admission to the Spotlight and History Galleries is included with regular museum admission.

Oscar Aguilar Olea is an expressionist figurative painter, sculptor, and print maker from Guanajuato, Mexico. His signature techniques include using different types of egg tempera paints, painting on oversized burlap canvas, and using paints and charcoals made by the artist from organic materials grown here in the Napa Valley

Artist’s Statement: In the mid-1970’s, a group of twenty student artists from the school of Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City—of which I was a member—decided to take their art to the streets. We gave ourselves a name: SUMA, and began to use the fences of Mexico City as our canvas. As a result of the attention that our murals brought us, we were invited into local galleries and museums, as well as the first biennial for young artists in Paris, France. SUMA caught the attention of the public and the interest of artists like Rufino Tamayo, Juan Jose Arreola and others, and was given a place in the current evolution of Mexican Art. After five years, the group dissolved as each member decided to focus on their individual careers.

Following my involvement with SUMA, I dedicated several years to research techniques that include egg tempera al fresco, oils, watercolors, etchings, drawings, woodcutting, and sculpting. Now, as artist and a teacher, I continue to apply and research many of these techniques; I consider them part of the foundation of my artistic education.

Learn more about Oscar at https://oscareggtempera.com