The San Diego Art Prize is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s prize: Gabriel Boils, Francisco Eme, and Marisol Rendón. This year’s exhibition, Stochastic Elegies: Life, Nature & Transcendence features artwork which offers up poetic explorations of universal themes surrounding our lived experience.
The San Diego Art Prize is predicated on the idea that the visual arts are a necessary and rewarding ingredient of any world-class city, and was conceived to promote and encourage dialogue, reflection, and social interaction around San Diego’s artistic and cultural life. This annual award honors artistic expression with a cash prize, exhibition opportunities, and spotlights artists in the San Diego to Ensenada, Mexico region whose outstanding achievements in the field of visual arts merit recognition.
Recipients were nominated by sixteen local arts professionals and selected by an esteemed panel of curators from respected institutions: Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Director of The Bass Museum of Art (Miami), Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Lucia Sanroman, Director of the the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda (Mexico City) and Curator at Large for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco).
Curated by Lara Bullock, Ph.D. This exhibition was made possible by a collaboration between the San Diego History Center, The City of San Diego, Art Matters, and the San Diego Art Prize. The Visual Arts Program (VAP) demonstrates the library’s role as a cultural institution embracing a broad range of disciplines while assisting San Diego’s emerging, mid-career, and established artists achieve visible opportunities and receive wider local, regional, and national attention.
Opening reception:
6-8 p.m on Thursday, Oct. 24
San Diego History Center is donation-based.
About the artists
Gabriel Boils (b. 1974) is a Mexican visual artist and cultural agent living and working in Tijuana. He studied visual arts at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the National Autonomous University in Mexico City. His practice is focused in the fracture between image and support, between information and matter. In his work, contemporary art strategies, scientific methodologies and traditional art models and techniques merge, to explore the environmental and social fragmentation of the post-industrial world in which we live. He has been awarded acquisition prize at the 12th Biennial of Visual Arts of the Northwest and honorable mentions in the International Biennial of Banners 2006 and the IV Miradas Biennial. Gabriel Boils has exhibited his work in the United States, Latin America, and Europe and is part of the art collections of the Museums of Art of Sonora and Sinaloa, the FEMSA and CODET Foundations and the Tijuana Cultural Center.
Francisco Eme (b. 1981) CDMX – OAX, currently lives and works in San Diego, CA. Francisco is a music composer, and multimedia artist. He primarily works with sound, but diverse disciplines are integrated into his practice. His work has been presented in museums, galleries and concert halls nationally and internationally. As a member of musical projects Rabbitlight & Rio Goya, he has released collaborative albums, and also has solo projects in various genres, mainly electroacoustic, experimental, and electronic pop. Francisco is the Arts & Culture Director at Casa Familiar and Gallery Director at The FRONT Arte & Cultura, a trans-border art gallery in San Diego, US – Tijuana. His art practice is driven by a deep observation of the culture in which he lives, personal, social interactions, and everyday situations. He strives to start a conversation with the audience about our culture, our family, nature, memory, and other preoccupations of our time and place. Art, society, technology and science merge in his practice. His works come out in the shape of a music composition, multimedia installation, a photograph, but most importantly as ideas.
Marisol Rendón (b. 1975) Manizales, Colombia. She works as artist, designer and educator in San Diego. She received her MFA’s from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California in 2003. In addition to her creative practice, she works for the Chula Vista Community College District as a tenured professor and coordinator of Mixed MediaThree-Dimensional Design and Art program at Southwestern College. As an individual artist she has exhibited in France, Switzerland, Colombia, the United Kingdom and the United States. In California, she has exhibited with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the California Center for the Arts, Escondido and the Oceanside Museum of Art. She has also exhibited at and worked closely with the New Children’s Museum, San Diego in different programs and public outreach development. For several years Marisol has been part of a research group and professor for the master’s program Aesthetics and the Environment offered by Cauca University in Colombia and for 10 years she served as a member of the Port of San Diego Public Art Advisory Committee. Currently she is a member of the Board of Directors at the New Children’s Museum in San Diego.
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