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GalvesTon Galleries

discover some of the best contemporary art galleries worth visiting
throughout Galveston and claim your own personal piece of paradise.

GalvesTon arTs cenTer rené Wiley Gallery
2127 Strand 2128 Postoffice
Galveston Arts Center (GAC) presents a solo exhibition by René Wiley Gallery is proud to be celebrating ten years in
Austin-based artist Brad Tucker opening Saturday, March 9, 2019, and they want to say thank you to Galveston island for
from 6pm to 9pm with an artist talk beginning at 6:30pm. all of your support and patronage. The well-known artists at
Tucker’s exhibition, Standard Tan, includes a collection of the Gallery will debut new work during the next ArtWalk on
wood, fabric, and painted sculptural objects that explore color, March 9. René Wiley’s exhibition includes new oil paintings of
texture, and language. Often mimicking tools and utilitarian local landscapes, seabirds, and historic buildings against bright,
objects, his work plays with the loose ends of craftsmanship at abstracted skies. Rachel Wiley-Janota’s new works include
the border between painting and sculpture. Tucker’s experience
as an artist, skateboarder, musician, and teacher reveals itself
in his work through the use of abstracted shapes, text, and
sound elements encountered in his daily life. This exhibition
will remain on view through June 2, 2019. Also on view in
the second-floor 1878 and Brown foundation Galleries, New
Orleans-based artist, musician, and puppeteer Miss Pussycat
presents an installation of her puppets and their worlds for
the exhibition The Puppet Worlds of Miss Pussycat. in GAC’s
second-floor vault, Miss Pussycat’s partner Quintron presents
one of his most notable inventions, the Drum Buddy. DRUM
BUDDY (Miss Pussycat Model) is a one of a kind version of
his light activated, analog synthesizer, installed to activate
the unique acoustics of one of GAC’s historic vaults. These
exhibitions will remain on view through April 21, 2019.
Open Tuesday-Saturday 11am-5pm, Sunday 12pm-5pm.
More details at 409.763.2403 or GalvestonArtsCenter.org.

GalvesTon arT leaGue
2117A Postoffice
“Whistle Blower” by Brad Tucker
Award-winning artist and Galveston island native Gay Paratore
is the featured artist at the Galveston Art League Gallery for
March. Paratore, a Galveston Art League member for 65-plus
years, paints in oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, and mixed-
media collage. She teaches with university of Texas Medical
Branch Osher Lifelong Learning institute (OLLi) in Galveston,
Butler Longhorn Museum in League City, her home/studio,
and Woodlawn Museum in Maine. Paratore enters about 25
competitions a year, including the Texas City Art festival and
Galveston Art League and National Society of Artists shows,
plus many national and international shows. She has won
close to 500 ribbons and awards, with her favorites being
Best of Show for National Watercolor Society, Galveston Art
League, National Society of Artists, and Watercolor Art Society
of houston; and third place, watercolor, Portrait Society of
America.
Open Thursday-Sunday 12pm-6pm. More details at “Blackhawk 24” by Gay Paratore
409.621.1008 or GalvestonArtLeague.com.

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