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ArtAmici
Pablo Taboada
Painting | Drawing | Sculpture | Photography
ArtAmici Fine Art Gallery not only hosts artwork created by artists from several countries, some of whom live and work in Austin, but it is also a community center where visual arts and musicians gather. It offers an opportunity for the local community to experience and participate in the arts. ArtAmici’s scheduled “Fall of 2006” events includes a benefit for a Zimbabwe relief organization, (October 14), a performance and art auction fund-raiser for Yellow Tape Construction Co. Dance Group, (November 11, and weekly (Th 6-8pm) drum circle sessions. Artamici Gallery is pleased to introduce new work by a contemporary pastel artist Joseph Malloy, (USA), pen and ink drawings by Mexican artist Gilberto Ramirez, the wonderful abstract-realist photography of Mendy Holiday, pencil drawings by prize winning caricaturist and artist Alonso Araya (Chile) and new work by Pablo Taboada.
78 San Marcos St | 457-0171 | artamici.com | pablotaboadastudio.com | artamici@yahoo.com
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Also Showing at ArtAmici
Spaceship and Spacedude, oil on board, 8" x 8.5"
Although I had drawn all my life, I didn't embrace my passion to paint
until 2001. I grew up in one of the countless suburbs of New Jersey
in between the Holland Tunnel and the Jersey Shore which spawned my love/obsession
with the ferris wheel, arcade games, funnel cake and all that the Boardwalk
had to offer. I studied behavioral neuroscience at Lehigh University
in Pennsylvania. After graduation, I worked my way out west to Seattle
after a brief stay in Boulder where I found people not afraid to speak
their minds, while I worked in a rat lab. In Seattle, I worked serving
the mentally ill and developmentally disabled population. From Seattle,
I was pulled to Austin to study Latin American sociology at the University
of Texas. I attained my Ph.D. in 2001 after conducting anthropological
fieldwork on human migration in Chiapas, Mexico in 1999. Although my
experience in Mexico was rich, I longed for artistic creativity. In
2002,
I quit my full-time job doing social scientific research and threw
myself into oil painting and now paint fervently. I have taken art classes
at
Laguna Gloria Art School, the Austin Fine Arts School and at the Art
Students League in Denver. I now realize that my time studying the
human psyche both psychologically and sociologically must have left its imprint
on my brain permanently...because I cannot seem to stray too far from
it in my painting.
You can find me at www.jenniferbalkan.net.
