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Staff Profile Name: Gina Mar nez Posi on: Art & Framing Consultant—Boerne, Texas Summary: I graduated from AEW College of Photography and Louisiana State University with degrees in photography and communica ons, respec vely. My photography has been in several Louisiana galleries including The Baton Rouge Gallery, The Shaw Center for the Arts and the Louisiana Ar st Alliance, and at the Movements Gallery and the Monarch Events Center in Aus n, Texas. I started ginimar ni photography in 2007 and worked extensively in Central and South America for 5 years. I published a book called “The Kuna Yala” based on my stay with the Guna Yala tribe of Panama. I have worked as an assistant to the painter Charles Barbier on several murals in the city of Baton Rouge. I curated pop up shows of Louisiana ar sts at various venues in Louisiana and Texas. Favorite Song: This is always changing! “Sixteen or Less” Calexico and Iron and Wine, “It’s Raining” Irma Thomas, “Cupid” Sam Cook Favorite Ar st: Monet, Van Gogh, Charles Barbier, David Nino, Gauguin, Edward Cur s, Deborah Hay, Yoshitomo Nara Favorite Art World Memory: (I have many): Having Sandy Skoglund favorably review my por olio while she was a guest instructor at my university is a fond art world memory. She liked my piece: “Jungle Room” from my Graceland por olio and said she had seen images of this many mes but not from my perspec ve. When I lived in Berlin, the curtains in my bedroom were made from the fabric that Christo used to wrap the Reichstag building. Going to see the “Silence” exhibit at the Menil Collec on in 2012, and pain ng murals with one of my favorite living ar sts, Charles Barbier, for home town improvement projects are other favorite art memories. Par cipa ng in paint night, a weekly event for many years in my life where my friends and I would gather together one night a week to paint, cook, play music and create, is also a cherished art memory. Goals: : My goal is also to promote the ar sts of JR Mooney Galleries of Fine Art to the best of my abili es. My personal goals are to keep producing work: to write, photograph, dance and paint; to perform more aerial silks rou nes, publish my book and show more of my work.
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Reviews/ Commentary/ Exhibi ons/ News/ Events, Winter 2015