Tina Fuentes (artist) explained

Tina Fuentes
Birth Date:1949
Birth Place:San Angelo, Texas
Nationality:American
Education:Tamarind Institute
Alma Mater:North Texas State University

Tina Fuentes (born 1949) is an American artist known for her aggressive, bold contemporary paintings.[1] She is Latina and lives and works in West Texas. She is currently a professor in the School of Art at Texas Tech University where she was the creator of the annual undergraduate show.[2] Her art studio is in Lubbock, Texas. Fuentes was named one of the top 100 most influential people in Lubbock, Texas in 2008.[3] Fuentes helped organize first annual Dia de los Muertos procession in Lubbock in the late 1990s.[4]

Early life and education

Fuentes was born in San Angelo, Texas. She was raised in Odessa, Texas.[5] She began her study of art at Odessa College. She received her BFA and MFA at North Texas State University.[6] During her time in New Mexico, Fuentes attended and trained at the Tamarind Institute.[7] Fuentes designed her own home, basing it on native adobe architecture.

Career and Art

Fuentes taught art in Albuquerque, New Mexico for about 15 years.[8] Over the years, she has taught in Texas Public Schools, the Waco Art Center and at the University of Albuquerque and the University of New Mexico.[9] Fuentes now resides in Lubbock, TX and works at Texas Tech University's School of Art as a professor of painting in the studio art department.[10]

Since 2014, Fuentes has been collaborating with Eric Bruning, an associate professor of atmospheric science at Texas Tech, on a five-year interdisciplinary initiative on severe weather funded by a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.[11] The collaboration resulted in two large exhibitions in late 2017, Marcando el relampago at the Museum of Texas Tech University and Nubes tan negras at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts.[12]

For many years, Fuentes limited her palette to black and white. Her art, over a 30-year period, has explored the boundaries of both abstract and representational art.[13] Deconstructing everyday objects has also become an important part of her work.[14] Fuentes herself describes her work as "non-objective or abstract," but also as "biographies and self-portraits." She sees her art as revealing who she is and how she has developed and grown as a person.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hopper, Kippra D. . Art of West Texas Women: A Celebration . Churchill . Laurie J. . . 2010 . 9780896726697 . Lubbock, Texas . 2–11 . en . The Art of Tina Fuentes . 456729362 . https://archive.org/details/artofwesttexaswo00hopp/page/2 . Internet Archive.
  2. Web site: Tina Fuentes (MFA) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160630083419/http://www.depts.ttu.edu/art/soa/nav/faculty/faculty/Fuentes,%20Tina/fuentes.php . 30 June 2016 . 10 March 2015 . Texas Tech University School of Art.
  3. News: 9 March 2008 . The City's Most Influential People . . dead . 10 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150304203414/http://lubbockonline.com/stories/030908/loc_255257382.shtml#.VP-B6OFcosI . 4 March 2015.
  4. News: Humphries . Toshia . 29 October 2009 . Day of the Dead: Annual Dia de los Muertos Procession Returns this Weekend . . dead . 10 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160916191041/http://lubbockonline.com/stories/102909/fea_510437846.shtml#.V9xDs3bP32d . 16 September 2016.
  5. Web site: Fuentes . Tina . Tina Fuentes Biography and Artist Statement . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220516034003/http://www.tinafuentes.com/about.html . 16 May 2022 . 10 March 2015 . Tina Fuentes.
  6. Web site: Biography [of Tina Fuentes] ]. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061250/http://www.lewallencontemporary.com/bio.php?artistId=1020 . 4 March 2016 . 10 March 2015 . LewAllen Galleries.
  7. Web site: Tina Fuentes - La Fruita de mi Vida, 2009 . live . https://archive.today/20150311051155/http://serieproject.org/product/tina-fuentes/ . 11 March 2015 . 10 March 2015 . Serie Project.
  8. News: Roach . Colleen . 26 November 2006 . Adobe, Art and Space Merge When Painter Designs Her Home . . dead . 10 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160830051108/http://lubbockonline.com/stories/112606/ent_112606038.shtml#.V8UVb3bP32d . 30 August 2016.
  9. News: 8 August 2013 . Casper's NIC hosts Frutas de mi vida . . live . subscription . 7 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231208022540/http://trib.com/weekender/art/casper-s-nic-hosts-frutas-de-mi-vida/article_c3678f92-d6c9-54e2-8e99-2eccb6fe38d2.html . 8 December 2023.
  10. Web site: Tina Fuentes - M.F.A., University of North Texas - Professor Emerita, Painting . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210617172906/https://www.depts.ttu.edu/art/About/faculty/Tfuentes.php . 17 June 2021 . 24 March 2018 . . en-us.
  11. Web site: Post . Sally Logue . Spring 2017 . Abstract Art Meets Atmospheric Science . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230723150832/https://www.depts.ttu.edu/research/discoveries/posts/Spring-2017/art-atmospheric-science.php . 23 July 2023 . 24 March 2018 . . en-us.
  12. Web site: Dean . Hannah . 13 December 2017 . Tina Fuentes at LHUCA and Texas Tech . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230723150836/http://glasstire.com/2017/12/13/tina-fuentes-at-lhuca-and-texas-tech/ . 23 July 2023 . 2018-03-24 . Glasstire . en-US.
  13. Web site: Maetros Tejanos Honors Tina Fuentes. 1 September 2009. 10 March 2015. Art News DFW Archive.
  14. News: Goddard . Dan R. . 25 February 2014 . Creative, Experimental and Traditional Talent at 'Texas Draws III' . . live . 29 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210622150926/http://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/creative-experimental-and-traditional-talent-at-texas-draws-iii/Content?oid=2250593 . 22 June 2021.

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