Jerry E. Smith, Esther Ritz and Sergio A. Delgado
MAY 16 – JUNE 20, 2009
HALEY-HENMAN Gallery, 2335 Hardwick Street, Dallas, Texas 75208
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 2009, 7-10 pm
DALLAS, Texas (April 27, 2009)—Haley-Henman Gallery presents three distinctive artists who provocatively engage the viewer. Smith, Ritz and Delgado have separate, distinctive styles with the commonality of their work being the ability to engage the viewer with symbol, color, words and composition. The visual process of discovery is the focus of this exhibition at Haley-Henman. Jerry E. Smith is a painter. For this exhibit, Haley-Henman has selected some of his larger works that also have three-dimensional sculptural elements. Esther Ritz is also a painter who uses mixed media elements. The gallery will be showcasing her newest paintings on canvas and a special collection of paintings on paper. Sergio A. Delgado is a photographer whose self-portraiture captures his performance of suicidal rituals, entitled, “Kill Yourself Now, Heal Yourself Now”. Five other works will show his range of subject matter.
Jerry E. Smith is Professor of Painting and Art Appreciation at Collin College, Plano. A Fellow of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, he recently was named as a Finalist for the Hunting Prize for 2009, the largest monetary art prize in the world. Esther Ritz is an emerging artist, who was recently recognized with a top prize for her work, It’s Not Easy Being Red” at the Texas Visual Art Association’s Citation 2008 Exhibition. Sergio A. Delgado is also an emerging artist whose main goal is to reach the viewer and bridge a connection to his work. In his words, “ I affirm life and believe that each of us has been given gifts in our capacity to love, learn, grow, to choose how to respond to life…”
Smith, Ritz and Delgado indeed have special gifts in the way they make us think about ourselves in the context of our private world, and how we live in our society, and contribute to our culture for the next generations.
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