{"id":2223,"date":"2019-04-11T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2019-04-09T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T22:27:10","slug":"alumni-gets-creative-with-dark-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/alumni-gets-creative-with-dark-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni gets creative with dark artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2223\" class=\"elementor elementor-2223\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4545e5e4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4545e5e4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7718216c\" data-id=\"7718216c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78efe074 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"78efe074\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p>Forget dungeons and dragons, Texas A&amp;M Unive<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">rsity-Kingsville has Dungeons &amp; Daemo<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">ns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Dungeons &amp; Daemons is a unique art exhibit created by alumni Dr. Norberto Gomez Jr. and is on view from April 3 to May 16 at the Ben Bailey art Gallery.\u00a0<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2227 alignright\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"http:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/RIPpainting-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Gomez is an associate professor and chair of the department of visual and performing arts at Montgomery College (MC). At MC, Gomez teaches graphic design, typography, digital tools and illustration and is highly regarded among his colleagues and students.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe tries a bunch of different things like music, publishing cartoons, working with painting and drawings, and digital aspects. It\u2019s really interesting that he has his fingers in a lot of pies, but his voice is always authentically his own,\u201d Katherine Knight, assistant professor of painting at MC, said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Dungeons &amp; Daemons exhibit consists of 18 pieces. Every painting is made with acrylic while one is made with both acrylic and graphite. Each piece has vibrant colors with darker aspects creeping beneath the surface.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2228 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Studentpainting-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the ancient Greeks, daemons were spirit guides and forces of nature. They existed between the mortal and deity. When I was younger, I feared being possessed by the much different Christian demons and being watched by spying specters in some kind of limbo with the old curandero acting as a medium. Now I feel nepantla: \u2018a psychological, liminal space between the way things had been and an unknown future\u2026a space in-between, the locus and sign of transition,\u2019 where \u2018realities clash, authority figures of the various groups demand contradictory commitments\u2019 (Anzaldua). This is also a sign of rock-n-roll and black magic. I\u2019ve always been comfortable with being uncomfortable. I am a new-wave daemon\u2014but I\u2019m also possessed and seek guides and maps. I want to constantly turn them upside down and sometimes I get lost. Here\u2014in the chasms\u2014are various daemons\/demons, journeys and struggles through dungeons, borders, and walls, representing the imposing structures, rules and language of psychosocial-political reality colliding with the sublime, mysterious terror of nature,\u201d Gomez said in his artist statement.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, April 3, from 4 to 7 p.m. TAMUK held a reception celebrating Gomez\u2019s return to South Texas and the newest art exhibit. Faculty, staff and students gathered around and viewed the creative, ominous and mystic paintings.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not what I was expecting and I think that makes it even better. My favorite is RIP. It reminds me of a dark comedy. It\u2019s nice to see someone represent the darkness. Most of the time we see artists show Latin culture, which is amazing, but it\u2019s nice to have something quite different and disturbing,\u201d Michael Carranza, a mechanical engineering major, said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget dungeons and dragons, Texas A&amp;M University-Kingsville has Dungeons &amp; Daemons. 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