Art & Curator in Dialogue: i thought i saw you yesterday
Join artist Esteban Ismael Durán and curator hazel batrezchavez in conversation exploring memory, and ancestral knowledge in i thought i saw you yesterday
Sun Dec 6th 12:30-1:30pm
Wells Fargo Auditorium in the Roy E. Disney Performing Arts Center in the National Hispanic Cultural Center // 1701 4th St SW Albuquerque, NM 87102
About the artist: Esteban Ismael Durán, a self-taught artist, was born in 1955 and grew up in Albuquerque’s historic Old Town. His roots in that traditional community have always been important to him and helped him to shape his work. As a young man, he began his formal studies with artist Frank McCulloch. In 1993 he started incorporating traditional New Mexican tinwork into his paintings, studying this discipline with tinsmith Ted Arellanes. Esteban’s local work has included public art for the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County. He, along with his cousin PAZ, had the lead role in the 1995 creation of a series of tile murals along Fourth Street in Barelas, mentoring local youth to help design the murals based on Barelas’ history. Esteban began to work with recycled materials as he ventured into combining traditional tinwork with more contemporary media. For the past ten years, he has built the unique ability to blend contemporary and traditional media/design and the use of recycled materials.
