Gallery:
Interpretation. Introspection. Appreciation.
The Carver Gallery, located in the Jo Long Theatre lobby, offers a diverse range of painting, sculpture, graphics, photography and the decorative arts by local and regional artists.
For booking inquiries, please email ernie.ramirez@sanantonio.gov
Hours: Monday – Friday, 8–4:30, and two hours preceding each Jo Long Theatre season performance. Free Admission.
Artists and schedule subject to change.
Veronica Ramirez Miller
August 21 – October 4, 2024
Characterized by her joyful use of color and sense of continual movement on the canvas, Veronica Ramirez Miller is a contemporary artist. Self-taught, she began painting folk art, but as her passion has grown, so has her portfolio to include expressionistic abstract art, mixed media, and collage. A lover of the beach, river, lake, pool, or in a pinch, hot tub, her natural inclination for water can be spotted in her flowy, often fluid-like compositions. Ramirez Miller enjoys working with acrylics, alcohol inks, markers, oil pastels, and more recently, colored pencils and watercolors. With a focused intent to reflect the ever presence of a Loving Creator, her work invites the viewer to recognize and dive into their unique connection with the divine.
Maverick Pascal & Mark Anthony Martinez present VOYAGER 3
October 10 – November 15, 2024
“VOYAGER 3: Artifacts of Humanity” is a curation dedicated to presenting contemporary artifacts, ideas, and visual cues to encapsulate what it means to be human from an artist’s perspective in the 21st century. Referencing NASA’s Voyager missions of the 1970s, curators Mark Anthony Martinez and Maverick Pascal introduce artifacts to help extraterrestrial civilizations contextualize our species and offer humans a deeper self-understanding. The show parallels the golden records on the original Voyager probes with the art displayed in the Carver gallery. VOYAGER 3 envisions what a contemporary probe might contain if artists defined “human” in the 21st century. If launched, these artifacts could drift through space for billions of years, long after humanity and Earth are gone.
Tiffany Glass
November 20, 2024 – January 3, 2025
Painting and doodling morphed into a Fine Art degree from the University of South Florida, for Tiffany Glass, combined with a stint at the Academy of Art University. Glass is a visual artist with a perpetual interest in self-identity and the human capacity to navigate it. Currently living in San Antonio, she shares extremely personal perspectives on very specific questions – Who am I and who are we?
John Coleman & Anthony Edwards
January 9 – February 14, 2025
Inspired by fellow African American artist Robert Blake’s portraiture and a desire to tell African American history, John Coleman evolved his work into its current medium, acrylic on canvas portraiture of life in African American society. Coleman sees art as a “marker,” giving audiences of different ages the opportunity to be transported to a certain moment in time. Although his artistic style has transformed throughout the years, his passion for art remains.
Being defined as an artist is still difficult for the self-taught Anthony C. Edwards, more than three decades after he began painting at age 41 – even though his work has been sold in galleries.
The majority of Edwards’ paintings were created after attending an exhibition at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia in the early 1980’s. This visit gave Edwards a profound understanding of the importance of African American Art.
San Antonio Ethnic Art Society (SAEAS) Women’s Exhibition
February 20 – March 28, 2025
“Far More Precious than Jewels”, curated by Theresa Newsome and Nina McGrath, is an exhibition featuring women and nonbinary members of the San Antonio Ethnic Art Society. This opportunity invites this collective of members to explore themes of connection, community, and both physical and emotional touch. This exhibition seeks to highlight the rich, diverse, and multifaceted ways in which women and womyn of color build, nurture, and sustain connections within their communities and beyond. The mission of San Antonio Ethnic Art Society (SAEAS) is to continually seek avenues and venues to promote an appreciation of African-American visual arts.
Claudette Hopkins
April 3 – May 9, 2025
The application of movement, both physical and implied, best describe Claudette Hopkins’ work. She uses her realistic approach to art to bring life to the beautiful and strong Black women she has known throughout her life and in her artistic visions. She is a realistic portrait artist who views her work as a history with no time, geographic or language barriers. Hopkins’ work is known by its distinct sensitivity to humanist expressions and reality which adds substance to the magic of her imagery. Hopkins began her creative career in set and costume design for the Miss Black San Antonio Pageant and local dance groups, before transitioning to working as a portrait artist.
Raul Rene Gonzalez
May 15 – June 20, 2025
Award-winning and published San Antonio-based artist Raul Rene Gonzalez will exhibit his new series of paintings and drawings, which focus on fatherhood, family, and work. His new portrait series “More Than A Few Good Men” features fathers from throughout his community network. Additionally, Gonzalez continues his interest in themes of work and labor in mixed-media drawings. Gonzalez has been featured nationally and locally in New American Paintings Issue 162 and The Oxford American, to name a few. In the summer of 2015, Gonzalez curated two group exhibitions at the Carver, however this is his first solo exhibition in the gallery.
Hoi Ellis
June 26 – August 8, 2025
A self-taught, sustainable assemblage artist that mines, repurposes & redefines unconventional, quotidian materials from the urban wasteland, Hoi Ellis fuses resources together in unexpected combinations to create poetic, abstract sculptural portraits of our society. Utilizing simple woodworking practices, light engineering and basic artistic techniques, Ellis produces small, subtle pieces that don’t overtly express meaning or have a fixed purpose or intent. Drawing inspiration from his not so complicated past, factious present, and anticipated future, sustainability, craft JOY and ethical art futurism lie at the heart of all Ellis’ work.
