{"id":134293,"date":"2026-01-23T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/134293\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T00:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:16:09","slug":"alejandro-diazs-new-exhibition-rooms-and-places-embraces-imperfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/134293\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro Diaz’s new exhibition \u2018Rooms and Places\u2019 embraces imperfection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AlejandroAlejandro Diaz\u2019s \u201cRooms and Places\u201d is on display through Saturday, Feb. 28. Credit: Courtesy Image \/ Alejandro Diaz<\/p>\n

In the Western canon of painting, pentimento is an alteration deliberately left visible by the artist. <\/p>\n

Such marks exist with the intention of allowing viewers to see traces of the artist\u2019s hand \u2014 earlier brush strokes, color schemes, shifts in compositional elements \u2014 usually not visible in a finished work. <\/p>\n

Alejandro Diaz, founder of San Antonio art space Sala Diaz, was born in the Alamo City and now resides in New York. While much of his well-known work is graphic, bold and playful, celebrating the culture and humor of the
U.S.-Mexico border region, in recent years he\u2019s found his way back to painting. <\/p>\n

Diaz\u2019s exhibition \u201cRooms and Places,\u201d on display at San Antonio gallery Ruiz-Healy Art through Saturday, Feb. 28, embraces intuition and the conscious embrace of imperfection, allowing rare glimpses beneath the veneer of immaculate gesture. <\/p>\n

This two-part exhibition runs simultaneously in New York and San Antonio. <\/p>\n

Free, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and by appointment, Ruiz-Healy Art, 201-A E. Olmos Drive, (210) 804-2219, ruizhealyart.com.<\/p>\n

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