{"id":432827,"date":"2026-09-11T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432827\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T13:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:36:20","slug":"dock-space-gallery-presents-a-group-photography-exhibition-that-is-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432827\/","title":{"rendered":"Dock Space Gallery presents a group photography exhibition that is ‘Close to Home’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just south of San Antonio\u2019s Southtown, along South Flores Street near Lone Star Boulevard, is Dock Space Gallery<\/a>. The gallery is part of the Lone Star Art District.<\/p>\n

Dock Space owner and Artist Bill Fitzgibbons<\/a> holds Second Saturday artwalk events every month, showing both new and established artists on his sprawling arts facility. During September, that event is known as “Fotoseptiembre” and is a group photography exhibition. Their work explores Mexican American life in San Antonio. <\/p>\n

This month’s presentation is called “Close to Home” and features the work of 15 artists. The exhibit is curated by Ricardo Romo. <\/p>\n

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Ricardo Romo<\/a>, who was president of UTSA from 1999 to 2017, has curated the exhibit. <\/p>\n

His own work will also be exhibited in another gallery and includes photos he himself has taken for the last half-century. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a retrospective show on my part in the 50 years of photography,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Ricardo Romo<\/p>\n

Romo has a documentarian focus on the pictures he takes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m a documentary photographer. I’m not a fine arts photographer. We got some fine arts photographers there,\u201d Romo said. That \u2018there\u2019 is right next door and those 14 photographers\u2019 works show a wide variety of styles and content. <\/p>\n

Romo says the sum of the photographs in the two galleries illustrates that San Antonio has a deep well of photographic talent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have 40 pieces in one big room, and then next door, there’ll be equal amount, about 40-45 pieces,\u201d Romo said. \u201cI will say that there are three artists in the show who have been collected by the Smithsonian (Museum in Washington DC)<\/p>\n

Romo said each of these photographers has an individual style, and each focuses on what interests them for their photography. <\/p>\n

\u201cAl Rendon<\/a> has got some really great lowrider cars. He’s been doing some stuff with lowriders recently. (He) had a big show in Odessa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Romo wants San Antonio to become known far and wide as a city of art. He said encouraging young artists is one way to do that. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s some young photographers in the show that had not shown much. I wanted to encourage these young people in their 20s to also be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can see their works for free at the Dock Space Gallery this Saturday, September 12, from 4 -9 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-432827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}