From the KPBS weekend arts preview: Bread and Salt is open late with several receptions on Saturday, Aug. 12, during Barrio Art Crawl. In the main gallery is a new exhibit from Alejandro Zacarías' "Evocaciones II," featuring new works by the Tijuana-based sculptor. Zacarías is known for his assemblage work, including pieces that work with a lot of found and scavenged materials. —Julia Dixon Evans About the artist: Alexander Zacarias Soto was born in Guadalajara Jalisco and lives since 1970 in Tijuana, where he has developed his work. Self-taught visual artist who since the early 90's participates and organizes multidisciplinary art events, exhibitions and festivals. (Painting, installation, performance, video, photography and object art) Work for which he is considered one of the protagonists of the emergence of contemporary border art in Tijuana. His work is based on assembly, he has worked with techniques ranging from painting, recycling, intervention and installation of public and private space. His work has participated in more than forty exhibitions, biennials or group shows in Tijuana and in other cities in Mexico and the United States, places such as the Tijuana Cultural Center, the Rufino Tamayo Museum and the Tijuana-San Diego InSite 97 site-specific festival. He has a dozen individual exhibitions, he has been awarded the Scholarship for Creators with Career, awarded by the Institute of Culture of Baja California on a couple of occasions. “Alejandro Zacarías is part of the handful of artists who are identified as the representatives of urban aesthetics on the Mexico-United States border” -Heriberto Yepez Related links: Bread and Salt website | Instagram
