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artist Jesse Mireles featured in NHAA show ¡Expresionismo! in Portsmouth NH

Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 11 AM through Sun, Apr 2, 2023, 5 PM

The New Hampshire Art Association will feature the work of artist, Jesse Mireles in a show titled "¡Expresionismo!" at its Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth, NH. The exhibit runs from February 22 through April 2, 2023. The art opening will take place on March 3 from 5-8 pm

Mireles, a new resident of Salisbury, MA, moved from Ohio in mid-August 2022. He is a painter, printmaker, and award-winning graphic designer. He was born in Mexico but grew up in Toledo, Ohio, studying art and graphic design in high school and painting, graphics, and printmaking at the University of Toledo.

Mireles describes himself as an abstract expressionist. "I view my art as a mission to awaken repressed passions and emotions," he says. "My work is an ongoing experiment with paint to generate a visual euphoria with every new execution. In my life, I have found precious few abstract expressionist works by fellow Mexican-born artists," says Mireles. "I have worked to change that reality." 

¡Expresionismo! will feature three modes of art: paintings, prints, and collages. The primary section will feature paintings ranging from 5 1/2" × 5 1/2" to 4 ft x 8 ft, all in mixed media on paper, canvas, and panel. All the paintings in this section will be non-figurative experiments with paint applied with brushes, scrapers, and other tools.

The second section will be a series of framed giclée prints digitized from hand-drawn sketches, colorized on a computer, and printed with archival quality inks on fine paper. Finally, the third section will be three collages on paper and canvas. The prints and the collages will be representational but abstract.

Jesse Mireles was awarded a D. Pratt Framer Artist Opportunity Grant, which helps artists cover the costs of solo or artist-curated exhibitions. He sincerely thanks D. Pratt Framer for sponsoring this grant for the first time and helping to make artist opportunities more accessible.

The NHAA Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery is located at 136 State Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801. It is open Tuesday through Thursday from 11 am - 5 pm, Friday and Saturday from 11 am - 6 pm, and Sunday from 12 pm - 5 pm. For more information about ¡Expresionismo! Contact the New Hampshire Art Association at 603.431.4230.

“red tide” wins the BankGloucester award for contemporary art at the RAA&M National Show 2023

A framed painting titled “Red Tide” by artist, Jesse Mireles won the Gloucester Award for Contemporary Art at the RAA&M National Gala & Awards Reception, Saturday, September 30. The painting will be on exhibit at the The Rockport Art Association and Museum’ s National Show now through November 10. 

The RAA&M National 2023 is a juried exhibition for artists from across the United States to exhibit artwork crafted in a wide and diverse range of media (drawing, mixed media, collage, photography, painting, digital art and sculpture) at the prestigious Rockport Art Association & Museum in Rockport, Massachusetts. Nearly 700 works of art were submitted in this national competition.

The award was presented at the Gala & Awards Reception on Saturday, September 30, 2023.

Each entrant was allowed one work of art to be accepted into the exhibit. Artists were allowed to submit up to four works to be juried. Red Tide was submitted in as contemporary art. 

2024 exhibit, Toledo Museum of Art, collectors gallery

Fourteen paintings by Jesse Mireles are on exhibit for sale at the Toledo Museum of Art at the collectors gallery through Spring 2024. The museum store is located in the Libbey Court (upper level of the main building) and is open during museum hours. Visitors can purchase art in this collection from the Museum gift store or online at https://www.tmastore.org/painting.html

Toledo Museum of Art is located: 2445 Monroe Street Toledo, OH 43620

419.255.8000

“water, an homage”, spring 2022 exhibit opens in downtown toledo

”Water, An Homage," an exhibit of abstract paintings, prints, and collages by Toledo area artist Jesse Mireles is currently showing at the Gallery on Six in downtown Toledo. The exhibit is open to the public Mondays through Saturdays, 8 a.m. through 6 p.m. Mireles will also schedule private Sunday viewings by request.

“Water, an Homage” features some of Mireles' newest works of art. "The subjects of flora and fauna in my paintings were all, in some way inspired by that most precious life source, water," said Mireles. "Of all the planets in our solar system, Earth is the only one that has water on its surface, the essential element which makes life as we know it, possible," he stated

According to Mireles, the exhibit will be on view through Spring, 2022. Unfortunately, because of the threat of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, Mireles has chosen not to schedule an opening event. However, he may host a closing ceremony if COVID infections lessen significantly by the closing of the exhibit. 

Gallery on Six is located at:            425 Jefferson Street                    Toledo OH 43604

419.349.1525