The Butterfly Case
Artist Talk with Bernardo Vallarino
Thursday, December 15, 2022
6-7:30pm
Please join Love Texas Art on Thursday, December 15th from 6-7:30pm for the artist talk with Bernardo Vallarino as he discusses his solo exhibition The Butterfly Case. The talk will begin at 6:15pm, with a question-and-answer session after the talk. Space is limited, please RSVP via the Eventbrite link. A bar with beverages and a special festive drink will be available for purchase.
About The Butterfly Case
Love Texas Art is honored to present The Butterfly Case, artwork by award winning artist Bernardo Vallarino. The Butterfly Case is a series of mixed media sculptures, installations, and other interdisciplinary artworks merging religious elements with components of entomological displays. True to Vallarino’s previous social commentary work, this immersive multi-media solo exhibition touches on themes of apathy, racism, and classicism involving groups like minorities, migrants, and the houseless through ornate church-like displays. By using beautiful pinned dead butterflies as a vehicle for introspection, Vallarino asks visitors to consider the value of those living and reflect on how we each treat all humans.
About Bernardo Vallarino
Bernardo Vallarino is a Colombian-American mixed-media sculptor and installation artist interested in geopolitical issues of violence and human suffering. His works reflect his observations on the hypocrisy he perceives existing between the rhetoric of human life and the violent behavior of humanity. With his artworks, Vallarino strives to engage his audience visually but also morally and philosophically, finding inspiration in history, the media, his personal experiences, and his lifelong interest in insects and entomology. Vallarino, a NALAC (National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures) fellow, graduated with a BFA in sculpture from Texas Christian University, an MFA in the same field from Texas Woman’s University, and is the current coordinator of the Fort Worth Art Collective and an artist in residence at Love Texas Art. He has exhibited widely at galleries and nonprofit spaces in Texas, Oklahoma, York, England, and Barcelona Spain. Vallarino received the 2020 SMU’s Moss/Chumley North Texas Artist Award from the Meadow’s Museum of Art and has displayed artwork at the Amarillo Museum of Art, Arlington Museum of Art, and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
Parking
Parking is available free on the street after 6pm downtown. Sundance Square garages are also free after 6pm, for more information on where to located a Sundance Square garage please visit the Sundance Square parking website: https://sundancesquare.com/parking/