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Ángel Santos Juárez

Master Potter and Gran Maestro de México, Ángel Santos Juárez, produces powerful, exquisite ceramics.  Santos is a renowned artist who lives in a community of talented alfareros including other world-famous ceramicists, Nicasio Pajarito, Salvador Vásquez Carmona and Florentino Jimon Barba.  While some Grandes Maestros of the ceramic form follow a more “naive” and traditional line of decoration, Ángel Santos seeks perfection in his burnished finishes and in his extremely sophisticated painting and decoration.  Señor Santos is also a community leader who formed the non-profit organization, Herencia Milenaria, a group of artisans who collectively outside of Mexico.  Angel Santos’ work can be found in major private collections, galleries and museums all over the world.  He has participated in numerous exhibitions and competitions in Mexico, the U.S., Canada, Taiwan, and China.  He is also a featured artist in the book “Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art,” which includes a distinctive group of artisans selected as the best of Mexico’s arte popular by Premio Fomento Cultural Banamex.

Salvador Vázquez Carmona & Arnulfo Vázquez

Salvador Vázquez Carmona is a master of bruñido (burnished) pottery painted with natural dyes. He is recognized as being one of the "best" ceramic artists in Tonalá, even among his peers. Younger potters whisper Señor Vázquez’s name with reverence. His elegant designs and traditional pottery forms are legendary.  Salvador has passed his love of clay and considerable skill as a ceramicist to his children and grandchildren.  His son, Arnulfo Vázquez, in particular, inherited Salvador’s gifts of imagination and skill. The family works to create pieces of art which pays homage to the genius of Salvador Vázquez.   Their work includes a variety of motifs including suns, moons, flowers, dense foliage, or pre-Hispanic designs. The most distinctive pieces include naguales, Tastoán dancers and doves.  Salvador Vázquez’s ceramics can be found in major museums and private collections all over the world.   His work has won a number of awards and recognition, including the designation of Grande Maestro de México.

Chad Buck

Constructivist painter Chad Buck explores the textural properties of various media.   His paintings and silverpoints embrace a powerful minimalist aesthetic that offer the viewer a transcendent experience.   Silverpoint is the art of drawing with a finely made stylus of pure silver that creates a very indelible line on a prepared surface.  The silver oxidizes into a handsome patina that traces the history of the line.
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Manuel Morales

Luis Manuel Morales Gamez is one of Mexico’s premier ceramic artists. Although Morales has achieved a worldwide audience, his roots are in Tzintzuntzan, the small mountain community of his birth near Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacán. His ceramics are rooted in Mexico’s pre-Hispanic heritage, in the complex and profound reflection of the natural world around him and in the day-to-day life of his home village.

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Jonathan Auch

Jonathan Auch is a photojournalist who divides his time between Latin America and New York City .  After studying illustration and photography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Auch recently worked with Magnum 7 photographer, James Nachtwey.  Auch shoots photographs first as a journalist and then as an artist, but his intent is primarily to bear witness to important events for the purpose of leaving enduring impressions of reality.  Auch does not explain his work; his stories on film, he believes, will fend for themselves.  He realizes, however, that there is a fine line between the perception of reality and the continuous evolution of truth.  Most of his work is black and white film shot with Leica or digital color shot with Cannon equipment.  As a master printer, he develops all of his own work.

E.B. Fladung III

Photographer E.B. Fladung III shoots brilliant Mexican landscapes.    Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Ed’s first education in photography came from his grandfather, a well-known Maryland naturalist and self-taught photographer who allowed Fladung to remain in his darkroom as long as he was attentive.  From this experience, the photographer developed a love for developing his own film, a process he engaged in for many years until the advent of the digital camera, which he now uses.   Fladung has studied with well-known Berkeley photography-educator Peter Pfersic and with large format landscape photographer, Tim Cooper.  Since 2003 Ed has lived in Mexico.  Ed’s work captures the visual allure of Mexico – it is rich in saturated pigment and vibrancy.

Elizabeth Fladung

Photographer, Elizabeth Fladung has a keen interest in story telling through visual mediums. She has been involved with film and photography from an early age. After attending California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, she spent eight years as a freelance art, documentary, and editorial photographer in New York City. For the last two years she has made Puerto Vallarta her home. She travels frequently for work and in her spare time documents life in Mexico. Always drawn to humans and their imprint on society, Elizabeth seeks to capture personalities and the subjects she is photographing.

Edmund Fladung

Edmund Fladung, a native of Philadelphia, now lives in Nayarit.   Edmund is a surfer, photographer, graphic designer and writer whose graphic eye informs his photography. His work occasionally revolves around typologies: bicycles, signs, VW bugs, flip-flops, close-up portraits and street scenes. There is often a humorous undercurrent in his photography. Edmund, who holds a BFA in graphic design from The California Institute of the Arts, considers his photographs to be personal – they are documents about his daily life and various travels.  Like many photographers, Edmund avoids explanations and burdening the viewer with his own emotional attachments.  The one unifying discipline in all of his visual and written work is to leave his viewers with a good story.