VISUAL ART SUR’s Launch Exhibition Took Place Last Night

October 6, 2011

After an intense week of activities, VISUAL ART SUR culiminated our launch celebrations with the exclusive exhibition of works by VAS artists in Greenwich, to benefit the Neighbor Link Stamford. The VAS nonprofit organization, Embracing Art Volunteer Team, made a donation of an artwork to be auction, to fund NLS social programs. Embracing Art founders were present that night during the art show.

Solange Salazar, Margaret Salazar and Ángel Mieres spent the launch week giving hands-on art workshops in the local community. First they were working with kids at the Neighbor Links Stamford Immigrant Center to encourage them to use art as an expression of their thoughts and feelings.

After that, the artists spent a day at the King Low Heywood Thomas in Stanford, to carry out a workshop organized in conjunction with the art department of King Low Heywood Thomas in Stamford, and the Embracing Art volunteer Team founders, Roy Alejandro, Juan Andrés  and Juan Vicente Ellis, where the artists guided of group of students to create free individual pieces based on the abstract impressionist technique of ‘drip painting” best known by the work of American Master painter Jackson Pollock.

The final event was a Latin American open-house exhibition denominated LATINTEMPO is taking place in Greenwich. A portion of the proceeds of LATINTEMPO will benefit NLS.

Among the many pieces in the exhibit were works by renowned Venezuelan artists Solange Salazar, Angel Mieres and Margaret Salazar, along with the colorful and polychromatic works of Onofre Frias and works by Nela Ochoa, Enrique Lobo, Bruno Garcia and Jose Vivenes, among others.

Here are just some of the works on show. More photos to come!

Onofre Frías

Margaret Salazar

Mildred Veitia