Jose-Maria Cundin: PANOPTICON

Opening Reception  Join us for the Public Opening Reception Friday,  November 10th, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. in the Gibson-Barham Gallery. PANOPTICON is a mini retrospective curated to showcase works by the New Orleans based artist from the past 25 years. The artist will be in attendance to give a Gallery talk about his work and available afterwards to sign exhibit catalogs and copies of Art + Design Magazine featuring his work. About the artist. Born in Bilbao, Basque Country, (Spain) in 1938, José-María Cundín's professional trajectory expands more than a half-century. Esteemed as an outstanding advocate of the historical Avant Garde in his native Basque Country, his first one-man show was in Bogota, Colombia, where he lived during the '5Os and created wide-ranging projects. Cundín established residence in the United States in 1958 in New York. Before settling in New Orleans in 1964, where he is regarded with renown, he worked in Paris and Bruges, Belgium. In the '70's he spent long periods working and teaching in Mexico. Cundin's paintings and sculptures are in numerous Corporate and Private collections in Europe (including Spain, France, England, Germany and Belgium) and the Americas (the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia) and his works hang in these Institutions: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao; ARTIUM, (Contemporary Art Museum), Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain; El Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia; New Orleans Museum of Art; and Johnson & Wales University. Presently he resides and works in Folsom, Louisiana.