left: Garden of the Sun, 2007, ink & gouache on paper, 11x15"
center: Stream, 2007, mixed media on paper, 12x9"
right: Seven, 2007, encaustic on clay board, 30x30"
"Roberto Munguia likes to work with a number of different media. And at each instance a very different aesthetic emerges. His ink drawings are composed of languorous calligraphic strokes and loosely balanced solid forms, sometimes additionally punctuated with flowering washes of diluted ink. He achieves a nice balance between his flowering forms and lines and the white of the paper. These works reflect a quite and solid sensibility. Munguia's prints reveal pre-Columbian influences in their titles and Islamic influences in their mosaic-like composition. These works are as enchanting and mysterious as the creatures that inhabit them."
Suzanne Akhtar, 1999
Selected Exhibitions:
2009 The National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
2009 Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
2008 El Museo Vito Alessio Robles, Saltillo, Mexico
2008 Irving Art Center, Irving, TX
2003 Irving Art Center, Irving, TX
2002 The Polk Museum, Lakeland, FL
2000 Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX
1999 Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1997 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX