Nicola Parente's first group museum exhibition opens at UTSA Art Gallery in San Antonio Texas on JUNE 3 to JULY 2, 2009

TWO LARGE PAINTINGS BY ARTIST NICOLA PARENTE WERE SELECTED BY CURATOR WADE WILSON AS A PART OF THIS EXHIBITION. PARENTE WILL BE PRESENT ON JULY 3rd FOR THE OPENING RECEPTION. This exhibition is free and open to the public.

San Antonio: Dr. Scott Sherer, director of the University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery (Main (1604) Campus) is pleased to announce a special exhibition, Transparent-Translucent, curated by Houston-based, art historianand critic, Wade Wilson. The exhibit opens with a reception for the artists from 6-8 pm, Wednesday, June 3, 2009 and will remain on view through July 2, 2009. Tranparent/Translucent includes works by artists Anila Quayyum Agha, Lucinda Cobley, Michael Crowder, Danielle Frankenthal, Meredith² Butch²Jack, Yoko Motomiya, McKay Otto, NICOLA PARENTE, Gordon Terry and Joan
Winter.

Working from places which reflect both literal and philosophical elements of the transparent and/or translucent, the artists in the exhibit,Transparent-Translucent remind us that things are not always as they appear and we cannot always see through them.² American playwright Lillian Hellman wrote in the Prologue to her memoirs, Pentimento, ³Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens, it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman¹s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter ³repented,² changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again. The paint has aged now and I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now. The exhibit incites us to look carefully at what it is we are seeing and what we "think" we are seeing. So much of our vision falls between the two. Things which we deem transparent may in fact become more illusory or translucent.

The exhibit focuses on the myriad interpretations of exactly what it means to express a vision which engages either the physical and/or metaphoric aspects of that which is transparent and/or translucent.

Curator Wade Wilson has curated and co-curated more than 200 exhibitions over the past 25 years and has published more than 300 essay s and reviews since 1983. Wilson is president and owner of Wade Wilson Art, a contemporary art gallery in Houston.

W H E N: The exhibition will run from June 3-July 2, 2009.

The gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 11-2, and by appointment. The
exhibition is free and open to the public.

OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, June 3, 6:00-8:00 pm. UTSA Art Gallery, Main
Campus. Free parking is available in Lot 8 during the opening reception.

W H E R E: UTSA Art Gallery, Arts Building, UTSA Main Campus, One UTSA Circle,
San Antonio, TX 78249

DIRECTIONS: The UTSA Art Gallery is located in the Arts Building on UTSA¹s
Main (1604) campus. From I-10, take Exit #557 to UTSA Blvd. At the second traffic light, turn right onto James Bauerle Blvd. Turn left onto O'Neil Ford Ave., and then make an immediate right into Lot 8. The Arts Building will be on your right at the top of the walkway to the center of campus.