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Alex

please feed the ducks at woodlawn park, especially the skinny one

About Me

I'm a painter, illustrator and art teacher in San Antonio, Tx. I specialize in colorful, textured, folk stylized portraits in oils on oak but also make stylized ink drawings and I really love to teach art.

my website... Gomez Art and Illustration

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My Interests

Art, Illustration, PAINTING, drawing, art education, looking at art, talking about art, your art, comic books, live painting, collaborating with other artists, underground and indie comixs, graphic novels, zines, lowbrow art, bad art, good art, prison art, folk art, children's books, chicano art, native south american art, native american art, indigenous art, hand-lettering, carnival/circus culture and art, tattoo flash, painting on unusual surfaces, self-taught artists, oil painting, reading, teaching art, community art programs, going to museums/galleries, art openings/events, doodling, life drawing, D.I.Y. ethic, bookstores, running esp. on trails, nature, snorkeling, canoeing, yoga, hiking, laughing, hablando Espanol, Anthropology, world cultures, Taoism, traveling, sleeping and dreaming,

I'd like to meet:

painters, illustrators, artists of any kind, art directors, concept artists, art teachers, art students, art historians, art lovers, performance artists, children's book authors, cartoonists, crafters, animators, comic book enthusiasts, creatives, doodlers, collaborators, philosophers... and you can meet me at this art opening, I'll be showing some paintings at The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center on Guadalupe St. in San Antonio. Or here for this live painting event and you can watch me paint a 24"x24" painting before your very eyes!!!

Music:

Minor Threat, Modest Mouse, The Vandals, Rilo Kiley, NOFX, Dead Kennedys, Manu Chao, Mano Negra, Dead Milkmen, Leonard Cohen, MANA, Misfits, Bowie, Marley, The Band, Chambao, Daniel Johnston, Frank Zappa, Tool, NTM, Nellie McKay, New York Dolls, The Stooges, The Cramps, Camera Obscura, The Decemberists, Linda Ronstadt, Lambchop, Ani DiFranco, Deathcab for Cutie, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Magnetic Fields, Neko Case, Buzzcocks, Iggy Pop, Tom Petty, Le Tigre, Oingo Boingo, Queens of the Stone Age, Chicks on Speed, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Debussy, P.J. Harvey, Melanie, Joni Mitchell, Black Flag, Taj Mahal, Perfect Circle, Mr. Plow, Control Machete, Cafe Tacuba, Rollins Band, Morrissey, The Smiths, Danzig, Circle Jerks, Thrill Kill Cult, Big Boys, MDC, Social Distortion, Jullieta Venegas, Violent Femmes, No Use For a Name, Mason Jennings, Scotty and the Metaphysics, Rachmaninoff, Lila Downs, The Specials,

Movies:

I like wierd... The City of Lost Children, MirrorMask, Brazil, Barfly, True Romance, Slam, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, How to Draw a Bunny, American Beauty, Mystery Science Theater 3000, any Woody Allen or Mel Brooks, Fubar, I love Japanese films like Akira Kurusawas Ikiru but also contemporary stuff like Oldboy, films from Spain like Boca a Boca, Talk to Her, any Almodovar, Mexico: Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Russia, Norway, Hungary: Control, Brazil: City of God, Art Documentaries, any and all David Lynch esp. Twin Peaks -Fire Walk with Me, Blue Velvet, Sid and Nancy, The Brothers Quay, RIZE, Strange Brew, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Prestige, Sherman's March, Grizzlyman, The Triplets of Belleville, documentaries, movies about painters,

Television:

I need funny... The Daily Show, Adult Swim esp. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Futurama, Los Simpsons, Absolutely Fabulous, Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain,

Books:

I love to read... Apocalypse Culture, Kahlil Gibrans The Prophet, Saul Williams, Catcher in the Rye, Burroughs, H. S. Thompson, Lord of the Flies, A Confederacy of Dunces, My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood, artists biographies, The Martian Chronicles, I Never Promised you a Rose Garden, Cut, The Teachings of Don Juan, Bhagavad-Gita, So Far From God, Child of God, Cosmic Consciousness, Stranger on Earth, Juxtapoz Magazine, Post Office, Factotum, Ham on Rye, Pulp, The Days Run Away like Wild Horses over the Hills, anything by Bukowski, Sula, The Bluest Eye, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, anything by Cormac McCarthy or Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, Love and Rockets, Dori Stories, Last Gasp Comics and Fantagraphics, The Archies, Into the Wild, Calvin and Hobbes, The Tao of Teaching,

Heroes:

Let's change that to favorite painters/illustrators: Marc Burckhardt, Grandma Moses, Frida Kahlo, Lucien Freud, Mark Ryden, Vermeer, Albrect Durer, Jan van Eyck and his brother Hubert, The Clayton Brothers, Joe Coleman, Artemisia Gentileschi, Henry Darger, Egon Schiele, Rubens, Dali, Hiernoymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Vincent, all the Wyeths, Daniel Johnston, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, Robert Crumb, Dave McKean, Dori Seda, Spain Rodriguez, Daniel Clowes, Frank Miller, Terry LaBan, Eve Gilbert, Joe Sacco, Jessica Abel,

My Blog

ArtCrimes: Graffiti Flesh Show (Live Painting)!!!

Last Friday, May 25th, was the ArtCrimes: Graffiti Flesh Show and it was AMAZING! MC Router was there and she was really cool, a great performer. Nerdcore is awesome! It was really incredible, Chuck ...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 28 May 2007 08:58:00 PST

Art Crimes This Friday In San Antonio

Some killer artists such as El Fantastico Alfredo Lopez Jr. and me are going to be painting live at this event! There are going to be some good bands performing too. I have a fun idea of what I want t...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:04:00 PST

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Exhibit

Two of my newest paintings are going to be on display at the Centro Cultural Aztlanin San Antonio, Texas. The opening recption is this coming Friday. So if you are in the area and want to see some of ...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:07:00 PST

Happy New Year Card

Here's the New Year card that I made, I like it just as an ink drawing but I've been playing around with digital stuff lately so... I am painting a version of it with my wacom but I'm unsure of how...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:27:00 PST

Christmas Card

Here are some different versions of my christmas card, I'ld really appreciate it if people would let me know which one is better.Here is the originalHere is the color versionanother version...
Posted by Alex on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:37:00 PST

Ink Portrait of Comedian Cesar Cervantes

Hello Everbody! This very talentd comedian Cesar Cervantes asked me to draw him so I did. He's REALLY funny, I saw him with the Latino Comedy Tour in San Antonio. Here are three versions, any feedback...
Posted by Alex on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:08:00 PST

NEW painting of Benito Juarez

I just finished this a couple days ago. It's a portrait of Benito Juarez on oak in oils. I think he had a very interesting life. He is the only full-blooded Native American to serve as President of Me...
Posted by Alex on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:41:00 PST

Juxtapoz

one of my illustrations in Juxtapoz Reader's ArtAlejandra Gomez in Juxtapoz Reader Art
Posted by Alex on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:59:00 PST

gomez-art.net

My website...Gomez Art and Illustration
Posted by Alex on Tue, 02 May 2006 11:21:00 PST