PEACE adds more auction items to ArteVida!

The live and silent auctions, opening at 6 and 7:30 PM, respectively, will hold a number of beautiful pieces of artwork and several great vacation packages.  Here are a few of the highlights:

Silent Auction

• One night at the beautiful Arroyos Verdes self-sustaining and ecologically aware resort and spa in Bucerias.
• Individual packages for a day of golf, Sunday brunch, or massage at the top-ten El Tigre golf course in Puerto Vallarta.
• Ten yoga classes at the Davanna yoga studio in Puerto Vallarta.
• Day pass and lunch for two at the Sea Breeze Beach Club at the St. Regis in Punta Mita (including a bottle of wine).
• Membership for two at the beautiful Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens.

Live Auction

•  Stay at the luxurious Four Seasons Punta Mita resort, just 45 minutes from Puerto Vallarta
•  Two night stay at historic Casa Sayula of Mexico Boutique Hotels in Sayula
• One night for eight at the striking Villa Mandarinas overlooking the site of the filming of the Night of the Iguana
• Two nights at the rustically stylish Hacienda el Carmen, 45 minutes from Guadalajara

Remember, the event will be held this Friday, March 30th at 6pm at Casa Corona in Centro. Tickets to Arte Vida are $750 pesos. All proceeds benefit PEACE Mexico. Tickets can be purchased at the PEACE Boutique (231 Lazaro Cardenas in Plaza Romy) or by contacting Gaby Roman of PEACE at gaby@peacemexico.org.

Xicotencatl Padilla: Revolutionary Expressionism

Xicotencatl Padilla was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He began his growth as an artist in Colima with Rafael Heredia, where he received honorable mention in the children’s painting competition. Because of his desire to improve, learn, and perfect his art, he studied at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City. Padilla, and his brother, Leonel, are creators in the revolutionary expressionism movement.

 

Internationally Renowned Artist, Vladamir Cora

Vladimir Cora was born in Nayarit in 1951. He is self-taught and was able to build a repuation as a formidable painter in his late teens. He knew he wanted to be a painter after seeing a print of Monet’s ‘Water Lilies” in his aunt’s pharmacy where he worked when he was thirteen. His father, a saddle maker and an avid follower of politics, named Cora after Vladimir Lenin.

Cora met Temayo, his mentor in 1978 and remained his student from then until Tamayo’s passing in 1991. In Mexico, Cora is a highly regarded established artist. He now lives and workes in California because of the large opportunities for exposure. He works in Santa Ana, where he is active in the Mexican community. PEACE is pleased to welcome the work of Vladimir Cora to ArteVida!

Luis Borsan: Color and Imagination

Luis Borsan was born in Guadalajara in 1966. He started drawing when we was 7 years old. At 18 he started painting in a factory in Tonala. There, he re-discovered his natural abilility and love of art. His favorite subject is animals; he has a vivid imagination and useses color to express his feelings. His first appearance on TV was when we was 24 years old. He has painted murals in hotles and schools and for movie sets. Now he has his own factory close to Puerto Vallart. Luis Borsan creates his own ceramic designs and then paints them by hand. He uses flat metal, shapes it and paints it to recreate tropical animals and other images. All of his designs are original and signed.

ArteVida: Creating PEACE through Art

Amigos! PEACE is excited to announce details on our upcoming ArteVida event in Puerto Vallarta on March 30^th. We have a fantastic lineup of artists, so please check out event details and artist bios below to see what we have in store for you. It is going to be a beautiful evening and we are excited to have the chance to share our work in Puerto Vallarta!

The event will be held Friday, March 30th at 6pm at  Casa Corona in Centro. Tickets to Arte Vida are $750 pesos. All proceeds benefit PEACE Mexico. Tickets can be purchased at the PEACE Boutique (231 Lazaro Cardenas in Plaza Romy) or by contacting Gaby Roman of PEACE at gaby@peacemexico.org.

ArteVida Event Details

The schedule for the evening of March 30th is below. If you are planning on coming and have not yet reserved your ticket, please contact gaby@peacemexico.org to do so. You simply need to send her a message with the number of guests and their full names. Tickets are going fast!

There are still a few more artists on board so stay tuned for their Bios.

Event Begins at 6:00pm

Silent Auction opens at 6:00pm

Live art installation begins at 6:15pm

Live Art Auction begins at 7:30pm

Live Art Auction ends at 8:15pm*

Suprise Entertainment begins at 8:15pm

Silent Auction closes at 9:00pm

Food and Beverages will be served all evening!

*All purchased art will be wrapped and can be taken the night of OR delivery can be arranged for a later date.

Page Railsback

Page Railsback is an experimental artist who paints and teaches in Puerto Vallarta and in Boston. A professional water colorist for 25 years, has changed her medium to include acrylics. Over the last several years, she has dedicated her talents to learning this new style, which includes landscapes, cityscapes and stills. Railsback is recognized for her years of large, water coloring paintings, plein-art, and larger landscapes.

Mara Diaz – EvolucionArt.

Mara Diaz EvolucionART ….  

It is a concept full of life, color, passion, joy and especially a lot of personality … Who told you your spaces cannot count as an amazing piece of art?  Each and every piece is unique. We want you to leave the boredom of regular life and buy what you love, for the space you love. Just as each of us as individuals are unique, so are the pieces of Mara Diaz Art! Converts a surfboard into something more like a table, a shelf in a rack or simply place it in your bedroom or living room and admire and let your friends enjoy it too. Let your environment have a soul! Mara Diaz is art that leaves you EvolucionART!

Mara Diaz Boutique is located at El Dorado Beach Restuarant in Old Town, Puerto Vallarta. She is a young up and coming artist in the Bay and we are proud to have her on board. She has been creating a little over a year now and we are very eager to see what she is bringing to the event – you do not want to miss this!

Jesse Izak: Inspired by Mexico

Jesse Izak visited Mexico for the first time at the age of eight. He has continued his journeys here, which has become a source of artistic and personal inspiration. Jess lived in Isla Mujeres for a year and a half. During his stay in this vibrant fishing village, he was seduced daily by the inviting colors of the Caribbean. Its impact literally forced Jess to finally put his visions of Mexico onto paper. The result has been an ongoing collection of bold images depicting the many facets of this country, from small coastal towns to picturesque colonial villages.

Using a combination of two mediums, watercolors and oil pastel, Jess Izak has created a technique that captures the warmth, depth and playfulness of Mexico. His art has been shown and is showing throughout Mexico. He has also worked on many commissioned pieces portraying homes, cars, gardens and favorite locations for tourists and residents. Jess Izak, born and raised in New York, went to the School of Visual Arts, in Manhattan where he majored in Conceptual Sculpture.

Tomas Burkey – Revealing the sleeping soul of the Earth.

Tomas Burkey, a Chilean-American, was raised with influences from both ends of America, where he studied and researched the Ancestral Memory of the continents. His powerful lines and defined colors stand out within works of art which are original in format, while retaining a graceful balance of content and energy. Bürkey’s work reveals the sleeping soul of the Earth, combining sound and form and creating a bridge to the distant past, thus returning a certain ancient magic to us through work imbued with hidden spaces, light and mystery.