Arte de Roberto Salas: October 2014

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Hope at Hand: Lifeline to the 21st Century 1996

Digital mural/ Vutek airbrush printer on vinyl , 15' X 16’ Attacted to the Advanced Technologies Academy entry Image/design contributions by Computer Design I students and artist collaboration.

Commissioned by Nevada State Council on the Arts & the Advanced Technologies Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada

Life in the Great Basin

Detail of Nevada’s history according to the Paute natives. Acrylic mural 8’x 70’

Commission by the Nevada Commission for the Arts, Reno, Wooster High School students

Natural History Museum de Baja California 1996

Acrylic mural 20’ x 50’Images of the local indigenous rock art.

Painted by the friends of the museum under artist direction

Friday, October 17, 2014

Four Elements for the Vonnie McMillin Library

Four Elements

Esperanza/ Hope 2006

Mural Commissioned by the Sweetwater School District for Open Door Family Resource Center, Chula Vista, 40’x 15'

Bus Benches1989

25 painted bus benches Interspersed on a 15 mile boulevard (Mesa Boulevard) exhibition. Themes of automobile culture to pecific locations.

From the US/Mexican Project duration was one year, bench backing were later rotated at other bus sites through the city of El Paso for the next four years. Border to Old Highway 80.

El Paso, Texas. Sponsored by the El Paso Bench Company

Bajo El Sol Tejano/Under the Texan Sun 1993-94

Mural at Austin High School cafeteria. Acrylic 15’ x 100’ University of Houston, visiting scholars program, with high school assistants.

Commissioned by the Mexican American Studies Department

Gabrielino Nation: Spirit of the Sage 1995

Collaboration with Johanna Poethig, consultation with Gabrielino tribal members.

Commissioned by Social & Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) San Pedro, CA

Commissioned by Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)

Ricochet 1994

World Cup Soccer Games on 405 Freeway near Los Angeles Airport

Commissioned by the World Cup Association and S.P.A.R.C.L.A.CA

Agave Americana 1994

Mural commemorating the farm workers in the region (New Mexico chili harvest). Handball court in Robert's Park.

Commissioned by New Mexico Arts Division Special Projects Grant

and the City of Artesia, New Mexico

Los Portales de Chicano Park 1989-1994

City Gates Project. Porcelain enamel steel panels and painted surface on pedestrian overpass, Interstate 5 and Coronado Bay Bridge at Chicano Park, San Diego.

Architectural Details for Shreveport 1998

Artistic Director, one of 12 murals magnifying existing architectural features throughout the downtown district. Acrylic paint in various sizes. These images have been appropriated and scaled from various downtown buildings creating a historical tour encouraging civic pride and city enhancement.

Three month project as lead artist directing six local artist from Louisiana, twenty Americorpstudents and ten J.T.P.A. youth group. Hands-on workshops,planing sessions,disscussions,production.

Funded by an NEA grant through Shreveport Regional Art Council

Jellies of the World 2002

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jelly wild life studies,Acrylic murals and public workshops and music

Monterey, California 2003

Aquatic Educational Classroom

Mobile mural on 40 foot custom-built FeatherLite semi-trailer to present classes and workshops in Northwest Alaska. Traveling to present watershed classes, salmon dissections, conservation and fly-tying workshops in Northwest Alaska.