Marc Polizzi Exhibition

From August 27 through September 30, the Texas A&M International University presented Marc-Anthony Polizzi's exhibit at the Center for the Fine and Performing Arts gallery which was free and open to the public. The closing reception took place on Thursday September 29 from 6pm to 7:30pm. The intention was for students to learn more about art forms and know they are accessible. Twenty percent of the sales will be funded towards art scholarships.

Polizzy came across the idea of arranging found objects into a new structure. Using the exploration of found material such as broken chairs, pieces of wood, old fans, a brief case, and an old couch, he paired these items together and took away their base properties with pink paint, making of them a new structure. The art work was for sale at the gallery, twenty percent of these funds were to raise money towards a TAMIU scholarship. To receive this grant, you must be an art student and be recognized as an overachiever and show dedication to your work. To help a larger numbers of students, a short amount of money will be distributed evenly among the recipients.

To educate TAMIU students more on art work, Polizzi created this 3D effect and the sense of design element in his art, which the pink color was inspired in Texas. David Bogus the Professor of art claimed that, "the most important… teaching tool for our students, [is] not only to expose them to art… outside of Laredo, but also to give them the opportunity to show their work." This art also implies some environmental implications because he reuses the objects not treating them as objects but as a sense of art which are donated by many people or just things that he finds through his trips.

For more information students and the public can refer to his web page at http://www.mapolizzi.com/

(Neguif Angeles and Sandy Lugo may be contacted at neguif.angeles@dusty.tamiu.edu sandylugoespinoza@dusty.tamiu.edu)