Reception and Artist Talk Set for Sept. 1
By GARY STALLARD
AC News Service
Angelina College’s School of Visual and Performing Arts will host artist Dario Salvatore Bucheli in an Angelina Center for the Arts Gallery exhibition.
Bucheli’s display “Out of the Shadows” opened August 17 and will run through September 10. A reception and artist’s discussion is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1 in the ACA gallery.
Bucheli’s request for assistance in painting the main mural created an opportunity for past and present AC students to reunite. AC Gallery Director and Visual Arts instructor Le’Anne Alexander said she selected the assistants “based on proven excellence and dedication displayed in her Visual Arts courses.” Brynn Linette (current AC Visual Arts student), Yolanda Crain and Kai Randles (current AC Graphic Arts students), Valerie Runnels and Collin Fuller (recent AC Graduates and current SFA transfer students). Meghan Schieres (AC graduate, working artist/musician) participated in the main mural’s installation and will receive recognition from the artist at the reception.
Bucheli’s image-based practice reflects on the ways myths, symbols, and inherited narratives continue to shape our understanding of the self, memory, and history. Drawing from Mesoamerican cosmology, folklore, craft-based practices, and personal experience, the work inhabits a space between history and imagination, where ancient visual languages offer a framework for navigating contemporary questions of displacement, transformation, and belonging.
Bucheli’s practice spans paintings on canvas, printmaking, and site-specific works. Each work is part of a mythology in which recurring forms, celestial motifs, plants, animals, and ritual objects function as a personal visual vocabulary. Individual symbols shift in meaning through relationships with one another, creating layered compositions that invite multiple interpretations rather than fixed readings.
In “Out of the Shadows,” Bucheli presents a new site-specific temporary painting, as well as a work on canvas, and a small sculptural work. The exhibition centers on the archetypal figure of the rabbit, a crepuscular creature that exists between light and shadow, serving as a symbol of transition, vulnerability, hope, and perseverance. Through this recurring figure, the exhibition reflects on the immigrant experience in the United States, drawing from Bucheli’s own history while engaging broader narratives of migration, resilience, and belonging.
Bucheli is an artist and museum professional currently located in Beaumont, Texas. He received his BA from the University of Dallas and his MFA from Texas Christian University, both in Studio Art with a focus on painting. His work has been exhibited throughout Texas and abroad in solo and group exhibitions.
Admission to the exhibition and reception is free and open to the public.
For further information, contact Le’Anne Alexander at lalexander@angelina.edu.
Image caption:
This image is an example of work (both canvas and sculpture) from artist Dario Salvatore Bucheli, who currently is hosting his exhibition titled “Out of the Shadows” at the Angelina Center for the Arts Gallery on the Angelina College campus. The gallery runs through Sept. 10, with an artist’s reception and discussion set for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1 in the ACA foyer. (Contributed image)
Student Preparation:
Students help prepare a temporary mural for the current Dario Salvatore Bucheli exhibition “Out of the Shadows,” currently open and running through Sept. 10 in the Angelina Center for the Arts Gallery on the Angelina College campus. Current and transfer students earned valuable experience in assisting with the exhibition’s overall presentation, and those students will receive recognition at the artist’s reception on Tuesday, Sept. 1. (Contributed photo)