Students from the Artist Society showed off their unique works on Thursday, and featured live music by Robert and Alan.

There was also Little Caesar Pizza provided by the club. A donation bucket for the club was at the food table.

The event started with the music of “Love is all” off of the album “Magical Mystery Tour,” by The Beatles.

Nelson Leal, a member of the club, painted a series consisting of three canvases, showing the different angles of the world and universe.

There was a large “alien” on the center canvas with a small figure featured on the left canvas and a floating man in the sky on the right canvas. 

The middle painting showed a figure that Leal refers to as an “alien” with a snout-like gas mask.

“These paintings are my way of expressing my theory of evolution, and these pieces are my prediction of what man is going to become,” Leal said.

“Loss of hair, enlargement of the head and eyes— I try to incorporate that in the painting,” he adds.

The overall message for his painting was to have conscience to what we do to the Earth and think twice before harming our environment.

The painting to the left is another “alien” that is standing in the dessert with a deteriorating building in the background showing that in our evolution many of the buildings are going to be standing after million of years, like how the Egyptians had pyramids and how the Mayans had temples and are surviving.

Every piece had a message to the people who came to view it.

Joel Nunez, painted himself in a rollercoaster cart, riding away from a dark figure in the background.
   
Patricia Banderas, a Nursing major said, “Everything is getting sucked in away from madness and chaos.

To me, it represents anger through the image of a rollercoaster and yourself. I can see that the man in the rollercoaster cart is just going along for the ride.”

Among the paintings there was a band by the name of Robert and Alan, it was an art form combining a piano for the background music, while Robert and Alan switched off painting and playing single notes of the piano.

“It sounds like space music!” John Relova laughed.

Robert, one of the performers, said, “I just wanted to bring two different view points— from my mind and Alan’s mind.

I wanted a point of view from someone else’s mind. This was just random. It came out the way I thought it would.”

Alan added, “It’s pretty crazy, because I’m not used to playing random notes and not practicing. It was amazing because we showed ‘Sound and Emotion’ through this type of art form. But we won’t do this again (at another show), we might do something else.”

There were two self portraits, one catching the essence of being left behind while the artist’s classmates went out into the world and he was left behind to paint himself.

“I painted this portrait of me, because I came late to class and class was empty, they had left on a field trip, so I just went into the backroom, grabbed the mirror and began painting myself (on the canvas),” John Relova explained.

The other self portrait was Jose Moreno’s work entitled “Auto Portrait.”

This piece was created with oil paint on canvas. It represented himself in a wheelchair in front of a light background.

The other painting represented his childhood, entitled “Guadalajara,” which showed the town in Mexico. 

There were four corners that represented the outskirts of the town. The middle was the focal point, which was the church. 

On one corner was Aguas Calientes, a historic city of Mexico, where the temperature is very moderate. On the top left corner was Tequila, Jalisco, a refinery. A Virgin Mary was painted outside of the church, because Moreno says it’s “huge, bigger than the room. On the other corner there is a parque (park) where I used to go on the train and ride when I was a child,” he explained. He also says, “This is a portrait of my childhood.

I know that now everything is advanced and back then it was like this.”

If you would like to see additional pictures of the event go to talonmarks.com and see a slide show of the event.
 
*Additional reporting and interviews by Rebeca Vega.