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Pilgrim’s Progress One
Man’s Journey Back Home: An Exhibition of Pictures and
Words
March 6th at the Rio Grande Theatre’s El
Paso Electric Gallery
Desert Nights by David Salcido
Las Cruces, NM.2009– Every
photograph tells a story. Some are personal, others
resound with universal themes. All are documentations of
our pilgrimage through life. Throughout the month of
March, New Mexico native David Salcido will celebrate
his return to the land of his birth with an exhibition
of 16 photographs documenting his journey back, entitled
Pilgrim’s Progress. Exploring roads both familiar and
exotic, the exhibition is a retrospective study of form,
function and a fascination for relics of the past, both
manmade and organic. The exhibition will open with an
artist reception on Friday, March 6, 2009, from 5 – 7pm,
as part of the Downtown Art Ramble, in the El Paso
Electric Gallery at the historic Rio Grande Theatre, in
Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Road to Nowhere by David Salcido
Born in Ruidoso, raised
in Tularosa and a graduate of NMSU in Las Cruces, David
Salcido has spent the last 25 years exploring other
states and states of mind. Making his living primarily
as a writer, he has published over 1000 articles, poems
and short stories in national and regional magazines,
newspapers, journals and anthologies. Art and
photography, however, have always been driving
interests. His very first art exhibit was at the
now_defunct Las Cruces Community Center for the Arts at
207 Avenida de Mesilla (now Mesilla Pointe) and he has
since taken part in group and solo shows in such diverse
cities as El Paso, San Francisco and Phoenix.
Among his many other
accomplishments are a stint in the movie industry with
Paramount Pictures; the creation and publication of a
series of children’s books, exploring ecology; founder
and publisher of a critically_acclaimed literary arts
journal; founder of two alternative theater companies;
founder and co_owner of a Los Angeles_based public
relations company catering to the independent film
industry; founder and proprietor of a popular gallery
and performance space in Phoenix, Arizona and writer of
three produced plays. He currently finds himself back in
Las Cruces. Where he goes from here is anybody’s guess.
Pilgrim’s Progress is
open to the public throughout the month of March 2009.
The El Paso Electric Gallery is located in the lobby of
the newly refurbished Rio Grande Theatre, 211 North
Main, on the Downtown Mall in Las Cruces. Gallery hours
are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10am to 2pm and on
Saturday from 9am to Noon. For more information on this
exhibit, call the artist at 602-384-7756 or send an
e-mail to MythCreant@gmail.com. For information on the
Rio Grande Theatre, call 575-523-6403.
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