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REEFKA SCHNEIDER
"Andes Pipe Player"
24" X 30" Watermedia $1200
©2006 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Reefka
Reefka Schneider is an award-winning
contemporary realist artist. Social justice and human dignity are the core
themes of
her art work. She lives in McAllen
,Texas
across the
Rio Grande
from Reynosa
,Mexico.
Yvonamor Palix, international art
curator, favorably compares Reefka’s figurative drawings “to the work
of Francisco
Zuniga, which although similar in subject matter, his works
do not portray these characters in such a human and real manner.”
Reefka’s art work was chosen to be one of eight artists featured in
Writing Towards Hope: The Literature of Human
Rights in
Latin America
edited by Marjorie Agosín and published by Yale University Press in
the fall of 2006.
Reefka has had exhibitions at The University of Texas-Pan American,
The Rockport Center for the Arts, The International
Museum of Art and
Science in
McAllen
,
Texas
and the
Art
Center
for the Islands in Port Aransas,
Texas.
She is represented by Nuevo Santander Galley in
McAllen, Texas.
Reefka perfected her art by spending years drawing from the live
model and from the life around her. Her studies
with Emilio Abugarde of
Saltillo
,
Mexico
and Cathy Goodale of
Loveland
,Colorado
were especially important
to her. When Reefka was seriously injured in a
car accident, she turned to working from photographs she took of the
people on the streets of
Mexico
and in her community. She and her poet husband, Steven, then began to
collaborate
on the poetry art exhibit “Borderlines: Drawing Border
Lives,” a traveling exhibit of drawings and poems that portrays
life
along the
U.S.
–
Mexico
border.
"Symphony Practice"
$995 Pastel & Charcoal 24" X 30"
©2006 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Reefka
"Mariachi Feminil Xochitl"
$1295
24" X 30" Pastel
©2006 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Reefka
"Mariachi Bow Master" 8" X
10" Charcoal
$350
"Progresso Mariachi" 8" X
10" Mixed Media $145
©2006 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Reefka
©2006 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Reefka
Exhibitions:
The Color of Music - Art
Center for the Islands, Port Aransas, TX May 2007
Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives - Rockport Center
for the Arts, Rockport, TX October-November 2006
Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives - Outstanding
Leadership Series Event with Isabel Allende, University of
Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX April 2006
Faces of the Border - Library Gallery, "Pan American
Days" featured art exhibit, University of Texas-Pan American,
Edinburg, TX April 2005
Expressions of the Valley - Nuevo Santander Gallery,
McAllen, TX March-April 2005
About Love - Poetry Art Exhibition, South Texas Literary
Festival, International Museum of Arts and Sciences, McAllen TX
August 2004
Art Awards:
First Place - Drawing, RioFest,
Harlingen, TX April 2007
Second Place - Pastel, RioFest, Harlingen, TX April 2007
First Place - Drawing, International Art Show, Brownsville Museum
of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX March 2007
Third Place - Pastel, International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of
Fine Art, Brownsville, TX March 2007
Third Place - Portrait/Figure, Austin Pastel Society Competition,
Austin, TX March 2007
First Place - Drawing, Spring Classic Art Show, Pharr, TX
February 2007
Special Initiative Grant - Texas Commission on the Arts, May 2006
Portrait Society of America Scholarship - The Art of the Portrait
Conference, Dallas, TX May 2006
Honorable Mention - Drawing, RioFest, Harlingen, TX 2004
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