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The binational event, focusing on enhancing the relationships in cross-border art activities, has coordinated the two visual artist photographers in an art exhibition designed to engage dancers, choreographers and their audiences. This is an opportunity for artists of dance and photography to meet, study each other’s work and initiate future collaborations.
About the artists:
Julio Rodriguez Ramos is a visual artist and a self-taught photographer. His images of the nature and scenery of Baja California have earned countless awards and honors and publication by both national and international presses. Julio’s work has appeared in numerous exhibitions, including installations at the Research Center of the UABC Cultural Museum in Mexicali, the Mexican Consulate in San Diego, the Mingei Museum and the Museum of Natural History. He is also featured in National Geographic’s geo-tourism map. Born in the city of Obregon, Sonora, México in 1956, Julio has lived in Tijuana for the past 25 years. His commitment to the arts spans his multi-faceted career that includes producing many large-scale cultural art events. Julio is the founder and Director of the Entijuanarte Art Festival, a celebration of art with representations from the most outstanding artists around the world and México.
Jennifer Spencer is a painter/photographer who has been photographing artists of San Diego for the past three years, both visual and performing. Her most recent suite of images is of the Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater dancers in rehearsal for “Cabaret”, performed in January 2009. Originally a painter for many years, Ms Spencer has turned to photography as her new tool for expression in her exhibition, “Dancing to Abstraction”.
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