The Carver Community Cultural Center is hosting the FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA exhibit, So Much Art So Little Time, a survey of works Joan Frederick has produced in the last thirty years.

Joan says: I am pleased to be exhibiting new work at the Carver along with a retrospective of my career in the arts. My work has evolved into a predominately photo-based format, but I want people to see that I went to art school and I can draw and paint, but I just happen to now use photographs predominately in my work. It is exciting to have some of my best artwork in ONE space, so people can see what I have done. Since some are so large and unusual, they never sold, but now I am glad. I have also included some of the quirky things such as ceramics and glass that I have kept for myself alongside my latest projects, which include photo montage, mixed media and Photoshop images. I keep getting new ideas I want to include in the show, but there just isn’t enough time… (Hence the title of the show So Much Art, So Little Time.)

Joan Frederick, featured artist in the So Much Art, So Little Time exhibit at the Carver Community Cultural Center.

Joan is an artist, writer, photographer and Indian art historian. She grew up in Oklahoma where the largest number of Indian tribes were relocated at the end of the 19th century, but she moved to San Antonio during the oil crash of the 1980s. The diverse Mexican heritage she found in south Texas closely mirrored the Indian culture she had left in Oklahoma, and as she says, “Our southern brothers took me in.” She won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1995, and her biography of contemporary Kiowa painter T.C. Cannon stands as one of the most important books in the history of Native American art, because Cannon is widely considered to be the Van Gogh of Indian art who helped change the face of Native American art into the “new wave” scene which characterizes the genre today. Frederick’s latest work focuses on preserving information about the culture and art of Native Americans and also on her photography which profiles the two cultures, both Native American and Latino, in which she now resides.

Title wall of Joan Frederick’s exhibit.

Partial view of the So Much Art, So Little Time exhibit.

Partial view of the So Much Art, So Little Time exhibit.

Photographic medicine cabinet, one of Joan Frederick’s many pieces at the exhibit.

Mixed-media Native American themed installation.

Detail of some of the works in Joan Frederick’s So Much Art, So Little Time exhibit at the Carver Community Cultural Center.

Detail of some of the works in Joan Frederick’s exhibit at the Carver Community Cultural Center.

Rachel Rainwater and Joan Frederick hamming it up. Rachel is Joan’s model and erstwhile student.

View of the goodies table early in the evening.

David and Sherry Cardenas.

Linda Winchester and Felix Padron.

Opening reception crowd at Joan Frederick’s exhibit.

David Rubin bobbing for conceptual Native American apples.

Sandra Guerra, Ann Kinser and Suzanne Arevalo.

Terry Ybañez de Santiago, Mary Alice and Richard Botello, Armando Santiago de Ybañez and Geanne Martinez.

David Rubin and Steve Bennett.

Mimi Quintanilla with Liz and Al Rendon.

View of the crowds and the goodies table later in the reception for Joan Frederick’s So Much Art, So Little Time exhibit at the Carver Community Cultural Center.