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El Zapote is a contemporary art gallery focused on art collectors interested to buy affordable original art works online
While we presented Mexican and Latin American contemporary art, after several years in operation, El Zapote Gallery has succeeded in bringing together artists of various nationalities and styles. The gallery’s website exhibits original artworks that include oil and acrylic on canvas, drawing on paper, sculpture, engraving, collage, photography and art objects.
“Eyes, Needles, and Fireflies. The Story of Things”
“Eyes, Needles, and Fireflies. The Story of Things” is the second solo show by Amelia Opalinska at El Zapote Gallery. This new series showcases an evolution from the paintings featured in her previous exhibit, offering three-dimensional assemblages with found objects that reveal a profound journey of transformation. Read about the exhibition HERE
“Spirit of Place”
Stephen Aiken examines with fascination the intriguing human tendency to project their characteristics onto things in their environment, creating dynamic figure-ground interplays that evoke anthropomorphism in the viewer. Read about the exhibition HERE
“Vida Visión II”
Galería El Zapote presents in this exhibition the works of Martin Lartigue and Mona Liaras, created in 2024 and in the previous years since 2015, during which the couple visited Mérida frequently to create and exhibit their work. Throughout their journey through France, Morocco, and Mexico, the artists have observed the cities and their culture, ultimately expressing their diverse perspectives through painting, printmaking, ceramics, and mixed techniques. Read about the exhibition HERE
“Trapitos al Sol”
‘Trapitos al Sol’ by Amelia Opalinska is a selection of paintings that narrate personal experiences like a photo album. With great spontaneity and ease, the artist projects her memories onto canvas without technical constraints. Neither abstract nor strictly realistic, Amelia’s style evokes Yucatecan landscapes and unique memories. Read about the exhibition HERE
“Diversidades Graficas”
With themes like wrestling, lottery, skulls, and other references to Mexican culture, the Adzul Marino Graphics Workshop brings us a display of recent work from Playa del Carmen. They’ve created this using woodcut, linocut, and embossing techniques. Read about the exhibition HERE
“Gold Series”
“Gold Series” is an exhibition that presents the most recent work of Carlos Mauricio Pliego, created in Estado de Mexico. The central theme of this series is rediscovering his homeland. Learn more about the exhibition by clicking on HERE
“Retratos en Grupo”
“Group Portraits” is a body of paintings on different surfaces that aims to remember with a bit of humor those groups of family or friends who took advantage of any meeting to take a group portrait. Some represent smiles or serious expressions; others accommodate a leg forward or to the side; others show hugs as well as gesturing and the provoking of others. Learn more about the exhibition by clicking on HERE
“Dakinis Female Messengers of Wisdom”
Lorraine Toohey created 24 ceramic sculptures and mixed media pieces inspired by Tibetan deities Dakinis, which represent female wisdom.
“Seres Fantásticos a la Vista”
Michel Maugee and Stefanie Schikora created fantastic creatures and we are showing you some of these unique bright and colorful pieces of art.
“Illumination”
Marketa is a self-motivated disciplined artist who has found in meditation an efficient tool for life, specially now that is necessary to face the impact of the lockdown and other issues related to COVID -19 pandemic. She created this series of linocuts inspired by the experience of meditation, making visual some concepts such as love, energy or illumination in a friendly style of human figure that interacts with their feelings and even with the animals.
“Coronas y Polvo”
Painting exhibition by Carlos Mauricio Pliego and Walter José Cen. Both, young painters living in Merida Yucatan have been creating new works in very different styles while facing their particular realities.
Toilet Paper Story
Culto al rollo / The Toilet Paper Story is the graphic chronicle of a pandemic by the designer, printmaker, and illustrator, Manuel Taure. With a playful intention and sardonic point of view, Taure presents 9 stories printed on toilet paper. They place the viewer as an inevitable witness to the immediate reality, and teach us one more way to adapt the graphic tradition to the current context.
January 29 – March 29 2021.
Bedouin Life in Egypt from Metal Etching Plates
Robert Gutowski’s artworks in metal etching plates are inspired by his experiences in Egypt. His images describe Bedouin markets and the traditional feast activities after the Ramadan. Read more about Robert Gutowski on his bio page.
February – March 2020.
Buenos Augurios 2020 – Good Omens 2020
The artists of El Zapote Gallery good omens for 2020 in a collective exhibition.
January 2020
Goddeses and Garlands, by Lorraine Toohey
“This work is my attempt at sharing the incredible beauty of India.” – Lorraine Toohey
Alberto Zecchini Painting Exhibition
Italian painter Alberto Zecchini first painting exhibition in Yucatan Mexico.
November 2019
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