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Kathy Vargas was born on 23 June, 1950 in San Antonio, Texas, United States, is an American artist (born 1950). Discover Kathy Vargas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 23 June, 1950
Birthday 23 June
Birthplace San Antonio, Texas, United States
Nationality United States

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1950

Kathy Vargas (born June 23, 1950) is an American artist who creates photographs from multiple exposures that she hand colors.

She often devotes several works to a particular theme, creating series.

Vargas was born in San Antonio, Texas.

She was influenced early on by her Catholic faith, her grandmother's ghost stories and her father's retelling of pre-Columbian history.

1970

Kathy Vargas became interested in hand-colored photography around 1970 when she worked for Bill and Jerry Hayes in her hometown at a small production company.

She was placed in the animation department and from there learned how to do special effects.

Vargas learned dark room work here before she began learning about photography.

1971

At the Southwest Craft Center, Kathy learned rock-and-roll photography from Tom Wright in 1971, which she practiced professionally from 1973 to 1977.

Kathy Vargas began classes at San Antonio College with Mel Casas, a Chicano artist, who invited her to attend a Con Safo art group meeting after seeing some of her photographs.

She felt welcome there and loved what the group was doing with art.

Kathy gives credit to Casas for opening her eyes and sharing many Chicano and Chicana artists with her.

When she began to feel limited, she notified them that it was time for her to create her own art and departed from the Con Safo art group.

Vargas wanted to experiment with the medium and create her own photographic style.

1974

Vargas joined the group in 1974 and left in 1975.

A few years later, while working on a documentary project about yard shrines in her home town of San Antonio, Texas, she began researching Mexican and pre-Columbian myths and literature, and to produce works based on a photographic 'magic realism' involving layering by multiple exposure and hand colouring (Marshall).

1981

Vargas has a BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1981 and in 1984 received her MFA.

Kathy Vargas worked for many years as the Visual Arts Director of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio.

She currently teaches in the art department at The University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX. She has lectured throughout the United States and Mexico.

1993

In 1993 she produced a portfolio titled, Revelaciones, and a year later was published in Nueva Luz photographic journal, volume 4#2 (En Foco, Bronx: 1994)

2003

Her Este Recuerdo series (2003) consists of 23 photographs.

They are made from between two and four negatives (many shot from old family photographs) and colored with oil paint.

According to the artist, her various acts of reframing result in "symbolically entombed" subjects.

Vargas utilizes acidic rose and purple colors to reference early color photographs, as well as vintage hand-tinted pictures.

As continuing explorations of "death and remembrance," they are intended to be melancholic relics.

Vargas believes that Roland Barthes defined the essence of photography in his book Camera Lucida, written after the death of his mother.

Barthes says photography is an entrance "into flat Death."

Moreover, "the only thought I can have is that at the end of this first death, my own death is inscribed: between the two, nothing more than waiting...."

She is interested in "the anatomy of death and the aftermath of everlasting life."

Vargas often uses iconography from Aztec art, along with various other cultural and Christian symbols.

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