June 24, 2020
Sightlines
When Everything Goes Out the Window
https://sightlinesmag.org/when-everything-goes-out-the-window
“Saul Jerome San Juan (‘SJ’ for short) had the idea to create an egg tempera painting of the saint… …For the preview, SJ decided to play a game of visual telephone. He invited artists Thomas Cook and Richard Ashby to paint their own versions of his Byzantine-dazzled religious icon, who in turn, showed their respective paintings to Jeffrey Primeaux and Erika Huddleston, who then offered their own interpretations of the original work (which they had never seen), to painters Valérie Chaussonnet and B. Shawn Cox… …‘SJ wanted to play with this mutation of how the history of the image came about, and how the attributes of the saint changed based on misinterpretation of a picture,’ says Shogan.”
February 17, 2020
Sightlines
Big Medium Picks Five Artists for this year’s LINE Residency
sightlinesmag.org/big-medium-picks-five-artists-for-this-years-line-residency
February 17, 2020
Glasstire
Austin’s Big Medium Announces 2020 LINE Residency Artists
glasstire.com/2020/02/17/austins-big-medium-announces-2020-line-residency-artists
December 23, 2019
Sightlines
The Contemporary Austin Selects Artists for 2020 Crit Group
sightlinesmag.org/the-contemporary-austin-selects-artists-for-2020-crit-group
September 18, 2019
Glasstire
New Art Space to Open in South Austin With FLASH COLLECTION
glasstire.com/2019/09/18/new-art-space-to-open-in-south-austin-with-flash-collection/
August 28, 2019
The Austinot
Seven Outstanding Fine Artists in Austin to Know and Appreciate
austinot.com/fine-artists-austin
August 18, 2019
Glasstire
Gay Guys Gaze: Pin-up/Dialog
glasstire.com/events/2019/08/18/gay-guys-gaze-pin-up-dialog
June 7, 2019
The Austin Chronicle
“Likesness” at Northern-Southern
austinchronicle.com/arts/2019-06-07/likesness
January 11, 2019
The Austin Chronicle
“Post-Apocalyptic Harvest” at Atelier 1205
austinchronicle.com/arts/2019-01-11/post-apocalyptic-harvest
“Saul Jerome San Juan runs Atelier 1205 over on Cesar Chavez, and we've long been impressed by his curatorial decisions. In his section of ‘Likesness,’ we see the sort of deep drafting skill that backs up his creative résumé. ‘Queer and Filipino American,’ says his gallery bio, ‘San Juan paints the other: Blue-eyed men with white skin sunburned pink in Yeti hats with sleeveless tees.’ (Indeed, although that's his own damned Yeti hat that he lends them.) And he draws and paints these guys – just headshots – using graphite, alkyd, and oils on canvas panels. These aren't bold depictions like Okoro's, and they aren't the OMG-is-that-a-photo paintings that Lit does when she's not busy with paper clay. These are drawings of human faces that look like drawings of human faces; but they're the sort of renditions that are so good that other artists, when regarding them, might think, ‘Well, fuck, why do I even bother picking up a pencil?’ You know what we mean.”
—Wayne Alan Brenner
(June 7, 2019, The Austin Chronicle, “Likesness” at Northern-Southern, austinchronicle.com/arts/2019-06-07/likesness)