This solo exhibition is a gathering of transformed objects, scrolls, artist’s books and a site-specific installation about the power of “mindfulness”, using Nepalese paper, ink, thread and antique sewing and weaving tools I collected in my travels. Some of the pieces can be seen under my portfolio.

‘The Quiet Thread’ was born in 2014 while studying Buddhist philosophy in Asia when I started creating lengthy ink calligraphy scrolls as part of my meditation practice. The repetition process involving writing, sewing and assemblage was like saying a mantra or a prayer and it gave birth to this new series.

‘The Quiet Thread’ explores the benefits of mindfulness, the role arts can play in raising awareness about the value of mindfulness in health treatments and how arts can be used to heal and express experiences of illness. It also brings awareness about how social change organizations and activists can be benefited by “mindful activism” by helping them stay grounded when participating  in peaceful resistance.

Location: THE JUNG CENTER, 5200 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006

On View: February 2-27, 2019

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 2, 5-7 pm

Live Performance: Saturday, February 23. Click here for details.

Cardenas exhibition opens at YSU, Youngstown, 2018-10-17

“YOUNGSTOWN — The work of Gaby Berglund Cardenas opens today at
Youngstown State University.
Cardenas is an international multi-disciplinary artist whose work straddles
disparate worlds — Houston, where she currently lives as an expat; her
birthplace of Ecuador, where her family lives; Sweden, where her new
home is; and South Korea, which has influenced her spirit after living there
for about nine years.
Through her art, she addresses the human condition, the female body and
the realms of spirituality. Her work spans mediums from paintings and
printmaking to installation, textiles and artist’s books.
Cardenas works from her studio in Houston and is a member of
PrintMatters and the Burning Bones Press in Houston. She also is
represented by Grafik i Vast in Gothenburg, Sweden, where she’ll be
moving next year.
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Upcoming projects include a solo exhibition at the Carl Jung Center in
Houston in February 2019 and participation in the collective show
“Nevertheless She Persisted” at the Koehnline Museum of Art in Chicago
this month.
She earned her master’s degree in oil painting from Kyungsung University
in Busan, South Korea, in 2012 and has been actively exhibiting
internationally in such galleries and museums as the Edward Hopper
House of Art, New York; Koehnline Museum of Art, Chicago; The Beaney
Museum of Canterbury, England; Hangaram Museum in Seoul, South
Korea; and the Lawndale Art Center in Houston.
“Gaby Berglund Cardenas: Life as You Wait” will be on display at Bliss
Hall’s Judith Rae Solomon Gallery through Oct. 5. An opening reception is
5 to 7 p.m. today and admission is free. Call 330-941-2307.””

A tradition at the Koehnline Museum is its annual collaboration with the Women and Gender Studies program to bear witness to the many creative women sharing their unique visions in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Nevertheless She Persisted focuses on the reserves of strength and resilience women display. We see it in the courage of women in emerging grassroots movements such as #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, the National Women’s Marches, the LGBTQIA+ and international human rights movements, and the remarkable young leaders of the Parkland survivors. It rises in the determination of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Dolores Huerta, Elizabeth Warren, and countless others trying to break the glass ceiling in U.S. government and politics.

A Juried Exhibition of Art by Women

September 27 – October 19, 2018

Public Reception: Thursday, September 27, 5 – 8 p.m.

DROP OUT WIFE 1972, mixed media, 2018 (My contribution to this year’s exhibition)

A while back, as part of Hispanic Heritage Month for the friends at OCCHA, RJ Thompson wrote and was awarded an International Institute grant from Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley to bring me to Department of Art • YSU to share my work with the students and City of Youngstown community in Ohio, USA. Today is the opening of my IX Solo Exhibition entitled “Life While You Wait”, a series of woodcuts on textiles, installations and artist’s books about embracing uncertainty as an expat, migrating and exploring the idea of moving through different continents. More information here

Galleria Valentina Bonomo

18 – 22 September 2018

Opening reception: Tues. 18 Sept. 2018 17:30
Daily hours: Wed. 19 – Sat. 22 Sept. 17:00 – 19:00

This will be the last stop of an incredible travelling exhibition with participating artists:
Abd A. Masoud, Alfredo Furlani, Andrea Arcangeli, Annikki Rigendinger, 
Barbara Menoncello, Caterina Malisano, Claudia Sabellico, Daniela 
Bettella, Emanuele, Fabiola Cenci, Frances Breen, Franco Vecchiet, 
Gabriella Bottaru, Gaby Berglund Cardenas, Greet Lembregts, Jan Owen, 
Katrin Magens, Kathryn Shank Frate, Kirsten Dietrich, Lia Malfermoni, 
Lizzie Brewer, Luigi Golin, Manuela Piovesan, Maria Grazia Colonnello, 
Marie C. Letendre, Patrizia Bigarella, Petra Gartner, Roberta Feoli,
Roberta Gasperi, Scott Wettlaufer, Sharon Hall Shipp, Shirley Greer, 
Silvia Braida, Silvia Lepore, Susan Hooper, Terhi Hursti,              
Terri Thoman, Wally Sillian.

In collaboration with VIS Venetiae Incipit Scriptorium

‘NO MIND’, artist’s book, mixed media, 1.64 m.(5’3″), 2014

Works by Gaby Berglund Cardenas, Karen Navarro y Nadia Pacheco

Houston HCC Northline Gallery

September 11 – October 9, 2018

International Exhibition in Town Hall Galleries, Röcklturm, Rochuskapelle, LITVAI Gallery for Photography & Gallery 561

Opening reception: 2018-07-26 Town Hall