Gabriel Basurto
Illustrator/ Graphic Designer/ Sculptor
Work Experience
-October 2004 to Present: Illustrator / Graphic Designer / Sculptor, Basurto Design (Freelance), El Paso, Texas.
Education
-August 2003 to May 2012: Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.
-August 1991 to May 1993: Advertising & Design Degree, El Paso Tech Center, El Paso Texas.
Recent Exhibitions
2014
-"The Mechanism", El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas.
-"Impulse", Project Trifecta Art Show, Joe Vinny & Bronsons, El Paso, Texas.
-"The Chase, Adobe Dwelling, and The Station", Hope & Anchor, Project Trifecta Art Show, El Paso,
Texas.
-" Danny Olivas, Gene Roddenberry, Tim Hardaway, and John Wesley Harding", Southwest Iconica: El
Paso, 2nd Floor Gallery, El Paso, Texas.
2012
-"Lost Realm No.37", 17 Ojos Collective, Glasbox Gallery, El Paso, Texas.
-"Lost Realm No. 36 diptych", 2012 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin
Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.
-"Lost Realm No. 37", Graduating Student Exhibition, UTEP Union Gallery, El Paso, Texas.
2011
-"Lost Realm No. 21, 23, and 24",Warped Reality and other Oddities Show, The Loft Light Studio, El
Paso,Texas.
-"Gears", Wall Works 3, UTEP Glass Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.
2010
-"Look Harder, it is Still a Cover Up," Peace of Art Poster Exhibition, El Paso, Texas.
2008
-"Untitled", UTEP Photography Contest, Centennial Museum, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso,
Texas.
2007
"Untitled", Wall Works 1, Glass Gallery at UTEP, El Paso, Texas.
-"Sober", 2007 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual
Arts, El Paso, Texas.
2002
-"Untitled", 19th Annual Student Art Exhibition, El Paso Community College, El Paso, Texas.
Publications
-"The Mechanism Art Show", by Gabriel Basurto, The Artist Catalogue.com, Online, November 2016.
-"Antikythera Island of Machinery" by Takuya Suzuki, Artlogue.org, Online, July 21, 2013.
-"Illustrators go 'Iconic'", by Doug Pullen, El Paso Times, July 2013.
-"El Paso Celebrities, the Subjects of ‘Southwest Iconica", by Maggie Asfahani Hajj, What's Up Magazine, May 2013.
-"Southwest Iconica", El Paso Opening, Visit El Paso, July 2013.
-"The Lost Realm Series", El Paso Culture Beat, July 2011.
-"Look Harder, it is Still a Cover Up", Peace of Art Poster Exhibition: Design for Change, July 2010.
-"Envision the World", El Paso Independent School District, book jacket cover, December 1998.
-"Color Outside the Lines", Columbia Link Healthcare newsletter, January -July 1998.
-"Egyptian Wall", News Dimensions- Pictorial Edition, El Paso Community College, January - July 1998.
-"The History of Art", by Annette B., El Paso Community College, Online, July 1998.
Awards
-First Place, Best Drawing, , "Lost Realm No. 36 diptych". 2012 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, Juried by Cheryl Hartup and Andrew Lewis, 2012.
-Best design, "Envision the World" El Paso Independent School District book cover jacket competition, 1998.
Freelance
-"Conquerors of the Frontier" Author, Novel Series, 2012 - 2022
-"Baby Friday Pod Cast", Logo, June 2018.
-"James Hernandez Photography", Logo and business cards, June 2018.
-"The Ternio Group", Logo and car wrap for legal consultant group, July 2014.
-"El Paso Illustrator Collective", Logo and artist, July 2013.
-"Southwest Iconica: El Paso" art show, Art Director and artist, El Paso, Texas, February 17 - July 27,
2013.
-"Anonymus Beats", Logo, Music Production Business, El Paso, Texas, January 2013.
-"Double G's Scoop & Sit", Logo, Dog and cat scoop business, December 2012.
-Judge Advocate General Corps, Illustration, Fort Bliss, Texas, April 2008.
-"El Rancho Escobar Restaurant", Logo and concept illustrations, December 2007.
-"Envision the World," Book jacket cover design, El Paso Independent School District, December 1998.
Languages
English and Spanish
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