Artist Talk + Opening Reception: TinTin: Rodeo Drive

TinTin: Rodeo Drive
artist Talk: November 23, 1-2 pm
opening Reception: November 22, 5-7 pm
ongoing exhibition: November 22, 2024-January 18, 2025

TinTin combines skulls and status symbols to explore the intersection of commerce, culture, and nature. Staged in the gallery shop’s project space, Rodeo Drive reveals how globalization influences our understanding of the world and our place in it.

Join us on November 22 for the opening reception of conceptual artist TinTin’s Rodeo Drive, an exhibition of mixed media sculptures made from cow skulls, designer handbags, and hand-painted leather. In this exhibition, TinTin invites viewers into a simulacrum of Beverly Hill’s iconic Rodeo Drive. Inspired by fashion, urban culture, and southwestern landscapes, TinTin’s sculpture practice reintroduces post-consumer leather to its original source with a dash of social critique. Popular design house logos usually found hanging from the arms of the affluent appear emblazoned on the skulls of the animals that provide the source material for luxury consumer products, creating a visual juxtaposition that brings into question the relationship between nature, material culture, and globalization.

On November 23, hear from conceptual artist TinTin as he talks us through Rodeo Drive, an exhibition of cow skull sculptures inspired by luxury handbags. This talk will cover how TinTin began creating his mixed-media sculptures, as well as his career, which includes founding an exhibition space focused on supporting Burmese artists and co-running a Santa Fe-based gallery, Studio Mudra. This talk is free and open to the public.