Opening Reception: Wild NM: A Vivarium Satellite Show

Tia Collection is pleased to announce Wild NM, organized in support of Vivarium: Exploring Intersections of Art, Storytelling, and the Resilience of the Living World at Albuquerque Museum. A gallery opening with artist George Alexander, and mural unveiling with Tia x Chatter Mural Project’s second muralist, Eliza Naranjo Morse, is scheduled on Thursday, August 29, from 5-7 pm. Alexander will begin the evening with a song and speak on his work. Albuquerque Museum curator William T. Gassaway, PhD will also join.

In Vivarium, named after the Latin term “place of life,” Albuquerque Museum Head Curator Josie Lopez, PhD invites viewers to consider the potency of art in fostering deep connection with the non-human living world. Wild NM highlights how artists express their deeply individual and personal histories, visual lexicons and interior and psychological lives through our friends in the animal and plant kingdoms. Through self-made fables and retold myths, and depictions of hopes and worlds both rich and devastating, the artists exhibited explore how they navigate their lives, communities and contemporaries through the lens of animism.