Ongoing Exhibitions

“It started with a community of makers who wanted to create in a radical new way,” says Marissa Saneholtz, one of the co-founders of the Smitten Forum. Every year since 2014, Marissa Saneholtz and Sara Brown have invited a new group of jewelers and metalsmiths to work side-by-side in a communal studio for a week. Over six years, the forum expanded in numbers and geographic area to encompass over 70 artists in several states. Call it a mobile artist colony,…

"I like challenging perceptions of an object, or how we create hierarchies of format,” says metalsmith Bryan Petersen. Art is constantly in flux—different mediums fall in and out of favor, dropping and adding qualifiers like “wearable” or “sculptural.” While earrings, necklaces, and brooches have ascended to artwork status, the belt buckle has been largely overlooked. In response, Petersen founded the World Champion Belt Buckle Competition. Since its founding in 2012, the competition has sought to upend outdated stereotypes. Utilizing the…

KEEP Contemporary breaks tradition during Santa Fe’s Spanish Market weekend with the opening of Nuevos Norteños – a group exhibition featuring four regional artists whose work pays homage to Spanish colonial art, yet views the genre through a modern lens. As Spanish artists, the exhibitors share the same cultural lineage as those who line the streets just outside KEEP’s doors at Market, presenting their heritage in ways that expand current perspective and spark fresh dialogue. Connecting the past with the…

See new paintings by Western pop artist Billy Schenck during the art walk in the railyard.

In Nathalie Daoust's Korean Dreams, the photographs, as the people of North Korea, are manipulated until the underlying truth is all but a blur. Nathalie Daoust has spent much of her career exploring the chimeric world of fantasy: the hidden desires and urges that compel people to dream, to dress up, to move beyond the bounds of convention and to escape from reality. With Korean Dreams, she is exploring this escapist impulse not as an individual choice, but as a…

Co.elaboration shows new paintings, sculpture, and fine art furniture by husband-and-wife GVG Contemporary co-owners Blair Vaughn-Gruler and Ernst Gruler's, who are celebrating 10 years running GVG together. “We’ve been collaborating for decades,” says Ernst Gruler, with a laugh. “This show is the elaboration of our collaboration.” Vaughn-Gruler will show a series of new process-based paintings composed of intricate and meditative loops, lines, marks, and layers of pale-toned oil paint. Gruler, an artist and designer, has a new line of furniture…

Recent acquisitions of antique ethnographic textiles from Asia, South America and beyond.

Nüart Gallery presents Figurations 2019 a group exhibition of paintings which will run August 9th through August 25, 2019, with an opening reception on Friday, August 9, from 5-7 pm. Please join us for hors d'oeuvres and live music. An artist talk will directly precede the opening at 4 pm (please RSVP to reserve a spot). Join Nüart Gallery for an exhibition of work by four painters each with a contemporary take on the ancient tradition of representing the figure.…

Dan Peebles photographs are about narration, fiction, drama, time, and space. They are manufactured realities and his own extrapolations of the many contradictions that make us human; our frailties, our strengths, our loneliness, our intimacies, and above all our absurdities. August 9-September 7, 2019 for more information contact Kim Arthun 505-450-6884 or artoon@swcp.com EXHIBIT/208, 208 Broadway SE, Albuquerque, NM Hours Thur, Fri, Sat. 10-4

Bunny Bowen is the featured artist at Wild Hearts Gallery with her exhibition running from July 30 through August 25. The public is invited to the artist’s reception on Sunday, August 11 from 1-4 pm. Light refreshments will be served. Wild Hearts Gallery is located in Placitas, at the Homestead Village, 221-B State Highway 165, 2 ½ miles from I-25. The images in Bowen’s series titled Trappers Lake and Fire Rising are done on art panels using cold wax and…

This Native American art group exhibition during Native Art Week in Santa Fe features work by Native artists Dan Friday, Jody Naranjo, Chris Pappan, Starr Hardridge, Thomas Breeze Marcus, Hyrum Joe, Lisa Holt & Harlan Reano, Maria Samora, and more.

Peach Tree Project Owners Eileen Braziel & Pat Hall Present a thought provoking & Diné inspired exhibition at galleryFRITZ. galleryFRITZ, is pleased to announce Barn Burned Down and Now I Can See the Moon, a Peach Tree Project exhibition featuring Be’he designer Ron Garnanez, new media artist Tony Abeyta, and various Diné burned-wood artists. Barn Burned Down and Now I Can See the Moon opens August 16, 2019 in galleryFRITZ’s downstairs side galleries. This new exhibition will showcase the design…

After a banner year, Santa Fe artist Heidi Brandow debuts a new series of whimsical characters and monsters on a large scale. “I knew from an early age that our native identity is so rich that we shouldn’t just hold it to a specific ceremony or spiritual practice,” says Santa Fe artist Heidi Brandow. “In my eyes, art is a tool that helps mark history, time, place, and memory. Who’s to say pop culture is not equally as important as…

New glass sculptures by Tlingit, Alaska Native artist Preston Singletary during Native Art Week in Santa Fe.

Contemporary railyard art space, galleryFRITZ, is excited to announce Frank Buffalo Hyde’s upcoming solo show, Epochs, opening August 30 and running through September 22, 2019. Buffalo Hyde’s current body of work is a culmination of 25 years of painting. Describing his new work as “liberated” from the self-imposed stylized confines of his earlier work, Buffalo Hyde says, he’s entering a different plane, where he’s now able to do more with his medium and process as a result of his maturity…