Introducing Smoke The Moon, a new contemporary gallery and one of Santa Fe’s newest additions to the downtown art landscape.
Chrysalis*Metamorphosis
August 13—September 12, 2021
Smoke The Moon, Santa Fe
One of Santa Fe’s newest additions to the downtown art landscape is Smoke The Moon, a new contemporary gallery located on the second floor of 101 West Marcy Street. The gallery opened in mid-June after eighteen months of quarantine and lockdown with a salon of work inspired by the psychedelic desert called High Desert High. The show included the work of twenty-two artists from across North America and Europe and offered a playful approach to the typical Southwestern subject.
Despite a few hiccups with big monsoon storms and the sporadic power failure, the summer buzzed with renewed energy, and Smoke The Moon presented two concurrent solo shows: Southwestern by Paige Turner-Uribe, and Diary of the Usual Sadness by Palestinian-Canadian Ibrahim Abusitta. Turner-Uribe has deep family ties to Albuquerque and this was the first time she has exhibited in Santa Fe. Abusitta, a Toronto-based artist and well known in Canada, debuted a new series of floral bouquet paintings.
The gallery’s current salon show is dedicated to the aforementioned notion of “re-entry,” or, the cheerful moment during summer when it seemed that life would resume. Chrysalis*Metamorphosis is a group show of painting (and some ceramic work) that features more than twenty emerging artists from across the U.S. and Canada. The motif of the butterfly is the through-line in this joyous, colorful, humorous, and at times, witty exhibition. Be sure to visit Chrysalis*Metamorphosis before it closes on September 12 and experience exciting new works in painting from across the country at Smoke The Moon.
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Smoke The Moon is located at 101 West Marcy Street in suite 203 (second floor), Santa Fe, NM, 87501. Please visit @smokethemoon on Instagram for more information.
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