A Storefront Art Exhibition Must Balance Creative Expression With Private Interest
Windows On the Future, which spans Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos, aims to re-energize commercial districts that have slowed down due to COVID-19.
July 24, 2020
Visual Art
The Annexation of Art, Empathy, and the Future
From thermal surveillance imaging to maps of the dead to stories and visions of survival, the work at two imminent Santa Fe exhibitions invites you to come closer to some of the millions of humans who have lost, fled, or been chased from their homes and countries in the past three decades.
July 13, 2020
Uncharted: Sarah Stolar
This week we chat with Sarah Stolar, an interdisciplinary artist and head of the art department at UNM-Taos. She shares how her students are coping, and the importance of supporting young artists whose voices we need most
May 19, 2020
NM Art from Anywhere: Jeff Kellar, New Work
Richard Levy Gallery presents New Work: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, a solo exhibition of colorful minimal pieces by Jeff Kellar. He creates beautiful surfaces through the application of many layers of acrylic resin and clay pigment onto paper, aluminum panels, and woodblocks. Each layer is methodically sanded and buffed leaving the surface smooth and modulated. Playing with illusion, ambiguity, and space, Kellar uses these ultra-flat surfaces to form dimensional compositions.
May 06, 2020
NM Art from Anywhere: Tonee Harbert, Through the Static and Distance
This exhibition is the culmination of Tonee Harbert's first nine months at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program. A photography exhibition that shows the southeast New Mexico landscape with surreal and melancholy beauty, and is relevant during the pandemic, showing an absence of people, while referencing marks of humanity on the landscape.
May 06, 2020
Navigating the Noise: Exhibitions Online
The current state of virtual exhibitions is rather disappointing, but there are a few promising gems out there in the cacophonous landscape of the net. In this essay, Lauren Tresp tries to make some sense of the noise of art online.
April 29, 2020
NM Art From Anywhere: Visual Limits at 5. Gallery
As an invited guest of the family, Jan Butchofsky was asked to witness the Coming of Age Ceremony of two maidens during two separate celebrations and was honored to bear witness to these sacred and very private preparations and ceremonies.
March 27, 2020
NM Art From Anywhere: Illumination: Tom Kirby at Winterowd Fine Art
As an invited guest of the family, Jan Butchofsky was asked to witness the Coming of Age Ceremony of two maidens during two separate celebrations and was honored to bear witness to these sacred and very private preparations and ceremonies.
March 27, 2020
Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan
Yōkai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan at the Museum of International Folk Art spotlights the Japanese folk art tradition of yōkai, which depicts paranormal beings such as ghosts, demons, and monsters in a variety of settings, ranging from traditional kabuki theater to Pokémon anime.
March 26, 2020
Memphis Barbree: The Sky Calls to Us
Santa Fe based photographer Memphis Barbree's project, The Sky Calls to Us, documents the Kennedy Space Center in its grandness and the markings of those who created the space program.
March 26, 2020
Labor: Motherhood and Art in 2020
Labor: Motherhood and Art in 2020 in NMSU’s new art building fills its elegant spaces with imposing artwork, mostly photographs and installation work.These exhibitions put a spotlight on the idea of motherhood as a powerful but almost invisible force in life.
March 26, 2020
[sponsored] Sol Hill’s Metagraphs: Recording the Unknown
Patina Gallery presents Urban Landscapes, a collection of metagraphs by artist Sol Hill. A native New Mexican and son of Santa Fe artist Megan Hill, this will be Hill’s second show in New Mexico.
March 26, 2020
Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation
The provocative work of Francesca Woodman, an art photographer who took her life at only twenty-two, takes on new dimensions in Portrait of a Reputation, an exhibition at MCA Denver that combines Woodman’s experimental work from the late 1970s with candid photos of the artist by her friend, George Lange.
March 26, 2020
Charlene Teters: Way of Sorrows
The new Charlene Teters exhibition at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe challenges border policies in a time of mass migration.
March 26, 2020
Esphyr Slobodkina: Six Decades of Groundbreaking Painting, Collage, and Sculpture
Esphyr Slobodkina: Six Decades of Groundbreaking Painting, Collage, and Sculpture at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe is a window into twentieth-century abstract art by one of the movement’s early pioneers, Esphyr Slobodkina, a versatile and prolific New York artist. A cofounder of the American Abstract Artists group, she translated the concepts of European Modernism into American idiom.
March 26, 2020
[sponsored] Leah Mata Fragua at the School for Advanced Research
Artist Leah Mata Fragua on addressing climate change during her School for Advanced Research fellowship in Santa Fe.
March 26, 2020
Indelible Ink: Native Women, Printmaking, Collaboration
Indelible Ink displays pieces by nine multigenerational Native American printmaking women whose artwork stuns with originality, beauty, and color, while also illustrating the historical trauma that impacts Native people today.
March 26, 2020
Donald Judd & Barnett Newman
Chinati's special exhibition is like a conversation between Donald Judd and Barnett Newman, with work from both artists on view.
March 26, 2020
NM Art From Anywhere: Ceremony: Coming of Age at Edition One
As an invited guest of the family, Jan Butchofsky was asked to witness the Coming of Age Ceremony of two maidens during two separate celebrations and was honored to bear witness to these sacred and very private preparations and ceremonies.
March 23, 2020
NM Art From Anywhere: Kat Kinnick at Hecho a Mano
Depicting wildlife and wilderness of the high desert of New Mexico, Kat Kinnick works to create a culture of fondness and connectedness to our natural world. The artist says, “creating culture through art is like creating a value system.
March 20, 2020
[sponsored] León De la Rosa-Carrillo’s The Remix Room
This spring, UNM Art Museum hosts new-media artist León De la Rosa-Carrillo’s The Remix Room, which will offer visitors “six different stations in which remix can be explored as a viable strategy to conduct research and produce remixed content.”
January 28, 2020
FeatureNew Mexico Artists to Know Now
c marquez: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
“The intention of this work is to honor vulnerability, impermanence, and cycles of life on our planet,” c marquez says of their work, which includes two-dimensional pieces, sculpture, installation, and the results of a daily sketchbook practice.
January 28, 2020
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Rapheal Begay: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Intensely thoughtful, Raphael Begay sees significance in objects and quotidian scenes and is able to begin a conversation with the viewer through his lens. With installations and discussions about his work, he adds a further dimension of storytelling that engages community...
January 28, 2020
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Joe Ramiro Garcia: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Garcia, an Art Institute of Chicago–educated artist who moved to Santa Fe from his native Houston in 1987, developed a unique transfer procedure: he creates an image or pattern on paper that’s soaked in gum arabic and water, which is then hand pressed onto a painting surface.
January 28, 2020
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MK: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Currently residing in Albuquerque where they are pursuing an MFA in photography, MK began the recent series The Pain Is Just an Annoyance Now as members of their family began to pass away and they witnessed the grief of their mother. These losses spurred an exploration of the complications of family relationships, as well as obscured histories through the physical remnants of the past that shore up the present—family photo albums.
January 28, 2020
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Cedra Wood: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Looking at Cedra Wood’s paintings feels a little like finding a secret door to enchanted lands. Wood understands a connection between the outer wild terrains and the inward ones. Her art celebrates both realms as essential and beautiful, linked by mythos. The worlds she depicts evoke something of the hero’s journey.
January 28, 2020
Fish in Persian Gardens
Zahra Marwan’s exhibition at the Sanitary Tortilla Factory in Albuquerque pairs exquisite poetry with her illustrations, paintings on paper.
January 28, 2020
Robyn O’Neil: We, The Masses
We, The Masses: Here, the men—drawn in mind-blowing detail on palimpsest-free surfaces—engage in unhinged activity, ranging from gnawing on tree bark to fighting with one another. Some men hug en masse: they seem to know that O’Neil is about to hit the go button on the apocalypse...
January 28, 2020
In A Modern Rendering – The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann
Born in Germany in 1881, Baumann’s parents moved to Chicago when he was ten, and the budding artist began attending the School of the Art Institute in his teens, at one of its most fecund and influential periods. Baumann wasn’t the first of his Chicago peers to discover New Mexico, but he planted deeper roots than most. Fellow master printmaker and Baumann’s soul-heir Tom Leech contributes a heartfelt reflection on decades spent working with the artist’s materials, upholding his legacy at Santa Fe’s Palace of the Governors...
January 28, 2020
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Eric-Paul Riege: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Eric-Paul Riege’s (Diné) elaborate and beautiful fiber works not only connect him with his ancestral and artistic centers, but also envelop viewers in an everyday Navajo worldview, one that the artist believes should be communal.
January 28, 2020
