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Kate Skelly
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Material World
by Kate Skelly
at Red Dot Gallery
May 24th - June 28th
Posted
5/30/13
Materials are often an afterthought in the artistic process; something to be snatched up in an art supply superstore from fluorescent-lit shelves of chromatically organized jars and tubes. Among artists who hunt for and process their own materials, however, medium becomes an inevitable focal point of the work. The romance of mixing minerals with egg yolk or spreading a tea stain across a blank page can become its own intriguing story, independent from the subject of the final piece. In Rare Ear... [more]
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Caught in the Web
by Kate Skelly
David Leigh, Larry Bob Phillips at Center for Contemporary Arts - Munoz Waxman Gallery
April 18th - May 5th
Posted
4/27/13
The Big Hoot, a new installation currently on view at CCA, is a towering and tangled sight to behold. The ceiling-high piece dominates the entire peripheral area of the warehouse-style Munoz Waxman Front Gallery. The work is made up of interconnected segments of wood; acrylic paint in psychedelic colors decorates the rolling surface of the interconnecting parts; cartoonish figures thrust out at the viewer from various angles, pulling you into a visual roller coaster that moves up and down a ser... [more]
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Tell Me Something Good
by Kate Skelly
at University of New Mexico Art Museum Center for the Arts (Main Campus)
March 1st - May 4th
Posted
3/29/13
Driving to Albuquerque from Santa Fe in March is like propelling into the future by about a month or so. Santa Fe, while having begun its spring thaw, will continue the slow crawl out of winter for some time to come. In Albuquerque, however, chartreuse buds appear at the tips of branches, hyacinths sway in the balmy breeze, and flocks of students drape the patios of outdoor bars along Central. Spring representing a fresh start, I thought it befitting to cover Speak to Me: The 19th Annual Juried Exhib... [more]
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Until The End of the World
by Kate Skelly
Michelle Blade at Center for Contemporary Art
January 18th - February 17th
Posted
1/24/13
Just before 2012 gave way to 2013, we saw another end times prediction come and go. As the Mayan calendar drew to a close, the world kept on turning, and as far as I can tell no massive shift of consciousness took place. This most recent brush with doomsday anticipation now sits neatly at the end of Wikipedia’s list of “dates predicted for apocalyptic events”. Each prediction on the list has of course been repudiated by the world’s pesky habit of sticking around. Perusing this catalogue of grim... [more]
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Deep Space
by Kate Skelly
at New Mexico History Museum
September 30th, 2012 - February 10th
Posted
12/5/12
There is a fascination with yards in New Mexico. Standard, square swaths of green grass are virtually out of the question for everyone except the most devout turf tenders in our parched environment. As an East Coast transplant I remember all too well the angst that can be associated with lawns. Let it go wild, and overgrown and you might as well announce aloud to the entire neighborhood that you are a sex-addicted psychopath. In New Mexico, however, in the absence of greenery and the psychoanalysis... [more]
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The Plush Life
by Kate Skelly
Tamara Wilson at Center for Contemporary Art
October 26th, 2012 - December 9th, 2012
Posted
11/21/12
I recall a space I used to rent in leaner times—a 200 square foot postage stamp of a dwelling. It smelled deeply of cigarettes and oil, a stench that no amount of sage burning or febreezing on my part could ever lift. There was a tiny kitchen, so narrow that my elbows would bump against the wall when I cooked. The carpet was brindled with mysterious stains. The space was empty of furniture save for an old hospital bed I inherited from the previous tenant and an ugly ottoman embroidered with pea... [more]
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Turn on the Bright Lights
by Kate Skelly
SCUBA at Caldera Gallery
September 1st, 2012 - October 23rd, 2012
Posted
10/10/12
Recently, on an almost-chilly evening in late September, I parked my car outside Caldera Gallery. The sun was setting for a drive-in viewing of E.T. Twilight lingered on yellowing leaves as the zesty smell of green chiles roasting perfumed the air: staples of Santa Fe’s autumnal exuberance. In the downtime before the start of the movie I stepped inside Caldera to look around. The shop in the back is full of cheerfully colored ceramic figurines and teacups, decoratively adorned wooden blocks, mi... [more]
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Market Watch
by Kate Skelly
Posted
9/13/12
I learned of the grand opening of a new OmegaMart branch store in Santa Fe on the company website. Splashy ads in primary colors flashily heralded its arrival. I found the market occupying a corner in a half-deserted strip mall in South Santa Fe. From the street it looks unassuming, like the last store standing in a tumbleweed strewn ghost town. A young woman greeted me as I walked in the door with frosty robotic enthusiasm. Japanese pop plays soothingly on the loud speakers. In the back of the o... [more]
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Reality Check
by Kate Skelly
Seung Woo Back, ZOE BELOFF, Thomas Demand, Mark Dion, Leandro Erlich, Omer Fast, Cao Fei, John Gerrard, Johan Grimonprez, Iris Haussler, Jonn Herschend, Pierre Huyghe, Bertrand Lavier, An-My Lê, Joel Lederer, Sharon Lockhart, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Eva and Franco Mattes, Yes Me, Jonathan Monk, Vik Muniz, Trevor Paglen, Walid Raad, Dario Robleto, Eve Sussman, Mary Temple, Ai Weiwei at SITE Santa Fe
July 8th, 2012 - January 6th
Posted
8/15/12
From the flash and swagger of Vegas, to the manicured, lamppost-lined Main Street of Disneyland, we are proffered up a regular cultural diet of distorted, exaggerated versions of reality. The hyperreal seeps into even the most mundane crannies of our existence: our newspapers, breakfast cereal, tennis shoes, and coupon-clippings. Everywhere you turn there is something to buy, sniff, gnaw on, or run your finger along the sides of that has that certain smack of the real, that kind of chewy, overripe... [more]
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Art Santa Fe: Sparkle and Fade
by Kate Skelly
at Art Santa Fe
July 12th, 2012 - July 15th, 2012
Posted
7/18/12
The opening night frenzy of Art Santa Fe delivers an initial sugar rush of dizzy excitement before the inevitable crash into sensory fatigue. Inside, drink in hand, I navigated through the usual suspects: collectors, socialites, and art professionals who make up the regular Santa Fe gallery scene lineup. Unexpected are the Japanese businessmen in sharp white suits, beaming kimono-clad artists, and a solemn row of women fast at work making traditional Korean paper arts in a forgotten corner of the b... [more]
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Where the Wild Things Are
by Kate Skelly
Dana Bunker, Nani Chacon, Julia Cizeski, Josh Decelles, Dumperfoo, Michelle Eckhardt, Leah Gonzales, cannupa hanska luger, Vic Macias, Matthew Dean Martinez, Christopher Merlyn, Sergio Moyano, Judith Mullen, Wes Naman, Neil Ottaviano, Thomas Allan Parks, Prakashivaja, Zach Scheinbaum, Elizabeth Sobel, Tanya Story, Dion Terry, Autry Tolbert, Jared Antonio-Justo Trujillo, Mr. Went, Micah The Werewolf, Missy Wolf, Alberto Zalma at EGGMAN and WALRUS
June 1st, 2012 - July 14th, 2012
Posted
6/19/12
Ferus. The word practically buzzes with vitality, conjuring to mind images of a wild animal—back arched, teeth bared, fur bristling. The exhibition, Ferus, currently on view at Eggman and Walrus gallery lives up to the wildness implicit in the provocative title. This group show consisting of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photography from twenty-six local and far-flung artists is pulsating with raw energy. A menagerie of animal life is present: anthropomorphic wolves, metallic bees, tattooed ho... [more]
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