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Brittny24x36 Clifford Bailey   Pick-button
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Clifford Bailey at Pop Gallery September 18th, 2009 - October 30th, 2009
Posted 7/31/09

Timed to celebrate the unique and robust flavors of New Mexico during the 19th Annual Wine & Chile Fest comes a sultry fall show filled with whimsy and romance featuring new work by internationally renowned artist Clifford Bailey. Wine tasting with a local vineyard & tasty New Mexican hors d'oeuvres will be served. Clifford BAILEY's highly individualized style of painting is often described as vibrant, exciting, and sophisticated. The artist captures the very energy and essence of Jazz and Jazz c... [more]

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Squeak Carnwath at Turner Carroll Gallery July 10th, 2009 - August 4th, 2009
Posted 7/15/09

About Squeak Carnwath, critic Miriam Seidel said "Carnwath builds her paintings up layer by layer, blending poetry and imagery with color and luminosity to emphasize the essence of her message: We should all take the time to appreciate and revel in the familiar circumstances of our daily lives."  Squeak is a major American painter whose work may be found in the collections of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, SFMOMA, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Squeak Carnwath, Manifestati... [more]

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Chief Z.O.Oloruntoba at Dorothy Rogers Fine Art July 10th, 2009 - July 25th, 2009
Posted 7/15/09

The Chief was born October 1, 1919. He is a spiritual leader, artist, herbalist, avid polo player to this day, flutist and film maker. His art is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Queen Elizabeth II, David Rockefeller, and Muhammad Ali. He is also a well-known practitioner of herbal medicine who consults and conducts workshops at such institutions as the Georgetown University Medical School. The Chief uses medicinal herbs to dye the fibers he uses in his tapestries and... [more]

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David Trautrimas at photo-eye Gallery July 10th, 2009 - September 19th, 2009
Posted 7/12/09

An exhibition celebrating David Trautrimas' first solo U.S. show, Habitat Machines. Also available as a limited edition book with print, the first publication by photo-eye Editions. For information about the limited edition, please inquire.    David Trautrimas The Fishing Complex, 2008   Archival Pigment Print  32x42" Image  Unmatted  Edition of 5  [more]

Vs-08-17 On the Precipice of Cataclysm   Pick-button
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Victoria Sambunaris at James Kelly Contemporary June 20th, 2009 - July 18th, 2009
Posted 7/12/09

James Kelly Contemporary is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photographs by Victoria Sambunaris. The exhibition will consist of new work from her most recent sojourn to the vast western expanses of the United States, as well as work from previous series documenting trains, trucks and mines. This will be her third exhibition with the gallery.   Sambunaris’ new work comes from her 2008 trip to Yellowstone National Park and the Snake River Plane of southern Idaho. During her trip she was... [more]

Irlandbook An Ecological Language   Pick-button
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Basia Irland at Center for Contemporary Art July 3rd, 2009 - July 31st, 2009
Posted 7/12/09

CCA presents ice sculptures and photography by Basia Irland in their spector ripps project space. Irland continues her series of hand-carved ice books, which are embedded with local native riparian seeds and gifted to rivers, the arteries of our land. receding/reseeding emphasizes the necessity of communal effort and scientific knowledge to deal with the complex issues of climate disruption and pollution of watersheds. For some of these ice books, water is gathered from a local river by participants,... [more]

499486 Thinking Outside the Cube   Pick-button
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Denise Yaghmourian at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art June 12th, 2009 - July 18th, 2009
Posted 7/5/09

Beginning on June 12, 2009 Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, at 435 South Guadalupe Street in Santa Fe, New Mexico will present three separate shows opening on the same night. We are pleased to announce the opening of Outside the Box, an exhibition of new sculptural boxes by artist, Denise Yaghmourian. Denise Yaghmourian’s work uses found objects, fabric remnants, wood, sewing notions and other everyday objects to create sculptural boxes that rely on repetition to create a sense of infinite... [more]

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Michael Freitas Wood at Box Gallery June 26th, 2009 - July 26th, 2009
Posted 7/5/09

In these small to medium-sized abstract works, Wood lays down layer upon layer of acrylic paint and modeling paste, building grids on square or circular panels. In some paintings the surfaces are sanded smooth, to a polished, ceramic-like finish. The excitement often happens "between the lines" where pigments are allowed to escape the imposed structure.   Make Meaning For This 24 x 24 inches / acrylic, modeling paste on MDO board / 2009 [more]

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Brent Green at SITE Santa Fe June 13th, 2009 - September 6th, 2009
Posted 6/28/09

Pennsylvania based artist Brent Green is known for his stop-motion short films in which he combines hand-drawn animations and rickety handmade sets. These works reflect his abiding interest in the strange characters and local stories of his childhood in Appalachia. His 2007 film Carlin was a darkly comic tale, which told of the slow death by diabetes of his Aunt Carlin. Shot in the farmhouse where Green grew up with lifesized handmade wooden characters, the film was imbued with the southern got... [more]

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Richard Edson, Morgan Slade at Perihelion Arts July 3rd, 2009 - July 31st, 2009
Posted 6/28/09

Actor/musician Richard Edson, easily recognized for his unforgettable roles in Jim Jarmusch's, 'Stranger Than Paradise," Spike Lee's, "Do the Right Thing!" and character roles as the joyriding valet Smyznyk in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," and Monix in "Starsky and Hutch," proves his versatility as a photographer.  June 19 – 29, 2008 Richard Edson was the original drummer with the band Sonic Youth and played trumpet and percussion with New York based afro-dance band Konk. He has continued to purs... [more]

1-001 Bugs in Amber   Pick-button
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Louisa Barkalow, Julie Kornblum, Frances Melhop, Joie Villeneuve at ArtHaus66 Gallery June 5th, 2009 - July 31st, 2009
Posted 6/28/09

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we all are bugs in amber.                                                                       Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007) While we travel through our lifetimes in a perceived state of encapsulation and subject to a beginning and an end, everything around us is in eve... [more]

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Sean Albert, Steve Klein, Lucy Lyon, Charles Miner, Ethan Stern, Hiroshi Yamano at LewAllen Galleries (Railyard) June 5th, 2009 - June 28th, 2009
Posted 6/21/09

At LewAllen Contemporary six glass artists: The technical and artistic inventiveness of today's studio glass. Lucy Lyon Morning Library Cast Glass & Aluminum 20.25 in x 17 in x 15.75 in [more]

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Lawrence Morrell, Martin Rosol, Jack Schmidt, Michael Taylor at Judy Youens Gallery June 12th, 2009 - July 25th, 2009
Posted 6/21/09

Judy Youens Gallery’s “Big Four” will present the top glass artists that emerged in the early 1980‘s at the beginning of the Studio Glass Movement: Michael Taylor, Martin Rosol, Jack Schmidt and Lawrence Morrell. Judy Youens represents all of these artists, with the exception of Morrell, in her gallery in Houston, Texas. Michael Taylor and Martin Rosol work with pure crystal glass and transform glass into abstract forms in both color and clear crystal. Michael Taylor was a pioneer in th... [more]

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Brent Kee Young at JANE SAUER GALLERY June 12th, 2009 - July 7th, 2009
Posted 6/21/09

Brent Kee Young’s innovative glass techniques beautifully express his conceptual thoughts and his object based designs.  His unique and technically complex structures are displayed in major museum collections around the world.  In his Matrix Series he flame works Corning Pyrex rods to create intricately layered glass webs.  The delicate luminosity of this work is truly exquisite.  Yet some of his greatest influence has occurred in universities.  He headed the establishment of the first gl... [more]

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Ruben Ochoa at SITE Santa Fe June 13th, 2009 - September 6th, 2009
Posted 6/14/09

Los Angeles artist Ruben Ochoa investigates the ways that class and race are expressed in the built environment. Drawing equally from international conceptual practices of the last thirty years and the funk and humor typical of the West Coast scene, he makes videos, public art interventions, sculptures, and installations from concrete, re-bar, dirt, metal fencing, asphalt, and related materials. His best known project, Freeway Wall Extraction (2006-7) injected photographic murals into a slice of LA’s... [more]

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Lindsay Feuer, Kathleen Royster Lamb, Kate MacDowell, Andy Rogers at Santa Fe Clay June 12th, 2009 - July 18th, 2009
Posted 6/14/09

This show will introduce four emerging artists to the Santa Fe audience: Lindsay Feuer, Kate MacDowell, Andy Rogers, and Kathleen Royster Lamb. Nature, through human, botanical, and animal forms is the common thread of these artists’ sculptures, with a focus on issues of growth, decay and metamorphosis. Using richly varied and hybridized fruit, flower, animal, and human forms, the work presented comments on man's relationship to his environment. Each of these young artists works in an intima... [more]


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