CURRENT EXHIBITS [66]

Opening: July 27th, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

“When I got to New Mexico that was mine. As soon as I saw it, that was my country. It fitted to me exactly.”- Georgia O’Keeffe 1977 The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is delighted to present “Georgia O’Keeffe and The Faraway: Nature andImage,” which opens on May 11, 2012. This exhibition is the first to demonstrate how the beauty and elegance of O’Keeffe’s paintings were prompted by t...   [more]

Opening: May 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

“I want my paintings to have not pattern but order and structure underneath – not on top- not what you see hidden – covered – but felt” - Beatrice Mandelman “Tensions exacerbate in Mandelman's work because of her desire to belong to the fashionable international realm of the vanguard. … Not just propaganda, this art manifests or symbolizes a range of feelings and is not simply a vehicle...   [more]

Opening: July 7th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

In 1935 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration. Renamed the Work Projects Administration WPA in 1939, it employed millions of workers for public works projects. The Federal Art Project (FAP), operating from August 29, 1935 until June 30, 1943, was the visual arts arm of the WPA program.  Artists contracted through the FAP project created more than 200,000 works...   [more]

Opening: July 7th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

"… to the poet, all times and places are one; … no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. The steam whistle will not affright him nor the flutes of Arcadia weary him: … there is but one time, the artistic moment; but one law, the law of form; but one land, the land of Beauty - a land removed indeed from the real world and yet more sensuous because more enduring."           ...   [more]

Opening: July 7th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Highlights from the Harwood Museum of Art’s Collection of Contemporary Art is the first installation in the newly re-purposed Joyce and Sherman Scott Gallery.  Previously utilized for temporary exhibitions, the Scott Gallery will now showcase work from the Harwood Museum of Art's renowned collection of work created after 1965. “The Harwood Museum of Art has always been committed to celebrati...   [more]

Opening: July 7th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

During summer 2012 the Curator's Wall will feature a work by Mimi Chen Ting entitled Between Space 'n Time. This work, created in 2012, measures 192" x 54" and consists of four panels of acrylic, charcoal, and graphite on canvas. Artist's Statement Between Space n” Time, Mimi Chen Ting’s latest painting, is another step taken in her long journey as an artist. It is her habit, upon completi...   [more]

Opening: July 7th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Among contemporary sculptors working with wire mesh, Eric Boyer stands out for the beauty of his male and female figures and for the sophistication with which he explores a medium that consists as much in open, empty space as in the solid strands that contain it. Boyer’s most characteristic work is clearly reminiscent of classical Greek or Roman sculpture, but always seen as incomplete relics of a...   [more]

Opening: August 10th, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

“What is important,” says Charlotte Foust, “is the process.”   For her, that process is profoundly intuitive. Foust approaches her collage paintings with no plan in mind, no preconceptions except that she will not censor what comes to her.  She begins each painting with some initial line and mark-making, then lets the piece evolve as it will, building layers or scratching through layers,...   [more]

Opening: August 10th, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

James Kelly is pleased to present Back and Forth: New Paintings by Robert Kelly. This will be Robert Kelly’s first exhibition after joining the gallery in 2011. Back and Forth: New Paintings by Robert Kelly will open with a reception for the artist on Friday, August 10, 2012, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. The exhibition will continue through October 13, 2012. The exhibition will consist of approximately eig...   [more]

Opening: August 10th, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Trenchard creates architectural vignettes using a glass casting process she has perfected. Hand sculpted and painted glass objects are cast within solid blocks that fit together to tell colorful biographical stories. Jane Sauer Gallery is very pleased to be presenting a solo exhibition by well known glass artist Stephanie Trenchard. “NARRATIVES IN GLASS” explores the artist's talents as a t...   [more]

Opening: July 20th, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

SOFA (Sculptural Objects and Functional Art) planned to have a 4th year art fair in the beautiful Santa Fe Convention Center this August. Unfortunately in June they cancelled the fair for this year. As a happy participant every year since the beginning, the Jane Sauer Gallery was very disappointed. Sauer states, “I always found that the fair attracted a new audience to Santa Fe and was a financial...   [more]

Opening: August 3rd, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Charcoal works on paper by Carol Meine offer a formal examination of light, dark, and space. “Draw: Unseen Marks”, the works of Carol Meine, are drawings in charcoal on paper.  The artist describes her drawings as being, “deep, black, indistinct.  They are dark, smeary, of simple, essential form.”   [more]

Opening: August 3rd, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Marianne McGrath presents a conceptual, mixed-media installation, influenced by landscape and personal history. “What I See, What I Saw” is an installation piece by artist Marianne McGrath of Austin, Texas. This large installation is comprised of 3,000 hand-formed ceramic roses made from raw clay and preserved in wax.  The delicate flowers “rise on steel rods out of the roofs of plywood house...   [more]

Opening: August 3rd, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

From the Praxis Collective, six painters exhibit an installation of small-scale works that carry personal symbolism. “Indra’s Net” is an installation piece by the Praxis Collective.  More than 300 miniature paintings become a larger unit that “. . . provide a glimpse into each of the artist’s visions.”  Praxis Collective members include Tauna Cole, Robin Wiener Labe, Jacklyn St. Aubyn, I...   [more]

Opening: August 3rd, 2012   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

LewAllen Galleries’ upcoming exhibition, The Line of Nature: A Continuing Exploration, will feature extraordinary new paintings as well as a selection of recent monotypes by celebrated contemporary landscape painter John Fincher. Reconfiguring and updating the distinctive iconography of American landscapes, Fincher's independence of vision contributes novel perspectives of an environment that symboliz...   [more]

Opening: August 3rd, 2012   5:30 PM - 7:30 PM