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Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction
Exhibit May 28th through September 12th
The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Phillips Collection, and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum are jointly organizing O’Keeffe and Abstraction, the first exhibition to focus comprehensively on Georgia O’Keeffe’s abstractions over the course of her career.
Exhibit May 28th through September 12th
Ron Nagle: Spit Shine
Exhibit July 30th through September 25th
Reception Friday July 30th from 5:00-7:00 pm
In recent years, Nagle has shifted his focus away from the cup/vessel form focusing on small-scale abstract sculptures. These new works are highly detailed, although intimate in scale. The unique textures and garish color combinations are trademarks of Nagle’s work. He combines rough highly textured surfaces, which have been sprayed with mat color glazes, with exquisitely smooth surfaces on the same piece.
Exhibit July 30th through September 25th
The Resonant Field: Charlotte Cain
Exhibit July 30th through October 7th
Reception Friday July 30th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Solo Art Show of Works on Paper. Intimate spaces of immensity and silence manifest as lines that dance into existence, communicating sacred presence and process. Charlotte Cain's work was collected by Agnes Martin and has earned her NEA and Fulbright awards. She has exhibited at galleries and museums in the US and India. Major studies include her degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and study with master miniaturist painters in India.
Exhibit July 30th through October 7th
Raymond Jonson
Exhibit August 13th through September 25th
Reception Friday August 13th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Aaron Payne Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of over 25 paintings by Raymond Jonson (1891-1982). The exhibition will focus on the dynamic and singularly beautiful abstractions painted by Jonson between 1931 and 1950. There will be more than a dozen works from his Transcendental Period (1938-1941). The exhibition features works that have never been exhibited before, including several paintings from the Collection of Herbert & Evelyn Weinstein of Santa Fe.
Exhibit August 13th through September 25th
Maria Martinez (1887-1980)
Exhibit August 13th through September 17th
Maria Martinez and Family 12th Annual Show and Sale
Over 70 pieces available by Maria Martinez and family including Popovi Da.
Exhibit August 13th through September 17th
ATELIER ZOBEL: New Jewelry Works
Exhibit August 13th through September 5th
Reception Friday August 13th from 5:00pm
Atelier Zobel, the inimitable artist jewelry studio from Constanz, Germany, returns this August for a tenth Soul Stirring Patina Gallery engagement. Scheduled to coincide with Santa Fe's world-renowned Indian Market. This year, in addition to more than one hundred fifty of the Atelier's signature jewels, artist Peter Schmid brings collaborative works that combine the painterly metal treatments of the Atelier with the gem and mineral creations of the German stone-cutter, Andreas Hochstrasser.
Exhibit August 13th through September 5th
Squeak Carnwath: New Work
Exhibit August 13th through September 13th
Reception Friday August 13th from 5:00-7:00 pm
This exhibition features one of the most influential contemporary artists in America. Squeak Carnwath received her MFA from California's College of Arts and Crafts in 1977 and currently is a professor at the University of California at Berkley. She has inspired hundreds of artists over her three decades of teaching and with her style and recognition she is helping to define contemporary art history. Her work is hung in permanent collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art an New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Exhibit August 13th through September 13th
Identity & Pride: Aesthetic Expressions in Plains Art
Exhibit August 14th through September 4th
Reception Saturday August 14th from 6:00-8:00 pm
Among the many tribes of the Plains region, we find an incredible amount of tribal diversity and unique expression.
Our annual exhibition will focus on the aesthetics of Plains Art, including beadwork, quillwork, and painted works.
We invite you to join us in celebrating the brilliance of the Plains regional aesthetic!
Exhibit August 14th through September 4th
Artistic Ensemble: Doug Hyde, John Moyers, & Terri Kelly Moyers
Exhibit August 14th through September 4th
Represented by Nedra Matteucci Galleries for over 30 years, Doug Hyde is an artist whose career, like much of his artwork, is of larger-than-life proportions. He creates both monumental and more intimately scaled works. John Moyers continually receives accolades and honors for his paintings in all media. Inspired by the historic artists of the Southwest who forged a unique American vision, John Moyers brings his own masterfully fluid technique and propensity for bold composition to his colorful scenes of the region. Frederic Remington Award-winner Terri Kelly Moyers also contributes her tremendous creative talent to this exhibition. Moyers has forged her own path as an artist with singularity of vision.
Exhibit August 14th through September 4th
New works by artist Stephen Auger and paintings and prints and neon sculpture by François Morellet and Tony Soulie
Exhibit August 14th through September 10th
Reception Saturday August 14th from 5-7:00pm
Exhibit August 14th through September 10th
Aleta Pippin: Path of Exploration
Exhibit August 18th through September 8th
Reception Friday August 20th from 5:00-8:00 pm
Pippin enjoys exploring new techniques, new materials, new imagery.She started on a journey with mixed media last year and has continued that exploration. Results of her new processes and brief explanation will be featured in this show.
Exhibit August 18th through September 8th
Reading Between the Lines: Contemporary Ledger Art
Exhibit August 19th through September 5th
Reception Thursday August 19th from 5:00-7:00 pm
In honor of Indian Market 2010, we will present an exciting new show featuring works by leading contemporary Ledger artists including, Dwayne Wilcox, Sheridan MacKnight, Stan Natchez, Gino Bear, Darryl Growing Thunder, Linda Haukaas, Dallin Maybee, and Dolores Purdy Corcoran.
Exhibit August 19th through September 5th
Out of Tradition: Works of Carol Emarthle-Douglas, Lisa Telford, Dawn Walden
Exhibit August 20th through September 20th
Reception Friday August 20th from 5:00-8:00 pm
These extraordinarily talented women capture the richness of their Native cultures through their use of materials, techniques or both. The baskets they create elevate what began as a utilitarian container to fine art. Each has stretched the concept of traditional forms and images in ways new to them. They have acted fearlessly in pushing the envelope of a strong and treasured form of weaving to make a contemporary statement.
Exhibit August 20th through September 20th
ATMOSPHERIC ARCHITECTURE of the SOUTHWEST: ALVIN GILL- TAPIA
Exhibit August 20th through September 7th
Reception Friday August 20th from 5:30- 7:30 pm
Featuring Alvin Gill-Tapia’s new pieces for his Indian Market exhibition. Arroyo is also proud to acknowledge Gill- Tapia’s current museum show at the Rockwell Museum in New York, where several important large- scale pieces are on display. MATA ORTIZ POTTERY: BORN of HEAT, HAND, and HEART are also featured in this exhibition is renowned pottery from world- famous artisan potters of Mata Ortiz, Mexico. The highly refined craftsmanship in these beautiful vessels offers a unique addition to any collection.
THE DISTINCTIVE WESTERN BRONZES of TIM HARMON
Tim Harmon’s classical western sculpture depicting cattle drives and ranch scenes are beautifully rendered in bronze. His life experience as a rancher has influenced his magnificent Frederic Remington- like works, and Tim shows exclusively in New Mexico at Arroyo.
Exhibit August 20th through September 7th
Collected Voices: Contemporary Native Art
Exhibit August 20th through September 10th
Reception Friday August 20th from 5:00-7:00 pm
This year, Chiaroscuro's annual Indian Market show, Collected Voices: Contemporary Native Art, features the work of eight contemporary Native artists. Collected Voices showcases the talents and visions of this extraordinary group of artists as a dialogue between the generations and between the diverse mediums of painting, ceramic, glass, and works on paper. Each artist brings his or her unique aesthetic to the powerful themes of identity, place, and changing traditions.
Collected Voices features seven gallery artists and one new artist, Joe Feddersen, represented by Froelick Gallery in Portland, Oregon. In addition to the late Harry Fonseca, the returning artists include, Rick Bartow, Yatika Starr Fields, Lisa Holt and Harlan Reano, Rose B. Simpson, and Kay Walkingstick.
Exhibit August 20th through September 10th
Keiko Sadakane: TO GANADO
Exhibit August 20th through September 18th
Reception Friday August 20th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Keiko Sadakane presents a body of interrelated wall sculpture/objects using plywood, Plexiglas, steel, and chromed brass. Inspired by the Native American culture from her first visit to Santa Fe 2 years ago, Sadakane's materials and colors subtly invoke a sense of place as she remains dedicated to minimalist forms. Each sculpture/object is presented in two equal parts: the precision cut planes of the materials step downward, and are then mirrored back upward in the rhythm of the companion form. Each side edge of the form reflects the other’s complementary colors and patterns.Guided by a fascination with comparative literature, history, and art, Sadakane was struck by the Navajo culture, and in particular, its use of pattern and complementary colors. From her studio in Dusseldorf, Germany, Sadakane spoke about the exhibition’s title, “With the words ‘to Ganado’ I want to express my longing and respect for the American Indians I had gotten to know in Santa Fe for the first time. These acquaintances made my world unexpectedly much wider.”
Exhibit August 20th through September 18th
Perla Krauze: IMPRINTS
Exhibit August 20th through September 18th
Reception Friday August 20th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Showing concurrently at Gebert Contemporary at the Railyard is Perla Krauze, with a site specific installation. Fascinated with the passage of time, and what is left behind, Krauze has completed a series of multidisciplinary works which include floor rubbings and a constellation of cast stones hanging in place, all "artifacts" of impressions. The intention for the artist is to make more visible the 'non visible' by presenting the traces of time and memory of specific sites. Using lead, water, cast resin, aluminum, paint, oil, and charcoal to convey the "invisible" nature of time and memory, Krauze continues to be fascinated with the beauty of the subtle visual remnants from her travels.
Exhibit August 20th through September 18th
Gugger Petter: Barking Dogs
Exhibit August 20th through September 22nd
Reception Friday August 20th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Petter’s innovative and masterful use of newspaper is surprising and engaging. She states: “My fascination with newspaper consists not only of its being "the diary of our lives," it also presents me with a black/white/and a limited color palette, which has always been my choice.” Color from the Sunday comics section or advertisements, is woven into the black and white print from the newspaper. Sometimes she sparingly paints her newspaper canvas to embellish the picture plane. “My work is most often based on an oversized image of an observation of daily life, which can be seen as an abstraction as well as a representational image, where surface, subject matter, color and content all convey tension between opposites.”
Exhibit August 20th through September 22nd
Reception Friday August 20th from 5:00-8:00 pm
Pam Cobb paints monumental landscapes by applying acrylic layers over gold leaf. In addition to her work, David Solomon will create a large wall installation by combining dozens of his works on paper and aluminum.
Exhibit August 20th through September 18th
Shonto Begay
Exhibit August 20th through September 24th
Reception Friday August 20th from 2-4 pm
Visit our Santa Fe Gallery to view a selection of new paintings by national acclaimed Navajo artist, Shonto Begay. Show opens on Santa Fe Indian Market Weekend.
Exhibit August 20th through September 24th
Joanne Lefrak: Past As Presence
Exhibit August 27th through October 2nd
Reception Friday August 27th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Mounted directly to the wall, Lefrak’s scratched Plexiglas drawings, when directly lit, create nearly photo-realistic images in shadow. Lefrak writes: My intention is to visually represent a space or place that transmits energy from the past. Each image has a story to tell, and in the same way that the shadow is connected to the drawing, the scenes that are represented are inseparable from history.” The show will include drawings of Trinity Site, the infamous NM testing ground for atomic bombs, 2 of which were exhibited at MASS MoCA earlier this year as part of “InVisible: Art at the Edge of Perception.”
Exhibit August 27th through October 2nd
Luis Pavon: Spanish Architect & Constructivist Painter
Exhibit August 27th through September 10th
Reception Friday August 27th from 5:00-8:00 pm
Luis, who will be present at the opening, has been highly influential in promoting the arts in Southern Spain as well as exhibiting his own work. His painting reveal the architectural influence of his profession with a chromatic harmony and an experimentation with planes and textures in keeping with the constructivist genre. The fascinating juxtaposition between painter and sculptor bodes well for an interesting show.
Exhibit August 27th through September 10th
Daniel Phill: Pollination
Exhibit August 27th through September 9th
Reception Friday August 27th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Phill has found endless ways to manipulate the plasticity of acrylic paints, inks and stains in every color under the sun. He begins with the canvas lying horizontal, jumping in “with the faith,” he says, that something will develop from his spontaneous applications of color and “happy accidents.” Once the initial layers of color have stabilized, he places the canvas on a wall and starts the process of editing and reworking it to satisfy his personal aesthetics. The titles are appended after the fact, inspired by botanical names or adjectives, the sounds of which give him pleasure
Exhibit August 27th through September 9th
Jacob Pfeiffer: Food For Thought
Exhibit August 27th through September 10th
Reception Friday August 27th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Jacob A. Pfeiffer's (b. 1974) technique is impeccable, precise, and uncannily accurate. His latest work consists of tightly rendered still lifes containing a wide variety of objects. Purposefully provocative compositions are constructed with meticulous and time consuming craftsmanship. A rich and deeply saturated palette is used to depict a myriad of complex textures. Pfeiffer designs his spaces with a deceptive simplicity that resonates with a sense of volume, drama, power and above all, humor.
Exhibit August 27th through September 10th
Abstraction
Exhibit August 27th through September 26th
Reception Friday August 27th from 5:00-7:00 pm
New Concept Gallery represents contemporary artists and these six abstract painters and sculptors work in varied mediums and styles. They range from Frank Ettenberg’s non-objective action paintings to Kathleen Doyle Cook’s works that evolve from the act of painting with no preconception of imagery, while Reg Loving’s abstractions are inspired by landscapes.
Exhibit August 27th through September 26th
Chris Kahler BIO-DYNAMICS
Exhibit August 31st through October 9th
Reception Friday September 3rd from 5:00-8:00 pm
Bio-Dynamic is potent and colorful; more cellular and molecular than astral. However, Kahler blurs the boundaries and moves between micro and macro, leaving the viewer wondering if this work is portraying the beginning or end with the themes of transformation, mutation and system conflict. The paintings are constructed of many layers: thick, gestural and three dimensional in some areas and translucent in others. Kahler carefully excavates the multi-layered surfaces to reveal colors, biomorphic forms and hints of architecture, but provides no definitive images or intact structures. Collectively, a narrative emerges from this work that is reminiscent of a journey, evoking both topographical and deep space imagery within the same painting. Clearly influenced by high-tech and the digital age, Kahler uniquely blends elements of abstract expressionism, color field, psychedelia, op and pop art to create provocative canvases that generate intrigue and an array of interpretations.
Exhibit August 31st through October 9th
FRAMEWORK A Group Show Featuring: Trygve Faste, Jacob Feige and George Rush
Exhibit August 31st through October 9th
Reception Friday September 3rd from 5:00-8:00pm
The paintings have a photo-real quality, yet they are entirely fictional. Each composition seems framed, either through the lens of a camera, a window or other device that filters and directs our attention.
Trygve Faste’s paintings are seductive with rich colors and abstract patterns, yet subtly disturbing as the lighting and settings seem unreal and disorienting with the mix of interior and exterior elements within the same painting. His art comments on technological innovations impacting and influencing our culture, which in turn, dictates our immediate environment and living space. Thus, natural landscapes have been replaced by highly constructed interiors and cityscapes adapted to our cultural demands.
Jacob Feige paints spectacular, sublime landscapes of very personal locations in Colorado, New York and California that border on utopian. Overlaid with colorful geometric abstractions, splashes and drips, they push into the realm of the psychedelic. The abstract structures create framing devices and a kaleidoscope of color through which earth can be viewed from afar. Oddly, the layering of abstractions seems nearly natural.
George Rush’s work is somewhere between realist painting and abstraction with spaces that seem familiar and real, yet they are entirely fictional, derived from magazine images, personal photos and his imagination. Contemporary interiors and architectural features dominate his paintings with large glass windows providing reflections, glare and city vistas beyond. An unsettling mood is created with apocalyptic lighting, strong cast shadows from modern furnishings and the sense of disorganization during a period of transition, like catching someone while moving in or out of the space.
Exhibit August 31st through October 9th
Santa Fe Six
Exhibit September 3rd through September 30th
Reception Friday September 3rd from 4:00-7:00pm
The Art Exchange Gallery presents a group show
featuring: Jeff Tabor, Kay McCarthy, Trinon Crouch, Mike Mahon, Laurence Seredowych and Brad Price. Come and meet the artists and enjoy refreshments.
Exhibit September 3rd through September 30th
Ronald Davis: Squares and Diamonds 2010
Exhibit September 3rd through September 28th
Reception Friday September 3rd from 5:00-7:00 pm
The paintings Ronlad Davis brings to this exhibition of new work may be a bit dangerous for the viewer. They are highly charged, vibrating with energy - something unexpected in paintings of geometrical abstraction. In Interlocked Square a golden knot is suspended precariously over a quickly-receding blue void. In Black Diamond the viewer stares into a twisting diamond of black space through an off-kilter frame of interlocking pastel polygons. Orange Bevel Square simultaneously pops inward and outward at the viewer, writhing uncomfortably off center and out of perspective.
On Saturday, September 4 at 3pm there will be a Gallery Talk with Thom Andriola, Owner/Curator New Gallery, Houston, TX.
Exhibit September 3rd through September 28th
Expanding on the Primary Palette: Recent Oils by Daniel Bethune
Exhibit September 3rd through October 3rd
Reception Friday September 3rd from 5-7:00pm
Th exhibition features twenty new oil paintings by New Mexico artist, Daniel Bethune. Bethune is renowned for his dramatic and colorful southwestern skyscapes and landscapes. His colors are rich and vibrant, often marrying the emotive power of pure color with the dramatic and awe inspiring landscapes of the southwest – creating images that are simultaneously powerful yet soothing. The paintings included in this exhibition incorporate Bethune’s usage of a limited color palette – a system of color mixing he utilizes that allows him to create a multitude of hues and values from variations of the three primary colors: red, yellow and blue. Bethune assesses his intended scene and then selects primary colors with either a warm or cool bias – essentially what he calls his summer and winter palettes. From these warm or cool primary palettes he can create the intermediate colors (green, orange and purple) by mixing two primaries together. Mixtures are then lightened with white or darkened with corresponding complementary colors.
Discussion and Painting Demonstration with Daniel Bethune, Saturday, September 4, 2-4 pm
Exhibit September 3rd through October 3rd
Eric Cruikshank: The Colour of Home
Exhibit September 3rd through October 4th
Reception Friday September 3rd from 5:00-7:00 pm
Working in the Highlands of Scotland, painter Eric Cruikshank’s body of work is influenced by the architecture and the atmosphere surrounding his homeland. These chromatic paintings are thinly layered bands of color which illuminate the complex surfaces of the pigment on panel. As the viewer moves from side to side, color pulses in constantly shifting patterns. Cruikshank is fascinated with the process of painting itself and how light and space create a relationship with the viewer.
Exhibit September 3rd through October 4th
Raymond Jonson: Paring Down to Essence
Exhibit September 3rd through September 28th
Reception Friday September 3rd from 5:00-8:00 pm
The years from 1953 to 1978 exemplify the most important quarter century in Raymond Jonson's career, when due to declining sight, he quit painting. During this period he left behind the transcendental aesthetics that he had helped develop in the 1930s and 1940s (put abruptly to an end by World War II) and left his post as professor of painting at the University of New Mexico at the end of the 1953 academic year. Both instances allowed the artist to take full stock of his achievements and passions over the past forty years and look ahead towards fulfilling these without distraction.
Exhibit September 3rd through September 28th
BRIGITTE CARNOCHAN, JOY GOLDKIND and NANCY SUTOR
Exhibit September 3rd through October 16th
Reception Friday September 3rd from 5:00-7:00 pm
Northern California artist, Brigitte Carnochan, will be exhibiting work from her new series entitled, Floating World, Allusions to Poems by Japanese Women of the 7th—20th Centuries. The series, printed on Japanese handmade mulberry paper, is a departure in technique from Carnochan's earlier handpainted gelatin silver prints, but the relationship between the beauty of the human form and nature still guides her imagery and these new figure and botanical studies demonstrate a deepening of Carnochan's signature style of sophisticated sensuality. New York artist, Joy Goldkind will be exhibiting work from three bodies of work, including the processes of bromoil and ambrotype. Goldkind is inspired by the idea of the fantasy world and utilizes the camera tools of older photographic processes, double exposures and slow shutter speeds to assist in changing what is true and expected from a photograph into a more surrealistic scene. The old world beauty and quality the imagery possesses is influenced by a deep interest in art history. Santa Fe artist Nancy Sutor will be exhibiting work from her new series entitled, COMPOSE DECOMPOSE. While this new work continues Sutor's study of the systems and cycles of nature that she explored previously through cyanotype photograms, the new work has a more literal approach and a further exploration of the way light sensitive materials depict vision and perception.
Exhibit September 3rd through October 16th
Fiesta For The Eyes
Exhibit September 10th through September 23rd
Reception Friday September 10th from 5:00-7:00 pm
In keeping with the Santa Fe Fiesta theme, we are happy to showcase three talented local artists.
James Klebau’s photography is often described as mysterious, beautiful and timeless. Inspired by the Southwest and locations in Maryland, Klebau’s extensive professional photographic history includes visits to the Berlin Wall, NASA’s first lunar mission splash- down in the Pacific, an Emmy Award for an ABC TV documentary, and several presidential assignments including covering Lyndon B. Johnson.
Larry Ogan’s Southwest landscapes are bold, crisp depictions of the environs of New Mexico; sharply- focused, tightly cropped, expressing the stark, arid landscapes with emotion and clarity.
Paula Wenzl Bellacera, a part- time Santa Fean and prolific oil painter, expresses her love of cacti and her cacti garden at her studio in her recent works. Bellacera’s sensitive depictions of the spiny cacti have a lyrical, figurative quality. In rich, luscious colors these paintings evoke in the viewer the dichotomy between the touch of delicate flesh and sharp spines.
Exhibit September 10th through September 23rd
T Barny + Gregory Frank Harris
Exhibit September 10th through September 27th
Reception Friday September 10th from 5:00-7:00 pm
New works by stone and bronze sculptor T Barny and painter Gregory Frank Harris. T Barny creates striking stone sculptures of seashell-like forms and trademark curvilinear shapes in Utah Calcite, Greek and Spanish Marble, Brazilian Wonderstone, and New Mexican Alabaster. Barny invites visitors to see and touch the silky smooth textures of his sculpture in order to explore the wonder created by man and nature. Among his most striking pieces are his many variations on the möbius strip, the looping curve that twists back upon itself so that its one side is also its other side (a line traced down its length will traverse “both sides” and end up at its starting point). This strange singleness of surface seems to defy logic, which may explain its appeal to artists like M.C. Escher and Jose de Rivera. T Barny’s versions seem almost to defy gravity as well, as sinuous loops reach up and hang suspended in mid-air. Gregory Frank Harris has painted in a number of styles and genres thus far in his career. “My art and influences are all inclusive,” he says. Among the varied influences on his painting, Harris cites Wolf Kahn, Eric Aho and Stuart Shils. “These painters,” he states, “like myself, are taking the visual language of landscape and pushing it into abstraction.”
Exhibit September 10th through September 27th
Gunnar Plake: The Light Within
Exhibit September 17th through October 16th
Reception Friday September 17th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Whether it's a shot of condors soaring through the desert sky or of the Colorado River far below, Gunnar Plake captures the essence of seeing while in motion. A sweeping motion performed during the exposure provides a clarity of its own: while details vanish, patterns emerge, the land comes alive in these large scale abstractions.
Exhibit September 17th through October 16th
Peter Millet: Woman at the Well
Exhibit September 17th through October 16th
Reception Friday September 17th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Seattle based sculptor Peter Millett creates geometric compositions, in metal or painted wood, which engage the viewer in a dialogue about shape and space. In Millett's first solo show at Chiaroscuro, he draws inspiration from an old blues song by staging a scene of abstract sculpture. Woman at the Well is a collection of geometric sculptures containing the essence of human forms through distinct angles and volumes. Using folded sheet metal or wood to explore a geometry-based visual language, Millett incorporates a refined, modern sensibility to his work. Millet's sculptural configurations are both bold and graceful, and his work often plays upon the presence of the object and the emptiness of the space which surrounds it.
Exhibit September 17th through October 16th
Pascal's Work
Exhibit September 17th through October 9th
Reception Friday September 17th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Pascal is an internationally-recognized French wood sculptor living and working in Santa Fe. The sculpture of Pascal is a fine example of the compelling quality of wood. Galleries and collectors alike have responded to the simplicity of his approach, which balances geometric abstraction with organic form. There is an undertone of symbolism as well, a hieroglyphic shorthand that hints at other visual languages. He considers wood to be a feminine material – warm, colorful, full of surprises, and not always easy to control. Therefore, many of his sculptures have a feminine cast, with elegantly swelling contours and subtle curves. During the reception we will be hosting the Alzheimer’s Association and its members.
Exhibit September 17th through October 9th
Sally Helper: New Sculptures
Exhibit September 24th through October 7th
Reception Friday September 24th from 5-7:00pm
There are two sides to any circle: the inside and the outside. In a similar way, there are two elusive forces at work when experiencing a Sally Hepler sculpure: simplicity and complexity. The most common first reaction to the graceful flowing sculptures is an acknowledgement of the palpable skill and sheer tenacity required to pull it off—in fact, there are hundreds of hours of hand-fabrication that go into each piece. Multiple templates from intricate models are enlarged and precisely cut from bronze or stainless steel; the separate elements are then shaped, welded, reshaped hydraulically, welded further, chased, patined, sealed, and mounted. But it is the sublime experience of purity, flow and wonder of each piece that ultimately transcends the viewer to a threshold of effortless joy and Zen mindfulness.
Exhibit September 24th through October 7th
Inheritance: new paintings by Geoffrey Laurence
Exhibit October 1st through October 31st
Reception Friday October 1st from 6:00-8:00 pm
Laurence will be showing around 25 paintings, drawings and studies exploring the very personal connection he has with the Holocaust and his feelings about growing up as the child of survivors. One 12 foot wide piece titled Those the River Keeps features multiple emaciated WWII victims standing in a boat clothed in striped prison uniforms. The piece is “about relatives... who were not said goodbye to, were not buried; they’re just ash... and I feel like they need to be said goodbye to.” The show will be a powerful personal essay on the struggle for an understanding of the atrocities of WWII and its connection with his family history.
Skotia will be concurrently hosting the final American showing of photographer and Hungarian national treasure Péter Korniss’s Attachment exhibition. Attachment was previously on view at the Hungarian Cultural Center in New York in April 2010 and Skotia Gallery will be the final chance to view these pieces in the United States.
Exhibit October 1st through October 31st
Nicholas Bernard: Colourforms
Exhibit October 15th through November 7th
Reception Friday October 15th from 5:30- 7:30 pm
This exhibition features more than thirty new works in clay from Arizona artist, Nicholas Bernard including examples of which reside in the collections of California's American Museum of Ceramic Art, the Wichita Center for the Arts and the Tokyo International Airport. Bernard's works reflect his fascination with the traditional vessel form, as object, in relationship to color. His works range from voluptuous, tapering spherical forms, some more than two feet high, to lovely attenuated shapes, with elongated necks, stretched and swept off center. His palette of warm golden oranges, soft sage greens, true black and colors in between, balances with his texturally satisfying forms. The relationship of form and palette is subtle and rewarding.
Exhibit October 15th through November 7th
Joshua Rose, Roger Atkins, Ron Pokrasso and Stephen De Staebler: Paintings, Sculpture, and Ceramic
Exhibit October 15th through November 13th
Reception Friday October 15th from 5:00-7:00 pm
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art is pleased to announce its upcoming October exhibition showcasing new collaborative works by artists Joshua Rose and Roger Atkins. Ron Pokrasso will present new paintings, and Stephen De Staebler will be showing his ceramic sculptures for the first time in the gallery.