Artistas de Santa Fe Gallery invites you for an opening of works, large and small, by gallery partners, celebrating the Saturn-Uranus opposition, the end of the old order, beginning of the new order, and all the wonderful possibilities that change brings!
Franco’s paintings are complex and introspective narratives of life and death, growth patterns, and history. “Most of my paintings are about reaching for goals, spiritual growth, and all of the things in life that we take for granted,” explains Franco. His artwork is richly symbolic, but his blending of flora and fauna, deep blue skies and the nautilus, and many other natural and historic symbols have deeply personal meanings.
Reception Friday November 21st from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Mind the Gap is curated by Cyndi Conn, Visual Arts Director for the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe. Conn selected six artists who dwell in the gap between fact and imagination: Rita Bard, Jennifer Hoag, Fay Ku, Katherine Lee, Kim Russo and Tuscany Wenger. These artists create distinct mythologies of striking, strange creatures, disjointed everyday imagery and stories half-told in rebellious, hallucinatory narratives. By choosing to work in the gap, rather than on either side of it, they explore and enlighten the tenuous space between transparency and mystery, humor and tragedy.
Visit our Santa Fe Gallery to view small paintings by our nationally acclaimed artists created for the year’s holiday season. Artists include Gregory Hull, Gregory Kondos, Jan Mapes, W. Jason Situ, Gary Ernest Smith, Josh Elliott, Ron Elstad, Peggi Kroll-Roberts, Francis Livingston, Ray Roberts, Sue Rother, Lisa Danielle, Glenn Renell, Dennis Ziemienski, and Gabor Svagrik.
New encaustic paintings and sculptures by J Mehaffey
New Mexico artist J Mehaffey is known for building a rich impasto of wax, tar, and gold leaf on her canvases and sculptures, then digging back through the layers, like an archeologist of her own vision, unveiling suggestive, reverberant meanings and patterns that she has both created and disguised.
In conjunction with her exhibit of new encaustic paintings at Box Gallery, Santa Fe artist Ellen Koment will talk about her work on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 2pm. The event is free and open to the public.
Koment, who received her Masters at UC Berkeley, has lived and worked in New Mexico for more than ten years. In addition to her notable painting career, she has taught at UNM and currently teaches at Santa Fe Community College. Her exhibit at Box Gallery closes December 6.
Works by: Rebecca Bluestone, Daniel Brice, Jeri Eisenberg, Mateo Galvano, John Garrett, Phillis Ideal, Siddiq Khan, Irene Kung, Flo Perkins, Gunnar Plake and Emmi Whitehorse
Santa Fe--Monroe Gallery of Photography is pleased to announce a major exhibition celebrating the career of the legendary LIFE magazine photographer John Dominis, now age 87.
This impressive show will includes the work of Christina Chalmers, Sandra Pratt, Nicholas Wilton, Kirk Tatom, Rodney Hatfield, Kevin Box and others who work across the spectrum of contemporary art. Landscapes, abstracts, figurative work, mixed media and sculpture from the gallery’s award-winning artists are all featured in the show.
Selby Fleetwood Gallery is also very pleased to present, with this show, the work of Russian artist Olga Antonova. Antonova’s still-life paintings of delicately stacked tea cups are skillfully rendered in oil on canvas.
Reiko Kakiuchi-Cohen's unique and stunning Echizen pottery can be traced back to her late husband, American ceramist Ben Cohen, who lived for many years in Japan. Ms. Kakiuchi-Cohen's works embody strength and femininity, a fitting tribute to the legacy of these artists.
In this festive show, complete with hot cider, carolers and farolitos, gallery artists exhibit their finest “miniature” pieces perfect for holiday gift giving.
The same evening is the West Palace Arts District’s First Friday Art Walk.
Todd Reed is a self-taught jewelry artist whose career continues to soar. His signature works incorporate cube-shaped raw diamonds, with 18 and 22k gold and silver. Reed's jewelry has won many prestigious awards including the 2006 Smithsonian Craft Show, Silver Award and in 2007, the First Place Award for gold jewelry from Niche magazine. He lives in Colorado.
Constructed of wood and painted in bright enamel that calls to mind candy-coating, Kimball’s dollhouse scale Model Homes are empty and pretty. Likewise, her cast Plexiglas female figures in clear frosted nursery colors are doll-like, but featureless. Installed in lines on the wall, multiple identical figures are each poised at the edge of a Plexi platform. The same dolls, but in solid matte black, appear in Plexi boxes in catastrophic piles, like burnt corpses. The viewer confronts questions of shelter, safety, homogeneity, and destruction.
This is an invitational exhibit and will feature works by Bob Coonts, Kawana Edwards, Rodney Hubble, Deborah Martin, and Sandra Place, as well as gallery artists showing small paintings - amusing, colorful sculpture - creative gift ideas for Christmas, as well as fine jewelry. This is a good place to find the unusual for the holidays!