126 Search Results for “January 18”

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    Susan York at the O’Keeffe Museum

    Most of the time one doesn’t think of painting as volume, because a volume implies a third dimension. But on touring the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s winter show, Susan York: Carbon (January 21-April 17. 2016), it was easy to submit to a sense of pleasurable dislocation imparted when works of two dimension meet works of three, as in the meeting of O’Keeffe paintings and Susan York’s graphite sculptures. (Images are courtesy of the artist. Photographs: More …

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    SouthwestNET: Postcommodity Brings Disruptive Metaphor, Purposefully, to SMoCa

    The four members of Postcommodity collective are Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L. Twist and Nathan Young. Raven Chacon lives in Albuquerque, Kade Twist in Santa Fe. Cristóbal Martínez, who was raised in northern New Mexico, is finishing his PhD at Arizona State University. He will be defending his dissertation in the art galleries at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, near the collective’s exhibition titled southwestNET: Postcommodity, sometime during the More …

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    Wavelengths at TIFF: Grand Shorts Tell Epic Stories

    The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was mass urbanism once again this year, as closed streets formed a public mall that seemed like a treadmill, a continuous loop of Hollywood stars. In the Wavelengths section at TIFF, shorts outnumbered features four to one and commercial potential was barely an afterthought. Nor was the Oscar-mongering obvious, for which TIFF’s opening night now seems to be the starting pistol.     Much More …

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    Jody Guralnick’s Subject to Change: Painted Explorations

    The plant materials that attach the surface of Jody Guralnick’s new paintings in Subject to Change: Unnatural Selection (at Wyly Annex, downtown Basalt, through October 11th) are largely gathered by the artist on walks near and around Aspen. A forager and gatherer (when in cities she frequents natural history museums), Guralnick is very precise about including the Latin names of the plants that she culls (e.g., rudbeckia occidentalis, rumex crispus) More …

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    Nancy Holt Remembered: A Review of Sightlines

    Editor’s Note: Nancy Holt died in New York of complications of leukemia on February 8, 2014. This post was first published in June 2012. Nancy Holt’s Sightlines, curated by Alena J. Williams, is a touring show now enjoying a stop at Santa Fe Art Institute through June 29th. (Meantime, a group show dedicated to the land art movement, Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 opened May 27th at More …

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    New Affordable Housing, When the Working Poor Are Artists

    On January 8th, Artspace, the Minneapolis-based developer of affordable artists’ housing nationwide, visited Santa Fe for a public event hosted by Creative Santa Fe, its local nonprofit partner. That followed closely on Artspace getting the green light from the El Paso, Texas city council for a 51-unit affordable artists’ lofts project. Now Artspace and the El Paso Community Foundation will be taking that proposal to competitive application for federal tax More …

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    Hockney in Frisco, The West on Fifth, Swartz at SMOCA

    Three Exhibits To See in January. David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition Through January 20, 2014 Years, they start passing faster than they used to. I believe it was 2010 when I went with my New York pal JB to Pace Gallery in Chelsea to see what David Hockney was making of his tooling around in Yorkshire, England then externalizing the landscape into frames of paint. Huge canvases, multiple parts. The More …

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    Ordinary and “Lifelike” Objects: A Debut Review from the City of New Orleans

    In the city of New Orleans, two exhibitions that ran concurrently, as cogeneration extends from one source, appeared as if an intrinsic grandfather birthed the concepts presented. “Lifelike, ” which closed at the New Orleans Museum of Art February 3, encompassed work made from the late 1960’s to the present. Artists including Robert Bechtle, Vija Celmins, John Clem Clarke, Chuck Close, Daniel Douke, Alex Hay, Jasper Johns, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, More …

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    El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa

    In 2008, the Denver Art Museum commissioned El Anatsui to create Rain Has No Father?, a metal sculpture tapestry created from found liquor bottle tops and copper wire. The artwork debuted in 2010 as part of Embrace! a site-specific exhibition that celebrated the unique (and controversial) architecture of the Daniel Libeskind designed Hamilton Building. The work is on view in the African art galleries, adjacent to the where the recent More …

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    Free Week Equals Eleven Days x Free Music!

    First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! So, for those of you in the Austin area whose New Year’s resolution was to see more live music, Free Week was designed just for you. What better way is there to begin a new year than by expanding your musical horizons? It is a surefire way to start 2013 off by being happy and free. Free Week is without a doubt one of More …

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    Best of 2012: Santa Fe

    Just in case the Mayan Calendar holds true, A2 recognizes the cream of Santa Fe for making 2012 so splendidly arty. Alcove Shows The New Mexico Museum of Arts began their Alcove Shows in March of 2012 and will complete them in April of 2013.  Their five recessed bays (6.5’ deep and 14’ wide to 11′ deep by almost 19’ wide) have enlivened Santa Fe’s art life with their intimate settings More …

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    Santa Fe Art in Review: “Useless Things”, Canned Snow and Zachariah Reike

    SFUAD BFA Thesis Show Useless Things & Other Stuff, the SFUAD BFA Thesis show, opened on November 30th, with a solo show by Sandra Halpin who is the only graduate this semester from Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s BFA program.  Halpin filled the Southwest Annex with four video installations, some Kool-Aid, a trough of goldfish and well, useless things. Reporting as her classmate, Halpin’s studio was notoriously swallowed all semester by what More …