18 Search Results for “james kelly contemporary ”

  • Part of Jul 2012 by

    Nic Nicosia Stages the Psychological at James Kelly Contemporary

    Exposing the somewhat humorous turmoil of psychodramas has been a recurring theme in photographer Nic Nicosia’s works, many of whose early photographs look as if staged behind the scenes of a television set gone wrong [the series Domestic Dramas (1982)]. In Nicosia’s newest Santa Fe exhibition In the Absence of Others (2010-11), which opened June 29 at James Kelly Contemporary, we see a departure from previous work; here it seems the More …

  • Part of Dec 2011 by

    Arlene Shechet In The Thick of It At James Kelly Contemporary

    While viewing Arlene Shechet’s compelling show, In the Thick of It, at James Kelly Contemporary, the term beginner’s mind popped up because this is the paradoxical work of an expert in unknowing, in openness. It teeters on the edge between form and formlessness, which must be the most exciting and dangerous place for an artist to be. In a Bomb magazine interview the artist admits, “One day I was making More …

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    John Sonsini at James Kelly Contemporary: Review

    In Santa Fe day laborers congregate near the Guadalupe Chapel at the north end of town. In Los Angeles, where painter John Sonsini lives and works, day laborer immigrants constitute a body of portrait subjects who look out from their canvases with unflinching expressions: sadness or reserve, an unsmiling mien, done with what New York Times critic Ken Johnson has called “Whitmanesque” affection, by the artist.  John Sonsini, Roger and More …

  • Part of May 2012 by

    Saul’s Universe – Pard Morrison at James Kelly

    Pard Morrison’s sculptures, currently on view at James Kelly Contemporary in Phantom Limbs, defy cubic assembly.  Each spread of colorful squares unfolds from a central square.  Perspectival lines sometimes look like preliminary childhood box constructions—four sides have three forty-five degree angles jutting out that end at a horizontal line and a perpendicular line.  A regular four-sided square becomes a three-dimensional box all on a sheet of paper.  Morrison’s sculptures waiver More …

  • Part of May 2010 by

    Art in Review: Santa Fe Contemporary

    While spring in Santa Fe can toss rogue winds that seem to fool with your equilibrium, as they did the evening of April 30th when I went out to see these shows, there was something very stilling about getting down with the Stuart Arends show at James Kelly Contemporary. Arends is an artist who lives in the plains country of New Mexico and, judging by what appears in this small More …

  • Part of Sep 2011 by

    Gallery Fridays

    Austin – New gallery Champion OPENS Wild Beasts a group exhibition, downtown Austin—E 8th and Brazos. Although the opening occurred last night, the exhibition is up through October 8th. Saturday, September 3rd, Co-Lab Project Space OPENS with Christine Blizard’s installation from 7 to 11 pm, on the eastside. The exhibition including imagery of tipis and rivers, promises to be a “magical and vivid experience.” Tuesday, September 6th, the Austin Museum More …

  • Part of Aug 2011 by

    Gallery Fridays

    The following are openings/closings for Austin, TX and Santa Fe, NM for the weekend of August 5, 6, and 7, 2011. In Santa Fe, this weekend, the big event is certainly SOFA West. Several events and openings will concur with the fair. Canyon Road Gallery Night in conjunction with SOFA West, tonight, Friday, August 5 from 6 pm to 8 pm. Galleries will stay open late for SOFA visitors. Tom More …

  • Part of Apr 2011 by

    “Plank” Sculptor John McCracken Dies in New York

    John McCracken was a minimalist with a sense of humor. Possibly a decade ago, In 2000, on seeing  “Sculpture 1987-1999” by John McCracken at James Kelly Contemporary I (and I was not alone) had the instant sense of coming in on the last scene in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001. The black monolith of the space-age movie was such an instant tactile association with McCrackens inscrutable polished black sculpture that reportedly More …

  • Part of Sep 2010 by

    Ron Nagle: Ominous Charms

    When you grok the size of Ron Nagles ceramic sculpture on view at James Kelly Contemporary in Santa Fe to 9/25 — often theyre only about 4 inches tall, as slim as 2 ⅝ deep, and maxing out at about 8 inches wide — you come face to face with why scale and size are not, never in (good) art, equal. For Nagles packed little ceramics achieve in scale what More …

  • Part of Dec 2012 by

    Best of 2012: Art Talk

    My Film Stills Are Still Big. It’s the Walls That Have Gotten Small.” I somehow managed to see the Cindy Sherman retrospective in two locations this year: at MoMa last March, and in mid-December at the Walker Art Center. Speaking as somebody grateful of a small yet critical closet writing about SOMEBODY WITH A BIG REALLY CRITICAL CLOSET, the artist remains beckoner of all art ships. She is a  a More …

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    Notable New Art Books of 2012

    Editor’s Note: We will be adding to this post in the coming days. But to augment your list, here’s a beginning. Sharon Core: Early American The flesh of the nectarine, glossy leaves affirming the fruit’s relationship to the tree that bore it, is just going overripe at a seam. Its readiness prefigured in an abalone-handled knife balanced on a plate that has an embossed blue rim. The background, steel-case gray More …

  • Part of Apr 2012 by

    Anticipating the Fourth Dallas Art Fair

    Postminimalist, and popular newcomer to the auction market, Jacob Kassay is a highly anticipated artist this year with his exhibition No Goal at Power Station, concurrent with the Dallas Art Fair. No Goal is the “must-see” event. Kassay’s mirror-like paintings reference minimalism, not only through the use of industrial materials, but also because the work forces bodily awareness on the part of the viewer. Erick Swenson’s exhibition at the Nasher More …