Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
HereThere
HereThere | Poetics of Place, Curated by Pamela Drix, is a combinatory concept that attempts to address the complex relationship between our experience and the world we inhabit. "There is a fluid interaction between the world of thought and the world of forms. I wanted to find artists who approach some aspect of this complexity in their work.The poetics of place embraces this. Whether such issues of migration, habitation, ecological disaster, covering our bodies, or making structures, these artists grapple with aspects of placedness."
15 artist invitational exhibition.
When
Exhibition runs July 7 - 29, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, July 7, 5-8 pm
Artist talks: July 14, 5 - 7 pm
Where
Ink Shop Printmaking Center and Olive Branch Press
330 E. State Street, Ithaca NY 14850 | 2nd floor of the CSMA Building
(607) 277-3884, artists@ink-shop.org
http://ink-shop.org/exhibits/herethere-poetics-place
15 artist invitational exhibition.
When
Exhibition runs July 7 - 29, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, July 7, 5-8 pm
Artist talks: July 14, 5 - 7 pm
Where
Ink Shop Printmaking Center and Olive Branch Press
330 E. State Street, Ithaca NY 14850 | 2nd floor of the CSMA Building
(607) 277-3884, artists@ink-shop.org
http://ink-shop.org/exhibits/herethere-poetics-place
A Showcase of Contemporary Art at Hibbing Community College
A showcase of contemporary art at Hibbing Community College
August 8 - Sept. 29, 2017
Group Exhibition - additional details forthcoming
When:
Exhibition runs August 8 - Sept. 29, 2017
Where:
Hibbing Community College
1515 East 25th Street
Hibbing, MN 55746
August 8 - Sept. 29, 2017
Group Exhibition - additional details forthcoming
When:
Exhibition runs August 8 - Sept. 29, 2017
Where:
Hibbing Community College
1515 East 25th Street
Hibbing, MN 55746
3rd Global Print, 2017
Juried, invitational global printmaking exhibition.
August - Oct. 2017.
Where: Portugal
Additional details and information will be posted as soon as it's available.
August - Oct. 2017.
Where: Portugal
Additional details and information will be posted as soon as it's available.
Axis Mundi
Axis Mundi
The Crucial Role of the Artist in the Age of the Collapsing Global Organism
Exhibition runs September 12 - October 7, 2017 in Denver, CO
Presented as part of the Biennial of the Americas.
I was invited to produce work for a multi-venue exhibition curated and coordinated by Regan Rosburg, Adam Gordon, Tracy Tomko and Alvin Gregorio. The exhibition will feature 20 artists, half of which are local to Denver (the project is part of the Biennial of the Americas)–and the other half are national and international contributors. I will also be presenting a detailed artist talk and conceptual conversation as part of the Temple Talks (symposium). The artists are working in a stunning range of techniques and experimental approaches.
This is a multi-location exhibition and symposium that explores Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania, and Biophilia. Please click on this link for more information. Hosted by PlatteForum, in partnership with Denver Film Society, Bonfils-Stanton, Hi-Tec Plastics, PlatteForum, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
When:
Exhibition runs September 12 - October 7, 2017 in Denver, CO
September 14 – Screening of Albatross by Chris Jordan at the Denver Film Center . Q&A with the filmmaker afterwards. Show starts at 7pm.
September 16 – Public Reception at PlatteForum 5pm. Curatorial talk 6:30 pm. Corresponding events at Olympic Building and Land Library Building 7:30-10pm.
September 23 – Temple Talk with four Axis Mundi artists: Ren Adams (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Sean Stewart (Ontario, Canada), Vivian LeCourtois (Denver, CO) and Suchitra Mattai (Denver, CO). 12 – 1:30 pm
Dates and Hours: Axis Mundi runs Sept 16-Oct 7. PlatteForum hours Tues – Friday 12-6 pm. Saturday 1-6 pm. Olympic and Land Library hours TBD.
This exhibition is a part of the Biennial of the Americas. In addition, two of the Axis Mundi artists will be presenting at Pugwash Thinker’s Lodge Retreat in Nova Scotia on September 28, 2017 — marking the 60th anniversary of the first Conference on Science and World Affairs at Pugwash.
Where:
Multi-venue exhibition
My work will be in:
Temple Arts Building
2400 Curtis Street, Denver, CO 80205
The Crucial Role of the Artist in the Age of the Collapsing Global Organism
Exhibition runs September 12 - October 7, 2017 in Denver, CO
Presented as part of the Biennial of the Americas.
I was invited to produce work for a multi-venue exhibition curated and coordinated by Regan Rosburg, Adam Gordon, Tracy Tomko and Alvin Gregorio. The exhibition will feature 20 artists, half of which are local to Denver (the project is part of the Biennial of the Americas)–and the other half are national and international contributors. I will also be presenting a detailed artist talk and conceptual conversation as part of the Temple Talks (symposium). The artists are working in a stunning range of techniques and experimental approaches.
This is a multi-location exhibition and symposium that explores Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania, and Biophilia. Please click on this link for more information. Hosted by PlatteForum, in partnership with Denver Film Society, Bonfils-Stanton, Hi-Tec Plastics, PlatteForum, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
When:
Exhibition runs September 12 - October 7, 2017 in Denver, CO
September 14 – Screening of Albatross by Chris Jordan at the Denver Film Center . Q&A with the filmmaker afterwards. Show starts at 7pm.
September 16 – Public Reception at PlatteForum 5pm. Curatorial talk 6:30 pm. Corresponding events at Olympic Building and Land Library Building 7:30-10pm.
September 23 – Temple Talk with four Axis Mundi artists: Ren Adams (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Sean Stewart (Ontario, Canada), Vivian LeCourtois (Denver, CO) and Suchitra Mattai (Denver, CO). 12 – 1:30 pm
Dates and Hours: Axis Mundi runs Sept 16-Oct 7. PlatteForum hours Tues – Friday 12-6 pm. Saturday 1-6 pm. Olympic and Land Library hours TBD.
This exhibition is a part of the Biennial of the Americas. In addition, two of the Axis Mundi artists will be presenting at Pugwash Thinker’s Lodge Retreat in Nova Scotia on September 28, 2017 — marking the 60th anniversary of the first Conference on Science and World Affairs at Pugwash.
Where:
Multi-venue exhibition
My work will be in:
Temple Arts Building
2400 Curtis Street, Denver, CO 80205
Channeling – Televisual Memory and Media Séance
Solo Exhibition
Channeling – Televisual Memory and Media Séance is a multimedia installation that combines still images, video, and interactive elements to address the nature of television as both media and medium, capable of "summoning" the dead in perpetuity.
When:
October, 2017
Opening Reception: TBA
Details TBA
Where:
graftgallery.com
1415 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
Channeling – Televisual Memory and Media Séance is a multimedia installation that combines still images, video, and interactive elements to address the nature of television as both media and medium, capable of "summoning" the dead in perpetuity.
When:
October, 2017
Opening Reception: TBA
Details TBA
Where:
graftgallery.com
1415 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
Ren Adams - Solo Exhibition
Solo exhibition of new experimental printmaking. Title and details TBA.
When:
Exhibition runs Nov. 2 - 24, 2017
Exhibition opening and demo: Friday, Nov. 6, 5 - 8:30 pm.
Where:
Remarque Gallery
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
When:
Exhibition runs Nov. 2 - 24, 2017
Exhibition opening and demo: Friday, Nov. 6, 5 - 8:30 pm.
Where:
Remarque Gallery
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
9th Douro Biennial, 2018
Juried, Invitational 9th International Printmaking Biennial, 2018
Where: Portugal
Additional details available as soon as they're available.
Where: Portugal
Additional details available as soon as they're available.
Flatline: 2D and the New Depthiness
Curated group exhibition featuring 24 artists engaging the nature of 21st century "depthiness," "truthiness" and "post-truth" within the constraints of a two-dimensional surface.
In Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson noted our late 20th century obsession with surface; a condition he coined, “the new depthlessness,” which emphasized an “exhilaration of surfaces”; the giftwrapping was more important than the present. This visual and cultural “depthlessness” downplayed the necessity of webbed meaning in favor of simulacra—a reaction to earlier modes of representation that favored the real and the referential.
Timotheus Vermeulen suggests the 21st century is characterized by its own culturally permeating approach to depth, a paradigm he dubs “the new depthiness.”
The Oxford word of the year for 2016 was “post-truth.” In 2005, Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness” articulated a similar sense of the fact-not-fact that dominates our socio-political atmosphere; the gut-feeling riding rough-shod over the empirical. The 21st century and its appropriative, fluid, customizable nature is characterized by this kind of relative and convenient “truthiness”; a sliding, fuzzy and mutative idea of the real.
This in-between state is neither a depthless simulacrum, nor a referential, poke-through iceberg. It’s not contingent on meanings and referents, or stuck in a love affair with simulation and radiating surfaces. It’s capable of engaging both sides, embracing neither—a space bearing a dash of willful avoidance, a certain filter-bubble ignorance, and a well-informed sense of position on an unmarked map.
To address this nature of two-dimensional art in this spun-truth climate, I asked 24 artists to address a constellation of questions:
Participating artists:
Susan D. Hopp (Colorado/Georgia, MFA), Cindi Gaudette (New Mexico, MFA), Pamela Rozelle Drix (New York, MFA), Jessica Weybright (New Mexico), Sam Smart (New Hampshire, MFA), Ren Adams (New Mexico, MFA), Adam Finkleston (Missouri, MFA), Les Ann Holland (New Mexico, MFA), Kiera Reese (New Hampshire, MFA), Trish Meyer (New Mexico, BFA), Allison Conley (Connecticut, MFA), Joshua Sevits (Vermont, MFA), Valerie Spain (Pennsylvania, MFA candidate), Michelle Saffran (Vermont, MFA), Kendall Murakami (New Mexico, BFA), Mary Zompetti (Vermont, MFA), Fotis Begetis (Athens, Greece), Lisette Chavez (Texas, MFA), Nina Early (Massachusetts, MFA), Frol Boundin (South Carolina, MFA), Jessica Krichels (New Mexico, BA), Marilee Salvator & Kristina Arnold - collaboration (Kentucky, MFA), Regan Rosburg (Colorado, MFA), Lindsey Kelly (Massachusetts, MFA)
Curated by: Ren Adams
Exhibition opening/reception: Friday, October 5, 2018, 5- 8:00 pm.
Exhibition dates: Oct. 5 – 27, 2018.
Artist talks: TBA
Gallery hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 10 - 6, and by appointment.
Where:
Remarque Gallery
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
In Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson noted our late 20th century obsession with surface; a condition he coined, “the new depthlessness,” which emphasized an “exhilaration of surfaces”; the giftwrapping was more important than the present. This visual and cultural “depthlessness” downplayed the necessity of webbed meaning in favor of simulacra—a reaction to earlier modes of representation that favored the real and the referential.
Timotheus Vermeulen suggests the 21st century is characterized by its own culturally permeating approach to depth, a paradigm he dubs “the new depthiness.”
The Oxford word of the year for 2016 was “post-truth.” In 2005, Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness” articulated a similar sense of the fact-not-fact that dominates our socio-political atmosphere; the gut-feeling riding rough-shod over the empirical. The 21st century and its appropriative, fluid, customizable nature is characterized by this kind of relative and convenient “truthiness”; a sliding, fuzzy and mutative idea of the real.
This in-between state is neither a depthless simulacrum, nor a referential, poke-through iceberg. It’s not contingent on meanings and referents, or stuck in a love affair with simulation and radiating surfaces. It’s capable of engaging both sides, embracing neither—a space bearing a dash of willful avoidance, a certain filter-bubble ignorance, and a well-informed sense of position on an unmarked map.
To address this nature of two-dimensional art in this spun-truth climate, I asked 24 artists to address a constellation of questions:
- As artists, how do we position ourselves in fuzzy, in-between space?
- Do we embrace “post-truth”? Do we destroy it?
- How does a flat, 2D surface enable us to raise questions about literal and conceptual depth? What is the “truthiness” of implied depth?
- What does it mean to make works on paper in a “post-truth” era?
- Does 2D become more (or less) relevant when our concept of depth changes?
- What are the work of art’s responsibilities, if any? In particular, how does creating work on a 2D surface remain relevant, poignant and effective in the 21st century?
- How can a 2D surface address “the new depthiness,” and the convenient and fluid veracity of post-truth?
Participating artists:
Susan D. Hopp (Colorado/Georgia, MFA), Cindi Gaudette (New Mexico, MFA), Pamela Rozelle Drix (New York, MFA), Jessica Weybright (New Mexico), Sam Smart (New Hampshire, MFA), Ren Adams (New Mexico, MFA), Adam Finkleston (Missouri, MFA), Les Ann Holland (New Mexico, MFA), Kiera Reese (New Hampshire, MFA), Trish Meyer (New Mexico, BFA), Allison Conley (Connecticut, MFA), Joshua Sevits (Vermont, MFA), Valerie Spain (Pennsylvania, MFA candidate), Michelle Saffran (Vermont, MFA), Kendall Murakami (New Mexico, BFA), Mary Zompetti (Vermont, MFA), Fotis Begetis (Athens, Greece), Lisette Chavez (Texas, MFA), Nina Early (Massachusetts, MFA), Frol Boundin (South Carolina, MFA), Jessica Krichels (New Mexico, BA), Marilee Salvator & Kristina Arnold - collaboration (Kentucky, MFA), Regan Rosburg (Colorado, MFA), Lindsey Kelly (Massachusetts, MFA)
Curated by: Ren Adams
Exhibition opening/reception: Friday, October 5, 2018, 5- 8:00 pm.
Exhibition dates: Oct. 5 – 27, 2018.
Artist talks: TBA
Gallery hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 10 - 6, and by appointment.
Where:
Remarque Gallery
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
Recent Exhibitions
Group 6: WIP - Pop-up
This pop-up exhibition features two of my video pieces.
When
Friday, June 23
Pop-up event runs 7 - 9 pm.
We hope you will join us at the reception, June 23 from 7 to 9 at the Commons Gallery in the lower level of University Hall, for lively conversation, refreshments and hors d'oeuvres, and a live DJ!
Where
Commons Gallery
University Hall
Lesley University
1815 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge MA 02138
When
Friday, June 23
Pop-up event runs 7 - 9 pm.
We hope you will join us at the reception, June 23 from 7 to 9 at the Commons Gallery in the lower level of University Hall, for lively conversation, refreshments and hors d'oeuvres, and a live DJ!
Where
Commons Gallery
University Hall
Lesley University
1815 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge MA 02138
Prints by Southwest
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Night of the Arts - Prints by Southwest
Exhibition dates: April 20 - June 2, 2017
Opening Reception and Special Event: Thursday, April 20, 2017. 5 - 8 pm.
Gallery hours: exhibition is also viewable during regular cultural center open hours
Where:
South Broadway Cultural Center
1025 Broadway SE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505-848-1320
Notes on the exhibition opening:
Visitors to the South Broadway Cultural Center will soon have the opportunity to discover what contemporary artists from the southwest are thinking when the exhibition Prints By Southwest opens during Night of the Arts on Thursday, April 20. An artist reception that night will be from 5-8 p.m.
Prints By Southwest revisits last year's traveling exhibition, Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, which featured work from print makers from Tucson, Ariz. and El Paso, Texas. By including print makers from Albuquerque, the exhibition completes a dusty Bermuda Triangle - a zone of lost love - where a desert artist's best efforts often fall into oblivion.
In this sequel, the art agitator/collector reaches deeper into the cactus lands to bring in quality prints from California, Mexico and the Heart of Texas to spark dialog and show how their art and prints compare favorably next to work from the greater region. Prints By Southwest is a collection of etchings, serigraphs and relief prints inspired by (but not confined to) Mexican-American art, and the figurative tradition of the Taller de Gráfica Popular of Mexico. The bulk of the prints were first shown in the Postre Prints exhibition, at Purple Gallery in downtown El Paso earlier this year.
Prints travel easily. This exhibit aims to encourage others to create new print shows, which could travel throughout the region in pop-ups, coffee shops and museums, and to provoke artists to develop new themes and styles in order to push southwestern art into the 21st century.
Also that night will be live music in the John Lewis Theatre. Son of Hwéeldi will bring their rich sounds of rock, soul, blues and a touch of world beat. Son Of Hwéeldi, formerly known as Saving Damsels, was recently nominated for three New Mexico Music Awards. In 2013, Son of Hwéeldi won Best Rock Album from the Native American Music Awards.
Following the music will be a screening of the movie Pollock. Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of American painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan and Sada Thompson, and was directed by Harris.
Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife. Harris received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pollock. The film was a long-term personal project for Harris based on his previous reading of Pollock's biography.
Night of the Arts is free. View more information about South Broadway Cultural Center.
Exhibition dates: April 20 - June 2, 2017
Opening Reception and Special Event: Thursday, April 20, 2017. 5 - 8 pm.
Gallery hours: exhibition is also viewable during regular cultural center open hours
Where:
South Broadway Cultural Center
1025 Broadway SE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505-848-1320
Notes on the exhibition opening:
Visitors to the South Broadway Cultural Center will soon have the opportunity to discover what contemporary artists from the southwest are thinking when the exhibition Prints By Southwest opens during Night of the Arts on Thursday, April 20. An artist reception that night will be from 5-8 p.m.
Prints By Southwest revisits last year's traveling exhibition, Desert Triangle Print Carpeta, which featured work from print makers from Tucson, Ariz. and El Paso, Texas. By including print makers from Albuquerque, the exhibition completes a dusty Bermuda Triangle - a zone of lost love - where a desert artist's best efforts often fall into oblivion.
In this sequel, the art agitator/collector reaches deeper into the cactus lands to bring in quality prints from California, Mexico and the Heart of Texas to spark dialog and show how their art and prints compare favorably next to work from the greater region. Prints By Southwest is a collection of etchings, serigraphs and relief prints inspired by (but not confined to) Mexican-American art, and the figurative tradition of the Taller de Gráfica Popular of Mexico. The bulk of the prints were first shown in the Postre Prints exhibition, at Purple Gallery in downtown El Paso earlier this year.
Prints travel easily. This exhibit aims to encourage others to create new print shows, which could travel throughout the region in pop-ups, coffee shops and museums, and to provoke artists to develop new themes and styles in order to push southwestern art into the 21st century.
Also that night will be live music in the John Lewis Theatre. Son of Hwéeldi will bring their rich sounds of rock, soul, blues and a touch of world beat. Son Of Hwéeldi, formerly known as Saving Damsels, was recently nominated for three New Mexico Music Awards. In 2013, Son of Hwéeldi won Best Rock Album from the Native American Music Awards.
Following the music will be a screening of the movie Pollock. Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of American painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan and Sada Thompson, and was directed by Harris.
Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife. Harris received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pollock. The film was a long-term personal project for Harris based on his previous reading of Pollock's biography.
Night of the Arts is free. View more information about South Broadway Cultural Center.
Inspiration 101 - Works by New Mexico Art Educators
Inspiration 101 – Works by New Mexico Art Educators
Most artists will name their art teachers as one of their greatest influences along with famous artists in history. The knowledge, encouragement and criticism of their teachers will stay with an artist for the rest of their career. Gallery with a Cause wants to celebrate these hardworking men and women who dedicate their lives to inspire and instruct the next generation of artists. This museum quality exhibition – curated by Regina Held- features paintings, watercolor, pastel, printmaking and mixed media by New Mexico art educators from elementary to college level. The Cancer Center Foundation raises funds to alleviate non-medical needs for cancer patients. 40 % of each art sale goes to the Foundation and is tax-deductable.
Exhibition dates: March 12 – June 2, 2017.
Reception: Sunday, March 12, 4 -7 pm
Awards ceremony: 6:30 pm during the reception for the following awards: People’s Choice, Curator’s Choice, Patient’s Choice and Staff Choice.
Cost of event: Free and open to the public
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm by appointment only, please contact Alexandria Tavarez, alexandriat@nmohc.com, or call 505-857-8460. Admission is free during regular gallery hours.
Where:
New Mexico Cancer Center
Gallery with a Cause
4901 Lang Ave NE, Albuquerque NM 87109.
Most artists will name their art teachers as one of their greatest influences along with famous artists in history. The knowledge, encouragement and criticism of their teachers will stay with an artist for the rest of their career. Gallery with a Cause wants to celebrate these hardworking men and women who dedicate their lives to inspire and instruct the next generation of artists. This museum quality exhibition – curated by Regina Held- features paintings, watercolor, pastel, printmaking and mixed media by New Mexico art educators from elementary to college level. The Cancer Center Foundation raises funds to alleviate non-medical needs for cancer patients. 40 % of each art sale goes to the Foundation and is tax-deductable.
Exhibition dates: March 12 – June 2, 2017.
Reception: Sunday, March 12, 4 -7 pm
Awards ceremony: 6:30 pm during the reception for the following awards: People’s Choice, Curator’s Choice, Patient’s Choice and Staff Choice.
Cost of event: Free and open to the public
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm by appointment only, please contact Alexandria Tavarez, alexandriat@nmohc.com, or call 505-857-8460. Admission is free during regular gallery hours.
Where:
New Mexico Cancer Center
Gallery with a Cause
4901 Lang Ave NE, Albuquerque NM 87109.
Poppy Receding - Solo Exhibition
Poppy Receding
A solo exhibition of recent works on paper by Ren Adams
Poppy Receding investigates the sincere absurdity of processing loss with decorative memorials, themselves transitory tokens of grief. Based in a fiercely personal, yet oddly abstract pain, the series considers the story-infused space of mourning—colorful, obsessive layers behave like memory extracts. Each mark suggests a rapidly-fading inscription.
Conflating the mysterious Mojave Desert deaths of her sister Cindy Adams (1972) and musician Gram Parsons (1973), Adams asks what it means to “know” someone through location-tied story; to “understand” events via clues, just as she “knew” both individuals through family narrative. What does it mean to assuage loss with monuments, letters and stories? Do gifts for the dead resolve our perplexity?
To engage this, Adams uses transparent layers to suggest memory, story cycles, and the deluge of tokens posthumously offered to Cindy and Gram. She deconstructs and reframes the language of the Mojave Desert, the visual vocabulary of memorial shrines, and iconography from Cindy and Gram’s clothing, whirling them into a sensitive system of overlaid shapes. The desert they loved represents and consumes them.
Exhibition runs: May 5 – May 27, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, May 5, 5-8:30 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 6, 1-3 pm
Location:
Weyrich Gallery
2935-D Louisiana Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
505-883-7410
Gallery hours:
Monday: By Appointment
Tuesday - Friday: 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Saturday: 11 AM to 5:30 PM
Sunday: Closed
A solo exhibition of recent works on paper by Ren Adams
Poppy Receding investigates the sincere absurdity of processing loss with decorative memorials, themselves transitory tokens of grief. Based in a fiercely personal, yet oddly abstract pain, the series considers the story-infused space of mourning—colorful, obsessive layers behave like memory extracts. Each mark suggests a rapidly-fading inscription.
Conflating the mysterious Mojave Desert deaths of her sister Cindy Adams (1972) and musician Gram Parsons (1973), Adams asks what it means to “know” someone through location-tied story; to “understand” events via clues, just as she “knew” both individuals through family narrative. What does it mean to assuage loss with monuments, letters and stories? Do gifts for the dead resolve our perplexity?
To engage this, Adams uses transparent layers to suggest memory, story cycles, and the deluge of tokens posthumously offered to Cindy and Gram. She deconstructs and reframes the language of the Mojave Desert, the visual vocabulary of memorial shrines, and iconography from Cindy and Gram’s clothing, whirling them into a sensitive system of overlaid shapes. The desert they loved represents and consumes them.
Exhibition runs: May 5 – May 27, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, May 5, 5-8:30 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 6, 1-3 pm
Location:
Weyrich Gallery
2935-D Louisiana Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
505-883-7410
Gallery hours:
Monday: By Appointment
Tuesday - Friday: 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Saturday: 11 AM to 5:30 PM
Sunday: Closed
Affordable Art Fair - New York
Affordable Art Fair New York
Exhibition runs March 29 - April 2, 2017
Booth # 2.7, upstairs (inside Artful Living).
Exhibition runs March 29 - April 2, 2017
Booth # 2.7, upstairs (inside Artful Living).
Electron Salon - at LACDA
What:
I am part of an invitation-only group exhibition featuring digital art and experimental photography, at LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art).
Exhibition opening: SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 6-9PM
Exhibition runs Jan. 14 - Feb. 18, 2017.
Where:
LACDA - Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
Gallery Row, downtown Los Angeles
104 E. 4th St. between Main and Los Angeles Streets.
104 East Fourth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
http://www.lacda.com
I am part of an invitation-only group exhibition featuring digital art and experimental photography, at LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art).
Exhibition opening: SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 6-9PM
Exhibition runs Jan. 14 - Feb. 18, 2017.
Where:
LACDA - Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
Gallery Row, downtown Los Angeles
104 E. 4th St. between Main and Los Angeles Streets.
104 East Fourth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
http://www.lacda.com
New Year - New Work
New Year - New Work. Printmaking exhibition at Remarque Gallery, within Remarque Print Workshop.
A collection of our members' newest prints, showcasing the diverse printmaking techniques and approaches employed by our artists.
Exhibition runs through February.
Where:
Remarque Gallery
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
A collection of our members' newest prints, showcasing the diverse printmaking techniques and approaches employed by our artists.
Exhibition runs through February.
Where:
Remarque Gallery
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
Walk n' Talk - Short Artist Talk Series at Gallery with a Cause
I will be giving a short artist talk on pieces from my "Poppy Transitory" series during next week's "Walk and Talk" with curator Regina Held, at the New Mexico Cancer Center's Gallery with a Cause. Other artists will also be present, so there should be a rapid-fire series of talks. This is a great opportunity to view the exhibition and hear more about the ideas and techniques behind the work. The exhibition itself runs through March 3.
Wednesday, January 11 at 6 PM - 7:30-ish PM
Where
New Mexico Cancer Center
Gallery with a Cause
4901 Lang Ave NE, Albuquerque NM 87109.
Wednesday, January 11 at 6 PM - 7:30-ish PM
Where
New Mexico Cancer Center
Gallery with a Cause
4901 Lang Ave NE, Albuquerque NM 87109.
The Art of Giving/The Gift of Art
Selected works from my Poppy Transitory series are featured in a special group exhibition at Gallery with a Cause, part of the New Mexico Cancer Center.
Exhibition runs Dec. 10, 2016 - March 3, 2017.
Opening Reception:
PLEASE NOTE: This is a date change from the earlier published time: Sunday, December 18, 4-7 pm.
Where:
New Mexico Cancer Center
Gallery with a Cause
4901 Lang Ave NE, Albuquerque NM 87109.
Exhibition runs Dec. 10, 2016 - March 3, 2017.
Opening Reception:
PLEASE NOTE: This is a date change from the earlier published time: Sunday, December 18, 4-7 pm.
Where:
New Mexico Cancer Center
Gallery with a Cause
4901 Lang Ave NE, Albuquerque NM 87109.
Snap to Grid
Exhibition runs December 8-31, 2016
Reception: Saturday, December 10, 6-9 pm
Where:
LACDA - Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
Gallery Row, downtown Los Angeles
104 E. 4th St. between Main and Los Angeles Streets.
104 East Fourth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
http://www.lacda.com
New Grounds Print Workshop Holiday Sale
Annual Holiday Printmaking Sale and 4th International Juried Print Exhibition
New, current and former members of New Grounds Print Workshop & Gallery offer a variety of original works on paper at excellent prices.
Fridays and Saturdays from 10 AM- 6 PM, beginning Nov. 21, running through December 31.
Official opening reception is December 1, 2016. 6-8 pm.
I will be giving a public talk on the international print exhibition (I was this year's juror) on Dec. 1, at 6:30 pm.
Where:
New Grounds Print Workshop & Gallery
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
New, current and former members of New Grounds Print Workshop & Gallery offer a variety of original works on paper at excellent prices.
Fridays and Saturdays from 10 AM- 6 PM, beginning Nov. 21, running through December 31.
Official opening reception is December 1, 2016. 6-8 pm.
I will be giving a public talk on the international print exhibition (I was this year's juror) on Dec. 1, at 6:30 pm.
Where:
New Grounds Print Workshop & Gallery
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
22nd Annual UNM Print Sale
22nd Annual UNM Print Sale
Alumni, current students and faculty from UNM and Tamarind Institute - group print sale in the printmaking studio on UNM campus.
December 8 - 10. 10 am - 4 pm each day.
Where:
University of New Mexico
Fine Art Building (#84), room 142, Printmaking Department
Albuquerque, NM
Alumni, current students and faculty from UNM and Tamarind Institute - group print sale in the printmaking studio on UNM campus.
December 8 - 10. 10 am - 4 pm each day.
Where:
University of New Mexico
Fine Art Building (#84), room 142, Printmaking Department
Albuquerque, NM
Whitespace-Bluespace - Televisual Memory and the Implied Catastrophe
Whitespace-Bluespace - Televisual Memory and the Implied Catastrophe
Multi-media Solo Exhibition by Ren Adams
October 5, 4-6 pm.
Printmaking demonstration Oct. 4.
Public artist talk during the opening reception. 4:30 pm.
Where:
Butte College Art Gallery
ARTS Building, 3536 Butte Campus Dr,
Oroville, California 95965
Pressient - Abstract Contemporary Printmaking
August 5 – 27, 2016
Exhibition opening: Friday, August 5, 5:00 - 8:30pm
Artists Talks: Saturday, August 13, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Where:
The Weyrich Gallery
2935 Louisiana Blvd NE,
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Exhibition opening: Friday, August 5, 5:00 - 8:30pm
Artists Talks: Saturday, August 13, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Where:
The Weyrich Gallery
2935 Louisiana Blvd NE,
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Albuquerque Abstracts
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Opening reception: April 1, 5 - 7 pm.
Where:
The William Platz Gallery at Southwest University of Visual Arts presents ALBUQUERQUE ABSTRACTS
https://www.facebook.com/events/1978890342335186/
The William Platz Gallery at Southwest University of Visual Arts
5000 Marble AVE NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110
505-254-7575
When:
Join us for the reception, Friday April 1st from 5-7 PM. The show runs through April 26. Gallery hours are M-F, 9-5.
Artists include:
Lisa Chernoff
Christian Gallegos
Janet Yagoda Shagam
Ren Adams
Zac Collins
David Saiz
Laila Weeks
David Simpson
Sarah Gomez
Matthew Lutz
Rachel Harris-Huffman
John King
Mauricio Ramirez
Natalie Voelker
Chad Waples
Where:
The William Platz Gallery at Southwest University of Visual Arts presents ALBUQUERQUE ABSTRACTS
https://www.facebook.com/events/1978890342335186/
The William Platz Gallery at Southwest University of Visual Arts
5000 Marble AVE NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110
505-254-7575
When:
Join us for the reception, Friday April 1st from 5-7 PM. The show runs through April 26. Gallery hours are M-F, 9-5.
Artists include:
Lisa Chernoff
Christian Gallegos
Janet Yagoda Shagam
Ren Adams
Zac Collins
David Saiz
Laila Weeks
David Simpson
Sarah Gomez
Matthew Lutz
Rachel Harris-Huffman
John King
Mauricio Ramirez
Natalie Voelker
Chad Waples
“Automic”, an exhibition curated by The Hand Magazine co-editors, Adam Finkelston and James Meara, will be at The Small Engine Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from Feb. 2nd through Feb.25th. The reception will be on Friday, Feb. 12th. Click on the images for more information and links to each artist’s website. Issue #11 is the exhibition catalogue. Get your copy HERE!
Where:
The Small Engine Gallery
1413 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
When:
Exhibition runs Feb. 2nd through Feb.25th, 2016.
Artist / opening reception: Friday, Feb. 12, 6-8 pm.
Where:
The Small Engine Gallery
1413 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
When:
Exhibition runs Feb. 2nd through Feb.25th, 2016.
Artist / opening reception: Friday, Feb. 12, 6-8 pm.
Desert (Loss), Nov. 6 - 30, 2015
Solo Exhibition
Project Statement - Desert (Loss)
Desert (Loss) investigates the suspension between loss and distance, through the language of a fractured desert. These remixed landscapes imply the weirdness of the West; vastness and density become memories of memory, mutations of a white-hot encounter. Historian Simon Schama says “landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock,” just as our own stories and memories are constructed of layered moments.
My strata are flattened, graphic layers, which suggest the way recollection develops a fictional sheen, with pinpoints of lucid detail; certain moments burn and remain. The play between flatness and depth asks what it means to inhabit the space between memory and experience, where fleeting exchanges flare and dissolve. My compressed imagery is remixed, just as we shuffle memories like tracks on a playlist—moments fade and recur. Some details get replayed.
In processing a personal sense of dislocation and loss, I am drawn to the landscape of media and television—complex spaces I’ve inhabited in life and through fiction. Like memory, TV offers a dual sense of place, a spark of the ‘here’ and ‘elsewhere.’ Imagery in Desert (Loss) remixes my own media-infused artwork, drawing on television, personal photographs and even Google Street View to form a composite desert; a California-New Mexico-Hollywood of past and present.
Where:
New Grounds Gallery
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
When:
Exhibition runs through November 30, 2015.
Artist / opening reception: Friday, Nov. 6, 6-8 pm.
Printmaking Demo (of my serigraphy techniques), Friday, Nov. 6 (6:30 pm).
Sneak Preview: Tuesday, Nov. 3 - Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015.
Project Statement - Desert (Loss)
Desert (Loss) investigates the suspension between loss and distance, through the language of a fractured desert. These remixed landscapes imply the weirdness of the West; vastness and density become memories of memory, mutations of a white-hot encounter. Historian Simon Schama says “landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock,” just as our own stories and memories are constructed of layered moments.
My strata are flattened, graphic layers, which suggest the way recollection develops a fictional sheen, with pinpoints of lucid detail; certain moments burn and remain. The play between flatness and depth asks what it means to inhabit the space between memory and experience, where fleeting exchanges flare and dissolve. My compressed imagery is remixed, just as we shuffle memories like tracks on a playlist—moments fade and recur. Some details get replayed.
In processing a personal sense of dislocation and loss, I am drawn to the landscape of media and television—complex spaces I’ve inhabited in life and through fiction. Like memory, TV offers a dual sense of place, a spark of the ‘here’ and ‘elsewhere.’ Imagery in Desert (Loss) remixes my own media-infused artwork, drawing on television, personal photographs and even Google Street View to form a composite desert; a California-New Mexico-Hollywood of past and present.
Where:
New Grounds Gallery
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
When:
Exhibition runs through November 30, 2015.
Artist / opening reception: Friday, Nov. 6, 6-8 pm.
Printmaking Demo (of my serigraphy techniques), Friday, Nov. 6 (6:30 pm).
Sneak Preview: Tuesday, Nov. 3 - Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015.
