Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
Shitty Infinity
An exhibition to end all exhibitions.
For GRAFT's final exhibition, we are proud to bring a Big Art Museum experience to Albuquerque, showing "genuine" famous artworks from the world's most iconic artists.
Featuring art by: Yay Kusama, Jeff Koonz, Damien Hertz, Andy Warhol, William Di Kloony, Marnia Abromovish, Donald Jud, James Turrull, Robert Rachenburg, Yoyko Ono, Rubert Smitherson, Ai WayWay, Vincente Van Googh, Pit Mondrion, and more.
This exhibition is made possible by the members of GRAFT, So This Is Art, Rob Stevens, Lance McGoldrick, Ren Adams, Natalie Day, Drew Miller, Piera Turkis, Bradford Erickson, Stanley Brapola, CB Bryan, Apollo Gomez, and Lee Frampton.
"The most important and comprehensive art exhibition ever to come to Albuquerque"
"A truly transcendent and transformative experience"
"This is the REAL DEAL. This is real art. "
"An exhibition to end all exhibitions."
July 13 - 20
Special events:
Friday, July 13, 7-11 pm
Friday, July 20, 7 pm
Where:
graftgallery.com
GRAFT Gallery
1415 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
For GRAFT's final exhibition, we are proud to bring a Big Art Museum experience to Albuquerque, showing "genuine" famous artworks from the world's most iconic artists.
Featuring art by: Yay Kusama, Jeff Koonz, Damien Hertz, Andy Warhol, William Di Kloony, Marnia Abromovish, Donald Jud, James Turrull, Robert Rachenburg, Yoyko Ono, Rubert Smitherson, Ai WayWay, Vincente Van Googh, Pit Mondrion, and more.
This exhibition is made possible by the members of GRAFT, So This Is Art, Rob Stevens, Lance McGoldrick, Ren Adams, Natalie Day, Drew Miller, Piera Turkis, Bradford Erickson, Stanley Brapola, CB Bryan, Apollo Gomez, and Lee Frampton.
"The most important and comprehensive art exhibition ever to come to Albuquerque"
"A truly transcendent and transformative experience"
"This is the REAL DEAL. This is real art. "
"An exhibition to end all exhibitions."
July 13 - 20
Special events:
Friday, July 13, 7-11 pm
Friday, July 20, 7 pm
Where:
graftgallery.com
GRAFT Gallery
1415 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
Print is Dead
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Curated by: Margot Myers
Exhibition opening/reception: Friday, Aug. 3, 6-9 pm
Exhibition dates: Aug. 3 - Sept. 1, 2018
Gallery hours: Monday - Saturday, 9 am - 6 pm; Sunday, 12-5 pm
A portfolio exchange of 15 printmakers featuring varied editions in traditional and experimental print techniques.
Where:
Dakota Gallery
1324 Cornwall Ave
Bellingham, WA
Exhibition opening/reception: Friday, Aug. 3, 6-9 pm
Exhibition dates: Aug. 3 - Sept. 1, 2018
Gallery hours: Monday - Saturday, 9 am - 6 pm; Sunday, 12-5 pm
A portfolio exchange of 15 printmakers featuring varied editions in traditional and experimental print techniques.
Where:
Dakota Gallery
1324 Cornwall Ave
Bellingham, WA
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, BA), Cecilia McKinnon (New Mexico/Montreal, Canada, MFA candidate), 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 (California, MFA), Jessica Krichels (New Mexico, BA), Marilee Salvator & Kristina Arnold - collaboration (Kentucky, MFA), Regan Rosburg (Colorado, MFA), Lindsey Kelly (Massachusetts, MFA), Jazmyn Crosby (Pennsylvania, MFA Candidate)
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
Main and Blue Galleries
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, BA), Cecilia McKinnon (New Mexico/Montreal, Canada, MFA candidate), 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 (California, MFA), Jessica Krichels (New Mexico, BA), Marilee Salvator & Kristina Arnold - collaboration (Kentucky, MFA), Regan Rosburg (Colorado, MFA), Lindsey Kelly (Massachusetts, MFA), Jazmyn Crosby (Pennsylvania, MFA Candidate)
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
Main and Blue Galleries
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.
Recent Exhibitions
Is that a Photo?
Is That a Photograph?
A group photo show curated by Teena Lee Ryan
June 22nd, 6 pm – 10 pm
Featuring:
Ren Adams
Jeremyah Rodriguez
Zac Travis
Monica Kennedy
Ayrton Chapman
Abigail Blueher
Eugene Ellenberg
Hayden Barnard
Ariel Wilson
David Campbell
"Photography is to draw or paint with light. To create a photograph is to make an image using light and to record the image onto a light sensitive surface. The process does not require any specific technical apparatus to form these works.
As with other art forms, photography can function to question, redefine and discover. While many would argue that photography must remain tied to its technological roots, with an emphasis on equipment, not everyone agrees. Photography is in fact about vison regardless of equipment and we ask what is a photograph? Is it possible to create a photograph without a camera?"
A group photo show curated by Teena Lee Ryan
June 22nd, 6 pm – 10 pm
Featuring:
Ren Adams
Jeremyah Rodriguez
Zac Travis
Monica Kennedy
Ayrton Chapman
Abigail Blueher
Eugene Ellenberg
Hayden Barnard
Ariel Wilson
David Campbell
"Photography is to draw or paint with light. To create a photograph is to make an image using light and to record the image onto a light sensitive surface. The process does not require any specific technical apparatus to form these works.
As with other art forms, photography can function to question, redefine and discover. While many would argue that photography must remain tied to its technological roots, with an emphasis on equipment, not everyone agrees. Photography is in fact about vison regardless of equipment and we ask what is a photograph? Is it possible to create a photograph without a camera?"
Print Matter(s)
Curated by: Lisa Turner
Exhibition opening/reception: Wednesday, May 16, 5-7 pm
Exhibition dates: May 14 - 25, 2018.
Gallery hours: Monday - Thursday, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm, Fridays 8:30 am - 5 pm
Where:
B Gallery
Western Washington University
516 High St
Room FI 118
Bellingham, WA 98225
Exhibition opening/reception: Wednesday, May 16, 5-7 pm
Exhibition dates: May 14 - 25, 2018.
Gallery hours: Monday - Thursday, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm, Fridays 8:30 am - 5 pm
Where:
B Gallery
Western Washington University
516 High St
Room FI 118
Bellingham, WA 98225
Vestigial - art about obsolescence
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Vestigial is a group art show that explores obsolete media, processes, materials, and forms of knowledge and communication. The theme of obsolescence is not limited to expired technology, but includes a broader topic of concepts, philosophies, and ideas that have fallen in general disuse. Featured artists explore this theme through a variety of media.
Performance at 8 pm (opening and closing nights) featuring:
SONUS EXCOMMUNICADO by Kenneth Cornell
This performance and exhibition addresses technologies dealing with sound and communication. Gathering pieces that run a gamut of time it reflects on and demonstrates those technologies supposed to be antiquated, old, useless, and discarded as well as those considered quite modern and convenient. This equipment being performed with is a component which reminds us that much of technology is as limited or unlimited as the users imagination.
Artists:
Penelope Young
Emma Eckert
Sol Wright
Kenneth Cornell
Linnea Bergman
Michael Ellis
Harley Kirschner
Ren Adams
King Dikorim
Aaron Lollis
Lindsay Brenner
Jenette Isaacson
Evening King
GRAFT Collective
Image: "Melted Horse" by Emma Eckert
Curated by: GRAFT Collective
Exhibition opening/reception: Friday, April 6, 6-10 pm
Closing reception: Friday, April 20, 6-10 pm
Exhibition dates: April 6 - 20, 2018
Gallery hours: open during events and by appointment
Where:
graftgallery.com
GRAFT Gallery
1415 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
Performance at 8 pm (opening and closing nights) featuring:
SONUS EXCOMMUNICADO by Kenneth Cornell
This performance and exhibition addresses technologies dealing with sound and communication. Gathering pieces that run a gamut of time it reflects on and demonstrates those technologies supposed to be antiquated, old, useless, and discarded as well as those considered quite modern and convenient. This equipment being performed with is a component which reminds us that much of technology is as limited or unlimited as the users imagination.
Artists:
Penelope Young
Emma Eckert
Sol Wright
Kenneth Cornell
Linnea Bergman
Michael Ellis
Harley Kirschner
Ren Adams
King Dikorim
Aaron Lollis
Lindsay Brenner
Jenette Isaacson
Evening King
GRAFT Collective
Image: "Melted Horse" by Emma Eckert
Curated by: GRAFT Collective
Exhibition opening/reception: Friday, April 6, 6-10 pm
Closing reception: Friday, April 20, 6-10 pm
Exhibition dates: April 6 - 20, 2018
Gallery hours: open during events and by appointment
Where:
graftgallery.com
GRAFT Gallery
1415 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
ABQ Abstracts 2.0
An exhibition of local abstraction
A dynamic and diverse offering of abstract work produced by artists who consider Albuquerque, or nearby environs, home.
I will have a curator's contribution piece in this exhibition.
Curated by: Jessica Kennedy and Ren Adams
Exhibition opening/reception: Friday, April 13, 5-7 pm
Exhibition dates: April 2 - 26, 2018
Gallery hours: M-F, 9 am - 5 pm
Where:
The William Platz Gallery
Southwest University of Visual Arts
5000 Marble Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
A dynamic and diverse offering of abstract work produced by artists who consider Albuquerque, or nearby environs, home.
I will have a curator's contribution piece in this exhibition.
Curated by: Jessica Kennedy and Ren Adams
Exhibition opening/reception: Friday, April 13, 5-7 pm
Exhibition dates: April 2 - 26, 2018
Gallery hours: M-F, 9 am - 5 pm
Where:
The William Platz Gallery
Southwest University of Visual Arts
5000 Marble Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Twilight Sleep
A solo, single-channel video art installation at < terminal > space, inside the Austin Peay State University Department of Art + Design.
Twilight Sleep unites two of my recent bodies of video work: Channeling - Televisual Memory and Media Seance (2017) and In this Twilight Sleep (2018), for a haunting visual experience. Each of the series are presented in their entirety, as endlessly looping chains. Channeling will occupies the space for two weeks, In this Twilight sleep for two more.
Together, they generate a space where memory, media (and holding on) become unreliable, haunted and fading.
Curator: McLean Fahnestock
When:
Exhibition runs: March 26 - April 22, 2018
Gallery hours: during normal university operating hours
Where:
< terminal > space
Austin Peay State University (Department of Art + Design)
APSU Department of Art + Design Building
601 College St, Clarksville, TN 37044
Twilight Sleep unites two of my recent bodies of video work: Channeling - Televisual Memory and Media Seance (2017) and In this Twilight Sleep (2018), for a haunting visual experience. Each of the series are presented in their entirety, as endlessly looping chains. Channeling will occupies the space for two weeks, In this Twilight sleep for two more.
Together, they generate a space where memory, media (and holding on) become unreliable, haunted and fading.
Curator: McLean Fahnestock
When:
Exhibition runs: March 26 - April 22, 2018
Gallery hours: during normal university operating hours
Where:
< terminal > space
Austin Peay State University (Department of Art + Design)
APSU Department of Art + Design Building
601 College St, Clarksville, TN 37044
2018 Fun-a-Day
Fun-a-Day is a show structured around daily practice. For the month of January, 2018, complete one action or one part of an artwork every day. Examples include taking a daily self-portrait, baking bread every morning, collecting one piece of trash every day, sewing a quilt square, making action figures of all your friends, stealing silverware from restaurants, and any other daily task you can imagine. All skill levels and media welcome. The resulting works will be displayed in an unjuried, open-call exhibit at GRAFT during the month of February.
Opening Reception: February 9th, 6pm-10pm at GRAFT
Fun-a-Day projects will start on January 1, 2018.
Where:
graftgallery.com
GRAFT Gallery
1415 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
Open by appointment and during events.
Opening Reception: February 9th, 6pm-10pm at GRAFT
Fun-a-Day projects will start on January 1, 2018.
Where:
graftgallery.com
GRAFT Gallery
1415 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
Open by appointment and during events.
One Year Down
The "One Year Down" exhibition seeks to provide a thoughtful and mature visual dialogue as artists respond to events and issues during the first year of the Trump Administration. The exhibition will feature fine art and poetry performances. Schedule to come.
"One Year Down" will be held at the New Deal Studios in Little Rock, AR at 2003 S. Louisiana Street, Little Rock, AR.
The exhibit will be a pop up event held 6 pm - 9 pm Friday January 19th and 1 pm - 6 pm Saturday January 20th, the one year anniversary of the inauguration. The exhibition may be extended to the afternoon of Sunday, January 21st based on interest.
When: Jan. 19, 20, 21
Where:
New Deal Studios
2003 S. Louisiana Street,
Little Rock, AR
January 19th, 2018
Poetry Reading Schedule
6:30pm
Kai Coggin - "Walls in Midair"
Bryan Borland - “IF YOU CAN HEAR THIS”
Seth Pennington - “On My Notebooks Full Of News"
Jeannie Stone (dextajean) - “Missouri Blues”
Zachary Crow - “But, Not Yet”
Karen Hayes - “ MARGINALIZED” + comments
7:30pm
Kai Coggin - “When Everything is About to Burn”
Bud Kenny - “WHEN THE KING SPEAKS”
Susan Elder - Limericks, part one
Zachary Crow - “I Loved You Once”
Jessica Hylton - “Censor This”
Karen Hayes - “MARGINALIZED” + comments
8:30pm
Kai Coggin - “Please Be Advised”
Akau Anyieth - “Born a Criminal”
Sarah Burns - “Let Freedom Ring”
C.S. Carrier - “Chant Suite in B Major”
Susan Elder - Limericks, part two
Karen Hayes - “MARGINALIZED” + comments
Bud Kenny - “Rump on the Stump”
January 20th, 2018
2:30- 4:30
"Poetry Talks Back" event with Kai Coggin and Karen Hayes
Participating Artists in Art Show:
Ren Adams
Jaquita Ball
H. Kirk Beckham
Don Byram
Ana Sofia Camargo
David Carpenter
Matthew Castellano
Carmen Castorena
Susan Chambers
Coco Cohen
Larry Crane
Norwood Creech
Lisa Crews
Brad Cushman
Stacey Cushner
Chuck Davis
Nancy Dunaway
Hamid Ebrahimifar
Tom Flynn
Louise Halsey
Diane Harper
Karen Hayes
Obed Gonzalez
Vincent Griffen
Lisa Kindrick
Lisa Krannichfeld
Melissa “Mo” Lashbrook
Michael Lindas
Mitchell McClenney
Brianna Peterson
Jerry Phillips
Adrian Quintanar
Laura Raborn
Tom Richard
Suzannah Schreckhise
Dominique Simmons
Jeannie Fowler Rodriguez Stone
S. Joseph Thomason
Dan Thornhill
Prinn Vandegrift
Jo Lynne Varner
Tommy Wallace
Markeith Woods
Carol Young
"One Year Down" will be held at the New Deal Studios in Little Rock, AR at 2003 S. Louisiana Street, Little Rock, AR.
The exhibit will be a pop up event held 6 pm - 9 pm Friday January 19th and 1 pm - 6 pm Saturday January 20th, the one year anniversary of the inauguration. The exhibition may be extended to the afternoon of Sunday, January 21st based on interest.
When: Jan. 19, 20, 21
Where:
New Deal Studios
2003 S. Louisiana Street,
Little Rock, AR
January 19th, 2018
Poetry Reading Schedule
6:30pm
Kai Coggin - "Walls in Midair"
Bryan Borland - “IF YOU CAN HEAR THIS”
Seth Pennington - “On My Notebooks Full Of News"
Jeannie Stone (dextajean) - “Missouri Blues”
Zachary Crow - “But, Not Yet”
Karen Hayes - “ MARGINALIZED” + comments
7:30pm
Kai Coggin - “When Everything is About to Burn”
Bud Kenny - “WHEN THE KING SPEAKS”
Susan Elder - Limericks, part one
Zachary Crow - “I Loved You Once”
Jessica Hylton - “Censor This”
Karen Hayes - “MARGINALIZED” + comments
8:30pm
Kai Coggin - “Please Be Advised”
Akau Anyieth - “Born a Criminal”
Sarah Burns - “Let Freedom Ring”
C.S. Carrier - “Chant Suite in B Major”
Susan Elder - Limericks, part two
Karen Hayes - “MARGINALIZED” + comments
Bud Kenny - “Rump on the Stump”
January 20th, 2018
2:30- 4:30
"Poetry Talks Back" event with Kai Coggin and Karen Hayes
Participating Artists in Art Show:
Ren Adams
Jaquita Ball
H. Kirk Beckham
Don Byram
Ana Sofia Camargo
David Carpenter
Matthew Castellano
Carmen Castorena
Susan Chambers
Coco Cohen
Larry Crane
Norwood Creech
Lisa Crews
Brad Cushman
Stacey Cushner
Chuck Davis
Nancy Dunaway
Hamid Ebrahimifar
Tom Flynn
Louise Halsey
Diane Harper
Karen Hayes
Obed Gonzalez
Vincent Griffen
Lisa Kindrick
Lisa Krannichfeld
Melissa “Mo” Lashbrook
Michael Lindas
Mitchell McClenney
Brianna Peterson
Jerry Phillips
Adrian Quintanar
Laura Raborn
Tom Richard
Suzannah Schreckhise
Dominique Simmons
Jeannie Fowler Rodriguez Stone
S. Joseph Thomason
Dan Thornhill
Prinn Vandegrift
Jo Lynne Varner
Tommy Wallace
Markeith Woods
Carol Young
Electron Salon
Electron Salon
Large format contemporary digital artwork at LACDA - the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
When:
Opening reception Dec. 16, 6-9 pm
Exhibition runs Dec. 14 - Jan. 6, 2018
Where:
LACDA
104 East Fourth St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
323 646 9427Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 12-5
Large format contemporary digital artwork at LACDA - the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
When:
Opening reception Dec. 16, 6-9 pm
Exhibition runs Dec. 14 - Jan. 6, 2018
Where:
LACDA
104 East Fourth St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
323 646 9427Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 12-5
Zero Hour
A solo multimedia exhibition
Zero Hour
Exhibition runs: Nov. 3 - 30
Opening Reception: First Friday, Nov. 3, 5 – 8:30 pm
Artist Talk: Friday, Nov. 3, 6 – 6:30 pm, during the opening.
Cost of event: Free and open to the public
A solo exhibition and installation of new interdisciplinary works by Ren Adams
Zero Hour is a multimedia installation that combines works on paper, video, and View-Master toys to address the role of television as an accidental eyewitness to climate change. By investigating a sublime “before” and “after,” Adams’ television-infused spaces offer a delicate dance of avoidance and confrontation.
As our living world collapses into infirmity, dying slowly, dying suddenly—we are surrounded by a seemingly endless cycle of loss most are powerless to mourn. In our paralysis, we turn to media for escape—but that route is haunted. Pervasive media, like television, is an accidental eyewitness, a record of our imprint on the planet. It’s a virtual database of environments ‘caught’ tangentially on tape; an ‘archive’ of our former (changing) landscape exists within the very media we use for avoidance.
Yet, the environment is rarely the subject of TV programming. The land is transient, offhandedly preserved—relegated to the background of a consumable program, itself destined for obscurity. Thus excavating the environment from the backdrop of Cold War television reinforces both the fleeting, secondary representation of landscape, and the notion of environment as ‘accessory’ to human story. This ‘accessorizing’ is part of our misery.
Zero Hour is a multimedia exhibition that grapples with this paralysis. A series of eroded and uncanny works on paper combine printmaking with experimental photography to suggest aging snapshots of long-lost locations. Linked, looping video ‘episodes’ echo this fading fingerprint, as if recalling the image in perpetuity can somehow mourn and undo human-induced calamity. The videos are composed of reanimated, mutated stills extracted from television with a cell phone—a process that appropriates life, after the landscape has died. The corresponding Lovely… View-Master set expands these melancholic spaces by serving as memento mori. Suggesting old View-Master reels of postcard locations, the reels are souvenirs of a lost landscape; ruin and absence the only remaining commodity.
Together, they are lamentations; a virtual tourism of a seemingly unstoppable end.
The Medium: as a multimedia installation, the exhibition features works on paper (printmaking), View-Master toys and looping video. Using a combination of experimental photography, printmaking, analog and digital glitch processing, Adams produces experimental photographs that get mutated into different forms.
The Process: the experimental photographs are created by combining several processes in layers. Using cell phone photography in a real-time system of manipulation, Adams mines digital ‘monotypes’ (one of a kind images) from Cold War television program backgrounds, subjecting them to analog and digital glitch. Adams uses an obsessive system of extraction, creating glitches that articulate the imperfection of memory and the eventual loss of the media that temporarily preserves these human-ruined sites. Making use of the watery, softened broadcast aesthetic of television, Adams uses a commonplace cell phone camera to emphasize the ubiquity of the sourced images and the social permeation of media. The photographs then become works on paper, video elements and View-Master image cells.
The printmaking pieces are done using layers of image transfer, collagraph and Akua monotype on paper, printed locally at Remarque Print Workshop.
Pieces in this exhibition were created in 2017 in the artist’s Albuquerque, NM studio.
Where:
Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
http://www.newgroundsprintshop.com/
director@newgroundsprintshop.com
505-268-8952 – gallery phone
Zero Hour
Exhibition runs: Nov. 3 - 30
Opening Reception: First Friday, Nov. 3, 5 – 8:30 pm
Artist Talk: Friday, Nov. 3, 6 – 6:30 pm, during the opening.
Cost of event: Free and open to the public
A solo exhibition and installation of new interdisciplinary works by Ren Adams
Zero Hour is a multimedia installation that combines works on paper, video, and View-Master toys to address the role of television as an accidental eyewitness to climate change. By investigating a sublime “before” and “after,” Adams’ television-infused spaces offer a delicate dance of avoidance and confrontation.
As our living world collapses into infirmity, dying slowly, dying suddenly—we are surrounded by a seemingly endless cycle of loss most are powerless to mourn. In our paralysis, we turn to media for escape—but that route is haunted. Pervasive media, like television, is an accidental eyewitness, a record of our imprint on the planet. It’s a virtual database of environments ‘caught’ tangentially on tape; an ‘archive’ of our former (changing) landscape exists within the very media we use for avoidance.
Yet, the environment is rarely the subject of TV programming. The land is transient, offhandedly preserved—relegated to the background of a consumable program, itself destined for obscurity. Thus excavating the environment from the backdrop of Cold War television reinforces both the fleeting, secondary representation of landscape, and the notion of environment as ‘accessory’ to human story. This ‘accessorizing’ is part of our misery.
Zero Hour is a multimedia exhibition that grapples with this paralysis. A series of eroded and uncanny works on paper combine printmaking with experimental photography to suggest aging snapshots of long-lost locations. Linked, looping video ‘episodes’ echo this fading fingerprint, as if recalling the image in perpetuity can somehow mourn and undo human-induced calamity. The videos are composed of reanimated, mutated stills extracted from television with a cell phone—a process that appropriates life, after the landscape has died. The corresponding Lovely… View-Master set expands these melancholic spaces by serving as memento mori. Suggesting old View-Master reels of postcard locations, the reels are souvenirs of a lost landscape; ruin and absence the only remaining commodity.
Together, they are lamentations; a virtual tourism of a seemingly unstoppable end.
The Medium: as a multimedia installation, the exhibition features works on paper (printmaking), View-Master toys and looping video. Using a combination of experimental photography, printmaking, analog and digital glitch processing, Adams produces experimental photographs that get mutated into different forms.
The Process: the experimental photographs are created by combining several processes in layers. Using cell phone photography in a real-time system of manipulation, Adams mines digital ‘monotypes’ (one of a kind images) from Cold War television program backgrounds, subjecting them to analog and digital glitch. Adams uses an obsessive system of extraction, creating glitches that articulate the imperfection of memory and the eventual loss of the media that temporarily preserves these human-ruined sites. Making use of the watery, softened broadcast aesthetic of television, Adams uses a commonplace cell phone camera to emphasize the ubiquity of the sourced images and the social permeation of media. The photographs then become works on paper, video elements and View-Master image cells.
The printmaking pieces are done using layers of image transfer, collagraph and Akua monotype on paper, printed locally at Remarque Print Workshop.
Pieces in this exhibition were created in 2017 in the artist’s Albuquerque, NM studio.
Where:
Remarque/New Grounds Print Workshop
3812 Central Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
http://www.newgroundsprintshop.com/
director@newgroundsprintshop.com
505-268-8952 – gallery phone
Get comfy and listen up! BEDtalks is a series of short, powerful pillow talks from Albuquerque artists, organizers, educators, scientists, and people of interest, presented from the comfort of a twin sized bed.
Each speaker, given only the parameters of 20 slides in 10 minutes, create presentations on anything they like. Talks range from educational to absurd, global concepts to deeply personal stories.
#9 Edition Speakers:
Ren Adams
Matthew Gonzales
CB Bryan
Rudi Thornburgh
Jenette Isaacson
Ayrton Chapman
Marya Errin Jones
Sean Campbell
Elizabeth Murphy
This event is presented by GRAFT and co-hosted by TLab
Where:
TLab
Tricklock Theater
110 Gold Ave SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
Each speaker, given only the parameters of 20 slides in 10 minutes, create presentations on anything they like. Talks range from educational to absurd, global concepts to deeply personal stories.
#9 Edition Speakers:
Ren Adams
Matthew Gonzales
CB Bryan
Rudi Thornburgh
Jenette Isaacson
Ayrton Chapman
Marya Errin Jones
Sean Campbell
Elizabeth Murphy
This event is presented by GRAFT and co-hosted by TLab
Where:
TLab
Tricklock Theater
110 Gold Ave SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
Channeling – Televisual Memory and Media Séance
A solo exhibition and installation of new interdisciplinary works by Ren Adams
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.
Television is a possessive specter. It permeates our memories, our engagement with the world—affecting our understanding of self and purpose. To revisit older media on television is to enter the territory of memory itself, where we face fading moments that remain cannibalized in a cycle of broadcast (and recollection)—consumed and regurgitated. Watching not only conjures characters and their fictional curses, it summons our own inability to escape media possession.
Using cell phone photography in a real-time system of manipulation, Adams mines digital ‘monotypes’ from vintage horror films rebroadcast on TV, subjecting them to analog and digital glitch. Focused on the screen presence of Lon Chaney Jr., a figure she associates with her own dislocated childhood, Adams uses an obsessive system of ‘summoning’ and extracting, creating glitches that articulate the imperfection of memory and the vampirism of a media-cursed self. The resulting moments are haunting and unstable, featuring a receding ‘hero’ who is undermined, uncertain and media-bitten.
In essence, television supersedes mortality. ‘Dead’ moments are channeled with a click, yet without interaction, media is entombed. We connect its points. We invite its permeation, its infection. We are both necromancer and created, and these wild borderlands of self-and-culture are the stuff of séance, a trance suspended between manifestation and ending, between the archive and the living.
Exhibition runs: Oct. 6 - 27, 2017
Opening Reception: First Friday, October 6, 6 – 10 pm
Closing Reception special event: Friday, Oct. 27, 6 – 10 pm.
Artist Talk: Friday, October 6, 7-7:30 pm, during the opening.
Where:
graftgallery.com
GRAFT Gallery
1415 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
Open by appointment and during events.
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.
Television is a possessive specter. It permeates our memories, our engagement with the world—affecting our understanding of self and purpose. To revisit older media on television is to enter the territory of memory itself, where we face fading moments that remain cannibalized in a cycle of broadcast (and recollection)—consumed and regurgitated. Watching not only conjures characters and their fictional curses, it summons our own inability to escape media possession.
Using cell phone photography in a real-time system of manipulation, Adams mines digital ‘monotypes’ from vintage horror films rebroadcast on TV, subjecting them to analog and digital glitch. Focused on the screen presence of Lon Chaney Jr., a figure she associates with her own dislocated childhood, Adams uses an obsessive system of ‘summoning’ and extracting, creating glitches that articulate the imperfection of memory and the vampirism of a media-cursed self. The resulting moments are haunting and unstable, featuring a receding ‘hero’ who is undermined, uncertain and media-bitten.
In essence, television supersedes mortality. ‘Dead’ moments are channeled with a click, yet without interaction, media is entombed. We connect its points. We invite its permeation, its infection. We are both necromancer and created, and these wild borderlands of self-and-culture are the stuff of séance, a trance suspended between manifestation and ending, between the archive and the living.
Exhibition runs: Oct. 6 - 27, 2017
Opening Reception: First Friday, October 6, 6 – 10 pm
Closing Reception special event: Friday, Oct. 27, 6 – 10 pm.
Artist Talk: Friday, October 6, 7-7:30 pm, during the opening.
Where:
graftgallery.com
GRAFT Gallery
1415 4th St SW
Albuquerque, NM
Open by appointment and during events.
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 1 - September 30, 2017
The Director/Curator of the 3rd GLOBAL PRINT 2017 - International
Printmaking Biennial Exhibition, Nuno Canelas, has the pleasure to
invite you and your family to the Opening of the Biennial, on 1st
August, at 5:30pm, at the Côa Museum in Foz Coa City.
All the exhibitions of the Global Print will be open until 30th
September 2017.
When:
Exhibition runs August 1 - Sept. 30, 2017
Exhibition opening is Tuesday, August 1, 5:30 - 8 pm.
Where:
Côa Museum in Foz Coa City
http://www.arte-coa.pt/index.php?Language=en&Page=Museu&SubPage=Eventos&Menu2=387
Museu do Côa
Rua do Museu
5150-610 Vila Nova de Foz Côa
Portugal
Tel (general and visits): +351 279 768 260/1
Côa Museum Facebook - www.facebook.com/museudocoa
GPS Coordinates:
Museum: N 41º 04’ 47.5’’ ; W 7º 06’ 44.4’’
Visitor's Centre in Castelo Melhor: N 41º 01’ 31.7’’ ; W 7º 04’ 00.2’’
Visitor's Centre in Muxagata: N 41º 02’ 11.6’’ ; W 7º 10’ 03.4’’
From the museum announcement:
Opening of the 3rd Global Print 2017On Tuesday, August 1, at 17:00, the Côa Museum inaugurates the 3rd Global Print 2017: "GLOBAL PRINT, GLOBAL ART, COMMUNICATION AND ... WHAT ELSE?", within the the International Print Douro Biennial, which will be on exhibition until September 30.
"The exhibition “3rd Global Print 2017”, inaugurated this year, offers visitors a collection of 543 artists from 67 countries from all the continents. Prints by renowned artists, professors, but also by many young graduates and students, are exhibited together in various collective exhibitions, emphasizing, cultural diversity, technical diversity, virtuosity and creative innovation, but above all else, the richness and excellence of communication through art, which is the true purpose of its existence and of the DOURO BIENNIAL.
Assuming the responsibility of being the unique Biennial of graphic work of the country, its evolution since its origin in 2001 placed it on an unimaginable level today, abreast of the most important biennials in the world. To prove this, we highlight the exhibition tribute to world-renowned artists such as Antoni Tàpies, Paula Rego, Vieira da Silva, Octave Landuyt, Gil Teixeira Lopes, Nadir Afonso, David de Almeida, Bartolomeu dos Santos, Júlio Pomar and others, but also by the breadth and internationality reached.
The partnership with the Côa Museum also proves the scale of this project, transforming the Douro into a true world capital of prehistoric engraving and contemporary printmaking."
Nuno Canelas – Curator/Global Print and the Douro Biennial
http://www.globalprintdouro.com
August 1 - September 30, 2017
The Director/Curator of the 3rd GLOBAL PRINT 2017 - International
Printmaking Biennial Exhibition, Nuno Canelas, has the pleasure to
invite you and your family to the Opening of the Biennial, on 1st
August, at 5:30pm, at the Côa Museum in Foz Coa City.
All the exhibitions of the Global Print will be open until 30th
September 2017.
When:
Exhibition runs August 1 - Sept. 30, 2017
Exhibition opening is Tuesday, August 1, 5:30 - 8 pm.
Where:
Côa Museum in Foz Coa City
http://www.arte-coa.pt/index.php?Language=en&Page=Museu&SubPage=Eventos&Menu2=387
Museu do Côa
Rua do Museu
5150-610 Vila Nova de Foz Côa
Portugal
Tel (general and visits): +351 279 768 260/1
Côa Museum Facebook - www.facebook.com/museudocoa
GPS Coordinates:
Museum: N 41º 04’ 47.5’’ ; W 7º 06’ 44.4’’
Visitor's Centre in Castelo Melhor: N 41º 01’ 31.7’’ ; W 7º 04’ 00.2’’
Visitor's Centre in Muxagata: N 41º 02’ 11.6’’ ; W 7º 10’ 03.4’’
From the museum announcement:
Opening of the 3rd Global Print 2017On Tuesday, August 1, at 17:00, the Côa Museum inaugurates the 3rd Global Print 2017: "GLOBAL PRINT, GLOBAL ART, COMMUNICATION AND ... WHAT ELSE?", within the the International Print Douro Biennial, which will be on exhibition until September 30.
"The exhibition “3rd Global Print 2017”, inaugurated this year, offers visitors a collection of 543 artists from 67 countries from all the continents. Prints by renowned artists, professors, but also by many young graduates and students, are exhibited together in various collective exhibitions, emphasizing, cultural diversity, technical diversity, virtuosity and creative innovation, but above all else, the richness and excellence of communication through art, which is the true purpose of its existence and of the DOURO BIENNIAL.
Assuming the responsibility of being the unique Biennial of graphic work of the country, its evolution since its origin in 2001 placed it on an unimaginable level today, abreast of the most important biennials in the world. To prove this, we highlight the exhibition tribute to world-renowned artists such as Antoni Tàpies, Paula Rego, Vieira da Silva, Octave Landuyt, Gil Teixeira Lopes, Nadir Afonso, David de Almeida, Bartolomeu dos Santos, Júlio Pomar and others, but also by the breadth and internationality reached.
The partnership with the Côa Museum also proves the scale of this project, transforming the Douro into a true world capital of prehistoric engraving and contemporary printmaking."
Nuno Canelas – Curator/Global Print and the Douro Biennial
http://www.globalprintdouro.com
Axis Mundi - The Crucial Role of the Artist in the Age of the Collapsing Global Organism
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 6-9 pm. 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
An Axis Mundi Temple Talk will be held at PlatteForum, 2400 Curtis St., on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 12:00 pm to 1:30pm. Select Axis Mundi artists and subject matter experts, including Ren Adams (MFA, BFA, UC Berkley Alumni Scholar), Dr. Sean Stewart (Director or Dopamine Collective, BSc biology, DDS, MFA), Vivian Le Courtois (Faculty at DAVA, MFA, BFA, Master Art History) and Suchitra Mattai (MFA, MA, BA, Post-BA Study Pratt Institute), will discuss topics related to their research behind works for Axis Mundi, including environmental melancholia’s relation to shifting baseline syndrome, the manifestation of consumption and mania in today’s society, and more.
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
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 6-9 pm. 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
An Axis Mundi Temple Talk will be held at PlatteForum, 2400 Curtis St., on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 12:00 pm to 1:30pm. Select Axis Mundi artists and subject matter experts, including Ren Adams (MFA, BFA, UC Berkley Alumni Scholar), Dr. Sean Stewart (Director or Dopamine Collective, BSc biology, DDS, MFA), Vivian Le Courtois (Faculty at DAVA, MFA, BFA, Master Art History) and Suchitra Mattai (MFA, MA, BA, Post-BA Study Pratt Institute), will discuss topics related to their research behind works for Axis Mundi, including environmental melancholia’s relation to shifting baseline syndrome, the manifestation of consumption and mania in today’s society, and more.
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
More information from the official press release:
AXIS MUNDI BRINGS THE WORK OF TWENTY-ONE ARTISTS FROM THE USA AND CANADA TO THREE LOCATIONS IN DENVER FROM
SEPT. 16 – OCT. 7 AS PART OF DENVER’S BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS
New Exhibition Will Be Presented in Denver by PlatteForum and The Temple, in Partnership with Denver Film Society, with Special Kick-Off Event and Film Screening Sept. 14
DENVER – Axis Mundi is a new exhibition presented by PlatteForum and The Temple, in Partnership with Denver Film Society, featuring twenty-one artists from across the US and Canada. This series of events will be part of Denver’s Biennial of the Americas. Through the lens of Ecopsychology, Axis Mundi explores three branches of our relationship to the Earth: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia. The exhibition will include exhibits at three different locations near downtown Denver – at PlatteForum, The Olympic Building and The Land Library between Sept. 16 and Oct. 7. All programming, including the kick-off event and film screening on Sept. 14, will be free and open to the public.
Environmental Melancholia regards the pathology of being melancholic about the collapse of the environment. Collective Social Mania explores the pathology of being manic and the defense mechanisms that are manifested in society in two ways: mind-numbing, distracting behaviors (watching TV, drinking/drugs, staring at handheld devices, social media, packed work schedules) and as a rationalized, normalized allegiance to materialism and shopping. And finally, biophilia explores science, wonder and beauty, with some artists including living plants and animals into their works. Biophilia is a term coined by Edward Owen Wilson, who argued that because we co-evolved on this planet with all other living organisms, our affinity for other life is rooted in our DNA.
Axis Mundi’s three exhibits include a group show at PlatteForum, a solo warehouse installation of Regan Rosburg’s “Omega” at the Olympic Building and outdoor experiential artworks by Vivian Le Courtois and Eileen Richardson in the East lot of the Land Library Building. Axis Mundi is a part of the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, as well as coinciding with a corresponding conference in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, which is being held on the 60th anniversary of the first Conference on Science and World Affairs at Pugwash and will feature Axis Mundi artists as presenters.
Prior to the launch of the exhibitions, Axis Mundi will kick off with a special screening of Chris Jordan's film, Albatross at the Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7 pm. Filmmaker Chris Jordan will be present for a talk-back discussion following the screening. Attendees must register in advance (free of charge), online at www.platteforum.org.
Albatross is a powerful visual journey into the heart of a gut-wrenching environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on Earth, tens of thousands of albatross chicks lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic. Returning to the island over several years, Chris and his filming team witnessed cycles of birth, life, and death of these magnificent creatures as a multi-layered metaphor for our times. Albatross was an Official Selection at the Telluride Mountain Film Festival in May 2017, and the movie trailer was viewed and discussed at the United Nations on World Oceans Day in June 2017.
An opening reception for the Axis Mundi art exhibitions will be held on Saturday, Sept. 16, 6 – 9 p.m. at the main exhibition site at The Temple, in PlatteForum's gallery, 2400 Curtis St. This artist reception will include a brief talk from Axis Mundi curator, Regan Rosburg, on the exhibit and environmental melancholia. Attendees will also have the opportunity to view the additional exhibits in The Land Library (2612 Champa St.) and Olympic Building (2565 Curtis St.) over the course of the evening. Each of the additional exhibition sites are within walking distance of PlatteForum.
An Axis Mundi Temple Talk will be held at PlatteForum, 2400 Curtis St., on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 12:00 pm to 1:30pm. Select Axis Mundi artists and subject matter experts, including Ren Adams (MFA, BFA, UC Berkley Alumni Scholar), Dr. Sean Stewart (Director or Dopamine Collective, BSc biology, DDS, MFA), Vivian Le Courtois (Faculty at DAVA, MFA, BFA, Master Art History) and Suchitra Mattai (MFA, MA, BA, Post-BA Study Pratt Institute), will discuss topics related to their research behind works for Axis Mundi, including environmental melancholia’s relation to shifting baseline syndrome, the manifestation of consumption and mania in today’s society, and more.
The Axis Mundi exhibition will remain free and open to the public through Saturday, Oct. 7. PlatteForum gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday Noon-6pm and Saturdays 1-6pm. Please visit the Axis Mundi blog for information on how to visit the Olympic Building and the Land Library and for their hours of operation.
Axis Mundi includes work from the following artists: Ren Adams (Albuquerque, NM), Pedro Barrios (Denver, CO), Erika Blumenfeld (Houston, TX), Sebastian Cocioba (New York, NY), Carrie Crane (Boston, MA), Rebecca DiDomenico (Boulder, CO), Susan Hopp (Savannah, GA), Chris Jordan (Seattle, WA), Vivian LeCourtois (Denver, CO), Suchitra Mattai (Denver, CO), Jaime Molina (Denver, CO), Lauri Lynnxe Murphy (Denver, CO), Lewis Neeff (Denver, CO), Kelly Norman (Montreal, Quebec), Lori Owicz (Denver, CO), Ron Pollard (Denver, CO), Tara Rhoda (New York, NY), Eileen Richardson (Denver, CO), Regan Rosburg (Denver, CO), Darya Warner (New York, NY) and Andrew Yang (Chicago, IL).
Axis Mundi is part of an ongoing collaboration between PlatteForum and The Temple, made possible in part, by a generous grant from the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation.
About PlatteForum
Founded in 2002, PlatteForum is an innovative arts education and youth development organization serving close to 4,000 inner-city, underserved youth, their families, and the general public. PlatteForum provides in-depth, curriculum-based arts education experiences that meet state educational standards and allow for longer-term mentoring relationships between youth and professional artists who work in residency at PlatteForum. These artist residencies offer time, space, and resources for professional artists to create new work and shape an experience where young people can learn through practice, expanding their sense of what is possible.
This award-winning nonprofit organization provides a nurturing space where creativity and artistic excellence are highly valued and where artists and youth work together to model the creative process, emphasizing the connections between their artistic passion, significant life experiences, and public issues. The overall experience transforms the lives of the youth, the artists and the community.
About The Temple
The Temple is a social venture established to preserve and revive an important landmark, while providing affordable art studios and workshop facilities, community non-profit space and creative business suites. A towering presence in Denver since 1882, The Temple was designed by prominent Denver architects W.J. and Frank Edbrooke (Tabor Grand Opera House, Brown Palace Hotel and Oxford Hotel among many other masterpieces). Early on, it was home to Denver’s Temple Emanuel, and The United Way was conceived of within its walls.
As the demographics of the city shifted, The Temple was purchased by Golden Bell Press. It was then used as underground DIY artist and music space until falling into disrepair. Current owner Adam Gordon purchased the Temple in 2014, and has revived it into the flourishing artist community it is today. For more information, visit www.thetempledenver.org.
About Denver Film Society
Founded in 1978, the Denver Film Society (DFS) is a membership-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural institution that produces film events throughout the year, including the award-winning Denver Film Festival and the popular, summertime series Film on the Rocks. With a vision to cultivate community and transform lives through film, the Film Society provides opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences.
The permanent home of the Denver Film Society, the Sie Film Center, is Denver's only year-round cinematheque, presenting a weekly-changing calendar of first-run exclusives and arthouse revivals both domestic and foreign, narrative and documentary - more than 600 per year, all shown in their original language and format. DFS's one-of-a-kind programs annually reach more than 200,000 film lovers and film lovers-in-training.
About Biennial of the Americas
Celebrate the culture and arts of the Americas. The Biennial of the Americas returns for its week-long festival September 12 - 16. The event brings leaders from across the Western Hemisphere to present and interact with the public on topics involving our cultural and economic ties with the Americas.
AXIS MUNDI BRINGS THE WORK OF TWENTY-ONE ARTISTS FROM THE USA AND CANADA TO THREE LOCATIONS IN DENVER FROM
SEPT. 16 – OCT. 7 AS PART OF DENVER’S BIENNIAL OF THE AMERICAS
New Exhibition Will Be Presented in Denver by PlatteForum and The Temple, in Partnership with Denver Film Society, with Special Kick-Off Event and Film Screening Sept. 14
DENVER – Axis Mundi is a new exhibition presented by PlatteForum and The Temple, in Partnership with Denver Film Society, featuring twenty-one artists from across the US and Canada. This series of events will be part of Denver’s Biennial of the Americas. Through the lens of Ecopsychology, Axis Mundi explores three branches of our relationship to the Earth: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia. The exhibition will include exhibits at three different locations near downtown Denver – at PlatteForum, The Olympic Building and The Land Library between Sept. 16 and Oct. 7. All programming, including the kick-off event and film screening on Sept. 14, will be free and open to the public.
Environmental Melancholia regards the pathology of being melancholic about the collapse of the environment. Collective Social Mania explores the pathology of being manic and the defense mechanisms that are manifested in society in two ways: mind-numbing, distracting behaviors (watching TV, drinking/drugs, staring at handheld devices, social media, packed work schedules) and as a rationalized, normalized allegiance to materialism and shopping. And finally, biophilia explores science, wonder and beauty, with some artists including living plants and animals into their works. Biophilia is a term coined by Edward Owen Wilson, who argued that because we co-evolved on this planet with all other living organisms, our affinity for other life is rooted in our DNA.
Axis Mundi’s three exhibits include a group show at PlatteForum, a solo warehouse installation of Regan Rosburg’s “Omega” at the Olympic Building and outdoor experiential artworks by Vivian Le Courtois and Eileen Richardson in the East lot of the Land Library Building. Axis Mundi is a part of the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, as well as coinciding with a corresponding conference in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, which is being held on the 60th anniversary of the first Conference on Science and World Affairs at Pugwash and will feature Axis Mundi artists as presenters.
Prior to the launch of the exhibitions, Axis Mundi will kick off with a special screening of Chris Jordan's film, Albatross at the Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7 pm. Filmmaker Chris Jordan will be present for a talk-back discussion following the screening. Attendees must register in advance (free of charge), online at www.platteforum.org.
Albatross is a powerful visual journey into the heart of a gut-wrenching environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on Earth, tens of thousands of albatross chicks lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic. Returning to the island over several years, Chris and his filming team witnessed cycles of birth, life, and death of these magnificent creatures as a multi-layered metaphor for our times. Albatross was an Official Selection at the Telluride Mountain Film Festival in May 2017, and the movie trailer was viewed and discussed at the United Nations on World Oceans Day in June 2017.
An opening reception for the Axis Mundi art exhibitions will be held on Saturday, Sept. 16, 6 – 9 p.m. at the main exhibition site at The Temple, in PlatteForum's gallery, 2400 Curtis St. This artist reception will include a brief talk from Axis Mundi curator, Regan Rosburg, on the exhibit and environmental melancholia. Attendees will also have the opportunity to view the additional exhibits in The Land Library (2612 Champa St.) and Olympic Building (2565 Curtis St.) over the course of the evening. Each of the additional exhibition sites are within walking distance of PlatteForum.
An Axis Mundi Temple Talk will be held at PlatteForum, 2400 Curtis St., on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 12:00 pm to 1:30pm. Select Axis Mundi artists and subject matter experts, including Ren Adams (MFA, BFA, UC Berkley Alumni Scholar), Dr. Sean Stewart (Director or Dopamine Collective, BSc biology, DDS, MFA), Vivian Le Courtois (Faculty at DAVA, MFA, BFA, Master Art History) and Suchitra Mattai (MFA, MA, BA, Post-BA Study Pratt Institute), will discuss topics related to their research behind works for Axis Mundi, including environmental melancholia’s relation to shifting baseline syndrome, the manifestation of consumption and mania in today’s society, and more.
The Axis Mundi exhibition will remain free and open to the public through Saturday, Oct. 7. PlatteForum gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday Noon-6pm and Saturdays 1-6pm. Please visit the Axis Mundi blog for information on how to visit the Olympic Building and the Land Library and for their hours of operation.
Axis Mundi includes work from the following artists: Ren Adams (Albuquerque, NM), Pedro Barrios (Denver, CO), Erika Blumenfeld (Houston, TX), Sebastian Cocioba (New York, NY), Carrie Crane (Boston, MA), Rebecca DiDomenico (Boulder, CO), Susan Hopp (Savannah, GA), Chris Jordan (Seattle, WA), Vivian LeCourtois (Denver, CO), Suchitra Mattai (Denver, CO), Jaime Molina (Denver, CO), Lauri Lynnxe Murphy (Denver, CO), Lewis Neeff (Denver, CO), Kelly Norman (Montreal, Quebec), Lori Owicz (Denver, CO), Ron Pollard (Denver, CO), Tara Rhoda (New York, NY), Eileen Richardson (Denver, CO), Regan Rosburg (Denver, CO), Darya Warner (New York, NY) and Andrew Yang (Chicago, IL).
Axis Mundi is part of an ongoing collaboration between PlatteForum and The Temple, made possible in part, by a generous grant from the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation.
About PlatteForum
Founded in 2002, PlatteForum is an innovative arts education and youth development organization serving close to 4,000 inner-city, underserved youth, their families, and the general public. PlatteForum provides in-depth, curriculum-based arts education experiences that meet state educational standards and allow for longer-term mentoring relationships between youth and professional artists who work in residency at PlatteForum. These artist residencies offer time, space, and resources for professional artists to create new work and shape an experience where young people can learn through practice, expanding their sense of what is possible.
This award-winning nonprofit organization provides a nurturing space where creativity and artistic excellence are highly valued and where artists and youth work together to model the creative process, emphasizing the connections between their artistic passion, significant life experiences, and public issues. The overall experience transforms the lives of the youth, the artists and the community.
About The Temple
The Temple is a social venture established to preserve and revive an important landmark, while providing affordable art studios and workshop facilities, community non-profit space and creative business suites. A towering presence in Denver since 1882, The Temple was designed by prominent Denver architects W.J. and Frank Edbrooke (Tabor Grand Opera House, Brown Palace Hotel and Oxford Hotel among many other masterpieces). Early on, it was home to Denver’s Temple Emanuel, and The United Way was conceived of within its walls.
As the demographics of the city shifted, The Temple was purchased by Golden Bell Press. It was then used as underground DIY artist and music space until falling into disrepair. Current owner Adam Gordon purchased the Temple in 2014, and has revived it into the flourishing artist community it is today. For more information, visit www.thetempledenver.org.
About Denver Film Society
Founded in 1978, the Denver Film Society (DFS) is a membership-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural institution that produces film events throughout the year, including the award-winning Denver Film Festival and the popular, summertime series Film on the Rocks. With a vision to cultivate community and transform lives through film, the Film Society provides opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences.
The permanent home of the Denver Film Society, the Sie Film Center, is Denver's only year-round cinematheque, presenting a weekly-changing calendar of first-run exclusives and arthouse revivals both domestic and foreign, narrative and documentary - more than 600 per year, all shown in their original language and format. DFS's one-of-a-kind programs annually reach more than 200,000 film lovers and film lovers-in-training.
About Biennial of the Americas
Celebrate the culture and arts of the Americas. The Biennial of the Americas returns for its week-long festival September 12 - 16. The event brings leaders from across the Western Hemisphere to present and interact with the public on topics involving our cultural and economic ties with the Americas.
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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
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