N. Dash and Water

N. Dash and Water at SITE SANTA FE … Oct. 6, 2023 – Feb. 5, 2024 My second time in five days, into the widened out gallery space and I walk up to a woman I didn’t know and ask what she thinks of the paintings. Days ago before I’d seen the works I was…

Disarm!

DIRECT ACTION — SITE Santa Fe — Pedro Reyes Feb 3 to May 1, 2023 On Friday night, April 28, we sat in the entry gallery at SITE and listened to Leticia Gonzales play her violin, and then one of the violins made out of guns by Pedro Reyes. We faced the musician and the…

Photography – Experimental Style

Multi-media photography of the 60 & 70s at New Mexico Museum of Art

New Mexico Museum of Art – July 23, 2022 – January 8 2023 Transgressions & Amplifications: Mixed Media Photography of the 1960s & 1970s January 15, 2023 I was fascinated by this organized collection of work — mixed media, yes, and very mixed — that I read as a cry from fifty years ago from…

Art Making in Full Nature

Plein Air : Susanna Battin, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, iris yirei hu, KB Jones, Hillary Mushkin, Sterling Wells, Paula Wilson Plein air is an art term for taking your paints and canvas out into nature and making art in the presence of your inspiration. The artists in this show each have was of using this…

Cowboys – Beautiful

Pictures from the Exhibition Kenneth Tam “Silent Spikes” At the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art from May 13, 2022 to February 5, 2023, this exhibition of Kenneth Tam includes three beautiful photographs of cowboys. They look like friends in their black and white images. On the video screens behind you they are beautifully engaged in…

Poetry Crawling the Walls

Three Exhibitions at MOCA Tucson And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight This morning, standing over myself as one does A kind of poverty to be born from nothing I got you some images. I got you some images. Reading the backside of one of them Like the raw to nourish, you have…

Max Cole: Endless Journey

My response at the second viewing, post opening night, of this work. Please do not touch, mind Returned, not re-enacted. Yesterday, a dead end in the last room of paintings All made In the current year. Hand drawn lines like a penmanship exercise Obviously, communication from an isolated working human The dead end room flocked…

Eco Poetics – MCA Denver

— August 28, 2022 – Clarissa Tossin Falling from Earth Miranda Lash, senior curator From June 3 to Sunday, August 28, 2022, the work of Clarissa Tossin occupied the second floor of the MCA Denver. Falling from Earth , the name of this exhibition, is a collection of artwork resulting from Tossin’s exploration of the…

Purring Monsters

Guadalupe Maravilla: Purring Monsters with Mirrors on Their Backs On view from Friday, June 3 to Sunday, August 28 at MCA Denver Guadalupe Maravilla is a Salvadoran American artist who lives in New York and practices what he calls sound healing rituals – using sound – and assembles naturally occuring elements into sculptures he calls…