SITE Santa Fe – Biennial #12
Once Within A time Once is an instance. An example of an instant, or a minute or hours or some time. One example of some amount of time. And this ‘once’ can be applied to each work set onto wall or floor in this – the 12th – SITE Santa Fe Biennial. Each artwork is a…
Harmony Hammond:
SITE Santa Fe, February 28 to May 19, 2025 — Fringe Bathmats and quilts, and they aren’t pretty. In summarizing the show, Fringe, at SITE Santa Fe, have I just made a political statement, that came into my thoughts from the abstract paintings by the artist Harmony Hammond? I’m saying the ordinary can be fringe,…
Dakota Mace
SITE Santa Fe, February 28 to May 19, 2025 — Dahodiyinii — Sacred Places From the first paragraph of the curator’s notes, “the past is not merely recalled but felt.” What does it mean to have the past recalled and felt? Is it as if it were your past? Or is it her past that’s…
Fernández / Smithson
July 5 to Oct 28, 2024 — In the middle of the American West, the Great Salt Lake lies as a memory of a time before the mountains lifted when this land was covered by ocean. In 1970, Robert Smithson, a New Jersey artist, drew a spiral pathway in this great lake with rocks. He…
Taliesin West on tour
Phoenix, AZ, May 2024 — Taliesin West metaphorically doubles as an treasured national park and an art museum in the dessert northeast of downtown Phoenix. The landscape is beautiful around this home and workshop built by Frank Lloyd Wright between 1938 and 1941 and situated to enjoy the landscape with the imposition of the sea…
Norman Zammitt
Palm Springs Museum, May 2024 — Norman Zammitt exhibition titled Gradation filled the spacious city museum with light, and allowed us to be inside on a hot May day. The show runs from February 17 to October 6, 2024. Zammitt’s early sculptures are laminated transparent plastic sheets with patterns that cause of prism effect. Much…
Surrealism and Us
Fort Worth Modern, April 2024 — Surrealism was the longest-lived of the 20th Century art movements, demonstrated here at the Modern using Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940, the show’s subtitle. This trip, and its souvenirs, reminds me of the influence and power of surrealism. Capital-S Surrealism began as a post-world war throw back…
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…
Going with the Flow –
We chose to walk – not drive – to the Santa Fe River in the backyard of the galleries on Canyon Road, and watch artist, Basia Irland, release ice blocks in the shape of books into the flowing river.
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…