Eric Fischl : Stories Told at Phoenix
November 7, 2025 – June 14, 2026 -Located in Steele Gallery So she can’t find stuff in her new house, Casa Nuevo, painting from 1982, oil on linen. The woman is naked. She’s talking on the phone, it’s a wall phone that one can remember from 1982, several boxes on the floor, the TV is…
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…
Erika Wanenmacher:
SITE Santa Fe, November 15, 2024 to February 3, 2025 — What Time Travel feels like Sometimes What does time travel feel like? You can read the curator’s notes about the show at SITE, here Erika Wanenmacher. I got this far – to reference the webpage – as I searched in March of 2025, to…
Broken Boxes
Albuquerque Museum, January 8, 2025 — Broken Boxes is a podcast about art. Broken Boxes, this show, is a non-virtual assortment of artists interviewed on Broken Boxes. Broken Boxes means what? Images
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…