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…
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
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…
Three Women Protest Artists
New Mexico Museum of Art. Poetic Justice: Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard, and Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith. October 19, 2021-June 19, 2022 I’m writing this for my friend who couldn’t get to see the show before it closed June 19. Here’s a video of Mildred Howard’s train. We waited, and so will you. What I want to…
Helen Pashgian: Presences
SITE Santa FE – January 2022 In 2021, Helen Pashgian made some luminous sculptures that fill a room with a specifically colored light. In order to keep you in the room, she has set the room lights on a dimmer that goes from its brightest to very low lighting in a five minute cycle. These…
Oscar Muñoz – Retrospective
Like many retrospectives, chronology dictates the flow of the work and we start with intense figure drawings in black and white. Learning to draw in school is learning illusion and acquiring an ability make marks on a page look like full round life-like forms. These drawings show the Muñoz can do just that. What else do we see that fools us? Step along through this show and we will find out