Agnes Pelton : Desert Transcendentalist
— OCTOBER 5, 2019 – JANUARY 5, 2020, at the New Mexico Museum of Art — We start our conversation, me and Agnes Pelton, with a joke: Room Decoration in Purple and Gray from 1917. If Pelton was with Duchamp at the 1917 show put on by the Society of Independent American Artists she might…
Casa Tomada
SITE Santa Fe – NM – August 3, 2018 to January 6, 2019 – Casa Tomada is the title of this exhibition, we are told by its curators, and a short story by Julio Cortázar about a long-in-the-family home taken over by mysterious forces that drive the dwellers out room by room until the family…
Much Wider than a Line
SITE SANTA FE – July 16, 2016 – Jan. 8, 2017 – SITEline 2016. The boundary of a place, generations of a people, time – all these are much wider than, say, a pencil line. But borders, family trees and time are often drawn with single lines. The 2016 biennial exhibition at SITE Santa Fe,…
Instruction Manual
– SITElines 2016 – SITE Santa Fe – Santa Fe, NM – This complex show includes more than 30 artists and several conceptual ideas that require some background to fully appreciate and understand. So I’ve made this extra guide with some of the curatorial notes for the biennial titled Much Wider than a Line. Marta…
Site Santa Fe – retelling old shows
Santa Fe, New Mexico – March 19 – May 22, 2016. Terry and Jo Harvey Allen take turns telling stories from giant video projections from both sides of gallery room of which the central wall – the one you walk toward on entrance – is occasionally occupied by a man whose back is to us,…