Axle Contemporary at 8 Modern



I Am Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

 

August 12th – September 12th, 2011
Opening: Friday August 12th, 5-8 pm at Axle Contemporary’s mobile gallery
in front of Eight Modern, 231 Delgado Street, Santa Fe



Ancient wisdom and contemporary science indicate that we are not separate from, but are in fact completely at one with the entirety of the world around us. The artists in this exhibition express this reciprocal and dynamic identity, finding the human skin but a thin and fragile barrier.  For thousands of years, humans have expressed the ability to transform into bears and trees and mountains.  These artists continue in a long tradition that has spanned cultures and continents. They visually proclaim I am animal, I am vegetable,  I am mineral.

Klinghoffer


Erica Wanenmacher

Patti Levey

Shirley Klinghoffer

Jerry Wellman

Eliza Naranjo Morse

Suzanne Sbarge

 

Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Contact: Matthew Chase-Daniel or Jerry Wellman
Telephone 505-670-5854 or 505-670-7612
E-mail: info@axleart.com
URL: www.axleart.com

Erik Benson – 8 Modern Gallery

SANTA FE: April 15 – July 4, 2011 – Eight Modern Gallery on Canyon road features the work of Erik Benson.

Erik Benson was born in Detriot, MI in 1973. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. Benson’s paintings of corporate office towers, strip-malls and graffiti-scarred highway barriers appear at once as delicately balanced, nearly abstract compositions of geometric color, and also as particularly beautiful condensations of highly poetic loneliness. He has previously exhibited at, among other venues, Galerie Schuster (Frankfurt), Finesilver Gallery, Houston & San Antonio, Rare Gallery, NYC, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica and Artpace, San Antonio.