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Springtime at Pie Projects

Springtime at Pie Projects

A pop-up exhibition in Santa Fe, NM featuring Daniel Ballesteros and Matthew McConville
March 31 – April 23

Reception: April 23, 5:30-7:30

Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to announce a satellite show in Santa Fe in partnership with Pie Projects. This exhibition includes four gilded photographs by Daniel Ballesteros and eleven fantastical paintings by Matthew McConville. This is the inaugural presentation by Pie Projects and the first exhibition in Santa Fe presented by Richard Levy Gallery. Appointments are being offered from April 13 – 22. There is a public reception on April 23rd from 5:30-7:30 and no appointment is required for the reception. 

A third-generation Filipino-American, Daniel Ballesteros grew up in the Midwest and never felt like he fit in. Finding solace in nature, Ballesteros began photographing urban trees. In the Gold Leaf Trees series, Ballesteros masks all elements of nature and applies gold leaf to the rest of the image. Each image is produced in an edition of three, and because the gold leaf is applied by hand, each artwork is unique.

Matthew McConville paints exquisitely detailed arrangements of imagined plant life. Influenced by traditional practices such as 18th-century Dutch painting, botanical illustration, and Japanese flower arranging, as well as current topics relating to gene modification, sustainability, and extinction. These luminescent paintings are the artist’s interpretation of future worlds.

Pie Projects is a flexible event/gallery space that hosts art-related events to support human creativity, artists, and allied organizations. Launched in 2021 by Alina Boyko and Devendra Contractor, Pie Projects is located in the Baca Railyard District in Santa Fe, NM. Springtime at Pie Projects is their inaugural presentation.

Richard Levy Gallery shows contemporary art in all mediums by emerging and established regional, national, and international artists. This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Richard Levy Gallery.

 Images for this exhibition can be viewed on ARTSY.net and www.levygallery.com. High-resolution images are available on request. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @levygallery @pieprojects.santafe @ballesterosprojects @mcconvillematthew #richardlevygallery #pieprojects #springtimeatpieprojects #danielballesteros #goldleaftrees #matthewmcconville #flowersfortheanthropocene

Dates: March 31–April 23, 2021
Closing Reception: April 23, 5:30–7:30 pm
Location: Pie Projects, 924B Shoofly Street Santa Fe, NM 87505
Contact: 505.766.9888, info@levygallery.com, www.levygallery.com @levygallery

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Ricardo Legorreta: The Visual Arts Center Santa Fe

Ricardo Legorreta

The Visual Arts Center is the first of several buildings in Santa Fe designed by the Mexican modernist Ricardo Legorreta in which he challenged the dominant Santa Fe Style with an alternative regionalism for New Mexico. Instead of tan colors and sculptural forms imitating traditional adobe buildings, Legoretta proposed an architecture that is boldly polychromatic, crisply geometric, and unmistakably modern.

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Breath Taking: New Mexico Museum of Art

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ON DISPLAY MARCH 13, 2021 – SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Breath Taking. Curated by Kate Ware, in this exhibition, contemporary artists find inventive ways to express this fundamental and elusive act by measuring it, scanning it, enclosing it, evoking it, and reminding us of our own vulnerability.
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Kim Richardson, A Memory from the Long Dream V, 2017, Archival pigment on Italian Rag, 40”x 30”
Included are more than forty-five drawings, installations, photographs, sculpture, and video by artists Stuart Allen, Linda Alterwitz, Dan Estabrook, Brian Finke, David S. Goodsell, Cynthia Greig, Alison Keogh, Sant Khalsa, Marietta Patricia Leis, Shaun Leonardo, Tony Mobley, Jill O’Bryan, Peter Olson, Kim Richardson, Frank Rodick, Meridel Rubenstein, Don J. Usner, and Will Wilson. 

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Jennie Hirsh Mini-Course

Online Mini-Course with Jennie Hirsh SITE Santa Fe

MICA Professor, Jennie Hirsh will be offering an online mini-course on on Feminist Thought in Contemporary Art.

Mondays in March at 2pm!

This four-week online course brought to you by SITE Santa Fe will consider the history of feminist thought in contemporary art from the 1960s to the present through case studies of artworks, exhibitions, performances, and initiatives that highlight feminist practice.

Jennie Hirsh
Jennie Hirsh is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore and the assistant curator of Invisible City
Week One (Mar 1) review the history of legislation connected to feminism in the U.S. as well as key artistic thinkers and critiques.

Week Two (Mar 8) examine early Feminist Art in the 1960s and 1970s.

Week Three (Mar 15) considers of the next wave of feminist artists with an emphasis on performativity and community from the 1980s to the present. 

Week Four (Mar 22) focus on twenty-first century artists whose work represents feminist gestures and critiques conventional understandings of gender. 

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Frederick Hammersley, and the Dawn of Computer Art

History of early digital art with art historian and author Patrick Frank

In the late 1960s, the University of New Mexico played a key role in bringing together creativity and technology in what was then the nascent field of computer art. Now a new book from Museum of New Mexico Press offers the first in depth account of this early digital creativity — “Sharing Code: Art1, Frederick Hammersley, and the Dawn of Computer Art.” 

Frank says it was a unique period in the evolution of digital art, and in 1968 New Mexico was the perfect place for it to happen.

You may listen to the audio podcast here:

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SITE Santa Fe 25th Anniversary

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SITE Santa Fe 25th Anniversary – SITE entered the world with the first international contemporary art biennial in the United States. From this ambitious beginning, SITE would go on to inspire our local creative community and capture the respect and imagination of the global art world. Join SITE Santa Fe as we celebrate this special milestone with a unique virtual event!

In adherence with the Governor’s latest public health order for the State of New Mexico, SITE Santa Fe is temporarily closed to help slow the spread of COVID-19. We hope you are staying safe and healthy out there.

We still have lots of interesting things happening online, from live-stream events to calls for art! Read on for details.

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Fulcrum Fund Emergency Relief Grants

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The Fulcrum Fund, a grant program of 516 ARTS and a partner in the Regional Regranting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, announces a second round of emergency relief grants to benefit the local arts community. In partnership with the Frederick Hammersley Foundation, which is providing $60,000 toward this effort, this round will provide grants of $5,000 to 12 alternative art spaces in New Mexico that have lost income as a result of the cornavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.

Round #1 (deadline was April 15), we received 389 applications for 60 $1,000 grants to individual artists living and working within an 80-mile radius of Albuquerque. Round #2 provides a focus on artist-run and alternative artspaces, which has been a category of projects recognized by the Fulcrum Fund for the past four years. This dispersal of funds is part of an effort to help sustain these spaces until they can reopen after the pandemic. Continue reading “Fulcrum Fund Emergency Relief Grants”