One person exhibition of paintings and drawings by Bob Richardson
Drugstore Cowgirl, 2016, Oil on canvas, 44 x 32 in
Figure painting in the modern era Is characterized by a movement away from ideal form. It favors the particular in human experience. Bob Richardson works in this mode; his narratives are personal, and the personalities belong to a place and a moment. This exhibit of Richardson’s work includes paintings and drawings that show the roots of his interest in the idiosyncratic and the individual.
“This new expansion strengthens our ability to showcase cutting-edge contemporary art and expand the traditional museum experience,” says Irene Hofmann, the Phillips director and chief curator.
Close to $9 Million was invested in renovations including new HVAC. Also a new extensions include an experimental exhibition gallery, theater space, and roof-top viewing deck.
New York-based Shop Architects. Designed the new interior space: 10,170 sq. ft; and new exterior space: 4,795 sq. ft
Opening Gala Dinner Thursday, Oct 5
Building Inauguration, Exhibition Preview and Gala Dinner and much more!
THE REVEAL! Friday, Oct 6
Opening Fete and party featuring DJs, a special appearance and performance by Supaman, interactive experiences throughout building, fabulous food and libations, and much more! Tickets Here!
Saturday & Sunday, October 7–8 Community Open House Days
Join us for two days of public programs, tours, and special activities throughout the building for the whole family. Free and Open to All!
Community Days Saturday, October 7th
10:00 am: Ribbon cutting ceremony with Mayor Javier Gonzales; SITE’s Chairman of the Board, Andy Wallerstein; and SITE’s Phillips Director and Chief Curator, Irene Hofmann 11:00 am ARTchitectural tour with SHoP Project Manager Ayumi Sugiyama 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Community Time Capsule Project in Education Lab: bring your objects to be photographed! 11:00 am – 2:00 pm: Photo Booth! Get your photo taken with a futuristic background! 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Learn all about your future with our fortune tellers! Noon: Tour with SITE Guides 1:00 pm: Tour in Spanish with SITE Guides 1:30 pm – 3:30pm: Cupcakes and ice cream 2:00 pm: Tour translated in ASL with SITE Guides 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm -Limited edition postcards to the future designed by artist Dario Robleto that visitors can fill out and address to themselves. 3:00 pm Tour with SITE Guides 4:00 pm Tour with SITE Guides 5:30 pm Artist Talk: Lynn Hershman Leeson with Anne Balsamo in the auditorium 5:00 pm – 8:00 pmSurroundings welcomes to their space Danae Falliers and Willy Bo Richardson. Open House: 1611 Paseo de Peralta
Sunday, October 8
All Day: Limited edition postcards to the future designed by artist Dario Robleto that visitors can fill out and address to themselves. 10:30 am Coffee and pastries in our inner courtyard 11:00 am Artist Talk: Rafael Lozano Hemmer in the auditorium 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Learn all about your future with our fortune tellers! 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Community Time Capsule Project in Education lab: bring your objects to be photographed! Noon: Tour with SITE Guides 1:00 pm: Tour in Spanish with SITE Guides 2:00 pm: Tour translated in ASL with SITE Guides 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Photo Booth! Get your photo taken with a futuristic background! 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm: Cupcakes and ice cream 2:00 pm Artist Talk: Kota Ezawa and book signing in the SITElab 3:00 pm Tea and Tour! A half-hour, focused tour with a tea pairing from the Teahouse on Canyon Road
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Doug Aitken (US) • Patrick Bernatchez (Canada) • Andreas Gursky (Germany) • Lynn Hershman Leeson (US) • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico/Canada) in collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko (Poland/US) • Alexis Rockman (US) • Dario Robleto (US) • Tom Sachs (US) • Regina Silveira (Brazil) • Andrea Zittel (US)
(Santa Fe, April 11, 2016)—Sponge Bob Square Pants, Pac Man, and Curious George, all sporting a particularly Native American twist, are just a few images from popular mainstream culture seen in the exhibition, Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art.
Featuring nearly 100 objects by more than fifty artists from the museum’s collections as well as others borrowed from collectors and artists, the work on view in Into the Future will be in such various media as traditional clothing and jewelry, pottery and weaving, photography and video, through to comics, and on into cyberspace.
The free to the public opening for Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is on July 17, 2016 from 1 to 4 pm and the show runs through October 22, 2017.
“Culture Power”, in the exhibition’s title, is defined by exhibition curator Valerie Verzuh, as the unique power bestowed upon objects by a culture’s stories, traditions, and emotions – objects which define ourselves, our communities, and the world around us – and, in turn, determine how we interpret and understand others.
When Native artists reinterpret popular Western imagery through the lens of these culture stories the collision of meanings provides a springboard for often pointed commentary upon issues of identity, culture, and history. And, says Verzuh, these reimagined images elicit intense emotions, “As power resides both in the mind of the viewer and in the objects themselves. Having the authority to control objects and their meanings correlates with the power to define and control personal and cultural identities.”
Using humor, as a reaction to otherwise serious issues, serves an important role in tribal cultures, for instance the widespread Trickster tradition and Pueblo clown societies. In Into the Future we see work by artists who find the comic book aesthetic expresses perfectly their message. Turning the mainstream narrative on its head and re-interpreting it through the Native cultural lens, Larry McNeil’s “Tonto” in Tlingit-Nisga’a is transformed from a “dimwitted sidekick to the hero,” Jonathan Loretto’s, Star War Figure with Ray Gun is a Cochiti Storyteller “Bobble Head” figure, and Theo Tso developed Captain Paiute the Indigenous Avenger of the Southwest, “…after noticing that there weren’t any comics that were written, drawn or even created by Native Americans!”
Also featured in Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art, are Linda Aguilar, Keri Ataumbi, David Bradley, Ricardo Cate, Orlando Dugi, Jody Folwell, Susan Folwell and Les Namingha, Harry Fonseca, Dorothy Grant, Teri Greeves, Bob Haozous, Melissa Henry, Lisa Holt and Harlan Reano, Maria and Julian Martinez, Dallin Maybe, Jamie Okuma, Virgil Ortiz, Pat Pruitt, Cara Romero, Ramoncita Sandoval, Preston Singletary, Margaret Tafoya, Denise Wallace, Ken Williams, Will Wilson, and Bethany Yellowtail, among others.
Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art celebrates the vitality of contemporary Native North American communities. So when you see a “Native” Sponge Bob Square Pants living life out loud on the ocean’s bottom, Pac Man chomping through an imagined game world, and Curious George’s adventures in the big city, know that by redefining mainstream objects and their associated meanings, Native artists assure that their culture is both integrated into that of the world at large and proudly separate from it.
You’re invited! | SITE Unseen 9 A BENEFIT FOR SITE SANTA FE
Friday, April 8, 2016 Preview 5-6 pm Public Opening 6-7:30 pm
Tickets: $100 for Preview Ticket EXHIBITION CONTINUES APRIL 9-10
One of the most anticipated events in Santa Fe, this art-buying opportunity keeps collectors guessing (and dashing!) for their first picks.
A limited number of preview tickets are now available for SITE Unseen Santa Fe 9. Reserve your ticket here and be among the first to view the artworks for sale! Your preview ticket purchase includes a raffle ticket for a chance to win SITE staff-curated selections from the SITE Unseen archives.
How it works:
Artists are asked to create and donate works on identical 5.5”x 8” boards. All pieces are signed on the verso and exhibited anonymously. Only when the works are purchased are the artists’ names revealed. Preview tickets and artwork purchases directly support SITE Santa Fe’s vibrant exhibition program. With James Kelly as Honorary Event Chair, SITE Unseen Santa Fe has become an enormously successful event among both new and seasoned contemporary art collectors.
Participating Artists include:
Ellen Abramson, Terry Allen, David Kimball Anderson, John Andolsek, Carol Anthony, Polly Apfelbaum, Tom Appelquist, Valerie Arber, Stuart Arends, Jamison Chas Banks, Steve Barry, Tom Berg, Kevin Cannon, Roberto and PJ Cardinale, Susanna Carlisle and Bruce Hamilton, Matthew Chase-Daniel, Madelin Coit, Leonardo Drew, Joe Ramiro Garcia, Christy Georg, Cristina Gonzalez, Geoffrey Gorman, Allan Graham, Gloria Graham, Harmony Hammond, Rebecca Holland, Munson Hunt, Shirley Klinghoffer, Jane Lackey, David Leigh, Ric Lum, Lucy Maki, Dara Mark, Tom Miller, Mary Mito, Linda Montano, Richard Morrow, Nora Naranjo Morse, Jonathan Morse, Carol Mothner, Michael Namingha, Stacey Neff, Nancy Ziegler Nodelman, Marcia Oliver, Gay Patterson, Lisa Piasecki, Pascal Pierme, Purple Mountain Collective, Willy Richardson, Ed Ruscha, Abigail Ryan, Louis Schalk, Gerry Snyder, Brandon Soder, Nancy Sutor, Linda Swanson, Mary Temple, John Tinker, Mark Tribe, Trish Witcher, Jesse Wood and many more!
SITE Unseen 9 is sponsored in part by Il Piatto Italian Farmhouse Kitchen and Wilkinson & Co. Fine Art Framers. Official SITE event link here.
Meeting of the Minds is an informal series of lunchtime conversations and creative interventions that allow for more intimate exchanges regarding artwork on view in the UNM Art Museum. Led by faculty, students, artists, curators, and community members – this program invites multiple perspectives and fresh insights in the interpretation and experience of visual arts.
Meeting of the Minds Calendar
FALL 2015
October 1 Body Arts Led by Mariah Carrillo Collections Assistant, UNM Art Museum
October 8 Conversation with the Curator Led by Dean Kymberly Pinder, PhD College of Fine Arts
October 22 The Use of Textiles in Contemporary African Art Led by Johanna Wilde PhD Candidate Art & Art History
November 12 Vernacular in Place: Old and New Topographic Photography Led by Miguel Gandert and Christopher Wilson Exhibition Curators
November 19 Should Police Reform Include Truth and Recompilation Processes Led by Alfred Mathewson Henry Weihofen Chair in Law, UNM
Opening in the Railyard Shade structure by the Farmers Market Friday, August 28th, 5-7pm
Exhibition continues through Sep. 20th find the mobile gallery daily location online at www.axleart.com
Commercial product packaging and logos hold potent meaning and memory for us all. In the 1970s, the truck that now houses our mobile gallery itself delivered one of America’s most iconic mid-century bakery products: Wonder Bread. We have repurposed this bread truck. It now delivers a new kind of wonder.
The artists in Slices of Wonder create works that engage packaging design, advertising, and contemporary culture as a springboard and often a critique of these times we live in.
Luke Dorman has shown a consistent interest in creating humorous works using an underground comix-inspired pen and ink style. His interest in vintage illustration and classical painting also guide his artistic production. Dorman states his “purpose of action is to create work that is innately personal, yet subjectively approachable and identifiable with the viewer.”
Jeff Drew is perhaps best known for his numerous magazine and journal covers. Notably, his imagery has graced many covers of Albuquerque’s Weekly Alibi. He has also won many awards for his animation work. His humor is evident in all his art production.
Jason Garcia transforms materials closely connected to the earth into a visually rich mix of Pueblo history and culture, comic book super heroes, video game characters, religious icons and all things pop culture. His love for storytelling, appreciation for the methods of his craft and ability to blend the ancient with the present both inspire and inform his work as an artist.
Vicente Telles combines vivid comic book inspired interpretations of Bible stories with traditional themes. People often see saints as religious. Telles likes to believe they transcend religion, that there is something bigger out there that connects the past to the present and the future.
We have images available for Press use. You may preview them and download them here: www.axleart.com/#!press/cjft
Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Matthew Chase-Daniel: (505) 670-5854 Jerry Wellman: (505) 670-7612 media@axleart.com www.axleart.com
Clockwork for Oracles: Willy Bo Richardson Richard Levy Gallery August 7 – September 4, 2015 Artist reception: Saturday August 29, 6 – 8pm
Richard Levy gallery will exhibit the new series “Clockwork for Oracles” at the Seattle Art Fair, as well as the Richard Levy project room in Albuquerque. Also in the gallery: Altered States, an exhibition of selected editions by Gerhard Richter;and artist collective assume vivid astro focus (avaf).
Clockwork for Oracles is a series of paintings by Willy Bo Richardson that reaches for freshness. He states, “The paintings are made quickly and with as little editing and deliberation as possible. This doesn’t mean I’m not making esthetic and empirical decisions. It simply means I’m aspiring to the essence”.
Richard Levy Gallery Tuesday –Saturday, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm 514 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102 505.766.9888, info@levygallery.com
