ripple effect, at Santa Fe Community College
6401 Richards Ave., Room 723D
Santa Fe, NM 87508
The gallery primarily serves the SFCC community but is open to the public. Access hours are Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–10 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.–8 p.m.; and Sunday, 12 p.m.–5 p.m. Show is up through the end of 2025. Admission is free.
Hand-cut paper & vinyl, acrylic polymer, wire
Artist Lea Anderson installation SPECTRUM, a new installation at Ripple Effect explores the dynamic interplay of color, light, and philosophical duality. The work, composed of hand-cut paper and vinyl, acrylic polymer, and wire, invites viewers into a shifting visual field where reflected color becomes both medium and metaphor.
“And when we first came here
We were cold and we were clear
With no colours in our skin
Until we let the spectrum in”
–Spectrum by Florence + The Machine
In SPECTRUM, the painted backs of floating, interconnected forms cast a luminous range of reflected colors, creating an immersive optical experience. The installation reveals a visual and conceptual “spectrum” of formal opposites: dark/light, warm/cool, chroma/achroma, absorption/reflection, movement/stillness, form/space, and personal/universal. Each element, shaped as a meandering series of “approximately” bilateral life forms—both literal and imagined—embodies the artist’s ongoing inquiry into what she calls the “Paradox of Duality.”
“Opposing forces are not truly separate,” Anderson notes, “but complementary parts of a greater whole. The human mind tends to simplify complex reality by creating dualities—such as good and evil or self and other—but a deeper understanding reveals, paradoxically, that these opposites are inseparably linked.”
Spectrum will be on view at ripple effect, located at Santa Fe Community College, 6401 Richards Ave., Room 723D, Santa Fe, NM 87508. The gallery primarily serves the SFCC community but is open to the public. Access hours are Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–10 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.–8 p.m.; and Sunday, 12 p.m.–5 p.m. Admission is free.
ripple effect is a dedicated space for site-responsive art installations, located on the campus of Santa Fe Community College. Part laboratory, part public venue, part teaching tool, the space hosts a range of local and regional artists. Launched in spring 2018 by Cary Cluett with the support of SFCC and Meow Wolf