Axle Contemporary is an art gallery that operates out of the back of a retrofitted 1970s van in Santa Fe. Mobility and engagement with the community are key features of their work. For example, we remember one Axle event where they turned the van into a kind of midway game where you could throw baseballs at smashable holograms printed on glass. It’s the kind of art that makes living in Santa Fe such a unique experience.
Their new project, The Royal Breadshow (May 2 to 11, visit www.axleart.com for daily gallery locations), draws on that concept of community. Some 269 artists created porcelain miniatures for the show. After the show’s ten-day run, these miniatures will each be baked inside loaves of artisan bread, which people can order. The loaves each come with a “festive paper crown” which has a personalized message written on it.
The loaves, which should be ordered before May 13 for the first pickup and May 20 for the second, cost about $15 each. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Food Depot in Santa Fe to help the hungry.
The Royal Breadshow won SITE Santa Fe’s community micro-grant, Spread 4.0, in October of 2013. Through the generous support of the Spread attendees, The Royal Breadshow began as a room-sized installation at SITE Santa Fe’s exhibition Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art (February 1 to May 18th, 2014).Among other things, the installation at SITE includes writings about bread and presentations of bread and baker’s implements alongside clay and clay tools.
Above image: Work by Anne Russell. Photograph courtesy of Axle Contemporary.
Exhibition Opening Reception with Mira Burack + Kate DaughdrillFriday, March 14, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Artist talk and food demonstration begins at 6:00p.m. Exhibition on view March 14 – 20
Collaborating artists Mira Burack and Kate Daughdrill visit Albuquerque to present The Edible Hut, a community gathering space in Calimera Park, on the east side of Detroit, Michigan. The structure is comprised of a living, edible roof and oculus to the sky, and combines elements of a traditional hut, an outdoor sculpture, a neighborhood garage, and an edible garden.During the exhibition opening, the artists invite visitors to sample their recipe for an allergy-soothing tea, made from simple ingredients — just in time for spring.
***** All exhibitions and events are free, open to the public, and take place at 105 Gold SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Presented as part of tART: temporary art in downtown public places.
*** Show Up Show Down stages world-changing art through visiting artist presentations, brief photography exhibitions, and an ever-growing publicly-accessible archive. It features exceptional artists who use the built environment – everything from houses to freeways to nature preserves, along with the man-made systems that created them – to impact contemporary life in a variety of beneficial ways.
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March 21 – 27 Amy Harwood + Ryan Pierce Signal Fire, an organization that provides opportunities for artists and activists to engage in the natural world, and utilizes public lands to advocate for the access to – and protection of – remaining wild and open places in order to enrich and sustain society.
March 28 – April 4 Matthew Mazzotta Open House, a house with a secret: it physically transforms from the shape of a house into an open-air theater by having its walls and roof fold down, and it seats one hundred people.
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Offroad Productions 2891-B Trades West Rd., Santa Fe, NM
Saturday, April 19, 2014 6:00pm until 8:00pm
Offroad Productions offers contemporary artists, some without gallery representation, an opportunity to show their work. The alternative art space plans a quarterly series of guest-curated shows.
In her own words. Mother Jones releases audio of Susana’s graphic attacks on women, Hispanic business and teachers [graphic audio]
Behind closed doors, Susana Martinez played along when her staff laughed and shamed Spanish speaking families, used an overabundance of profanity, and showed a vindictive nature
One Republican state legislator described her tactics thusly: “Nastiness, misinformation, innuendo, and flat-out lies have created a toxic political environment.”
Just a week after Martinez released her first highly-polished campaign ad denouncing her national ambitions and promoting her warm and fuzzy side, new audio recordings from inside her 2010 campaign show the sexist, belittling and vindictive nature of Susana Martinez behind closed doors.
On Teachers & Hiding Her True Positions During the Campaign
Martinez told campaign staffers she would hide her opinions on teachers during the campaign, but she didn’t like teachers who “already don’t work,” referring to summer school breaks.
She then laughs with her chief campaign strategist, Jay McCleskey, about ways to avoid accusations that she hid her true anti-teacher feelings during the campaign
On Democrats as “Little Bitches” and “Little Retards”
Susana Martinez laughs and plays along as an aide calls Ben Lujan (former Speaker of the House and father of NM Congressman Ben Ray Lujan) is a “little retard”
Reminder: Governor Martinez has actively promoted her own advocacy for her developmentally disabled sister in campaign ads, media pieces and slickly-produced profiles of her. “Retard” as a descriptor of people like her sister has long since been considered inappropriate.
Belittling Hispanic Business Group and Women’s Job Program
Belitting the Hispano Chamber of Commerce and the Commission Helping Women Learn Job Skills and Equal Pay
Martinez dismisses the role of the “Hispano Chamber of Culture, or I don’t know what the hell it was” and Commission on the Status of Women which helps women learn job skills and advocates for policies including women in the workplace.
She laughs and agrees when her campaign manager, Jay McCleskey, makes a sexist comment suggesting one of their male campaign staffers wants to run that commission to “study more women.”
For over 20 years, in a variety of formats, New Mexico PBS weekly art series ¡COLORES! have explored the arts, music, history and culture of New Mexico and the American southwest. ¡COLORES! stories, originating from New Mexico, continue to be seen and shared with other PBS stations across the U.S.
New Mexico painter Willy Bo Richardson shares how discovering real world limitations allows him greater flexibility in the moment.
“What’s beautiful about painting is that it does everything that you want it to in that moment. So you have the materials, you have the artist and you have the action and they are all coming together instantaneously.”
The Producer of PBS art series ¡COLORES! is Tara Walch; Unit Coordinator is Kathy Wimmer. Executive Producer is Michael Kamins. Major funding for ¡COLORES! is provided in part by Frederick Hammersley Foundation.
Renaissance to Goya: prints and drawings from Spain
On display Dec 14, 2013 – Mar 9, 2014
Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), Head of a Monk. Black chalk and grey wash, c. 1635–1655. Courtesy the British Museum.
This exhibition brings together for the first time prints and drawings by Spanish and other European artists working in Spain from the mid 16th to the early 19th century. It provides a compelling overview of more than 200 years of artistic production, including many works which have never before been on display. The New Mexico Museum of Art is the only American venue in this international tour.
Beginning with works by 16th-century artists working in and around Madrid, the selection progresses chronologically and by region. Spain’s ‘Golden Age’ (the 17th century) is represented by important artists such as Diego Velázquez, Vicente Carducho and Alonso Cano in Madrid, Bartolomé Murillo and Francisco de Zubarán in Seville, and José de Ribera in Spanish Naples.
Turning to the 18th century, key works by Francisco de Goya, his contemporaries and foreign artists such as the Italians Giambattista Tiepolo and his sons demonstrate how printmaking and drawing greatly increased during the period, forever changing the artistic landscape of Spain.
This exhibition is presented by the British Museum in collaboration with the New Mexico Museum of Art.
In July 2014, SITElines becomes a dynamic new part of SITE’s year-round exhibition programming and signature biennial show.
SITE Santa Fe Introduces A new biennial exhibition series that explores contemporary art from Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego July 20, 2014 – January 2015
Opening Festivities July 17-19
Opened in 1995 to present what was then the only international contemporary art biennial in the United States, SITE Santa Fe was born at a time when there were only a handful of biennials in the world. From the very beginning, SITE established a commitment to its risk-taking and visionary perspective.
After two years of research and a thoughtful reconsideration of SITE’s signature international Biennial, 2014 will launch a reimagined biennial exhibition series titled SITElines with a new focus on contemporary art from the Americas.
In many ways, Santa Fe itself is a fusion of the Americas. Many layers of history and culture are embedded in the land in Santa Fe and visible in our present-day population. First Native American land, then a Spanish Kingdom, a Mexican Province, and an American Territory, all before statehood, New Mexico is a rich microcosm of the Americas. SITE Santa Fe is uniquely situated, literally and metaphorically, to explore the territory of the Americas—it is a direction that is both timely and specific to SITE’s vision, place, and history.
In July 2014, SITElines becomes a dynamic new part of SITE’s year-round exhibition programming as a new signature biennial show.
SITElines.2014: Unsettled Landscapes
This show will look to the urgencies, political conditions, and historical narratives that inform the work of contemporary artists across North, Central and South America. Through three themes — landscape, territory and trade — the exhibition will illuminate the connections among representations of the land, movement across the land, and economies and resources derived from the land.
Further information on sitelines.2014 will be announced throughout 2013 and 2014.
The SITElines2014 curatorial team Candice Hopkins, curator (b. Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada; lives in Ottawa and Albuquerque) Lucia Sanroman, curator (b. Guadalajara, Mexico; lives in Boston and Mexico City) Janet Dees, curator of special projects (b. New York; lives in Santa Fe) Irene Hofmann, SITElines director (b. New York; lives in Santa Fe)
