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Eric Garduño at Site Santa Fe

Eric Garduño and Matthew Rana’s The People v. Bruce (parrhesia), an installation in sculpture, photography, and sound explores the first amendment rights that were challenged in the 1960s during the trial of comedian Lenny Bruce.

AGITATED HISTORIES PRESENTS an international and intergenerational group of artists whose works, in a range of media, create a dialogue with historic figures, movements, and events. For some of the artists in this exhibition, history is a subject to be challenged, re-written, or recreated, while for others it is a source of inspiration and creative energy. Through Agitated Histories, our understanding of historic events is upended while new histories are brought to light. The works in the exhibition explore four central themes: the Archive, the Reenactment, the Persona and the Intervention.

Agitated Histories is organized by SITE’s Phillips Director and Chief Curator, Irene Hofmann and was presented at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore in 2011. It appears in an expanded form at SITE Santa Fe in collaboration with SITE’s Assistant Curator, Janet Dees.

 

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Progressive Art Fair, Sunday, September 18th

Luke Dorman submission image

Luke Dorman Submission Image a very small taste of what will fill his 10×10 space

Progressive Arts Fair will be held on September 18, Santa Fe Railyard Plaza, from 10 AM to 6 PM

Expanding on the traditional concept of an art market by inviting 35 artists to use a 10 by 10 foot booth for any purpose that they envision. Many artists will be selling their work, and others are setting up installations, showcasing multimedia or performance art pieces, or creating interactive art. The event will feature all different types of artists, working in different mediums, and at all different points in their careers. We’ll be working with local publications, gallery owners, and curators to maximize the exposure for participants.

The fair is part of The Santa Fe Reporter AHA Festival, which includes live music and other performance. We intend for this to be a multi-disciplinary celebration of New Mexico’s most exciting artistic talent. Everything will be all ages.

Artists include ArtOfficial, Brandon Behning, Raven Chacon and Candice Hopkins, Sydney Cooper, Sean DiIanni, Luke Dorman, Susannah Dourmashkin and Kaelie Barnard, Jordan Glazer and Max Fields, Sam Haozous and Melissa Dominguez, Chace Haynes, Jenni Higginbotham, Roxane Hopper, Kaleidospoke, Caity Kennedy, Matt King, Emilee Lord, Manners, Andrew Merritt, Jonathan Morse, Ashley Rowe, Donna Ruff, The Thistle, SCUBA, Alysha Layla Shaw, Nora Jane Slade, Team Everything, Tuscany Wenger, Niomi and Akira Watts, Gwen Wells, and Todd Ryan White.

Donna Ruff: Interactive piece using lemon juice and Dickinson poems

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Railyard Art Project

Santa Fe Railyard

The Railyard Art Project collaborates with artists and inspired, creative projects crafted by individuals and organized groups to temporarily place installations, artworks and other innovative objects, ideas and contextually appropriate endeavors in Santa Fe, New Mexico’s Railyard Park + Plaza.

The Railyard Park + Plaza is an urban art environment and is itself a work of public art. Artists, organizations and collaborative, creative teams are encouraged to respond to this intentionally designed landscape with temporary art and performance projects that emphasize engagement, participation and education. Collaborations across disciplines—artists, designers, scientists, historians, sociologists, etc—are of particular interest. Additionally, projects that respond to specific locations in the Park + Plaza through community and historic context are encouraged. However, there are no conceptual or collaborative factors limiting the scope of proposals for projects: the Railyard Art Committee is open to any and all proposals that fit the usage policies of the Railyard Park & Plaza and comply with the terms and conditions of the Railyard Park + Plaza’s multiple public and private stakeholders.

Potential projects for location in the Park + Plaza are evaluated on an ongoing basis by the Railyard Art Committee, a volunteer group of dedicated community members that works with the Railyard Stewards to help locate exceptional artworks and projects in this vital center of public life in Santa Fe. Projects are currently being accepted on the condition that applicants, or at least one member of the applicant team is a current New Mexico resident. For more details, read our Frequently Asked Questions page. To submit an application now, click on the link below.

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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
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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.