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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.

 

 

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Do you know an excellent New Mexico artist?

image courtesy of nmarts.org

Excellence in the Arts, Governor’s Award deadline extended to March 18, 2011.

“The annual Governor’s Arts Awards are recognized as New Mexico’s highest and most prestigious artistic honor and are intended to celebrate lifetime achievement. Nominations can be submitted by individual New Mexico residents or representatives of businesses or organizations in New Mexico. Self nominations are discouraged.

Nominations for the awards may include New Mexican individual living artists working in any discipline who have demonstrated outstanding lifetime achievement in the arts, individual non-artists who have consistently made significant or distinguished contributions to the arts in New Mexico, and businesses, nonprofits or foundations with sustained involvement in and support for the arts.” — excerpt from the NM Arts Press Release, dated March 10, 2011.

Nominations must be received by Friday, March 18, 2011. More information available here.

Virginia Castellano, New Mexico Arts
505/827-6490 or 800/879-4278 (statewide)
virginia.castellano@state.nm.us

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SITE Santa Fe, SPREAD

SMALL GRANTS FOR BIG IDEAS, March 18, 2011

SPREAD seeks to provide micro-grants for innovative projects conceived by New Mexico-based artists. SPREAD is a community dinner that funds artists’ projects and creative initiatives.

Inspired by FEAST in Brooklyn and inCUBATE in Chicago, SPREAD is a recurring public dinner designed to generate community-driven financial support to fund artistic innovation.

For more information about SPREAD, check the following link.