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Art Envelope: Near and Far
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Interviews, Studio Visits, Art Criticism, Essays. Friday, August 29, 2008. Era and Donald Farnsworth,. Click on image for larger version). Imagine being a 14th-century monk traveling across the country. At each stop along the way a temporary temple will be set up, including all of the ritual paraphernalia and everything needed for an altar. Today we have 18-wheeler trucks for fancy road shows, but centuries ago, everything was transported on foot and by horseback. Donald and Era Farnsworth. Thangkas are ...
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Art Envelope: Everything In Its Place
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Interviews, Studio Visits, Art Criticism, Essays. Saturday, November 29, 2008. Everything In Its Place. Lee Friedlander is a natural observer and careful organizer. Just take a look at his 2005 photograph of a Santa Fe street titled “1684-26: Santa Fe, New Mexico”. The viewer might wonder exactly what he was taking a picture of—the telephone pole that is slightly to the left of center? Or perhaps the house between the telephone pole and the parking meter? Friedlander is a formalist, concerned with how he...
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Art Envelope: Hair Apparent
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Interviews, Studio Visits, Art Criticism, Essays. Friday, September 12, 2008. Felted human hair, 2007. 8220;You see, it all started with hair, human hair,” Agustina Woodgate. Brush Series - My Great Grandmother Beba. Silver brush, Beba's hair, 2007. Originally from Argentina, Woodgate has lived in Miami for the past three years. “Why do I use hair? Woodgate is in Santa Fe as an artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI),. One of the most intimate and innovative venues for seeing contemporar...
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Art Envelope: Possibilities
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Interviews, Studio Visits, Art Criticism, Essays. Friday, December 5, 2008. Beyond Graphic: Contemporary Drawing and Works on Paper. 554 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe (in the Railyard District). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Russo has written for the Journal Santa Fe. And the The New Mexican. And her writing may be read at Art Envelope. Contemporary Art and Buddhism. The Contemplative Artist (essay). Near and Far (review). Big Sky Mind (review). The Vanishing Ego in Painting (interview). Georges...
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Art Envelope: Too Cozy?
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Interviews, Studio Visits, Art Criticism, Essays. Friday, September 19, 2008. Shirley Klinghoffer guides the Humvee into CCA on September 12; volunteers cover it with the cozy. Early in his career, Picasso didn’t believe in mixing politics with art. On view at the Center for Contemporary Arts. Through October 5, is a welcome reminder of where our attention, as artists and art viewers, has been lax. Perhaps it was scheduling (both events occurred on weekdays when most people are at work and most children ...
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Art Envelope: Contemporary Landscapes of the American West
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Interviews, Studio Visits, Art Criticism, Essays. Monday, September 29, 2008. Contemporary Landscapes of the American West. Fine Arts Gallery,. College of Santa Fe. Three artists — David Jones, Patrick Kikut and Edgar Smith — have combined their perceptual and conceptual visions to explore the western landscape in "Artist Point" at the College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery,. Fine Arts Gallery, College of Santa Fe. 1600 St. Michael's Drive. Through Oct. 17. This review was originally published in the Sept...
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Interviews, Studio Visits, Art Criticism, Essays. Saturday, August 27, 2011. My interview with Santa Fe painter Joan Watts. Has been published on the BeingBlog, park of NPR's radio program OnBeing. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Russo has written for the Journal Santa Fe. And the The New Mexican. And her writing may be read at Art Envelope. Contemporary Art and Buddhism. The Contemplative Artist (essay). Near and Far (review). Big Sky Mind (review). The Vanishing Ego in Painting (interview). Georges...
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Art Envelope: Struck by the Sublime
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Interviews, Studio Visits, Art Criticism, Essays. Friday, October 17, 2008. Struck by the Sublime. There is no other way to say it: this is a stunning exhibition. Constance DeJong’s works cause the viewer to forget the world and the self—to stop thinking. Utilizing a reductive palette of materials, DeJong has created works that one might dare to call sacred- sacred in that spontaneous, visceral way in which one experiences an object before a thought takes hold. Big Black Work With Three Tilting Planes #2.
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Art Envelope: De(cor)rivitive
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Interviews, Studio Visits, Art Criticism, Essays. Saturday, November 29, 2008. Today’s column is the third in a four-part series about group exhibitions. These reviews illuminate the qualities that make (or break) a group show and the curatorial decisions that successfully frame multiple perspectives under a singular vision. Churning Sea (after Moby)". Chris Enos’s large format Polaroids of decaying flowers are technically beautiful, but the metaphorical suggestion (what is young and fresh decays, ...
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Art Envelope: Get Real
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Interviews, Studio Visits, Art Criticism, Essays. Saturday, November 29, 2008. Today’s column is the fourth in a four-part series about group exhibitions. These reviews illuminate the qualities that make (or break) a group show and the curatorial decisions that successfully frame multiple perspectives under a singular vision. But what does realism provide the viewer beyond the “wow” factor? Aristides Ruiz is as technically skillful with watercolor and a ball-point pen as Schmidt is with paint. His ur...