Encompass 2024 Catalog

MARCH 7 - APRIL 13, 2024

Harwood Art Center and Escuela del Sol Montessori are pleased to present Encompass, a unique multi-generational art event that takes place annually. Featuring five invitational exhibitions, open studios, free hands-on art activities, live music, food trucks, and activities for all ages, Encompass is both a reflection of and an offering to our community; this year’s theme is Embodiments of Wonder.

Above Photos Clockwise: Encompass: All Together installation; Emily Silva’s Studio; Harwood staff at event 2024

EMBODIMENTS OF WONDER

Embodiments of Wonder features commissioned site specific installations by artists whose work is alive with mystery and magic, sparking both curiosity and joy. Participating artists include: Monika Guerra, Adrian Martin, Audrey Montoya, Adrian Pijoan, Sallie Scheufler, and Shawn Turung. (hall gallery, downstairs)

Monika Guerra is a Mexican-American contemporary artist born in Southern California and raised in Southern New Mexico. Guerra’s studio practice explores and creates different planes of existence through painting, photography and print - where she constantly questions her position in this reality and her state of the human experience. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Certificate in Business & Entrepreneurship from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2022.

Adrian Martin was born and raised in New Mexico. She received a BFA from the University of New Mexico in 2010, and currently lives in Albuquerque. She spent most of the 2010s as a commercial photographer, and currently works in sculpture and photography. Her pieces have been used in film productions, decorated bars and cluttered up a number of public and private spaces all over the world.

Audrey Montoya is a Albuquerque based artist who has been making needle felted monstrosities for the past several years. These monsters are created in reaction to the current state of everything; that bad haircut she had in the 8th grade; and the way lucky charms are slimy and crunchy at the same time. These soft sculptures take the form of anthropomorphic clouds and iconic charms and shapes. Realistic detail and cartoon abstraction make unsettling yet relatable monsters. Montoya received her BFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico.

Adrian Pijoan is a new media artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sightings of Adrian have been reported at UFO festivals, Bigfoot research conferences, and in the dark recesses of the comments sections of low-viewcount YouTube videos. Adrian is drawn to the paranormal because he finds his own ecstasies and anxieties in tales of UFOs, cryptids, and the other fantastical horrors that have plagued and delighted humans for centuries. The New Mexico sky provides the perfect tapestry in which to find “them,” and by extension, ourselves. Adrian’s work has been shown internationally. He received his MFA in art and ecology from the University of New Mexico in 2016.

Sallie Scheufler (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, activist, and educator. Scheufler has exhibited their work at the Amarillo Museum of Art, Northlight Gallery in Phoenix, AZ, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Wo/Manhouse 2022 in Belen, NM, and during Miami Art Week at Fair Play, among others. Their work has been featured in Southwest Contemporary, Aint-Bad, Glasstire, and more. Scheufler has received numerous awards including the Beaumont Newhall Fellowship and the Robert Heinecken scholarship. In 2018, they earned their MFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico. When not in the studio, Scheufler is the assistant director at Richard Levy Gallery. They currently reside on Tiwa Territory in so-called Albuquerque, NM with their spotted dog and partner.

Shawn Turung is a multi disciplinary artist and graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with focus in kinetic sculpture, stone lithography and16mm film-making. As a student, Shawn interned with an art restoration company working in Chicago’s historic district. Simultaneously, Shawn worked in rotation as a set designer, stage manager and large scale puppets engineer, with Victory Gardens, Torso, and Red Moon Theater companies. After graduation, Shawn located to Houston, TX, creating a small business with an initial focus on architectural finishing. Local Color Studios (1991-2002) soon expanded into Historic Art Restoration, Museum Exhibits, Murals and Product Design. Shawn remained general partner until 2002. In Houston, Shawn attended graduate school at the University of St. Thomas with a focus on 20th C. Art History. In 2002, Shawn relocated to New Mexico to reconnect with practicing Fine Arts. Shawn continues Art Restoration and Conservation as Milagro Fine Art Services.

Cover: Like a Yawning Tiger, Zahra Marwan; Above:

Above: Monika Guerra, I Wonder If I’ll Ever Return, 2024, Aziza Murray & Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved

monika guerra “

My work is a reflective practice; I create, then I reflect. This reflection sparks curiosity, nostalgia, wonder, joy, grief, gratitude, sorrow, yearn, and infinite feelings.

This installation directly and indirectly confronts the deeper meanings of reflection. There are many things you can pick up from your own reflection - not limited to what you see. If curiosity compels you, open the door to see yourself broken into a million tiny pieces. Or rather - a portal into a million tiny possibilities.

I try to let go of controlling the outcome, so I listen to the hymns coming from within. In this case, it has manifested into what you’re looking at right now. I invite you to reflect, now or later or never - but I’ll leave you with this poem:

I climbed a tree to see the world

Looking for the warmth

That we used to feel

Lost in other worlds

Wondering if it’s real

I wonder if I’ll ever return

But what does returning even mean?”

Pages 8-9: Adrian Martin, See the Animal, Mixed Media installation, 2024

Aziza Murray & Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved

adrian martin “

See The Animal arose out of my dissatisfaction with the practice of commingling artist identity, aesthetics, and commerce in the arts. Increasingly, artists are compelled to publicly itemize themselves: their races, cultures, sexualities, genders, physical infirmities, neuropsychological diagnoses, and more. It is a process that demands endless vulnerability from artists, but almost none from audiences and institutions.

And what if an artist doesn’t want their life aestheticized? What if they want to keep something of themselves for themselves? How do you protect your identity in a world that has endless social/ monetary incentives to give up your personal information, but few for holding things sacred?”

adrian pijoan

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Do aliens traverse the night sky? Does Bigfoot haunt our sylvan forests? Does it matter? That’s the thing about folklore – the truth is not inevitable. What matters is how these stories reflect our shared hopes, dreams, fears, and traumas. I am drawn to the strange and paranormal because I find my own ecstasies and anxieties in tales of UFOs, cryptids, and the other fantastical horrors that have plagued and delighted humans for centuries. The night sky of New Mexico provides the perfect tapestry in which to find “them,” and by extension, myself.”

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Pages 10-11: Adrian Pijon, Far Out, single channel video, 15:16, 2022; Flowers of the Sky, 3D printed PLA, 36” x 24” 2024, Aziza Murray & Harwood Art Center, All Rights

audrey montoya

DRY AS A BONE is a collection of needle felted soft sculptures about burn out. I love what I do, but sometimes I go too hard. Sometimes life goes too hard. Sometimes picking out the right tomato at the grocery store, goes too hard. And sometimes a burned out artist makes a bunch of sad, humorous, weirdly optimistic sculptures about burn out and giggles the whole time *but in a burned out way.*”

Pages 12-13: Audrey Montoya, Dry as a Bone; Aziza Murray & Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved

shawn turung

Peace Tree is a representation of cycles of life enhanced with nuances of mythology and alchemies of psychology - all beholden to the powers of Nature and the Natural world.

I love patterns of the Maori style tattoo, flowing curves filled with geometric design, balanced and organic. I also love Erté - spectacular details filled with fanciful color and design. Combined in this piece are reflections of these styles, among others, that provide a bedrock for the illustration of my personal imagery.

The Peace Tree is an offering, a document, a theory, a vade mecum. It is an attempt to calm, validate, bring togetherness through a wondrous attempt, elevate from pits of despair. Perhaps it is selfish act, as I needed all this during its making, and forever. The Natural world, for me, has always been a pallet of marvelous events that seem, sometimes, otherworldly. Other times it is a revelation of patterns - a consistency within the chaos, that one can rely upon. The scale is enormous, as it encompasses the Universeand there, anything can happen, including Joy.”

scheufler

For the past few years, I have been experiencing high levels of anxiety triggered by the intense wind in Albuquerque. My therapist suggested finding positive associations with wind. I realized that I have been making videos of kites flying in the air, enamored by their lyrical movement against the blue sky, for years. I was inspired to get a kite which in turn led to making kites. Flying kites changed my perception of wind, I now not only look forward to windy days I watch the forecast in anticipation.

Through kites made of various materials, I confront the anxiety that prevents me from sleeping at night or leaving the house.

The prismatic kite refracts light and casts rainbows as the sunlight hits it. The sky kite is painted to match the color of the sky that day and flies in and out of visibility. Direct light bounces off of the grey surface of the reflective kite and it appears bright white. These are pocket-sized sled kites, their portability makes them ready for flight at a moment’s notice. Pocket Kites for Anxiety are tools for resiliency and hope in the face of climate change caused by capitalism and settler colonialism.”

Pages 16-17: Sallie Scheufler, Pocket Kites for Anxiety, Aziza Murray & Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved; Page 17: Sallie Scheufler, Pocket Kites for Anxiety: Reflective

ITHACAN MYTHOLOGIES/

By

Harley Kirschner

This long culmination of work began in my final semester of UNM in spring 2022, with my newly found love affair with the digital process of laser etching analog pen drawings on mirrors (from the back) under the guidance and instruction of professor, Welly Fletcher. At that time, the combination of simultaneously exploring these processes, the work was deeply personal, dredging up long repressed feelings and memories, as well as giving place to the styles and themes of my work (Greek mythologies, Art Nouveau and Art Deco) that I had previously viewed as just aesthetic. At that time I knew this work was about my own relationship to home and my feelings of home as an unsafe place, a place I knew I needed to flee from in early transition in 2004, when I relocated to Albuquerque, NM. I knew it was about the stories that kept me alive, often flora and fauna.

Since graduating, I have become increasingly aware of the broken model of the colonial construct of home as a commodity which continues to evict and destroy all living things via war, disease, pollution, poverty and inflation (systemic forms of violence), and destroyed habitats (including tent cities and parks, deforestation, wastelanding, etc…). All of these violent acts are crimes against life itself, home hirself

WHOSE HOME?

I am a multimedia artist who creates portals to other dimensions, often with the goal of repairing my inner child or connecting with a specific community. My depictions began as highly embellished memorials of stolen trans people as a way of reclaiming their lives on this plane. My art has since grown to wearable metalworks, installations, and furniture. In 2022, I discovered my psychological roots in Greek mythology. Onceforgotten memories emerged of growing up in Ithaca, NY, a town named after the ancient Greek city. My own rebirth from navigating newly surfacing symptoms of C-PTSD brought me an affinity with Persephone and the continual cycle of life and death. My mirrored pieces, laser etched with hand-drawn images, reflect this well-guarded past.

My mirrors, often gilded with foil leaf, capture the Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles of my hometown. Laser etching glass creates “ghosts” that project when light filters through them. These projections remove the objectivity of my work, allowing all who witness my shadows to possess them momentarily, while simultaneously proving that no one permanently can. I have furthered my practice of oil painting on glass using pigments, which creates a sense of time lapse to antiquity. My pieces create places of beauty and connection, reminiscent of the magical realms that offered safety in childhood..

My pigments were purchased at the estate sale of a late transcendental writer and artist. Sourcing painting supports at the estate sales I work allows me weeks to connect with their previous owners. This evolution of my work has increased my relationship with my queer ancestors, particularly a great uncle who was disowned from my then Southern Christian

conservative family for being gay. He, too, was an artist, antique collector, and gardener. Like me, he grew up poor and often struggled with having a stable income, yet was able to surround himself with the finest things through being an estate caretaker.

My work has stepped away from depicting queer human bodies and moved on to representing the queerness of flora and fauna; species in peril or lost, including humanity, under late-stage capitalism; and the natural continual apocalypse of the earth hirself.

- Harley Kirschner

JOURNEY THROUGH THE WONDERVERSE

By

Escuela Del Sol Montessori Students

The Escuela del Sol Junior High, in collaboration with the rest of the school, has created Journey Through the Wonderverse. The students invite you on the road trip of your life! With wonders, attractions, billboards, and an inconvenience store... their installation will not only showcase their art, but also connect the other installations for Encompass 2024. Grab a map and set off to see the wonders! Three fabled artifacts of legendary power are being assembled in different timelines, but everything will converge on April 13th where all will rise… or fall. Join them to see what happens at Harwood Art Center and enter the Nautilus - their spacefaring cocoon time laboratory - to watch the event of a lifetime unfold.

Every year, Escuela Junior High students present a exhibition proposal to Harwood Staff inpired the Encompass theme. The exhibitions are designed, created and installed with the mentorship of their Art Studio Guide, Chirsty Cook.

harwood outreach, apprenticeship and collaborative program artists from Shelter CROSS-POLLINATION

Cross-Pollination includes plans for public artworks created for Mesa Verde Park, artworks (and an art-making station) from Shelter, our ongoing Social Practice Project, and sketches from middle school students enrolled in Youth Mural Project. This exhibition highlights Harwood’s outreach, apprenticeship and collabortive program artists.

Cross-Pollination includes plans for public artworks created for Mesa Verde Park, artworks (and an art-making station) from Shelter, our ongoing Social Practice Project, and sketches from middle school students enrolled in Youth Mural Project. This work is made possible through partnership with APS, CABQ Parks and Recreation, the Pland Collaborative, CABQ 1% for Public Art, CABQ Cultural Services and the NM Youth Conservation Corps.

Harwood’s Paid Summer Apprenticeship in Art & Social Justice mentors youth aged 17-24 through the co-creation of community-driven public artworks that pursue equity. Our artworks promote intersectional justice through: studying and practicing the tenets of transformational justice within our collaboration, nurturing the park’s ecosystem, celebrating local residents through collaboration and oral history, and drawing resources and attention to the park neighborhood.

harwood + escuela staff artists, teaching artists and studio artists ALL TOGETHER

All Together is an exhibition of work made by Harwood Art Center’s extended community reflecting our organization’s mission to nurture a passion for lifelong learning, creative expression and engaged citizenship.

Participating Artists:

Jen DePaolo

Jasper Bragg

Karen Mazur

Amy Mann

Kait O’Brien

Emi Oaks

Margot Geist

George Richardson

Lea Anderson

Deb Wozniak

Sara Baecher

Len Follick

Angelika Rinnhofer

Donna Romano

Rose Marie Prins

Jenn Carrillo

Lindsay Brenner

Shawn Turung

Hallee Nguyen

Candy Nartonis

Sara Asadi

Ricardo Guillermo

MB Ramos

Chandler Wigton

Chelsea Wrightson

Christiana Cook

Marianne Hall

Leviathan O’Neil

Natalie Voelker

Caitlin Carcerano

Jane Gordon

M. Certo

Harwood Art Center is dedicated to providing exhibition, audience expansion and professional development opportunities to artists working in any media and from diverse creative fields. Featuring established, emerging, and youth artists, our Galleries Program engages a supportive process from concept development through installation and public opening. For more information visit: harwoodartcenter.org

JAN

JANUARY

18- FEBRUARY 24

Illumination: The Artists of ArtStreet, Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless Harwood Art Center and ArtStreet of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless co-present Illumination, a collection of works by the artists of ArtStreet that center around a desire to invite you into their inner world. This marks the 27th anniversary of this annual exhibition partnership.

Reception: Saturday, February 3 | 4:30-6:30pm

MAR

MARCH

7- APRIL 13

ENCOMPASS: Embodiments of Wonder

An annual celebration that is both a reflection of and an offering to our community, Encompass features Open Studios, art making activities, installations by student artists, and five invitational exhibitions including Embodiments of Wonder commissioned installations by Adrian Martin, Adrian Pijoan, Audrey Montoya, Monika Guerra, Sallie Scheufler, and Shawn Turung and Ithacan Mythologies/Whose Home? by Harley Kirschner.

Reception: Saturday, April 13 | 4:30-7:30pm

APR

APRIL 25 - JUNE 1

Plein Air Collaborations: PALs (Plein Air Landscapers)

Demonstrates the inspirational benefits provided by the practice of plein air painting, as well as the significance of group activities to better physical and mental health and creative output.

Jordan Caldwell: A Moments Time

A Moments Time shows the everyday hidden beauty of this cold isolated developed world we live in. In situations that people would normally overlook or see as aimless, Caldwell chooses to find comfort and contentment. This exhibition appreciates small moments like leaving for school at dawn, being stuck in traffic, waiting for a bus, coming home at dusk, or walking on a rainy day.

Reception + Artist Talks: Saturday, May 18 | 4:30-6:30pm

JUN

JUNE

13- JULY 27

SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico

SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico is the annual juried exhibition, endowed awards and professional development program presented by Harwood Art Center, to support the creative and professional growth of emerging artists and to expand their visibility and viability in our community.

Zuyva Sevilla: Surface 2023 Solo Exhibition Award Winner

Reception + Artist Talks: Saturday, June 22 | 5:00-7:00pm

Harwood offers four capstone exhibitions annually:

1 ENCOMPASS A multi-generational art event

2 SURFACE Emerging Artists of New Mexico

3 RESIDENCY for Art & Social Justice

4 12x12 Our annual fundraiser; all proceeds support our free community arts education, outreach and professional development.

AUG

AUGUST 8 - SEPTEMBER 14

Southwest Black Arts Collective: (BE)LOVED

In a world marked by injustice, inequity, and pain, how do we embrace the (BE)LOVED? Centered in the experiences of the artists as people of African heritage, this exhibition explores how (BE)LOVED exists within and extends beyond the personal realm.

Lauren Dana Smith: Recall: Sculptural Myth and Memory

This exhibition asks, "Where does the earth end and my body begin? Where does your body begin and where does it end?"

Sarah Aziz: Tumbleweed Rodeo

Tumbleweed Rodeo reconstitutes tumbleweeds into an inhabitable landscape drawing and positions the question of invasive species (what came first, and what’s truly invasive?) not as disasters but as displays of the majesty of nature and life.

Reception: Saturday, August 24 | 4:30-6:30pm

SEPT

SEPTEMBER 26- NOVEMBER 2

Residency for Art & Social Justice

Harwood’s Residency for Art & Social Justice features and supports artists working at the intersections of creative expression and social justice. The ten month program includes a private studio at Harwood, artist and material honoraria, project support and public exhibitions.

Resident Artist, Gael Luna: Lucha Libre Trans Queer Art Espectacular

Uplifting the lives of transgender and queer athletes in New Mexico

Reception + Artist Talks: Saturday, October 19 | 4:30-6:30pm

DEC

DECEMBER 6-13

12x12: Harwood’s Annual Fundraising Exhibitions

12x12, 6x6 and The Shop at Harwood features original work by established, emerging and youth artists from New Mexico. This event includes ~200 works that remain anonymous until sold, for the flat rates of $144 (12”x12”) or $36 (6”x6”). The Shop highlights the intersections of art, design and daily living with works by notable New Mexico artists.

Exhibition Reception: Friday, December 6 | 5:30pm-7:30pm 12x12 Online Store Opens: Saturday, December 7 | 6:00pm

Image Credits: (Left, Top to Bottom): Harley Kirschner, Lotus Morning on Lake Cayuga; Thomas Carney, 9.5x6.5; Zuyva Sevilla, Hyperlux 6; Gael Luna, Sky Ancestor; (Center): Audrey Montoya, ICE CREAM CONE; (Right, Top to Bottom): Alanna Airitam, Take a Look Inside; Sarah Aziz, LEMB, and CO-OPt, Tumbleweed Rodeo Drawing Workshop; Anna Escamilla, Liam's Pond Paint Around; Lauren Dana Smith, Obedience Plaster; Jordan Caldwell, Traffic Over the Rio Grande; The Shop Image Credit: Caitlin Carcerano, Asteraceae Risograph Card

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a calendar year: Kristin Anchors, Carrie Botto, Caitlin Carcerano, Jen DePaolo, Diego Medina, Linda Montagnoli, Gloria Olazabal, Emily Silva and Mark Weaver.

ABOUT HARWOOD ART CENTER & ESCUELA DEL SOL MONTESSORI

HARWOOD ART CENTER’S GALLERIES

are dedicated to providing exhibition, audience expansion and professional development opportunities to artists working in any media and from diverse creative fields. Our gallery program is curated and managed by our Chief Programs Officer and Associate Directors of Opportunity and Engagement. Artists are invited to exhibit during three of our annual capstone events, Encompass, Residency for Art & Social Justice & 12x12, the rest of our exhibitions are awarded to individuals and groups through a competitive application process. Most of our applications are free to apply, any collected fees allocated to replenishing Harwood’s endowed cash awards for the program. Each featured exhibition is a supportive process, we work with the artists from concept development to installation in the galleries. For each exhibition we create comprehensive outreach and digital materials including exhibition catalogs, virtual galleries and artist talks to support the unique visions and voices of our gallery artists.

Seeded in 1991, Harwood Art Center blooms the philosophy of our parent organization Escuela del Sol Montessori, with recognition that learning and expression offer the most resilient pathways to global citizenship, justice and peace. Harwood engages the arts as a catalyst for lifelong learning, cultural enrichment and social change, with programming for every age, background and income level. We believe that equitable access to the arts and opportunities for creative expression are integral to healthy individuals and thriving communities. In all of our work, we cultivate inclusive, reflective environments where everyone feels cared for. We nurture long-term, multi-faceted relationships with participants, building programs with and for diverse communities of Albuquerque. We integrate the arts with social justice, professional and economic growth, and education to cultivate a higher collective quality of life in New Mexico.

For 50 years, Escuela del Sol, an independent Montessori school, has nurtured selfdiscovery, social responsibility and passion for learning in our students. Each day Escuela supports students from ages 18 months to 13 years on their real-world quests to excel academically and to develop the skills they need for meaningful, happy and successful futures.

HARWOOD ART CENTER’S OFFICIAL GALLERY & EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHER

We are so thrilled to have an official Harwood Photographer for our galleries program this year! We are able to present the SURFACE Emerging Artists of NM Award and Microgrant of $250 to each of this year’s artists thanks to the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund, New Mexico Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the McCune Foundation.

Aziza Murray is a New Mexico based artist working primarily in photography. In 2015 she graduated with an MFA from the University of New Mexico where she also worked as a pictorial archiving fellow for the Center for Southwest Research. Since then, Aziza has worked in different capacities in the film industry in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, further piquing her interest in cinematography. Much of her work stems from a well of nostalgia for objects and moments, the materiality of photography, and her personal history—from experiencing tragic loss at an early age, to her multilayered experiences as a biracial person growing up in Washington, DC. She has shown her work in DC at Connersmith and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Albuquerque at the Harwood Art Center, the UNM Art Museum and the National Hispanic Cultural Center and, at MASS Gallery in Austin, TX.

azizamurray.com azizamurray@gmail.com

Many thanks to our generous sponsoring partners: Albuquerque Art Business Association / ARTScrawl, Albuquerque Community Foundation, Downtown Neighborhood Association, McCune Charitable Foundation, New Mexico Arts and National Endowment for the Arts, City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund, US Bank, and A Good Sign. Special thanks to Nusenda Foundation and Sandia Foundation for support of our Creative Roots program and to Fay Abrams and to Debi & Clint Dodge for support of our exhibiting and commission artists.