SUrFaCE emerging artists of new mexico
in partnership with Albuquerque Art Business Association
JUne 6 - JULy 24, 2014
parchEd jane gordon
COVER: Jessica Chao ABOVE: Christa Dalien
Escuela del Sol Montessori and Harwood Art Center’s programming is inspired by our commitment to community. We are constantly impressed by the level of participation, investment and support our community gives back. The Board and Staff wish to thank the following, in particular, for their generosity and partnership on SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico: Bernalillo County Parks & Recreation City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund The FUNd at Albuquerque Community Foundation McCune Charitable Foundation New Mexico Arts and National Endowment for the Arts
SUrFaCE emerging artists of new mexico
parchEd jane gordon SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico is an annual juried exhibition, professional development and endowed cash awards program presented by Harwood Art Center, in partnership with Albuquerque Art Business Association (AABA) / ArtsCrawl. We are grateful to Reggie Gammon and to Marion and Kathryn Crissey for their dedication to up and coming artists in our community and for establishing award funds to honor their creative commitment. In 2014, our second year of the program, we received amazing applications from around New Mexico, and evaluated them based on quality and cohesion of work, clarity of written statements, stated objectives and description of practice. We selected 13 exceptionally talented, committed artists in different states of emergence:
ISAAc ALaridPeASE miA caSeSA CHriS CaSeY JeSSiCa ChAo XUaN CheN ChriSTa DALieN BeVerLY fiSher
HoLLY grImm BrYCe hampLe Dani jeffrieS jami PorTer LArA georgiNa LATiNo Tera mUSkraT
ISAAc ALaridPeASE Born: Tucson, AZ // Lives: Albuquerque, NM (15 1/2 yrs) via Abiquiu, NM Isaac AlaridPease was raised in a century old adobe home in Abiquiu, NM. His urban folk art style originates in his childhood penchant for cartooning and is inspired by naive art traditions and living in Albuquerque, NM . AlaridPease earned his BFA cum laude from UNM in 1998 and MA in Art Education in 2013. In the Artist’s Words “My urban folk art paintings are often inspired by a synthesis of dust filled, graffiti strewn and worn out scenes from Route 66 urban America, with naive art and art brut traditions. Often, the bright palettes and whimsy in my work belie more contemplative undertones.”
Born: Nanjing, China // Lives: Albuquerque, NM (4 yrs) via Nyack, New York Mia Casesa is an undergraduate student Majoring in the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program at the University of New Mexico. She is a full time student and works part time while pursuing her artistic endeavors. Mia’s favorite hobbies are doodling in her sketchbook and drinking tea. She enjoys taking on multi-media experimental projects that still adhere to the formal artistic principles such as: line, value, color and composition. In the Artist’s Words “I wish to create an installation that draws in an atmosphere of nostalgia through illustrated, printed and made objects that use narration and sequential art. My works included take on the themes of ‘memory’ and ‘place’ using a projection of the animated video and audio along with threedimensional objects and two-dimensional digital artwork. I want to address the intimacy of childhood memories while emphasizing their precious and fragile nature.”
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CHriS CaSeY
Born: Las Vegas, NM // Lives: Albuquerque, NM (24 yrs) Born in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Chris Casey received his BFA in 2013 from the University of New Mexico. Sculpture, mixed media drawings and pottery are his primary mediums. He currently lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the Artist’s Words “My work is an exercise in pure abstraction. I am a heavily process driven artist and creating provides to me an escape. It is because of this that I eschew all representation. The movement of line and the power of color are my avenues to expression. I am drawn to sloping curves and vibrant colors, but my art is the fruit of an improvisational process where there are no wrong solutions. In this way, accidents and miscalculations can be embraced and even amplified. My creative efforts are ever guided by my conception of beauty and elegance.”
Born: Albuquerque, NM // Lives: Albuquerque, NM Born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jessica Chao received her bachelors of fine arts at the University of New Mexico in 2012. Staying active in the art community, Jessica has been constantly developing her artistic style and technique through various mediums including drawing, painting, and printmaking. In the Artist’s Words “[My] work portrays ‘out of the ordinary’ states of being by altering familiar surroundings, objects, or attributes associated with typical human behavior. These familiar yet subtly deceptive ‘out of the ordinary’ states can be complex, but can also seem quite obvious in their presentation. [My] work intentionally emphasizes, as well as ‘peculiarizes’, the familiar, drawing attention to undercurrents of hidden meaning. “Psychological states can be implied through carefully orchestrated narrative moments and in these moments are glimpses; not simply motion stills, but captured moments through which the subject engages the observer, allowing the observer to react to the subject’s experience.”
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XUaN CheN
Born: China // Lives: Albuquerque, NM (5 yrs, 8 months) via Berkley, CA As a multi-disciplinary, conceptual and project-based artist, Xuan Chen decides upon the media that best fits the concept of each project: painting, printmaking, site-specific sculptures/installations, animated film, drawing, interactive installation, graphic narrative, or combinations of the aforementioned. Her artworks have been exhibited in solo and group shows in galleries, museums and film festivals and she has won many national and international awards/grants including 2014 Dorothy Yeck Award (Young Painters Award), Working Artist Award in 2013, 1st place in New Mexico’s Contemporary Art Society award in 2012, New Mexico New Visions Film Award in 2009, etc. Born in Mainland China, Ms. Chen has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received an M.F.A from the University of New Mexico in 2011. In the Artist’s Words “My combined exploration of cognitive responses to visual illusion with my painter’s approach to the creation of art reflects the growing contemporary practice of artists seeking new areas for technology and aesthetic to crossover. In my paintings, I deconstruct common geometric shapes in 3D software programs and intentionally exaggerate the errors or mistakes in computer-generated 3D images. Each prismatic layer is reconstructed while I apply the paint, exposing the handmade quality of the paintings. In each painting, color is presented in one or many of the following ways: color is substance; color is light; color evokes emotions; color composes shapes; and color reflects as auras. Partly scientific and mathematical and partly empirical and spontaneous in making these paintings, I intend to produce complex visual spaces.”
Born: St. Cloud, MN // Lives: Santa Fe, NM (1 yr, 4 months) via Lawrence, KS Christa Dalien is an artist currently living in Santa Fe, NM with her husband, son and 2 cats. She works in a variety of different mediums including installation, drawing, painting, and printmaking. Originally from Minnesota, Christa received her BFA in Painting from St. Cloud State University and her MFA in printmaking from the University of Kansas.
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In the Artist’s Words “Michael Kimmelman states in his book: The Accidental Masterpiece On The Art of Life and Vice Versa that, Art promises wonderment, an access to realms beyond the everyday, through the experience of which we may understand the everyday better. “Working in a variety of mediums including installation, drawing, painting, and printmaking, my art explores the diverse relationships and interactions that we have with the natural world and our personal surroundings. I am interested in folklore and mythology used to explain and interpret the unexplainable. I search through the tangible landscapes and structures that often show signs of wear, human impact and mystery, then reconstruct them into a visual emotional language.”
Born: Lancaster, PA // Lives: Albuquerque, NM (8 months) via Philadelphia, PA Beverly Fisher is a recent transplant to the South West, an artist and designer whose primary studio practice is drawing. Fisher graduated with an MFA from Tyler School of Art, where she studied ceramics and public art. She taught courses in Foundations and art at Saint Joseph’s University and Tyler School of Art while maintaining a studio practice in drawing and public installations. In August of 2013 Fisher moved to Albuquerque and enrolled in the Masters program of Landscape Architecture. In the Artist’s Words “Everything in my work originates from the desire to pay close attention- to take direct risks, to slow down, question and think. I believe that attention is presence. Shifts in scale, materials, tactility, and incidental are not arbitrary, instead they are the organic decisions of things that I have experienced, seen and felt. Living in rural and urban places has informed this body of work, it raises so many fundamental and exciting questions about spatial and temporal matters. I am interested in the way places can influence our experiences, emotions and thoughts. These are an attempt at maps of stillness. What I’m looking for are moments that I recognize and love.”
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HoLLY grImm
Born: Denver, CO // Lives: Santa Fe, NM (1 yr, 3 months) via Placitas, NM Holly Grimm is a contemporary abstract painter in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received a BA in painting and a BS at Stanford University. Recently she has studied Chinese painting with Nancy RuenFen Chen, mixed media painting and collage with Shawn Serfas, and painting with Lea Anderson. Holly has participated in over 10 group shows in the United States and Canada. Her paintings are meditations on landscapes and represent the essence that underlies the cosmos. She was born in Denver, Colorado and is a member of the Navajo Nation. In the Artist’s Words “As I mature and become more experienced, my intrinsic vision unfolds. I embrace everything and adhere to nothing. My work shows the natural forces of the universe including those at work in our urban landscapes. A series of paintings based on photographs of graffiti under Rio Grande bridges were completed in early 2014. Each painting began with an acrylic transfer of a photograph onto the canvas. A final composition was developed from the color and forms in the graffiti. My most recent work uses the techniques learned from the graffiti paintings and incorporates visual elements from plein air sketches and early abstract landscape drawings. The finished artworks show the interaction between form and line and often allude to cell structures, human forms, landscapes, and the cosmos.�
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Born: Beverly Glen, CA // Lives: Albuquerque, NM (25 yrs) Bryce Hample is a sound and visual artist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has studied Art at the University of New Mexico and music at the Academy of Indian Classical Music in Varanasi, India. Hample creates installations that explore the balance and juxtaposition between his encaustic paintings, wire sculptures, and sound pieces. He has shown in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and has performed in venues across the country. In the Artist’s Words “My work is a ritual exploration of repetition, finding new connections between materials and mediums, and of inventing and reinventing my processes. I am inspired by the accidental, coincidental composition of found wire scraps, automatic drawing and writing, unconscious composition, the silence between words, love, woodworking, beeswax, and pencils. My work is an escape, a perfect fantasy.”
Dani jeffrieS Born: Grand Rapids, MI // Lives: Albuquerque, NM (13 yrs) via Phoenix, AZ I am an artist living in my adopted home town of Albuquerque, New Mexico. I am originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan - School of Art, where I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1987, with a concentration on both ceramics and photography. After graduation, I moved to Los Angeles, Detroit, Phoenix, and finally, in 2001, to Albuquerque, where I found a welcoming community of other Albuquerque artists. Along the way, I have shown my artwork in galleries, art fairs, and competitions in Michigan, Florida, Washington D.C., Arizona, and New Mexico.
Born: Spokane, WA // Lives: Albuquerque, NM (21 yrs) via Northampton, MA Jami Porter Lara is a New Mexico - based artist whose work interrogates nature as a human construct, challenges the dichotomy between wilderness and civil society, and investigates human technology as both mythic and geologic force. After fifteen years working in software development and consumer advocacy, she returned to school to study art at age 40, and completed a BFA at the University of New Mexico in 2013. Recent exhibitions include a collaboration with SIMPARCH at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah, a joint presentation with Neighborhood Public Radio at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and interMIDDEN, a solo show of 2D and 3D works at the 5G Gallery in Albuquerque, NM. In the Artist’s Words “My recent work in clay engages the two thousand year old pueblo pottery method to make sculptures inspired by the plastic bottle, the most ubiquitous and iconic vessel of my time. I see it as a kind of reverse archeology, whereby I dig into the present using the tools of the past. “I am interested in the culture of nature. In all parts of life, I push against assumptions about what is natural and what is not. My work is the search for the ethical, open-eyed, and un-nostalgic. It’s the attempt to become someone the world needs by the counterintuitive tactic of making things no one needs. It’s the refusal to say the earth would be better without me, and the determination to become equal to that claim.”
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georgiNa LATiNo Born: San Diego, CA // Lives: Santa Fe, NM (2 yrs, 4 months) via Jemez Springs, NM
Born in California in 1978, Georgina Latino’s hispanic heritage has had great influence in her color compositions. Having lived a decade in Mexico, the lure of bright color frequencies have led themselves into her vibrant color synthesis and sentimentality in her work. Georgina now lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has exhibited at the National Auditorium in Mexico City (2007), IBERO Puebla (2007), and has just had a solo show at the Marc Navarro Gallery on Canyon Rd., Santa Fe (2014). In the Artist’s Words “The experience of color byway of the impasto technique reevaluates painting as three-dimensional concept. Visually, the high density of texture implores the viewer to want to touch it or eat it, stimulating the emotion of desire and taboo. The experience of texture found in objects such as Ice-Cream- the memory carries me back to the summers in L.A. . My aunts would take me to the corner Thrifty’s store and as a child I would be sold on the Bubble Gum flavored ice-cream because I loved how the different colored pieces of gum would stain the ivory ball of cream and how these stains of hot pink and hot green and blue would swirl together making a marbled design. And the urgency of it all!, as the hot L.A. summer melted the ice-cream onto my fingers. It is the tragedy of these temporal objects and memories that inspire my work”
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Born: Salina, KS // Lives: Dulce, NM (6 yrs) via Taos, NM Tera Muskrat, originally from Kansas, and currently residing in Dulce, New Mexico has been lured into the real life if New Mexico. She has become a New Mexican, and as an artist, has managed to paint the everyday life in a very authentic manner that expresses the real dignity and beauty of the people she has become friends and family with, with an emphasis on women. In the Artist’s Words “New Mexico is a place where you are always confronted with experiences that one wants to hold on to forever. A face, a color, a curve, a feeling, a taste, a home, it is unlike anywhere else you would ever be. It creates a desire to share that moment before it flees forever from your memory. I am a self-taught painter who derives inspiration from the works of the Mexican Calendar Girl artists from the 1930’s and 40’s as well as by Mexican and New Mexican folk artists. I tell the stories of women in New Mexico with emphasis on color and emotion to give the viewer a true experience of that moment in time. These are celebrations of strength, and durability, power, diversity, and uniqueness of women in New Mexico. My works are all acrylics on canvas with metallic and glitter infused paints.”
artist selection by joan fenicle, albuquerque art business association guruamrit khalsa, harwood art center julia mandeville, harwood art center jill riester, albuquerque art business association
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exhibition curated and program materials prepared by guruamrit khalsa, harwood art center julia mandeville, harwood art center artist submissions processed by ben tobias, harwood art center
gallery assistance by sophie snapp, harwood art center
professional development workshop panels presented by sherri brueggemann, program manager, city of albuquerque public art mike english, editor in chief, local iq magazine meghan ferguson, gallery director, tamarind institute grady jaynes, web and communications consultant libby lumpkin, professor of art history and criticism, university of new mexico betty wilson, manager, weems gallery old town david santiago, artist / painter nancy salem, media and communications specialist, art critic and collector nancy zastudil, curator and consultant / the necessarian
parchEd jane gordon
jaNe GorDoN
Born: Minneapolis, MN // Lives: Albuquerque, NM (4 yrs) Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jane moved to Albuquerque in January 2010 to attend graduate school. Coming from the “land of 10,000 lakes� to the high desert was a huge shift, and provided as many challenges as it did inspirations. Jane enjoys spending time outdoors, cooking, eating, and sharing delicious food, losing herself in a good novel, and singing in the studio. She is incredibly grateful for her family and her sweet husband. Jane considers her strong work ethic one of the most important facets of her personality, but is learning to honor relaxing as a necessity for a fulfilling and productive life. Jane received the SURFACE 2013 Marion & Kathryn Crissey Emerging Artist Award and the Harwood Art Center Solo Exhibition Award. Marion and Kathryn Crissey established an award endowment to support the endeavors of emerging artists who demonstrate a commitment to their artwork, their on-going education and the community in which they live. The Harwood Solo Exhibition Award is presented annually to a SURFACE participant for excellence in artistic practice, vision and dedication.
parchEd In the Artist’s Words “It is hot; the ground exhales dust. The rapid coating of concrete, covering open spaces with rocks: choices have been made which encourage this desert to persist. Should we not rejoice in the sprout that pushes through the cracks? Should we not celebrate each shade of green that finds its way to light in our high desert? How can we call the rain, make it welcome? Is the struggle to find a balance between lifestyle comforts and taking ecological responsibility a farce? In Parched, surrounded by representations of cracked earth and constructed stones, an offering waits for the visitor. Paper bags allow easy retrieval of seedballs from the bowls. Seedballs, filled with latent life, stand out against the heat and thirst of the high desert summer. This gift of hope contrasts the almost absurd labor of the ceramic objects: rocks and earth recreated from rocks and earth weathered over eons into workable clays.”
2014 Galleries & january 3 - 30 reception friday, january 10 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Overlap Michael Hudock, Orlando Leyba and Kevin Tolman FRONT GALLERY (Re)Structure Rachel Zollinger
february 7 - 27 reception friday, february 7 | 6 - 8p MAIN & FRONT GALLERIES Recycled Heart The Artists of ArtStreet - Healthcare for the Homeless
march 7 - 27 encompass: urban nature Harwood Art Center’s galleries are dedicated to providing exhibition, audience expansion and professional development opportunities to artists working in all media. Harwood Staff curate four exhibitions annually; the remaining months are awarded to individuals and groups through a competitive application process. Curators GuruAmrit Khalsa, Director of Administrative Services Julia Mandeville, Director of Programs & Community Relations Vashti Moss, Director of Youth Arts & Education (Youth Shows) Program Partners Albuquerque Art Business Association (AABA) ArtStreet - Healthcare for the Homeless Untitled Fine Arts Services Program Supporters The FUNd at Albuquerque Community Foundation City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund McCune Charitable Foundation New Mexico Arts and National Endowment for the Arts
reception friday, march 7 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Uncharted Territory Swoon, Erin Currier, Ann Dunbar, Leigh Anne Langwell, Heidi Pollard, Holly Roberts, Brittany Sundheim and Myriam Tapp** FRONT GALLERY Shift The students of Escuela del Sol Montessori SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION Land Doily Stephanie Lerma
april 4 - 24 reception friday, april 4 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Finding Reason Maude Andrade & Shawn Turung FRONT GALLERY Topical Tapestries Margi Weir
Exhibitions Program may 2 - 29 reception friday, may 2 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Magnum Opus Ken Frink* FRONT GALLERY Still You Wonder Karl Hofmann SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION Ground KB Jones
june 6 - july 24 surface: emerging artists of new mexico reception friday, june 6 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Surface: Emerging Artists of New Mexico Isaac AlaridPease, Mia Casesa, Christopher Casey, Jessica Chao, Xuan Chen, Christa Dalien, Beverly Fisher, Holly Grimm, Bryce Hample, Dani Jeffries, Jami Porter Lara, Georgina Latino, Tera Muskrat FRONT GALLERY & SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION Parched Jane Gordon, 2013 Surface Solo Exhibition Award 2013 Surface Marion & Kathryn Crissey Award
august 1 - 28 reception friday, august 1 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Contemporary Contrast Elaine Roy and Christopher Thomson
september 5 - 25 remote response: social justice through the artist’s eyes reception friday, september 5 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Remote Response: Social Justice through the Artist’s Eyes FRONT GALLERY Dust & Glitter Evan Dent, 2013 Social Justice Best in Show Award
october 3 - 30 reception friday, october 3 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Ghost of Sea: Small Works Alan Paine Radebaugh FRONT GALLERY On the Wings of a Dove Janet Yagoda Shagam
november 14 - december 12 12x12 & prelude reception saturday, december 6 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY 12x12 FRONT GALLERY Prelude MAIN HALLWAY 6x6
FRONT GALLERY Continuum Joyce Shupe IMAGES: Ken Frink* Myriam Tapp**
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Escuela del Sol Montessori and Harwood Art Center For over 40 years, Escuela del Sol, an independent Montessori school, has nurtured creativity, independence and academic excellence in pre-K through elementary aged children. Escuela’s Harwood Art Center expands the school’s philosophy to serve a broad audience of youth and adults with a variety of programs, including art classes, studio rentals, gallery exhibitions and community outreach projects, as well as apprenticeship, teaching and professional development opportunities. Escuela and Harwood are dedicated to building a lifelong love of learning, creative expression and positive impact on our community and our world. Harwood Art Center - Escuela del Sol Board of Trustees Maria Garcia Geer, President Deborah Chavez, Treasurer Elizabeth Marcilla, Secretary Inga Tomlinson, Board - Staff Liaison Fay Abrams John Barney Samantha Clark Ann Edenfield-Sweet Friedje vanGils (ex-officio)
Harwood Art Center - Escuela del Sol Staff Friedje vanGils, Head of School and Executive Director Victoria Baca, Event Services Coordinator and Administrative Assistant Jennifer DePaolo, Community Outreach Coordinator Sarah Dewey, Programs Assistant Don Hebb, Facilities Manager GuruAmrit Khalsa, Director of Administrative Services Chris Loss, Business Manager Julia Mandeville, Director of Programs and Community Relations Elizabeth Marcilla, Assistant Head of School Lita Sandoval, Special Projects Manager and Administrator Sophie Snapp, Programs Assistant Benjamin Tobias, Programs Coordinator … plus over 30 amazing teachers and support staff and 75 teaching artists and apprentices!
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