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COVER: Emma Difani INSIDE: Robert Pino
Harwood Art Center and Escuela del Sol Montessori’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: The FUNd at Albuquerque Community Foundation Bernalillo County Parks & Recreation City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund McCune Charitable Foundation New Mexico Arts and National Endowment for the Arts Albuquerque Art Business Association A Good Sign
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Tractor Brewing Company Westbund West Reggie Gammon and Marion & Kathryn Crissey
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opening reception & community celebration
Friday, jUne 5, 6-8p exhibitions run
JUne 5 - JULy 24, 2015
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SURFaCE SURFACE: EmErging ArTiSTS of New Mexico {main gallery} Harwood Art Center’s 3rd annual SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico is a juried exhibition, endowed cash awards and professional development program. Awards are announced at the June 5 opening, and the artists engage in an intensive full-day private workshop on the business of art with 10 expert panelists the following day. Participating artists are: Emma Difani, Henry Hutchinson, Robin Kalinich, Alexis Kaminsky, Joanna Keane Lopez, Julia Lambright, Amy Mann, Stephanie McCloud, James Meara, Aziza Murray, Robbie Pino, Sophia Torres, Ben Utigard.
CANTA CON PINTURA: TERA MUSKRAT {front gallery} Tera Muskrat’s Canta Con Pintura (Sing with Paint) is a 12-part series of paintings based on songs, initially inspired by an Ekphrasis event where a song was written about her work. Drawn from music with personal significance to the artist or to her friends, Tera’s series explores the diverse and beautiful nature of the feminine power and the current female condition in our society. Tera is the SURFACE 2014 Harwood Art Center Solo Exhibition Award Recipient.
IMMISCIBLE POLARITY: HAND EYE COLLECTIVE {front yard} Hand Eye Collectives’s large-scale installation, Immiscible Polarity, is an exploration of beginnings and ends and the moments of space, experience, oppositions and attractions that take place in between. Collective members Christopher Blaz, David Cudney, Joel Davis, Mandy Hanks, Lance Ryan McGoldrick and Casey Warr combine their varying skill sets and vast fabrication experience to create splendid diversity aimed at spreading wonder and joy.
ON THE MAP: UNFOLDING ALBUQUERQUE ART + DESIGN {full program} Harwood’s SURFACE exhibitions and installation are part of On the Map: Unfolding Albuquerque Art + Design, an expansive collaboration by more than 20 arts organizations celebrating our exceptional local creative talents (ABQontheMap.com)
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{front yard} Immiscible Polarity is an exploration of beginnings and ends and the moments of space, experience, oppositions and attractions that take place in between. Referencing the infinite connection between the start of something and the beginning of something else, each end being physically separate, polar and singular, yet ironically part of a whole and fused – an amalgamation of experience, texture, structure and order (or chaos). The Hand Eye is a collection of individuals looking to expand horizons through large-scale installation art. Members have strong backgrounds in various forms of fabrication based art. Together their skill sets combine to create a splendid diversity, aimed to spread wonder and joy throughout the land. Collective members are: Christopher Blaz, builder/ installation art David Cudney, found-object installation Joel Davis, tile mosaic Lance Ryan McGoldrick, found-object installation Mandy Hanks, community organizer Casey Warr, metal sculptor
Immiscible Polarity (rendering / Christopher Blaz)
{about hand eye collective} Christopher Blaz is an artist and builder in Albuquerque. He earned his BFA at UNM in 2004 with a focus in painting. For much of the last 10 years, he has taken interest in community based art and collaborative work, drawing on his expansive experience in residential construction. Christopher has contributed art and leadership to many groups including Verb Collective, New Mexico Burners, Emerge Albuquerque, and Hand Eye Collective. David Cudney is an installation assemblage artist based out of Albuquerque. He currently is the director of the 5G galleries at The Factory on 5th art space. David has had numerous solo exhibitions and shown his work throughout the United States. Joel Davis was born in New Mexico in 1979 and raised in Albuquerque’s South Valley. His artistic motivation was largely inspired by graffiti art in his neighborhood. Through his career in the construction industry, he realized the potential of discards; currently, Joel uses recycled tile, wood, steel, trash and more for mosaics and sculptures. Joel has refined his unique voice to express the grit and beauty of our metropolitan folklore through found materials. Mandy Hanks studied Fine Arts at UNM and has a background in Strategic Business Development, Project Management and Program Development. Having worked as a photographer out of college, she now puts her arts background and business expertise to work for artists, non-profits, schools and small businesses to cultivate thriving, creative programs and professional systems. Lance Ryan McGoldrick was born in the mountains of Placitas, New Mexico, and raised in Albuquerque. He is a graduate of Albuquerque High and UNM. Lance is attracted to found objects in a state of decay, giving these items a second chance at life, and seeks to create large-scale temporary installations. Casey Warr was born in 1980 and currently lives in Albuquerque. He holds a BAFA in Sculpture from UNM. He has participated in Public Arts projects in New Mexico and Texas, and his work is currently on exhibit at the International Sculpture Garden in San Antonio, Texas and numerous other private collections across the United States. He continues to cultivate his exquisite geometric works both nationally and locally.
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{front gallery} Tera Muskrat, originally from Kansas and currently residing in Dulce, NM, has been lured into the real life of New Mexico, a place where, she believes, you are always confronted with experiences you want to hold on to forever and a desire to share those moments before they flee from memory. A self-taught artist who derives inspiration from Mexican Calendar Girl artists of the 1930s and 40s, as well as Mexican and New Mexican folk artists, Tera paints the everyday life in an authentic manner that expresses the dignity and beauty of the people she has become friends and family with, particularly women. Tera’s Canta Con Pintura (Sing with Paint) is a new 12-part series of paintings based on songs, initially inspired by an Ekphrasis event where a song was written about her work. Drawn from music with personal significance to the artist or to her friends, her series explores the diverse and beautiful nature of the feminine power and the current female condition in our society. Canta Con Pintura (left to right, top to bottom) Time to Put Him Down Mujeres Long Black Veil Hard Candy Christmas Flawless Work Song Holly, Ivy, and Rose Royals Seven Spanish Angels Call Tyrone Seùorita with a Necklace of Tears Bartender The Waitress Tera received the SURFACE 2014 Harwood Art Center Solo Exhibition Award, presented annually for artistic excellence, originality of vision and dedication to practice. She produced Canta Con Pintura for this exhibition.
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SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico is an annual juried exhibition, professional development and endowed cash awards program presented by Harwood Art Center. It is designed to cultivate the creative and professional growth of artistic talents and to expand their visibility and economic viability in our community. 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 endowed award funds to honor creative commitment. SURFACE is presented with support from Albuquerque Art Business Association (AABA) / ArtsCrawl, Bernalillo County, 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. The program would not be possible without local business partners A Good Sign, Tractor Brewing Company and Westbund West. In 2015, our third 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: Emma Difani Henry Hutchinson Robin Kalinich Alexis Kaminsky Joanna Keane Lopez Julia Lambright
Amy Mann (image right) Stephanie McCloud James Meara Aziza Murray Robbie Pino Sophia Torres Ben Utigard
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Application Process The SURFACE application is open to all self-identified emerging artists in New Mexico. There is a $10 fee to apply; all monies collected replenish the program’s endowed cash awards. Submissions are invited on a rolling basis through March 15 of each year. Information can be found at www.harwoodartcenter.org Applicants are asked to submit an artist bio, an artist statement, and images of recent work, as well as to explain why they identify as “emerging” and how they will benefit from participating in the SURFACE program. Applications are evaluated based on quality and cohesion of work, and on clarity of written narratives, stated objectives and description of practice. Final decisions are made through a curatorial process, with an eye towards a balanced and complimentary group exhibition. In line with the program’s professional development goals, applicants who are not invited to participate receive a written notification that includes an overview of observations collected throughout the review process, as well as suggestions for how to strengthen future applications. These artists are also given the option to sign up for a brief one-to-one phone call, in which each can receive individual feedback. The 13 – 15 artists who are accepted annually receive an invitation to participate in the juried exhibition, professional development and awards program. Adherence to the full program schedule and attendance at all events / workshop components are required. The program is free to participating artists. Artist Selection & Exhibition Curated by GuruAmrit Smith, Harwood Art Center Julia Mandeville, Harwood Art Center Mira Woodson, Wesbund West Program Coordination & Program Materials Designed by GuruAmrit Smith, Harwood Art Center Julia Mandeville, Harwood Art Center Program Support Provided by Gilbert Armijo, Harwood Art Center Ebony Booth, Harwood Art Center Justine Humble, Harwood Art Center Professional Development Workshop Panelists Sherri Brueggemann, Public Art Urban Enhancement Program Manager, City of ABQ Andrew Connors, Curator of Art, Albuquerque Museum Erin Elder, Visual Arts Director, Center for Contemporary Arts Viviette Hunt, Director, Richard Levy Gallery Grady Jaynes, Co-Founder / Owner, OROPOPO Jami Porter Lara, Artist & 2014 SURFACE Alumna Peri Pakroo, Publisher & Editor, Pyragraph Kymberly Pinder, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, UNM Valerie Roybal, Artist / Designer & 2015 Pollock Krasner Award Recipient Nancy Zastudil, Owner / Director, Central Features Contemporary Art
Juried Exhibition Harwood has received hundreds of submissions for this program over the three annual application cycles to-date; as of this year, including the 13 artists we accepted for 2015, we will have served 41. 2013 Artists: Courtnee Bennett, Adam Billie, Molly Bradbury, Katie Carillo, DeVon Fox, Jane Gordon, Laura Green, Hilary Heyl, Renee McKitterick, Katherine Minott, Ben Roe Jr., Maria Ross, David Santiago, Justin Yazzie, Jessica Zekus. 2014 Artists: 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. Concurrent show by 2013 Surface Harwood Art Center Solo Exhibition Award Recipient Jane Gordon. 2015 Artists: Emma Difani, Henry Hutchinson, Robin Kalinich, Alexis Kaminsky, Joanna Keane Lopez, Julia Lambright, Amy Mann, Stephanie McCloud, James Meara, Aziza Murray, Robbie Pino, Sophia Torres, Ben Utigard. Concurrent show by 2014 Surface Harwood Art Center Solo Exhibition Award Recipient Tera Muskrat and site-specific installation by Hand Eye Collective. Endowed, Special & Exhibition Awards The SURFACE cash awards were originally endowed by Reggie Gammon and by Marion and Kathryn Crissey, and are replenished annually by the nominal fee collected from each program applicant. The awards are intended to support emerging artists who demonstrate a commitment to their artwork, their ongoing education and the arts community in which they live; each award is accompanied by a $250 stipend. The Reggie Gammon Memorial Award 2013: Adam Billie and Katie Carillo 2014: Xuan Chen and Bryce Hample 2015: TBA on Friday, June 5 at 6:00p
The Marion & Kathryn Crissey Award 2013: Jane Gordon and Jessica Zekus 2014: Chris Casey and Jessica Chao 2015: TBA on Friday, June 5 at 6:00p
In addition to the endowed cash awards, SURFACE provides special exhibition awards each year with our varying program partners, as well as the annual Harwood Art Center Solo Exhibition Award that promises a show in the front gallery as part of the following year’s SURFACE program. Harwood Art Center Solo Exhibition Award Special Stipend & Exhibition Awards 2013: Jane Gordon Sumner & Dene Invitational Exhibition Award 2014: Tera Muskrat 2013: Laura Green, Ben Roe Jr., Jessica Zekus 2015: TBA on Friday, June 5 at 6:00p Bernalillo County – Up and Up Award Bachechi Open Space Solo Exhibition Award (sponsored by a SURFACE workshop panelist) 2014: Beverly Fisher 2013: David Santiago 2015: TBA on Friday, June 5 at 6:00p Inpost Art Space at Outpost Performance Space Solo Exhibition Award 2014: Christa Dalien Westbund West Solo Exhibition Award 2015: TBA on Friday, June 5 at 6:00p For More Information Please visit www.harwoodartcenter.org or email gallery@harwoodartcenter.org Sophia Torres
Professional Development The heart of SURFACE – and what sets the program apart both in Harwood’s annual calendar and from many exhibition programs throughout New Mexico – is the dedicated professional development component. The intensive full-day workshop focuses on, fundamentally, what it means to be and how to further oneself as a professional working artist, looking at business practice and social - commercial - communication frameworks. Program applicants tend to identify the workshop as the point of highest interest and potential value, and program alumni credit the workshop as deeply impactful on their professional paths as artists. Harwood Art Center is grateful to our SURFACE 2015 workshop panelists: Sherri Brueggemann Public Art Urban Enhancement Program Manager, City of Albuquerque Sherri Brueggemann holds a Bachelors of University Studies from UNM with an emphasis in public art management, and Masters from UNM’s School of Public Administration with an emphasis in cultural policy evaluation. Sherri was a founding member of the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network and served on the PAN Council from 2000-2002. She is also a former printmaker, special events coordinator, winery owner, and has been a Lecturer at UNM’s College of Fine Arts since 2008. She has served as a board member for numerous arts, cultural and civic non-profit organizations in the Southwest, including NM Route 66 Association, Albuquerque Arts Alliance and 516 Arts. She helped spearhead the Albuquerque/ Bernalillo County Arts & Cultural Industries Economic Impact Study, ABQ Cultural Count Task Force, NM MainStreet Downtown Arts & Cultural District, and ACVB Cultural Directors’ Tourism Steering Committees. She is a current member of the NM Lawyers for the Arts Board of Directors and is the Black Ops Agent-in-Waiting of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, Intergalactic Cultural Relations Division. Andrew Connors, Curator of Art, Albuquerque Museum Andrew Connors is Curator of Art at the Albuquerque Museum. Previously he served as Chair of the Visual Arts Department at Albuquerque Academy (2006-09), as Senior Curator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque (19992006), and as Associate Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (19841999) where he developed collections and exhibitions on Hispanic, Latino, Native American, and Folk Art. He studied at Yale University and George Washington University. He has curated dozens of exhibitions primarily in the areas of United States Latino Art, Colonial Art from Puerto Rico, Contemporary Art, and Graffiti, and is currently developing an exhibition on the history of jewelry in New Mexico. He has worked with numerous organizations including the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Office of Folklife Programs, Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame, Chicano Studies Department at UCLA, Getty Center for Education in the Arts, and the Royal Government of Bhutan. Erin Elder, Visual Arts Director, Center for Contemporary Arts Since 2012 Erin Elder has been the Visual Arts Director at Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe. Prior, she worked as an independent curator, writer, and teacher cultivating interests in experimental collaboration, sense of place, and expanded notions of culture. Her writing has been published by University of Minnesota Press, University of Houston Press, and more. She has produced projects with a variety of institutions including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Württembergischer Kunstverein, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, International Symposium on Electronic Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. She is a visiting lecturer at several universities and is a frequent juror. From 2009 to 2014, she cooperatively ran PLAND, an off-the-grid residency program near Tres Piedras, NM. Erin holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. She is working on a multi-year, grant-funded independent curatorial project in Miami.
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Viviette Hunt, Director, Richard Levy Gallery Viviette Hunt has worked in the commercial art market for the past 15 years and is familiar with contemporary art trends and practices. She regularly attends international art fairs, museums and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. Hunt’s interest in art lead to a degree in art history and painting from the Pennsylvania State University. She currently lives in Albuquerque and works as the director for Richard Levy Gallery and and archive assistant for the Frederick Hammersley Foundation. Grady Jaynes, Co-Founder / Owner, OROPOPO Grady Jaynes built his first website in 1998. He has worked on web projects for artists, writers, and varied businesses and organizations. He is a lapsed fiction writer with an MFA from Indiana University. He and his wife founded OROPOPO, a design studio using new technology to create unique wearable designs. Jami Porter Lara, Artist & 2014 SURFACE Alumna Jami Porter Lara is a New Mexico - based artist whose work interrogates nature as human construct, challenges the dichotomy between wilderness and civil society, and investigates human technology as both mythic and geologic force. Her current project engages the ancient pueblo pottery tradition to create sculpture inspired by the most iconic and ubiquitous vessel of our time: the plastic bottle. She describes the project as a kind of reverse archaeology: digging into the present and future using tools of the past. Jami received her BFA from the University of New Mexico. She has exhibited locally at Central Features, Harwood, and 5G galleries, and nationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, UT. She is represented by Central Features in Albuquerque and Stephanie Breitbard Fine Arts in San Francisco.
Program impacT: In ThE arTiST’S wordS “I credit the Harwood with launching my career as a professional artist. In 2014, months after finishing my BFA, I was selected for Surface, which would be my first curated exhibition. I made three sales on opening night, including one to renowned art collectors who have since become my champions and friends. But it was the professional development workshop -- a whole day with critics, curators, artists, and arts media -- that provided the first crucial insights into how to build a sustainable arts career. One of the panelists, Nancy Zastudil, gave me my first solo show at her gallery, Central Features... “A week after Surface, I made business cards, built a website, and followed up with my new contacts. In the year since Surface, I have had a sold-out gallery show, gained representation in Albuquerque and San Francisco, been featured in Hyperallergic and Colores!, received a prestigious artist’s residency, and sold numerous artworks to collectors nationwide. None of this would have been possible without the Harwood and its support for emerging artists like me.” - Jami Porter Lara, 2014 SURFACE Alumna
Professional Development Panelists {continued} Peri Pakroo, Publisher & Editor, Pyragraph Peri Pakroo is the founder, Publisher and Editor of Pyragraph, an online creative career and lifestyle magazine featuring first-person posts from working creatives, sharing entertaining stories and lessons learned about pursuing creative projects and careers. Outside of Pyragraph, Peri is a business author and coach, specializing in creative and smart strategies for self-employment and small business. Her focus is on helping people build structure for their passions to find success on their own terms. She is the author of several top-selling titles on small business and nonprofit start-ups including The Small Business Start-Up Kit, The Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit and Starting & Building a Nonprofit, all published by Nolo. Peri received her law degree from UNM School of Law in 1995, and a year later began editing and writing for Nolo, specializing in business and intellectual property issues. Kymberly Pinder, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico In 2012, Kymberly Pinder moved here from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she had been a professor of art history for 16 years and served as department chair and graduate program head. Before and during her teaching career she worked in the education and curatorial departments in museums and galleries, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters in New York and The Art Institute of Chicago. Dean Pinder graduated with a B.A. from Middlebury College and M.Phil, M.A. and Ph.D from Yale University, all in Art History. She writes, lectures and teaches internationally on representations of race and religion in American Art. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Mellon, Ford and Henry Luce Foundations, among others. Dean Pinder edited Race-ing Art History: Critical Essays in Race and Art History and her scholarship has appeared in The Art Bulletin, The Art Journal, Third Text, and The African American Review among other periodicals. Her latest book is Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago which is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. Valerie Roybal, Artist / Designer & 2015 Pollock Krasner Award Recipient Valerie Roybal was born in Santa Fe. She currently lives and works in Albuquerque. She has a BA from UNM, where she studied printmaking and book arts for many years. She has shown her work in a number of exhibitions and venues, including the 2nd National Book and Paper Arts Biennial at Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago; Unraveling Tradition and New Mexico Showcase at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque; and Biennial Southwest ’08 at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. Her work can be seen in the book Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage(Gestalten) and CUT and PASTE, 21st Century Collage (Laurence King Publishers). She is a 2015 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation artist’s grant. Nancy Zastudil, Owner / Director, Central Features Contemporary Art Nancy Zastudil is a curator, writer, and administrator dedicated to social progress through philanthropy and entrepreneurship in the arts. She is owner/director of Central Features, a contemporary art gallery in downtown Albuquerque. Currently, Nancy is also Administrative Director of the Frederick Hammersley Foundation and Co-administrator of The Lightning Field. She is a monthly visual arts contributor to Arts and Culture Texas, Co-Editor of On the Banks of Bayou City: The Center for Land Use Interpretation in Houston (March 2009), and has been published in art ltd., edible Santa Fe, Arts and Culture Texas, Dance Source Houston, Temporary Art Review, Art Lies, and more. Nancy holds a B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University and an M.A. in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. She was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio.
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born San Diego, CA lives Albuquerque, NM (23 years) via San Diego, CA
Emma diFani
Emma Difani is a visual artist from Albuquerque. She graduated from the UNM with a B.F.A. in Studio Art and a secondary major in Spanish. She has been interested in creating and experiencing art of all kinds since childhood. Though Emma focused primarily on printmaking and drawing while studying at UNM, she has experimented with many different mediums including photography, painting, video and sculpture. She will continue to explore new ways of art making to examine her diverse interests. M.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Kansas. In the Artist’s Words “In my work, I investigate the unpredictable experiences of remembering and forgetting and how these forces influence relationships with others and personal identity. My works are simultaneously imperfect recordings of significant people, places and moments, and an analysis of the process of memory making itself. Like an echo, a memory is born of an original moment, it reverberates continually, each time growing fainter and more distorted, each actually a reflection not of the original but of the copy that preceded it. Each remembrance is a new retransmission, an echo of an echo, each time contaminated by information from the present, informing our connections with others and the construction of personal narratives.”
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born Albuquerque, NM lives Albuquerque, NM (29 years, off and on) via Eastsound, WA Henry Hutchinson was born in Albuquerque in 1985, where his primary vocation in his formative years was digging holes, wallowing in mud and drawing. His Father, Robert was a ceramic sculptor and exhibited at many Art and Music Festivals across the Nation. Henry, his Mother, Louise and His Sister, Rosie would accompany Robert on long road trips whose itineraries led them through almost every state in the contiguous United States. It was during these trips that Henry forged his first strong connections with art and music, both by attending Museums, shows and galleries and by being immersed in an art subculture that was accepting of both insider and outsider art as viable, poignant and necessary endeavors. It was during these trips that he gained his love and appreciation for travel, and his fascination with people and their forms. In the Artist’s Words “One of my favorite works that I came across while studying printmaking was a lithograph depicting an opera. There were ornate baroque architectural flourishes, balconies, multi-tier stages, separate events unfolding simultaneously. It was a great work! What really made it phenomenal to me was the character and attitude of the small, simple human forms peopling the cast of this opera. Their exuberant and melodramatic postures immediately evoked Greek or Shakespearean tragedy, and even outstripped their impact. As it was filtered through the medium of illustration, it gained an elusiveness, mystery and unfamiliarity while conveying emotion and narrative through the gesture of hapless or exultant bodies and the plurality of their depictions. It is something akin to this that I seek to do with my recent drawings, to explore theatricality, create a mythology, to enable the audience to know a story without having told it. I myself know only the fragments.”
born Barberton, OH lives Albuquerque, NM (11 years, 6 months) via Akron, OH
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Over a decade ago, Robin Kalinich left Ohio for the rugged beauty of Albuquerque and has been smitten with the city ever since. Whether skiing in the mountains, hiking the Bosque, or wandering the city streets, inspiration and energy abound. Her journey west has been an odyssey of adventure and a study in change; since her arrival she has transformed many times, becoming an artist, a writer, a chemist, and an engineer. She has grown more courageous and developed a craving for creative expression in any form. Although Robin has always adored art, for many years it was a secret tryst, comprised mostly of furtive glances in the dusty stacks of an old library. It slowly grew into a full-fledged obsession which pays no never mind to genres or expectations. When not creating art, she might be found writing slam poetry, watering plants, or riding her bicycle. In the Artist’s Words “My work is focused on change. I am exploring how layering and slowly constructing/deconstructing artwork bit by bit echoes the way life works - moving forward, digging deeper, making mistakes, learning, and growing. A key aspect of my work is grappling with the uncertainty (and resulting fear) that is inherently part of being alive. There is no fast track. I am not seeking smooth, pristine surfaces because the exterior of each piece represents the character and life of the work encased within; the visible layer should hint at the twists and turns of a process rich in blunders, second guesses, happy accidents, and courageous leaps of faith. While the end results of my process may not always represent visible beauty in a traditional way, my work seeks to encourage a deeper, transformative journey undergirded by compassion and guided by a seeking heart open to possibility.”
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born Alamogordo, NM lives Albuquerque, NM (14 years) via San Francisco, CA Alexis Kaminsky was born and raised in New Mexico. Art has always been a part of her make up. Aside from a few classes here and there, she is mostly self-taught. She works with clay, wood, wire, beads, light, paper — whatever is around and does the job. She started showing her beadwork in 2010 and sculpture in 2014. In the Artist’s Words “Like many artists, I use my art as a means of making sense of experience. When first sculpting, I started with heads. It was after several brain surgeries in my 28th year. I needed a way to engage myself, and writing — the medium I was used to — hurt. One of my first pieces was a self-portrait. On top, ran holes along the curve of my scar. Deep gauges sat behind my eyes, all the way through the clay. As I age, I have begun to shift my gaze inward in meditations on mortality, impermanence, and transcendence. My fascination with what the head — its fragility and resilience — continues.”
born Albuquerque, NM lives Albuquerque, NM (20 years) via Taos, NM
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Joanna Keane Lopez was born and raised in Albuquerque. She is currently pursuing her B.F.A. with a second major in Spanish at UNM. In the Fall of 2015, she will be a part of the Land Arts of the American West program at UNM. In past years she has studied regional medicinal plants, earthen building, the process of aliz and natural dyes. Joanna is influenced by having been brought up in New Mexico with Hispano heritage that reaches back to the colonial period in the Socorro county. Through her work, she investigates this identity and her relationship to place. Specifically, Joanna interested in how the history of place narrates the identity of individuals who abide there and ultimately carry on the progressing tale. In the Artist’s Words “I am a multimedia and place-specific artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Conceptually, I explore identity, femininity, flora and fauna of the local environment, traditional artistic practices of the Southwest and the relationship between place and sense of self. The majority of my work is textured, palpable and leans toward sculptural forms and collage compositions. Paper, wire, my grandmother’s thread, sheep wool, worn fabric, dead flowers and natural dyes such as indigo, cochineal insects, black walnut hulls and chamisa flowers are the core of the materials I explore and expand upon. I am engaged in these materials because of their simplicity of character, tangibility and past sentient nature. A feminist centric perspective always guides my work. I am engaged in traditional feminine domestic arts and how I can innovate and incorporate these artistic practices into contemporary modalities and concepts.”
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born Moscow, Russia lives Albuquerque, NM (12 years, 5 months) via Moscow, Russia Julia Lambright was born and raised in Russia. After immigrating to the United States, she received a B.F.A. from UNM (with Honors) in Painting. This spring she completed an M.F.A. at UNM, focusing on new possibilities in the field of painting and drawing. Working primarily in oil in the past, her recent explorations are rooted in an interest in traditional egg-tempera painting, a knowledge of which she acquired in her native country. Experimenting with an artistic interexchange of Russian traditionalism and American conceptualism, paintings have served as Lambright’s voice to addresses her vision, experiences, and tension that she felt when going back to her home country. In the Artist’s Words “Having emigrated from Russia to the United States, I recognized new possibilities for myself, while re-envisioning the cultural, social and political climate of present day Russia. Connection with American culture has helped me look back, learn and analyze the interplay of ethnic and geographical influences. In many ways American culture has helped to shape my ideas for developing the concept of ‘other.’ Thus, I have felt a growing need to explore the sacred art of Russian icons. Their visual aesthetics have become an inspiration for my work, as a human vision and human visage. Observing the complexity of cultural codes, I want to establish a visual recognition and a tactile dialogue of looking, seeing, and realizing… There is no ‘other’.”
born Albuquerque, NM lives Albuquerque, NM (22 years) via Baltimore, MD
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Amy Mann was born and raised in the valley of Albuquerque. She moved to Baltimore, MD in 2006 to pursue her career of being a visual artist and costume designer. Over the past years she has delved in many different mediums including performance, garment, sculpture, video, fiber arts, drawing and painting. After graduating from The Maryland Institute College of Art, Mann is now back in NM and is teaching art to middle school and high school students.. She has always worked with low cost up upcycled materials, and social media. Amy’s work is both thought provoking and comedic. Her work brings up issues involving body image, and environmental change. In the Artist’s Words “#REPOST // Each drawing is copied from a photo that was uploaded onto popular social media app INSTAGRAM. Users post photos for the entire world to see, and they are extremely personal and private. It makes me wonder why? Why did you take this photo and share it with the world? And what was the conversation like leading up to the photo? “Hey, take your shirt off, link arms with me, and my friend will take a photo of our asses.” Sifting through thousands of images can become mind numbing and soon enough you’ve fallen into a voyeuristic rabbit hole. “I wish my life looked like that. I bet she’s happy. Their relationship looks perfect.” You see inside people’s lives, the way that they want you to. These drawings are taking digitized, stylized, filtered, over edited, hip images, and reversing the process, turning them into simple, plain, colorless worlds.”
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born Virginia Beach, VA lives Albuquerque, NM (3 years, 8 months) via Rock Hill, SC Stephanie McCloud grew up in the Southeastern US, playing in the woods and developing an appreciation for art and nature that she has maintained throughout life. After receiving a BFA in Studio Art from Winthrop University in South Carolina, she spent three years managing an art gallery and frame shop while continuing to create her own work. She moved to New Mexico in 2011, eager for inspiration from a completely unfamiliar landscape and art community. She currently lives in Albuquerque with her husband and son while still making time to play in the woods. In the Artist’s Words “My recent collage work is an attempt to translate my perceptions of New Mexico (as I have encountered it thus far) into succinct, but playful, abstractions. These mainly include scenic references, with interpretations ranging from vague to somewhat recognizable, and hopefully with some degree of oddness present throughout. These collages came about from an attempt to expand upon the large-scale encaustic paintings that I had been making for several years prior. I have changed the medium and scale in which I am working, but continue to emphasize color, pattern, and the “seams” along which they meet. My process involves combining, cutting, and splicing-together painted pieces of paper until something unexpected catches my eye. That is the moment around which I build each collage.’.”
born Fort Scott, KS lives Albuquerque, NM (1 year, 10 months) via Kansas City, MO James Meara is an artist currently living in Albuquerque where he is an M.F.A. candidate with an emphasis in printmaking at UNM (anticipated commencement in 2016). Incorporating a wide range of media, his recent work consists of various printmaking techniques, digital imagery, collage, and décollage. Meara’s work has been shown both nationally and internationally.
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In the Artist’s Words “My artwork is an exploration of my search to find an underlying connectedness within the world. I’m influenced by my religious upbringing, an affinity with nature, and an interest in religious symbols—all of which I use to describe this search. The images I work with include my own photos, as well as found images that describe the world at every level, from the cellular to the cosmic. While I utilize a diverse range of imagery, my selection process is very intentional. I carefully select images that speak uniquely and most directly to my spiritual pursuits. By utilizing the technique of collage, I am able to take seemingly disparate images and place them in a unifying dialogue. After cutting, augmenting, concealing, removing, and layering the images to strip them from their isolated contexts, I recombine them to call attention to their inherent relationships.”
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born Washington, DC lives Albuquerque, NM (3.5 years) via Washington, DC Aziza Murray is a native of Washington, DC, currently living and working in Albuquerque. She is a photographer primarily, working with themes of home, loss, displacement and beauty. She has previously used photography as a medium to discuss racial prejudice and identification, and has experimented with sculpture, printmaking, and pottery. In the fall of 2014, she began a ten-month fellowship in pictorial archiving at the Center for Southwest Research at UNM, archiving the work of noted Southwest photographer Nancy C. Wood. Aziza recently completed her M.F.A. in photography at UNM. In the Artist’s Words “Tinstagrams is a project born out of a desire to merge new and old: contemporary technology, with an old process. Using my iPhone, I made snapshots of my life here in New Mexico, the east coast where I am from, and of various travels. After posting them to the photo sharing app Instagram, I then made transparencies of the images and used them like negatives in the darkroom, printing them on metal using the tintype wet plate collodion process. In a culture where photographs live increasingly on cold computer screens on the Internet, I wanted to make permanent, tangible objects out of moments in my life by combining a historical process with contemporary social media. In addition to allowing myself the freedom to photograph whatever I want, this work has brought the darkroom process back into my practice in a way that is historical, yet new and intriguing to me.”
born Fullerton, CA lives Albuquerque, NM (7 years) via Santa Fe, NM
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Robbie Pino was born in Fullerton, CA and raised by diasporic New Mexicans in Southern California. He spent over 15 years working nationally and internationally as a multimedia artist in a variety of mediums, but predominately object based theatre and spectacle. He moved to New Mexico in 1998 and co-founded a variety of theatre and circus groups based in Santa Fe, including Wise Fool New Mexico, El Puente Theatre, One Railroad Circus, Circus Luminous, Circo de Mano, and Takoja Theatre. Watching, witnessing, and experiencing storytelling as a tool to develop empathy and tolerance has guided his two dimensional work. He explores complex identities, through imagery of isolation, negation, repetition, and outsiderness. His passion for two dimensional format and Fine Art brought him back to academia, and he will graduate with a B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking, from UNM, in May 2015. In the Artist’s Words “Loss is impartial. The chosen population of loss, is biased. Imagery of isolation, negation, and otherness in my work, creates depth where meaning is focused, sharing the human experience to reflect on the present. I never have to venture beyond my own backyard, neighborhood, culture, or experience, to create complicated visual conversations of identity and history. I explore visually how empathy and tolerance is developed through storytelling using the colors, textures, imagery, and mood of Southern California. Abstraction relieves yet engages the viewer in complex emotional conditions.”
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born Santa Fe, NM lives Albuquerque, NM (5 years) via Cordova, NM Sophia is a 23 year old mixed media sculptor who began sculpting at the age of 7. Her first official Art classes were taken at Pojoaque Valley Middle School, and she continued her study of sculpture throughout high school. She is currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program at the UNM where she hopes to graduate in Fall of 2015 and wishes to continue her masters studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. In the Artist’s Words “In order to understand what I’m doing now, like most stories, I need to start from the beginning. When I was about 7 years old I remember my parents taking me through the toy isles at Wal-Mart. And I hated everything. Nothing looked right, moved right, or was the right color. So they took me home, handed me my very first set of Sculpey clay, and told me,” If you don’t like the toys, then make your own”. Thus a toy maker was born.”
born Detroit, Michigan lives Española, NM (4 years, 9 months) via Memphis, Tennessee Ben Utigard is a multimedia artist living in Espanola. He received his B.A. in Studio Arts from the Colorado College in 2004 and his M.F.A. from Memphis College of Art in 2009. He has exhibited his work both regionally and nationally. He is currently employed at Santa Fe Clay.
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In the Artist’s Words “I continue to drive the large arroyo that opens to the highway, somewhere near Abiquiu, NM, when I come upon the cottonwood tree and park in its shade. I gaze at the horizon; golden sandstone cathedrals meet a royal blue sky. The day is ripe for adventure. I head towards a distant mesa. The ground is littered with shotgun shells, garbage, and broken glass. I collect handfuls of shells and discover some weary silk flowers. This area of the desert seems to be where people like to dump trash and shoot it. I venture on, now vaguely heading towards some tricolor rock formations. These sandstone cliffs have perfect horizontal stripes of golden yellow, burgundy, and white sand stacked one color on top of the others. I collect the different colored sands to use on paintings.”
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PUBLIC SELECTS: A Crowd-Sourced Exhibition June 27 – October 4, 2015 The Albuquerque Museum announces the last exhibition for On the Map: Unfolding Albuquerque Art + Design, featuring Albuquerque artists who have been democratically selected by the public during recent open studio visits.
Jane Abrams
2000 Mountain Rd. NW, Albuquerque 505-243-7255 www.albuquerquemuseum.org
Ed Haddaway
Timothy Cummings Kristin Diener Elizabeth Fritzsche Thomas Christopher Haag Kei & Molly Textiles Jami Porter Lara Orlando Leyba Dennis Liberty Suzanne Sbarge Kevin Tolman
Jamie Porter Lara
It takes a village! Thank you to the 96 artists who participated in Public Selects Open Studios and the 28 organizations that presented exhibitions for On the Map: Unfolding Albuquerque Art + Design. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: 516 ARTS, Albuquerque Museum, City of Albuquerque Public Art and Urban Enhancement Program, Harwood Art Center, Richard Levy Gallery SPECIAL THANKS! Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau; The City of Albuquerque: City Council, Cultural Services & Economic Development Departments; and New Mexico Tourism Department
Timothy Cummings
2015 Galleries & january 9 - 29 reception friday, january 9 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY We Are New Mexico Wes Naman & 505 Faces Project FRONT GALLERY E Unibus Pluram You’re On TV: Kyle Erikson, Zane White & Matthew Thorson
february 6 - 26 reception friday, february 6 | 6 - 8p MAIN & FRONT GALLERIES Recycled Heart The Artists of ArtStreet - Healthcare for the Homeless, an annual partnership with Harwood Art Center
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 exhibition slates annually; the remaining months are awarded to individuals and groups through a competitive application process. For more information and to submit your application(s), please visit harwoodartcenter.org or email gallery@harwoodartcenter.org Curators & Program Coordinators GuruAmrit Khalsa, Director of Administrative Services Julia Mandeville, Chief Programs Officer Program Partners Albuquerque Art Business Association (AABA) ArtStreet - Healthcare for the Homeless 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 A Good Sign Tractor Brewing Company Westbund West
march 6 - aprIl 17 encompass: 7th & mountain reception friday, march 6 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Interchange Lea Anderson, Nani Chacon, Molly Geissman, John Garrett, Bryce Hample, David Leigh, Patrick Nagatani, Valerie Roybal, Suzanne Sbarge & Cedra Wood FRONT GALLERY Pets’ Corner Shop The student artists of Escuela del Sol Montessori SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION Land Quilt Tony Anella & Cara McCulloch
may 1 - 28 reception friday, may 1 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY dorsal / ventral Marne Elmore & Lindsey Schmitt FRONT GALLERY Balance Lance Ryan McGoldrick
Exhibitions Program june 5 - july 24 surface: emerging artists of new mexico reception friday, june 5 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Surface: Emerging Artists of New Mexico Harwood’s 3nd annual juried exhibition, endowed cash awards and professional development program presented in partnership with Albuquerque Art Business Association (AABA). Application closes March 31, 2015. FRONT GALLERY Canta Con Pinta Tera Muskrat, 2014 Surface Solo Exhibition Award SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION Hand / Eye Collective Installation Christopher Blaz, David Cudney, Joel Davis, Lance Ryan McGoldrick & Casey Warr
august 7 - 27 reception friday, august 7 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Recombination Chuck Lathrop FRONT GALLERY Hallowed Ground Jivan Lee
september 4 - 24 social justice through the artist’s eyes reception friday, september 4 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY JustWrite: Social Justice through the Artist’s Eyes In partnership with JustWrite, Harwood presents our 6th annual exhibition and exchange dedicated to the exploration of contemporary social justice issues. FRONT GALLERY Untitled (to-date) Eric Christo Martinez, 2014 Social Justice Best in Show Award
october 2 - 29 reception friday, october 2 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Husht Reverberations (Installation) Meg Carlson FRONT GALLERY Elemental: New Work Rachel Popowcer
november 16 - december 11 12x12 & prelude reception saturday, december 5 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY 12x12 Harwood’s 9th annual invitational exhibition and fundraiser featuring 12x12” works by 125+ New Mexican artists FRONT GALLERY Prelude Our invitational exhibition and silent auction featuring larger original works by New Mexican artists MAIN HALLWAY 6x6 Our “budding philanthropy” exhibition and fundraiser featuring 6x6” works by the young artists of Escuela del Sol Montessori
putting abq on the map Harwood Art Center is a proud presenter and member of the organizing committee for On the Map: Unfolding Albuquerque Art and Design, an expansive collaboration celebrating the history and present of Albuquerque art, design and architecture by over 20 partnering organizations. Events run January - June 2015. Learn more at www.ABQontheMap.com
IMAGE: Rachel Popowcer, Track [previous page]
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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 inspiring a passion for lifelong learning, creative expression and positive impact on our community. 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 Ann Edenfield-Sweet Friedje vanGils (ex-officio) Escuela del Sol Classroom Guides Special Subjects: Ms. Cathy, Ms. Cristina, Ms. Christy, Ms. Juli, Ms. Michelle, Ms. Vicki Toddler: Ms. Jolie, Ms. Monica, Ms. Rita, Ms. Shaina Primary: Ms. Dana, Ms. Diliana, Ms. Elizabeth H., Ms. Emily, Ms. Gretchen, Ms. Lisa A., Ms. Lisa P., Ms. Shardae Junior Elementary: Ms. Jill, Ms. Molly, Ms. Savanah, Mr. Seth Senior Elementary: Ms. Inga, Ms. Tanesia Aftercare: Ms. Cristina, Ms. Diliana, Ms. Dillon, Ms. Joy, Ms. Ryan Harwood Art Center Teaching Artists We are grateful to the more than 75 teaching artists and apprentices who provide leadership, vision, and extraordinary arts education and enrichment opportunities to our community through Art School, Art & Sol, Creative Roots, Mayor’s Art Institute and Summer Art Camp!
Harwood Art Center - Escuela del Sol Administrators Friedje vanGils, Executive Director & Head of School Chris Loss, Business Manager Julia Mandeville, Chief Programs Officer Elizabeth Marcilla, Asst. Head of School & Director of Admissions Shelle Sanchez, Director of Organizational Expansion Vacant / Hiring, Community Relations Coordinator Escuela Program Elizabeth Marcilla Juli Kois, Administrator Dana McCabe, Primary Program Coordinator Lita Sandoval, Administrator Inga Tomlinson, Elementary Program Coordinator Gretchen Vogelsberg, Administrative Assistant Harwood Program Julia Mandeville Ebony Booth, Programs & Communications Coordinator Jennifer DePaolo, Community Outreach Coordinator Lea Donatelli, Director of Arts Education Hannah Hunsberger, Programs Assistant GuruAmrit Khalsa, Director of Administrative Services Lita Sandoval, Special Projects Manager Campus & Facilities Don Hebb, Facilities Manager Gilbert Armijo, Facilities Coordinator Jonathan Guiney, Facilities, Furniture & Carpentry Jimmy Griego, Facilities Maintenance & Custodial Escuela del Sol Montessori and Harwood Art Center 1114 Seventh Street NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102 EscuelaDelSol.org 505.242.3033 HarwoodArtCenter.org 505.242.6367
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