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PIPPIN contemporary Embraces It’s Future Exciting news - we’re moving! Our permanent location will be ready by March, just in time for our Fifth Anniversary. Energy is high with the imminent move to 409 Canyon Road. The previous location of the Tom Ross Gallery means more wall space, more artists, and more contemporary art to share with you. We’re invigorated by the growth of our business and are looking forward to new events and ideas for the coming year, including weekly meet and greets and intimate events with our artists. Subscribe to our blog at www.pippincontemporary.com/blog to stay updated. Tom Ross has shared his art at 409 Canyon Road with Santa Fe locals and visitors for the past 23 years. We plan to continue the inviting atmosphere his gallery sustained while bringing a new vibrant energy to this active Canyon Road location. We’ll continue to show Tom’s work, along with artists John Charbonneau, Rebecca Haines, Margaret Nes, Gina Rossi, Greg Skol, and Paul White. We hope to see you Friday, May 27th from 5 to 8 for our 5th Anniversary and Grand Opening.
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Greg Reiche - 2015 ARTsmart Honorary Artist
2016 Events Grand Opening Pippin Contemporary turns five in May. We’re celebrating this important milestone with a group show and grand opening of our new space on May 27, 2016, 5-8pm. This will be a lively event of meeting new artists, reconnecting with current artists, and enjoying music while relishing hors d’oeuvres and wine. Not to mention helping to usher in the next five years!
More Summer Events Our goal is to create a welcoming place to spend a summer evening immersed in Santa Fe’s art and culture, as well as the local contemporary art scene. Join us as you stroll Canyon Road on Friday nights during the 2016 season and get to know our artists and gallery community. Experience new art, wander through the gallery and sculpture garden while enjoying Santa Fe’s sunny days and clear evenings. You’ll continue to find us participating in local events such as ARTsmart’s Gourmet Dinner in February, the Edible Art Tour in June, Paint Out in October, and more. We’re also planning more events with our artists including paint and sculpt outs at the gallery as well as local studio tours. Sign up for our e-blasts at www.pippincontemporary.com/blog to stay connected!
Each year ARTsmart selects an artist who is distinguished not only in New Mexico but throughout the world. As part of his/her mission, the Honorary Artist works with high school students to create artworks that are auctioned during the annual ARTfeast. Proceeds from the sold works are split between the student artists and their school. We, at Pippin Contemporary, were thrilled when Greg Reiche was selected as the 2015 ARTsmart Honorary Artist. He joined the ranks of many notable artists, such as Tom Joyce, Agnes Martin, Rebecca Tobey, Richard Tuttle, Phyllis Kapp, Poteet Victory, just to name a few. Greg spent many hours working with students at Santa Fe High School’s welding class to create sculpture to be sold during the gourmet dinner. The pieces created by these students were imaginative and well done. To learn more about ARTsmart, visit www.artfeast.org.
PIPPIN contemporary Artists Last fall, we were privileged to add the outstanding work of two new artists and are looking forward to the addition of several exceptional artists from the former Tom Ross Gallery. We’re also continuing to show the core group of artists who’s work you have come to love over the past few years.
PAINTERS: Aleta Pippin Adam Shaw Cody Hooper David Baca Elizabeth Hahn Gina Rossi
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Greg Skol John Charbonneau (Digital) Margaret Nes Rebecca Haines Stephanie Paige Tom Rosenberg (Ross) Tony Griffith
SCULPTORS: Greg Reiche Guilloume Kevin Robb Paul White Suzanne Wallace Mears Troy Pillow
Introducing PIPPIN contemporary’s Newest Artists Get to know our newest artists:
California artist Adam Shaw’s process for his contemporary painting style is one that evolves over time with layers of paint and texture, but looks as if it were created in a spontaneous moment of quick strokes and fluid color. His work is comprised of abstract representations of flowers, trees, or boats, with language playing an important role. Shaw allows other passions in life to permeate his painting; phrases of poetry, philosophy, physics, or music show up as important visual elements. Shaw’s paintings cause viewers to spend more time in contemplation, as they get lost in the translation of the words and the depth of the composition. David Baca’s architectural abstractions transcend space and time, allowing the viewer to see multiple pathways and dimensions all at once. Originally from New Mexico and currently residing here, Baca has worked as an artist in New York City where his urban-inspired landscapes began to take form. His success in the southwest and the big city has allowed him to feel limitless in his style and continuing career. His present work maintains the influence of the cityscape but with more spatial compositions, use of drawing, and a confident looseness of paint.
“Think Not Thinking”
Adam Shaw
“Transgression”
David Baca
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Rosenberg (Tom Ross)
Elizabeth Hahn
“Beyond”
“Domestic Mysteries”
After 25 years of exploring a representational style, Rosenberg (aka Tom Ross) has launched his true life’s work into the exciting and alluring world of abstract painting. He reclaimed his heritage by adopting his original family name, Rosenberg, for this body of work. He does reverse painting on acrylic panels with vibrant color and complex patterns, creating pieces that act as contemplative meditations with a free flowing energy. Rosenberg was born and raised in New Mexico and has shown his work in Santa Fe since 1988.
Elizabeth Hahn’s acrylic paintings are playful and imaginative, with her most recent works inspired by the mysterious and curious landscapes of her mind. Many of these visions come from her childhood growing up on an island in Louisiana, where she explored the wild lands between the Red River and the levee. Her current works also consist of close up imaginings that tell a story, such as her Domestic Mysteries series. These intimate paintings explore the stories of everyday items through close-up renderings that portray Hahn’s proficiency of minute detail and love of colorful patterns.
Gina Rossi’s atmospheric landscapes explore the relationship between color harmonies and surface textures, while also depicting the grand quality of nature’s landscape. Santa Fe’s crimson sunsets and swirling clouds find their way onto Rossi’s canvases in magnificent ways. A mother, teacher, and now full-time artist in Santa Fe, Rossi spends her days painting the beauty of the area with vibrant passion and energy. Gina Rossi
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“Cloud Whispers”
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The culturally progressive atmosphere of NYC in the 60’s shaped Greg Skol’s artistic impulses, exposing him to various art forms in early life from music to printmaking to painting. However with his transition to the southwest in the early 90’s, the desert cast its spell on Skol and he found his artistic focus. His work since consists of oil landscapes or ‘meditations on nature.’ Paintings of treetops reaching toward a full moon, horizon lines giving way to billowing clouds, and mountaintops reflecting glowing skies portray a spiritual connection with nature. “Devoid of agenda and socio-political statements, the landscape just ‘is,’ and therefore allows me to also just ‘be’.”
John Charbonneau’s digital work is philosophically driven and raises questions in a comical way. When making imagery, he starts with an interesting irony or absurdity and creates disillusion around subjects such as politics, science, and religion. He’s interested in and concerned about our cultural confusions in these areas, and his work reflects those concerns. Sometimes his images are solely humorous, but they also often have a sarcastic, dark element. His subject matter typically consists of creatures with human bodies and animal heads, placed in dreamlike settings that play on familiar cultural themes.
Pastel artist Margaret Nes was born in France and spent most of her childhood in northern Africa, exposing her to various cultures, art forms, and landscapes at a young age. She moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1969, and has called the southwest home for more than three decades. A self-taught artist, Nes creates pastel drawings saturated with pigment and blended with an almost sculptural quality. Her work reflects the aesthetics of the stark southwest landscape and adobe architecture of the area.
“The Big Valley”
“Wrinkle Reduction”
Greg Skol
John Charbonneau
“Red Light On Ranchos”
Margaret Nes
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Rebecca Haines
Paul White
“Player”
Animals offer the world a unique presence, appearance, mystery, and message, which local artist Rebecca Haines seeks to explore through her art. Born in Wyoming, wild creatures inspired her from a young age. She believes that animals are a sacred link to our connection with the world, acting as intermediaries between the civilized and the wild. Her oil paintings use color and grease pencil to depict animal imagery on wood surfaces, and act as a similar bridge to the true spirit of these creatures and their sacred stories.
“Mask 606”
Santa Fe artist Paul White’s work consists of colorful masks created from kiln-formed glass. Each piece is inspired by age-old images, designs, and patterns that come from many years of studying various art forms. White’s masks are imbued with a personality that emerges during the process of assembling pieces of dichroic glass in varying shapes. By incorporating new technologies and using ancient masks as a template to create modern works of art, White continues within a mask-making tradition but with a new twist.
In addition to the amazing new artists, we continue to show the work of our established roster of artists Pippin, Guilloume, Hooper, Pillow, Reiche, Paige, Robb, Griffith, and Mears.
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Stay Abreast of What’s Happening at PIPPIN contemporary Blog If you haven’t already, check out our blog at www.pippincontemporary.com/blog. You’ll find interesting articles about various aspects of our artists’ work and lives. Many informative articles for collectors are also found on the blog, such as an article about what to look for and how to purchase art for those who are just starting their collections. We work to stay current with technology, particularly as it relates to the art world and post blogs about the latest and (maybe) greatest, such as the Periscope app providing live stream videos from its members. This is only a brief sampling of information you’ll find. Sign up via www.pippincontemporary.com/blog.
Following an Artist? If you’re collecting or following one or more of our artists, let us know and we’ll send you images of new work as it comes into the gallery. You can call, email, or fill out the Contact Form on the Contact Page of our website - www.pippincontemporary.com/ contact. When you select Artist Inquiry under Subject, you’ll be presented with a convenient dropdown menu to select the artist’s name.
Collector Spotlight You, the collector, are key to the growth of our business. You are integral in the success of the gallery and our artists’ careers. We love forging connections with collectors and artists, and giving you the opportunity to enjoy original art in your home and/or work environment. Our collector spotlight is on Robert Guyer, a collector of Aleta Pippin’s energetic abstractions. “Each morning I come down a spiral staircase. I see a triptych of red canvases from the top of the stairs and again on reaching the bottom. Against backgrounds of worked red there is a floating feather, the cosmos opening to a crucible where you might expect
to find Don Giovanni, Jack’s beanstalk. None of these. Rather, there is color, light, energy that inspires imagination. What you see, the beauty evoked, what you allow each picture to mean, changes each day with the frame of mind you bring to the day.” —Robert Guyer
Everyone’s Gone to the Moon by Aleta Pippin
Closing Remarks We love to display photos from our collectors’ homes showing their purchases. Here’s a gorgeous one from collectors in Texas showing Cody Hooper’s painting, “Summer Song”. There are many more photos on our website. Check them out at www.pippincontemporary.com.
We hope to see you Friday, May 27th from 5 to 8 for our 5th Anniversary and Grand Opening.
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Pippin Contemporary 409 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 505.795.7476 pippincontemporary.com pippincontemporary@gmail.com
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