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B R A D O V E R T O N and D E L A D I E R A L M E I D A Two Man Show, July 3 – 18, 2015 in Santa Fe Artists’ Reception: Friday, July 3rd from 5 – 7pm

Brad Overton, Sonoran Persephone, oil on canvas, 48" h x 80" w

ANGUS: “Sunflowers with Limes and Pomegranate” • 36" x 36" • Acrylic

BALAAM: “Night Light III” • 40" x 40" • Oil

FRANK BALAAM & ANGUS Kinetic Color

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DAVENPORT: “Skyscraper” • 60" x 60" • Acrylic

AXTON: “The Waters of Nambé” • 40" x 48" • Oil

JOHN AXTON & JENNIFER DAVENPORT Cosmopolitan Color Contemporaries Opening Reception • Friday, June 26, 2015 • 5 to 7pm

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Retablos: A New Voice Victor Huaman Gutierrez

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“SIEGMUND and SIEGLINDE” ~ Beckie Kravetz ~ Bronze, copper, 24-karat gold leaf, ash wood ~ 22" x 23" x 11"

“Love, Death and Revenge” Tansey Contemporary Sculpture Center

Opera-Inspired Sculptural Works by Beckie Kravetz July 3 – August 31, 2015 619 Canyon Road

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22 City Different New Mexico Jazz Fest, Music on the Hill, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Juan Siddi Flamenco Santa Fe, and Equicenter de Santa Fe’s Summer Series 24 Santa Favorites Handmade custom belts and buckles

26 History Pueblo Pintado

45 Art Cody Sanderson at Sorrel Sky Gallery, Invitational Glass Show at Blue Rain Gallery, Summer of Color exhibits at Ventana Fine Art and Pippin Contemporary, Edible Art Tour, Art Santa Fe, gallery show openings, and more 65 Downtown A special magazine supplement focused exclusively on downtown Santa Fe 58 Living Charles and Edwina Milner’s art-filled home, Pilates Santa Fe, Chocolate + Cashmere, Airstream renovator Rick Ruff, historic homes for sale

113 Dining Plaza Cafe, Amaya, Cowgirl BBQ 118 Events

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Malouf on the Plaza carries items such as this silver and turquoise inlay belt by Navajo artist Stewart Yellowhorse.

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120 Day Trip

DOUGLAS MERRIAM

Laura Beth Konopinski, Within the Chambers of Your Blackened Heart

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ROBERT Buelteman, Golden Columbine

28 Santa Fe’s Art Scene Get to know dozens of top artists who show their work at galleries on Canyon Road, in the Railyard District, and downtown

ON THE COVER Ann Hosfeld, Pianto Rosso, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 42". Courtesy of New Concept Gallery.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

In today’s digital world, music is stored in a variety of formats, which we can then purchase. But digital data on a computer doesn’t have any meaning until listening occurs. And that’s what the joy of music is all about: When we experience music, we experience joy. Art is no different. Yes, we own a certain painting or sculpture, but the joy doesn’t come from the owning—it comes from the experiencing of the art. Art talks to us. Good art, in my opinion, provides a variety of messages that work together to touch our hearts in a unique and meaningful way. Owning art is about that experience. Growing up, I remember the thrill and joy my parents shared every time they brought home a new piece of art. It was as if they were bringing a new life into the home. In fact, they were: Each piece of art altered the feeling in our home and became a cherished part of the family. The artwork in your home is probably a cherished part of your family, too. And like all families, it’s fun when it grows. This issue of the Santa Fean, our Art Issue, is dedicated to broadening your vision of the Santa Fe art scene. Obviously, the art available in Northern New Mexico is too vast for one magazine to capture. It is, however, our aim to show you some examples and some of the directions art has taken this year. Throughout the centuries, and to this very day, art has never been stagnant. The art in 2015 is different from the art in 2014. I encourage you to experience the art featured here. A printed magazine page provides you with part of that experience, but we can all agree it’s not the same thing as experiencing the actual magic of an original piece of art. That happens best when you step inside one of the many great galleries in town. You won’t just see great art, you’ll experience it.

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|O V E R H E A R D | Q: Why do art collectors of all varieties consistently choose Santa Fe as a place to buy art? “There is something intangibly unique about Santa Fe. For a long time, people have been drawn to the mystical beauty of Northern New Mexico and its ability to creatively inspire artists of all kinds. These days you cannot separate art from Santa Fe. People come from all over the globe to immerse themselves in the robust artistic world of our beautiful town—it is a complete experience.” —Bella Gaspich, gallery director, Greenberg Fine Art

“Collectors find the variety of art and number of galleries in Santa Fe highly compelling. Coupled with the amazing cultural resources, great food, and natural beauty of the region, the city becomes an incredibly fun place to shop for and buy art. Regardless of collecting interest or price point, everyone can find interesting art to take home.” —Cody Hartley, director of curatorial affairs, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

“People love to visit Santa Fe because of the history and cultured personality that isn’t found in many other places. Home to Native peoples for hundreds of years, the traditional art forms and their contemporary evolutions are a testament to the beauty and depth of indigenous cultures. This compelling glimpse into simply one component of Santa Fe’s art scene offers a robust art experience to any type of art collector.” —Dallin Maybee, chief operating officer, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts

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music Pack a picnic, grab some lawn chairs, and head to St. John’s College for the 10th season of the free concert series Music on the Hill, during which musicians from various genres perform outdoors most Wednesday evenings in June and July. Also in July, and also celebrating its 10th anniversary, is the New Mexico Jazz Festival, which showcases renowned jazz talents in concerts around the city. Highlights this year include a performance by the legendary Count Basie Orchestra, led by Scotty Barnhart and featuring guest vocalist Carmen Bradford, and the Kenny Barron Trio, with jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris. —Cristina Olds

Music on the Hill, June 10, 17, 24, and July 8, 15, 22, 6 pm, free, stjohnscollege.edu New Mexico Jazz Festival, July 15, 19, 21, 24, and 25, with additional dates in Albuquerque, times and prices vary, newmexicojazzfestival.org

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all the right moves

Kenny Barron

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the sounds of summer

dance In July, the contemporary dance troupe Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (ASFB) opens its summer season at The Lensic with the world premiere of a commissioned work by Spanish choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo, who’s currently the resident choreographer at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Other works on the blockbuster opening program include 1st Flash by Finland’s Jorma Elo and Beautiful Mistake by Spain’s Cayetano Soto. ASFB also presents the season kickoff for Juan Siddi Flamenco Santa Fe, an ensemble of 14 dancers and musicians led by dancer and artistic director Juan Siddi. In 2011, Siddi won the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts for preserving the ethnic and cultural art form of flamenco and for bringing talented dancers from around the world to Santa Fe.—Whitney Spivey

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet summer season, July 10 and 31, September 4, 8 pm, $25–$75, The Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco, aspensantafeballet.com Juan Siddi Flamenco Santa Fe summer season, July 12, 21, and 26, August 1 and 29, September 5, 8 pm, $25–$75, The Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco, aspensantafeballet.com

Equicenter de Santa Fe Summer Series Santa Fe’s newest equestrian facility is hosting a series of A-rated hunter/jumper horse show events Wednesdays through Sundays from July 22 through August 9. Located six miles from downtown Santa Fe off Airport Road, the world-class, full-service facilities of Equicenter de Santa Fe (formerly the Santa Fe Equestrian Center) were recently acquired and upgraded by local businessmen Brian Gonzales and Guy McElvain, the same duo who organized the successful Grand Prix de Santa Fe horse show from 2004 to 2009. A vendor fair with local art and food, a beer garden with local brews, and a VIP tent with shaded seating offer shopping opportunities and refreshments, or you can pack a picnic and enjoy the action from the grass. The capstone events are the Grand Prix competitions, featuring worldclass equine athletes jumping up to five-and-a-half feet and navigating at racehorse speeds as they compete for a $40,000 purse.—CO SPORTS

Equicenter de Santa Fe Summer Series, July 22–August 9, times vary, free general seating, $85–$125 VIP tickets, equicenterdesantafe.com

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buckle up Santa Fe has no shortage of fun, functional belts handmade by talented local artisans by Cri sti na Old s

photo graph s by G abri ella Ma r ks

In Santa Fe, your belt isn’t just an accessory, it’s wearable art. Although the traditional Southwestern concho belt epitomizes Santa Fe style, it’s not the only design in town. Here, top custom belt shops share unique, standout items from their vast collections of handtooled and artfully designed pieces, showcasing details such as caiman leather and Persian turquoise. Far from their humble beginnings as mere functional items, these belts elevate Western wear to a whole new level of first-rate fashion.

Above: In addition to jewelry, Malouf on the Plaza (maloufontheplaza.com) carries vintage and contemporary Navajo and Zapotec rugs and recently added a women’s boutique of designer and contemporary apparel.

Below: The belts seen here at Desert Son of Santa Fe (desertsonofsantafe .com) are handcrafted by New York designer Jason Ross under the formal label of Artemas Quibble. Crafted using materials such as reclaimed silver, brass, and antique objects, these one-of-a-kind belts, Ross says, tell a story that honors what’s been lost.

Left: Part of a threepiece set (keeper and tip not pictured), “The Banker II” belt buckle with a genuine caiman crocodile belt is handmade by John Rippel of John Rippel U.S.A. (johnrippel .com). Rippel opened a belt store in 1968 on Canyon Road with a focus on harness leather belts and brass horse-tack buckles. Today he also sells a variety of jewelry that he and several local and international artists create for his gallery on Old Santa Fe Trail.

The “Tucson” set consisting of a buckle, keeper, and tip on a caiman leather belt with sterling silver inlaid with turquoise, lapis, and sugilite stones is another John Rippel original. “The caiman grow patterns in their hide that ensures no two are alike,” Rippel says, “like an abstract painting.”

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Above: From top to bottom, five handcrafted belts from James Reid (jrltd.com): “Utah,” sterling silver buckle set on an American alligator belt; “New Ranger,” sterling silver buckle set on a teju lizard belt; “Orion,” sterling silver and 18-kt gold buckle set on an American alligator belt; “Bolero,” sterling silver buckle set on an American alligator belt; and “Zephyr,” sterling silver and 14-kt gold with Persian turquoise buckle on an American alligator belt.

Desert Son of Santa Fe stocks an assortment of leather belts, some of which are made in the shop. Custom belts from alligator, lizard, calfskin, and bridle leather can accommodate the buckles the store carries or can be fit to a client’s own buckle.

The silver and turquoise inlay belt seen here from Malouf on the Plaza was created by Navajo artist Stewart Yellowhorse and features five types of turquoise. The artist’s uncle, Artie Yellowhorse, is also represented at Malouf, as are Douglas Magnus, Scott Diffrient, and Leonard Nez.

Below, left: Since 1984, Tom Taylor (tomtaylorbuckles .com), located inside La Fonda on the Plaza, has sold luxury belts, buckles, and accessories from Southwestern leather workers and artists. The “Green Lizard” buckle seen here was made by Jesse Monongya (Navajo/Hopi) with 22- and 18-kt gold, mastodon ivory, Mediterranean coral, lapis lazuli, Kingman turquoise, and white diamonds; the belt leather is alligator.

Above: Santa Fe silversmith Walt Doran designed this sterling silver overlay buckle on a cognac lizard belt for Desert Son of Santa Fe. For 22 years, Desert Son has carried buckles, belts, handbags, and footwear by award-winning local and international designers in its Canyon Road store.

All of James Reid’s gold and silver buckles, accessories, and belts are designed and created in a Santa Fe workshop and sold in the store near the Plaza, where they’ve been in business for 35 years.

Laguna Pueblo artist Pat Pruitt makes his “F1” buckle with Damascus titanium that’s been anodized to add color to the middle section.

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Pueblo Pintado al l r oad s le ad to C haco

by Cha r le s C. Poling

photo graphs by Kir k Gittings

On a lonely stretch of Navajo Route 9 out beyond Cuba, the ruins of Pueblo Pintado stand tall on a rise amid the horizontal rumple of the surrounding grass-and-sage landscape. Across that landscape an ancient, arrow-straight road runs 16 miles northwest to Chaco Culture National Historical Park, home of the charismatic, enigmatic Pueblo Bonito and its monumental siblings. In the 1970s, that faint road, along with dozens like it leading from crumbling ruins to the cultural nexus of the main canyon, opened the eyes of archaeologists to a once vibrant—and still poorly understood— cultural constellation. Like planets orbiting a sun, dozens of Chaco outliers, each with a “great house,” sprawl over northwest New Mexico and beyond. While the ruins in Chaco Canyon hold undisputed rank near the tip-top of the New Mexico bucket list, spots like Pueblo Pintado deserve attention, too. Pueblo Pintado practices a subtle seduction: Here you can stand on that weathered, thousand-year-old road in utter silence as you ponder the mysteries obscuring this grand culture, which flourished from roughly 850 to 1250, peaked in the 11th century, and finally dissipated into the surrounding mountains and mesas. Roger Moore, park service archaeologist at Chaco, says that because archeologists have never excavated Pintado, they “go on surface findings” to analyze the site. The surface reveals plenty: looming walls, rectangular rooms, suggestive mounds, scattered pottery shards. Moore speculates that the partially collapsed, three-story great house once housed a couple hundred occupants. It overlooks an enclosed plaza and many kivas, including a great kiva that accommodated hundreds of people, but these features remain largely buried by wind-blown sand. Ancient work crews built the pueblo over a two-to-five-year period around 1050, Moore says. In the great house you can inspect the complex masonry that supported these massive buildings. Chacoan masons built the walls with a rubble-and-mud core faced by an intricate stonework veneer, which the masons then plastered to invisibility, hiding their best work. For all Chacoan structures, crews harvested more than 200,000 trees for beams and posts and then hand-carried the 15-foot, 600-pound logs across roughly 60 miles from the Chuska Mountains to the main canyon and outliers. Crews also graded roads. Around the Pintado site, if you look hard, you’ll spot the two road segments intersecting Pueblo Pintado. The one from Chaco Canyon, marked by a subtle depression heading northwest, joins the great house at its southwest corner. The second segment heads southwest. Besides traveling the road to the main canyon, the folks at Pintado likely used fire—or perhaps highly polished obsidian reflectors—to signal their cousins at the elevated Pueblo Alto. 26

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Drawn to the Although the great house, masonry, overall site plan, roads, and pottery types testify to Pintado’s close kinship to Chaco, that relationship still puzzles archaeologists. Some think the outliers represent expansion from the canyon; others think existing neighbors adopted the trappings of Chaco culture. Moore suggests some outliers “became hubs along a series of routes connecting the greater Chacoan interaction sphere.” Travelers and traders might have distributed goods at these way stations. Pueblo Pintado also functioned as a ceremonial center supported by smaller satellite communities that grew corn, beans, possibly squash, and amaranth, Moore says. By the early 1100s, the ancestral puebloans abandoned Pueblo Pintado in the region-wide collapse of this highly organized civilization. Archaeologists aren’t sure what happened but consider drought and invaders as possible culprits. The people of Chaco never really vanished. They moved but kept many of their lifeways, stories, and even architecture, eventually forming Northern New Mexico’s pueblos. Moore says 23 groups claim “cultural patrimony” with Chaco. The parched plains around the main canyon, where the Pintado ruins glower like a New Mexico Ozymandias, seem a long way from the irrigated valleys of the contemporary pueblos, but it’s a fine place for contemplating the destiny of mighty empires and the cultural finesse required for survival. Although the great house, masonry, overall site plan, roads, and pottery types testify to Pintado’s close kinship to Chaco, that relationship still puzzles archaeologists.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park outlier Pueblo Pintado (“painted house” in Spanish) sits 16 miles southeast of the main Chaco ruins. The three-story great house was once home to a couple hundred occupants who abandoned Pueblo Pintado by the early 1100s.

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Santa Fe has been luring artists for more than 100 years with its light, landscape, culture, climate, and architecture. Today the City Different is a vibrant, constantly evolving community that boasts one of the largest art markets in the country. On the following pages we give you a sample of how Santa Fe continues to earn its artistic stripes, featuring the work of top artists who show at dozens of the 200-plus galleries around town.

Aaron Coleman, Enchantment in the Cove, mixed media on board, 24 x 60"

Geoffrey Gersten, In Dreams, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48"

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Ted Gall Ted Gall, who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy of Art, explores the human psyche through his bronze, aluminum, and stainless steel sculptures. He’s interested in matters of the soul and spirit, and he expresses his ideas with a sense of artistry, invention, and wit. Starting with modeled clay, wax, or welded Corten steel, Gall uses the lost-wax method of casting to create unusual figures that seem somewhat familiar and mythological in nature. “The joy I’ve given people with what I’ve done in my work is what I’m most happy about,” says Gall, whose pieces are in the corporate collections of Walt Disney Productions and Standard Oil, among others.—Emily Van Cleve Hunter Kirkland Contemporary, hunterkirklandcontemporary.com

Ted Gall, Large Flower Head, bronze, 15 x 5 x 4"

Aaron Coleman Resins, acrylics, and metallic enamels are some of the materials incorporated into Aaron Coleman’s mixed-media abstract paintings. A new material, or a twist on a familiar process, inspires painting sessions that can last from two days to three weeks. “I lose track of time,” says Coleman about being in his studio. “The racks are full of paintings, and then I wake up the next day and add the next layer to them.” Coleman may not have become a full-time painter if he hadn’t been laid off from a job in landscape architecture in 2008. “I thought I’d won the lottery,” he says about getting a pink slip. “I didn’t take it personally. I started creating art in all my newfound free time.”—EVC Bill Hester Fine Art, billhesterfineart.com

Geoffrey Gersten A self-taught artist who says his naiveté has been his greatest gift, surrealist painter Geoffrey Gersten depicts whimsical robots in the style of American Gothic and animals in worlds just slightly askew. Though drawn to surrealism, the Prescott, Arizona–based artist was initially “afraid to do weird art,” opting instead to study paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. At first alternating styles, he gradually merged the two, producing contemporary works with a luminous quality. Galleries in San Francisco and Santa Monica, California; Scottsdale, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Taipei, Taiwan, represent his paintings. Locally, Gersten’s work can be seen at POP Gallery, where he’ll debut his newest pieces in a joint show with Bob Doucette on June 27. His work will feature “everyday scenes, where something’s a little bit off, with a quiet surrealism.”—Ashley M. Biggers POP Gallery, popsantafe.com june/july 2015

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Martin Mooney “What interests me about still life is the nature of composition, the balancing of objects in an almost mathematical and architectural manner,” says award-winning Donegal, Ireland–based painter Martin Mooney. The artist spent many years living in Spain, “painting facades of baroque and rococo churches” and finding himself intrigued by the work of 17th- and 18th-century painters Goya, Sánchez Cotán, and Meléndez. Mooney also creates landscapes (“I seem to be drawn to the combination of water and architecture”), and lately he’s been painting large flower studies from life, mostly tulips. “It’s fascinating,” Mooney says, “how they move so gracefully in their vase from day to day, until they begin to fade and their petals seem almost transparent.”—Eve Tolpa Nedra Matteucci Galleries, matteucci.com

Robert Buelteman Since 1999, Robert Buelteman has been creating what he calls energetic photograms, wherein an object (in his case, organic plant matter) is placed on light-sensitive material and illuminated. It’s a complete departure from his previous focus of 30 years: landscape photography. “I was looking for something spiritual,” he says of the about-face. “I’m not interested in re-representing an old barn door.” Buelteman’s process is an extremely slow one—every 100 sheets of film he uses yields roughly one usable image—but he takes great joy in his work. “What interests me is what happens to the viewer when presented with [something] they can’t interpret or define,” Buelteman says. “The greatest compliment I can receive is when people see [my work] and say, ‘What am I looking at?’”—ET Gerald Peters Gallery, gpgallery.com

Robert Buelteman, Eucalyptus Polyanthemos, chromogenic development print, 9 x 11"

Lange Marshall

Lange Marshall, Cantaloupe and Earl Grey, oil on linen, 11 x 14" 30

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For Lange Marshall, art has always been a refuge. She discovered its “emotional healing power” during her childhood, which was, she says, “filled with a lot of neglect and trauma and some abuse.” The creative process nurtures a safe haven that continues to sustain her, “almost like a meditation.” Marshall first visited New Mexico in her early 20s. “I couldn’t believe this place had so much art,” she says. “I thought, ‘I’ve got to live here!’” In the 1990s she relocated, and today, from her Corrales studio, she paints impressionistic landscapes, still lifes, and figures, switching back and forth between oil and watercolor. “It just has to do with the mood I’m in,” she explains, noting that the looseness of watercolor sparks within her a “childlike exuberance” that leads to “happy accidents.”—ET Greenberg Fine Art, greenbergfineart.com

Dominique Boisjoli “My work is all about happiness and putting a smile on the face of my collectors,” says painter Dominique Boisjoli. “My job is to remind them that love is everywhere.” Having created art since the age of eight, Boisjoli often works in a series, telling a story painting by painting. “I usually continue working on a series until the opportunity that inspired me is fully expressed,” she notes. The artist is known to integrate gold leaf into her colorful pieces, which may have as many as 35 layers of paint, and titles such as Sweetness in the Air and So Charming, So Sweet inform viewers about Boisjoli’s intentions for her work. “My paintings,” she says, “are a refuge for a moment of joyful bliss.”—EVC Waxlander Gallery, waxlander.com Lawrence Baca, Pendant, sterling silver, 22-kt gold, pieces of antique sterling silver spoons, Damali turquoise, 3 x 3"

Dominique Boisjoli, Adobe and Poppies, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20"

Lawrence Baca “I can put down my tools and turn off the lights in my studio at the end of the day, but my art is always within me, drawing inspiration from everything I see and feel,” says award-winning jeweler Lawrence Baca, a fourth-generation Santa Fean who’s known for his handmade crosses, sunbursts, and flowers made out of sterling silver, gold, and gemstones. Lately, he’s been creating a line of carved wooden heart pendants covered with car paint. The shaped and polished gemstones set in his pieces are often embellished with 22-karat gold, semiprecious stones, fine silver overlays, and pieces of antique sterling silverware. “I love the freedom of mixed media,” Baca says.—EVC True West of Santa Fe, facebook.com/truewestsf

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Barbara Van Cleve, Ghost Horses, archival pigment print, 16 x 20"

Montana-based Barbara Van Cleve captures the West in its true gritty beauty, photographing ranches, rodeos, and the world of the hard-working cowgirl. Van Cleve’s highcontrast, low-romanticism works combine a documentary eye with an artist’s sensibility—an unflinching view that’s made her as iconic as her subjects (she’s been inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame). “Photography has been a lifelong passion for me,” she says. “I wanted to share with other people how ‘wonder-full’ ranch life was, but I could not draw, or paint, or make things in clay, so I begged my parents for a camera. Thankfully, they gave me a Brownie Box camera when I was 11, and that was the beginning of my being able to share with others my visions of ranch life. . . .”—Barbara Tyner Wade Wilson Art, wadewilsonart.com june/july 2015

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Jennifer Curtis, Stamped Silver Bracelet, silver, 14-kt gold, coral cabochon, 5"

Jennifer Curtis grew up on the Navajo Reservation, near Winslow, Arizona, learning traditional silversmithing from her father, Thomas Curtis, Jr. Her father, whom she describes as her idol, died two years ago, passing along to her the stamps and tools he handcrafted. Since then, Curtis has maintained her connection to her father through their art. “My only comfort is figuring out how he made his jewelry,” she says. “No one else out there makes jewelry like he did—and I do.” Of course, the Albuquerque-based artist had a long career prior to her father’s passing, incorporating not only her father’s designs but also ones she created herself. Yet Curtis has always kept her creations close to home, using patterns inspired by her grandmother’s rug and saddle-blanket designs in stamped bangles, cuffs, rings, and bolo ties.—AMB Shiprock Santa Fe, shiprocksantafe.com

Albert Delamour Trained at Paris’s Louis-Lumière National Film, Photography, and Sound Engineering School, photographer Albert Delamour, a resident of New York City since 1998, has invented his own photographic technique, inspired by early20th-century orotone photographs, where light is coming from the photograph itself. Delamour’s latest series, Wildness, which features expansive Western and Southwestern scenes, is part of an oeuvre that includes images of people, flowers, landscapes, and currency from around the world. Delamour exhibits internationally and served as artist-in-residence at the Chinese European Art Center (CEAC) in Xiamen, China. “Photography,” he says, “is my way to express my wonderment in front of objects and individuals, a way to celebrate the poetry of nature and to share it very intimately with the viewer.”—EVC McLarry Modern, mclarrymodern.com Albert Delamour, Wonderland I, orotone and liquid gloss on board, 30 x 30"

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Lori Swartz, The Art of Flight, oil on wood panel, 44 x 66" 32

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Self-taught artist Lori Swartz follows her artistic muses through a variety of mediums. She started welding steel sculptures 15 years ago, and since then she’s created smaller jewelry pieces and abstract paintings, too. The Madrid, New Mexico–based artist also performs acrobatics and aerial dance with Wise Fool New Mexico and Chicks with Chainsaws. This April, she participated in an artistic residency in Key West, Florida—an experience that will surely impact her oil works, which reflect her storied life. “I feel like the paintings are a conversation between the canvas and me,” Swartz says. “I do a lot of layering and sanding to reveal pieces of the layers underneath. I’m creating a personal archeology, laying down time, history, place, and emotion in painting, then covering it, and then pulling out the pieces I want seen.”—AMB The William and Joseph Gallery, thewilliamandjosephgallery.com

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Constance DeJong, Section .021, copper and wood, 36 x 10 x 9"

Constance DeJong Constance DeJong considers herself a sculptor, but drawing and painting are integral to her work. Her 3-D pieces “are always dark and the patina very painterly,” she says. “All of them contain raw copper” that, when scored and hit with light, create reflections back on the wall, “so there is a red or gold light mysteriously emanating from these dark, brooding forms.” DeJong employs a “numerical logic” in her work, incorporating universal concepts such as the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci sequence; her chief artistic concern is content, not appearance. “I’m very interested in natural systems, and I parallel them,” she says. Based in Albuquerque, DeJong feels that “the arid, beautiful, minimal spaces of New Mexico” resonate with her sculptures. “They look like they belong here.”—ET Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, charlottejackson.com

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Olga Antonova Like Monet’s water lilies, Olga Antonova’s teacups are evoked, not nailed down, defined by color, light, and the interplay of space and form, softly, softly. Her paintings seem photorealistic, but the Russian-born artist, who trained at the Repin Painting Institute, creates that illusion with light like frosting, giving glint to matte surfaces. A little distance lets our eyes resolve gauzy brushstrokes and blops into fine porcelain, gleaming gold or silveredged. Beautifully painted, the vessels are also stand-ins, anthropomorphic subjects engaged in their own secret narratives and dramas. Unmistakably present, they do more than doze as still-lifes: Antonova’s figures carry weight, inhabiting the dreamy, unassigned context of muted backgrounds. There is little reference to anything but the cups in timeless space—just a hint of table edge or patterned damask. These hushed compositions are jewellike—and Modern with a capitol “M.”—BT Selby Fleetwood Gallery, selbyfleetwoodgallery.com

Michael Parkes, The Goddess of the Hunt, lost-wax cast bronze with patina, dimensions variable

Michael Parkes Magical realist Michael Parkes brings a Renaissance-era touch to the dream worlds he paints. His fantasy scenes can be filtered through the lenses of ancient mythology and Eastern philosophies or absorbed as otherworldly realms not altogether unfamiliar. “My sole intention in my images is to try to find a sequence, or combinations of symbols, that invites the viewer into a space that seems foreign and, at the same time, strangely comfortable. Because that space, in reality, is their own,” Parkes says in a statement provided by The Longworth Gallery. During Parkes’s nearly 40-year career, the Spain-based artist has held one-man exhibitions at the likes of Art Basel in Switzerland and the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany.—AMB The Longworth Gallery thelongworthgallery.com

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Robert Anderson, Clarity, Movement, and Power, oil on panel, 24 x 24"

Olga Antonova, Stacked Cups on Green, oil on canvas, 30 x 22"

Robert Anderson Leaving the world of graphic design—where he created T-shirts for rock bands such as U2, Bon Jovi, and INXS—to become a painter in 1989 was a satisfying move for Robert Anderson. Now living in the mountains just outside Santa Fe and exhibiting his paintings at Mark White Fine Art, the award-winning artist feels free to create a wide range of work. “I paint in many styles, using what I learn from each to push the boundaries of the next,” he says. Some of Anderson’s paintings have many layers of transparent color, while others are thick with opaque paint applied with a palette knife. “I take the greatest care,” he says, “to create inspiring surfaces.”—EVC Mark White Fine Art, markwhitefineart.com

Beckie Kravetz After studying mask making at the Yale School of Drama and working for the Los Angeles Opera, Beckie Kravetz launched an art career that centers on depicting some of opera’s most famous characters. “A lot of [what I do] comes out of my response to the music,” says Kravetz, whose show Love, Death, and Revenge opens at Tansey Contemporary on July 3. “[T]he combined force of the music touches a deep emotional chord [in me.]” The resulting bronze figures bear a kinetic, lyrical quality that makes the viewer feel as though he or she has caught the subject off guard—in the middle of a scene. Kravetz adds potency to her work by building backside tableaus with objects that create insider jokes about the featured operatic characters—such as foretelling Tarot cards inside a sculpture depicting Carmen.—AMB Tansey Contemporary, tanseycontemporary.com Beckie Kravetz, Siegmund and Sieglinde from Wagner’s Die Walküre, bronze, copper, 24-kt gold leaf, and ash wood on black granite, 22 x 23 x 11"

David Gray Still-life painter and portraitist David Gray captures radiant, timeless scenes with the goal of making art for art’s sake. “I’m not trying to tell a story,” he says. “I have more abstract concerns. It’s about composition, shape, light, and color or not color.” Gray, whose subjects range from silver goblets to flaxen-haired beauties, resides in the Pacific Northwest and is a member of the Oil Painters of America and Portrait Society of America. In July, he’ll be featured in a two-person show with Marilyn Yates at Sage Creek Gallery, where his work is represented locally. “For me, creating art is about creating beauty and order and balance,” Gray says, thinking of the works that will be featured in the show. “That will continue, of course, but there’s going to be, for me, more interesting ways of composing my subjects. Some of it might seem playful.”—AMB Sage Creek Gallery, sagecreekgallery.com David Gray, Addie, oil on canvas, 9 x 12"

Amy Poor A resident of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, painter Amy Poor lives with her greatest source of inspiration—and primary subjects—just outside her studio window. Wolves, owls, bears, bison, quail, and hare meander through the mountains and across Poor’s canvases in muted tones with splashes of vibrant color. The artist hikes almost daily, though she captures the wildlife in her mind’s eye rather than via technology. “I don’t want a camera between me and the animal,” she says. A former watercolorist, Poor transitioned to oil four years ago. “Watercolor is vital to what I’m doing now,” she says. “It taught me flow, movement, and transparency, which creates a painting that is much more alive and spontaneous.”—AMB Manitou Galleries, manitougalleries.com

Amy Poor, Windtalker, oil on canvas, 40 x 30"

Kirk Randle, Flathead Moon, oil on canvas, 24 x 30"

Kirk Randle “My art is a form of communication in which the artist conveys his interpretation of an image to the viewer,” says Utahbased painter Kirk Randle, who’s well known for his use of color. “I believe the best art makes a connection that touches the human soul.” Painting from feeling more than from an immediate response to an object or scene, Randle, who earned a Presidential Scholarship in 1971 and won three consecutive People’s Choice Awards at the LeConte Stewart Plein Air Art Competition, uses a warm and rich palette to depict images of the American landscape, wildlife in its natural surroundings, and Native American scenes.—EVC The Signature Gallery, thesignaturegallery.com

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Tamar Kander, Ochre Fields, mixed media on canvas, 40 x 30"

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Tamar Kander The nonrepresentational paintings of Indiana-based artist Tamar Kander, who describes her work “as a metaphor for experience,” are part of museum and corporate collections in the U.S., Europe, and her native country of South Africa. A graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Kander also has a master of fine arts degree from Goldsmiths College at the University of London. “I use my visual experience of dayto-day life as a jumping-off point to create a body of work that is earthy in palette and content as well as evocative of themes that resonate with the subconscious,” she says. Some of her most recent paintings are inspired by jazz and classical music and contain architectural elements.—EVC Ventana Fine Art, ventanafineart.com Andre Kohn, Birthday Lunch Series #3, oil on canvas affixed to board, 24 x 24"

Andre Kohn Andre Kohn, a figurative impressionist painter who grew up in Russia, exhibits his paintings around the world. Raised in a community near the Caspian Sea by parents involved in the performing, visual, and literary arts, Kohn studied with Russian impressionist painters at the University of Moscow. After his father, a colonel in the Russian army, defected to the U.S. in 1993, Kohn made his home in America. “I’m seeking my own unique, poetic interpretation of the moment,” Kohn says about his work. “I’m striving to find the extraordinary in the ordinary.” Ballet dancers, chefs, and women going about their daily lives are some of his many subjects.—EVC Joe Wade Fine Art joewadefineart.com

Bradford J. Salamon Painter Bradford J. Salamon has parlayed his talent for creating striking human portraits into memorably rendering vintage objects. While working on a portrait series of people from the 1930s through the ’50s, just as America was becoming a superpower and starting to define the bleeding edge of culture, he found that the props in his portraits better captured his message. “People say [the object paintings] are nostalgic,” Salamon notes. “That’s fine with me. I like that they elicit a memory and that, for many of the people who buy my work, they give them a connection to an ancestor.” Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art is hosting a solo exhibition of Salamon’s paintings this July. The show will feature a cross section of the ephemera that has caught the artist’s eye, from cameras to dress forms, as well as paintings of items like Gerber baby food jars and aspirin bottles. The California-based artist will also have a solo exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in September.—AMB Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art, giacobbefritz.com 36

Bradford J. Salamon, Heroin Fixed, oil on canvas, 48 x 24"

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Guilloume Columbia-born artist Guilloume, who lives in Sandia Park, New Mexico, moves fluidly between mediums as he follows his muses from bronze sculpture and relief to painting. His work transcends the purely figurative, as his human forms are devoid of recognizable features. In his artist statement, he notes that he looks beyond persona and temporary attributes (such as age and style) to find qualities that are common to all humanity and that evoke communal, familial, and romantic relationships. Guilloume typically writes narratives to accompany his pieces. For a work called Journey, he writes: “In this piece, the two figures represent the destination and journey that comprises my enduring love affair with my wife. One character symbolizes eternal love, which is our destination. The other is meant to depict our shared journey of 28 trips around the sun.” Guilloume’s upcoming show at Pippin Contemporary, opening on July 17, features bronze sculpture and, for the first time at that gallery, oils.—AMB Pippin Contemporary, pippincontemporary.com David Shanfeld, Ancient Fish, hand-blown and kiln-fired glass, 11 x 7"

Guilloume, Disciples, bronze wall relief with patina, 16 x 36 x 3"

David Shanfeld David Shanfeld took his first class in hot glass while studying at Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio. He wasn’t planning to work with glass after graduation, but one day in 1994 he wandered into Tesuque Glassworks to ask for some tips on casting and was offered a job. Since then, Shanfeld has immersed himself in glass casting and glass blowing, with his latest pieces—fish and birds made out of blown and hot worked glass—on view at Barbara Meikle Fine Art. “I call [those pieces] ‘ancient’ due to the unique surface treatment,” Shanfeld says. “The effect is a crusty texture of varied color patterns.” The gallery also exhibits Shanfeld’s abstract flower arrangements, which consist of more traditionally formed glass vases.—EVC Barbara Meikle Fine Art, meiklefineart.com 37

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From his studio at The Station in Cuyamungue, north of Santa Fe, Michael Honack follows a multistep process to create his cast-glass reliefs. First he carves a teak hardwood master, from which he makes a silicon rubber casting that’s fired for 24 hours and hardens to form a ceramic-like mold. Bricks of casting glass or crystal are melted into the mold to make bas-relief pieces, some of which are lit with LED lighting. “My belief is that the practice of artists should be to elevate the quality of the day, and my present focus on the table lamp is based in this notion,” says Honack, who ran a glass studio in California for 14 years before moving to Santa Fe to open a gallery in 2003. “My hope is to produce shimmering glass art that lives inside the home with people and brings them an ongoing reminder of the great beauty in life.”—Cristina Olds

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L. Scooter Morris, Treading on My Dreams, acrylic, mixed media, and canvas on canvas, 48 x 48"

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Honack says his Divine Seats series features “the thrones of the deities represented in them: Buddha, Quan Yin, Mary with and without the Christ child. . .”

Honack removes a glass casting from a mold after firing is complete. Left: All pieces of this glass, steel, and mica shade custom lamp are built by hand by Honack.

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For 30 years, Santa Fe artist L. Scooter Morris has built sculpted paintings, layering canvas upon canvas to create three-dimensional, often mixed-media works that invite the viewer to look closer. Although Morris’s invented surfaces and manipulations of American iconography are thought provoking, her message is apolitical. She allows the viewer to create his or her own interpretations of her work, such as the recent United States of Gun, in which metal revolvers replace the stars in the flag. “I’m not for or against anything,” Morris says. “It’s about initiating a conversation regarding a subject. If you don’t have a conversation, you don’t have a country. I’m trying to facilitate that occurring.” Morris’s work can be seen locally at Wiford Gallery, where she will have an exhibition in July. That month her work will also be included in an exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris.—AMB Wiford Gallery, wifordgallery.com

Stephen Day Splitting his time between New Mexico and Arizona, where he often paints in the field, Stephen Day captures the gentle beauty of American Western landscapes. “I paint a lot of sunsets because, besides flowers, that’s one of the few things in nature where you get lots of intense colors,” he says. In Taos, even the snow, another of his perennial subjects, reveals myriad colors, from blue shadows to intense whites. Although drawn to color, Day has begun exploring black-and-white etching. “It’s so simple, yet I can say so much about a scene,” he notes. Day’s work appears in galleries in Arizona, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and Colorado, including the Durango location of Sorrel Sky, which also features his paintings in its Santa Fe location.—AMB Sorrel Sky Gallery, sorrelsky.com

Stephen Day, Evening Color Over New Mexico, oil on canvas, 36 x 48"

Daphne Krinos London-based designer Daphne Krinos draws upon her Grecian upbringing to fashion bold, geometric jewelry. In Greece, while frequenting museums, she was immediately drawn to ancient gold baubles with colored stones. Today, her creations have been shown across Europe, the United States, and Japan and are among the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the private Goldsmiths’ Company. Krinos often incorporates recycled gold into her designs. “I’ve come across a lot of people who tell me about their old forgotten pieces of jewelry, passed on by their relatives, sitting in boxes never being worn,” she says. “I enjoy breathing new life [into] some of those pieces by designing something new using the old metal and knowing they will be worn again.” Patina Gallery represents Krinos’s work locally and will host a dedicated show of her jewelry in November.—AMB Patina Gallery, patina-gallery.com

Kathy Beekman, Rolling Prairie, pastel on paper, 11 x 30"

Daphne Krinos, Martha Earrings, oxidized silver, tourmaline quartz, and carnelian, 2"

Kathy Beekman “Painting is my way of exploring my surroundings; it’s my key to the secret garden, my way down the rabbit hole, my looking glass,” says Colorado artist Kathy Beekman, whose pastel on paper works are shown at Canyon Road Contemporary. “By closely examining architecture, noting the way a cloud casts a shadow, or discerning the color of a mountain in the distance, I better understand the world in which I live.” Beekman’s travels to Mexico in 2000 influenced her current painting technique. She ran out of her usual white paper and used black paper that was on hand. “The application of soft pastel to the black paper caused the color to pop,” she says. “Now I use black paper almost exclusively.”—EVC Canyon Road Contemporary, canyoncontemporary.com june/july 2015

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Douglas Magnus Douglas Magnus’s bold silver, gold, and turquoise creations have been City Different mainstays for decades. The designer’s latest collection, Constellation, was inspired by a custom project he did for a friend and features stamped and embossed pendants, bracelets, and earrings with spiral configurations. “It’s an exciting process going from one collection to another, developing tools, and translating it into newer and newer generations of the design,” Magnus says. Known for using Tiffany Cerrillos turquoise from mines he owns, Magnus also sets gems from Kingman, Arizona, that allow him to work on a larger scale. The artist has been creating statement belt buckles featuring materials such as crocodile, lizard, and buffalo leather to pair with the fashions available at Malouf on the Plaza, where he’s represented.—AMB Malouf on the Plaza, maloufontheplaza.com

Arturo Mallmann The figures in self-taught artist Arturo Mallmann’s existential landscapes float in vast, mysterious color fields. “At the beginning I started introducing [the figures as well as structures] because I could see they increased the depth [of the painting],” Mallman says. “I realized there was more to it.” The figures remind the viewer of humans’ relative smallness in the everexpanding universe, suggesting that contemplation of the interior self is as central as that of the exterior. The Uruguay-born, Los Angeles–based artist builds these scenes via hundreds of layers of translucent acrylic paint applied between layers of clear resin. His work is exhibited in California, Texas, Oregon, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Louisiana in addition to Santa Fe.—AMB Winterowd Fine Art, fineartsantafe.com

Arturo Mallmann, Secular Contemplation, acrylic on panel, 24 x 36"

Douglas Magnus, Constellation Collection, sterling silver, gold, and turquoise

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Dennis Larkins has worked in the arts and entertainment industries for more than 40 years. He was recently featured in an exhibition at The Harwood Museum in Taos called ¡Orale! The Kings and Queens of Cool, an overview of the post-pop or lowbrow movement. “[Pop art] allows for a visual structure that encourages someone to engage with it on their terms and doesn’t require really any sort of deep intellectual process,” Larkins says. “Although in my case I like to think it does. I like to scramble brain cells.” Larkins was part of the Santa Fe art scene from 1967 until the late ’70s, during which time he ran his own contemporary gallery on Canyon Road for a year. He then moved to California and painted sets for the San Francisco Opera and concert promoter Bill Graham’s Day on the Green music festival. Larkins also designed sets for theme parks, including Disney and Universal Studios, but he’s best known for his posters and album covers for bands such as the Grateful Dead. “After working in theater and creating an artificial world for the audience, it’s very hard for me to work flat anymore,” Larkins says. His current mixed-media work combines sculptural 3-D relief and acrylic painting. Larkins moved back to Santa Fe permanently seven years ago and is currently working with filmmaker Godfrey Reggio on the storyboards for a new independent movie. His work can be seen locally at Cruz Gallery in Santa Fe and Greg Moon Art in Taos.—Cristina Olds

Artist Dennis Larkins says that when it comes to his work, he aims to encourage “lightness in the face of darkness.”

“I like using older images from pop culture as a shared visual vernacular of our culture. . . . I use them as a bridge to bring the viewer into the painting,” says Larkins.

This detail from Larkins’s Goddess of Sweat/No Sweat painting shows Peter Pain, a gremlin from early-1950s Bengay advertisements, representing “the torment of the physical world.”

“Seven Degrees is a riff on the seven deadly sins . . . as pop culture icons [centered] around a Mr. Wizard character with a destruction and creation theme,” Larkins says.

This poster is one of 30 commissioned by the Bay Area band Moonalice. “This project,” Larkins says, “is a direct evolution from my ‘70s career.” june/july 2015

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Christopher Thomson, First Bloom—Red, forged steel and powder coat, 74 x 14 x 12"

photo g ra p h s by Dav id Hoptma n Landing for Falling Stars, forged and fabricated bronze, 9 x 16 x 12"

Bill Weaver

Sculptor Bill Weaver apprenticed under Colorado artist Edgar Britton in 1974 and first exhibited his own geometric metalworks in Santa Fe in 1985. From his home and metal workshop in the foothills north of Tesuque, Weaver continues to produce his sculpted three-dimensional bronze art, primarily for his own enjoyment. “I’m interested in how sophisticated simplicity can be,” Weaver says. “I’m also motivated by folk art—more specifically by the honesty of art that is made for the satisfaction of the experience and not because it will sell or impress.” Weaver fabricates each of his sculptures from several pieces of metal cut from heavy-gauge sheet bronze that are then welded, forged, ground, and polished to their final form. To achieve values of green, gold, black, and various other colors, a patina is applied that oxidizes and is later burnished. “I like working directly with raw sheet metal in that it’s an honest response to the material,” Weaver says. “The result is a handmade, one-of-a-kind, original sculpture.” During his long career, Weaver has participated in several group and solo exhibitions and was a finalist in both the 2012 City of Albuquerque Public Art Program and the 2014 State of New Mexico Acclaimed Artists Series. His sculptures can be found at GF Contemporary in Santa Fe, Hulse/Warman Gallery in Taos, and Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas.—Cristina Olds Bill Weaver, GF Contemporary, gfcontemporary.com

Notch Box Picket, forged and fabricated bronze, 23 x 10 x 12"

In his workshop near Tesuque, Weaver begins each piece by forming a mental picture of it. He then perfects its details by making sketches, and he explores proportions and colors with software programs like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

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Nicola López Nicola López, The Space Between, ink, watercolor, gesso, and molding paste on paper, 55 x 56"

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Christopher Thomson has long been a student of both the visual arts and music, and the latter has lent his sculptures a particularly improvisational air—despite the fact that ironwork presents a difficult medium in which to play. Thomson forges architectural lighting, furniture, and accessories for the home in addition to fine art sculpture. “I think the things I make for the home are functional sculpture, and the things I make as fine art pieces are functional—they just function in a different capacity,” Thomson says. “Both the functional and fine art pieces are made to engage.” Thomson’s latest sculpture series, Bloom, features forged steel in organic shapes inspired by the natural world, which Thomson taps into just outside his studio in San Jose, New Mexico. He has ongoing representation in Montana, Colorado, Arizona, and at La Mesa of Santa Fe, where his work has been shown for 30 years.—AMB La Mesa of Santa Fe, lamesaofsantafe.com

Brooklyn-based artist and Santa Fe native Nicola López questions where we are as a society and where we might be going. Her work gives us maps exploring her perception of the world that are structured not geographically or topographically but experientially. Working in installation and large-scale twodimensional media, the internationally acclaimed artist layers history, architecture, and technology to reflect the strata of the urban landscape. A sense of vertigo and inevitable gravity rake the shaky towers and crumbling underpinnings of her imaginings, but the comforting imprecision of woodblock printing and sketchy graphite soften her stark, dark worlds with the warmth of the artist’s hand. “My work focuses on that tension [between order and disorder], creating images of landscapes that struggle against themselves, that strive toward order and beauty as they verge on the edge of spinning beyond control or comprehension.”—BT Zane Bennett Contemporary Art zanebennettgallery.com

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Martin Mooney Still Life with Apples and Copper Jug oil on board 12” x 24”

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Cody Sanderson Sorrel Sky Gallery, 125 W Palace sorrelskygallery.com Reception June 19, 5–7 pm Cody Sanderson, Cat Scratch Ingot Cuff Bracelet, sterling silver with Lone Mountain turquoise

Navajo jeweler Cody Sanderson’s playful contemporary silver pieces are born of hands-on experimentation. The artist, who cites his children and their toys as sources of inspiration, won Best in Show at the prestigious Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market in 2008 for a sterling silver Rubik’s Cube. “Cody is very forward-thinking, and his work is cutting-edge,” says Sorrel Sky Gallery owner Shanan Campbell Wells. “He and I are very aligned as far as how we look at the art world, and we’re a very synergistic match.” On June 19, Sanderson will be showcasing new pieces during a special reception at Sorrel Sky Gallery, where he’s exclusively represented in New Mexico.—Cristina Olds

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Erich Woll, New Normal (detail), blown glass, 58 x 48 x 6"

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renowned artists from around the world display their work in Blue Rain Gallery’s second annual invitational glass show by Gu s sie Faunt le roy

Sean Albert, Intentionally Random Line Study, kiln-formed glass, 14 x 12 x 2"

Benjamin Cobb, Visceral Stomach and Visceral Lozenge, blown glass, 33 x 14 x 7" and 11 x 19 x 6"

What could be more simple: five large, wall-mounted matchsticks in progressive degrees of future or past combustion—from completely unlit to slightly charred to burned almost all the way down. Created by Erich Woll, each threefoot-tall matchstick is made of glass. But as the title, When Things Go South, suggests, there’s more to the piece than meets the eye. “Successful work to me is visually simple, informed, and intellectually complex,” Woll says, which for the Seattlebased artist means it must open the door to multiple interpretations and associations—every viewer bringing a potentially different perspective to the work and each one as valid as the next. Woll’s striking (no pun intended) creations join those of nine other glass artists at Blue Rain Gallery’s second annual Invitational Glass Show. Curated by acclaimed Northwest Coast glass artist Preston Singletary, the show features emerging and established artists who employ traditional and newer glassblowing and cold glass methods to produce distinctive, innovative works of art. “I was looking for a broad range of diversity 46

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Left: Armelle Bouchet O’Neill, Kuroshio, Love from F., kiln-formed and sand-carved glass, 38 x 12"

Daniel Joseph Friday, Sunburst Bears, solid sculpted furnace glass, 8 x 12"

Sasha Tepper-Stewart, Phanes, kiln-formed and sand-carved glass, 17 x 25 x 2"

Michael Cozza, Yellow Reticello Sunflower, blown glass and steel, 10 x 10 x 6"

in techniques and styles but also colleagues and artists who exhibit originality and whose work I admire,” Singletary says. These criteria netted an international roster of talented artists, many of whom have been part of glassblowing teams for master glass artists such as Dale Chihuly and Lino Tagliapietra. Among them is Benjamin Cobb, who’s worked for the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, since 2002. Cobb’s elegant, amorphic creations often incorporate negative space through openings in the glass. The Australian team of Ben Edols and Kathy Elliott, collaborating since 1993, produces blown-glass vessel forms with cold-worked surfaces embellished in delicately carved patterns. Daniel Joseph Friday is a Northwest Coast artist of the Lummi tribe whose sculptural creations suggest totemic forms. The natural world provides inspiration for such artists as Michael Cozza (sunflowers) and Sasha Tepper-Stewart (butterflies), while a precise, often minimalist sensibility is reflected in pieces by Sean Albert, Joe BenVenuto, and Danish artist Tobias Møhl. “What I’ve always loved about glass is its seemingly limitless possibilities,” says Blue Rain owner Leroy Garcia. “This diverse cross section of artists is an excellent example of the many ways the medium can be adapted to a unique aesthetic concept.” Invitational Glass Show, June 5–27, reception June 5, 5–7 pm, Blue Rain Gallery, 130 Lincoln, blueraingallery.com

Above: Tobias Møhl, Nine-part Nest Collection, blown glass, 64 x 64 x 21"

Joe BenVenuto, Ochre Rust Terrene Study, blown and acid-etched glass with hot attached parts, 21 x 12 x 3"

“I was looking for artists who exhibit originality and whose work I admire,” says curator Preston Singletary. 47

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Kinetic Color a new show at Ventana Fine Art features vibrant works by Frank Balaam and Angus by Emi ly Va n Cle ve

Color is essential to the work of painters Angus Wilson (who goes by just “Angus”) and Frank Balaam. “I remember in color,” says Balaam, whose latest pieces center on what he’s called “the energy and passion of trees.” For Angus, “Color and composition provide the foundation for every painting I produce,” he says. “Without them, I am lost.” A new show at Ventana Fine Art called Kinetic Color—part of the city’s Summer of Color initiative, which presents color-themed shows at leading museums and galleries—features between 35 and 45 works by Angus and Balaam. Balaam’s paintings are part of his Conservancy series, which focuses exclusively on forests and trees and whose proceeds go partly to the nature conservancies throughout the West that inspire the imagery.

“Color and composition provide the foundation for every painting I produce,” says Angus. Angus, Outside Peonies Arrangement with Bread Crescent, acrylic on panel, 38 x 30"

Frank Balaam, Santa Fe Canyon Preserve by the Pond, oil on canvas, 30 x 30"

“In the forest, my hand and eye sketch the anatomy of trees, exploring the vast differences between each leaf and branch,” Balaam says. “In the studio, I take thick scoops of colored light, and, with my brush, I reach back into the forest to find the swirling waves of life and the explosive primal energy of existence.” Balaam, a U.K. native who now calls the small town of Globe, Arizona, home, traces his single-pointed interest in painting trees back to 2002, when, during a plein air painting trip around Arizona’s Mogollon Rim, he saw the forests blackened from the Rodeo-Chediski Fire. Trees feature in Angus’s work as well—although the former television and film animator, who grew up in Scotland and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, also focuses on sweeping landscapes, people, animals, and still life. He’s often told that his colorful expressionist style is reminiscent of Cézanne, Matisse, and Gauguin. “I want my work to appear effortless and passionate,” Angus says. “But under the hood I’m doing an awful lot of thinking and planning. The surface is all grace and elegance, but underneath the legs are thrashing around like nobody’s business.” Frank Balaam and Angus: Kinetic Color, June 12–24, reception June 12, 5–7 pm, Ventana Fine Art, 400 Canyon, ventanafineart.com june/july 2015

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The Art and Soul of Color works by Suzanne Wallace Mears and Stephanie Paige explore color and its relationship to energy and emotion by Emi ly Va n Cle ve

A new show at Pippin Contemporary called The Art and Soul of Color—which is part of a citywide Summer of Color initiative at major museums and galleries—pairs the works of glass artist Suzanne Wallace Mears with those of mixed-media painter Stephanie Paige and focuses on the different ways that color can be used to express emotion and energy.

“[Color is] what makes the magic happen and unleashes my imagination,” says Suzanne Wallace Mears. “Color is my way of communicating emotion, a state of mind past, present, and future.” In Paige’s pieces, which are from her Zen Garden series, blues, greens, and grays evoke a sense of peace and calm, while oranges and reds depict positive and upbeat expressions. Her abstract landscapes, featuring rich color around stark horizon lines, reflect Paige’s connection to Mother Earth. “Nature is Stephanie’s main inspiration, and this spring her [Zen Garden] paintings are forging an even closer relationship

Suzanne Wallace Mears, Seaside, kiln-formed glass, 22 x 12"

to the natural world,” says Kelly Skeen, director of arts marketing for Pippin Contemporary. “These paintings focus on the peaceful, meditative balance of nature and the harmony of the universe.” A dozen vertical glass pieces from Mears’s Feather on the Loose collection are totem-like forms mounted in a steel base. They’re meant to communicate happiness, whimsy, and the artist’s optimistic view of life. Stephanie Paige, Spring Winds, mixed media, 36 x 48"

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“I’m a colorist,” Mears says. “It’s what makes the magic happen and triggers and unleashes my imagination. Color is my way of communicating emotion, a state of mind past, present, and future. I favor a bright primary color palette but do have two favorites: blue and orange.” Mears stocks her glass studio with every possible color choice in basic glass, so she has the freedom to use whatever matches her inspiration in the moment. “Color is so much fun for me and so stimulating that if I don’t try to limit myself to a given palette, I try to use everything,” she says. Suzanne Wallace Mears and Stephanie Paige: The Art and Soul of Color, June 17–July 1, reception June 19, 5–7 pm , Pippin Contemporary, 200 Canyon, pippincontemporary.com

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a new, larger-than-life sculpture from Santa Fe artist Don Kennell by Wh itne y Spi ve y

Remember Don Kennell’s Blue Gorilla, which took up residence in the Railyard this spring? Well, Zubachi, as it was eventually renamed, has a new cousin currently living at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, home of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Big Bear was constructed from sheet steel welded over structural steel armature. The interactive sculpture includes a porch-swing-style bench hanging from one paw and a disco-ball lantern hanging from the other. “I wanted to symbolically connect the mostly younger generation that attends Coachella with the power and mystery of their state animal,” Kennell says. “Interacting with the piece hopefully creates a situation of recognition toward the fragile relationship we have with nature.”

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Kennell and his crew of four welders worked on Big Bear for almost three months. “The guys working on the piece were genuinely inspired [by] the project,” he says. “It was often hard to get them to take breaks; we were all just so thrilled to be building this bear.”

“I think of the bear as female, a creature more nurturing and generous,” Kennell says of his 20 x 25’ creation.

Stephanie Paige, Eden's Love, mixed media, 30 x 60"

“Gesture is so important on a sculpture like this,” Kennell says. “The thing has to appear to be alive, and so proportions and shapes and pose become crucial for the thing to work.” 51

summer art events In June, experience Santa Fe’s world-class art galleries and food simultaneously during ARTsmart’s Edible Art Tour. Attendees can “bask in the City Different’s pleasant evenings and stunning sunsets while wandering its history-filled streets to view inspired artworks and nosh on sensational savories,” says ARTsmart communications coordinator Kira Randolph, noting that, for the first time, the event is taking place in June rather than February. Proceeds from the event, which features more than 40 participating galleries, help support programs organized by ARTsmart, whose mission is to teach “art, literacy, and life skills” to New Mexico’s youth. The following month, Art Santa Fe celebrates its 15th anniversary with an opening night Champagne Gala (July 9, 5–8 pm, $100) followed by a weekend-long fair showcasing art and artists from seven countries. “We’ll be highlighting art from Cuba with a special installation of kinetic sculptures by Aurora Molina called Los Pioneros and a film about 12 Cuban artists, entitled Alumbrones, which will be shown throughout the weekend,” says operations manager Liane McMillian. “There will also be a very exciting installation coming from Japan called the Puzzle Project.” Other highlights include a talk hosted by Radius Books about publishing art books and a keynote speech by Don Bacigalupi, president of the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, Illinois. —Whitney Spivey Edible Art Tour, June 12–13, $35, 5–8 pm, locations vary, artfeast.org; Art Santa Fe, July 9–12, $10, 11 am–6 pm, Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W Marcy, artsantafe.com

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Attendees at the 2014 Edible Art Tour enjoy artwork and hors d’oeuvres.

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Robert “Spooner” Marcus

t h e gla s s a r ti s t br ings a con te m pora r y t wi st to cla s sic f or ms by Cr i s t i na Ol ds

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While growing up on the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, glass artist Robert “Spooner” Marcus drew inspiration from his mother, brother, grandmother, and great-grandmother—all of whom where clay potters. “When I first started [working with glass],” Marcus says, “I focused on traditional vessels and pottery shapes that . . . I put tribal tattoo designs on.” Another formative influence was the artist’s experience working in a glass factory in Española, where he made juice cups. Marcus currently teaches glass-art classes and does production work at Prairie Dog Glass in Santa Fe. His artwork, which he’s been showing locally at Indian Market and Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival for the past 10 years, has become more sculptural, depicting animal fetishes and antlers, for example. Recently he began constructing what he calls Anasazi Walls by gluing and layering nearly 1,000 tiny blocks of clear glass together to form what looks like a wall of ancient stone ruins, complete with doorways and windows. “Inspiration comes from trial and error, those ‘Eureka!’ moments,” Marcus says. “That really attracted me to glass in the first place; it’s intuitive and playful. Every day you walk into the shop, you get to create something out of a pool of glass.”

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Above: Marcus reheats, or flashes, a piece of glass. “Glass sculpting is one of the hardest things to do because you can’t touch the glass,” he says. “You’re just manipulating it with heat and gravity.”

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Marcus created the design on this etched glass vessel, Blue Tattoo, by sandblasting around a vinyl stencil overlay to reveal the layers of blue, clear, and black glass underneath.

The raw glass, which looks like ice cubes, becomes molten glass in the furnace (above) and can then be gathered on the end of a punty rod and shaped (above, left).

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Carol Hartsock, Artisan of Niger, oil on canvas, 40 x 32"

Drawn to the Wall 2: The Medium Is the Message Patina Gallery, 131 W Palace, patina-gallery.com July 3–August 29, reception July 3, 5–7 pm Works by guest artists Seth Anderson, Michael Motley, and Isolde Kille are featured in this new show, which takes its name from the famous quote by philosopher Marshall McLuhan and is part of Patina Gallery’s Year of Couleur series. Employing their own unique methods, the artists’ “harmonized aesthetics . . . invite the viewer to question space, time, volume, line, or shape,” the gallery said in a statement. Anderson explores perceptions of geographical and human landscapes through maps and drawings, Kille creates urban abstractions, and Motley plays with shadows and materials in his wall sculptures. Seth Anderson, Untitled, mixed media on film Carol Hartsock: Both Sides Now on wood panel, 14 x 16" Greenberg Fine Art, 205 Canyon, greenbergfineart.com June 5–18, reception June 5, 5–7 pm Two of artist Carol Hartsock’s painting styles are celebrated in this solo exhibition, which features new abstract works and portraits from around the world. “My abstract explorations are a counterpoint to my representational work,” Hartsock says. “In viewing these, I encourage you to look at all scales within each piece. There are many hidden surprises and experiences within them.”

David Rothermel: From the Source David Rothermel Contemporary, 142 Lincoln Ste 102, drcontemporary.com June 5–25, reception June 5, 5–8 pm Using “an extended lateral rectangular format with multiple panels,” David Rothermel creates paintings that depict the subtleties and harmony of the desert landscape, which, in speaking to the name of this show, serves as the source of inspiration for his work. David Rothermel, Monarch, acrylic on panel, 38 x 92"

Chris Richter: Reveal Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, 558 Canyon, chiaroscurosantafe.com July 3–August 1, reception July 3, 5–7 pm More than a dozen oil paintings from Chris Richter’s series Reveal are featured in his solo show at Chiaroscuro’s new location. The title refers to Richter’s process of creating these abstract paintings, which explore his fascination with trees and forests. “Through painting,” he says, “I attempt to create what happens in nature when I’m not there to observe it.” Chris Richter, Reclaim 337, oil on paper, 36 x 28"

Sandra Duran Wilson: Wavelengths Lacuna Galleries, 124 W Palace lacunagalleries.com June 5–30, reception June 5, 5–7:30 pm Sandra Duran Wilson’s plexiglass sculptures are a new venture for the artist, who’s known for her abstract collage paintings. Part of a family of artists and scientists, Wilson is “influenced by abstract scientific concepts in physics, biology and, chemistry.” Her Wavelengths series incorporates “color, sound, and light; all of which are frequencies.”

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Ben Steele, Whaam, oil on canvas, 34 x 44"

Ben Steele: Fun and Games Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art, 702 Canyon giacobbefritz.com, June 26–July 12 Reception June 26, 5–7 pm “My upcoming Giacobbe-Fritz exhibition Fun and Games will focus on the universally enjoyable and nostalgic moments of life and art, incorporating them onto canvas in new and humorous ways,” says Utah oil painter Ben Steele, who celebrates (and subverts) pop culture and art history. A Georgia O’Keeffe coloring book, oversized Etch a Sketches, and retro crayon boxes are some of Steele’s subjects. Sandra Duran Wilson, First Light, plexiglass and cast steel, 12 x 37 x 3"

Rahileh Rokhsari: Rumi on Canvas The Longworth Gallery, 530 & 532 Canyon thelongworthgallery.com July 1–August 31, reception July 10, 5–8 pm In her latest solo exhibition, Iranian-born Rahileh Rokhsari showcases paintings inspired by Sufi dervish dancing, the words of 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, and the artist’s international travels. “Subject plays a central role in my paintings’ structure,” says Rokhsari, who left Iran in 2005, traveled to India and Southeast Asia, and now calls Turkey home. “I prefer to have real elements surrounded by abstract atmosphere.”

Kevin Box, Light Conversation, painted cast aluminum, 16 x 20"

Rahileh Rokhsari, Eternal Water of Life, oil on canvas, 16 x 20"

Kevin Box: Light Conversation Selby Fleetwood Gallery, 600 Canyon selbyfleetwoodgallery.com July 3–16, reception July 3, 5–7 pm It took two years of experimentation for Kevin Box to develop his process of casting paper into bronze and another seven years to perfect the process. His latest work includes limited-edition wall pieces that were inspired by visits to 37 cities. Some of the pieces in the show have international coins rubbed into paper like passport stamps; others are bronze sculptures the size of a postcard stamp. Suzanne Donazetti: Evolving Intersections Waxlander Gallery and Sculpture Garden, 622 Canyon, waxlandergallery.com July 21–August 3, reception July 24, 5–8 pm More than two decades ago, after much experimentation, Suzanne Donazetti started painting sheets of copper and weaving them together. The result has been colorful three-dimensional landscapes that are part painting, part sculpture. In this show, which features Donazetti’s latest work, the artist continues her exploration of obvious and subtle intersections. “The feelings I would like the viewer to have,” she says, “are of peace, calm, and harmony.” Suzanne Donazetti, Midsummer Evening 3, gold and silver leaf and acrylic on woven copper, 32 x 36"

Sean Hennessey, Electricity, mixed media on cast glass, 18 x 24"

Jason Chakravarty and Sean Hennessey: Kiss My Glass The William and Joseph Gallery 727 Canyon thewilliamandjosephgallery.com July 1–31 “These two artists have created bodies of work that make us laugh, make us think, and ask us to see glass in a new light,” says gallery owner Mary Bonney about the works of Jason Chakravarty and Sean Hennessey, both of whom employ mixed media. Chakravarty likes to use neon, while Hennessey incorporates materials such as concrete, wood, and steel.

Pablo Milan, The Signature Gallery, 102 E Water, thesignaturegallery.com June 26–July 10, reception June 26, 4–9 pm Self-taught artist Pablo Milan, a fifth-generation New Mexican, has an expressionist style of painting that reveals his love for the colors and imagery of the Southwest. Through the use of multiple layers of acrylic washes and loose brush strokes, Milan’s colorful imagery depicts Native dancers, warriors, and horsemen riding across the desert landscape. His work is found in collections worldwide. Pablo Milan, Following the River, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60"

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Ann Hosfeld and Reg Loving: Nature Diversified New Concept Gallery 610 Canyon newconceptgallery.com July 3–August 3, Reception July 3, 5–7 pm Ann Hosfeld is know for her abstract and realist paintings of nature and was recently inspired by the tropical Jardin Majorelle in Marrakesh, Morocco. Abstract painter Reg Loving is deeply affected by the Land of Enchantment. “New Mexico is a place steeped in myth and ancient cultures that have been influenced by the land,” he says. “The Southwest has been described as an abstraction of the landscape because it is spare, delineated, and defined by the intense light.”

Z. Z. Wei, Hidden, oil on canvas, 48 x 36"

Z. Z. Wei: Broken Boundaries Manitou Galleries, 225 Canyon, manitougalleries.com July 24–August 20, reception July 24, 5–7:30 pm Although painter Z. Z. Wei was influenced by his experiences in art school in China, his current artistic interest leans toward images of rural America. Since the late 1980s, Wei has lived and worked in the northwest U.S., where he meanders down country roads in search of scenes of rolling wheat fields, old pickup trucks, and big red barns that capture his imagination. Reg Loving, Algodones Series #7, acrylic on canvas, 38 x 40"

John Oteri, Spiritual Confluence, oil on board, 15 x 32"

John Oteri Joe Wade Fine Art, 102 E Water joewadefineart.com July 3–12, reception July 3, 5–7 pm John Oteri’s background as an awardwinning architect has influenced his style of painting, which has a strong compositional element. His interest in how nature is affected by manmade structures is also reflected in his works. “I find it very fascinating attempting to depict how humans live within the restrictions imposed by this [Southwestern] landscape,” he says. Cissie Ludlow: At Last PhilSpace, 1410 Second St philspacesantafe.com June 16–20, reception June 16, 5–8 pm

David Ivan Clark: Elemental William Siegal Gallery, 540 S Guadalupe williamsiegal.com June 26–July 28, reception June 26, 5–7 pm When David Ivan Clark, who shows new work in this latest show, was growing up in western Canada, the plains around him were vast, open places that felt like a refuge from the modern world. Influenced by this sanctuary-like experience, Clark reconciles the connection he’s felt with the natural world with the noise of the mechanized world through his abstract paintings, which have the appearance of land and sky and evoke stillness. David Ivan Clark, Adoratorio #102, oil on birch panel, 60 x 60"

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Cissie Ludlow, Room 333, De Vargas Hotel Series, archival pigment ink print, 12 x 16"

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Hilario Gutierrez, A Delicate Moment, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48"

Hilario Gutierrez: What Can’t Be Spoken Tansey Contemporary, 652 Canyon tanseycontemporary.com July 10–August 8, reception July 10, 5–7 pm Abstract painter Hilario Gutierrez, a native of Arizona, created 10 new works for this show, which spotlights the artist’s belief in the importance of viewer interpretation as well as his love for the Southwest landscape. Gutierrez typically creates what’s been referred to as “a prism of conjoined colors” and interjects variations in hue, patterns, textures, and more, encouraging a viewer’s engagement and interpretation.

Comfort, oil, 60x30”

The Whole in My Soul bronze, Ed. 25, 20.5x10x8”

Bi Rongrong, Tri-Images 2/3, acrylic on canvas, 75 x 75"

Impacts! Part II: Chinese Contemporary Art Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, zanebennettgallery.com July 31–September 18, reception July 31, 5–7 pm Staff from Zane Bennett traveled to China to bring back works for this show, which celebrates contemporary Chinese art. Among the pieces are found-metal sculptures by Liang Shaoji, who puts parts of helmets, plowshares, and other items in boxes with silkworms and allows the worms to cast a net of silk over the metal. Paintings by Lu Xinjian feature abstract aerial views of cities, including Santa Fe.

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The living room of Charles and Edwina Milner—whose art-filled home is featured on the following pages—brims with striking, one-of-a-kind pieces. Clockwise from top left: A colored pencil on paper depiction of Adam and Eve covered in poison ivy; an acrylic and gold leaf on canvas work called Memories by Edwina Milner; a vertical array of mixed-media pieces by Gugger Petter, Mary Baker, and others; spirit poles by John Geldersma (Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art); a bone and wood “treasure box” by Steve Hoover; and a mixed-media collage on paper called Gabriel Being Detained by the Prince of Persia by Mary McCleary.

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Charles and Edwina Milner’s well-curated home

Robert II, an oil and copper leaf on canvas by cowboy and Western artist David DeVary, dominates the wall on the right side of the living room fireplace. It’s joined by a triangular flat weave by Colorado artist Stan Meyer; paintings by Diane Marsh, Edwina Milner, and Tony Abeyta (Blue Rain Gallery, Adobe Gallery); and clay and bronze sculptures by Roxanne Swentzell (Tower Gallery). On the windowsill (far left) are glass pieces by Dale Chihuly.

W Edwina and Charles Milner in their Santa Fe home. Foreground: Joseph, a sculpture by Michael Ferris, Jr., made of wood and pigmented wood glue.

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hen Charles and Edwina Milner built their Santa Fe home in 1997, they weren’t just looking for a structure to contain their art collection; they wanted a house that was a work of art unto itself. “The Milners’ home was my first project ever,” recalls architect Michael Krupnick of Krupnick Studio, noting that his clients’ enormous art collection was at the heart of his conception for the property. “We had the dimensions and photographs of every piece they had,” he says, “and we designed a specific plan for where each one would go.” The home’s interiors swell and curve, thanks to a material called pumice-crete. Cast into various thicknesses and then carved into different shapes, pumice-crete lends a distinctly sculptural quality to interior walls. Hand-carved nichos (as openings between rooms or as recesses to display art) are charmingly lopsided—as much artisan touches as the metal detailing on the refrigerator by Isaac Maxwell or the master bath’s custom tile work by sculptor and ceramicist George Alexander. The Milners were so pleased with Krupnick’s design for their home that they called the architect back almost two decades later to design an attached casita for visiting family and friends. Krupnick accepted the assignment, and the casita was built last year by Bill Roth of Modern Design + Construction, Inc. In addition to its intention as a de facto art gallery, the Milners’ home was designed to easily accommodate guests. Lots of guests. At the time the designs were being drafted, “I was on about eight museum boards,” Edwina says. “We enter-

The metal wall sconce was made by the late Texas architect and metal artist Isaac Maxwell, who also designed an elaborate metal facade for the Milners’ refrigerator. To the right of the light is Your Path, an acrylic and gold leaf triptych by Edwina Milner. Edwina was an early collector of the work of New Orleans–based sculptor and ceramicist George Alexander, who created the bouquet of ceramic flowers on the coffee table.

In her home studio, Edwina’s current passion is creating mixed-media collages using gold leaf and images cut out from a Gustav Klimt calendar and gardening catalogs.

tained about a hundred people at a time.” Krupnick fashioned a living room that accommodated large crowds but also contained intimate sitting areas. A sculptural fireplace that stretches upward to radiating vigas on the ceiling bisects the space. Guests can sit on either side of the center chimney, chairs turned away from the art-filled wall, and easily see a speaker positioned on the flagstone in the ample space between the living area and the kitchen. The Milners moved to the City Different in 1990 from Houston, where, Edwina says, “Charles was the president of an oil consulting firm, and I was a studio artist.” When Edwina started painting in the 1950s, “there were very few women represented in museums and galleries,” she says. “I decided to get on boards in Houston and see if I could promote women.” For 14 years, she and Charles were board members of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., and during their time in New Mexico, Edwina notes, “[former governor] Bill Richardson june/july 2015

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A caricature of John Kerry was drawn by political cartoonist (and Santa Fean) Pat Oliphant. In the foreground is a metal and clay sculpture by San Antonio artist Susan Budge (Darke Gallery, Houston).

In 1997, Edwina received the doll figure on the left when she was given the Governor’s Award for Outstanding New Mexico Women. She also received the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2004 and the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2006.

The Milners’ art collection prominently features work by female artists. “Here in Santa Fe it’s wonderful,” says Edwina. “There are plenty of women represented in galleries, and they’re gallery owners.”

A clay sculpture by Nedra Seybold rests on a credenza in the sculptural, winding stairwell; above it is a nude by Kenneth R. Turner. Right: Japanese Chin dogs Choco and Siku pose beside a bejeweled Chinese dog adorned with dominoes and Mardi Gras beads made by Silver City artist Linda Brewer. 62

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“I buy [art] because I love it,” says Edwina. “If it’s supposed to be here, I can find a place for it.”

Here and below: Far from limiting their art collection to paintings, Charles and Edwina surround themselves with art forms of every type, from textiles and woodwork to sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, glassware, and metalwork.

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appointed me the director of regents for all four state museums and nine parks.” Edwina has also served on “the boards of nearly every museum here in Santa Fe.” (Museum Hill’s Milner Plaza was named for her and Charles.) She has since retired from them all, except that of the New Mexico School for the Arts. It’s therefore not surprising that art is very much a part of the Milners’ life together; it quite literally surrounds them, and the landscape often changes with new acquisitions. “We usually give each other art pieces for birthdays and anniversaries,” Edwina says. The couple’s taste is wide-ranging, defying easy categorization. “I realized recently that my theme is materials and how the artist uses them,” Edwina says. “I have a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and I’ve worked in every medium, so I know if the art is any good.” However, she’s quick to note that, before anything new is added to the collection, she and Charles both have to like it. Clearly, in the 61 years they’ve been married, the Milners have found a lot they both like. Every type of art is represented in their home: paintings, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics, metalwork, woodwork. Interspersed among such pieces are abstract paintings by Edwina herself, who is currently working in her home studio on mixedmedia collages, taking inspiration from Gustav Klimt and incorporating flowers and gold leaf. A number of her works are currently showing at Waxlander Gallery. Not surprisingly, the couple’s personal collection prominently features work by female artists—often living and often local to New Mexico. “Here in Santa Fe it’s wonderful,” Edwina says. “There are plenty of women represented in galleries, and they’re gallery owners.” The Milners own several sculptures by Star Liana York and Roxanne Swentzell, as well as a piece by Swentzell’s daughter Rose B. Simpson (Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art), whom Charles says is “one to watch.” No doubt the Milners have seen many careers blossom over the decades, but the investment aspect of collecting art is more or less a moot point for them. “Some people buy art to sell it a few years later,” Edwina says. “I buy it because I love it. If it’s supposed to be here, I can find a place for it.”

With distant views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains as a backdrop, the Milners’ backyard is like an outdoor gallery. From right, a Wind Ripples kinetic sculpture in orange fusion patina by Mark White (Mark White Fine Art) and Mares of the Ice Age, a large bronze sculpture by Star Liana York (Sorrel Sky Gallery).

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The view from a picture window near the entryway overlooks a waterfall and koi pond. Sculptural pumice-crete columns (at left) echo other artistic uses of the building material throughout the home.

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the City Different’s iconic look No other place in the country looks quite like Downtown Santa Fe. With its heart and soul being the 405-year-old Plaza—a park-like, four-block square that’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places and sits at the end of the famous Old Santa Fe Trail—Downtown showcases architecture unique to the distinct groups of people who’ve called the area home throughout history. In 1912, the year New Mexico gained statehood, locals organized an effort to honor the history and preserve this uniqueness of this centuries-old capital city. This period of revival, which also aimed to draw tourists to town, saw the return of Pueblo-Spanish- and Territorial-style architecture—styles that still dominate the roughly two-square-mile area today. When the Spanish arrived in New Mexico in the late 16th century, they were inspired by the homes Native Americans were living in. The multistory dwellings, which the Spanish called pueblos (meaning “villages”), were a series of rooms built around a central plaza. The walls were made of stone, wood, and puddled adobe, and the flat roofs were supported by wooden vigas and embellished with latillas. The Spanish eventually adapted the building style to suit their own needs and preferences, using adobe to construct one- or two-room homes and adding few doors or windows in order to keep out the cold in the winter and the heat in the summer. Over the centuries the Spanish and Native American architectural traditions blended to create the iconic look that was revived in the early 20th century. Territorial-style architecture dates from the mid-19th century and features Greek-revival trim added to doors and windows, coping on adobe walls, and square instead of round columns. Be sure to look for these distinct types of architecture when you’re strolling on and around Downtown’s Plaza. 12

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for the love of art Downtown’s thriving gallery scene speaks to Santa Fe’s role as an important art market Boasting the third-largest art market in the country, thanks to its vast and diverse assortment of galleries, Santa Fe has been luring and inspiring artistic types for more than a century with its idyllic climate and stunningly beautiful scenery. Downtown’s historic, walkable streets north, south, east, and west of the 405-year-old Plaza are lined with galleries selling everything from

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high-end paintings and black-and-white photographs to large-scale installations and religious iconography. So whether you’re a serious collector or a first-time buyer, you won’t walk away empty-handed while traipsing around Downtown. San Francisco Street forms the southern edge of the Plaza and is filled with galleries showcasing Native American pottery, cowboy art, and custom-made jewelry. On the Plaza’s east side, shops along Old Santa Fe Trail burst with sculptures, weavings, fetishes, and katsinas. North of the Plaza, Palace Avenue features a mixture of traditional landscapes, clay sculptures, textile arts, cartoon animations, and color-field paintings, while on Lincoln, Washington, and Marcy you’ll find some of the world’s best fine art photography, Native American sculpture, modernist masterpieces, and mixed-media

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magnificent museums lose (or discover) yourself in world-class cultural and historic exhibitions Georgia O’Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson, 505-946-1000, okeeffemuseum.org The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is dedicated to the work of American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986). Its permanent collection includes 1,149 of O’Keeffe’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures, and changing exhibitions often feature works by O’Keeffe’s contemporaries as well as those by other celebrated 20th-century artists like Andy Warhol.

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Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral, 505-983-8900, iaia.edu/museum The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) is run by the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), the only four-year fine arts institution devoted to contemporary Native American and Alaska Native art. Known for its progressive exhibitions, MoCNA holds 7,500 works in its permanent collection.

New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors 113 Lincoln, 505-476-5200, nmhistorymuseum.org The New Mexico History Museum presents permanent, changing, and interactive exhibitions that interpret the compelling backstory of the 47th state. The museum also comprises the Palace of the Governors, which was constructed in the early 17th century as the local seat of the Spanish government. New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace, 505-476-5076, nmartmuseum.org The New Mexico Museum of Art is the oldest art museum in the state, with a permanent collection that includes 20,000 historic and contemporary works from New Mexico and the Southwest. The museum also rotates cutting-edge photography and video exhibitions, among others, and is home to St. Francis Auditorium, which serves as a venue for musical events like the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

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