Left: Frederico M. Vigil, Santa Madre Tierra y su Alma, 1991, buon fresco Albuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1989 General Obligation Bonds, 1% for Art funds, City of Albuquerque, and funds provided by Nancy R. Briggs. Below: Sebastian (born Enrique Carbajal González), Variacion Nuevo México, 1989, painted steel, Albuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1987 General Obligation Bonds and 1% for Art Funds, City of Albuquerque.
Meandering Through Art The Sculpture Garden provides a socially distanced Museum experience. THE ALBUQUERQUE
world. The bronze Prayer, by
sculpture of Spanish novelist
MUSEUM SCULPTURE
Bob’s father Alan Houser, is
Miguel de Cervantes, author
GARDEN contains more
one of the most recognizable
of Don Quixote. The artist
than 50 works located in the
pieces in the east garden,
experiments with perspective,
Museum's lobby, atriums, and
reflecting on culture and tra-
allowing the viewer to see
beautifully landscaped grounds.
dition by combining abstract
Cervantes as an abstract work
The garden contains artworks
forms and the body.
from different angles.
by a diverse cross-section of
Other works like Michael
Alma by Frederico Vigil is a
Another formidable sculp-
combination of familiar and
artists, addressing themes such
Orgel’s Nurturance, Oliver
ture, Atomic Needle, is made
abstract shapes. With a rich
as the relationships between
LaGrones’ Mercy, and Glenna
of metal collected from
earthen color palette, the fres-
humans and nature, and his-
Goodacres’ Park Place reflect
discarded equipment at Los
co honors Holy Mother Earth
torical and cultural narratives
on the importance of people
Alamos National Labs. Tony
and Her Soul. Fresco is an
specific to New Mexico and
and place, showing figures
Price transforms the vestiges of
age-old painting technique
the Southwest.
coming together, the cycle of
destruction into new symbols.
that has been utilized by art-
life, and people taking care of
Santa Madre Tierra y su
On the east side of the Museum, visitors might be familiar
one another. Jesus Moroles’
with Sebastian, whose large
Floating Mesa and Tom Wal-
blue installation is an abstract
dron’s Blue Tank reflect on the
expression of Pueblo architec-
landscape of New Mexico
ture. For Bear with Planes and
and the importance of water
Clouds, Bob Haozous used a
in our region.
single sheet of steel to illus-
Highlights in the west
trate the impact of technology
garden include Charles
on the natural and spiritual
Strong's large-scale bronze
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Art. History. People.
ists all over the world.
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