2023 Collectors Guide to Santa Fe

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2023 COLLECTORS GUIDE TO SANTA FE

JUNE 2023
MARK WHITE FINE ART Mark White, New Mexico Grasslands, 20x24, Acrylic Gesso on Canvas www.markwhitefineart.com | info@markwhitefineart.com | 505-490-6440 Gallery Inquiries Welcome

Fatima Ronquillo

Recollections: Portraits of Enchantment | June 16 - September 24, 2023

Embark on a journey through the captivating world of Fatima Ronquillo’s “Recollections: Portraits of Enchantment”, her first solo museum exhibition opening June 16th at Meyer Gallery. The exhibition will then will travel to the esteemed Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, NM, from June 30th to September 24th. Experience a selection of Ronquillo’s previously released artworks alongside her extraordinary new works. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to immerse yourself in the enchanting world of one of today’s most celebrated portrait artists.

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“Journey’s End: Winged Victory and Jaguar at Rest” oil On Aluminium Panel, 32 x 40”

VIVA THE CIT Y DIFFERENT

Part of the fun of admiring and acquiring art is visiting the wonderful places where it is made and sold. Among the most atmospheric places in America to see and collect art is Santa Fe, New Mexico, which offers a delightful mix of excellence, diversity, and laid-back charm. The art available ranges in date across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries — sometimes even earlier — and there is always someone interesting to chat with wherever you go. Your coffee barista may well be an award-winning musician, and the receptionist at the gallery is probably an up-andcoming artist. You can be sure there’s someone famous within a quarter mile of you, but unlike in the Hamptons or Malibu, they are lying low and fitting right in.

Particularly intriguing in Santa Fe is the cheek-by-jowl flourishing of artforms drawn from different cultural legacies: Native American, Hispanic, and “Western” (by the latter, I mean both European-American and the American West). There’s also a more level playing field among the fine and decorative arts here: great jewelry, blankets, ceramics, metalwork, and ethnographic artifacts are prized just as much as paintings, sculpture, and works on paper. Practitioners in these artforms see and respect

each other in Santa Fe, and much creativity has flowed from their encounters.

In Santa Fe, there’s a surprising familiarity among non-experts with the great artistic talents of previous generations: you’ll be struck by how many people know who the members of the Taos Society of Artists were (more than a century ago), or Gustave Baumann, Nicolai Fechin, Leon Gaspard, Fremont Ellis, or Eric Sloane. Locals are especially familiar with the more recent greats — such as Glenna Goodacre, Clark Hulings, and Wilson Hurley — and can probably tell you about the time they waited at a bus stop with one of them.

In the title of the article you’ll read here, we were careful to include the phrase “Indoors and Out,” because Santa Fe is one of the world’s few art market capitals where nature plays such a powerful role in your visitor experience. It is no accident that Canyon Road — that legendary stretch of art galleries — abuts the Acequia Madre (Mother Ditch) that still helps irrigate the city. Georgia O’Keeffe would surely have agreed that nature and culture are unusually intertwined in Santa Fe — a fact that somehow, magically, makes us appreciate both of them more intensely.

Happy travels.

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On the cover: FATIMA RONQUILLO, Child with Armadillo and GoldenCheeked Warbler (detail), oil, 36 x 30 in., available through Meyer Gallery

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Art is meaningful! It enhances our lives and enriches our souls. This unique painting collection represents my personal journey, my visual message, and my passion for experiencing life and expressing the moment. I hope my spirit lives in the paintings I leave behind.

This is not simply a series about seeing as an artist, as there can be no translation of the visual experience without feeling. Intermixed within my pigments is my heart.

This beautiful high mountain pond nurtured my spirit and fed my passion and let inspiration lead me from one painting to the next. This truly sums up what my life as an artist is and represents plein air painting at the purest form.

“Kevin Macpherson’s pond series is much more than a static subject that he recorded once a day, 368 times, it is a reflection of life during that year and all the other years that define our lives. Indeed, the pond is Macpherson himself, as he so profoundly observed. But the pond is also you and me, and this series of paintings is an elegant speculation on life, an effort to give meaning to the passage of time in a way that celebrates it in inspiring statements of color and form, of light and atmosphere.”

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“Kevin’s pond series is the ultimate definition of impressionism and plein air painting. It demonstrates his mastery of the art form and is a major highlight of his long and distinguished career.”

Roy Rose, Art Collector, Grand-Nephew of Guy Rose, California Impressionist

Reflections on a Pond not only lives within the series of oil paintings themselves but also in the beautiful book. Over 400 color reproductions, 260 pages that capture the ever-changing daily and seasonal differences coupled with the moods and insight of the artist.

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Kevin is recognized as one of the foremost plein air painters of the 21st century. His paintings are coveted by collectors and have been critiqued and reproduced in hundreds of articles and books. This impressive collection has been exhibited in prestigious art centers and art museums across the U.S. and China: California, New York , Ohio, Arizona, New Mexico, Kaiping, Shaoguan, Guangzhou, and Shanghai.

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SANTA FE: INSPIRING BEAUTY, INDOORS AND OUT IN

a world where we must usually choose between destinations of natural beauty or cultural riches, the city of Santa Fe in northern New Mexico offers that rarest of luxuries — having it both ways.

Located 7,200 feet above sea level, this community of 88,000 residents is set in a high desert landscape of wildflowers, sagebrush, and juniper pine. Driving northward out of Santa Fe through canyons and mesas, or hiking in nearby foothills and mountains, visitors are virtually guaranteed a dose of clear, intense light and vast blue sky with scudding white clouds, punctuated by the occasional sharp, short thunderstorm. Dotting the surrounding landscape are

imposing Indian pueblos and tawny adobe churches that have long withstood the climate’s extreme heat and cold.

Settled by Native Americans long ago, the region was colonized — barely — by Spaniards venturing northward from Mexico City in the early 1600s. The flag of newly independent Mexico was raised here in 1821 but replaced by Old Glory in 1848, and New Mexico did not achieve U.S. statehood until 1912. Thus the city is adorned with handsome buildings that reflect its multicultural history, including some grander “Pueblo Revival” buildings erected by the beloved local architect John Gaw Meem (1894–1983).

Even a quick drive around Santa Fe suggests why its motto is “The City Different,” and why UNESCO added it to the relatively small

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Indian Market attracts up to 100,000 visitors every August.
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The New Mexico Museum of Art was designed by John Gaw Meem. ROBERT DAUGHTERS (1929–2013), Pueblo Church, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in., available through Meyer Gallery
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FREMONT ELLIS (1897–1985), Blue October Weather, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in., available through Nedra Matteucci Galleries

Creative Cities Network. Beyond the counterculture legacy it cherishes, Santa Fe is highly focused on arts and culture, with more artists, performers, and writers per capita than any other U.S. city. Every season features festivals celebrating various aspects of the visual and performing arts, and the city remains one of America’s largest markets for fine art. Although most artists’ studios are off-limits, you can be sure artists are all around you, absorbing the city’s funky vibes and channeling it into their own creations.

Few visitors have enough energy to hit all of Santa Fe’s hundreds of commercial galleries. Planning your itinerary is aided by visiting the website of the Santa Fe Gallery Association (santafegalleryassociation.org), which on July 10

will kick off the city’s popular ArtWeek with a festive party. (Watch its website for details.)

DOWNTOWN

Summer is when the city really hops artistically. Its biggest event is the renowned Indian Market, organized by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (swaia.org), which will take over the main plaza again August 19–20. Participating this year will be more than 1,200 artists representing 100 tribal nations, selling their work directly to an estimated 100,000 visitors. Smaller but also intriguing is the Atrisco Heritage Foundation’s annual Traditional Spanish Market, to be held on the plaza July 29–30. The city capitalizes on its handsome convention center downtown, where the flag-

ship fair ART Santa Fe (artsantafe.com) will occur July 14–16. And on most days, visitors get an enticing glimpse of local entrepreneurship by strolling past the blankets laid out by Indian artisans under the Portal of the Palace of the Governors, which faces the plaza.

Many visitors begin their artistic adventures downtown near the plaza. Often their first destination is the New Mexico Museum of Art (nmartmuseum.org), which offers rotating exhibitions and fascinating displays that blend Native, Hispanic, and EuropeanAmerican works from the collection to provide an intercultural history of the state. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (okeeffe museum.org) nearby is very popular, so consider booking your tickets in advance. The

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( ABOVE ) Artist Pamela Frankel Fiedler works outside Intrigue Gallery on Canyon Road (RIGHT) Native artisans sell their creations from blankets laid out in the Portal of the Palace of the Governors.

world-renowned artist (1887–1986) first visited New Mexico in 1917 on a holiday from her native Texas. “If you ever go to New Mexico,” she noted, “it will itch you for the rest of your life,” and indeed much of her work after 1929, and all of it after 1949, was made here. Since opening in 1997, the museum has earned a global reputation for intriguing contextual exhibitions and its research center devoted to American modernism. O’Keeffe fans should contact the museum to learn about visiting her homes at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiú, an exhilarating drive away.

While downtown, don’t miss the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, operated by the Institute of American Indian Arts, and also three superb galleries handling primarily historical art: Shiprock (shiprocksantafe.com), Owings Gallery (owingsgallery.com), and

William Siegal Gallery (williamsiegal.com).

Two standout galleries dealing in contemporary art here are Manitou Galleries (manitougalleries.com) and Sugarman-Peterson Gallery (sugarmanpetersongallery.com), and Worrell Gallery (worrellgallery.com).

CANYON ROAD

Santa Fe’s largest hub for art remains Canyon Road, which winds along an old Indian trail and is lined with an array of handsome adobe houses, some dating back to the 18th century. The best introduction is attending its festive open houses, scheduled every Friday evening after work during all but the coldest months. On those evenings, Canyon Road is filled with art lovers strolling in and out of the latest exhibitions and deciding which of Santa Fe’s excellent restaurants to visit later. On May 13, the Canyon Road

Merchants Association will host its 10th annual Canyon Road Spring Arts Festival, showcasing dozens of artists demonstrating their techniques and answering onlookers’ questions.

Among the standouts here handling both contemporary and historical art are Gerald Peters Gallery (gpgallery.com), which is showing recent woodblock prints created by Leon Loughridge (June 30–September 2); and Nedra Matteucci Fine Art (matteucci.com), exhibiting recent sculptures by Doug Hyde (August 12–September 2). Historical New Mexico masterworks are available nearby at Zaplin Lampert Gallery (zaplinlampert.com), and superb contemporary art is found at Meyer Gallery (meyergalleries.com), where Fatima Ronquillo will open her next show of historicized portraits on June 16. At McLarry Fine Art

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( LEFT ) Artist Tobi Clement works outside Canyon Road Contemporary Art ( ABOVE ) WILLIAM BERRA (b. 1952), Gate at Fenn’s Pond, 1994, oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in., available through Nedra Matteucci Galleries
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DOUGLAS FRYER (b. 1963), August, oil on Masonite, 10 x 10 in., available through Meyer Gallery
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MICHAEL WORKMAN (b. 1959). Ghost Ranch, oil on birchwood, 31 x 31 in., available through Meyer Gallery
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(ABOVE ) SHELDON PARSONS (1866–1943), Well in Front of Adobes (Untitled), oil on board, 24 x 36 in., available through Nedra Matteucci Galleries ( LEFT ) FATIMA RONQUILLO, Child with Armadillo and Golden-Cheeked Warbler, oil, 36 x 30 in., available through Meyer Gallery

(mclarryfineart.com), painter Kathleen Hudson has scheduled a solo show opening May 26.

Other Canyon Road venues to visit are Acosta-Strong Fine Art (acostastrong. com), Aurelia Gallery (aureliagallery.com), Canyon Road Contemporary Art (canyon contemporary.com), Dominique Boisjoli Fine Art (dominqueboisjoli.com), GiacobbeFritz Fine Art (giacobbefritz.com), Globe Fine Art (globefineart.com), Intrigue Gallery (intriguegallery.com), Legacy Gallery (manitou galleries.com), Matthews Gallery (thematthews gallery.com), New Concept Gallery (newconceptgallery.com), Sage Creek Gallery (sagecreekgallery.com), Susan Eddings Pérez Gallery (susaneddingsperez.com), Underwood Gallery (underwoodgallerynm.com), Ventana Fine Art (ventanafineart.com), and Winterowd Fine Art (fineartsantafe.com).

RAILYARD DISTRICT & MUSEUM HILL

Once sleepy and rundown, the Railyard District has — over the past decade — taken on a hip, postindustrial vibe thanks to the influx of galleries and other artistic enterprises. At its heart is the cutting-edge, nonprofit venue SITE Santa Fe (sitesantafe.org), and visitors should also check out El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe (elmuseo cultural.org), which focuses on Hispanic artforms.

Located in the Railyard area are several top-quality venues to see art, including Blue Rain Gallery (blueraingallery.com), Charlotte Jackson Fine Art (charlottejackson. com), Evoke Contemporary (evokecontemporary.com), LewAllen Galleries (lewallencontemporary.com), and Zane Bennett Contemporary Art (zanebennettgallery.com).

If you have extra time, spend a day further out of town on Museum Hill, a cultural

complex that is home to the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, and Museum of International Folk Art. On May 6, the latter will host its Folk Art Flea, where bargains are usually found.

PRACTICALITIES

Getting to Santa Fe is now easier than ever, thanks to the Rail Runner Express train line racing from Albuquerque’s airport northward to Santa Fe Depot. Though the city is well supplied with hotel rooms, consider organizing your trip now in order to get the best room at the best price. Visit the Tourism Santa Fe site (santafe.org) for leads on all sorts of practicalities. Then get ready to experience a unique American destination.

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CLARK HULINGS (1922–2011), San Ildefonso After School, 1969, oil on Masonite, 24 x 36 in., available through Nedra Matteucci Galleries
FINEARTCONNOISSEUR COM MAY / JUNE 2023 CG17 ALBUQUERQUE, NM www.barbaracoleman.com Signature memberships in Oil Painters of America, Pastel Society of America, Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, Member of Women Artist of the West UPCOMING EXHIBITION American Impressionist Society Impressions: Small Works Showcase | District Gallery | Knoxville, Tennessee | April 14 - May 20, 2023 Master and Signature Member Exhibition of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico | Taos Art Museum at Fechin House | June 13 - July 23, 2023
Nedra Matteucci Galleries 1075 Paseo de Peralta • Santa Fe, NM 505-982-4631 • matteucci.com Cynthia Inson Breathing the Light oil on masonite 12 x 24 inches
Sandia Glow, 12”x24”, oil Worth the Hike- Louis Lake, 20”x16”, oil
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15TH ANNUAL NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION AT SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO SEPTEMBER 1 - 16, 2023 Join us! Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony September 1st | 6 - 8 PM | Legends of the West Gallery View award-winning art in person or online at PAPNM.ORG Best of Artist Members, 14th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Spike Ress, Navajo Desert, 9 x 12”, Gouache When the light of day and dark of night meet at twilight, the visual myth of the “in-between time” is revealed in Tobi’s paintings. TOBI CLEMENT TobiClementArtist.com Representation: Canyon road Contemporary Art Gallery 2023 NEW MEXICO WORKSHOPS: Look UP! | Bluebird Studios, Santa Fe | June 2-4 Building a Foundation in Pastels | Benedictine Monastery, Pecos | August 23-26 A Lovers Farewell 24” x 32” pastel PAPNM.ORG
DICK WIMBERLY Seeking Joy, Authenticity,and Beauty EXHIBITIONS: Taos Art Museum at Fechin House Invitational Exhibition June 13 -July 23, 2023 PAPNM 15th Annual National Juried Exhibition Sept 1-16, 2023. Where the Mountain Meets the Sky 8” x 12” Oil on linen dickwimberly@gmail.com dickwimberly.com CAROLYN LINDSEY carolynlindsey.com lindseycj@plateautel.net Represented by: Mary Williams Fine Art Honore’s 15 x 20 in., oil PAPNM.ORG
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Ethelbah Spirit of Fall, 14” x 11”, Oil www.joyouslakestudios.com (928) 274-6173| pentemeyer@gmail.com Lee McVey PAPNM-M, IAPS-MC, PSNM-DP, PAAC, PSA www.leemcvey.com • lee@leemcvey.com • 505-417-3516 Shadow & Light, San Lorenzo 16 x 12 in., Pastel LEE MACLEOD leemacleodfineart.com n.macleod@att.net Chapel On The Hill, 12” x 9” , Oil on Board NANCY SILVIA Autumn Foothills, 12x16 in., pastel Wilder Nightingale Fine Art, Taos, NM www.nancysilviastudio.com n@nancysilvia.com • 505-231-2312 PAPNM.ORG
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