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| Connecting
you to the Contemporary Art that makes
a difference in the world
From
2/1/09 through 12/31/09 we will be exploring the theme:
Memory: Shadow & Light – Art as individual/
collective memory
In
2009 we will be exploring through the work of many outstanding artists
the questions that underlie this theme: How does memory function?
What is history? How do contemporary artists frame the past in their
work? Whether critical, irreverent, or introspective, the artists
in “Memory” delve into personal memory and the past,
transforming and embracing them in their work. The artists wrestle
with complex topics such as the veracity of history, the nature
of interpretation, subjective versus objective truth, and the ways
in which objects and images, past and contemporary, embody cultural
memory, meditations on self-identity and place and global contemporary
cultures’ obsession with repressed trauma.
2009
Updated Schedule of artists and events
February
2/9 - Gay Block - Screening
and Q&A,
2/19 - February Artists & Writers
Open Studio
March
3/9 - Godfrey Reggio - Lecture, 3/10
- 11 Workshop
3/19 - March Artists & Writers Open
Studio
April
4/16 - April Artists & Writers Open
Studio
4/20 - Rudolf Baranik - Panel Discussion
May
5/4 - Issa
Nyaphaga Talk (More>pdf) - SFAI Artist-in-Residence
talk about his work with the non-profit organization he founded,
Hope International for Tikar People (HITIP). Following the talk,
Nyaphaga will do a performative painting piece with the accompaniment
of live, local musicians as part of his ‘Urban Way’
philosophy.
5/11 - David Maisel (More>pdf)
- Lecture | 5/12
Workshop
5/12 – Christy Hengst’s ‘Birds
in the Park Installation’ (More>pdf)
- Porcelain, printed with cobalt blue, these birds are, in a sense,
carrierpigeons, carrying images and text related to war and peace
side by side. Inherent is the question, what kind of future do memories
create?
5/14 – ‘Memory Preserved: The Crypto-Jewish
Roots of New Mexico’ (More>pdf)
Readings & Performance. - Santa Fe Art Institute in con-junction
with Gaon Books presentst an event remembering the Sephardic and
Crypto-Jewish experience of New Mexico.
5/21 - May Artists & Writers Open
Studio
June
6/4, El Duque
de la Bachata Film Screening and Q&A with Director/Producer
Adam Taub, 7pm-8:25pm Tipton Hall - $5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI
members
6/4, A Short Bachata History and Demo with Carlos Mora, Brief Bachata
Dance Class with Carlos Mora, Latin
Dance Party with Carlos as DJ, 8:30-10:30pm, SFAI Gallery One
$10
6/8 - Laurie Anderson - Performance | 6/9 Talk
and Q&A
6/18 - June Artists & Writers Open
Studio
6/22 - Life on the Rocks: One Woman’s
Adventures in Petroglyph Preservation, Katherine Wells -
Reading
6/22-26 – Aluminum Plate Lithography
Workshop
6/25 - Bad Land, Rebecca Belmore, Lori
Blondeau, Bonnie Devine, and Erica Lord. Discussion in collaboration
with IAIA Museum
6/27-7/21 - ‘Where
Light Meets Water; Mumuru on the Equator - T12a’
- Exhibition - LAND/ART is a collaboration exploring land-based
art in New Mexico with a series of exhibitions, site-specific projects,
lectures performances, tours and more.
6/28- El Otro Lado Community
Art Project - Citywide Exhibition Opening
July
7/13 - Tom Joyce - Lecture
7/14 - Tom Joyce -
Forge demonstration and Bastille Day celebration
7/16 - July Artists & Writers Open
Studio
August
8/3 - Blake Gopnik - Lecture | 8/4 Workshop
8/20 - August Artists & Writers
Open Studio
September
9/14 - James Drake - Lecture, 9/15
- 16 Workshop
9/17 - September Artists & Writers
Open Studio
October
10/15 - October Artists & Writers
Open Studio
10/26 - Rackstraw Downes
November
11/9 - Susan York - Lecture |
11/12-13
Workshop
11/19 - November Artists & Writers
Open Studio
December
12/7 - Susan Meiselas - Lecture | 12/8
Workshop
12/17 - December Artists & Writers
Open Studio
Estevan Rael-Galvez
- TBD
Kerry James Marshall - TBD
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Gay
Block - 2/9, Camp
Girls screening
As a portrait photographer, Gay Block began in 1973 with portraits of
her own affluent Jewish community in Houston and later expanded this study
to include South Miami Beach and girls at summer camp. Her 1992 landmark
work with writer Malka Drucker, RESCUERS: Portraits of Moral Courage in
the Holocaust, both a book and traveling exhibit, has been seen in over
fifty venues in the US and abroad. In 2003 Block's 30-year portrait of
her mother in photographs, video, and words, Bertha Alyce: Mother exPosed,
was published and began as a traveling exhibit. Also published in 2003
was another collaboration with Drucker, White Fire: A Portrait of Women
Spiritual Leaders in America. In 2006, Block re-photographed women who
were girls in her 1981 series from Camp Pinecliffe, twenty-five years
before.
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Godfrey
Reggio - 3/9 Lecture, 3/10 - 11 Workshop
Godfrey Reggio is a pioneer of a film form that creates poetic images
of extraordinary emotional impact for audiences worldwide. Reggio is prominent
in the film world for his QATSI trilogy. (In July of 2009, Koyaanisqatsi
will be performed LIVE at the Hollywood Bowl by the Los Angeles Philharmonic
and the Philip Glass Ensemble.) His essays of image and music present
in his words an artopsy of that which is hidden in plain sight, ordinary
daily living. His cinematic collaboration with Philip Glass has extended
over a period of thirty years. Currently they are working on an anarchic-comedic
film set in the ruins of modernity. Reggio has a history of service not
only to the environment, but with street gangs and community organization.
Born in 1940, he is a seventh generation New Orleanean. He entered the
Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic Order, at age fourteen and was relieved
from his final vows at age twenty-eight. He is a frequent lecturer on
art, cinema, philosophy and technology. His filmography additionally includes
Anima Mundi (1992) and Evidence (1995)
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Dark
Memory: Rudolf Baranik and Art about History
- 4/6 Panel Discussion
With David Craven, Jim Drobnick, Lucy Lippard, May Stevens
Tipton Hall, 6pm
$5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members
We are pleased to present, as part of our 2009 visiting artist season,
a discussion panel about the life and work of the late Rudolf Baranik.
Painter, Rudolf Baranik, was a rare character in the art world of the
1970’s and 80’s, refusing to choose between making work that
was beautiful and work that was political in an environment that was not
keen to blur the line between the two. Although well-known amongst the
activist communities of the late 60’s and early 70’s, Baranik
continues to be strangely absent from the histories and collections of
the mainstream art world. Richard Leslie wrote in 1998 a few months after
Baranik’s death, “One of the dirty little secrets of the more
canonical art world is that it continues to claim for art the ‘aura’
of social relevance derived from the early politicized history of the
avant-garde while at the same time it marginalizes art forms such as Baranik’s
that are developed from fully-committed political positions.”
Our four esteemed panelists will discuss Baranik’s role in art history
in addition to his art about history, and how art serves as a way of memorializing,
in the strictest sense of the word, the past. More(pdf)>
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David
Maisel - 5/11 Lecture, 5/12 Workshop
For more than twenty years, photographer David Maisel has chronicled the
tensions between nature and culture in his large-scaled photographs of
environmentally impacted landscapes. In the multi-chaptered series Black
Maps, Maisel’s aerial images become sublime meditations on what
the curator Anne Tucker has termed ‘the engaging duality between
beauty and repulsion.’ In Maisel’s recent project, Library
of Dust, he continues to investigate a zone bordered by aesthetics and
ethics. The series depicts individual copper canisters, each containing
the cremated remains of patients from a state-run psychiatric hospital,
whose bodies have been unclaimed by their families. Maisel has recently
been an Artist in Residence at both the Getty Research Institute and at
the Headlands Center for the Arts.
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Laurie
Anderson - 6/8 Performance, 6/9 Lecture and Q &
A
Burning
Leaves: A Retrospective of Song and Stories
6/8
Performance, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7:30pm
$35, $50, $95*
*These special $95 fundraising tickets include a cocktail party, priority
seating, and a special edition SFAI/Laurie Anderson T-Shirt
6/9 Lecture and Q&A with Laurie Anderson, 11.00am
Lensic Performing Arts Cente, $10
Tickets for the Performance and the Lecture will be available through
the Lensic Box Office at 505.988.1234.
Laurie Anderson
is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays
violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and
art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first
performance-art piece in the late 1960s. The art scene of the early 1970s
fostered an experimental attitude among many young artists in downtown
New York that attracted Anderson, and some of her earliest performances
as an artist took place on the street or in informal art spaces. In the
most memorable of these, she stood on a block of ice, playing her violin
while wearing her ice skates. When the ice melted, the performance ended.
She became widely known in 1981 when her single ‘O Superman’
reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed
the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave. More(pdf)>
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Tom
Joyce - 7/13 Lecture, 7/14 Forge demonstration and
Bastille Day celebration
Tom Joyce is an artist, designer, and blacksmith, who since 1977 in Santa
Fe, New Mexico, has forged sculpture, architectural ironwork and public
art for projects throughout the United States. Joyce infuses many of these
works with meaning by celebrating the inherited histories represented
by the material he uses. In both public and private commissions, he encourages
community members to participate in the making process by donating ferrous
materials discarded in and collected from the landscape or particular
iron objects that hold significance to the owner. From the Rio Grande
Gates, forged from refuse retrieved from the river for the Albuquerque
Museum of Art, to massive iron sculptures forged from industrial scrap,
Joyce continues to re-examine the social, political, economic and historical
implications of using iron in his work.
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Blake
Gopnik - 8/3 Lecture, 8/4 Workshop
Blake Gopnik is the chief art critic of the Washington Post, where he
publishes regular reviews and features on all aspects of fine art and
visual culture. He has also published scholarly articles on Renaissance
notions of pictorial mimesis, and is currently doing research on Dutch
painting and the psychology of perspective. He holds a doctorate in art
history from Oxford University.
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James
Drake - 9/14, Lecture, 9/15 - 16, Workshop
Renowned artist James Drake has presented his figurative, narrative art
internationally, receiving early critical praise for his dramatic steel
sculptures, drawings and video installations. Drake is one of those astoundingly
versatile artists who has managed to create accomplished, distinctive
work in a number of media. In the process, he has deployed a consistent
vocabulary of images relating to art history, weaponry, the fine line
between savagery and civilization, and life on the densely populated bilingual
Juarez-El Paso border. James Drake characterizes himself as a narrative
artist, albeit one who is more interested in vignettes and fragments than
in storytelling.’
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Rackstraw
Downes - 10/26 Lecture
Rackstraw Downes is a British-born realist painter and author. Downes'
work combines the familiar with a sense of minimalism. His long, sprawling
landscapes lack human subjects, yet they hint at man's interaction with
the environment. The large public spaces in his work explore the effects
of light and atmosphere and look to capture a specific moment in time.
Downes' paintings are full of meticulous detail gained from months of
regular plein-air sessions. Downes' work is in the collections of many
museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New York,
the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, Texas; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
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Susan
York - 11/9 Lecture, 11/12 – 13 Workshop
Sculptor Susan York represents the new generation of minimal artists.
Every aspect of her life demonstrates a spiritual determination to pare
down to the essentials: the way she speaks and engages with issues, her
studio practice, and her art reflect her strength of vision. York is an
artist-alchemist who transforms basic carbon in the form of graphite into
something silvery and magical. As has been York’s practice since
she was young, her ideas reveal themselves slowly. Time is an important
part of the process and the result is powerful and engaging art that takes
the viewer to a place of immense calm and subtle tension.
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Susan
Meiselas - 12/7 Lecture, 12/8 Workshop
Susan Meiselas is an American photographer best known for her work covering
the political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and '80s. Meiselas'
process has evolved in radical and challenging ways as she has grappled
with pivotal questions about her relationship to her subjects, the use
and circulation of her images in the media, and the relationship of images
to history and memory. Since the 1970s, questions of ethics raised by
documentary practice have been central to debates in photography. Perhaps
no other photographer has so closely and consistently represented and
participated in these debates than Meiselas. Her insistent engagement
with these concerns has positioned her as a leading voice in the debate
on contemporary documentary practice.
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Estevan
Rael-Gálvez - TBD
In 2001, Estevan Rael-Gálvez was named the 7th State Historian
for New Mexico. Rael-Gálvez was born into the New Mexico landscape
and is the heir of the long stories of its people. Raised herding sheep
and moving waters in northern New Mexico, his imagination was nourished
somewhere between the delicacy of what was spoken by his elders and the
strength of the written word. It was this ability to see through the mountain
while never losing sight of it that sustained him when he decided to break
tradition and leave home. He attended the University of California at
Berkeley, where he earned his B.A. in Literature and Ethnic Studies. He
went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. in American Cultures at the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His doctoral dissertation, ‘Identifying
Captivity and Capturing Identity: Narratives of American Indian Slavery’
focused on the meanings of American Indian slavery and a unique legacy
and identity in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.
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Kerry
James Marshall - TBD
The subject matter of Kerry James Marshall’s paintings, installations,
and public projects is often drawn from African-American popular culture,
and is rooted in the geography of his upbringing in Birmingham Alabama and
the South Central and Watts districts of Los Angeles. Marshall’s work
is based on a broad range of art-historical references, from Renaissance
painting to black folk art, from El Greco to Charles White. A striking aspect
of his paintings is the emphatically black skin tone of his figures, a development
the artist says emerged from an investigation into the invisibility of blacks
in America and the unnecessarily negative connotations associated with darkness.
Marshall believes ‘you still have to earn your audience’s attention
every time you make something.’ The sheer beauty of his work speaks
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