Past Events
Wish You Were Here
Dec 13, 2013 - Feb 15, 2014
An exhibition at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, featuring work by Elliot Anderson, Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, Matt McCormick, Roger Minick, Karla Wozniak, and Cedra Wood. The road trip has been around for centuries. First-century Roman aristocrats traveled around the Mediterranean visiting sites that even then were considered ancient wonders. During the...
Watershed Bounding
May 3, 2014 - Jun 29, 2014
Watershed Bounding is a collection of work from the practice of field-based artists who locate their creative process and critical inquiry in the ecologic conditions of “Place”. Showcased in this exhibition are works from Land Arts of the American West students, alumni, faculty, and visiting artists curated around the theme of Watershed. Alongside this is...
Ucross: A Portrait In Place
Jun 27, 2015 - Sep 7, 2015
The Land Arts of the American West program at the University of New Mexico and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies present a transdisciplinary exhibition entitled Ucross: A Portrait in Place. During two two-week residencies in 2013 and 2014, seven artists–all alums of the Land Arts program–worked with Yale scientists, including Charlie Bettigole,...
That Sound Under the Floor Is The Sea.
Apr 5, 2013 - Apr 25, 2013
That Sound Under the Floor Is The Sea, a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings, sketches, prints, and ephemera from the Far North, is the result of art-centric travels above the Arctic Circle in September – November 2012. From the press release: “Svalbard, a remote archipelago halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, was home...
Alcove 12.8
Jan 18, 2013 - Feb 15, 2013
(s)and: an introduction
May 2, 2015 - May 30, 2015
(s)and is a group of artists, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This exhibition will serve to introduce our work as unique particles of a whole, a sum and its parts, to illustrate the diversity and quality of artistic voices in this region. Coming together as a community, we promote community, despite differences, to create a...
The Renga Project
Jun 20, 2013 - Jun 22, 2014
The Renga Project began on the summer solstice, 2013, and is a new take on an ancient traditional collaborative form of Japanese poetry. Fifty-two weekly stanzas were written by a diverse group of New Mexico poets; fifty-two New Mexico artists were invited to create a linked drawing with each artist responding to a writer’s stanza....
Relative Proximity
Apr 1, 2013 - May 23, 2013
Magnetic North: Artists and the Arctic Circle
May 27, 2014 - Aug 29, 2014
The Arctic Circle is an expeditionary residency that brings together artists, architects, writers, composers, scientists and educators. For several weeks each year, participants voyage into the open seas and fjords of the Svalbard archipelago aboard a specially equipped sailing vessel. Magnetic North is a selection of works by 23 artists from the 2009-2012 residencies: Saul...
Knew Normal
Jun 6, 2015 - Aug 9, 2015
“We’ve never been here before” is a sentiment that brings to mind uncharted paths, discovery, excitement and adventure. We, as a civilization, have never come so far. But in 2013, when scientists at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii uttered this phrase with respect to the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, it was...
Imaginarium
Jan 23, 2015 - Feb 15, 2015
Curated by artist Dr. Amanda Stuart, Imaginarium explores the realm of imaginary creatures and/or forms that speak to interpretations of “hybrids”: imaginary creatures, creations, or objects that are fanciful, intriguing, even confronting; invite interpretation, and explore the cross-fertilisation of ideas, places and imagery. The exhibition explores the political, spiritual, technological, biological, ecological and cultural, and...
Fathom out
Sep 5, 2013 - Oct 1, 2013
Far-Flung: A Three-Person Exhibition
Jul 20, 2012 - Aug 14, 2012
An exhibition of work by Lauren Greenwald, Brooke Steiger, and Cedra Wood, showcasing sculptures, prints, paintings, drawings, video and photographs by the three artists. Initially brought together by their mutual experiences in the Land Arts of the American West Program at the University of New Mexico, Greenwald, Steiger and Wood have independently applied a peripatetic...
You Are The Doorway
Nov 1, 2014 - Nov 1, 2014
In conjunction with OneBeat ABQ at the Rail Yards, for one night only–Saturday, November 1, 5-9pm. You are the Doorway is a series of installations curated by Billy Joe Miller, appearing in the Albuquerque Railyards Blacksmith Shop during the OneBeat ABQ international music event and art happening. The exhibition explores the concepts of spirit, thresholds and...
Common Threads
Sep 16, 2013 - Oct 27, 2013
Among the Final Thunders of These Ices
Sep 6, 2013 - Sep 28, 2013