STORIES Exhibition
7/8 - 8/11, 2006

Storytelling is a central part of every society and the power, importance and energy of oral, written, visual and enacted story lies at the heart of culture. Part of the overall Storytelling program, this exhibition with the following artists: Debbie Fleming Caffery, Gary Hill, Alfredo Jaar, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Anu Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, Adrian Piper, Anri Sala, Gerry Snyder

Clothesline05 Exhibitions

Special Delivery: Threads From Katmandu
June 3 – 17
Opening Reception Friday, June 3, 5-7pm, SFAI

An exhibition of SHIFU—cloth woven from paper—
by master Nepalese weaver Deepak Shrestha hosted
in collaboration with the Palace of the Governors.

20th Anniversary Fashion Show and Benefit
June 23, SFAI

This benefit evening will raise funds for SFAI, now in its 20th year of programming. Includes a preview reception, a spectacular runway show featuring one of-a-kind fashions, jewelry by international artisans, and art-to-wear, followed by a rockin’ dance party. MORE>

The event kicked off the Southwest Design Conference, highlighting Architecture, Art & Design, sponsored by Westen Interiors & Design

Clothesline: Art, Clothing, Identity
October 8 - November 11, SFAI
Opening events, Saturday, October 8
Members Preview 4-5 pm, SFAI
Public Opening 5-7 pm, SFAI

An exhibition by world-renowned artists which explores the powerful and provocative nature of clothing in contemporary art. Artists include: Vanessa Beecroft, Woofy Bubbles, Feral Childe, Colette, Lesley Dill, GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand, Charles LeDray, Nikki Lee, James Luna, Senga Nengudi, Pat Oleszko, Beverly Semmes, Martha Wilson and Two Girls Working. MORE>(pdf) , ARTIST BIOS>(pdf)

Circle of Memory
April2 - May 20
Opening events, Saturday, April 2
Members Preview 3-4pm, SFAI
Artists Lecture 4-5pm, Tipton Hall
Public opening 5-7pm, SFAI

Conceived and designed by Eleanor Coppola, with
Robilee Frederick, Richard Beggs, Elizabeth MacDonald, Jean McMann and Alexander Nichols. This healing-through-art installation recalls the ritual spaces where people in traditional communities gathered to experience death, grief, change and renewal, providing an art space for the contemporary community to experience these rites of passage.

I Have Something to Tell You
June 2 - 17
Adrain Chesser Residency Exhibit
Opening reception and Gallery Talk, June 2, 6-8 pm, SFAI

Motion
July 9 - 29
Opening reception, Saturday, July 9, 4-6 pm, SFAI

Group exhibition in conjunction with Photoarts Santa Fe. Curated by Eileen Olivieri Torpey. Performance based photographic works by emerging artists from New York City, New Mexico and California.

Fantasy Landscapes: Ground Management
December 3, 2005 - January 31, 2006
Opening events, Saturday, December 3
Members Preview 3-4pm, SFAI
Artists Lecture 4-5pm, Tipton Hall
Public opening 5-7pm, SFAI

Exploring the strange and wonderful ways in which landscape is manipulated or represented by artists. From environmental actions to fantastic images, artists’ deep connec-tion to the land as material, site and subject offer the viewer extraordinary ways to think about the “natural world.” Artists include: Blue McRight, Gerry Snyder, Meg Webster, David Maisel, Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, Jeroen Van Westen, Gerco de Ruijter, Zacariah Rieke, Ann Ausloos, Michael Berman, Bill Gilbert, Agnes Dennis and others.

2004 Exhibitions

Santa Fe Watershed:
Lessons from the Genius of Place

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison
Exhibit December 11 , 2004 -January 22, 2005
Public Opening Reception with artists' lecture: December 11, 3pm.
Catalog available (see below).

“…Bit by bit we are led to see that in order to restore the flow of water, it is first necessary to heal the earth.” So reads an excerpt from the artists’ statement that accompanies a new exhibition at the Santa Fe Art Institute titled Santa Fe Watershed: Lessons from the Genius of Place, conceived and created by artists Helen and Newton Harrison.

For more than 30 years, the Harrisons have created major works throughout the world that address the multi-layered relationship between art and ecology. Santa Fe Watershed: Lessons from the Genius of Place, a public art project instigated by the Santa Fe Art Institute, is a collaborative effort that presents a complex set of works, which address the dire conditions of the Santa Fe River, and proposes a self-renewing process that involves history, community engagement, public facilities, and a vibrant new life for the river. The Harrisons’ work uses audio, visual, mechanical, and biological materials to create a narrative about place, its ecological and social realities, and to encourage community discourse and involvement. MORE(pdf)>

DVD CATALOG FOR SALE

Santa Fe Watershed: Lessons from the Genius of Place
The DVD catalog is a result of the above exhibition which is a culmination of over two years of research and work on ways to weave the Santa Fe River back into the urban fabric of the community, and bring it back to life, the exhibition at SFAI stimulated opinion and discussion about the final proposal for the river. The exhibition presented large-scale maps of the past, present, and future terrain of the river, video, photographic images, cultural narratives, and personal recollections.

Non-Members $25, SFAI Members $20. Please add a $5 shipping and handling fee. Call 505-424-5050 to purchase, or email, info@sfai.org

 

Re-Connections

Exhibition: February 27 - June 13, 2004
Public Opening Reception: February 27, 5-7pm

Re-Connections is a collaborative exhibition by six artists from the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. Adam Pantic ( Serbia & Monte Negro), Zlatan Filopovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Tahar Alemdar (Kosovo), Ana Stojkovik (Macedonia), Damijan Kracina (Slovenia), and Mirjana Vodopija (Croatia) will be Artists in Residence at Santa Fe Art Institute from January 20 through February 28, 2004. Re-Connections will be the culmination of their work during residency and will reflect the artists' evaluation of their differences as they work to achieve a new identity that connects these differences. The exhibition will include personal statements in the form of video projections as well as additional video and mixed-media installation elements. Re-Connections will be presented at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and will open on February 27, 2004.

Re-Connections is funded by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, in collaboration with the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Tamarind Institute, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Santa Fe Community College and the University of New Mexico Arts Technology Center.

H2O

On Exhibit November 22, 2003 -January 4, 2004
Public Opening Reception: Saturday, November 22, 5-7pm
Members' Private Preview and Gallery Talk: November 22, 4 - 5 pm

H2O is a unique group exhibition that demonstrates the many ways water engages artists' imaginations. Through a variety of mediums, the work illustrates the relevance of water to contemporary society, including water's place in the environment and ecology; water as a material of and for reflection; water's ability to provide immersion, weightlessness, and ablution; and its role in ritual and magic. H2O is curated by Jo Anna Isaak, independent curator and professor of Art History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and presented by Santa Fe Art Institute.

 

2003 Exhibitions

Santa Fe Collects:
Visionary Artists in Santa Fe Collections

Exhibition: October 4 - November 2, 2003
Opening Reception: October 4, 5-7pm
Member Preview: October 4, 4pm, 2003

The first in a series of annual exhibitions entitled Santa Fe Collects, Visionary Artists in Santa Fe Collections presented extraordinary examples of outsider art from private collections in Santa Fe.

Visionary Artists in Santa Fe Collections was curated by John Ollman, director of Fleishman Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, and organized by Santa Fe Art Institute. It was presented in conjunction with Vernacular Visionaries, an exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe that explored the work of outsider artists from Europe and Asia.

ndn: Contemporary Native American Art

August 16 - 29, 2003 Curated by Charleen Touchette
Opening Reception & Booksigning: Saturday, August 16, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to host ndn art, an important exhibition of contemporary Native American art, curated by Charleen Touchette. The exhibition, which will run August 16 - 29, 2003, celebrates a new publication of the same name and features work by 30 Native American artists, all of whom have ties to New Mexico. There will be a public opening reception and booksigning at Santa Fe Art Institute on Saturday, August 16, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

ndn art features emerging and established artists such as David Johns, Doug Hyde, Cheyenne Harris, Armond Lara, Christine McHorse, Joel McHorse, Ed Noisecat, Margaret Wood, and Celeste Worl whose work represents the enormous range in form and content of contemporary Native American art-from weaving, pottery, and painting, to installation, video, neon, and glass. Some of the work is political, some not, but through this book and exhibition, curator Charleen Touchette, a well-known artist, teacher, and curator of several major exhibitions of Native American art, defines two consistent characteristics of Native American art: diversity and change. Further, while Touchette emphasizes that Indian artists live in the same world as all Americans, she makes an important distinction about their creativity: that it remains rooted in tradition, in artmaking activities that are vital to family and community.

The book release and exhibition will coincide with the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts' (SWAIA) 82nd annual Santa Fe Indian Market (August 23 - 24), which features over 1,200 artists from approximately 100 tribes. The book, which includes an essay with historical perspective by Charleen Touchette, profiles of each of the artists by Suzanne Deats, and many full-color images of each artist's work, is published by Fresco Fine Art Publications and will be on sale throughout Indian Market at the SWAIA publications table.

REVERSE

July 12 - July 25, 2003 at the Santa Fe Art Institute, in conjunction with PhotoArts Santa Fe.
Opening Saturday, July 12, 4-6pm

Reverse is a photography exhibit with five emerging photographers and the mentors who have influenced their work. The photographers are paired as follows, the first listed being the emerging photographer who has chosen the second listed as their mentor:

Julie Graber: Steve Northup
Michael Webb: David Scheinbaum
Jennifer Schlesinger: Janet Russek
Adrian Chesser: Debbie Fleming Caffery
Wendy Young: Gay Block

New Mexico Printmakers

May 2 - June 30, 2003 at the Santa Fe Art Institute

Curated by Ron Adams. This show exhibits the following printmakers throughout the Institute's building: Forest Moses, Woody Gywn, Ron Pokrasso, Don Messic, Michael Costello, Jennifer Lynch, Doug West, Ricardo Ximenes, Michael Vigil, Steve Britco, Mitchell Martin, Joel Greene, Michael McCabe, Bruce Lowney, Garo Z. Antreasian, Sergio Mayano and the Tamarind Institute.

Duct & Cover

March 26 - April 14, 2003 at the Santa Fe Art Institute

An exhibit in response to our open call for artists to make artwork made of duct tape and plastic sheeting. Over 100 pieces of quality artwork are exhibited in our three studios, the lobby and the courtyard.

 

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