Frenzy Santa Fe

The Due Return.

2011-05-14T10:34:00.000-07:00

This show will be legendary. On through July 10 at CCA in Santa Fe. Click it!

Check out new Tête.

2010-06-11T08:29:00.000-07:00

Go there.

Breaking Bad Season Finale on Sunday.

2010-06-11T08:25:00.000-07:00

Now that it turns out that Lost was just a protracted remake of "The Seventh Seal," this is the best place to stock your loyalty. Second place: Fringe.

Meow Wolf's Monster Battle on the Plaza.

2010-06-11T08:23:00.000-07:00

The city needs to hire someone to walk around downtown, wearing a helmet with a pink Godzilla toy strapped to the top, reassuring the tourists from Texas that Santa Fe is fun weird, not scary weird. And that person should be me.

Quinn; Chris. It should be noted that Chris never broke character.

Everyone's favorite little art collective Tête de Veau has a new URL.

2010-03-28T06:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.tetedeveau.net
Use it!

David Solomon's opening at Jay Etkin Gallery, Friday March 26

2010-03-11T18:12:00.000-08:00

Quellette in Space.

2010-03-11T18:09:00.000-08:00

Quellette is in the process of a redesign; the famous French bulldog is wearing a very stylish spacesuit.

Ann Jag's new Pixiequick label.

2010-03-11T18:05:00.000-08:00

Fashion and art do a tango up and down the frock aisle of your favorite vintage clothing store.
Click here to look at her empire of cool.

Lisa Corradino's splashy new web site.

2010-03-11T18:01:00.000-08:00

A Quellette joint. I think she's at SXSW. Look out Austin. Check it.

The theme: cold!

2010-02-25T15:58:00.000-08:00

New sets of photos:
Christmas
Snow days in Santa Fe

Winslow, Arizona: Welcome to the first hangover of the decade.

2010-01-12T16:31:00.000-08:00

The Amtrak train, Monday morning, 7 AM, over espresso in the Turquoise Room, La Posada hotel.
Looking sucked-dry and sand-blasted by the freezing winter wind, Winslow at four o'clock on the Sunday after New Year's seems a little desolate, especially if you're driving in the wrong direction down a Navajo service road. In the right direction: La Posada, a renovated Harvey hotel, the famous Route 66 chain. From the parking lot, the place looks like an abandoned old insane asylum; by check-in, it feels like the first scenes of The Shining. But the year nineteen-thirty-five greets you in the lobby like an old friend, with Christmas lights and piñon smoke, vintage tile, painted cinder block, old black-and-whites of MGM stars, and some raucous Navajo art. Then you settle in at the bar and start ordering glasses of red wine, chatting with the other guests (in technical terms, making the usual ass of yourself). The next morning, it's sixteen caustic degrees out, warming up the car and ordering breakfast, watching the travelers depart the train, into the cold morning air of the new decade.

Goodbye Naughties, hello Teenies

2010-01-08T09:43:00.000-08:00

Jen Jo sums it up.

High Mayhem - November 6

2009-11-03T18:51:00.001-08:00

Click here to see the whole show.

Halloween!

2009-10-26T07:06:00.000-07:00

Preview of the upcoming Meow Wolf installation

2009-10-25T11:45:00.001-07:00

And some pics from the Auto Wolf install:

Benjy and my friend Doug Martin, in Santa Fe for a visit.

Letter RE: The UNrepresented show - never, ever start a sentence with the word "Indeed"

2009-10-15T13:12:00.000-07:00

The SF Reporter printed my letter to the Ed, regarding its show review.
Review here.

My pissy little letter:
Thanks for the scandalous revelations about the affair between art and commerce; sorry the reviewer skipped the show. Who doesn’t love a good, condescending lecture, especially one fueled so freely by the reviewer’s feelings of adequacy? True, one needs to weigh one’s desire to please with one’s desire for expression. Now that avant-garde has been reduced to a marketing term, the distinction between the edge and the middle is sometimes a matter of exposure. No one required an apology on behalf of those who serve the target demo, especially the artists who scrape, hammer and toil in the DMZ between curators hustling to make the rent and the battle-weary art investors. But lighten up; it’s only a title. How could anyone take even the most cursory stroll through Shearburn and fail to be charged by the interior force and ferocity in that work? Readers should not miss this opportunity to survey some of Santa Fe’s most accomplished young artists—Chris Collins’ wildly sensual and confident sculpture, Tuscany Wenger’s exquisite and idiosyncratic figurines, Leslie Ayers’ commanding, almost industrial paintscapes: just three of many works in the series, all of which are perfectly able to speak for themselves and saying so much. Link.

Photos from the UN shows at William Shearburn

2009-10-06T07:26:00.000-07:00

This marvelous two-part show at the William Shearburn gallery, curated by David Solomon, surveyed some of Santa Fe's best local art talent. Here's some pics from the openings.

PS why we love fall, why we love it here

2009-10-04T10:11:00.001-07:00

Cake in Your Face at High Mayhem

2009-10-03T15:51:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from last night.

The evening's centerpiece was Tim Jag as Orangeman, and the mess he made at High Mayhem, with a little help from his friends, on the floor and in the form of Mike and Roland – Who Da Thunk – providing the mesmerizing musical backdrop. The gentlemen from Meow Wolf also did a set, and the lucky winner of the Tête de Veau cake raffle was Mike who writes about art for the Pasatiempo. High Mayhem took home $800 in donations last night, which, needless to say, made this event a screaming, messy success.

Tim Jag's High Mayhem Show, October 2, 6-10

2009-09-17T08:54:00.000-07:00

Bomb Gallery, July 25, 2009

2009-08-09T19:24:00.001-07:00

A little group show, courtesy of Carver Busch, Tim Jag and the Bomb Gallery.

See more here.

More party pics, courtesy Ann Fulayter-Jag

2009-05-20T11:39:00.000-07:00

Excellently, the Meow Wolf team offers a parallax view of their installation - online.

2009-05-19T15:01:00.000-07:00

"Like Rabbits" - explained:
"A group of three artists called Meow Now Kitty Wow, from Santa Fe NM, collaborated over the course of five days to create this installation at the First Street Gallery in Trinidad, Colorado. Using found objects and materials from the site of each installation, the group hopes to show us something about the possabilities of space and the beauty we tend to forget about in the simple lines and color of our lives. Photosynth seems the only way to represent this objective without a live audience. As an artist within this collective, I thank you for helping to supply us with a new frontier."

Click here to check it out. Download the software and then view.

FRENZY 2009

2009-05-19T14:16:00.000-07:00

Show up now at the First Street Gallery, Trinidad, Colorado (yes, double meaning intended). Click here to see the art.

Trinidad Area Arts Council
First Street Gallery
150 East First Street
Trinidad CO 81082
719-846-1441

www.trinidadarts.org

Please direct any inquiries to:
director@trinidadarts.org

The Opening - Friday night

2009-05-19T10:39:00.000-07:00

A fun time had by all as the artists mixed it up with Trinidad's gen pop, Colorado Art Ranch resident artists and attendees of the "Sex and Sensibility" symposium.

Click here for more.

FRENZY 2008

2009-05-18T14:50:00.000-07:00

From TRINIDAD ART SHOW

Click to review works from last year's epic episode.