Arts Interview: Sayaka Ganz Sayaka Ganz’s Reclaimed Creations Sayaka Ganz takes old spatulas, spoons, clothes hangers and other such ubiquitous household plastics and finesses them into graceful sculptures of animals in [...] Clarke Conde \ Jan 16, 2020 Read More Sayaka Ganz with “Nova,” her sculpture made from reclaimed plastics, at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. (Clarke Condé)
Art Magnified: Happy Birthday By Jana Opincariu Happy Birthday By Jana Opincariu Emergence is a common theme in art, but how it is handled is the source of endless interpretations, and often within the work [...] Clarke Conde \ Jan 16, 2020 Read More Happy Birthday by Jana Opincariu. (Clarke Condé)
Art Interview: Molly Zimmer Molly Zimmer’s Soft-Scapes Molly Zimmer’s new work opening at the Harwood Art Center’s Main Gallery on Friday, Jan. 10 is large like the landscapes they represent. [...] Clarke Conde \ Jan 09, 2020 Read More Molly Zimmer in her studio (Clarke Condé)
The Art Of Signs Finding A Deeper Meaning In Their Words Recent additions to the signage in the Albuquerque streetscape have caused confusion, consternation and collisions. There is a basic organizing principal behind street [...] Clarke Conde \ Jan 09, 2020 Read More Common signs around Albuquerque. Their significance is not to be overlooked. (Clarke Condé)
Found Objects Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine Opening Friday, Jan. 10 at 6pm is the exhibit Reclaimed Creations by Sayaka Ganz at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & [...] Clarke Conde \ Jan 09, 2020 Read More (Oskar Schlemmer)
Arts Interview: Judson Frondorf An Interview With Judson Frondorf Judson Frondorf is something of a reluctant sage. That is to say that it is not a role he has sought, but as [...] Clarke Conde \ Jan 02, 2020 Read More Judson Frondorf in his studio (Clarke Condé)
Guess Who: The Slides Of Walter Mcdonald The Slides Of Walter Mcdonald In 1969, the fledgling Albuquerque Museum hired photographer Walter McDonald to take pictures of Albuquerque. The idea was simply to photograph the people [...] Clarke Conde \ Jan 02, 2020 Read More A slide by Walter McDonald in the Albuquerque Museum collection (Clarke Condé)
Found Objects Free To Flee This weekend, two authors come to Bookworks (4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW) to tell vastly different stories of survival. The first, on Friday, [...] Clarke Conde \ Jan 02, 2020 Read More (Clarke Condé)
Found Objects Release The Crackin’ Festival Ballet Albuquerque brings to the stage The Nutcracker in the Land of Enchantment for five performances beginning on Friday, Dec. 20 at [...] Clarke Conde \ Dec 19, 2019 Read More (Photo by Clarke Condé)
Pyrocene Witnesses Fire Ghosts By Philip Metcalf And Patricia Galagan Burning at a rate of an acre per second, fire ripped through the Jemez Mountains in the middle of the summer of 2011. [...] Clarke Conde \ Dec 19, 2019 Read More Philip Metcalf’s “Fire Ghosts” at Photo-eye Bookstore + Project Space in Santa Fe (Photo by Clarke Condé)