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Wednesday, December 7,2011
Art Features

The Roadsign More Traveled

Axle Contemporary haiku project collected in book

Matthew Irwin
Haiku puts images out there—everyday images—juxtaposes them, makes a joke or cuts an image in an unsuspected way. Then we, the viewers, decide what, if anything, the poem means.
Wednesday, November 30,2011
Art Features

School of Imagination

New Mexico and the Black Mountain College experiment

Matthew Irwin
 This story bursts at the margins with names all connected to the great and short-lived experiment in arts education known as Black Mountain College.
Wednesday, November 23,2011
Art Features

To Go Home

Laguna Pueblo artist views the whole through the broken pieces

Matthew Irwin

Marla Allison’s paintings captivate me.

Art that grabs me tends to initiate a dialogue about identity as a product of internal self and external place.
Wednesday, November 16,2011
Art Features

The Curator

You will be happy: There’s just something about Faustino de Vargas

Matthew Irwin
His paintings hanging on a wall behind him, Faustino de Vargas tells the woman in his barber chair that he became a better hairdresser after studying the visual arts.
Wednesday, November 9,2011
Art Features

Where Culture Happens

Nudes exhibit and music series know where it’s at

Matthew Irwin
Culture happens. That is, it can be curated, but it cannot be created intentionally. To be a part of culture, one has to be in it, participating. It doesn’t happen in newspapers or museums. Let me illustrate
Tuesday, November 1,2011
Art Features

Art in the Back of a Truck

Axle Contemporary want you to ask,

Matthew Irwin
Axle Contemporary had partnered with the New Mexico Experimental Glass Workshop for Vidrio y los Muertos, a Day of the Dead exhibition. Next to the workshop’s kiln, Axle’s mobile gallery—devised from a custom 1970 aluminum step van—featured the works of various glass artists on its shelves.
Wednesday, October 26,2011
Art Features

SPREADing the Wealth

SITE Santa Fe’s micro-granting initiative, take two

Matthew Irwin
Among the eight finalists for SITE Santa Fe’s micro-granting initiative, SPREAD, one will walk away with…let’s see, the minimum ticket price ($15) times 350-ish people, factor in the sliding scale for tickets by income profiles, then…well, enough money to get his/her/their project through the proverbial door. The other finalists will have to settle for friends and family saying, “Just getting this far is an honor.”
Wednesday, October 19,2011
Art Features

From the Street to the SITE

Exhibition questions through what lenses we view history

Matthew Irwin
As a whole, Agitated Histories puts history itself on the stand.
Wednesday, October 12,2011
Art Features

Let's Talk About Art

Christopher MacQueen’s “atmospheric landscapes” begin the dialogue

Matthew Irwin
A self-described installation artist, MacQueen has turned the walls of Eggman’s side gallery into a picture window onto an imaginary landscape.
Tuesday, October 4,2011
Art Features

Spending Money on Art

New woodcuts and the price of location at Argos Studio

Matthew Irwin
About three years ago, I found my way into art collecting through intaglio, aka printmaking. So given the opportunity to write my first art review for SFR on the sixth annual International Guild of Realism show at Sage Creek Gallery—a suggestion left on my suggestion-covered desk—or on Thayer Carter’s new woodcuts at Argos Studio & Santa Fe Etching Club, I chose the latter. 
 
 
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