Exhibition Catalog - Blossoming: The Artists of ArtStreet

BLOSSOMING

the artists of artstreet

BLOSSOMING

the artists of artstreet

Harwood Art Center

January 18 - February 23, 2023

COVER: Clay Fosse, Sunset, acrylic, 16 x 20″, 2022,

Harwood Art Center and ArtStreet of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless co-present Blossoming, a visual representation of the renaissance taking place within the ArtStreet community and featuring a collection of works from individuals and a collaborative installation made by the artists and representatives of ArtStreet.

ArtStreet of Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless is a unique gem of our city. A place where, through artmaking, social barriers are broken. Its radical inclusivity produces creativity and community, truly reflective of the uniqueness of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The impact of their programming is palpable in the pieces each artist creates; artworks alive with feeling and imbued with meaning from the hands that create them. Each year, ArtStreet transforms our galleries into a place of wonder. No medium, material and message is off bounds. The diversity in work mirrors the distinctly individual vision of each artist. Together they represent a living voice of our community. Communities that face very real socio economic disparity- disparity, however, that does not impede the human need, desire and instinct to commune and create.

Blossoming: the Artists of Art Street marks 26 years of collaboration between our two organizations. Organizations tethered together by location and mission. Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless addresses the health-related causes of homelessnessunderstanding that creativity and social connection are vital in addressing the health of our communities.

Helen Atkins, Jordyn Bernicke & Julia Mandeville Co-Curators & Cooperative Leadership Team, Harwood Art Center

ArtStreets Blossoming is supported, in part, by funding from the New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, NM CARES, the National Endowment for the Arts, and private and public contributions.

BLOSSOMING

With the world opening back up from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an air of rebirth coming into light in the Albuquerque community. Blossoming is a visual representation of this renaissance featuring a collection of 2D and 3D works made by the artists and representatives of ArtStreet. The exhibition features individual work and a collaborative installation and will showcase the new life beginning to grow within these communities through the depictions of flora and fauna cascading through the space.

Pages 4-7: Blossoming, Installation, Aziza Murray and Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved

As ArtStreet reflects, “It is no doubt that everyone was affected in some way by the COVID-19 pandemic, most notably individuals experiencing homelessness who were further separated from vital resources and safe spaces to spend time in. Now that the world is returning more fully to the hustle of pre-pandemic life – and the ArtStreet studio alongside it – there is much to contemplate regarding how things have changed and stayed the same. ArtStreet is proud to be a place for individuals in the community to create art, learn new skills, and connect with other artists as a means of processing and providing visual commentary for the changes that take place in our lives. Blossoming is a collection of works from artists pre- and post- pandemic that showcases the changes that flow over time.”

Page 8: Jessica Martinez, Flores, mosaic, 9x14”, 2022; Page 9: Joey Goss, Fluke Tail, wire, pine needles, 6”x10”x21”, 2022 Stephen Finkenauer, Series of 3 No. 9, Hand Cast Paper, 18.5” x 23”″, 2022; William Paul Siebert, Yankee, Colored pencil on paper, 21”×17”, 2022

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

ALINA POZAS

ANA GRAU

ANGELIQUE TEPPER

CLAY FOSSE

ELISE GILL

IZ ORTIZ

JESSICA MARTINEZ

JOEY GOSS

JUSTINE FORMAIN

LYNN FRIEL

MARGE PETTIT

RUDOLPH SERRANO

RYAN SANCHEZ

SEAN POITRAS

STEPHAN FINKENauer

THOMAS CARNEY

WENDY VALDEZ

WILLIAM PAUL SIEBERT

XUAN-NHAN CORNETT

Page 10: Thomas Carney, various works made with found metal; Page 11: Ana Grau, Mushrooms, Pastel on canvas, 2022, 9x12”; Ana Grau, Mask with Flowers, ceramic, 2020, 7.5×9.5”, Page 12: Sean Poitras, Crystal Forest 1-3, ceramic; Page 13: Rudolph Serrano, Roots, mixed media, 40x53”

Page 14: Marge Pettitt, Burque, acrylic on canvas, 18×24”, 2022

Page 15: Angelique Tepper, Dancing Yogine, Acrylic on Canvas, 24.75”x 36.75”, 2020; Angelique Tepper, Collection of work, 2022

Page 16: Marge Pettitt, Angel in a Cup, mixed media, 5x8”, 2022; Alina Pozas, Box for Bones, Ceramic, 1.5 x 2 x 4,” 2022; Angelique Tepper, Sacred Clown Figurine and Sacred Clown Cat, Ceramic; Page 17: Elise Gill, Character, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, 24x36”, 2021

Page 18: Marge Pettitt, Feathers, mixed media, 8” each, 2022; Page 19: Lynn Friel, As the Stillness, Acrylic painting, 24 x 36”, 2022; Page 20: Justine Formain, Healing, Acrylic, 12” x 16”, 2022; Justine Formain, Storm, Acrylic, 9” x 12”, 2022; Page 21: Lynn Friel; Twiggy, Acrylic Painting; 16” x 20”; 2022

Stephen Finkenauer, 3 Steers (3), Ink Drawing, 16” x 19”″, 2021; Stephen Finkenauer, 3 Steers (1), Ink Drawing, 16” x 19”, 2021; Lynn Friel, Blue Dog, Acrylic painting, 26” x 26”″

Ryan Sanchez, Letter from Over There, Collage,10” x12”, 2022″

Iz Ortiz, Inconvenience, Indigo Silkscreen, cyanotype, Katazome resist dye on cotton bedsheet, 2021; Alina Pozas, Precious Thing, Paper Mache, Wire, Collage, 8”x11”, 2022; Ana Grau, Growth, Collage on Wood, 12.75”x18.5”

Page 26: William Paul Siebert, Yankee, Colored pencil on paper, 21”×17”, 2022; Page 27: Wendy Valdez, Te Quiero Recorda, acrylic on canvas and writing, 2022

Page 28: ArtStreet Collaborative Installation, Blosssoming, 2023; Page 29: Xuan-Nha Cornet, Letting Change Happen, Print, 6”x8”, 2022; Lynn Friel, Sandia Sumos, Acrylic Painting, 12”x29”, 2022″

Clay Fosse, Sunset, Acrylic, 16” x 20”″, 2022; Blossoming, Installation, Aziza Murray and Harwood Art Center,

Sean Poitras, Mugs, Ceramic, 4”x4”

ABOUT ALBUQUERQUE

HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS

ArtStreet’s mission is to provide caring and comprehensive health and integrated supportive services, linking people experiencing homelessness to individual and collective solutions, and to be a leader in implementing innovative service models and a catalyst for solutions to homelessness, upholding a commitment to diversity and equity.

ArtStreet is dedicated to providing marginalized communities access to the arts, by offering a safe space for artists to create art, learn skills and connect to artistic people. People who are experiencing homelessness or in transition often deal with multiple losses, trauma, and isolation and need a low-threshold, safe way to reconnect with community and access supportive services. ArtStreet’s Arts-In- Health model integrates arts programming within AHCH healthcare services, engaging people in creative therapeutic processes as approaches to change and wellness.

Access to the arts is a social justice issue. ArtStreet makes access to the arts available to everyone, while holding space to build community connections and increase awareness of the issues of homelessness through the artmaking process. Harwood Art Center is to grateful to welcome back ArtStreet for this exhibition, marking 26 years of deep missional alignment and exhibitional partnership with Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless.

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Harwood Art Center is dedicated to providing exhibition, audience expansion and professional development opportunities to artists working in any media and from diverse creative fields. Featuring established, emerging, and youth artists, our Galleries Program engages a supportive process from concept development through installation and public opening. For more information, or to learn how to apply, please visit harwoodartcenter.org

JANUARY 18 - FEBRUARY 23

Blossoming: The Artists of ArtStreet, Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless ArtStreet, an outreach program of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, presents: Blossoming, a visual representation of the renaissance taking place within the ArtStreet community and featuring a collection of works by individuals, as well as a collaborative installation made by the artists and representatives of ArtStreet.

Reception: Saturday, February 4 | 4:30pm - 6:30pm

MARCH 8 - APRIL 13

ENCOMPASS: A Multi-Generational Art Event

An annual celebration that is both a reflection of and an offering to our community, Encompass features Open Studios, art making activites, installations by student artists, and four invitational exhibitions including:

Grief Movement: Goathead Studios

Archive of Memory: Juliana Coles

Reception: Saturday, April 1 | 4:00pm - 8:00pm

APRIL 26 - JUNE 1

Aging... A Female’s Perspective: Susan Roden

A multi-platform installation comprised of fine art dresses, mixed media tondos and printed words culled from anonymous surveys, centralizing upon the female perspective on aging’s physical and emotional impacts.

We Are the Gods: Jamie Rose

This exhibition, which consists of large-scale figurative drawings and glass, celebrates the beauty and power of those who have in any way lived the female experience.

Reception + Artist Talks: Saturday, May 13 | 4:30pm

JUNE 14 - JULY 27

SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico

Harwood Art Center’s annual juried exhibition, professional development and endowed awards program honors emerging artists currently living and working in New Mexico.

Tears of My Ancestors: Courtney Metzger

Solo Exhibition Award Winner of our 2022 SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico program.

Reception + Artist Talks: Saturday, June 24 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm

AUGUST 9 - SEPTEMBER 14

Ithacan Mythologies: Harley Kirschner

Ithacan Mythologies merges Art Nouveau renditions of Greek Mythologies and baroque Vanitas with trans and queer ecologies and the embrace of the continuous apocalypse. Using discarded mirrors and glass, laser etching, furniture design, oil paint and metalsmithing, Harley Kirschner creates works that feel, at once, unmakeable and deeply personal.

miss me when i’m gone: mk

By printing larger-than-life reproductions of archival photographs from the artist’s family photo albums, and incorporating different media such as found/stolen objects, printmaking techniques, and sculpture, they confront their identity as well as their upbringing as it transitions to their present-day life as an adult, and within the function of photographic memory.

Reception + Artist Talks: Saturday, August 26 | 4:30pm - 6:30pm

SEPTEMBER 20 - OCTOBER 26

Residency for Art & Social Justice

Harwood’s Residency for Art & Social Justice features and supports artists working at the intersections of creative expression and social justice. The nine month program includes a private studio at Harwood, artist and material honoraria, project support and a public exhibition.

Reception + Artist Talks: Saturday, October 14 | 4:30pm - 6:30pm

DECEMBER 1 & 2

12x12 Fundraising Exhibitions

Harwood’s annual fundraising exhibitions: 12x12, 6x6 and Prelude featuring work by established, emerging and youth artists from New Mexico. This event includes ~200 works that remain anonymous until sold – for the flat rates of $144 (12”x12”) or $36 (6”x6”). Prelude highlights the intersections of art, design and daily living with works by notable New Mexico artists.

Exhibition Reception: Friday, December 1 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm

12x12 Online Store Opens: Saturday, December 2 | 6:00pm

Image Credits (Left; Top-Bottom): Juliana Coles, Studio WIP; Alina Pozas, Box for Bones; Grief Movement; mk, Our last Family Portrait; (Right; Top-Bottom): Susan Roden, BROKEN EGGS / Barren & Infertility Dress; Cortney Metzger, first touch; Harley Kirschner, Persephone’s Apothecary; Jamie Rose, The Scorpio.

Harwood offers four capstone exhibitions annually, ENCOMPASS: A Multi-Generational Art Event, SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico, and BRIDGE: Residency for Art & Social Justice.12x12 is our annual fundraiser; all proceeds support our free community arts education, outreach and professional development.

ABOUT HARWOOD ART CENTER & ESCUELA DEL SOL MONTESSORI

HARWOOD ART CENTER’S GALLERIES PROGRAM

is dedicated to providing exhibition, audience expansion and professional development opportunities to artists working in any media and from diverse creative fields. Our galleries program is curated and managed by our Chief Programs Officer and Associate Directors of Opportunity and Engagement. Artists are invited to exhibit during three of our annual capstone events, Encompass, Residency for Art & Social Justice & 12x12, the rest of our exhibitions are awarded to individuals and groups through a competitive application process. Most of our applications are free to apply, any collected fees allocated to replenishing Harwood’s endowed cash awards for the program. Each featured exhibition is a supportive process, we work with the artists from concept development to installation in the galleries. We have developed a hybrid offering of both in person and virtual programming. For each exhibition we create comprehensive outreach and digital materials including exhibition catalogs, virtual galleries and artist talks to support the unique visions and voices of our gallery artists.

Seeded in 1991, Harwood Art Center blooms the philosophy of our parent organization Escuela del Sol Montessori, with recognition that learning and expression offer the most resilient pathways to global citizenship, justice and peace. Harwood engages the arts as a catalyst for lifelong learning, cultural enrichment and social change, with programming for every age, background and income level. We believe that equitable access to the arts and opportunities for creative expression are integral to healthy individuals and thriving communities. In all of our work, we cultivate inclusive, reflective environments where everyone feels cared for. We nurture long-term, multi-faceted relationships with participants, building programs with and for diverse communities of Albuquerque. We integrate the arts with social justice, professional and economic growth, and education to cultivate a higher collective quality of life in New Mexico.

For 50 years, Escuela del Sol, an independent Montessori school, has nurtured selfdiscovery, social responsibility and passion for learning in our students. Each day Escuela supports students from ages 18 months to 13 years on their real-world quests to excel academically and to develop the skills they need for meaningful, happy and successful futures.

HARWOOD ART CENTER’S PHOTOGRAPHER IN RESIDENCE

We are so thrilled to have established an official Photographer in Residence opportunity- a new ongoing residency at Harwood Art Center. This residency includes an annual honorarium and rent credit for a studio at Harwood. Aziza Murray, who was our inaugural Galleries & Exhibition Photographer, is now our Photographer in Residence.

We are able to present this residency and honorarium thanks to the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund, New Mexico Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the McCune Charitable Foundation.

AZIZA MURRAY is a New Mexico based artist working primarily in photography. In 2015 she graduated with an MFA from the University of New Mexico where she also worked as a pictorial archiving fellow for the Center for Southwest Research. Since then, Aziza has worked in different capacities in the film industry in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, further piquing her interest in cinematography. Much of her work stems from a well of nostalgia for objects and moments, the materiality of photography, and her personal history—from experiencing tragic loss at an early age, to her multilayered experiences as a biracial person growing up in Washington, DC. She has shown her work in DC at Connersmith and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Albuquerque at the Harwood Art Center, the UNM Art Museum and the National Hispanic Cultural Center and, at MASS Gallery in Austin, TX.

azizamurray.com

azizamurray@gmail.com