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Shows run: April 1st - 28th, 2011 Reception: Friday April 1st, from 6 - 8 pm in conjunction with Artscrawl’s First Fridays Gallery Hours: M-F 10 am - 4 pm, 3rd Friday (4/15) 6 - 8 pm
Shos run: May 6th - 26th, 2011 Reception: Friday May 6th, from 6 - 8 pm in conjunction with Artscrawl’s First Fridays Gallery Hours: M-F 10 am - 4 pm, 3rd Friday (5/20) 6 - 8 pm
“How Far From Home Are We?” Illustrated Radio Journey by Anna Keleher, Claire Coté and Rebecca Beinart It is spring – April 2008. Rebecca Beinart, Claire Coté and Anna and Mark Keleher are traveling together in a small van from Totnes, England to Helsinki, Finland via the Baltic States and back through Scandinavia. This collaboration and improvised cultural adventure unfolds along roads, ferry lines, pathways, and a string of campsites, tea stops, archeological sites and Nature Preserves. The journey takes the travelers across 16 borders and over 5,700 kilometers - all in seventeen days. This exhibition is the collaborative outcome of this voyage: an “illustrated radio journey.” On-site recordings, ambient sounds, creative reflection and narration are woven together to give listeners illuminating glimpses of the experiences of a journey by land and sea. Collaborative pen and ink drawings created over bumpy roads and by the light of headlamps offer illustrated glimpses. Whittled tally-sticks provide a sculptural “account” of the expedition. For more about Claire and Anna’s collaborations visit: www.claireandanna.com.
Fleeting Duality by Julia Lambright The ten formative years I spent in a Russian orphanage gave me uncertain foundations of loneliness and isolation… Dark feelings of helplessness and being an outcast come to me in distorted flashes of my childhood, as I struggle to define who I am today. In my work, I am discovering naïve hopes of the past and human understanding seen from an adult perspective. I use my instinct and intuition as I investigate my past… lifting the heavy label that was applied, the label that generates anxiety and morally challenges the essence of my physical being. Unfathomable distortion engulfs my work, layering experience that darkens my hopeful vision. Fragmented memories remain just under the surface, appearing blurred and splintered as the distant facts about my genesis that I often failed to confront. Knowing I can never fully salvage an ambiguous past, I gently repossess the fading illumination of my childhood, giving the viewer a small taste of my deep uncertainty.
Splash: New Paintings Synergy: La Onda de La Palabra
by Xuan Chen
ArtStreet, a program of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, is a community-based project and collective open studio space where art is used as the connection for community-building for those without and those with homes. This installation is part of a National Endowment for the Arts funded project that brought together artists and writers from
The paintings examine very fundamental units of visual art: color, line, shape, movement and rhythm. Lines manifest within a rhythm of a pattern. Strong contrast of color and twisting of lines represent the metaphor of strong emotional interaction: entanglement, bewilderment, conflict and confusion. The abstract essence of lines exists everywhere in reality: the intertwining of threads, the twist of a tussle, neurons in the brain, and the tissues in human organs. The paintings communicate though the strong visual language, convey the process of a mental turmoil, and explore an artistic spontaneity and unconscious expression combined with scientific precision.
the Harwood Art Center and The National Hispanic Cultural Center in order to enhance access to the arts and to sustain artistic excellence for ArtStreet’s open studio artists. For more info about ArtStreet call (505)248-0817 www. abqhch.org or e-mail mindygrossberg@abqhch.org
(505) 242-6367
www.harwoodartcenter.org
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