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A RT Sa n t a Fe g e a rs up f or it s 13t h se a s on by Sa ma nt h a Sch w i rck
ART Santa Fe, which celebrates its 13th season this year, is one of the city’s most anticipated summertime events. Held June 11–14 at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, the festival combines lectures and cutting-edge installations with displays by artists, galleries, and art dealers from around the world. In the past, ART Santa Fe has attracted international artists like Regine Schumann and Peter Weber and exhibitors like Portland, Oregon’s Bullseye Gallery, which offered demonstrations on their highly regarded kiln-formed glass processes. This year, in an exhibition called How Things Are Made, fairgoers can enjoy an etching and monotype demonstration by Oehme Graphics (Steamboat Springs, Colorado) and papermaking workshops by Korean artists from Park Fine Art in Albuquerque. The keynote speaker for this year’s fair is Robert Wittman, a former FBI special agent who was instrumental in establishing the Bureau’s Art Crime Team (ACT). During Wittman’s decades-long career at the FBI, he recovered more than $300 million in stolen art and cultural property, including works by Rembrandt and Norman Rockwell and one of the 14 original copies of the Bill of Rights (stolen by a Union soldier in 1865). “We’re still riding high from last year’s success,” says Charlotte Jackson, the fair’s director. But, she adds, “ART Santa Fe also has some new tricks up its sleeve.” This summer, the festival hosts Expect the Unexpected, a cocktail party cosponsored by the magazine Art in America, and counts SITE Santa Fe and the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market among its cultural partners.
Left: Kenji Tsutsumi, Recollection, acrylic on board, 36 x 29". Tsutsumi’s work is shown at Watanabe Fine Art Gallery in Osaka, Japan, which is returning to ART Santa Fe this year.
Viewers (here and below, left) take in some of the art on display at ART Santa Fe 2012.
ART Santa Fe, Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W Marcy, artsantafe.com
“This year, ART Santa Fe has some new tricks up its sleeve,” says director Charlotte Jackson. Eva Bovenzi, Ninth Messenger #1, watercolor and oil collagraph monoprint diptych with coloring, 30 x 36". Bovenzi’s work is on view at Oehme Graphics, a participant in ART Santa Fe 2013 60
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june/july 2013