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Clockwise from above: attendees at last year’s Art Santa Fe; Regine Schumann, Dreamteam, fluorescent Plexiglas and black-light installation; Jessica Loughlin, Through Distance #2, cast, kiln-formed, and cold-worked glass, 15 x 27 x 2"; Hiroshi Nomoto, Image of Exhibit, brass, copper, and acrylic.
ing and furniture. “It will be unique,” says Park. This year will also see the return of Portland, Oregon’s Bullseye Gallery with a demo on the exquisite kiln-formed glass that is its forte. Four of the five artists showing at the gallery’s booth will be participating, so attendees will be exposed to a variety of processes and aesthetics. Bullseye has cultivated a connection to the City Different that has transcended its origins. In May of last year, the gallery, which showed at the 2009 fair, opened Resource Center Santa Fe to give local artists more access to glass materials and techniques. According to Ted Sawyer, Bullseye’s director of research and education, Santa Fe is especially well suited to a project like this due to its high concentration of artists who work across a wide range of media. “Because they don’t know the ‘rules,’ they try things that people from within the field of glass may not, and in so doing open up new territory for exploration,” explains Sawyer. “We intend for it to be a permanent operation.” Jackson herself is thrilled with the ongoing relationship. “We have sent artists to the Resource Center, and they do wonderful things, with the most gorgeous, beautiful surfaces,” she says. “It’s been a real plus to have Bullseye in the community.”
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Fe Director Charlotte Jackson considers herself fortunate to be experiencing one of those times, as she watches pieces fall into place for this year’s fair, the eleventh so far. Scheduled for July 4–10, Art Santa Fe typically draws some 1,000 artists, and Jackson is expecting participation of 40 to 50 galleries from around the world. “Some years are more international than others,” Jackson notes. “This year, we have two exhibitions coming in from Japan. I was so touched by that. The events there were so overwhelming,” she says, referring to the series of disasters that have been devastating the country since March, “and they are still planning on coming. We see that as kind of special.” Jackson is also particularly excited about two installations that Munich gallerist Renate Bender is bringing to the fair. The first is a “cool, fabulous installation” by Regine Schumann involving colored Plexiglas balls, a darkened room, and black lights. (Need we say more?) The second is by Peter Weber, whose ingenious pieces are created with the participation of viewers—their feet, to be specific. Weber folds canvas and encourages people to walk on it; when he eventually unfolds it, the elegant geometric designs that emerge are the result of dirt transferred by thousands of shoes. As part of the enlightening “How Things are Made” series,YoungSook Park, owner of Park Fine Art in Albuquerque, is hosting artist Yu-Ra Lee, who, using organic dak tree fibers, will demonstrate the making of Korean traditional paper. Lee will also show how the paper can be used to create everything from dolls and jewelry boxes to cloth-