Exhibitionism

Michael Abatemarco I The New Mexican

Shakespeare (1623), engraving from Shakespeare’s First Folio, courtesy Folger Shakespeare Library Originally opening at the New Mexico Museum of Art on short-term view in February 2016, the traveling show First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, presented the first 17th-century edition of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. The folio, which numbers around 900 pages, is composed of 18 of Shakespeare’s plays, including The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear. The exhibition, which is available online, was developed by the Folger Shakespeare Library as a touring exhibit to commemorate the 400-year anniversary of Shakespeare’s 1616 death. View the publishing history and read about the lasting impact of one of the world’s most influential collection of plays. The online exhibit is ongoing and can be accessed at archive.nmartmuseum.org/shakespeare. New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072, nmartmuseum.org

Goldenrod (Yellow Triangular Biplanar) (2021), aluminum, paper clay, bottle caps, acrylic paint, medium, oil pastel The Debra Baxter- and Dawn Cerny-curated national group show She Dances Like A Bomb continues through Saturday, Jan. 15. The sculpture exhibition features artists with connections to the influential MFA program at New York’s Bard College. Artists include Elisa Lendvay, Taylor Davis, and Julia Klein, as well as Baxter and Cerny. The artists create works that challenge the legacies of minimalism and postminimalism. The show’s title is taken from a line from Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Soul has Bandaged moments.” The exhibition represents several generations of Bard’s sculpture professors and students. Masks are required. Form & Concept, 435 S. Guadalupe St., 505-780-8312, formandconcept.center

All Directions Blind (2021), egg tempera on panel Russian-born painter Julia Lambright worked as a makeup artist before moving to Albuquerque to pursue degrees in art at the University of New Mexico. The densely composed, layered imagery of her paintings is created using recipes for gesso and egg tempera that date back millennia. Her new work, created during the pandemic, explores the idea of metamorphoses between objects, including wildlife and flora from her home and garden, that share characteristics of form. Her dreamlike compositions suggest the illusive nature of memory. “My work is concerned with the inadequacy and impermanence of memory,” she says in a statement. “As I excavate the strata of the past, I build these layers into my paintings, recombining incomplete images and symbols in order to evoke the emotional experience of moments distant in time and space.” A solo exhibition of her work continues through Feb. 29. Masks are required. Gallery Hózhó at Hotel Chaco, 2000 Bellamah Ave. NW, Albuquerque, 505-318-3992, galleryhozho.com

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