Andrée Hudson, Sunset Riders, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 60"
Andrée Hudson: Wild for Color Waxlander Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden 622 Canyon waxlander.com July 8–July 21 Reception July 11, 5–8 pm Whether her brushy, expressionistic pieces capture human figures, wildlife, or landscapes, Andrée Hudson employs a bold color palette to build her forms, keeping their internal structures foremost in mind. Along with Hudson’s paintings, Waxlander also unveils a clay pre-casting of the artist’s first bronze—a new direction for Hudson but not an unexpected one. “I always think about things in 3-D anyway,” she says.—ET
Noel Hart, Blossom-Headed Parrot, handblown glass, 22 x 16 x 4"
Anne Truitt, Quick, acrylic on canvas, 22 x 42"
James Surls Wade Wilson Art 217 W Water, wadewilsonart.com Through August 2 In recent years James Surls has hosted an annual open-studio weekend in Aspen, drawing collectors, curators, and critics nationwide. For 2014, he brings the event to Santa Fe, giving an artist talk and leading both a tour of his public sculptures (in conjunction with Creative Santa Fe) and a discussion panel. A portion of proceeds from exhibition sales benefit select local arts organizations.—ET
Anne Truitt: Paintings and Works on Paper Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, 544 S Guadalupe, charlottejackson.com Through July 27 This show features rarely seen works from the 1960s through the 1980s by Anne Truitt (1921–2004), who’s known mostly for her wooden sculptures. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Truitt studied psychology at Bryn Mawr College and treated shell-shocked soldiers in a Boston hospital before she enrolled in Washington, D.C.’s Institute of Contemporary Art in 1948. Her paintings are striking for their deliberate colors and forms, and for the layers of emotions and experiences they evoke or bring to the surface. “Once it had occurred to me that I could use color metaphorically for content,” Truitt said, “I realized that I could go ahead with new freedom.” Power Objects Tansey Contemporary 652 Canyon, tanseycontemporary.com Through July 15 Noel Hart, who’s worked in various mediums but has primarily focused on glass since 2000, has said that the motivation behind his work is “a consuming passion for an abstract or semiabstract personal iconography, reflecting an interest in nature and ecology.” His solo show Power Objects features hand-blown glass sculptures.
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James Surls, Stem Cell Seeing, bronze and stainless steel, 26 x 22 x 21"
John Oteri, Settled in Chimayó, watercolor on paper, 16 x 20"
John Oteri: Good to Be Home Joe Wade Fine Art July 4–July 13, reception July 4, 5–7 pm
John Oteri describes himself as a selftaught artist, but the Texas native, who retired with his wife to Santa Fe 24 years ago, possesses a background in architecture and has, he says, “been able to draw since I was 5 or 6.” His paintings range from realist landscapes to more abstract, stylized, and graphically inspired figurative “vignettes” that intentionally “leave a little bit to the imagination.” Regardless of subject matter, Oteri aims to capture “the expressions of the Southwest,” adding that “what [they] really evoke to me has to do with weather, history, and nostalgia.”—ET July 3, 2014
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