Syrian Children's Benefit Auction Catalog

Dearest Friends and Family, I certainly believe that art adds beauty to our lives, but I also believe it is a vehicle that can change the world. Contemporary art reflects the cultural, social, and political values of our time.

Right now, over 8 million Syrian children experience the trauma of violence, fear, loss, and medical problems. Many of them have lost or are separated from their parents. When great oud musician Rahim AlHaj presented the idea of a concert and art auction to benefit these children, I knew artists and collectors would rally in support.

I present the artworks in this catalogue to you with great respect for the acclaimed artists who have so generously donated them. Now it is our turn.

Please be as generous as you can, in bidding on these artworks. A bid form is attached; simply fill it in and return it to the gallery by fax or email. All proceeds from the sale of the artworks will be given directly to urgent medical services for these Syrian children in their camp in Lebanon through Rahim AlHaj. Please feel free to contact me personally, if you would like additional information about this project.

Let us use the beauty of art to transform the lives of these children.

Warmest regards, Tonya Turner Carroll

Bidder Registration: Art Benefit for Syrian Children Name Address City/State/Zip Shipping Address Email Cellular Telephone Number Secondary Telephone Number Signature as agreement to terms stated below Absentee Bidding Procedure: For collectors unable to attend the benefit concert and reception on September 10th, Turner Carroll Gallery will exercise your bid for you, provided you submit this completed form by email (info@turnercarrollgallery.com) or fax (505 986 5027) before the event.

We will bid for you up to your maximum bid stated below. We will bid for you in the next available increment after your initial bid, only going up to your maximum bid if necessary to secure the artwork for you.

Upon your successful bid on an artwork, via your signature above, you agree to send certified payment by check to the following address, to arrive no later than September 14, 2016: Ur Arts and Culture (a NM 501-C3 organization) c/o Turner Carroll Gallery, 725 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 Turner Carroll Gallery will release artworks to the purchasers upon payment for artwork and shipping, if shipping is necessary. All shipping charges are the expense of the purchaser.

Artist

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Drew Tal COMMENTS

Drew Tal was born in Israel in the 1960s, and grew up there. At that time, he says “the young state was a true melting pot for millions of immigrants from all around the globe.� This rich cultural diversity fueled Tal's curiosity about other cultures, customs, and beliefs.

Almost an artist-anthropologist, Tal has spent his adult life traveling, immersing himself in other cultures, and photographing them. He uses texture and form from his travels to create works that appear to be combination painting/photography. Tal's images portray an understanding and compassion that transcends nationality.

Tal's works are included in the Maison de la Photographie Museum in Lille, France, Rezan Has Museum in Istanbul, Norton Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, and art fairs throughout the world. Turner Carroll Gallery represents Drew's work in Santa Fe.

Drew Tal Revelation (3D Print) Duraflex fine art archival paper mounted between aluminum and clear plexiglass 32 x 45" unframed $14000 unframed value 1/7 2013 22707

Scott Greene COMMENTS

Scott Greene began his art school education at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California, and received his B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Adopting the language and finish of classical painting, Greene often uses the composition of a historical work as a matrix for making a painting that humorously examines the relationship between politics, nature and culture.

Greene's work has been included in exhibitions internationally and throughout the United States, including nonprofit and museum shows at the Schneider Art Museum, Southern Oregon University, Ashland; Palo Alto Art Center and Triton Museum in California; the Arnot Museum of Art, Elmira, New York; the Austin Museum of Art, Texas; Carlsbad Museum & Art Center, The Albuquerque Museum, The New Mexico Museum of Art, 516 Arts, and Roswell Museum and Art Center, all in New Mexico. Greene is the recipient of a Juror Selection Award, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, and an Art Matters Fellowship. He completed a residency at the Roswell Museum in New Mexico and has works in the public collections of the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art in Roswell and the McKesson Corporation in San Francisco. In 2013 Greene’s work was featured in Environmental Impact, a travelling exhibition originating at Canton Museum of Art, Ohio. Greene has exhibited with Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, since 2003. His works are represented by Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe.

Scott Greene New Growth linocut on Arches Cover White, 100% cotton, France 22 x 15" unframed $800 unframed value 2015 22995

Walter Robinson COMMENTS

Walter Robinson works in a range of materials—wood, epoxy, metal, and found materials—of which he handfabricates and assembles objects, signage and tableaux. Robinson’s work investigates the mechanics of cultural and social anthropology. Using text and the strategies of appropriation, conflation, and dislocation, he uncovers the subconscious and biological human imperatives hidden beneath social, political, religious, and capitalist packaging.

Robinson’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art and Villa Montalvo, as well as numerous group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. His work is included in many public and private collections including: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Crocker Art Museum; Nevada Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art; the di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature; The Sheldon Museum of Art; and the Djerassi Foundation.

Recently, Walter's works have been exhibited at the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe. His work has received critical attention from a number of publications including Artforum, ArtReview, Vanity Fair, San Francisco Chronicle, and Santa Fe's own The magazine An alumnus of Lone Mountain College’s M.F.A. program, he also studied for a time at the San Francisco Art Institute and what was formerly the California College of the Arts and Crafts. Walter Robinson recently located to New Mexico where he now works.

His works are represented by Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe.

Walter Robinson Slag Baby (Red Dog) toy, plaster, metalflake, epoxy 7.25 x 4.5 x 6.25" sculpture $700 sculpture value 2016 22881

Jamie Brunson COMMENTS

Brunson approaches the graphic compositions in this series as improvisational play. She draws upon a vocabulary of colors and animated geometric/biomorphic “Modernist� forms that she grew up with in the fifties and sixties, overlaying complex mosaic-like calligraphic grounds with masked and painted shapes. While this work is formal and process-oriented, the underlying idea of language reduced to pure experience is an important element in this series.

Personal memories and cultural references connected to the graphic shapes and colors are alive just under the surface, inviting narrative and interpretation.

Brunson's paintings are included in numerous public collections, including the San Jose Museum of Art, Embassy of the United Sates of America, Doha, Qatar; Crocker Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Figge Museum of Art, di Rosa Preserve, and Nevada Museum of Art. Neiman Marcus, Dolce Hayes Mansion, and the Peninsula Hotel, New York, NY; have commissioned works by Brunson, as well.

Her paintings have been reviewed in multitudes of art publications, including The New York Times, Art in America,

Artweek, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, and Town and Country. Brunson's paintings are represented by Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe.

Jamie Brunson Totem mixed media on panel 36 x 36" unframed $4500 unframed value 22975

Hung Liu COMMENTS

Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948. She grew up in Beijing during the time of Mao Zedong. After finishing high school in 1968 she was sent to the countryside for four years during the Cultural Revolution where she worked with peasants in rice, wheat, and cornfields seven days a week. During this time, she photographed and painted these people, and they remain the subjects of her paintings today. Hung wants to give these people a life of beauty and respect in her paintings.

Hung attended the Central Academy of Art in Beijing, and waited seven years for the Chinese government to approve her passport to pursue her Master's Degree in painting at U.C. San Diego. Since her arrival in the U.S., Hung's works have been collected and exhibited by this nation's top museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, San Jose Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Dallas Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Katzen Arts Center at American University, National Museum of Women in the Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Boise Art Museum, Polk Museum of Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Baltimore's Contemporary Museum, The Chrysler Museum, Heckscher Museum of Art, Schnitzer Museum of Art, Monterrey Museum of Art, Knoxville Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, Ackland Art Museum, and many, many more. She has created large scale paintings for the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, as well as the Oakland International Airport and the San Francisco International Airport.

Hung Liu has twice received prestigious fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Several books have been written about Hung Liu and her works, and can be found on the Turner Carroll Gallery web site.

Hung Liu Year of the Dragon: Red Dou Du mixed media on panel 20.5 x 20.5" unframed $12000 unframed value 2012 21051

David Ivan Clark COMMENTS

David Ivan Clark attended Princeton University, University of British Columbia, and Oregon School of Design. The precision he practiced in his studies of literature, physics, and calculus, are also apparent in his artwork.

Clark's paintings have been exhibited at Denver Art Museum, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Oakland Center for Visual Arts, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Berkeley Art Center, Triton Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Artist Gallery, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Yuma Art Center, and Morris Graves Museum of Art. David's works are represented by William Siegal Gallery in Santa Fe, as well as Costello Childs Contemporary in Scottsdale, Susan Colloway Fine Art in Washington, D.C., and Gallery IMA in Seattle.

“My paintings hover in the space between romantic landscape and weathered industrial artifact. Dwelling in limbo, each marks the spot where nostalgia collides with fact, where celebration and elegy converge.

From a distance the paintings present land, sky and nothing more. Held up to the turbulent flux of the mechanized world, they offer refuge. As one draws near, however, bucolic illusion becomes fugitive: deep space collapses to surface; distant horizon reverts to paint, pitted and scoured; serene haven, glimpsed as if on film, old, grainy and scratched, dissolves to abstraction.

In the post-modern age, the once-solid world is rendered mirage. External reality is intellectual construct flung outward. We occupy not the world, but our own shimmering projections. The natural sanctuary I seemingly inhabited as a child, and yearn for still, doesn’t exist. My work reflects this dilemma.”

David Ivan Clark Tropo 47 oil on baltic birch 15 x 15 x 2" unframed $1400 unframed value 22976

Stephen Buxton COMMENTS

Stephen Buxton's mixed media collage works, sculpture, and monoprints explore psychological symbolism through shape, placement, and color. They conjure up something different in each person individually, without concrete intended response.

The shapes are based on Carl Jung's The Seven Sermons, as well as on traditional suit patterns. The suit patterns represent different parts of our collective human psyche. When put together, they make up the whole of humanity, in various diverse combinations. There is not one correct way of assembling.

This work is spontaneous, and Buxton is trying to encourage quick reaction to all life presents, as well as a positive view of what we make of the pieces of our existence.

Buxton's work is currently represented by DR Contemporary in Santa Fe, and Gebert Contemporary in Scottsdale.

His works have been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications throughout the country, including the current issue of Santa Fean magazine.

Stephen Buxton The Debris of Broken Symbols monotype 20 x 16" framed $950 framed value 22977

Mieko Hara COMMENTS

Born in Oita, Japan, Mieko Hara lived in Tokyo from 1987 to 1996, and freelanced as an illustrator for publishers such as Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, Sony Music Magazines, Player, Rockin On, Latina and Sony Music and Toshiba EMI recording companies. She has provided art illustration, comics and short stories used in the promotion of prominent Japanese bands such as Unicorn, Checkers, Yoshiyuki Ohsawa, Senri Oe and Hoppy Kamiyama. Her artwork is in the collection of the Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento. Most recently she has created CD cover art for the U.S. based group Sentinel. Her work has been exhibited across the western United States over the past 10 years including SOMArts Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, and Coos Art Museum.

Hara left Japan in 1996 and briefly lived in Sydney, Australia and Oahu, Hawaii before settling in Manhattan where she continued her art studies at The Art Students League from 1998-2001. After traveling throughout Europe and South East Asia she moved to California in 2003 and studied at The California College of Art. She currently lives on the Mexican border in southeastern Arizona. In addition to painting full time, she is converting an old church into studio space and living quarters.

“I approach painting without any preconceived notion or image, but with an improviser's mind, setting elements into play until a kind of dynamic resolution is achieved. In the spirit of Surrealism, neither subjective nor narrative frames are imposed on the image in favor of chance incidents of process, portals of discovery. My painterly style is gestural and abstract, and the brushwork aims at possessing a kind of fluidity akin to photography or film. In recent work I have employed collage techniques with an emphasis on depth of field and the relationship between microscopic and macroscopic forms.�

Mieko Hara Epsom 17 acrylic and oil collage on panel 12 x 12" unframed $1000 unframed value 22987

Mieko Hara Epsom 15 acrylic and collage on panel 12 x 12" unframed $1000 unframed value 22989

Jamie Hamilton COMMENTS

Jamie Hamilton's work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe and the Lindner Project Space in Berlin. Hamilton grew up in Santa Fe, NM, where he studied classical piano for thirteen years with proteges of Claudio Arrau and Arthur Rubinstein. He holds a BA from Bard college in New York and an MFA from Transart University in Berlin. Working with great contemporary artists such as Woody Vasulka, Judy Pfaff, Tom Joyce, and Bruce Nauman has solidified a knowledge of material and working processes that informs Hamilton's artwork. His interdisciplinary work arises from curiosity about the limits of the body, knowledge, and materials. Described by ARTnews as a “free-wheeling modern-day Leonardo,� Hamilton makes an art of pursuing balance in precarious circumstances, evoking both mythic themes and contemporary dilemmas.

Jamie Hamilton's sculpture has been exhibited by Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, as well as at Peters Projects, Axle Contemporary, and Site Santa Fe. His works have appeared in such art publications as Artnews, Pasatiempo, Visual Art Source, and Adobe Airstream.

Jamie Hamilton Endless Cord 1 1/2" thick wire rope 13" diameter sculpture $500 sculpture value 22979

Emily Trovillion COMMENTS

A native of southern Illinois, Emily Trovillion spent time in Seattle, Denver, and Boulder before settling in Albuquerque. A figurative painter with a highly specific style, Trovillion creates organic spaces where doll-like inhabitants gaze out from the canvases and wooden panels in both a mysterious and sympathetic way, inviting the viewer to approach their world. Subtle humor and irony are often present in her work. “What I love most is painting my own vision,” she says. “I really believe artists should ‘pull out all stops.’”

“My paintings are executed in oil on birch wood panels in mostly warm earthen colors. I love to paint about the mythic reality - the world of magic and the mysteries without the constraints of logic. My work exists in a sort of parallel world that is both beautiful and a little frightening.

Concepts like metaphysics, mathematics, deep rivers, mysterious ships and hybrid human/animal people pique my imagination. Sometimes a poem or a song will give me a picture.”

Emily Trovillion 17th Migration archival fine art print 20.5 x 51.5" framed $800 framed value open 22980

Michele Theberge COMMENTS

Michele Theberge says of her work, “Many people are longing to connect with that deeper, more still part of themselves. My works are an invitation to quiet contemplation leading to the inner world of subtle experience.

I use a wide range of media — including drawing, painting, installation and interactive projects — to explore the connections between the material and immaterial worlds and to share the expansive calm experienced in meditation. The lightness of the materials – paper, mylar, pins, fabric, water, glass, plastic, washy fluid paint lend an ethereal quality. My drawing and meditation practices have become so intertwined that they influence each other intimately. The immediacy of drawing helps me capture precious moments – the touch of the brush on the paper, the ratio of water to pigment, the chance happening of each mark as it is made.

Some of the drawings have been described as 'delicate navigations,' tracing energetic patterns as they move through space, resulting in images that are tender, mysterious, poignant. Each mark represents a moment in time in a thread of mindfulness and presence.”

Michele received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco. She has been exhibited up and down the West Coast and across the Pacific in Japan and China. She has served as a guest speaker, lecturer, and instructor at the California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University, as well as Museum Educator at the Oakland Museum of California.

Michele Theberge Untitled, from the Consciousness Series acrylic on panel 5 x 7" unframed $250 unframed value 22981

Suzanne Sbarge COMMENTS

Suzanne Sbarge was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1965. She has lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 1989.

She received her B.A. degree in Art History and Studio Arts from Barnard College in New York City (1987) and her M.A. degree in Art Education from the University of New Mexico (1991). She has also studied studio arts at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse, France; Syracuse University in Florence, Italy; The Art Students’ League in New York City; University of Connecticut; University of Massachusetts; as well as Anderson Ranch in Colorado, Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited in over 75 group exhibitions and 15 solo shows since the late 1980s. It is in the collections of over 100 local, national and international collectors, and has been represented at galleries across the United States. Suzanne's work is represented in Santa Fe by Turner Carroll Gallery.

Suzanne Sbarge Big Eye mixed media on panel 8 x 8" unframed $800 unframed value 22982

John Barker COMMENTS

“Santa Fe artist John Barker paints energetically and prophetically. He is a decidedly 21st century artist, a fervent creator of images that possess a singularly accessible humanity--and as such his works are rife with neuroses and noise. His paintings are like visual manifestations of a tenaciously busy mind: perfervid worlds where the vibrant, even volatile, always trumps the restrained and austere. His is a free-wheeling pictorial language, in which irrelevance is examined and ultimately championed. Barker made up the word 'Distractionism' to describe his work, and indeed his compositions sometimes seem spacey or preoccupied. The term is both an affectionate refutation and an earnest exoneration of our distinctly contemporary, dwindling attention spans-a serious and goofy send-up to the artist's multi-faceted, multi-tasking life. It's perhaps paradoxical, then, that barker's buzzing, electric portraits require such keen attention.”

—Iris McLister

John Barker has been making artwork since he was a child. He continued creating paintings and sculpture throughout his years in New York, ultimately settling back in Santa Fe. His works were introduced to the art world by Eggman and Walrus. Currently, they are represented by Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe, and have been featured in publications such as Santa Fean, The Magazine, and Pasa Tiempo.

John Barker Antelope Hills acrylic on canvas 30 x 40" unframed $2500 unframed value 2014 horizontal 22859

John Barker Refugee mixed media sculpture 32 x 20 x 16" sculpture $2000 sculpture value 2016 22996

Brenda Zappitell COMMENTS

Born in 1964 in South Florida. Zappitell lives in Delray Beach, FL with her family. She creates abstract expressionist works not only born out of intuition but also serendipitously influenced by nature and life experiences. Her work is in both private and public collections such as at Boca Raton Museum of Art, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and University of North Texas. Recently she has had solo exhibitions at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Boca Raton, FL, and at Gallery Orange in New Orleans, LA. She has recently been featured in New American Paintings, No. 124, Southern Issue and Professional Artist Magazine.

“My paintings emerge from the emotion I feel in the moment my brush touches a blank surface. I am a very physical and spontaneous painter. Moving back and forth with decisive brush strokes and dynamic gestures, I work rapidly to capture that ephemeral feeling in tangible form.

I begin without expectations and work on a subconscious level that disregards logic. Guided by a primal inner voice, I surrender control to the paint, the brush and a visceral process of creative discovery. I apply many layers to my paintings leaving evidence of early marks as a sense of my progression.

I observe everything in my life in great detail and am heavily influenced by nature, in particular the sky. My markmaking, though serendipitous, reflects these influences. I want the viewer to believe that my vision expands beyond the work itself to a universe I have created.

Painting in the genre of Abstract Expressionism, I feel a strong affinity for artists such as Joan Mitchell and Willem De Kooning, whose work also emphasizes action and emotion over ideas. Like these artists, I strive to capture the fleeting, spontaneous quality of “alla prima” painting in my work.”

Brenda Zappitell Sunrise/Sunset series acrylic and flashe on panel 24 x 24" unframed $3300 unframed value 22983

Ed Smida COMMENTS

Santa Fe artist Ed Smida is a figurative sculptor working in bronze, concrete, and clay. His sculptures meld a classical foundation with a dynamic, truthful style. Ed's work prioritizes emotion and feeling; constantly engaging the viewer on a level beyond its purely aesthetic value.

In his sculpture “Peace�, Ed choose to tackle a contemporary political issue and highlight the atrocities taking place today in Syria and Iraq. Initially moved by the destruction of art and antiquities, Ed sculpted a portrait of an Assyrian King from the 9th century BC to symbolize both the cultural heritage and the people of the region. The beauty and humanistic qualities of the figure are disrupted and defaced by barbed wire; signifying the brutal and continuing struggle facing the region. Importantly however, the king remains upright ... head turned, eyes forward, strong and defiant. Good will triumph over evil, truth over lies, courage over cowardice, freedom over subjugation, enlightenment over darkness. In a final statement of hope, the Arabic word for peace is spray-painted on the side of the base.

Ed Smida is an emerging artist currently living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work has been exhibited in Denver, Colorado, and is contained in private collections in Colorado and New Mexico.

Ed Smida Peace mixed media sculpture 33 x 17 x 17" sculpture $2100 sculpture value 1/5 22984

Brenda Nelson COMMENTS

Working within painting, photopolymer gravure and collage, Brenda Nelson’s work serves as a mixed-media meditation on the complexities of our relationships to our physical and emotional surroundings. Combining imagery drawn from her observations of the everyday, she aims to create connections and disconnections in order to explore a new and evolving narrative for our time of constant change. Each work attempts to form a material, visual representation of these personal and collective mythologies, offering opportunities to establish new meanings.

Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nelson has shown regionally and internationally, most recently at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe and the Mariposa Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Brenda Nelson The Women I Have Known #8 photopolymer gravure print (hand pulled) 18 x 25.5" framed $800 framed value 2014 22985

Willy Bo Richardson COMMENTS

Willy Bo Richardson was born and raised in Santa Fe, NM. After living away for 15 years, he returned with his family to have a more focused studio practice and be close to his family. He lived in New York City for a decade, where he immersed himself in the international art scene.

Using watercolors and oil, Richardson paints vertical lines with uneven brushstrokes, rendered precisly so that each stroke reads as intentional. In his works on both canvas and paper the oil paint seems to flow quite smoothly— showing no signs of being clogged by the teethy texture canvas often offers. Richardson’s naming schema seems especially Kandinsky-esque in form, as he frequently references music, and the synesthetic associations between sight and sound. In this way, Richardson’s dedication to verticality and use of vibrant colors seem especially significant in a sonic sense.

Richardson exhibits his work nationally. In 2011 his work was included in the exhibition Jason McCoy Gallery in New York, alongside several modern and contemporary painters including, Josef Albers, and Hans Hofmann. In 2012 he showed a body of work in the exhibition Watercolors at the Phillips de Pury & Company. In 2014 his vision and work was featured on the PBS weekly art series ¡COLORES! Willy Bo is represented by Turner Carroll Gallery.

Willy Bo Richardson Elements Dissolving into the Elements 2 digital print 16 x 17" unframed $175 unframed value 1/50 2015 22531

Tim Jag COMMENTS

Tim Jag is a pure abstractionist, and is one of Santa Fe's most exciting abstract artists. One of his most high profile recent projects is the Supernova Mural Project at MeowWolf Arts Complex in Santa Fe.

Jag's current series of paintings is his Ghost Shadows Series, which is based in part on Carl Jung's concept of the shadow as a subconscious symbol in art making. In these works, the relationship of the colors chosen and their placement in relation to each other in each third of the painting determines the work's visual impact. Each color area is about more than color, though. The areas are lush and painterly, “geometric pattern meets lush painterly color.�

Jag's works have been exhibited in galleries throughout the country, as well as Montana State University, Nanjing College of Art in China, San Diego Art Institute, Colorado State University, Lincoln Center for the Arts, Foothills Art Center, Eastern New Mexico University, Ventura College, Santa Clara University, University of Arizona, Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco State University, Artist Gallery at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Richmond Center for the Arts, Triton Museum, San Francisco Exploratorium, San Jose Museum of Art, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sonoma State University, Oakland Museum of California, Albuquerque Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, and Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe.

Tim Jag Ghost Shadows #6 acrylic on paper 18 x 20" framed $1200 framed value 2016 22988

Holly Roberts COMMENTS

Holly Roberts, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, earned an M.F.A. from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 1981. Her pieces are nationally and internationally exhibited and have been published in three monographs. She has twice received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.

Roberts works intuitively, painting an abstract painting on a panel before applying her signature photo fragments.

She uses muted colors of paint and black-and-white photographs to create images that are filled with humor, irony and mythology. Her metamorphic beings illustrate archetypal emotional or dream states, although her subject matter has expanded from the internal to a wider world view, touching on religion, technology and the environment.

Robert’s art is bold, a bit brash and almost always irreverent.

Holly is represented by Turner Carroll Gallery.

Holly Roberts Backward Rider pigment print on paper 16 x 13" framed $300 framed value ed. 10 2015 22604

Nancy Sutor COMMENTS

Nancy Sutor studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lives in Santa Fe NM. She has taught photography at the College of Santa Fe, works as a curator and continues to explore the natural world in her garden and the larger community. Her work is in the Amon Carter Museum, Ross Art Museum, New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity Investments, and other museum corporate and private collections. She has curated exhibitions for Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, and College of Santa Fe.

Nancy Sutor writes of her work, “The garden and the cycle of the seasons are a constant and evolving impetus for my work. Trees throughout the year, the compost pile, the history of the natural sciences become subjects. The tangible aspect of the natural world along with its mysteries and metaphors are things that sustain me. Shadows and silhouette, light and transparency, the literal and the enigmatic, visual perception, memory and time passing, all play into my artwork. Photograms and hand applied emulsions give way to digital images, drawing always in the periphery. My low tech approach to artmaking includes ritual and performative aspects. Growing food locally, water issues, composting and other issues of sustainability are all part of the subtext.�

Nancy Sutor Illuminated Apple Tree 9 archival pigment ink print on panel 7 x 5 x 1" unframed $425 unframed value 2014 22993

Susanna Carlisle COMMENTS

Susanna Carlisle studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. After years designing architectural projects and sculpture, she met media/video pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka and fell down the rabbit hole into video.For many years she has been collaborating with Bruce Hamilton to create video sculpture and installations. Since the 1980s they often have used computers in the realization of their art. She also works with composers (such as Joan La Barbara, David Dunn and Rahim Alhaj) to make video images for installations and performances, and choreographers and dancers to develop experimental dance videos. Carlisle and Hamilton have been exhibited at venues in US, Europe, Asia and Australia and received funding from NM Arts, NEA, and Albuquerque 1% for Arts.

Bruce Hamilton received his Bachelor of Commerce from Queens University (Canada) and a Master of Communication in Graphics from Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania. For many years he has been collaborating with Susanna Carlisle creating new media installations and video sculptures. Since 1994, Hamilton has been assisting various artists with the realization and installation of video and audio works in the US, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Netherlands, UK and Japan. Between 1994 and 2005, Hamilton assisted Woody Vasulka in the creation, programming and installing of Vasulka’s media/video installations.

Hamilton and Carlisle are represented by Yares Art Projects.

Susanna Carlisle Bruce Hamilton Tower ink on paper 16 x 20.5" framed $600 framed value 2016 22994

Nina Tichava COMMENTS

Nina Tichava was raised in both rural northern New Mexico and the Bay Area in California. She was influenced by her father, a construction worker and mathematician —and by her mother, who is an artist and designer. The reflections of these dualities—country to city, pragmatist to artist, nature to technology—are essential to and evident in her paintings.

“Pulling imagery and motif from organic form, architecture, media and design I create densely layered, mixed-media paintings that are invested in process and grounded in traditional craft. I’m interested in the overlap of nature and culture and the patterns present in both; the tension between them drives my exploration of color, surface and materiality. Employing labor-intensive technique, I blend painting, collage and printmaking processes. Often a prominent element of my work is the application of thousands of beads of paint, painstakingly and individually applied with a brush and used to create screens, patterns and color gradations. Reproduction and repetition being central themes, my paintings are responses to things mass-produced and processed to an ideal. My paintings are, by nature, imprecise and hand-made objects. Perfection is unattainable therefore each piece is unique—it is this inherent quality that continues to engage me in painting. My process-based paintings are as unplanned as possible. I search to convey a feeling of immediacy and to enhance the very physical and tactile elements of my artwork. The presence and feeling of my hand is essential to the work and ultimately my focus.”

Nina Tichava is a nationally represented artist. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award Grant in 2007 and has garnered space on the walls of the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM. Nina received her BFA from California College of the Arts [+ Crafts] in San Francisco.

Nina Tichava Calls me His Own painting and collage on paper 13 x 11" framed $200 framed value 2015 23012

Iren Schio COMMENTS

Iren Schio was born in Zurich, Switzerland and has lived and worked in New Mexico since 1976 , the last 20 years in Abiquiu , N.M. She studied at the Arts School of Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich from 1968-70. She has exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts and the Governor's Gallery in Santa Fe, and the Downtown Center for the Arts and the University Art Museum in Albuquerque, NM. Her work hangs in Collections all over the world , and is represented in the book "New Mexico Artists at Work" by Dana Newmann and Jack Parsons. Schio was represented at Martha Keats Gallery for many years on Canyon Road , Santa Fe .

With my work I hope to share with the viewer my joy for life, a feeling of peace, a sense of wonder and a realization of fragility. I start my work on paper by soaking sheets of Arches cover stock — white, buff, and black in water. While the hot plate table is warming up , I prepare the glass surfaced ink table with etching ink , which I scoop from their tin cans. What exactly will happen at a particular printing session is just like the rest of my life : open. I try to be as present as I can and put my whole self into the act of creating a work on paper. Geometric shapes are my building blocks, colors set the mood.

I apply the ink with rollers to different sized metal plates, building textures, layering, scraping, and wiping until I feel it’s ready to be printed. I transfer the plate to the press bed, drop a sheet of paper on it and roll it through the press.

I look at the image, add more color, shapes, and textures until I am satisfied.

I work on several pieces at the same time, letting some rest, applying colored pencil, found objects to others, change a line here, add a shape there, until I know it’s finished — a process of many days.

Iren Schio Flint Mountain (Three Views) collage 18 x 23" framed $850 framed value 2015 22991

Chrissie Orr COMMENTS

Chrissie Orr was born in Scotland, a descendant of the Picts (the painted ones) She is an artist, animateur and creative investigator focused on developing “a relational aesthetic around community and site with issues relevant to both.” Orr attended Edinburgh College of Art and then proceeded to develop her skills as an artist in unconventional places and ways. She was a circus performer throughout Europe, a muralist in Corsica and has created community based projects in Australia, Iran, Turkey, Europe, Mexico and America. She was co-director of Arran Community Arts Project, Isle of Arran, Scotland, which was one of the first rural arts projects to be funded by the Scottish Arts Council.

She was Community Artist for East Lothian, where she developed innovative projects involving gathering stories from diverse communities. As founder of the nationally acclaimed Teen Project in Santa Fe, New Mexico, her vision and skills were recognized by both the US Congress and the NEA, and she has been nominated for numerous awards for her work with youth. She has lectured internationally on her work and process, especially regarding the Bridge Project that addressed issues on the border between El Paso, US, and Juarez, Mexico. She recently was guest artist at the University of Michigan, and has just completed a nine month residency in south Georgia, as part of the Artists and Communities for the Millennium Project. She is the recipient of the Santa Fe Mayors Award for Excellence in the Arts and she is a founder of the SeedBroadcast Collective. She leads the Academy for the Love of Learning’s EL Otro Lado Project. She has kept a journal for more years than she can remember, their broken worn spines line her bookshelves and contain her secret memory lines. One day she might share these.

I find it hard to stand still. My most inspired times are when moving, its then I find the stillness. I live in a land that is not home, I laugh in another language and I run another path.

Chrissie Orr Migration Series #2 water color, walnut ink, graphite, color pencil size type $750 size type value 2016 23040

Gail Rieke COMMENTS

Gail Rieke is an internationally recognized collage/ assemblage/ installation artist and teacher who lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband, painter Zachariah Rieke. She shows her work at her home/ studio/ gallery by appointment as well as at museums, galleries, and art centers. Gail received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from University of Florida at Gainesville. Her artwork is represented in the permanent collections of museums and institutions and is placed in many private collections as well. In the year 2000, she and Zachariah had a retrospective at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe.

Gail has taught at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida; the University of Alberta Edmonton in Alberta, Canada; and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the US, she has presented workshops and lectures at various venues including the San Francisco Center for the Book in California, Penland School in North Carolina, and Haystack School in Maine.

Internationally in 2014, she taught Artist as Traveler at Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City. In 2010, 2012, and 2014 she taught at Maison Conti, Montmirail, France. She also taught in Kyoto, Japan in 2010 and in Alamos, Mexico 2008.

She was a guest lecturer at the Cheongju International Biennale in Korea in October 2007 where she was invited to display two of her travel journals. She has received a Western States Arts Federation Grant and a one month residency in Venice from the Emily Harvey Foundation in 2015.

Gail Rieke Fall is the Time color laser print 19.5 x 25.5" framed $400 framed value 3 of 12 1998 23046

Shaun Gilmore COMMENTS

Shaun Gilmore is a visual artist who has spent a significant portion of her life as an artist in the world of motion and modern dance. From 1980-1991 she was based in Chicago and worked as a dancer,choreographer and assistant director of The Chicago Moving Company. Movement in space has become central to her recent work in the visual arts and she will be forever grateful for the unique perspectives that dance and performance have opened up to her.

Ms. Gilmore graduated with honors from The University of Michigan with a BFA in painting and photography. She has since studied painting with Squeak Carnwath and Susan Rothenburg at The Santa Fe Art Institute and photography with Barbara Crane at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Her work has been represented and shown by Linda Durham Contemporary Art and EightModern in New Mexico, Perimeter Gallery in Chicago, CFA Gallery in San Anselmo,California and Gebert Contemporary Art in Arizona.

Shaun Gilmore SMILE acrylic on canvas 30 x 30" framed $2000 framed value 23047

Karen Yank COMMENTS

The primary focus of my work is on non-verbal communication and emotional nuances that are unspoken. I strive to express a context that can be understood in a moment, but with layers that can be seen for those who pause. I try to reveal an organic nature with a sense of history, using a material that is usually cold and industrial. Every weld and grind mark is an intentional decision. I attempt to reflect a beauty that can only be found in the organic.

I like to incorporate circular images with intersecting lines into my sculptural works, because of their rich thematic relevance found throughout history. The circle and cross are one of the earliest symbols seen in human cultural development, dating back to the Stone Age. Circles reference all that is natural; such as the sun, moon, earth, cycles of life, time, and repetition. I often use the circle to represent the notion of unity. The “X� reflects transit themes of crossing, intersecting, joining, and marking a point in time or space. Also, I use the two symbols combined as a show of affection for the world as a whole.

Recently Karen has been hired by New Mexico Arts and the NM Department of Transportationto to create sitespecific artwork designs for the Avenida de Mesilla I-10 Interchanges in Las Cruces-Mesilla, New Mexico, by the City of Albuquerque Public Art Project for a 8 x 8' free standing sculpture for the City-wide Sculpture Project for Academy Hills Park, Albuquerque, NM, and for site specific artwork for the Junction Place Bridge at Goose Creek in Boulder, CO. Karen is currently represented by Turner Carroll Gallery.

Karen Yank Small XO steel and stainless steel 9.75 x 9.75 x 2" sculpture $500 sculpture value 2/25 2013 23048

Jade Leyva COMMENTS

Magical Realism Artist Jade Leyva was born and raised in Mexico City and she now calls New Mexico her home. Her works express her love for nature and her positive hope for the future of the world. She has been commissioned to create images for many important events and her work has been featured on the covers of many publications and in many books. She has participated in several collective exhibitions at the local, national and international level, resulting in people from across the globe collecting her work.

In 2013 she funded an organization called “Seeds: A Collective Voice� which promotes raising awareness about ancient seed preservation and different related environmental subjects through multimedia arts and utilizing the activity of creating murals with seeds in community to educate people about this subjects, visiting schools, public & private events and institutions.

Jade Leyva Taking Roots acrylic on masonite 20 x 16" framed $1800 framed value 23049

Nick Merrick COMMENTS

Nick Merrick, partner, principal and senior photographer with the architectural photography firm Hedrich Blessing, is recognized as one of the leading architectural photographers working today. He holds a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Nick is widely published and his work appears regularly in architectural and design journals world wide. His work is also featured prominently in books and monographs on Perkins + Will; Curtis Worth Fentress; Lauren Rottet; Zimmer Gunsul Frasca; and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, among others. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the George Eastman House; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; and the LaSalle National Bank Collection.

Among Nick Merrick’s recent assignments are: the FBI Miami Field Office Building, Miramar, Florida for Krueck +Sexton Architects; the LAX International Terminal, Los Angeles, California for Fentress Architects; the King Saud University for Health Sciences, Jeddah, Al Hasa and Riyadh campuses for Perkins + Will; the JC Venter Institute, La Jolla, California for ZGF Architects; the PIMCO Newport Beach office for Gensler; and the Al Hamra Tower, Kuwait for SOM.

Nick is a longtime instructor at the Santa Fe Photo Workshops and has lectured and exhibited widely. Nick has continued to work with an 8X10 view camera, honing his ideas on pictorial construction and the mystery of simple facts, producing five distinct bodies of work: Eratini Portraits; Michigan Woods and Villages; Greek Landscapes; Simple Facts; and Cholla.

Nick Merrick Chicago archival giclee black and white print 12.75 x 14" framed $600 framed value 2016 23069

Fausto Fernandez COMMENTS

Fausto Fernandez is a mixed media collage artist living in New Mexico, whose works include a variety of paintings, public art, and community engagement projects, through which he explores the relationship of nature and technology as they intersect with human behavior. Materials used include wallpaper, asphalt, spray paint, acrylic paint and laser jet transfers. Instructional materials, such as schematics and blueprints, provide meaning to his work.

Born in El Paso, Texas, and living in Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico, until age 25, Fausto continued his education by crossing the border on a regular basis to study at the University of Texas in El Paso, where he pursued a double major in graphic design and painting. He completed his BFA degrees in 2001.

Fernandez's work has been selected for many exhibitions including at the McNay Museum of Art in San Antonio; Mesa Contemporary Arts at Arizona's Mesa Arts Center; and Smithsonian's George Gustav Heye Center in New York.

His collages are in many permanent collections such as Tucson Museum of Art in Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum, and The City of El Paso Museums & Cultural Affairs Department.

Public art works produced by Fausto Fernandez include the site-specific artwork at the Scottsdale waterfront in Arizona, which was commissioned by the city of Scottsdale Public Art with special participation from the Salt River Project; the 10,000-square-foot terrazzo floor design at the Sky Train Station at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, commissioned by The City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture; and a community arts project in San Pedro, California to produce an installation commissioned by Angels Gate Cultural Center for the Main Gallery. Fernandez is currently working on a public art project at East Rancho Dominguez Park.

Fausto Fernandez Underwater Nose Pinch collage and acrylic on canvas 13.5 x 24" finished size $900 finished size value 2015 22518

Dana Newmann COMMENTS

Dana Newmann was born in Prairie City, Illinois - in the American heartland. She attended California College of Arts and Crafts (California School of Fine Arts) and studied Drawing with Richard Diebenkorn. A graduate of Mills College, she earned her BFA while studying Painting with Italian artist, Afro.

Dana has often made work that rescues and re-formalizes the fragile remains of the American record. Her interest in the History of Art has led, among other work, to a page by page reworking of "Un Semaine de BontĂŠ", Max Ernst's surrealist novel, and to the construction of numerous Curiosity Cabinets. In other works she creates memory maps of her travels to such places as Mexico, Uzbekistan, North Africa, Japan and, most recently, France. In Newmann's work the materials themselves dictate the individual compositions; in recent years she has made use of distressed papers, snapshots, ivory piano keys, thorns and found shopping lists.

Her work is in the permanent collections of The New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, New Mexico Capitol Art Foundation, and in El Archivero, Mexico City, as well as in private collections throughout the United States.

Dana has led workshops, nationwide, on Creativity, Collage, Pattern, Play, and Mapping.

She wrote the book "New Mexico Artists at Work" in collaboration with the photographer, Jack Parsons. In the book, published by The Museum of New Mexico Press, she interviewed 51 artists, including Agnes Martin, Susan Rothenberg and Bruce Naumann, and documented their studios.

Dana Newmann Ivory Series: Miniature ivory assemblage 16.5 x 18" framed $1800 framed value 2009 23050

Eugene Newmann COMMENTS

Eugene Newmann has long been regarded as one of the pioneering artists in the Santa Fe art scene. Newmann’s paintings hover between abstraction and figuration. If there ever was a clear distinction between those genres in his work, it has disappeared — after all, most contemporary art seems to blur those lines by definition. Newmann is selftaught. Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now the capital of Slovakia), in 1936, he grew up in Barranquilla, Colombia (Spanish is his first language), and New York City. In the 1950s he attended the University of Chicago, getting his bachelor’s degree in 1957.

Together with his wife Dana, Eugene has made New Mexico his home since the 1970s. In 2008, he was awarded the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. "In addition to the sheer accomplishment of his work, Newmann has been an exceptionally generous presence in New Mexico's community, curious about the work of others in whatever medium; always eager to talk painting and esthetics; pleased to share his insights into the creative process; willing to serve as an informal tutor to those coming up," said nominator Frederick Turner. "In all this it helps that he is as brilliant verbally as he is with a brush in hand."

Artist Sam Scott said in his supporting letter: "Gene Newmann is the real deal, a very special person who has brought laughter, intelligence and grace, the higher standard, the greater light to the art community of Santa Fe and New Mexico for more than 35 years."

Linda Durham said: "Of all the artists I know and have known - in New Mexico and beyond - none impresses me more than Eugene Newmann. And, in my opinion, none is a more worthy recipient of this award."

Eugene Newmann 2x6 monotype 23.5 x 22 framed $800 framed value 2000 23070

Orlando Leyba COMMENTS

Orlando Leyba was raised in Chimayo, New Mexico. He received a BFA from University of New Mexico and holds two MFA degrees, one in teaching and one in painting from the Maryland Institute at the College of Art in Baltimore.

His paintings and works on paper are inspired by the history and landscapes of Northern New Mexico and the mythology of Aztlan, the ancestral birthplace of the Aztecs. The abstract images incorporate vibrant colors, rich textures and evocative shapes, rendered using plaster on board and applying a combination of acrylics, encaustic and casein to the surface. Leyba uses the same mixture of materials when creating his works on paper.

Leyba's intent is to build a bridge between the ancient culture of the Aztecs and the various historical stages of the Spanish arriving in New Mexico:

“My work is the result of overlapping cultures, languages, and mores. These influences and experiences are distilled into shape, color, emotion and movement. At times they are neither solid nor fluid; they are ephemeral and rooted in human experiences – well-intentioned, cyclical, and inherently flawed. My paintings are derived from nature — my grandfather’s land, ancestral land grants, irrigated fields, acequias that my family has maintained for generations, etc.

These paintings meld the contradictions and dichotomies that I have witnessed in my own culture and within my hometown, as well as concepts about time, the spirit world, human interaction and the diversity of factors that influence change that we witness in the world from day to day. I see these compositions as intermediaries between what is seen and what is assumed, what is plausible and what relies on faith. They are a human effort to bridge the gap between the material and the spiritual.”

Orlando Leyba Copala oil on canvas 61.75 x 41.75" framed $7000 framed value vertical 23020

Orlando Leyba Nopali mixed media on paper mounted to linen 32 x 25" unframed $3800 unframed value 2012 horizontal 23072

Mavis McClure COMMENTS

Mavis McClure lives and works in Corrales, New Mexico. She is a self taught ceramic sculptor, more recently working with bronze casting. She was a longtime mainstay at LewAllen Gallery in Santa Fe, but now is represented at Turner Carroll Gallery. Her work has recently been exhibited at The American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pasedena, CA and is part of the permanent collection there.

She says of her work, “I am now, and have as long as I can remember been, completely in love with the human figure. There seems no end to the variations of line, beauty, subtlety and soul in our form. From Giacometti to Jenny Saville, our figure seems the most compelling element of our existence. In my work I try to create not merely physical representations, shells, but rather something greater, something deeper, something stronger. A glimpse both inward toward our core and outward toward our potential. I try to build, without ethnicity, without reference to era, figures that evoke a timeless universal commonality.

From a purely sculptural standpoint my figures’ large hands and feet seem both to ground the work and allow for greater nuance of gesture. I particularly want the clay construction process to be obvious, so I usually build the clay pieces in sections. This may also result from some innate recognition that we as human beings are often both physically and emotionally fragmented.”

Mavis McClure Small Demure Figure in Blue glazed ceramic 10 x 3 x 3" sculpture $800 sculpture value 23076

Raphaelle Goethals COMMENTS

Born in Brussels Belgium, Raphaelle Goethals relocated to the United states in 1981. She received her BFA from Atelier 75 in Brussels, and her AAS from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA.

Focusing on painting as a space of exploration, Raphaelle has used wax and resin as her signature medium for the past fifteen years. Probing the physicality of the materials, Goethals works in a process of layering, pouring, scraping off, effacing, leaving traces of earlier information, all of this eliciting from the viewer a continuous shifting in the perception of forms. In the last few years, Goethals began to focus on an increasingly distilled process, emptying her sensuous surfaces from anything narrative, descriptive, or anecdotal; aiming for a clarity of thought and continuing a dialogue with the fundamental nature of light and space.

Recent solo exhibitions include Echoes at the Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas, TX, and Massive Silence at the Wade Wilson Gallery in Houston. Her work resides in many public collections including the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, MO; The Holdenried Collection, Gruenwald, Germany; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; plus numerous private collections in the US, Belgium, and Dubai.

Her painting "Dardanelles", Raphaelle writes, "alludes to the straight of Dardanelles; between European and Asian Turkey, east and west....connecting the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmara; site of several war campaigns, and of utmost symbolic and commercial importance....Certainly these cultural tensions have been on my mind for quite a few years."

Raphaelle Goethals Dardanelles mixed media on panel 23 x 26" framed $6000 framed value 2012 23071

Michael Motley COMMENTS

Michael Motley practices two and three dimensional design in New Mexico and regionally, working with galleries, museums and other cultural institutions on branding and identity, collateral and books, as well as exhibition catalogs, signage and educational materials.

Past and current clients include the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, The University of New Mexico Art Museum, The McNay Museum of Art, James Kelly Contemporary, TAI Gallery, Shiprock Santa Fe, The Santa Fe Museum of Art, The Museum of International Folk Art, Carney Sandoe & Associates, Cornerstones Community Partnerships, The Center for Contemporary Arts, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe Preparatory School, Santa Fe Pro Musica and the Santa Fe Railyard.

His pro bono work has been devoted primarily to community social services and arts organizations such as Literacy Volunteers, Youth Shelters & Family Services, Monte Sol Charter School, Roots & Shoots New Mexico, Creative Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Opera Guild.

Current and recent projects include John Connell, Works 1965-2009, a monograph with Radius Books, a commemorative volume on the 50th Anniversary of the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and an upcoming monograph on the artist Paul Pletka for Yares Art Projects, as well as a 50th anniversary magazine for Santa Fe Preparatory School, typography with Tom Joyce for the 9-11 Memorial in New York City, branding for the Santa Fe Art Trifecta and a series of books for Cira Crowell and In Light Arts.

Michael Motley Cradleboard mixed media sculpture 22.5 x 4.75" sculpture $500 sculpture value 2016 22992

David Linn COMMENTS

David Linn was born in Palo Alto, California and grew up in the hills of the South Bay peninsula.

He began painting shortly after birth and has only occasionally paused to pursue other interests such as music composition and performance, mountain climbing, and designing objects that fly. He recently received an MFA in painting from Brigham Young University, and currently resides at the foot of a mountain in Elk Ridge, Utah. He cites influences as divergent as Baroque masters and American Luminists to contemporary Conceptual Site and Earthwork artists. David’s work can be found in various museum, corporate, and private collections throughout the country.

“My work is born out of a need to articulate for myself the terrain of my own passage through mortality— to explore the events and implications of a spiritual existence forming currents that flow beneath the observable world. The symbolic internal worlds and environments of my paintings seem at times more real to me than my physical environment because they are evidence to me of what is felt most acutely.

The paintings then become objects of devotion—personal evidence of a process that is, for me, verbally inexpressible. My work has evolved into a meditation on themes of searching, passage, and purification through these internal wilderness places—a landscape where events and objects assume multi-layered symbolic significance and actions become ceremonial in nature.”

David Linn Waiting oil on panel 23.5 x 20.25" framed $9000 framed value 2014 21820

Anne Hirsh Greene COMMENTS

Anne Hirsh Greene was born in Great Neck, NY, and grew up outside of Philadelphia, PA. She attended Maryland Institute of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, and received a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Greene is a painter and printmaker, and creates luscious and playful abstractions that are both graceful and bold. Her desire to blur distinctions between painting, traditional printmaking and letterpress typography is evident in her work.

Greene often employs a collage sensibility, layering both historical information and materials - a mixture of language, communication, cultural icons and associations, with traditional oil paint, pastel and Intaglio processes. In 2009, Greene became the 6th grade art instructor at Albuquerque Academy, and also continues in her role as Master Printer/Co-Director of Hirsh Greene Press, a fine art Atelier established in Oakland, CA, 1984, and currently located in Bernalillo, NM.

“Process is an essential part of the content of my work, because I want to discover a composition, rather than impose one. Meaning gradually evolves and is revealed through the act of layering. What remains visible on the surface is strung together and supported by tracings of pentimenti, the ghost markings of what previously occupied the space. Veiled information, fragmented notations and bold letter forms appear to float on a field of history, alluding to a sense of both past and present. The completed work is a record and mapping of sorts, documenting my journey-like process. The accumulation of marks, found paper scraps and painted information, is both a literal layering of imagery, and a metaphor for memory. They are poetic mixtures of language, communication, cultural icons, and historical references brought together to create new meanings. I am Inspired by the Capitulare de Villis, and the notion of attempting to take inventory of everything in our domain, prospecting the visible world that surrounds me in order to find the hidden intrinsic beauty of things.�

Anne Hirsh Greene Letter of Intent mono-print with chine' colle' 16.5 x 14.5" unframed $650 unframed value 2016 23043

Rahim AlHaj COMMENTS

Rahim AlHaj has created a series of paintings, titled Refugee Road in the Diaspora. This body of work arose from pondering his--and other refugees'-- journey from their homeland to a new life somewhere else. The paintings are filled with the purity and the struggle of this journey. It is Rahim's wish that his paintings will help give hope to the children of Syria who have not yet found their new life.

AlHaj, virtuoso oud musician and composer, was born in Baghdad, Iraq and began playing the oud (the grandfather of all stringed instruments) at age nine. Early on, it was evident that he had a remarkable talent for playing the oud.

He studied at the Institute of Music in Baghdad, Iraq; won various awards at the Conservatory; and graduated in 1990. AlHaj also holds a degree in Arabic Literature from Mustunsariya University in Baghdad. In 1991, after the first Gulf War, Rahim AlHaj was forced to leave Iraq due to his activism against the Saddam Hussein regime. He began his new life in Jordan and Syria. In 2000 he came to the United States as a political refugee and has resided in Albuquerque, NM ever since. In 2015 Rahim was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor for traditional arts in the USA. He is now an American citizen.

Rahim has performed around the globe (including Europe, China, India, and Russia), and is considered one of the finest oud players in the world. He has won many accolades and awards, including two Grammy nominations.

Rahim has recorded and performed with other master musicians of varied backgrounds and styles including Bill Frisell, Guy Klucevsek, Indian sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan, and indy-rock pioneers REM. His compositions evoke the experience of exile from his homeland and of new beginnings in his adopted country. Rahim has released ten CDs, and just returned from performing his newest compilation of works at the Kennedy Center.

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diasphora Series #1 mixed media on panel 16 x 12" approx. unframed $700 unframed value 2016 22978

Rahim Alhaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #5 acrylic on canvas 30 x 24" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 vertical 23054

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #2 acrylic on canvas 30 x 24" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 vertical 23055

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #3 acrylic on canvas 24 x 18" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 23056

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #4 acrylic on canvas 24 x 18" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 vertical 23057

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #6 acrylic on canvas 24 x 18" unframed $700 unframed value 16 vertical 23058

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #7 24 x 18" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 vertical 23059

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #8 30 x 24" unframed $ unframed value 2016 vertical 23060

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #9 acrylic on canvas 30 x 24" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 vertical 23061

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #11 acrylic on canvas 24 x 18" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 vertical 23062

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #12 acrylic on canvas 24 x 18" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 vertical 23063

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #13 acrylic on canvas 20 x 16" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 vertical 23064

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #14 acrylic on canvas 20 x 16" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 vertical 23065

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #15 acrylic on canvas 30 x 24" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 vertical 23066

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #16 acrylic 30 x 24" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 vertical 23067

Rahim AlHaj Refugee Road in the Diaspora Series #17 acrylic on canvas 24 x 24" unframed $700 unframed value 2016 square 23068