Category Archives: the great beyond

Final Summer Postcard from Albuquerque: Furniture is Art at the National Hispanic Cultural Center

By Dave Delcambre | Published: July 26, 2010
A show hinging on a myriad of cultural handcraft artistry and traditions that span several cultures and generations is a tall order for any exhibition. The National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque has tackled it head on however with this robust exhibition of the wares of both contemporary and historical furniture builders in New Mexico. [...]
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Postcard from Albuquerque #2 – Dave Hickey and Libby Lumpkin join the Lobos

By Dave Delcambre | Published: July 8, 2010
Some exciting news I learned of during my recent visit to Albuquerque – an impressive score for the University of New Mexico’s Art History Department! (photo courtesy Jacob Kepler  www.jacobkepler.net) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NEWS RELEASE—May 21, 2010 from David Craven, Chair, Dept. of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico Libby Lumpkin, Ph.D., has [...]
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Santa Fe Postcard #10: The Ornithological Moment

By Dave Delcambre | Published: July 3, 2010
Jean-Luc Mylayne’s work now on display at the Lannan Foundation Gallery in Santa Fe focuses as much on aspects of ourselves as it does the subject in this photographic series: bluebirds.  Mylayne’s pictures on the one hand can be thought of as the very embodiment of Cartier-Bresson’s famed “decisive moment” – artfully composed fleeting instances of [...]
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Santa Fe Postcard #9: About Face – Judy Chicago’s Toby Heads

By Dave Delcambre | Published: July 1, 2010
I suppose there’s no more fitting subject for an iconic artist like Judy Chicago to explore right now than another icon in art: the portrait head.  Chicago has garnered a formidable reputation for tackling many tried-and-true methods of producing work and pushing various media into new territory. She has done this in celebrated fashion in [...]
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Santa Fe Postcard #8: Yoshihiko Ueda at Tai Gallery

By Dave Delcambre | Published: June 29, 2010
Quinault offers up a meditative view on a most awe inspiring natural realm- the old growth rainforest in this show. As there are no such landscapes left in Japan to explore, Ueda focused his lens on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State capturing the giant trees and habitat at their most pristine. Entering the gallery is [...]
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Santa Fe Postcard #7: Beyond the Tainted Symbol

By Dave Delcambre | Published: June 28, 2010
In addition to Meow Wolf’s tour de force GEODEcadent II dome in the main gallery, the other resounding exhibition at Linda Durham’s this month is the first ever solo exhibition by longtime Santa Fe artist Richard Berman. The gallery told me they had at long last convinced a reluctant Berman to finally mount a show [...]
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Santa Fe Postcard #6: How to Make a Long Story Longer

By Dave Delcambre | Published: June 26, 2010
While it might seem an inconsequential leap for most casual viewers to go from a 12″highx14′wide painting to a 12″h.x16′w. painting, there is a definite and discernible difference (especially if you’re the crate maker tasked with building the container to ship such a painting to its buyer) in making the leap to the wider format.  [...]
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Santa Fe Postcard #5 – Peter Sarkisian at James Kelly’s

By Dave Delcambre | Published: June 26, 2010
Riding along in Peter Sarkisian’s car could be a pretty scary experience if his work Registered Drive Full Scale Series, Ferrari #1 is any indication.  The artist is depicted in the mixed media work which is a 14′ long wall mounted reproduction of a portion of a bright yellow Ferrari with Sarkisian himself at the [...]
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Santa Fe Postcard #4 – Video as Object

By Dave Delcambre | Published: June 25, 2010
Tucked away in an upper corner space at Zane Bennett Gallery is an intriguing little exhibition, in step with the plethora of video work that has descended upon the City Different this month in the wake of the seismic biennial event that is SITE Santa Fe’s The Dissolve. Yet the Bennett show is also a [...]
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Postcard #3 from Santa Fe: Plunge at Box

By Dave Delcambre | Published: June 24, 2010
When you first enter Box Gallery’s current show, you will likely feel hydrated. I know I sure did. Santa Fe based artist Margeaux has discovered a convincing method of printing photographic images directly onto glass and puts the techniqe to use with rather stunning results in this exhibition. The show consists of a suite of [...]
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