Monthly Archives: June 2010

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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Postcard #2 from Santa Fe: It’s Alive!

By Dave Delcambre | Published: June 23, 2010
The intrepid Santa Fe based artist collective Meow Wolf has resurrected a young but already rather infamous work of  theirs within the friendly confines of Linda Durham’s gallery.  Entitled GEODEcadent II, it is a mixed media sculptural extravaganza installed last month (is new and improved an appropriate term?)  after its initial 2009 inception in Meow Wolf’s own studios.  The [...]
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Postcard from Santa Fe: The Endless Video Summer

By Dave Delcambre | Published: June 22, 2010
I suppose it was inevitable that SITE Santa Fe’s video-heavy biennial would exert major influence on the local art scene this summer and in this regard Currents 2010 doesn’t disappoint.  This show picks up where the biennial leaves off though it edges towards more experimental trends (you also have to catch this one soon as it ends [...]
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The Little Museum That Could,

By Dave Delcambre | Published: June 21, 2010
New Year’s festivities this year in Charlotte had nothing on what happened the day after.   For January 2, 2010 presented one of the shining lights thus far this year on the NC cultural scene: the opening of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.  It marked the culmination of a dedicated effort by Andreas Bechtler, a [...]
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SECCA reborn

By Dave Delcambre | Published: June 15, 2010
I interviewed SECCA’s Executive Director Mark Leach this past week for an upcoming article I’m working on for a new visual arts magazine called Artsee to launch this summer. The following is the complete transcription of the interview which due to space restrictions will not be able to appear in print in its entirety.  Seeemed [...]
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