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Julia Roberts — the artist, not the actress — has followed her own muse to the Southwest. After years in Hawaii, Australia and a long sojourn in Europe, she is now comfortably ensconced in Santa Fe and showing new works at Dorothy Rogers Fine Art, a tiny gallery in The Design Center. Roberts is especially known for her printmaking in a variety of methods, and will lecture “About Prints” Saturday afternoon at the gallery. Backed up by the 37 prints she’s showing in a current exhibition at Rogers, she’ll talk about her use of intaglio, especially through etching, aquatint, lift-ground,...

Friday, May 9, 2008
by Kate McGraw • Journal Santa Fe

Idon’t often like flowers in artwork with the exception of botanical illustrations, and the older, the better. Little else has risen to the challenge of saying something about flowers that flowers don’t say better themselves. Paintings of flowers — even realist paintings — are more often about painting than the flowers.

But Vera Sprunt’s exhibition, “Tideline,” intrigues me. The 12 images in this show are mixedmedia works that combine layers of black-andwhite photographs printed on clear film and sheets of Mylar painted with acrylic gouache. It’s an unusual technique that Sprunt uses to...

Friday, May 9, 2008
by Hollis Walker • Journal Santa Fe

In the midst of many openings this fortnight, a few painting shows stand out for their boldness and comprehension of the history and practice of painting:

Linda Durham Contemporary Art – Opening Friday, May 2 from 5 to 7pm
1101 Paseo de Peralta

On May 2nd, Linda Durham Contemporary Art hosts a reception for Insideout: New Paintings by John Andolsek. (1101 Paseo de Peralta, Friday, May 2, 5 to 7pm) Andolsek, born in Germany and working as a painting conservator as well as an artist, brings a great sense of humor and respect for the painted surface to his work. In 2005, he wrote, “I...

Thursday, May 1, 2008
by Aline Brandauer • SantaFe.com

In addition to the painted delights outlined in Must-See art this go-round, I want to mention a few more treats for historically-motivated viewers.

Peyton Wright - Friday, May, 2
237 East Palace Avenue

Peyton Wright (237 East Palace Avenue, Friday, May, 2) presents The Modernists: Selections from the Estates. Peyton Wright has been diligently collecting artists’ estates for years. In this exhibition, the gallery features painting, sculpture, and works on paper from the estates of six important American Modernists - Clinton Adams (1918-2002), Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), Paul Burlin...

Thursday, May 1, 2008
by Aline Brandauer • SantaFe.com

Santa Fe just got voted best small art town in America for the third year in a row by AmericanStyle Magazine, muchas gracias, and the art you see everywhere, on cars and houses, flowerpots and front doors, is what makes it such an entertaining place to live. One of my favorites is an ordinary mailbox resting on two big sculpted hands. All that inventiveness and creativity shows up in three stores in town in particular known for eclectic, wonderful “objets,” as the Japanese call them. The Yiddish word “chotchke” seems more warm and affectionate, but there’s just that trace of a dismissive...

Thursday, May 1, 2008
by Leslie Clark and Mary Corcoran (Photographer) • SantaFe.com

If aliens are watching CNN, they can sum up our world in one (English) word: Disaster. Ours is a world of plane crashes, hurricanes, boys with machine guns, one wretched tragedy after another. Viewers watch endless replays of the coverage, vicariously suffering along with those directly affected. But what if there was something to see in those pictures besides the attendant human suffering — a moment of beauty, a bit of irony, a spiritual memo from a higher power? And what about the turning point these disasters represent — the moment at which everything changes, after which nothing will...

Friday, April 25, 2008
by Hollis Walker • Journal Santa Fe

Janis Joplin belting out a private concert for one. A serpentine Mick Jagger yowling into a microphone. A pensive Pete Townshend fiddling with the controls as the Who recorded “Tommy.”

Baron Wolman lived every Baby Boomer’s ultimate fantasy.

Forty years ago, Wolman was a freelance photographer who had settled in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district because it was cheap. Wolman was passionate about rock ‘n’ roll, just like a 21-year-old journalist named Jann Wenner. The two men met in April 1967 at a Mills College rock ‘n’ roll symposium. Wenner told Wolman about his idea for a new...

Friday, April 25, 2008
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

The Nedra Matteucci Galleries, a sprawling Santa Fe art compound, is for sale for $13.5 million, signaling the end of an era for what was once an art magnet.

Matteucci has operated the business at 1075 Paseo de Peralta for 20 years. She will consolidate its contents with Morningstar Gallery at 513 Canyon Road, which she bought five years ago.

"It's getting harder and harder to fill the walls," she said. "It's something I've been planning for a long time."

Matteucci said the shaky economy had nothing to do with the decision to sell. She said she wanted to scale down now that her husband,...

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

The season is warming up literally and figuratively in Santa Fe’s art galleries. Starting in mid-April people hit the streets in anticipation of fun parties, big crowds and art for a variety of tastes.

The late Elmer Schooley painted painstaking pointillist landscapes that allow the viewer to fall into their lush and often edge-to-edge reality. On Friday, April 18, Meyer East Gallery 225 Canyon Road, (5-7pm) opens an exhibition of Schooley’s work, aptly titled A New Mexico Legend. “Skinny” Schooley layered tiny dots of intense color over large canvases that appear to scintillate and...

Thursday, April 17, 2008
by Aline Brandauer • SantaFe.com

Transportation is fundamentally about getting from point A to point B. It sounds simple, but throughout history, it has been one of the foremost human challenges. Movement through space is a malleable equation wherein the X factor is, inevitably, terrain. Traditionally, people or groups who were able to adapt a vehicle for specific terrain have excelled in their environment. Mongol armies stunned their opponents by moving quickly across wide rivers with the aid of inflated sheep bladders for flotation. On an altogether different front, Brazilian aviation pioneer and fin-de-siècle bon...

Saturday, December 22, 2007
by Zane Fischer and Kate Russell (Photographer) • Trend Magazine