Category Archives: Memory

Film Screening – Jerry West’s “A Prairie Night”

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Jerry West's “Oh, Prairie World, My Coney Island of the Mind” 1982 Acrylic on paper

Painter Jerry R. West

screening his film “A Prairie Night”

Monday, December 21

6pm

Tipton Hall

$5 general | $2.5 students/seniors/SFAI members

The film, A Prairie Night, by Jerry R. West combines a compelling sound track by West with visuals from his paintings, sculpture and sound installation of the same name. The sounds for this piece come from early tapes recorded by West in the 50′s and 60′s. The video was shot by Steina and Woody Vasulka during and after the artist’s installation at Heydt-Bair gallery in Santa Fe in 1982.

Cultural Historian Estevan Rael-Gálvez

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Estevan Rael-Gálvez

Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center

Estevan Rael-Gálvez

Lecture
Monday, December 14
Lecture
6pm Tipton Hall
$5 General Public | $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you Cultural Historian and Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Estevan Rael-Gálvez as part of our 2009 Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light | Art as individual/collective memory. Join us for his lecture on Monday, December 14th when Rael-Gálvez will talk about art, history, and memory.

A native son of the Southwest, Rael-Gálvez was raised farming and ranching in the closely-knit villages of Questa and Costilla, New Mexico and Jaroso, Colorado. His ancestral connections to indigenous villages and communities also profoundly shaped his worldview. It was in these villages, where his imagination was nourished somewhere in between the delicacy of what was spoken by his elders and the strength of the written word. He continues to maintain his ancestral home in the village of Questa.

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Memory: Shadow & Light Exhibition

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Clockwise from bottom left: Susan York, Tom Joyce, James Drake, Gay Block, David Maisel, Rackstraw Downes, Susan Meiselas, Godfrey Reggio

What: Memory: Shadow & Light Exhibition Opening Reception

Where: Santa Fe Art Institute

When: November 13 @ 5-7pm

How Much: free

What: Memory: Shadow & Light Exhibition

Where: Santa Fe Art Institute

When: November 14 – December 31, 9am-5pm M-F

How Much: free

Roberto Diago's "Utopia"

Roberto Diago's "Utopia"

In 2009, through the Memory: Shadow & Light visiting artist lecture and workshop series, the SFAI has been exploring the role art plays in the formation and preservation of societal or individual memory. Many of the outstanding artists participating in the season will have work in the 2009 Memory: Shadow & Light Exhibition opening November 13th with a reception from 5-7pm: photographer Gay Block, realist painter Rackstraw Downes, photographer David Maisel, draughtsman & sculptor James Drake, blacksmith Tom Joyce, sculptor Susan York, photographer Susan Meiselas, and filmmaker Godfrey Reggio. In addition, the SFAI is hosting an installation work, “Utopia,” by Cuban artist Roberto Diago.

Without memory we have no past and therefore no way of contextualizing the present or the future. Our memories provide knowledge about all aspects of life without which the world makes no sense. Memory, however, is also shaped by the present; our perception of the past is continually influenced by the present, which means that memory is fluid and therefore changeable. Because memory is not just an individual, private experience but is also part of the collective domain, cultural memory has become a topic in every part of study and practice.

Participating Artists:

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Susan Meiselas at SFAI!

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Soldiers search bus passengers along the Northern Highway, 1980

Documentary Photographer

Susan Meiselas

Portfolio Review
Sunday, December 6
10am – 4pm SFAI
$100 (sliding scale fees available) Reservations Required

Lecture
Monday, December 7
6pm Tipton Hall
$5 general | $2.5 students/seniors/sfai members

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you award-winning documentary photographer, Susan Meiselas as part of our 2009 Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light | Art as individual/collective memory. Join us for her lecture on Monday, December 7th where Meiselas will talk about how her work is, by its very nature, charged with the sometimes antagonistic ideas of memory versus history. You can also come by the SFAI between 9am – 5pm M-F through December 31st and see two of her photographs in our Memory: Shadow & Light exhibition.

Susan Meiselas is an American photographer best known for her work covering the political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and 1980s. Meiselas’ process has evolved in radical and challenging ways as she has grappled with pivotal questions about her relationship to her subjects, the use and circulation of her images in the media, and the relationship of images to history and memory. Since the 1970s, questions of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography. Perhaps no other photographer has so closely and consistently represented and participated in these debates than Meiselas. Her insistent engagement with these concerns has positioned her as a leading voice in the debate on contemporary documentary practice.

You can see her work and learn more about her projects at susanmeiselas.com

Susan York Lecture — Monday, 11/9!

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What: Susan York Lecture

Where: Tipton Hall

When: November 9, 2009 @ 6pm

How Much: $5 General Public | $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you award winning, minimalist sculptor, Susan York as part of our 2009 Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light | Art as individual/collective memory. Join us for her lecture on Monday, November 9th where York will talk about her work and how it fits this idea of the embodiment of memory.

York represents the new generation of minimal artists. Every aspect of her life demonstrates a spiritual determination to pare down to the essentials: the way she speaks and engages with issues, her studio practice, and her art reflect her strength of vision. York is an artist-alchemist who transforms basic carbon in the form of graphite into something silvery and magical. As has been York’s practice since she was young, her ideas reveal themselves slowly. Time is an important part of the process and the result is powerful and engaging art that takes the viewer to a place of immense calm and subtle tension.

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2009 MacArthur Fellow – Rackstraw Downes

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Rackstraw Downes in his New York apartment

Rackstraw Downes in his New York apartment

The Santa Fe Art Institute is honored to bring you realist painter Rackstraw Downes, a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, as part of our Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light, Art as individual/collective memory.

Rackstraw Downes Lecture

Monday 10/26

6pm Tipton Hall

$5 general | $2.5 students/seniors/sfai members

Rackstraw Downes is a British-born realist painter and author. Downes’ work combines the familiar with a sense of minimalism. His long, sprawling landscapes lack human subjects, yet they highlight man’s interaction with the environment. The large public spaces in his work explore the effects of light

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Artist Talk with Larry Fodor

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Koan Box Blue Green Sienna

The SFAI Presents:

An Artist Talk

The Painting Process and the Enigma of Memory

w/ Santa Fe Painter

Lawrence Fodor

Monday, August 17

6pm

Tipton Hall

$5 general public | $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

Says Fodor, “Painting is a personal process involving the mechanics and materials of painting – choosing canvas, brushes, mixing color, etc – and rummaging the deep recesses of memory, all contained within the moment and the act of painting. As a painting develops I move farther away from a conscious state, accessing the indelible marks of my history, sometimes unlocking doors to the forgotten and buried past, which has a direct correlation or translation to discovery in paint. My hypothesis regarding this realm of painting is that through the highly personal, and only through it, can one enter a realm of the inventive and universal. This, I know, is my most effective way to ultimately relate and communicate to other human beings.”

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Blake Gopnik @ SFAI August 3rd

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Washington Post Chief Art Critic

Blake Gopnik

Lecture – Those who don’t know art history are doomed to repeat it
August 3, 2009 @ 6pm
Tipton Hall
$5 General Public | $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you chief art critic of the Washington Post, Blake Gopnik as part of our 2009 Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light | Art as individual/collective memory. Join us for his lecture, “Those who do not know art history are doomed to repeat it,” on Monday, August 3rd, and again on Tuesday, August 4th for a workshop addressing the same topic in a practical, hands-on way. Continue reading →

Tom Joyce – July 13 Lecture | July 14 Forge Demo and Bastille Celebration

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Artist, Designer, Blacksmith Tom Joyce
Lecture and Forge Demonstration

©2005 Tom Joyce "Quoin" Wood, books, iron 48" x 48"x 41"

©2005 Tom Joyce "Quoin" Wood, books, iron 48" x 48"x 41"

July 13, 2009 @ 6pm, Tom Joyce Lecture, Tipton Hall
$5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

July 14, 2009 @ 10am-12pm,  Tom Joyce Forge Demonstration & Bastille Day Celebration
Tom Joyce’s Studio, $50 includes forge demo and pastries & coffee in celebration of Bastille Day
info: 505 424 50505
The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you Santa Fe based artist, designer, and blacksmith, Tom Joyce as part of our 2009 Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light | Art as individual/collective memory. Join us for his lecture on Monday, July 13th, and for a forge demonstration on Tuesday, July 14th, that will serve as a fundraiser for the Santa Fe Art Institute.

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June 27 Where Light Meets Water…

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Date:  June 27 – July 31  Where Light Meets Water;  Mumuru at the Equator- T12a
Presented by: The Santa Fe Art Institute Gallery, 600 Saint Michaels Dr, Santa Fe , NM
Opening Reception:   Saturday, June 27,  3-5pm

Where Land Meets Water

Where Light Meets Water features a 15’ scroll journaling a two-year portion of an extensive project focusing on the photosynthetic ingenuity of the Victoria amazonica, the world’s largest water lily from the Amazon Rainforest. From MacArthur’s first encounter with this organism in the Amazon in 1993, her work with light entered a chapter of deep engagement with photobiology and the equatorial zone of the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil. Friendships with the caboclos and river guides of the Amazon became her conduit to biologically come to understand this divine specimen, its habitat, and the underlying issues threatening the rainforest.

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Laurie Anderson, June 8 and 9

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Laurie Anderson, Burning Leaves: A Retrospective of Song and Stories
6/8 Performance, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7:30pm

6/8 Performance, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7:30pm$35, $50, $95*
*These special $95 fundraising tickets include a cocktail party, priority seating, and a special edition SFAI/Laurie Anderson T-Shirt

6/9 Lecture and Q&A with Laurie Anderson, 11.00am
Lensic Performing Arts Center, $10
Tickets for the Performance and the Lecture will be available through the Lensic Box Office at 505.988.1234 or http://www.ticketssantafe.org/

The Santa Fe Art Institute is honored to present internationally acclaimed musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson. Anderson will be performing her latest piece Burning Leaves: A Retrospective of Song and Stories and offering a workshop and Q&A Session as part of a fundraiser for the Santa Fe Art Institute.

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May 14, Memory Preserved: Sefarad Hidden and Revealed

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Memory Preserved: Sefarad Hidden and Revealed

5/14 Concert, Readings & Panel Discussion, 6pm Tipton Hall
$5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

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Santa Fe Art Institute in conjunction with Gaon Books presents an event remembering the Sephardic and Crypto-Jewish experience of New Mexico, featuring a concert by Vanessa Paloma with music from the Spanish colonial period and the launching of two books by New Mexico authors on the same period.
Author Isabelle Medina-Sandoval
Singer Vanessa Paloma
Author Mario X. Martinez

May 12, Birds in the Park

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Birds in the Park

Birds in the Park Installation

SFAI (exterior, front entrance), May 12, 2009 9am – 5pm FREE
Made from porcelain and printed with cobalt blue, these birds are, in a sense, carrier pigeons, carrying images and text related to war and peace side by side. Inherent to this work is the question, what kind of future do memories create? Layering newspaper articles and photographs from the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, with poetry and other evidences of the strength and depth of our common humanity, Hengst explores how we are connected, and also the unthinkable ways in which that bond is disregarded.

Hengst Bio:
For twenty years, visual artist, Christy Hengst’s work has followed a double track of more intimate art meant for inside, and site-specific art out in the public realm. Solo shows of Hengst’s paintings have been presented in museums and galleries in the US, Germany, and Ecuador. Public art projects have spanned the range from a guerilla text installation to elaborately tiled bus shelters. Hengst lives in Santa Fe and has two children.

David Maisel, May 11 Lecture, May 12 Portfolio Review

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Library of Dust © David Maisel

David Maisel Lecture

Tipton Hall
May 11, 2009 6pm
$5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

David Maisel Portfolio Review

SFAI
May 12, 2009 10am – 4pm
Cost: 424-5050 info

For more than twenty years, photographer David Maisel has chronicled the tensions between nature and culture in his large-scaled photographs of environmentally impacted landscapes. In the multi-chaptered series Black Maps, Maisel’s aerial images become sublime meditations on what the curator Anne Tucker has termed ‘the engaging duality between beauty and repulsion.’ In Maisel’s recent project, Library of Dust, he continues to investigate a zone bordered by aesthetics and ethics. The series depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patients from a state-run psychiatric hospital, whose bodies have been unclaimed by their families. Maisel has recently been an Artist in Residence at both the Getty Research Institute and at the Headlands Center for the Arts

May 4, Issa Nyaphaga Talk and Performance, 6pm Tipton Hall

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Issa Nyaphaga

SFAI Artist-in-Residence, Issa Nyaphaga, will give a talk about his work with the non-profit organization he founded, Hope International for Tikar People (HITIP). Following the talk, Nyaphaga will do a performative painting piece with the accompaniment of live, local musicians as part of his “Urban Way” philosophy.

Issa Nyaphaga was born in Douala, Cameroon (central Africa) in 1967 and grew up in the small village of the Tikar tribe, called Nditam, in the very heart of Cameroon’s equatorial forest. As a child of the fields, Issa was in contact with the earth and nature through artistic practice. “As a young artist, it wasn’t enough to be what I was. I needed to do more, getting involved in something significant and crazy”, Issa said. After High School, Issa started working as a political cartoonist and reporter in a weekly satirical newspaper, Le Messager Popoli. His opposition to the political regime in Cameroon, led him to several trips to jail in 1994 for his publications.

Issa currently divides his time between Paris and the United States where he shares his work and advice with students and young artists. Issa also has been working on the development of a philosophical concept called “Urban Way,” in which he paints his body and stages live performances that include live music. It is an act of protest against not being able to return home freely. Since early 2008, Issa is co-directing “Return to the belly of the Beast” a documentary project with Nicoletta Fagiolo.

6pm Tipton Hall
Entrance: Any comfortable donation