On the Map: Unfolding Albuquerque Art + Design

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This cultural partnership celebrates arts and design of central New Mexico from January - June 2015. Exhibitions, Lectures, Performances, Education & more

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On the Map: Unfolding Albuquerque Art + Design is a cultural partnership that celebrates the art of central New Mexico by over 20 partnering organizations. During January through June 2015, public institutions join private galleries to present exhibitions, lectures, performances and educational programming that investigate the diverse art of the greater Albuquerque region. This event places a comprehensive focus on art and design created in the Middle Rio Grande Basin, from contemporary art to the earliest aesthetic objects created in the region. ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM EXHIBITION ANCHORS ON THE MAP: At the heart of this collaboration, the Albuquerque Museum’s exhibition titled Visualizing Albuquerque, curated by Joseph Traugott (January 31 – May 3, 2015), will investigate the unique history and present of central New Mexico art and serve as an umbrella for institutional partners. Traugott says, ”Albuquerque artists found their own artistic voice after World War II and transformed a western boom town into a thriving art center. This exhibition demonstrates how an influx of modern-minded Californians moved to Albuquerque and changed the city by unleashing the creativity of local artists. The resulting abstract works broke with traditional New Mexico scenes. By including women and their concerns, ethnic perspectives, popular culture subjects, and political content after 1980, Albuquerque artists synthesized an aesthetic that shunned commercial trends. Visualizing Albuquerque revels in the region’s diverse artists and reveals how their distinctive fusions have bridged aesthetic divides and cultural rifts.” An accompanying book, featuring essays by Traugott, will address various subjects including cycles of cultural domination, art of the region as a spiritual force, and how art acts as a healing antidote to specific challenges Albuquerqueans face. Cathy Wright, Director of the Albuquerque Museum, states, “The Museum is honored to be hosting Joe Traugott’s ground-breaking reinterpretation of the creative narrative of the city and region. We’re also thrilled to act as hub helping perpetuate the Albuquerque art scene’s tradition of inclusion and collaboration, linking with so many other luminary arts organizations and leaders.” PREVIEW SAMPLING OF ADDITIONAL EXHIBITIONS: Focusing on 21st century art in the present, 516 ARTS will present From the Ground Up: Design Here + Now (January 31 – April 4, 2015), showcasing contemporary work by established and emerging Albuquerque area designers and architects. The exhibition will feature both built and speculative projects that vary widely in scale and demonstrate shared interests in innovation, experience, material, form and function. The South Broadway Cultural Center’s exhibition titled The Bomb (January 15 – February 28, 2015), curated by Augustine Romero, will serve up a panoramic overview of the last ten years of local art production in New Mexico. The Bomb, a new and explosive visual arsenal of art, embraces the transformation of materials into new works that characterize the contemporary art scene. The City of Albuquerque and the Bernalillo County Public Art Programs will mount a joint exhibition in the Albuquerque Museum West Gallery entitled All Over the Map: The Ongoing Dialogue of Public Art (January 31 – April 5, 2015), highlighting the past 50 years of public art in the region, including an interactive, forward thinking engagement component which will seek public input and feedback on what public art should or could be in the future. The City of Albuquerque’s Public Art Program will present Insight @ The Yards (January – March, 2015), a series of temporary site-specific art installations at the Albuquerque Rail Yards Blacksmith’s Shop, a historic, monumental architectural gem. The new Downtown gallery Central Features will present Visible Sound (April 24 – May 30, 2015), an exhibition of contemporary visual art objects and audible installations that embody ways in which sound can be visually and physically recorded, translated and understood. Programming includes artist-led “soundwalks” through Albuquerque. Richard Levy Gallery will present a solo exhibition of selected architectural objects and works on paper by internationally acclaimed architect Antoine Predock. The National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum will feature MARCO!: Celebrating the Legacy of Nuestro Maestro Marco Garcia (February 20 – June, 2015), which will celebrate the work of a local artist known as Marco, who sold his work at the Albuquerque flea market and the Spanish Village at the State Fair. Foodie: On Eats, Eating, and Eateries in Albuquerque (February 20 – April 5, 2015), presented by Tamarind Institute, will feature new lithographs created by Albuquerque artists that focus on local food and food culture. The Harwood Art Center will present 7th & Mountain (March 6 – April 17, 2015), featuring luminary local artists of all ages who have had a significant impact on and been significantly impacted by Harwood, while contributing to the larger creative dialogue in New Mexico. Harwood’s annual Encompass event (March 6, 2015, 6-8pm) will feature open studios with 45 resident artists and community art making projects. INTERNATIONAL ART SCHOLARS ON ALBUQUERQUE / ON THE MAP: Peter Frank, Associate Editor of Fabrik magazine & art critic for The Huffington Post, said, “Northern New Mexico is one of America’s premier locations for artistic activity, and has been for over a century. Santa Fe is a mecca for collectors, Taos is an historic cradle of innovation and artistic community, and the landscape all around — geological and anthropological — provides one of the most aesthetically inspiring environments in the world. What the world doesn’t yet know, however, is that Albuquerque, the region’s urban hub, is also its new artistic heart. A center of education (UNM’s art department has been one of America’s most vibrant for decades) and transportation, Albuquerque has become the new locus for artists themselves, providing affordable space, reasonable employment, ready access to the wider world, and a growing sense of community with other artists and art people. Tomorrow’s artists are at work in today’s Albuquerque.” Libby Lumpkin, renowned art historian, critic and professor, said, “I would imagine that no two people mean the same thing when they are referring to the art of the middle Rio Grande Valley. That’s what I like about the [On The Map] project. It brings out all the many types—art that carries on ancient traditions or shocks with the new, art that promotes spirituality or political positions, the sophisticated, the decorative and all points in between. My favorites are the works that generate friction between types. That’s where sparks fly.” ALBUQUERQUE VENUES & PRESENTERS TO DATE: Albuquerque Museum 516 ARTS Bernalillo County Public Art Program City of Albuquerque Public Art Program Central Features DSG Fine Art KiMo Theatre Gallery Frederick Hammersley Foundation Harwood Art Center Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Richard Levy Gallery National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum New Mexico PBS/KNME-TV North Fourth Art Center April Price Projects Gallery SCA Contemporary Art South Broadway Cultural Center Tamarind Institute UNM Art Museum UNM Hospitals Art Program SANTA FE VENUES TO DATE: Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Owings Gallery Stay tuned for a complete listing of exhibitions, opening receptions and public programs, which will be featured on a project website hosted by the Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau: www.ABQonthemap.com

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