by Katherine Ware, New Mexico Museum of Art

The UNM Art Museum’s Oustanding Speaker Series in conjunction with the exhibition “Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens.”

Tuesday, February 16th at 5:30 pm

All talks in the Speaker Series will be held at the UNM Art Museum and are FREE and open to the public. Please join us!

The UNM Art Museum is located on the campus of UNM in the Center for the Arts adjacent to Popejoy Hall. Open Tuesday – Friday: 10-4, Saturday + Sunday: 1-4 and during most Friday evening performances at Popejoy.

The Outstanding Speaker Series is sponsored by the UNM Art Museum in cooperation with the Department of Art & Art History.

Albuquerque Now: Winter is the secnod of two installations of diverse work by artists of the Albuquerque metropolitan area and is organized by Andrew Connors, Curator of Art. Albuquerque Now celebrates the diversity of visual culture in all of its active manifestations, from traditional woodworking to digital video, from printmaking to installation art.

ALBUQUERQUE NOW: Winter
January 24, 2010 – April 18, 2010

Preview Opening: Saturday, January 23, 7 – 9 pm

Albuquerque Museum
2000 Mountain Road NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104

Lecture by Victoria Sambunaris and Bill Gilbert

Thursday, December 3, 2009, 6 p.m.

Artists Victoria Sambunaris and Bill Gilbert will hold a dialogue about “The Road Trip” as an artistic practice on Thursday, December 3, 2009, at 6 p.m.

Victoria Sambunaris is one of the nine artists featured in the NMMoA exhibition, Manmade. She travels the American byways in search of photographic images that often capture human interventions in the landscape, whether the road itself, distribution warehouses and other vehicles of manufacturing and commerce, or the wondrous geological features of Yellowstone National Park.

Bill Gilbert is the Lannan Chair and Director of the Land Arts program at the University of New Mexico. As part of his work as both an artist and a professor, he is often on the road, traversing the Southwest to live and work in the landscape. Bill Gilbert’s work from his journeys in 2005-2006 are the subject of the University of New Mexico Art Museum exhibition, Physiocartography, on view through November 25, 2009.

This is one in a series of lectures presented in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection.
This event was generously funded by the Lannan Foundation.

St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art
Santa Fe Plaza, 107 West Palace Avenue
December 3, 6 p.m.
Free admission.

PULSE Miami runs from December 3- 6 at the Ice Palace in downtown Miami. Richard Levy Gallery is presenting a group exhibtion at PULSE Miami that incluced new work by William Betts, Erika Blumenfeld, Constance DeJong, Nicole Dextras, Jeff Kellar, and Jennifer Vasher.

Matilda Essig
Don Kirby
Stephen Strom

November 13, 2009 – January 8, 2010
Public Reception: November 13, 2009 5-7pm

Gallery Talk with Matilda Essig: Friday November 13 from 4-5pm
Book Signing and Gallery Talk with Don Kirby and Stephen Strom: Saturday November 14 from 2-4pm

Albuquerque Now: Fall is the first of two installations of diverse work by artists of the Albuquerque metropolitan area and is organized by Andrew Connors, Curator of Art. Albuquerque Now celebrates the diversity of visual culture in all of its active manifestations, from traditional woodworking to digital video, from printmaking to installation art. Albuquerque Now: Winter will open January 24, 2010.

Flash Flood co-founder David Ondrik has an installation of his Bosque photographs at the show. Holly Roberts, recently featured in Issue Two, and Betty Hahn are showing as well.

ALBUQUERQUE NOW: FALL
October 11, 2009 – January 3, 2010

Albuquerque Museum
2000 Mountain Road NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104

The Magenta Foundation is pleased to announce Year Six of its Emerging Photographers exchange with big news:

With this call for submissions, alternating years of the annual competition will now be a major component of the new, bi-annual Flash Forward Festival.

This is an open call for submissions.
All photographers in Canada, the UK and the US 34 years of age and under may submit.
All submission requirements and instructions are on our website .

Jurors for 2010

Canada:
Liz Ikiriko – Photo Editor, Toronto Life Magazine
Daniel Espeset, photo-eye Magazine
Myrabelle Charlebois – Photo Editor, enRoute Magazine
Erin Elder – Manager, Business Development, Digital Media, The Globe and Mail

UK:
Lorna Mary – Company Manager, Rhubarb-Rhubarb Festival
Chris Littlewood – Photography Coordinator, Flowers East Gallery
Simon Bainbridge, British Journal of Photography, London
Aaron Schuman – Director/Editor, Seesaw Magazine

US:
Andy Adams – Editor/Publisher, Flak Photo
Amanda Maddox – Assistant Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Susan Bright – Independent art writer and curator based in NY

Please make your submissions via magentafoundation.org or http://www.magentafoundation.org/submissions/

CENTER, Santa Fe’s internationally recognized, non-profit organization will bring Slideluck Potshow to Santa Fe for the first time on December 9, 2009 at the New Mexico History Museum from 6:30pm – 9pm. The event is FREE and the public is invited!

The concept is simple and fun: The evening begins with mingling and eating for about an hour…then the lights are dimmed, the crowd is hushed, and a spectacular slideshow of the work of anywhere from 15 to 50 photographers begins.

CENTER is also currently accepting submissions for the Slideluck Potshow. For more information and submission guidelines, please visit http://www.visitcenter.org

First Wednesday Photography Salon
Artists presenting: Kelly Eckel, Greg MacGregor, and Ford Robbins

November 4th, 2009, 6:30 meet the artists, 6:45-9 salon
photo-eye Gallery, 376-A Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Contact: Melanie McWhorter
505.988.5152 × 112
melanie@photoeye.com

First Wednesday’s October salon will be held on October 7th, with the opening reception starting at 6:30pm and the salon running from 6:45pm to 9pm. For this month’s Salon, Kelly Eckel will be presenting a variety of work, including work from her series Fragmented. Ford Robbins will be presenting work from and discussing the process of publishing his book Connections: A Visual Journey through the University of New Mexico Press, and Greg MacGregor will be giving a talk entitled Explosions in the Western Landscape— Mine and Theirs, consisting of photographs of explosions.

Jennifer’s West II (Sunset), 2007 was selected by Arnaud Gregori as the print of the week for 52 Editions. The 8.5×11 inch pigment print is available unframed for only $45 and framed for $125. If you want it, purchase now as the price increases to $75 for the unframed in just a few days.

—posted by Melanie McWhorter on October 31, 2009.