Richard Anuszkiewicz: Three Dimensional Wall Reliefs and Sculptures from 1986-2012 Presented at David Richard Gallery In Santa Fe, New Mexico
 
David Richard Gallery will present Richard Anuszkiewicz, Variations: Evolution of the Artist’s Media 1986-2012, the gallery’s first solo exhibition for the artist that will feature three-dimensional artwork, including wall reliefs and pedestal sculptures. The exhibition will be presented from May 10-June 15, 2013 at the gallery located on 544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, phone 505-983-9555 in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District.
 
Featuring sculptural works accompanied by drawings and paintings, the exhibition maps the evolution of Richard Anuszkiewicz’s art from 1986 through 2012 as he moves out of the purely two-dimensional plane and explores visual perception and three-dimensional space with the greatest economy of means, using only thin strips of wood or metal that are painted with just two or three carefully selected hues. Creating reductive structures, he takes advantage of a well known phenomenon in which the viewer’s mind completes the minimal constructs, envisioning a whole from the fragments by filling in the suggested flat surfaces or layers of overlapping planes. These structures are not only more architectural, but much simpler than his paintings, relying less on painting methods to create optical illusions and more on a literal approach aided by pure color.
 
In the Translumina series, the painted wooden strips on wall reliefs or pedestal sculptures create open structures that read as solid three-dimensional shapes. In the wall reliefs, the distances between the wood strips are graduated, which in combination with alternating hues model the rectangular shapes and create the illusion of rounded columns. Thus, he creates and maintains a tension between painting and sculpture to create the illusion of solid three-dimensional overlapping shapes. Another series of sculptures is still more reductive, whereby Anuszkiewicz uses only thin strips of metal constructed in a two-dimensional plane painted with one to four colors—mostly primary—such that they appear as line drawings. These sculptures are so open and transparent, they seem to float like boxes and cruciform structures in space.
 
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by John Yau of New York.
 
Richard Anuskiewicz studied at Yale University with Josef Albers and at age 82, his art making still focuses on color and visual perception. His artwork has been featured in over 340 solo and group exhibitions since 1951 and is currently included in the international exhibition, Dynamo: A Century of Light and Motion in Art, 1913 - 2013 at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, in Paris (France) through July. He was included in seminal exhibitions that ushered in Op Art, such as Vibrations Eleven, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, January 6 - 31, 1965 and The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York. February 23 - April 25, 1965 and early in his career, he was represented by the important Sidney Janis Gallery of New York. Anuszkiewicz’s art is included in the permanent collections of over 70 museums around the world including: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others.
 
David Richard Gallery specializes in post-war abstract art including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, geometric and hard-edge painting, Op, Pop, Minimalism, Feminism and conceptualism in a variety of media. Featuring both historic and contemporary artwork, the gallery represents many established artists who were part of important art historical movements and tendencies that occurred during the 1950s through the 1980s on both the east and west coasts. The gallery also represents artist estates, emerging artists and offers secondary market works.

David Richard Gallery will present “Projected,” a new media exhibition featuring digital and video artwork by Teri Yarbrow, Max Almy, Matthew Kluber and Susan Herdman. The exhibition will be presented from May 31-June 30, 2013 with an artist reception on Friday, May 31 from 5:00-7:00 PM at the gallery located on 544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, phone 505-983-9555 in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District.
 
Teri Yarbrow and Max Almy are Emmy, AFI and NEA award winning internationally exhibited video and installation artists known for pushing the boundaries of art and technology. Their complex installations seamlessly combine video, constructed surfaces, painting, digital imagery, flat screens and video projection to create dramatic, mesmerizing artworks. The newest creations are mandala-like multi-media pieces that incorporate flat screens behind large water jet-cut, patinated copper circles, on to which moving digital images are projected that spill on to the wall and span a diameter of 72 inches. Their works have been featured in major museums, festivals, screenings and collections throughout the world including: Museum of Modern Art, New York; New Museum, New York; Whitney Museum, New York; The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles; Ars Electronica, Austria; SIGGRAPH; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; among others.
 
Projecting computer-generated digital images of translucent color on stationary geometric paintings on aluminum panels, Matthew Kluber’s new media constructions create a hyper color field space at the intersection of the virtual world and the physical world. His still imagery—based on the horizontal lines of collapsed digital data that result from a computer crash—is painted on the metal support with fluorescent colors to mimic the luminosity of the computer monitor. The projected images range from beams of light and geometric patterns to colorful looping patters that provide an ever-changing kaleidoscope of color and fantasy that transforms a space. Kluber has exhibited his paintings/projections, films and drawings internationally, including: the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China; FOCUS09/Art Basel, Switzerland; Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Italy; Micro Museum, Brooklyn and Portland Museum of Art, Oregon among others.
 
“The Berlin That I Have Seen,” by Susan Herdman is based upon photographs of Berlin that have been collaged based on formal relationships of color, form and texture, then projected in a continuous stream in a large format video. The juxtaposition of the images goes beyond the formal qualities and comments on the vestiges of violence and chaos of war that remain in the city and that have become a canvas for young street artists who incorporate the ravages of their city’s history into their art. Herdman’s artwork has been presented in many exhibitions and is included in public and museum collections, including: The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY; Heard Museum Library & Archives, Phoenix, AZ; Eiteljorg Museum of Native American and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN; Museum Of Anthropology, University of California, Chico, CA and American Indian Center, Chicago, IL among others.
 
David Richard Gallery specializes in post-war abstract art including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, geometric and hard-edge painting, Op, Pop, Minimalism, Feminism and conceptualism in a variety of media. Featuring both historic and contemporary artwork, the gallery represents many established artists who were part of important art historical movements and tendencies that occurred during the 1950s through the 1980s on both the east and west coasts. The gallery also represents artist estates, emerging artists and offers secondary market works.

CCA will host two projects from CENTER‘s internationally renowned grants and awards program during the flagship event, Review Santa Fe. The Project Grants are awarded to outstanding fine art or documentary projects on the brink of wider acclaim; this year’s winners are David Favrod from Switzerland and Ignacio Evangelista from Spain.

Balancing Signal to Noise is a small group exhibition featuring works by Zoe Blackwell, Brandon Soder and Betsy Emil, who each approach line, orientation and space in two dimensions. Guest curated by Winston Riley, this collection of drawings and photographs evidences a place lost, a thought nearly manifest, a dream turned memory. Illusive yet speculative, abstracted but familiar, Balancing Signal to Noise speaks to the limits of orientation.

Making Places is at once a retrospective, a new commission, a 3D instruction manual, and an intimate examination of what it takes to develop an art-driven life. Linda Fleming and Michael Moore have been married for decades; their life together is a pastiche of homes they‘ve built, schedules created, rules made, places cultivated, practices evolved, dogs loved, friends lost, meals shared, and first-and-foremost, art produced. The exhibition features handmade spaces, collected objects, designed audience experiences, and also the couple’s remarkable paintings, drawings and sculptures.

CCA invites 30+ artists to make outside of the studio, doing what they do best while the public watches. In hour-long sessions, groups of artists will create individual mini-masterpieces to be auctioned that same evening. With an amazing line-up of live music, a fleet of food trucks, amazingly affordable art, and the region‘s best artists, everyone makes out. Stay tuned for more details! This will be Santa Fe’s party of the year!

Atomic Surplus is a multi-faceted project that examines what it means to live in the birthplace of the atomic bomb. Through art that addresses not only New Mexico identity, but also the larger realms of science, environment, war, activism, fear and hope, Atomic Surplus will consist of a major group exhibition; film series; lecture series; two artist-led field trips; hands-on, field-based children's education program; essay-driven exhibition catalog; and online archive.

SITE Santa Fe is pleased to present a new project by Enrique Martínez Celaya (b. 1964), entitled The Pearl. For this exhibition, Martínez Celaya transforms all 15,000 square feet of SITE’s gallery spaces into an immersive installation environment that includes several large and small-scale paintings, sculptures, video, waterworks and olfactory interventions. This exhibition integrates many of the elements and ideas that the artist has engaged with over the last several years. For this project, the artist takes the notion of home as both a point of departure and a destination to craft a multi-sensory experience that is an extended metaphor for a journey of emotional and psychological reflection. Visitors will experience the installation in a particular sequence that allows the multi-level narrative to unfold. This installation will be accompanied by an exhibition of preparatory drawings. The artist is also collaborating with Santa Fe-based Radius Books to produce an artist book related to the exhibition. SITE hosts an artist talk and book signing on Tuesday, October 1st, 6pm, at Santa Fe Armory for the Arts Theater, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM. Tickets are $10/$5 for students, seniors, and SITE members at Friend/Family level; Free for members at Supporter Level and above. www.sitesantafe.org or call 505.989.1199.
 
Martínez Celaya’s interdisciplinary practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, photography and writing, is influenced by a wide array of interests including Nordic poetry, samurai mores, quantum physics, the emotional mechanisms of kitsch, analytic and continental philosophy, Latin American literEature and everyday life. Martínez Celaya begins with the autobiographical to explore the universal. His figures and landscapes may draw from specific references from his own life, but these morph into archetype-like symbols alluding to larger existential concerns of being and consciousness, memory, exile, birth, death and coming of age, among others. The resultant works are engaging yet enigmatic, and evidence a deep engagement with the aesthetics of Romanticism.
 
Martínez Celaya was trained as an artist and physicist. He earned a BS in Applied & Engineering Physics from Cornell University, a MS in Quantum Electronics from University of California Berkeley and a MFA in Painting from University of California, Santa Barbara. He has had solo exhibitions at the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, the Miami Art Museum, the Berliner Philharmonie and the Orange County Museum of Art, among others. His works are included in several private and public collections including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. His Collected Writings and Interviews 1990-2010, was published by the University of Nebraska Press. Under the imprint Whale and Star Press, Martínez Celaya has published several books on art, poetry, art practice and critical theory.
 
Enrique Martińez Celaya: The Pearl is organized by Irene Hofmann, Phillips Director and Chief Curator, SITE Santa Fe. The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the following lead sponsors Karen & Steve Berkowitz; Terry Fassburg; Ann & Ron Pizzuti; and Mary Sloane & Andy Wallerstein, with additional support from sponsors Christine & Bill Aylward; Diane & Werner Grob; Nancy Ziegler Nodelman & Dwight Strong; and Marleen DeBode & Marc Olivié.