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.