an artist-run community art space
CURRENT:
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NO PROMISES
Hannah Taylor at Fourteenfifteen Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 6pm-9pm Artist Talk: March 26, 5:30 PM @ UNM CTR-ARTS 1020 Closing Reception: Friday, March 27, 6pm-9pm Hannah Taylor’s work centers humor, presence, and pattern. She explores two competing impulses: an urge for care, patience, and touch as well as a craving for speed and convenience. Much of this work combines found, often throwaway materials such as ketchup packets and old sweatshirts complimented by more carefully crafted wooden and bronze containers. Working between drawing and sculpture, she pokes this impulse to organize and record. The outcome is an impulsive archive, or a collapsing archive – a simultaneous unraveling and preservation of the present moment. |
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OPEN HOURS:
Tuesday, March 10: 2 PM - 5 PM
Thursday, March 12: 9 AM - 12 PM
Sunday, March 15: 11 AM - 3 PM
Monday, March 16: 1 PM - 2 PM and 4 PM - 6 PM
Wednesday, March 18: 8 AM - 12 PM
Thursday, March 19: 2 PM - 6 PM
Wednesday, March 25: 9 AM - 12 PM
Tuesday, March 10: 2 PM - 5 PM
Thursday, March 12: 9 AM - 12 PM
Sunday, March 15: 11 AM - 3 PM
Monday, March 16: 1 PM - 2 PM and 4 PM - 6 PM
Wednesday, March 18: 8 AM - 12 PM
Thursday, March 19: 2 PM - 6 PM
Wednesday, March 25: 9 AM - 12 PM
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Hands-on Film Workshop with Basement Films at Alpaca Sunday, March 29 1:00pm - 4:00pm $10 - 20 suggested donation Using a variety of tools and techniques (scratching, ink, drawing, cutting, taping, splicing,) participants will create handmade 16mm looping films using footage from the Basement Films archive. This workshop introduces the basics of motion picture film and invites participants to experiment and expand on what a movie can be. No cameras required. All experience levels are welcome. Basement Films, established in Albuquerque in 1991, is a nonprofit organization that promotes experimental and underrepresented forms of media-making through public screenings, performances, workshops, and lectures. Basements Films is home to the largest analogue film archives of its kind in the Southwest. www.basementfilms.org |
UPCOMING:
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COMMUNAL NOSTALGIA:
a compendium of pansies a.r. havel at Alpaca Opening Reception: Sunday, April 12th 6-9pm a.r. havel presents an installation of filmic works with an accompanying novel that synthesizes five years of research concerning how nostalgia affects queer identity: as an individual marker of self, sexuality, and community. By engaging with (made-up) artifacts from half-remembered histories, havel wonders: why are queer people so obsessed with archives? |
a.r. havel is an artist and researcher based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He learned a community-active form of performance art with jump-start performance company in San Antonio, Texas (his hometown.) Emphasizing collaborative processes, he uses photography, moving images production, dance, and writing to investigate the malleability of (public) memory and desire.
www.arhavel.com
www.arhavel.com
CALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS
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As a DIY space, we find ourselves in a unique position: not beholden to capital, granting organizations, institutions, or commercial interests. We answer to no one but ourselves and the community. It’s an old cliche that art’s job is to hold a mirror up to this world, however catastrophic and disheartening. Artists play a critical role in tackling the ugliness and offering alternatives. Now more than ever we want this space to be a platform for art that is socially-focused, concept-driven, and radical.
We want to see: Art that gives voice to the voiceless. Art that confronts current or ongoing political violence and colonialism. Art that addresses environmental crises. Art that challenges the rot of corporate greed and techo-capitalism. Art that envisions alternatives. Art that nurtures social bonds as a radical act. Art that focuses on the collective rather than the individual. Art that’s disruptive. Art that’s playful. Art that doesn’t feign to have all the answers, but asks tough questions. If we are living in unprecedented times, the art of our time should reflect that fact. Seeking proposals for month-long group or solo exhibitions in any medium (2D, 3D, installation, video, performances, events series) that explore any of the themes above. |
Deadline: April 15, 2026
illustration courtesy of beedallo
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