an artist-run community art space
CURRENT:
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Algorithmia
Amy Vensel Opening Reception: Friday June 13, 6-8pm Closing Reception: Friday July 11, 6-8pm 1411 4th St, 218 Algorithmia is an exhibition of paintings by Las Cruces-based artist Amy Vensel that highlight the divisions in society driven by social media. Derived from a combination of “algorithm” and “arrhythmia,” Algorithmia reflects on how algorithms manipulating data can distort facts and heighten divisions, causing a lack of harmony and rhythm. Much like people can have two different conclusions based on the source of their information as presented by an algorithm, the paintings in this exhibition present two related but divergent elements divided by a black band, as if the two sides are distorted reflections of the same idea or event. |
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UPCOMING:
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Ghost of a Chance
Hilary Nelson Opening Reception: Friday July 11, 6-9pm Closing Reception: Friday August 1, 6-9pm at Fourteenfifteen Gallery Hilary Nelson’s work explores the paradox implicit in the idea of something being “finished”. When does “usefulness” end? Nelson’s process involves compulsively sourcing scraps and leftovers from industry and day to day consumption, or recycling parts of old work, giving each of the pieces many lives. This working method underscores the transitory nature of the artwork, and substantiates a desire to question the role of an artist in capitalism, consumption, and waste. |
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Beasts of Burden
Kait O'Brien Opening Reception: Friday July 11, 6-8pm at Alpaca We carry our lives in our possessions and the things we leave behind carry their own lives. We’ve created a world of self sustaining things, a world in which we forget our own humanity for the comfort of castles built from Target hauls and Costco runs. These portraits of found, abandoned grocery carts ask their own questions and tell their own stories. I have not placed them. They were placed by people—people who needed to carry belongings to wherever their path took them. What would you do with your things if you lost your home? Love flourishes in even the most desiccated of seasons. |
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Homecoming
We are so happy to announce that we are back in our original building!
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We can't thank you enough for your help during after the fire, be it by donating to our GoFundMe, coming to events in our makeshift gallery, or your supportive words and many labors of love.
While it might feel cliché to hear, and irrelevant considering all that we face in these tumultuous times, we need art more than ever because with art comes community. This has been an ethos of many of the radical movements before us and will be a necessity in our fight moving forward. This space and the many iterations before us have always been for the community and we will continue to be a place of gathering for the people for as long |
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