an artist-run community art space
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No Paths Back Mary Tsiongas & Jim Roeber Opening Reception: Friday Dec 12, 6pm - 9pm Sound Performance/Closing: Friday Jan 24, 7pm -9pm at Fourteenfifteen No Paths Back is a show of photographs taken during Mary Tsiongas and Jim Roeber's recent trips to Mary’s birthplace in Northern Greece. Mary’s photos were taken during her last trip to Greece with her parents, in 2023; and explore themes of aging, grief, homecoming, and loss. Jim’s photos were taken during his two most recent trips to Greece, in 2016 and 2019; and reflect his love and appreciation for his extended in-law family; and his ongoing fascination with the mysteries of post-war Greece.
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We Grow Through You
David M. Castillo Opening Reception: Saturday Dec 13, 4pm -7pm Open Hours: Friday, Jan 2, 6-9pm Closing Reception: Friday Jan 30, 2026 at Alpaca We Grow Through You is a series of photographs, an intimate installation, and an experimental audio piece that explores the haunting persistence of plant life as it grows in, on, over, and through manmade structures. These moments of disruption we perceive as rebellion, are simply acts of being. A plant only knows to grow.
The photographs, intended as an ever-growing collection, are printed using the platinum/palladium process on kozo washi paper–embedding precious metals into handmade plant fibers to form the image. This process, known for its longevity (lasting hundreds, perhaps thousands of years) reinforces the idea of endurance as the prints will last as long as the paper’s fiber. It preserves what is often overlooked–the places where green reclaims gray. David M. Castillo is an artist from New Mexico whose work in photography, installation, and sound reflects a lifelong dialogue with the land—its grief, endurance, and quiet defiance. Rooted in themes of ecological grief, resilience, and the quiet force of nature, their work explores the tension between built environments and the living systems that persist beneath and within them. |
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FUN-A-DAY 2026 Call for Proposals
Make art every day in January. Jump start the new year with the art of daily practice. Sketch, sew, document, walk, etch, collect, assemble, write, burn, embroider, sculpt, record, cook, film, print, paint, etc. The resulting art works will be displayed in a huge group exhibition at Fourteenfifteen Gallery and Alpaca in February 2026. Artists and "non-artists" alike are encouraged to participate. Email a brief project description (what is your daily action going to be?) and estimated dimensions to: fourteenfifteengallery at gmail.com by December 31st, midnight. Due to space restrictions, we can only accept the first 60 artists who RSVP. Others will be placed on a waiting list and we will see if we have enough space to show the work
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Curatorial Residency:
Call for Proposals Deadline: January 1, 2026 The L.o.A. Collective is launching a curatorial residency in Alpaca in the summer of 2026, seeking New Mexico-based curators, programmers, artists, or collectives to take over the curation of public events in Alpaca from June 8 through Sept 6, 2026.
The collective is particularly interested in proposals with strong conceptual content, that critically address urgent topics, that represent a diverse range of human experience, and reflect the diverse cultures of our region. Proposals may include group exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, political actions, etc. Guest curator(s) will have 24-hour access to the space for the duration of their residency and promotional support from the L.o.A. Collective. Please send proposals to [email protected] with subject line: Curatorial Residency In your proposal:
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We're back in the 4th St storefronts!
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We are so happy to be back in our original building after the 2024 fire and building restoration!
We can't thank everyone enough for your help 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. |
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