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CURRENT:
AT FOURTEENFIFTEEN Mixed Blessings Bella Maria Varela, Dominique Muñoz, hazel batrezchavez, Martín Wannam, Marlene Tafoya, Roman Gabriel Opening reception: Friday October 11, 6-8pm Closing reception: Friday November 1, 6-8pm Mixed Blessings is a group exhibition exploring our relationship with domestic spaces and how they relate to forming our identities. Exhibiting artists were invited to critique, redefine, and explore intergenerational tools of resistance, joy, healing, or rituals inherited from the domestic spaces they have navigated throughout their lifetimes. |
AT ALPACA
LOOSE TOOTH Nicholas Valdés Opening reception: Friday October 11, 5-8pm Closing reception: Friday November 1, 6-8pm LOOSE TOOTH marks a foundation and a departure, reflecting his shift to painting. Valdés' process capitalizes on his interest in the chance happenings that occur through cutting and rearranging collage elements with a painted surface. Typically, he uses a small contact print selected for its formal arrangement and geometric qualities as reference image for creating an under-painted framework. Like a young tooth worked loose, the pieces in this show reflect a process of letting the old recede to make way for the new. |
The works in LOOSE TOOTH are informed by Valdés’s background in photography. Similar to the way a photographer frames the messiness of the world into a contained image, these works on canvas organize cut pieces and painterly gesture to form a psycho-scape informed by the constant stimulation that is contemporary visual experience.
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Nicholas Valdés (b. 1986) is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Albuquerque, NM where he is an MFA candidate in Studio Art at the University of New Mexico.
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Nicholas Valdés (b. 1986) is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Albuquerque, NM where he is an MFA candidate in Studio Art at the University of New Mexico.
UPCOMING:
AT FOURTEENFIFTEEN & ALPACA
LADMO: An Exhibit That Bears a Striking Resemblance to a Retrospective Selected works by Bryan Konefsky Opening reception: Friday Nov 8, 2024 Closing reception: Friday Dec 6, 2024 Artist Talk: Thursday Nov 21, 5:30pm at ARTS Lab Film Screening: Sunday Dec 1st, 7pm at Alpaca |