INPOST ARTSPACE RECEPTION: HERSTORY at the Outpost

Reception: June 7, 5-7pm
Exhibition dates: June 3 – August 16

Herstory at the Outpost features portraits made by Herstory at the Outpost, a group of women printmakers who create prints of women across time and borders who have impacted how they see and understand the world. They define Herstory as history viewed from a female or specifically feminist perspective with a special attention to the experience of women. The collective includes Julianna Kirwin, Michelle Shelly Korte, and Lena Weiss as well as numerous community guest artists. They do not individually sign their prints but prefer to be known collectively as Herstory. Free.

Inpost Artspace Reception & Outpost Benefit Sale: Landscape Photographs by Jim Gale

sponsored by Rachel Kelly in Memory of Jim Gale (1958-2023)

Reception: May 18, 2024, 11am-3pm
Exhibit Dates: March 25-May 30.

In August of 2021, the Inpost Artspace hosted a show by Jim Gale entitled “Landscape Retrospective: From Film to Digital and Infrared Imaging | The Photography of Jim Gale.” On April 19, 2023, at age 65, Jim Gale passed away. Before his passing, in an act of deep generosity and love, Jim donated all of his jazz photographs to Outpost. This collection includes hundreds of framed and matted prints as well as many may thousands of negatives and digital files. Jim was a wonderful friend— a kind and gentle soul whom everybody loved along with his masterful work. As he wrote at the time of his 2021 Landscape show, “I really had not gotten back into music photography until I moved to Albuquerque and discovered the Outpost! After my first show at the old Morningside location, I was hooked! Although my taste in music is very eclectic, I was drawn deeper into the beauty, improvisation and creativity of Jazz. Since I could never afford all the shows I wanted to see, I approached Tom about an exchange of my show photographs for free admittance. This arrangement as the volunteer “house photographer” has now lasted over 23 years! At this point, there are few (if any) other clubs or performance spaces that have such a complete and extensive photographic documentation.” How true that last statement is! Now, in a continuing act of generosity, Jim’s wife, Rachel Kelly has offered to donate his landscape photographs for Outpost to exhibit and sell as a benefit to the organization. In describing his landscapes which were taken during his numerous backpacking adventures (another love of his). Jim said, “I developed a passion for documenting my adventures so that I could preserve and capture the details and the beauty I saw through my lens. It still amazes me how much a single image from 40 years ago can bring back vivid memories I thought I had forgotten.” He went on to say about that show in 2021, “my landscape work features a mix of old film (and infrared film in 4×5 sheet size) and newer digital work. Most of the photographs are from New Mexico and the Southwest. The large B&W images were some of the last I developed and printed in my garage darkroom, and while I have embraced digital, I find there is something unique and beautiful about the analog film/print that is hard to reproduce in digital.” So please come to honor Jim and Rachel and to view a beautiful exhibit and purchase the prints to benefit Outpost as Jim would have wanted you to do. Free.

Photographs may be purchased at any time during the Exhibit which will run from March 25-May 30.

Inpost Artspace: Lightspace Artists Talk and Star Viewing

March 22, 2024, 7:30 – 9:30pm

Join us for a discussion of the exhibition, Lightspace, with artist Zuyva Sevilla and members of the Albuquerque Astronomical Society, including astrophotographer Joey Troy, and physicist and astrophotographer Christopher Mauche. This exhibition, which is currently hanging in the Inpost Artspace, explores the overlap between art and science and pairs Sevilla’s digitally simulated images of photons with photographs of the cosmos by Mauche and Troy. The talk will explore how Sevilla’s micro-exploration of photons shares many similarities in process and visuals with Mauche and Troy’s photographs of the vastness of space. Following the talk, enjoy star gazing with a telescope in the Outpost courtyard! Free!

Inpost Artspace Reception: Lightspace: Works by Zuyva Sevilla and The Albuquerque Astronomical Society

Reception: Friday, November 17th, 5-7pm
November 7 – March 23

This exhibition combines works by Zuyva Sevilla with images of the cosmos taken by members of The Albuquerque Astronomical Society Christopher Mauche and Joey Troy. Lightspace celebrates a sense of wonder and mystery present in Sevilla’s illuminated, digitally layered images of projected light and Mauche and Troy’s photographs of space. Though each image-maker uses very different methods, the images convey a similar mood and appearance. Lightspace is an experiment in honoring light in its purest form, and an invitation to consider the awesomeness and grandeur the universe has to offer.

Inpost Artspace Reception: IN FLIGHT- Taken at the Outpost: Photos by Mark Weber & Roch Doran. Music by the Cal Haines Quartet

Inpost Artspace Reception: Sunday, September 10, 3-5pm
Exhibition dates: July 10 – November 2, 2023

This Inpost Artspace photo exhibit features two dedicated jazz fans/photographers who have frequented Outpost shows ever since each of them moved to Albuquerque. They are an intrinsic part of Albuquerque’s celebrated jazz scene. We decided to let them use their own words to define the show and their artistic approaches. Mark Weber: “Photographs inhabit the 4th dimension, they are shadows & light of what has passed, five days ago or 25 years bygone. I take them for memory. Sentimental. First time I watched the ghost of an image appear in a developing tray it blew my mind. I was like the wildman Enkidu seeing Babylon for the first time. As to my aesthetic, it’s a bit sideways of prevailing practices . . . For the most part I’m a documentarian in the anthropological sense: A jazz scene includes artists, instrument repair techs, promoters, deejays, record stores & record collectors, journalists, priests, recording studios, historians, photographers, hagiographers, club owners, university jazz departments, agents/managers, and the audience. Is there a narrative to this show? Yup. It’s the community of listeners and musicians that have grown up around the Outpost. My favorite jazz photographer (besides, Roch) is William Gottlieb, who knew that jazz is a culture and photo’d it in its natural habitat: the jazz club of the 40s & 50s. Like any art form, one must be decisive, and with photographing music concerts there’s an etiquette, unspoken, but if you don’t pick up on it, you won’t last – it involves common decency, patience, tact, and mostly the fact this is the audience’s concert, not yours.” Roch Doran: “My goal is to document what I see without ever changing the experience of those that may be sharing that space in time with me. The challenge is to see beyond the obvious and to capture what is unique in that solitary moment. After years of being in a band that had dissolved more into talking about music than playing music, I was in heaven when I got my first camera. The camera gave me the freedom to share something about my world without hours of conversation. Since 1977, when I began this journey, my two loves have been constant, nature and documenting people creating music. Over the years the technology has changed and I have gone from film to transparencies, back to film, to digital and now digital with a mirrorless camera. While the tools have changed, the objects of my interest have not.”

Led by renowned Albuquerque-based drummer Cal Haines, a long-time friend and associate of Mark Weber, The Cal Haines Quartet, which took home three awards at this year’s New Mexico Music Awards, also features David Parlato, electric bass; Alex Murzyn, tenor sax & flute; and Adolfo Acosta, trumpet & flugelhorn. The group plays original compositions and beloved standards, but with an open, chordal-free format (i.e. no guitar or piano). FREE!

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