BLUESOLOGY: WORKS BY JEFF SIPE & GREG TUCKER

Two artists, Greg Tucker and Jeff Sipe, explore the connections between music and visual arts as their shared interest in both Blues and Jazz serve as an integral component to their dynamic artistic practices. Jeff Sipe is an award winning folk artist and blues musician from Albuquerque. When he’s not playing bass in local blues bands he’s creating folk art in his converted garage. His work has shown in exhibitions and galleries in New Mexico, Arizona, Washington D.C., Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, California, Switzerland and Australia. His art has appeared in Shaman’s Drum Magazine, Santa Fe Magazine, The Collector’s Guide and the Mind Science Journal and he’s designed numerous CD covers. Sipe was born in the small farming community of New London, Wisconsin but has lived most of his life in the Southwest. The sights and sounds of blues bars and juke joints and the colors and flavors of border culture are the main influences on his art. Greg Tucker has work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art of Albuquerque and in UNM’s Fine Arts Museum. As an illustrator, his work was published by the Dallas Morning News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Psychology Today, Bloomberg Financial Magazine, Utne Reader, Village Voice, Salon Online, Harcourt Brace and many more. His illustrations have won many awards and have been included in many professional annuals, including the internationally prestigious Graphis Design Annual. His work is represented by the Mariposa Gallery in Albuquerque.

Exhibition Dates: July 13 – August 29, 2014 | Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 2014 (2-4pm)

Abstractions: Leslie Holland & Chandler Wigton

Abstractions features two artists engaging in a singular dialog concerning the artistic process as an exploration of contradiction, relationship and mystery through the lens of abstraction. Leslie Holland (Santa Fe) and Chandler Wigton (Durango) offer two separate bodies of work that together, seeks to shed light on the individualist approach to painting.

Exhibition Dates: May 3 – June 27, 2014 | Opening Reception: Saturday, May 3, 2014 (5-8pm)

Material Worth: Kate Carr, Jane Lackey and Natalie Smith

This event is presented as part of Women & Creativity month
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Material Worth examines the multifaceted approaches of artists Kate Carr (Santa Fe), Jane Lackey (Santa Fe) and Natalie Smith (Albuquerque) as they explore material fluency through the transformation and re-contextualization of everyday, utilitarian objects. Using media and techniques often associated with craft practice, these artists seek to engage the viewer through a variety of complex and unexpected processes while simultaneously, preserving and elevating the integrity of their materials. www.womenandcreativity.org

Exhibition Dates: March 8 – April 25, 2014 | Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8, 2014 (5-7pm)

Black and White

Karsten Creightney

Exhibition: January 3 – February 28, 2014 | Opening Reception: Friday, January 3rd, 2014 (5-8pm)

Inpost Artspace and Albuquerque-based artist Karsten Creightney are pleased to present, black and white, an  exhibition of recent prints that explore themes of loss and renewal. As an insightful contrast to his carefully chosen colorful juxtapositions that typically pervade his paintings and prints, the work in black and white, references his interest and inspiration with more minimal, German expressionist relief prints. Highlighting the stark yet elegant qualities of color in its most reduced forms, these works both celebrate and attempt to capture and recreate that same raw, direct nature of the mark making process and invite the viewer to contemplate their beauty. FREE

Karsten Creightney received his BA from Antioch College and MFA from the University of New Mexico. His work has been exhibited nationally at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, Flint Institute of Art, and the Springfield Museum of Art. His work resides in both national and international collections. He currently teaches intermediate and advanced printmaking at the Institute for of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. www.creightney.com

Outpost Member Exhibition

The Outpost Performance Space and Inpost Artspace are pleased to announce the Bi-annual Outpost Member Exhibition. The Outpost Member Exhibition celebrates the creativity of our community. The Inpost Artspace has been actively supporting local and regional artists for over 15 years and plays an important role in fostering the visual arts in Albuquerque. The exhibition features a juried selection of the Outpost’s many creative individuals and highlights the collective wealth that exists amongst it’s diverse audience.

Participating Artists: (click artists’ names shown in red to learn more about them) Maude Andrade, Richard Borkovetz, Jill Christian, Scott Ernst, Carla Forrest, Jim Gale, Beanie Kaman, Frank McCulloch, Candy Nartonis,Alan Paine Radebaugh, Robert Reck, Benjamin Roe Jr., Valerie Roybal, Hank Schuyler & Susan Zimmerman

Exhibition Dates: November 1 – December 20, 2013 | Opening Reception: Friday, November 1st, 2013 (5-8pm)

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