Sep 6, 2013 | Inpost Artspace
Nina Elder’s paintings are objective contemplations of fracking structures, hydroelectric dams, telecommunication towers, airports and military bases. Painted in a style that is as coolly engineered as the industry that they represent, this disarmingly beautiful body of work quietly poses questions of human industriousness and our dominion over natural landscapes.
About the artist: Nina Elder is a painter, drawer, construction worker, and farmer. She grew up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico where she cultivated a curiosity about gravel pits, mines, and lumber mills. Her work examines the visual evidence of land use in the American West and its cycles of production, consumption, and waste. After earning her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, Nina returned to northern New Mexico where she co-founded an off-the-grid artist residency program called PLAND: Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation. Through paintings, drawings, and installations, she endeavors to illuminate that the contemporary landscape is the physical manifestation of modern needs, economies, policies, and powers. Nina’s work is exhibited and collected nationally, and has been included in publications such as Art in America and New American Paintings.
Exhibition Dates: September 6 – October 25, 2013 | Opening Reception: Friday, September 6th, 2013 (5-8pm)
Jul 5, 2013 | Inpost Artspace
Some Jazz Photographs by Mark Weber
Mark Weber is a writer who sometimes takes pictures. Trained in photography under Jeff Cole at Upland High School, (40 miles east of L.A.) he covered the Los Angeles jazz scene for CODA from 1976-1986 (and thereafter from other locales around the U.S.). He has been the Thursday jazz host on KUNM for seventeen years. His deposit of 10,000+ photos and hundreds of interviews are at UCLA in the “Mark Weber Archive of Blues & Jazz” collection. See his website JAZZ FOR MOSTLY for essays and photos. Technical support and enthusiasm for this show provided by Cal Haines and Janet Simon. Describing the photographs for this show, Mark says, “It seems like something that has always been here, but it hasn’t, it resides in the future and we only glimpse it’s full meaning in fleeting intervals, a coiled arpeggiated chord, a horn like the distant freight train across town, a saxophonist passing through whose name you didn’t catch, played the jazz that relaxed the clock, set time down for a little talk, not so important except it is good to anticipate the eventuality….”
Exhibition Dates: July 5 – August 30, 2013 | Opening Reception: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 (4-6pm)
May 3, 2013 | Inpost Artspace
ArtsCrawl First Friday Night
Erin Parker captures the delight in the unexpected. As a seasoned traveler and photojournalist, Parker’s journeys have taken her around the globe and across six continents. Near & Far is a collection of images arising from Parker’s innate curiosity as a photojournalist along with explorations of her life behind the camera lens.
Exhibition Dates: May 3 – June 28, 2013 | Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 2013 (5-8pm)
Apr 5, 2013 | Inpost Artspace
Bosque School & Sandia Prep Photographic Collaboration
High School students from the Bosque School and Sandia Prep use photography to explore concepts of personality, identity and notions of self through portraiture. Using the Bosque as both a shared experience and neutral surrounding, the students collaborated with partners they had just met to photograph themselves/each other using objects of personal significance to facilitate their examination of assumed or superimposed personalities.
Exhibition Dates: April 5 – 26, 2013 | Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, 2013 (5-8pm)
Mar 2, 2013 | Inpost Artspace
Paintings by Heather Bingham, Stacey Heim, & Celeste LaForme
Presented in partnership with Women & Creativity 2013
As a meditative process, Zen masters have long contemplated the notion that the space between objects can hold more meaning than the objects themselves. The Magnificent Void features the artwork of three Albuquerque-based female artists whose work uses line, shape, and color to explore concepts of space and what lies between.
Exhibition Dates: March 2 – 29, 2013 | Opening Reception: Saturday, March 2, 2013 (5-8pm)
