Jul 16, 2017 | Inpost Artspace
Reception: Sunday, July 16, 2-4pm
presented in partnership with the University of New Mexico Art Museum, UNM School of Fine Arts, & the African American Performing Arts Center
Reginald Gammon (1921-2005), originally from Philadelphia, moved to New York City in 1951. He taught in the New York public schools and for 21 years at Western Michigan University. When he retired to New Mexico in 1992 he became active in the arts scene here. Gammon’s paintings and prints often explore aspects of African American life and history. He was a member of the black artists’ collective, Spiral, with Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff and Emma Amos, among others. He was an avid jazz fan and saw many concerts in New York. Gammon made his own bold interpretations of such artists such as Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong and Lester Young performing. The expressiveness of his lines and color suggest the sounds and cadences of the performances represented on these silent sheets of paper. The juxtaposition of his sensuous nudes with the jazz portraits in this exhibition reflect the multisensory element of jazz syncopation. Gammon once said, “The human physiognomy is as great a landscape as you can find or as great a still life as you can find.” These prints were created at New Grounds Print Workshop & Gallery in Albuquerque located just blocks from the Outpost. Gammon was a founding member of New Grounds in 1996. While in New York the artist had worked as a commercial artist, painter and printmaker. Known mainly as a painter, Gammon revived his interest in making prints when he moved to Albuquerque. In 2007-8 New Grounds Gallery and the Albuquerque Museum and the African American Performing Arts Center held exhibitions to honor Gammon and his legacy. In 1997 Gammon showed in the original Inpost Artspace Gallery at the old Outpost on Morningside Dr. Dr. Kymberly Pinder, dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico has the curated this show on the 20th Anniversary of Gammon’s last Inpost Artspace show.
EXHIBITION DATES: July 9 – September 30
May 22, 2017 | Inpost Artspace
Reception: June 2, 5 – 7pm (First Friday ARTScrawl)
The Inpost Artspace is pleased to present a selection of historical photographs chronicling early days of Cottonwood Gulch, an expedition program that has run in the Southwest since 1926. The Cottonwood Gulch was founded by a teacher from Indiana who led educational summer treks throughout the Southwest. Traveling in a caravan of Model T station wagons, they sought “the remote and generally unknown wilderness regions” to experience a simple life, if only for the summer. The Trek represents a unique experience of place and time — stepping into unfamiliar lands and cultures, being humbled by geologic time, playing off the lore of the Old West, passing down strict traditions of keeping camp. Deep in the Gulch archives are a trove of logbooks and photographs chronicling the history of these expeditions and the evolving cultural landscape the trekkers studied. Co-curators Meggan Gould and Kacie Smith are excited to introduce highlights from the archive as stories of the outdoors, discovery, friendship, and problem-solving.
Exhibition: May 22 – June 24, 2017
Apr 18, 2017 | Inpost Artspace
Reception: Sunday, April 30, 4 – 6pm
P R I N T // M A K E features original artwork by University of New Mexico printmakers who use traditional processes such as woodcut, lithography, etching, and serigraphy. The exhibition coincides with Arts Unexpected and a new, student-led Printmaking Symposium — a series of events celebrating Printmaking at the University, including archive tours at the Center for Southwest Research, UNM Art Museum, and Tamarind Institute, as well as live demonstrations at the Graduate Art Annex. The collection displays the breadth of editions the artists printed for the exchange.
Exhibition Dates: April 18- May 20, 2017
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Gabriel Aro
Richard Barnes
Noel Begay
Katelyn Bladel
Diana Cervantes
Kate Coucke
Jose Delgado
Emma Difani
Jamie Durham
Margaret Farrell
Jessie Furr
Jeremiah Heller
Chaney Howe
Kyle King
Cedar Kirwin
Jessica Marie Gross
Liz Melnyczuk
Hollis Moore
Amanda Morris
Mitchell Olson
Marcos Polac
Abigail Preston
Babak Shasiah
Ben Shoenberg
Kacie Erin Smith
Isaac Trujillo
Kelly Watson
Mar 3, 2017 | Inpost Artspace
Reception: March 3, 5 – 7pm (First Friday ARTScrawl)
This event is part of Women & Creativity Month
The Inpost Artspace is delighted to present a solo exhibition of new work by Albuquerque artist and curator, sheri crider. Crider’s current body of work examines our culture’s fascination with bright, shiny things. This series of paintings and sculpture oscillates from imagery of multi-billion dollar construction projects to still-life imagery of personal collections of trinkets and debris from landfills, deftly combining real and imagined spaces.
Exhibition Dates: February 27 – April 16, 2017
Feb 2, 2017 | Inpost Artspace
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 2017, 5 – 7pm
Diversity, subtlety and tradition are celebrated in this exhibition of weavings by Elizabeth Buckley, Mary Rawcliffe Colton, Cindy Dworzak, Naomi Julian, Dan Klinglesmith, Cristine Posner, Eric-Paul Riege, Nick Clifford Simko, Jaye Whorton and Nancy Wohlenberg. In hand-dying yarn, weaving upside down on a French jacquard loom, or collaborating with a commercial loom, each of these local artists finds unique inspiration in their process. The textiles represent the urge to bring things together and reinvigorate the ancient human activity of weaving.
EXHIBITION DATES: January 16 – February 25, 2017
