Jul 12, 2015 | Inpost Artspace
Saturday, July 12, 2 – 4pm
Jonathan Baldwin is renowned in Albuquerque for his work as a musician and Radio personality. A cornet player who played with bassist, Zimbabwe N’Kenya, J.A. Deane’s improvisational ensemble, Out of Context and others, he also has been a longtime DJ for KUNM’s All That Jazz (Fridays). What a lot of people do not know is that for more than 50 years Jon Baldwin has pursued another passion as well – painting. Born in Mt Kisco, New York, he attended the Mannes School of Music, but it was the New York City art and music scene where he says he got his “real education.” It was the 60’s… Ornette Coleman was playing at The 5 Spot Café (and turning the New York jazz scene on its ear), and artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauchenberg and Frank Stella were changing the mainstream of painting. Inspired to create his own collages and paintings, he met up with the “Park Place” artists through various Free Jazz sessions and began showing his work (at the Park Place Gallery, at M.I.T., and in Denver, Colorado). Over the years, and after a series of relocations (Colorado, San Francisco, Taos), Baldwin’s paintings have changed and shifted, depending on his inspirations and locales. When he settled in Albuquerque in the late 70’s, he was painting ‘specific’ landscapes inspired by his own surroundings and by the eastern Long Island painters, Fairfield Porter and Jane Frielicher. Later, he moved to more abstract geometric paintings inspired by Picasso’s “weeping women” series and Richard Diebenkorn’s “Ocean Park” series. In his artist statement, Baldwin writes, “I like the dichotomy that exists between the painting as an object and the integrity thereof and the transcendental quality of color and line creating light and visual pleasure.” This exhibit is a retrospective which brings the scope of Baldwin’s work to the eyes of many who have never seen it before.
Exhibition Dates: July 12 – August 30, 2015
Jun 12, 2015 | Inpost Artspace
Saturday, June 13, 5 – 7pm
Joshua Willis constructs low-relief paintings combining scrap metals, wood, and corrugated plastic, informed by the landscapes of his native of New Mexico. The colorful structures reflect the practice of seeking a balance found in natural systems. This new body of work integrates artifact, form and color into adaptable narratives of time, place and aesthetics.
Joshua Willis is a mixed media artist, integrating materials to explore properties of balance, harmony and diversity found in healthy landscapes. He received his BFA from University of New Mexico and studied at The Glasgow School of Art and Architecture in Scotland. Willis has shown extensively in New Mexico and formerly coordinated sustainability programming for the City of Albuquerque Open Space Division. See more of his art at: http://www.jwillisart.com/
Exhibition Dates: June 12 – July 4, 2015
Feb 6, 2015 | Inpost Artspace
Friday, February 6, 5 – 8pm
This exhibition is part of the citywide collaboration On the Map: Unfolding Albuquerque Art + Designwww.ABQontheMap.com
Gone Fishing features new gouache paintings on paper and shaped museum board. The images in this exhibition explore visual improvisation, contemplation and the joy of throwing a line in the water to see what’s there… Heidi Pollard lives and works in Albuquerque, NM and also has oil paintings on exhibit at the OASIS Institute in Albuquerque. She has received grants from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; she has attended artist residencies including Headlands Center for the Arts, California; the CUE Art Foundation in New York; and from 2010 to 2011 the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Roswell, NM.
She has exhibited widely in numerous galleries and museums throughout the US. Her work has been reviewed and appeared in the New York Times, Art New England, THE Magazine, and by Peter Plagens in Newsweek on line. Further information and images of the artist’s work are available at heidipollard.com.
Exhibition Dates: February 6- March 28
Nov 7, 2014 | Inpost Artspace
Friday, November 7, 5 – 8pm
Working in a variety of mediums including installation, drawing, painting, and printmaking, Christa Dalien’s art explores the diverse relationships and interactions that we have with our surroundings. She is interested in folklore and mythology used to explain and interpret the unexplainable. Dalien searches through the tangible landscapes and structures that often show signs of wear, human impact and mystery, then reconstructs them into a visual emotional language. Christa Dalien is an artist and educator currently living in Santa Fe, NM with her husband, son and 2 cats. Her studio practice includes a variety of different mediums including installation, drawing, painting, and printmaking. Originally from Minnesota, she received her BFA in Painting in 2003. She received her MFA in printmaking from the University of Kansas, in 2007. She currently teaches Art History (remotely) for Washburn University in Topeka, KS and stays home with her son Arlo.
Exhibition Dates: November 7 – December 12, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 | Inpost Artspace
Inpost Artspace Reception | Friday, September 5, 5-8pm
“…a place where life, and love, is reaffirmed through the act of painting.” – Arthur Peña, New American Paintings, Dallas Contributor.
Artist Raychael Stine and curator Nancy Zastudil present an exhibition of Stine’s paintings that make visible—literally, picture—experiences, memories, and the passing of time. The selection of works translates the general appeal of Stine’s personal commitment to specific things: paint and its possibilities as material and image, the physical intimate experience of looking at and making paintings, and relationships that are based on an exchange between looking and touching. Through her use of color, scale and proximity, Stine depicts her dedication to the ‘thing’ of painting—what it is to re-construct, not de-construct, an experience.
Raychael Stine received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2010 and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. She has shown in California, Illinois and extensively throughout Texas including solo shows at Art Palace in Houston, TX and Eugene Binder in Marfa, TX. In 2009 Stine was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award Nominee and in 2013 she participated in the Bemis Contemporary Arts Center Residency. In 2008 Stine was Jurors Pick in New American Paintings #78, Western Exhibition. http://raychaelstine.com
Nancy Zastudil is an arts administrator, writer, and itinerant curator whose current work focuses on social progress through philanthropy and entrepreneurship in the arts. Currently, Nancy is Administrative Director of the Frederick Hammersley Foundation, co-administrator of The Lightning Field, and monthly visual arts contributor to Arts and Culture Texas. Her most recent endeavors include Show Up Show Down, and in Summer 2014, she will open two art exhibition venues in downtown Albuquerque, NM: Pacific Exhibits (June 2014) and Central Features (Fall 2014). She is Editor and Project Manager of the Mitchell Center’s 10 year anniversary publication (forthcoming), Co-Editor of On the Banks of Bayou City: The Center for Land Use Interpretation in Houston (March 2009) and has been published in edible Santa Fe, Arts and Culture Texas, Dance Source Houston, Temporary Art Review, Artlies, and more. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University and a Master of Arts in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. She was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. http://www.thenecessarian.com/
Exhibition Dates: September 5 – October 31, 2014
