Visceral connection: Harwood Art Center showcases artists driven by deep cultural and artistic traditions
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The Harwood Art Center鈥檚 latest show of emerging artists threads material exploration with domesticity.
鈥淪urface: Emerging Artists of New Mexico鈥� is open through July 27. Fourteen out of 50 applicants juried into the program, each winning $250 grants and professional development through invited artists, gallerists and museum professionals.
鈥淲e鈥檙e looking for distinct vision and commitment to practice and technique,鈥� said Helen Atkins, associate director. 鈥淲e鈥檙e also trying to make it a cohesive show.鈥�
Visceral connection: Harwood Art Center showcases artists driven by deep cultural and artistic traditions
The pieces range from painting to sculpture, mixed-media, digital art and fiber art.
2023 Surface winner and sa国际传媒官网网页入口 artist Zuyva Sevilla created 鈥淪imulated Light Assembly 67鈥� for his awarded solo show.
鈥淗e鈥檚 playing with light,鈥� Atkins said. 鈥淗e鈥檚 photographing his work as a light piece.鈥�
The digital artist uses light boxes and projection.
鈥淗is work is very unique and something we haven鈥檛 seen before,鈥� Atkins said.
Andrew Michael Joseph photographed blue and pink blankets strewn across a lawn.
鈥淗e鈥檚 gesturing toward domesticity,鈥� Atkins said. 鈥淗e sees his practice as an intersection of identity and how the human body is perceived by society. He normalizes the queer experience.鈥�
Jen Doolittle鈥檚 鈥淧assing Through,鈥� a gicl茅e print with silver leaf, emerged during the isolation of the pandemic.
鈥淗er works are very intimate and small,鈥� Atkins said.
Doolittle photographs public spaces that interest her, painting over the figures with metal leaf and thread.
鈥淗er photography is a way to explore memory, emotion and identity,鈥� Atkins said.
Of mixed-race parentage, Doolittle鈥檚 work reflects being in the world but not knowing where she belongs.
Santa Fe artist Rosario Glezmir painted 鈥淪oothing Waters鈥� using mixed-media on canvas. She recognizes art as an expression of her soul.
鈥淪he is playing with these soft, Picasso blue period blues with abstract figures,鈥� Atkins said.
Emily Wright created a playful orange vase decorated with removable ducks in a gesture of childlike whimsy.
鈥淪he really brings humor,鈥� Atkins said. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e removable; they鈥檙e magnetic.鈥�
Shandiin DeGroat鈥檚 vibrant, color-splashed 鈥淰olcanic Necks & Morning Skies鈥� echoes his Navajo home in Churchrock. He draws his inspiration from skateboard and graffiti culture. Sober one year, art has become his passion.
The collected represent the historic creative thread connecting artists to those who have come before. The selected artists have been driven by deep cultural and artistic traditions and a visceral connection to something greater than themselves.
