Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Eldorado Arts and Crafts Association

Preview Gallery for EACA Studio Tour

April 21 - May 20

Opening Reception -- May 18 from 5 - 7 pm

The weekend's celebration begins on Friday, May 18 with a gala Opening Night reception in the Exhibit Space at La Tienda at Eldorado, 7 Caliente Road, Suite A-6 from 5-7:00 pm. It's an opportunity to meet with the artists, view their work and enjoy refreshments.

Live music will be performed by Master guitarist David Wescott Yard and keyboardist Doug Frantz.

69 studios showcasing the work of 106 artists will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday from 10am-5pm. The Preview Gallery will be open on both days from 9am-5pm. There you can gather brochures and maps to plan your studio visits.

Dimensions

Contemporary Art Works by Santa Fe artists Ursula Freer, Paul Biagi, Susan Latham, Carol Leyba, Carol Sky, and Bob Everett

May 26 - June 23
Opening Reception -- May 26 from 5 - 7 pm

Metamorphosis

The quilt show, “Metamorphosis,” opens March 17 and runs through April 14 at La Tienda in Eldorado. The show features the work of 20 local artists along with several heirloom quilts from the late 1800s, the 1930s, and the 1950s. 

“By showing the old quilts, we hope that viewers will understand the evolution of quilting styles and the changing fabrics, batting, thread, and colors that were used,” says Jean Stokes, the show’s organizer. 

In addition to this show, events are planned to bring more awareness to this long-time art form. Quilters included in the exhibit are Gale Oppenheimer-Pietrzak, Donna Barnits, Mary Ann Onstott, Jean Stokes, Nell Riley Stokes, and Isabel Mooney. 

Complementing the quilts at the show are the works of painters, weavers, photographers, and glass artists. These artists include Jack Arnold, Sally Hayden, Lynne Coyle, Connie Soring, Braldt Bralds, and Margaret Braldt.

Saturday, March 17

1:30 pm: The Quilters, a play directed by Charles De Muth. A quilt by his great, great, grandmother is among the props. Performed by Dottie Hill, Patti Blair, Betsy Alden Robinson, and Dorothy Rogers.

La Tienda Performance Space. $5 donation, children free.

1:30 pm: Isabel Mooney and her vibrant quilts.

2:30 pm: “New Mexico Historical Centennial Textiles.” Exhibit and presentation by Colleen Konetzni and Donna Barnitz. La Tienda Performance Space. $5 donation, children free.

4–7 pm: Artists’ reception.

Saturday, March 24

1:30 pm: “Somewhere in Ireland”: Poetry reading, book signing, and quilt display by Linda Whittenberg, accompanied by Danny Wilding on flute. La Tienda, Building B, Eldorado Community Church. Free.

1:30 pm: Isabel Mooney and her vibrant quilts. 

Saturday, March 31

1:30 pm: The Quilters play, second performance.

2:30 pm: “Sharing Family Heirlooms”: People can bring their old family quilts for discussion. Comments by Nora Pickens, M.A, textile historian. La Tienda Exhibit Space. Free. 

Monday, April 9

6:30 pm: “Thinking about Quilts as Art”: A discussion with art teachers and notable quilters. Jeri Beitel, M.A., art historian, and Rhae Burden, MFA, former College of Santa Fe Gallery director. La Tienda Exhibit Space. Free.

Saturday, April 14. Closing Day Activities

11 am – 5:30 pm:

Display of completed Eldorado/285 Centennial Friendship Quilt. Eldorado photographers exhibit in La Tienda Building A.

1:30 pm: Discussion of photo-to-fabric process by Judy McGowan, photographer, quilter, former county planning manager. La Tienda Exhibit Space. Free.

4:30: Finale including music, readings, and treats from Mi Amor Chocolate. La Tienda Exhibit Space. Free.

5 Submerging

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

5 Submerging opens at the Exhibit Space at La Tienda at

7 Caliente Road

  in El Dorado on February 18th and continues through March 11. Opening reception from 5-7. The five artists represented are: Thayer Carter, Andrew Davis, Geraldine Fiskus, Dee Homans and J. Barry Zeiger. For further information call Dee Homans at 982-0501 or the Exhibit Space at la Tienda at 428-0024.

 

To see a review of the show, click here.

MOTTO:

"Safety in numbers; Art before Alzheimer’s.

STATEMENT:

"Emerging—or Submerging? Emerging is the quality par excellence of our present, a stepping out into the hard glitter of celebrity. In contrast, submerging is a thirst for ambiguity and depth. In any case here are 5 "submerging" artists. Each one has invented a vehicle to probe the depths of the concepts and issues that inspire them. They inspect the hidden wreckage of history; the lost things, the detritus of our lives; the hidden and forgotten beauty of the natural world; the vestigial meaning of language; and the humor and  horror of primordial, vital form."

THE ARTISTS

Thayer Carter works in a variety of media including oil, acrylic, water colors, and woodcuts. His focus is on the earth, on landscape, but also on things seen up close. Assiduously avoiding romance and pasted-on ideas, he submerges himself in what he sees. His paintings place us here, our feet firmly planted.

Out of curiosity or restlessness, Andrew Davis has also experimented in a number of media: the printed page, wood, steel, concrete,  the photographic image, but his subjects have always been the same: the nature of language, the cohabitation of people and objects, above all the relationship of words with things.

In her self portraits Geraldine Fiskus re-invents herself through performance. Sometimes she sees herself during the calm of meditation—the cloud forms above her head symbolize distractions. Earlier portraits reveal uncomfortable, disquieting experience. These facescapes display the raw edge which most of us avoid.

The fiberglass sculptures of Dee Homans suggest, but do not represent, bodies. They are a tangle of shapes wrenching themselves into the form of a tower, or a swarm clinging together in mid-air, or a gust across a wall.  Homans sees her work as tragic-comic: "It is at once prosaic and Baroque, grand and playful, inanimate and alive, apocalyptic and hopeful."

J. Barry Zeiger has developed an object based language. By situating objects he creates contexts for ideas. He groups them into unexpected relationships--merging and submerging their identities to suggest ephemeralness. He notes, "We give such importance to things, while they just keep dissolving."

1st Annual Art Auction

Please join us on Saturday, January 28 from 5 to 7 pm for our first auction in support of the Exhibit Space.

As most of you know, the La Tienda Exhibit Space is a professional gallery space that exists to promote economic and educational opportunities for New Mexico artists. Artists do not pay for the use of the space and they keep 100% of their sales.

On Saturday, more than 40 artworks will be sold during a silent auction. The artworks were donated by artists and community members who have benefited from the Exhibit Space so that the Exhibit Space can continue to provide this invaluable resource to the community.

Proceeds from the auction will go toward continuing to provide a free ad for every show this year.

Artworks have extremely low minimum bids (and when we say low, we mean low)! Did you fancy one of Braldt Bralds' prints when he exhibited here last year? How about one of Rick Alt's incredible landscapes, or Thom Ross' contemporary western art?

Please come out in support of the artists who live and work here, and in support of the La Tienda Exhibit Space and help us continue to provide this resource.

Visual Synergy

Five highly regarded Eldorado artists join talents for the exhibition “Visual Synergy” at the La Tienda Exhibit Space.  Painters Joe Mayer, Ann Sharp and Russell Thurston, together with printmaker Jack McCarthy and ceramics artist Bob Coyle will be displaying new and established work in a wide range of media, including oils, watercolors, acrylics and encaustic or tinted beeswax.

The show continues through January 14, 2012. Several of the artists will offer free demonstrations of technique during the run of the show. On Friday, December 16th, Joe Mayer leads “Composition in Watercolor,” from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM at the gallery.The following day, Saturday, December 17th, Russell Thurston shows “Basic Encaustic Painting Techniques” from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM. And on January 7th, Jack McCarthy leads the demo, “Printmaking Made Easy,” from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM. All activities are free and open to everyone.

ATMOSPHERIC 3

The La tienda Exhibit Space is pleased to present Anna Keller, Jane Otten and Charlotte Scot in an exhibtion of the fine art of painting. 

Opening Reception, Saturday, November 5 from 5 - 7 pm
Show runs through December 3.

From bold abstraction to excavations of past lives to glimpses of time, atmospheric3 displays the distinctive moods and talents of three Eldorado artists: Anna Keller, Jane Otten and Charlotte Scot. Opening is November 5th in the Exhibit Space in La Tienda at Eldorado.

Anna Keller says when she paints, a story begins to emerge. She then incorporates her visual world with her inner life. Layers of oil paint, wax medium, collage and natural materials result in stunning abstracts. The vibrant colors veil the figurative secrets trying their best to break through to the surface. Poetry may present or a snippet of graffiti, a scribbled note or a piece of a conversation, or the secret may remain hidden somewhere in the layers of oil paint.

Jane Otten’s abstracts are like magnets. They lure viewers in with their earthy tones and mysterious shapes. Like an archeologist, Jane excavates figures from another time ... another world. They appear from a place where we feel we may have walked but when the light shifts we are unsure of what we saw. Mystery ... mirage ... magic.

Charlotte Scot’s work focusses on selected moments of time depicted by landscapes, faces, places, abstracts and items of interest. Her scenes evoke memories : the agave we stared at in wonderment; a man we saw reading a menu in the restaurant window, a downtown street still wet from rain. Her hope is, if we stare at one of her paintings we will be transported to that time and place and, become a part of it.

EX EX VI

EX.EX.: Excerpt Exhibition

The sixth annual EX.EX.: Excerpt Exhibition will be presented at the La Tienda Exhibit Space in Eldorado during the month of October, 2011. The invitational will present 35 local artists, who individually exemplify un-common interests, sensibilities, and notions about ART, and its practice. Some are emerging in their homes & are new to exhibitions; some are students; some are everyday artists...doing their things; some are internationally renowned; all are pushed, pulled, and motivated by a "feeling"--a longing--which never goes, away! "They rock"...in their own world! For these reasons, each has been invited to select & show two pieces in EX.EX. VI! The criterion is established by artist/professor, Dean Howell...who writes:

Artistic Existence

There's an artistic soul, an artistic process, and an artistic object. Inherent to them all, is artistic existence. The EX.EX. concept is about honoring the fact that at the end of the day-everyday-there are those who find themselves pursuing this existence, sometimes unknowingly...and there are those who simply embody it-whether they intend to or not...whether they're judged good at it or not. EX.EX. VI: Excerpt Exhibition presents artists, who are... to the side, underneath, and over the top of normal levels of soul, process, and objectified existence. We need to study them hard.

Dean Howell

Originator, Coordinator, Artist of EX. EX.

WHO: 35 Artists of EX.EX. VI

WHAT: An Invitational Exhibition...recognizing/honoring "artistic existence"

WHEN: Oct. 1-29, 2011; 11-6 Daily; OPENING: Oct. 1st, 5: 00 P.M. -8:00 P.M.

WHERE: La Tienda Exhibit Space in Santa Fe...at Eldorado

CONTACT: John Stevens, coordinator @ (505) 466-7277

Dean Howell, coordinator @ (505) 466-2838