By the time the evening was over, we could see our breath, but hours of damp and chill didn’t quench the warm afterglow from Sights and Sounds, Changing Gallery’s recent mix of art and music. Rising talent, Phillip Vigil, plastered Unit Seven with his energetic pastels. Jennifer Joseph had two paintings in Unit Six and […]
Art Galleries
In the Middle: Reflections on the Soul of Photography
Some concepts are pretty tough to capture in words. Unless you’re talking about the music of Marvin Gaye or the immaterial essence said to survive a body, the notion of “soul” is a murky, often sentimentalized abstraction; e.g.: soul gaze, soul search, soul nature…. As for using dialogue to describe pictures, do your mighty best […]
Contemporary. Spontaneous. Real. (with apologies to Dan Milnor)
About a month ago, while grappling for ideas for the next show, I called upon an acquaintance with a PhD in Art History for wise words on the nature of art or artists. Although she supplied me with grave quotes from some of art’s historical heavy hitters, the smartest words were hers: “the quality of […]
“Generations”–New Exhibit at SF Community Convention Center
Once, as I purchased a writing book by a fellow named Peter Elbow, the literary savant at the till told me that such a name showed the author hailed from a family of writers (elbow?) Names have, at times, pointed to the family profession: thus, Coopers were barrel makers; Schiavo, slaves. In the show, Generations, […]
Santa Fe Downtown Digs and Doings
My first encounter with Santa Fe was in the Spring of 1980, when I flew out to visit a friend. On the shuttle from Albuquerque to Santa Fe, I couldn’t take my eyes off the vast, color-saturated sky and the roughly textured land, an interplay of greens and browns. Back then, there was hardly a […]
