A collaborative exploration of land-based art in New Mexico

SITEWORKS
Summer/Fall 2009

A series of outdoor art projects by: Anne Cooper (Anderson Field in Los Poblanos Open Space); Bill Gilbert (Cerrillos, Albuquerque and the 50-mile path in between); Steve Peters (Rio Grande Nature Center). Organized by Kathleen Shields Contemporary Art Projects. (off-site) More details

THE CENTER FOR LAND USE INTERPRETATION
Summer/Fall 2009

CLUI Field Session at the Desert Research Station
CLUI Archive photo

The Center for Land Use Interpretation will create the first phase of The Icarus Project, exploring issues of landscape perception in New Mexico, presented in a trailer displaying images and text created by guest artist Matt Coolidge who will also conduct a public bus tour/performance piece. The focus will be the connection between earth and sky, and the region’s links to technology, sustainability, spirituality and rapture. More details

HERE AND THERE: Seeing New Ground
May 30 – July 11, 2009

Shelley Niro, still from Tree

An exhibition for LAND/ART featuring contemporary artists examining the landscape from perspectives that are both visual and cultural, including explorations of Native American film, as well as Native and non-Native painters and photographers who subvert landscape perspective to examine issues of the environment and human beings' relationship with nature. Curated with experimental film artist Marcella Ernest and Nancy Marie Mithlo, Assistant Professor of Art History and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

SECOND SITE
August 1 – September 19, 2009

An exhibition and reference site for LAND/ART, including information, maps and related art works for SiteWorks, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Patrick Dougherty, the UNM Land Arts of the American West program and other participants.

EQUATION: a balanced state?
August 1 – September 19, 2009

David Niec, Stars, Eastern and Central Direction

Equation: a balanced state? is an exhibition at 516 ARTS featuring the work of artists Katherine Bash, Paula Castillo, Ted Laredo, David Niec and Mayumi Nishida with a series of art installations that reflect a world where the environment is as much about ourselves and our creations as the natural world with which we struggle to strike a balance. Curated by Thomas and Edite Cates of THE LAND/an art site. More details

SEPARATING SPECIES: Connecting Exhibitions
October 3 – November 21, 2009

Michael Berman, Fowlkes

Dana Fritz, Tethered Saguaros and Netted Magpies

516 ARTS presents Separating Species: Connecting Exhibitions in conjunction with LAND/ART. Organized by guest curator Mary Anne Redding, this project is comprised of two concurrent and inter-related exhibitions: Grasslands: The Chihuahuian Desert, an exhibition of Michael Berman's photographic work; and Natural Links, a group exhibition including works by Krista Elrich, Dana Fritz and David Taylor. Redding recounts an essay by Terry Tempest Williams, In the Shadow of Extinction, about the destruction of prairie dogs on the Navajo Reservation. The Navajo elders objected, insisting that if you kill all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain. Redding says, "all things are intertwined: the rain, prairie dogs, folklorists, environmentalists, writers, academics, even those in the government." The two exhibitions will look at the disappearing desert grasslands of New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and the northern border of Mexico and the animals that are affected when ecosystems, both in the desert and elsewhere, are destroyed: no one is left to cry for the rain."

For more information about 516 ARTS visit www.516arts.org