Third Annual Group Exhibition
July 11th – July 28th
Reception: July 14th, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Strata Gallery presents Third Annual Group Exhibition, an exhibition of all current Established Members. The exhibition opens July 11th with a special reception on July 14th from 5-8pm.
The Third Annual Group Exhibition is the last exhibition in Strata’s current location in the Design Center before its relocation to 125 Lincoln Avenue - the same building as Allen Hauser Gallery and Niman Fine Art.
Since its founding as a 501c3 non-profit in August 2021 and two-year occupancy of the Design Center space, Strata has gained a name for bringing a different vision and sense of diversity to Santa Fe. It is one of a handful of contemporary galleries who have the courage to display artwork entirely on its merits, regardless of salability. All artists seeking to join are peer reviewed by existing members and the majority of those occupy professorships at college art departments across the country. Also central to Strata’s mission and something entirely unique, is the selection by established members five emerging artists annually who each receive mentorship and a solo show in the gallery.
The eighteen artists on display in this exhibition include:
Adrian Aguirre (TX), Tulu Bayar (PA), Carla Caletti (NM), Carlos Canul (TX), Peter Chapin (NM), Joomi Chung (OH), Millian Giang Pham (AL), Ira Greenberg (TX), Lin Medlin (TX), David Olivant (NM), Shelby Shadwell (WY), Jane Shoenfeld (NM), Anne-Katrin Spiess (NY), Susan Stephenson (CA), Nishiki Sugawara-Beda (TX), Beverly Todd (NM), Margi Weir (MI), and Mirabel Wigon (CA).
The works on display address in innovative and diverse ways a spectrum of the pressing concerns and discoveries that animate and haunt human society at the front end of this new, often daunting, millennium. These include information and sensory overload, desensitization, hybridity and fragmentation, cultural identity, the nature of consciousness, artificial intelligence, myth, ritual and archetypes, answerability, climate and ecosystem degradation, landscape nostalgia and sense of place, tradition, identity, materiality, decay and the manner in which formal and aesthetic principles adapt to meet these imperatives.
Anne-Katrin Spiess, Canoe 21, Digital C-print, 24 x 30 in.
Millian Giang Pham, GIVE BURDEN, Mixed media embroidery, 42 x 18 in.
Margi Weir, A Pandemic Painting Lesson: Three Dancers and Ingres’ Violin, Acrylic and oil on plexiglass panel, 40 x 30 in.
David Olivant, Duputren’s and the Demise of Patriarchy, Collage, ink, colored pencil and acrylic on digital print on paper, 30 x 22.25 in.