University Art Gallery
Future Exhibitions
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THINKING NEW MEXICO : A CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION
25 May - 1 September 2012
A celebration of the centennial of New Mexico statehood (1912-2012), this exhibition will showcase artwork from each decade of statehood, and survey the best in contemporary New Mexico art.
Diego Romero. Blood & Sand. 2011
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Louis Schalk. Museum of Reaccession. 2009-ongoing.
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WILLIAM LAMSON : VIDEO WORKS
14 September – 19 October 2012
Brooklyn-based artist Will Lamson will present large-scale video projections that address the landscape and natural forces, wherein the human presence is mediated by devices and electronica. Humans are met by wilderness and natural forces -- streams and deserts; wind and water currents -- and all are changed in the process.
The exhibition is presented in partnership with ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, the 18th Annual Symposium on Electronic Art. www.isea2012.org
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A NEW MINIMALISM
9 November - 22 December 2012
This group of works share something -- not as a totality, but as pairs or linked sets of images -- that, when brought together, create an opportunity for us to talk about one way we might curate contemporary art exhibitions that not only recognize a subject/object slippage, but build on it, and potentially create something greater than the sum of the parts.
The works in this exhibition, A NEW MINIMALISM, emphasize objects, not subjects, form, not narrative, but -- unlike first generation Minimalist works -- do not shy away from content.
Until fairly recently, curation has been overly confident in its pronouncements, leaving audiences little space in which to muse (note the connection to the idea of the museum) or to elaborate their own connections between artworks. Here we are arguing for a way of creating exhibitions that opens that space. The next step will be exhibitions where artworks are continuously being replaced, creating a non-finite, overlapping, open-ended series of groupings, linkages, and connections between artworks.