Argos
Etchings and Paintings
Events Listing
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2009
Annual Historical Etchings Exhibit, December 18th, 5-7:30pm
Argos Gallery presents its annual exhibit of historical prints
from the Robert Bell collection. Most of the work comes from the
late 19th century period called the Etching Revival, when a wide European
and American audience found it could afford work from the hands of well-known
artists, through folios of their original fine art prints.
This exhibit offers prints from these folios, wherein modern collectors will
find the same mix of fine art and modest prices.
(online gallery)
Through January 15th.Through August 30th.
Paul Steiner, New Work, October 9th, 5-7:30pm
Paul Steiner presents a series of new paintings. The work displays his developing
interest in exploring the underlying compositional elements of his subject matter.
The northern New Mexico settings are familiar but a new emphasis on
formal structure emerges in the work.
(more)
Phyllis Sloane, Memorial Exhibit, August 14th, 5-8pm
Phyllis Lester Sloane passed away on May 26, 2009 at the age of eighty-seven. Argos Gallery and Eli Levin Studio will jointly present a memorial exhibit of her work. Argos Gallery will present a survey of Phyllis’ smaller-scale paintings in acrylic and watercolor, and work from her extensive catalog of etchings and other printmaking. Across the street, Eli Levin Studio will hang a selection of Phyllis’ large-scale paintings which have never before been exhibited in Santa Fe.
(more)
Eli Levin, Still Life, June 12th, 5-8pm
Argos Gallery presents new work by Eli Levin. Levin returns to the still life genre for this exhibit. He says that his
still life subjects give him a "freedom of creativity," a chance to avoid the exigencies of weather or temperament that
other realist subjects can bring. But his subjects also display an ascetic restraint, as Levin declines to pull us in
with the genre's usual vocabulary of precious things. Rather he invites us to appreciate the "explicit clarity" he finds
in his "expositions" of familiar objects.
(more)
2008
Whitman Johnson, Thirty-three years in Santa Fe, October 10th, 5-8pm
Argos Gallery is proud to present a collection of both recent and earlier work by Whitman Johnson. In this exhibit,
the spirit of New Mexico modernist plein air painting is alive. We see vibrant echoes of Higgins and Dasburg, as well
as Nash, Nordfeldt, and even Bakos. And underlying these is the palpable influence of Cezanne, whose work revealed
that the truth of the landscape emerges from the painter’s assiduous dialog with it.
Whitman Johnson’s dialog with the New Mexico landscape has unfolded over the last thirty-three years. This exhibit
of his oils and watercolors celebrates that painterly conversation.
(more)
Through November 3rd Held over through November 14th.
Through October 8th.
Paul Steiner, New Work, September 12th, 5-8pm
Paul's work reminds those of us living in northern New Mexico of the
simple pleaures of our surroundings. The subjects are familiar; chamisa
in the early light, an adobe shed against pinons, or a sandstone outcropping
in the noon sun. Careful observation and a restrained palette yield paintings
which extol the everyday; anecdotes in color of the place we live.
(more)
For fifty years, Eli Levin has worked from the nude, with three separate artist groups joining
him in his studio weekly to sketch from the model. Surprisingly, he has never mounted a gallery
exhibit of nudes until now. This collection shows Levin at his most thematically complex,
mixing historical themes with observations on the psychology of post-Feminist culture. All
the while making us question our responses to the nude figure while exploring its ancient role
in high art.
The exhibit is being held on the occasion of the artist's 70th birthday.
Through July 4th.
(more)
(note: adult subject matter)
2007
Through Dec 21st
From Barbizon to Santa Fe, Dec 7th, 5-7:30pm.
Second in a series of Lecture/Exhibits, Argos Gallery and Dr. Robert Bell present
a multi-faceted etching exhibit. The event includes:
• another in a series of Dr. Bell's popular lectures on etching;
• a preview of an important documentary book on etching in Santa Fe;
• and two concurrent etching exhibits, one a collection of historical work from the Etching Revival
and the second featuring contemporary Santa Fe artists. Read more here:
(more)
Thayer Carter, High Desert, Nov 9th, 5-8pm.
Carter's subject matter is the villages of Northern New Mexico and the high desert
landscape surrounding them. Carter's woodblock prints are well-known in Santa Fe
but exhibits of his paintings are rare. This exhibit offers an opportunity to explore the
many ways the two inform each other.
(more)
Through Dec 4th
Greta Young, Bad Beasts, Oct 12th, 5-8pm.
Young brings an expressionist menagerie to life in these paintings of a fraught world.
Broken figures and a menacing bestiary stand for Young's distress over the "precarious
time of uncertainty and violence" she perceives around her.
(more)
Through Nov 7th
Sarah McCarty, Quinces, Pomegranates and Black Radishes, Sep 14th, 5-8pm.
In the seventeenth-century genre of Natura Morta, the modern still-life was born
from strands of Illumination, botanical illustration, natural science and an esthetic
of cultivated plenty. McCarty's twin passions of garden design and painting converge
in her practice within this painterly tradition.
(gallery)
Through Oct 11th
William Gonzales, Etched in Memory, a booksigning, Aug 31st, 5-8pm.
William will sign his newly published book, a collection of his etchings.
Exhibition of Gonzales' work is on-going.
Phyllis Sloane, Still-Life/Cityscape, Aug 24th, 5-8pm.
This exhibit presents the two distinct painterly subjects of still-life and cityscape
and highlights Sloane's identical formal aproach to both. In a fascinating study of
artistic method, identical abstract geometries of form yield the widely varying moods
of a darkly haunted city rooftop or a brightly lit tabletop of fruits and vegetables.
(more)
Through Sep 13th
Paul Steiner, Painting Around Town, July 20th, 5-8pm.
Better known for his landscape work, Paul presents here a series of images
of Santa Fe, rendered with a disarming honesty. In the artist's words:
The painting of everyday life depends on what makes up your everyday.
We live in the adobe house I built when I was eighteen. Vickie's office is
on the Plaza and we often meet up there. These are paintings of the
Santa Fe I live in. (more)
Through July 13th
Jack Sinclair, Recent Work, June 22nd, 5-8pm.
In his recent work, Sinclair has developed a personal
expressionism within the modernist landscape tradition, inclusive of Hartley,
O'Keeffe and Dixon. A sense of the mirage, in tension with the solidity of
gently abstracted shapes, informs the work with an immateriality and
subtle mystery. (more)
Through Aug 17th
Dick Stroud: Guest Exhibit, June 15th, 5-8pm.
An exhibit of figurative watercolors by Dick Stroud. Stroud shares a background
training with several well-known Santa Fe artists; David Barbero, Eli Levin and Paul
Shapiro. The same influences which informed the regional Santa Fe landscape
style of the 80's may be discerned in this exhibit, on display
for one week only. (more)
Through June 21st
Eli Levin: Social Realist Work, May 25th, 5-8pm.
The exhibit offers a survey of the social-realist themes Levin has elaborated
in the last several years. A remarkable range of subjects include immigrant workers,
the military-industrial complex, 9/11, government-sanctioned torture, unemployment,
as well as Levin's familiar vehicles of the bar and gallery scenes. (more)
Through June 14th
Reed Campbell: Recent Work, Apr 27th, 5-8pm.
The display will include pastels on paper and board as well as constructions in resin
and collage. The works present complex layerings of imagery, evocative of layered
sets of associations in memory. Level shifts, layerings, resinous translucencies, a
play of effacements, all mark these intelligent paintings with a sense of mysterious
narrative. (more)
Through May 18th
Phyllis Sloane: the Watercolor Drawings, Mar 9th, 5-8pm.
Argos presents a retrospective collection of watercolor drawings from the
model by Phyllis Sloane. This remarkable body of work spans almost 50
years. (more)
Through March 28th
Santa Fe Bohemia, Jan 26th, 5-8pm, at the gallery.
Premier booksigning, exhibit and reception. Eli Levin will sign his
new book Santa Fe Bohemia and exhibit paintings and prints in
the theme of the early Santa Fe Scene. (more)
Exhibit one week only.
2006
(Click the images for more information)
500 Years of Painter Printmakers, December 8th, 5-8pm.
First in a series. Dr. Robert Bell will exhibit a selection of prints from his vast
collection, a survey of the history of printmaking. Examples will range from
Durer and Rembrandt through Kollwitz, Picasso and Johns. Dr. Bell will
lecture on the artwork; most prints will be for sale. Lecture seating is limited. (more)
One weekend only.
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