Albuquerque Courier

07/09/2022

{Backstory}
“Prey to the Pursuit” by Reyes Padilla.

"I wanted to just throw all the chaos that goes on in my head all against the wall."

His new exhibit Synful Norteño at the Lapis Room in Old Town is an evolution and maturing of this approach to painting developed through personal work. The results are astounding, if you have the sense to see them.

05/09/2022

The fourth in a four-part review of Son de Alla’ y Son de Aca’

For last in our four-part series covering the Albuquerque exhibition of Son de Alla’ y Son de Aca’, we highlight the untitled work by Daisy Quezada Ureña on display at Exhibit/208.

02/09/2022

{The 5@5 for the 505}
The Albuquerque Courier's event recommendations for this weekend.

Dust City Opera
Friday | La Sala
Billed as their last local show of the year, Friday is the day to catch Dust City Opera playing outside as the summer fades. Also on stage will be Garry Blackchild & The Ghost Train with Thursday Marks Fall. Don't hesitate, tonight the North Valley is great.

Grounded and Scattered
Friday | Mountain
The artist currently known as LadyJennD continues to produce boundary-breaking mixed media work in Albuquerque that always comes with a twist. Her latest opens this Friday at the Ricochet Gallery. As botanical as it is radical, it's a show not to be missed.

Corporeal Property
Friday | Nob Hill
Remarque Gallery hosts the opening of a series of new works on paper by Juliana Coles as she takes off through the ever-evolving Map Room and onward with a new exhibit that serves "as tangible evidence of the journey." It's going to be a trip.

Last Days of Summer
Friday | Menaul
D’Ali Roberts' solo exhibition, Last Days of Summer: Friends, Foes & F***s opens at The Curated Creative Friday night at the little gallery up on Menaul next to the Play It Again Sports. You know where that is, but have you ever been to the gallery next door? You are going to want to check that out.

Sip In
Monday | Old Town
Want to support Labor on Labor Day? Of course you do, so stop in and tell the baristas at the Rio Grande Starbucks that are trying to organize the first Starbucks in New Mexico you got their back. From 5pm to 7pm stop in, order some coffee, tip in cash and show your support.

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01/09/2022

{Review}
Thoughts on “Road Tripping: Midwest” by Dana Patterson Roth.

"Riding in cars for long distances when you’re a kid is brutally dull. Those of us old enough to have suffered through this before the rise of cell phones and other such electronic devices remember a time when your options were minimal. Sit there. Do nothing. Look out the window. I guess you could read, if you knew how and it didn’t make you car sick."

The photographer Dana Patterson Roth remembers that feeling well and recreates what it looked like for her piece Road Tripping: Midwest on exhibit now at Wild Hearts Gallery in Placitas.

31/08/2022

{Backstory}
Paul Hunton talks about the song "Love of Mine" off the Dust City Opera album Alien Summer for this edition of Backstory.

More about Alien Summer’s fourth track for this edition of Backstory, Paul Hunton’s “Love of Mine.”

24/08/2022

{The Good, The Bad and The Ugly}
This week’s view from the editor’s desk.

THE GOOD
The good this week was the campaign kickoff to pass a constitutional amendment here in New Mexico to invest the largest surplus the state has ever had (due largely to oil and gas revenue) in education. This means more money for childcare workers, early childhood education of all stripes and more money for the Public Education Department. This ballot measure goes to voters in November.

THE BAD
As I reminded readers last week, New Mexico just slipped from 49th to 50th in childhood well-being rankings. This would help, if anybody knew it was happening.

THE UGLY
While both U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury were on hand to stump for this ballot measure, Albuquerque’s media was not (well, Albuquerque’s magazine of art was there). Maybe they were hiding. This has to rank as a more important story. Investing the money we make from the fossil fuels that are wrecking the place for the next generation is critical. If we don’t make these kids smarter then we are how are we ever going to find our way out of these problems?

https://www.abqcourier.com/daily/08212022/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly

22/08/2022

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"For the third part of our four-part series on the exhibit Son de Alla’ y Son de Aca’ we stay with a New Mexico artist, Eric j. Garcia, and spend some time with a work that is very much a product of New Mexico, “Alien Species,” currently on exhibit at El Chante: Casa De Cultura."

For the third part of our four-part series on the exhibit Son de Alla’ y Son de Aca’ we stay with a New Mexico artist, Eric j. Garcia, and spend some time with a work that is very much a product of New Mexico, “Alien Species,” currently on exhibit at El Chante: Casa De Cultura.

19/08/2022

{The 5@5}
The Albuquerque Courier's Event recommendations of the Weekend.

I Speak Through My Cello
Friday | Fusion Theatre
Cellist Keely Mackey performs her new album I Speak Through My Cello with an interdisciplinary performance with aerialists, dancers and yoginis at Fusion Theater Friday night.

Eric-Paul Riege Performance
Friday | Downtown
Dancing Friday afternoon and into the night at 516 ARTS is Eric-Paul Riege adjacent to his work jaatłoh4Ye’iitsoh [9–10])(to/too coccoonz currently on display. You're not going to see this type of thing anywhere else. Wander in or wonder what you missed.

As You Like It
Friday | Westside
The New Mexico Shakespeare Festival takes As You Like It to the Open Space Visitor Center patio on Friday night for free. Bring a chair, some bug spray and settle in for a night with the Bard and maybe some bats. You might see bats there around dusk.

Horses. Horses.
Saturday | North Valley
Got plans to sit at home on Saturday without a horse? That's lame. Instead, come on down to the Buckaroos, Bites and Brews Adopt-a-Thon and Festival and get yourself an actual horse. There will be food and music there as well, but mostly horses looking for a forever home at your house.

Pirate/Viking Summer Bash
Weekend | Edgewood
The history of pirates and Vikings in New Mexico is rarely told because so few ever came here. But that changes this weekend in Edgewood with the Pirate/Viking Summer Bash. $5 off if you wear a costume. Feel free to email The Courier if stuck for costume ideas.

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19/08/2022

{Review}
"In his exhibit at the Harwood Art Center, Pijoan uses the paranormal palette – Aliens, Bigfoot, Mothman – to tell personal stories much like a retablo painter renders the saints and for many of the same reasons. They all form the characters in stories we tell each other here in New Mexico. The truth is, after all, out here. "

In his exhibit at the Harwood Art Center, Pijoan uses the paranormal palette – Aliens, Bigfoot, Mothman – to tell personal stories much like a retablo painter renders the saints and for many of the same reasons. They all form the characters in stories we tell each other here in New Mexico. The t...

17/08/2022

{Review}
The second in a four-part review of Son de Alla’ y Son de Aca’.

"Let it suffice to say the consensus is that Santa Librada was being forced to marry a man she didn't want to so she asked God to make her ugly, she then sprouted a divinely-gifted beard and was crucified for her troubles. You could see how this story could go several ways."

For the second part of our four-part series on the exhibit Son de Alla’ y Son de Aca’ we again stay with an Albuquerque artist Brandon Maldonado and take a look at his Santa Librada at the South Broadway Cultural Center.

16/08/2022

{Backstory}
"Is this coming from like a super consciousness? You know, a collective consciousness. Some of these songs feel universal in a way.”

The performance promises to be a trip to a place you didn’t even know you always wanted to go.

15/08/2022

{Review}
The first in a four-part review of the work of the exhibit Son de Alla’ y Son de Aca’.

"I’ve always thought that Pema Chodron’s suggestion to start where you are could be applied to just about anything, if for no other reason than it requires no travel time. When it comes to the ambitious 60-artist, four-venue exhibit Son de Alla’ y Son de Aca’, starting with a work from here also makes sense. Artists from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas have efforts to show here in Albuquerque at Exhibit/208, the South Broadway Cultural Center, El Chante and where we begin our four-part look at this exhibit at Tortuga Gallery, with Albuquerque-native Elena Baca’s “Whirl(wind)”."

“Whirl(wind)” is a cyanotype and a prime example of this age-defying craft. What continues to be striking about all cyanotypes two centuries on is its most obvious trait. The blue is captivating. It draws you in.