WHERE: New Mexico Museum of Art.
WHEN: Opens Friday, January 18 and runs through April 14, 2013.
TITLE: Art on the Edge 2013
BRIEF ABOUT: Eight contemporary artists from the Southwest will be featured in the Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography’s biennial juried show. Those selected were Rosemary Meza-DesPlas (Dallas, TX), Heidi Pollard (Albuquerque, NM), Rebekah Potter (Albuquerque, NM), Donna Ruff (Santa Fe, NM), Joel Santaquilani (Amarillo, TX), Martina Shenal (Tucson, AZ), Derrick Velasquez (Denver, CO), and Greta Young (Santa Fe, NM).
The Art on the Edge 2013 call for entries was open to artists based in New Mexico or surrounding states—Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah and Arizona. Juror Toby Kamps, who is a Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, narrowed the 268 artist submissions to 37 artworks by the eight artists.
MORE DETAILS: Call 505.476.5072 or www.nmartmuseum.org or contact Laura Addison, Curator of Contemporary Art, New Mexico Museum of Art at 505.476.5118 or email:
About
Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography (FOCA+P), a support group of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, works actively as an advocate for contemporary art and photography by supporting exhibitions at the New Mexico Museum of Art, helping the Museum acquire art for its collection, and organizing programs for its membership and the community. FOCA+P, formerly FOCA, has recently expanded its emphasis to highlight contemporary photography as a reflection of the significance of this medium in contemporary art and the New Mexico community.