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First Friday Artscrawl, Citywide & Special Events
February 5, 2010 5-8:30pm)
for a printable map, click here.
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Framing Concepts Gallery
5809-B Juan Tabo NE - 294-3246
First Friday until 8:30pm
www.FramingConceptsGallery.com
Fill your senses with memories and beauty as Framing Concepts Gallery features two of Albuquerque’s favorite artists in February and March. Terry Lawson Dunn has a unique perspective in her vivid and detailed pastel landscapes. David Schwindt will be featured in an article on landscape painters in the February Southwest Art magazine. Schwindt - a master of composition, light, shadow, color, and atmosphere - will also be one of the featured artists at Framing Concepts in February and March.
(Image: Summer Monsoon, David Schwindt)
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Palette Contemporary Art & Craft
7400 Montgomery NE, Suite 22 (Mossman Center) - 855-7777 - First Fridays until 8 pm
www.palettecontemporary.com
Palette opens an exhibition of Eyvind Earle's Rolling Hills First Friday featuring recently acquired paintings and limited edition prints by this prolific California landscape artist. Runs through March 5. (Image: Rolling Hills)
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The Wooden Cow Gallery
7400 Montgomery NE, #20 Mossman Center -999-1280
First Fridays until 8pm
www.thewoodencow.com
The Cow welcomes back the Artists of Trader Joe’s! This talented crew will knock your socks off! Camilla Haneberg, Katy Mechan, Amanda Banker, Heather Hurd, George Evens, Nat Jefferson, Evan Vincent, Davlena Scales, Jana Lee Aspin, Aaron Wedemeyer, John Cuellar, Susan Bogenschild, Levi Eleven, Chad Wiley, Toby Greenberg, and Tyra Callahan Show runs through February 27.
Nob Hill Gallery
7400 Montgomery NE, #19 Mossman Center -268-9969
First Fridays until 8:30
www.nobhillartgallery.com
Join the artists of Nob Hill Gallery First Friday for Friends and Other Lovers. Featured are the oils of Jean Porter, geometric designs of Ralph Rudolph, watermedia by Fran Ryan and Goddess sculptures by Betsy Shaw.
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Weyrich Gallery
2935-D Louisiana NE - 883-7410
First Fridays until 8:30pm
www.weyrichgallery.com
The Dry-Side opens First Friday with a reception for artist Sandra Humphries. Closes March 1, 2010. Humphries is an abstract expressionist landscape painter and print maker who is somewhat of a stylist. Humphries earned a master’s degree in art education from UNM. She describes herself as a landscape painter whose oils and watercolors are theatrical staging whereby she hopes to create an event on canvas that expresses her mood and memory.
(Image: The Dry Side)
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Frame City and Gallery
3810-A Central SE - 296-4648
First Fridays until 8pm
www.framecityandgallery.com
Frame City and Gallery will feature the work of Peggy Orbon and Elaine Koehler. Both artists display their own personal mastery of the pastel medium. Their New Mexico landscapes are classics and are very reasonably priced. Be sure to stop by and visit! (Image by Peggy Orbon)
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Matrix Fine Art
3812 Central SE, 100-A - 268-8952
First Fridays until 8:00pm
www.matrixfineart.com
Beyond Behind Below: Abstract Paintings by Raul Dorn opens First Friday and runs through Feb. 27. Dorn’s vibrant, yet slightly whimsical, abstract paintings often start with collaged sewing patterns. The resulting images sometime retain the arrows and track marks, but Dorn’s use of semi-organic shapes and bold lines transform them into pathways that lead to a deeper and more metaphysical realm. Dorn lives and works in Las Cruces, and this is his first solo show in Albuquerque. Matrix is proud to introduce this outstanding artist to our area.
(Image: Centrozen)
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New Grounds Gallery
3812 Central SE, 100-B - 268-8952
First Friday until 8:00pm
www.newgroundsprintshop.com
Feast or Famine: Gravure by Karl Koenig opens First Friday and runs through Feb. 27. Koenig’s new body of gravure prints may depict food stuffs from around the world, but not always do the items look edible. Some seem to be downright forbidding. On the other hand, some items look nice enough, but they are not suitable for human consumption. Either way, these new images are a feast for the eyes! He will demonstrate gravure from photography from 6:30-7:00 during the reception.
(Image: Fish Conference)
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Fisher Gallery
1620 Central SE - 247-1529
First Fridays until 8:30pm
www.artscrawlabq.org/fisher_gallery
Fisher presents Two Guys, Michael Rizzo, Jr. and Richard Manthel. Mike is a serigraph artist and Rick an abstract impressionist. Come by and meet these talented artists.
(Image by Michael Rizzo, Jr.)
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Chroma Studios and Gallery
600 1st Street NW, corner of 1st & Roma – 554-3805
First Fridays until 10pm
www.chromabq.com
Love and Peace opens with an artist reception. Featured artists are Cari Pier and Paula Manning-Lewis. In celebration of Valentine's Day, they will show paintings and mixed media pieces based on the theme. There will also be live music in the performance space during this opening, featuring the music of F# Angels.
Desert Intarsia Gallery
317 Gold SW, Suite A - 362-2884
First Fridays until-8pm
www.desertintarsia.com
Plein air painter Wade Griffin will be featured at the gallery in February. Griffin is a well known local artist who has been painting here since 1987. He works almost exclusively in oils and sees the local landscape and history of this region his inspirational.
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105 Art Gallery
105 Fourth St. SW - 238-3491
Tue-Sat 11-3, First Fridays until 8pm
www.105artgallery.com
Our newest member didn’t make it onto the map for the February First Friday, but they will be open and would love to have you stop by and meet them. The 105 Art Gallery is an art space in downtown Albuquerque that supports the resident artists and other area artists by providing a professional environment for exhibitions and other events. The staff is dedicated to promoting quality work by new and experienced artists of a variety of media and formats, especially painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and film and video.
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Sumner & Dene Creations in Art
517 Central NW - 842-1400
First Fridays until 9pm
www.SumnerDene.com
Sumner & Dene opens Ceramic Showcase First Friday with a reception for the artists. The show runs through Feb. 27. The exhibit will feature Carol Kaleko pottery, raku by Elaine Fein, Greg Milne and Pat Thurman plus horse hair pottery by Mike Tarter.
(Image: Pottery by Greg Milne)
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OffCenter Community Arts Gallery
808 Park Ave. SW - across from Robinson Park. - 247-1172 - First Friday 5-8:30pm
www.offcenterarts.org
The Art of Devotion, a non-juried, community exhibit, opens First Friday featuring works exploring the art of ritual devotion including such themes as love, religion, compulsion and obsession.
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Harwood Art Center
1114 7th St. NW - 242-6367
First Fridays 6-8 pm
www.harwoodartcenter.org
Amy Biehl High School and Escuela del Sol Elementary present Civilization, a collaborative installation in the Main Gallery. Artists examine how indigenous cultures in NM were affected by Spanish colonization. Suzanne Sbarge has an exhibition of mixed media paintings exploring the process of growth through destruction in the Front Gallery. Upstairs North Gallery: Artstreet’s Annual Exhibit. ArtStreet, a program of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, is an open studio space where art is used as the connection for community-building. Upstairs South: Charl Agiza and Alice Nosworthy celebrate the Sacred Feminine with Xochomilco. Charl, a Harwood studio artist, shows abstract works inspired from the canals of Zochomilco in Mexico. Alice shows sculptures based on the goddess figure throughout history.
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Green House, Suzanne Sbarge
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Gallery J. Wayne
413-C Romero NW – 903-3656
First Fridays until 8:30pm
www.jwayneart.com
Stop by for a First Friday Open House and check out Wayne’s new location in Old Town.The gallery has expanded to include jewelry, pottery, sculpture, cowboy relics, original paintings and prints. Both the artwork and the open fireplace will warm you up on a cold winter evening.
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Desert Corn Gallery
#2 Church Street off Romero NW - 244-9044
First Fridays until 9pm
www.desertcorngallerynm.com
Desert Corn will showcase local pastel artist Linda Manion with an artists reception First Friday. Exhibit will run through to Feb. 14. Manion is a self-taught artist, whose equine images are widely collected. Her work has been recognized by the American Academy of Equine Art and was awarded The People's Choice Award at the 2008 National Pastel Painting Exhibition in Albuquerque. She paints capturie the spirit, likeness and inner beauty of her subjects. Help the gallery celebrate the beginning of their fourth year in Old Town.
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Bright Rain Gallery
206-1/2 San Felipe NW in the Patio Market - 843-9176
First Fridays 5:30-9pm
www.BrightRainGallery.com.
Bright Rain will feature recent paintings and experimental work by Travis Bruce Black. Meet the artist and see his latest creations.
(Image: Chirp)
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The Easel Place
206-1/2 San Felipe NW in the Patio Market - 717-1872
First Fridays until 8:30pm
www.easelplace.com
The Easel Place features the original paintings of Frank Marich throughout February. Marich uses his creative gifts to paint a whole new perspective on Mother Nature. Join them for an artist's reception First Friday. This show of talent and color runs through March 2.
Weems Gallery
303 Romero NW in Plaza Don Luis - 764-0302
First Fridays until 8:30pm
www.weemsgallery.com
The Helen Gwinn Show opens at Weems First Friday and runs through Feb. 28. Gwinn expresses herself in watercolor, embossing and collage, reflecting her love for the flora of the desert.
Blackbird Gallery
111 Romero NW - 243-9525
First Fridays until 8:30pm
www.blackbirdgallery.biz
You are invited to a First Friday Open House featuring three Native American artists: Blackfoot Farrell Cockrum, one of Albuquerque’s most popular and prolific artists; Kiowa James Tsoodle and his unique portraits of the warriors of the Great Plains tribes; and Navajo Fred Cleveland whose landscape paintings have found a home here in Old Town for nearly 30 years. Many other artists grace this small but lovely Old Town gallery.
Viola Gallery
109 Romero NW - 242-1119
First Fridays until 9:00pm
www.violaoldtown.com
Please join Viola Gallery for the opening of it’s February exhibition which will include Tim Downing (oils and metal art), Linda Manion (pastels), Antonio Roybal (oils), Sue Stevens (watercolor) and Richard Maitland (oils), and George Howard Hayes III, oil. Artist Linda Manion, known across the nation for her equine art, will be present. Stop by and get acquainted at this new art space in Old Town.
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Saturday, February 6, 2010
Viola Gallery
109 Romero NW - 242-1119
Saturday, Feb. 6, 5-9pm
www.violaoldtown.com
Please join Viola Gallery in Old Town for an exclusive Artists' Presentation, to be held on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 from five to nine pm. We are showcasing some of New Mexico's most unique talents, made available to you at one time. Meet the artists personally and enjoy an evening of warm hospitality! Honored artists will include: Tim Downing, oils and metal art; Linda Manion, pastels; Antonio Roybal, oils; Sue Stevens, watercolors; Richard Maitland, oils, George Howard Hayes III, oils.
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“Bayahibe” hand-tufted wool rug
Joan Weissman
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516 Arts
516 Central SW - 242-1445
Opening Reception Saturday, Feb. 6, 6-8pm
www.516arts.org
Form and Function opens Feb. 6. This group exhibition features the work of contemporary artists and designers who explore sustainability, reuse, decoration and innovation. From alternative rugs, lighting, furniture and jewelry to eclectic art objects that play on function, you will find treasures by renowned artists from new Mexico, across the country and beyond including Eliana Arenas, Angelo Arnold, Art Gens, Roger Atkins, Julia Barello, Jeannie Choe and Steven Tomlinson, Roberto Gallegos, Cal Lane, Maria Michails, Beth Rekow and Joan Weissman. The exhibition exposes materials in inventive ways and brings process to the forefront.
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