Artist In Residence
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| May 2009 Estelle L. Roberge “Magdelana Walk” |
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| With the support of the residency at Gallery 408, I intend to make a body of large paintings reflecting my periods of walking wilderness areas. For over a decade, I have been walking terrain and abstracting landscape. My walks have taken me through regions of the Colorado Mountain Plateau, along the coast of Maine and more recently Central New Mexico. With my painting process, I seek to develop expressive meaning from landscape through abstraction of place and what might be termed presence of wilderness. By “presence of wilderness”, I mean the experience of expansiveness and mystery, intimacy and remoteness, developed through staggered colored landforms and textured surfaces. Through the process of painting, I reexamine the role of observer within landscape and the self-experienced through wilderness. Walking parallels the process of painting, in that both actively involve letting go of the daily preoccupations in order to enter the quiet rhythmic movement of wilderness. |
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| April 2009 Sharol Nau “Rivulet Amulet” 4" x 4" |
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| Working is the way to discover what I am going to do. Collecting, painting, drawing, cutting, pasting along with experiences allow for beginnings that lead to the discoveries. I remind myself to be alert. Reading, travel, lectures, movies, television, gardens, music, galleries, museums, friends, family, emotions, smells, taste and now, a week teaching and working in Carrizozo provide pieces of the puzzle that are reflected in my output, the artwork. |
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| 2008 Jason Kehrer "Sunday Afternoon" |
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| For a brief window of time I chose to immerse myself in the development of my work. Early each day I peddled into town unfettered from a binding routine. Once again I appreciated the simple again as I freed and began taking inspiration from the shapes in the cracked adobes. I pleasured from the aqueous lessons of found aged wood and the vastness of the land. I noticed the pitted channels of wood grain flowing like a stream. The spirit of Carrizozo has a gentle history that invites a newer time to leave its mark making it a place to stop at again. I am grateful to be part of gallery 408 as an artist in residency October 2008. |
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| 2008 Richard Kathmann "Malpais, Valley of Fires" |
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| Ten Ways to Look at the High Desert, My Six Week Residency, Gallery 408/Twelfth Street, April and May 2008 I’m a painter and draftsman of the northeast forest known for portraits of my woods, a hardwood forest. Drawings, lithographs, and green paintings with small patches of cerulean and cobalt as sky. I came to the residency looking for transformation: How I see and feel and the graphic and painting language I use to describe what I experience in front of the motif. Joan Malkerson, the guiding light of Twelfth Street, and I had joked – dead serious – that New Mexico had transformed Richard Diebenkorn (in Albuquerque in the early 1950s). New Mexico could transform our work, too. (We weren’t ignoring the long list of other artists like Higgins, Jonsard, Martin, Bell, an incomplete list.) Despite a handsome studio overlooking the train yard and the veterinarian’s clinic, and working plein air and walking miles of malpais and grasslands beneath Mt. Carrizo, the paintings didn’t come. I finished two green paintings of the NE forest, both strong. I did a number of drawings and oil sketches; the economy and description of space pleased me. I took hundreds of photographs from which I edited Ten Ways. As I considered the work I realized I was moving toward lithographs, different scales, drawn from these sketches and photos. Images that were some equivalent of this experience of geologic time and close-toned palette of the high desert surrounding Carrizozo. A portrait of place. I finished my residency with a visit to Tamarind Institute at UNM to talk with master printer, Bill Lagattuta, about what I’m thinking to call the ‘Zozo Suite, three to six large lithographs, some in color. Instead of maple, blackberry, and fern I’ll be drawing soaptree yucca, sotol, chollas, beavertail and pancake prickly pear. A vet looking at a horse in a lot near the train yard. Mesquite, saltbush and sage in the Valley of Fires lava flow. Carrizo peak. The Sacramento range at dusk. Richard Kathmann, Saphouse Studio, June 2008 |
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| November 2008 Dana Carter Studio Installation #1 |
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| ….”time, space, extraordinary landscape and light of Carrizozo are a great gift…”
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| 2008 Michelle Chrisman "Untitled" |
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| 2007 Judy Corlett "Safety in Numbers" |
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| 2006 Julia Kalkbrenner "Jackass Peak" |
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