South Broadway Cultural Center Gallery Exhibitions

The South Broadway Cultural Center art gallery is a light and bright inviting space for viewing curated art exhibitions featured each year. With free off-street parking and free entry during SBCC hours of operation, and during special events, the art gallery is a wonderful place to visit.

Gallery curator Augustine Romero brings the best in local art and artists to showcase Albuquerque's position as a true art mecca. Opening night receptions for the artists are free to the public, and a great opportunity to meet and mingle with these talented artists.

Regular hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, call (505) 764-1743.

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Gallery Shows & Events

Nortesur / Luis Fitch - Opens Thursday, September 14 - Saturday, October 14, 2023
Exploring the intermingling socio-economic, geopolitics, climate change, and friction between Mexico and the United States.

The exhibit will showcase the work of International Artist and Graphic Designer, Luis Fitch as well as fine art prints designed and created at the Tamarind Institute, featuring works by Fitch as well as local artists Dora Chavarria, Julianna Kirwin, and Lena Kassicieh. The exhibit opens to the public on Thursday, September 14, with a reception from 5 - 7 p.m.

Luis Fitch's lifelong art exploration of the complex interrelationship between the United States and Mexico. With vibrant colors and bold graphic symbolism, Fitch delves into socio-economic disparities, geopolitical tensions, and the looming climate crisis that impacts Latino communities.

The exhibition traces Fitch's artistic evolution from his upbringing along the Tijuana-San Diego border to his status as an internationally renowned Mexican artist living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His limited-edition jumbo size art prints capture the friction between developing and industrialized nations, portrayed through stark contrasts, vivid hues, and intricately Mexican contemporary motifs.

Nortesur takes its name from the Spanish words for "north" and "south," representing the bidirectional influence flow between two countries divided by an ever-shifting border. Fitch explores the spaces in between, where identities remain in flux, shaped by cross-border migration, economic integration, and shared environmental challenges.

This exhibition allows one to engage with one artist's unique cross-cultural reality. Fitch ultimately leaves it to the viewer to meditate on their position within the liminal spaces between nations, communities, and cultures—and to consider how we might navigate these hybrid identities to build a more just, equitable and sustainable world.

For more information, view the News Release.

Check out the article, "'Nortesur' Artist Swinging Through Burque," featured in The Paper.

Outta Sight - Opens Thursday, July 20 - Saturday, August 26, 2023

This exhibit will showcase the work of 40 plus artists who traditionally exhibit their art works outside the confines of a traditional gallery and opens to the public on Thursday, July 20, with a reception from 5 - 7 p.m.

Outta Sight is a group show highlighting "Street Artists" that historically use the street, walls, and trains as their canvas, and are not typically exhibited in museum and/or gallery spaces. These artists are influential to our society and culture because they are a voice for their marginalized communities. The name of the show is a double entendre, the street art created by these artists is literally "out of sight," yet despite the art's appearance in public spaces, it is quite often hidden from view in what is considered formal exhibition spaces. Street art has yet to be situated within a formal art historical cannon and is often considered "other" and "outsider" art even though the style has evolved from the streets into different incarnations from traditional style writing to stickers to canvases. 

This group of predominantly New Mexican artists whose work is on exhibit, emerged out of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and during this era, the street art community's need to create became paramount as an almost "safe" outlet. Coming from some of the most marginalized populations, these artists had limited resources and oftentimes utilize tools that are given, found, or stolen. During this time, some of the most unique and fleeting art was created under a duress of trying to maintain basic survival, let alone having extra money for art supplies and is a proclamation to their existence within a system that oppresses and exploits. This exhibit features new works by these artists who bring beauty to drab, ugly, inhospitable, and inaccessible places creating art that is truly Outta Sight.

For more information, view the News Release.

Check out the article, "The Politics of Street Art," featured in The Paper.

Opens Thursday, April 20 - Thursday, May 25 - Show Extended! 

This exhibit will showcase the work of 11 Resiliency Residency artists and opens to the public on Thursday, April 20, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The artists were among 90 Albuquerque-based artists selected to receive funding to advance their artistic or cultural work as part of the City of Albuquerque’s Urban Enhancement Trust Fund (UETF) 2022 Resiliency Residency program. Artists include Brian Stinson, Juliana Coles, Eduardo Gonzales del Real, Eleuterio Santiago-Diaz, and Max Woltman. 

For more information view the News Release.

Opens Thursday, April 20 - Thursday, May 25 - Show Extended! 

The art exhibit In The Camp of Angels of Freedom: A series of portraits painted by Arlene Goldbard opens to the public on Thursday, April 20, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. 

In the Camp of Angels of Freedom comes at its subject from three angles: paintings including portraits of eleven individuals whose work helped Goldbard understand and become herself; a short memoir about each person, from James Baldwin to Paulo Freire to Alice Neel to Jane Jacobs; and essays that look at the harm that's been done by privileging credential expertise and devaluing lived knowledge. 

Art enthusiasts might also be interested in this free event.

Opens Tuesday, March 7 - Saturday, April 8, 2023

The exhibition Segments is an invitation to reflect on one's point of perspective. Both the exhibition and reception are free. It showcases the work of artists Troy Tapia, Ellen Babcock, and Paul Chandler and includes an artist reception on Thursday, March 9 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Segments are defined as the space between two points of a line. In the case of this exhibition, the two points are the journey of an artist and one's own personal point of perspectives. Segments creates an anchor moving from self-reflection to physical location.

Opens Thursday, January 19 - Saturday, February 25, 2023

Spiritual Connections art exhibit will showcase the work of artists Robert M. Ellis, Elizabeth Fritzsche, and Alan Paine Radebaugh. The exhibition explores the significance of these artists' connection to the land.

It opens with an artist reception from 5 - 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 19 at the South Broadway Cultural Center Gallery.

For more information view the News Release.