OSVC: Past Gallery Shows

July 2, 2022  - September 17, 2022 

Artists Carolyn Berry and Margy O’Brien are inspired by nature’s fragments and found objects observed on their outdoor explorations, incorporating their findings and impressions into individual artworks. The mystery, vulnerability and elegant design found in nature’s vestiges are incorporated into their encaustic assemblages, collages, fiber art, and sculptural artist’s books.

Carolyn and Margy have each has been professional artists and educators for more than two decades, and they have individually exhibited their art nationwide..

July 9, 2022 - September 24, 2022 

Moving through the American West, we seldom encounter a site free of the imprint of human occupation – ancient, historical or very fresh. Informed as we are by an inherited sense of our place in the world, we look at the land through layers of assumptions and interpretations. They filter and shape what we see in the land, mediating the experience, often creating tension in our view of the West, which our society typically holds as immense, open, unsettled.

~ Sam Elkind

April 09, 2022  - July 02, 2022 

Across the Board uses the game board motif to explore our interconnectedness with all things and the possible impact that our human involvement has on our environment and all levels of nature. We know that the smallest changes in a system can result in very large differences in that system’s behavior. Our activity ripples out and reverberates. Sometimes it takes a long view to fully understand the effects of our actions.

In these works, the game board represents our wandering and curiosity, and like any game board considers skill, chance, and risk — it is a mode of discovery and performance where we win or lose. The underlying equal-armed cross is an ancient mark, symbolizing life, direction, and interchange. This cross has been adapted to certain game boards, like Parcheesi, where the center functions as home base for ideas, goals, and success. Movement around the board mirrors the direction our paths may take with safe, holding zones off to the sides. It is a familiar reflection of our own journey through life. I look at the effect of our earthly play on our environment with a sense of both adventure and concern, and a deep love and appreciation for our natural world.

April 16, 2022 - June 25, 2022 

An artists team of 67 first, second and third graders from Marie Hughes Elementary in APS are spending the school year studying the Rio Grande, the Bosque, and the animals, plants and people that depend on it. Hundreds of their individual drawings and photos will be on display, combined into a series of colorful canvas mosaics celebrating our river and the many ways we are connected to it.

January 15 - April 2, 2022

Jewel Cases celebrates Albuquerque's incredible wilderness-urban interface and chronicles one man's daily explorations and the gems found on the way. As a composite, this piece is about looking up, looking down, looking long, and looking in. It is about vitality, about pausing, about quiet, about joy, about curiosity and learning. And ultimately, it is about sharing and creating connectedness.

January 22, 2022 - April 9, 2022

This series explores the great river and its surroundings as it passes through an ever-expanding city of Albuquerque, where the needs of its people compete with the needs of the plants and animals that rely on its waters for life itself.

The Rio Grande
Developed beyond pristine
Pristine beyond use

Through photographs bound to haiku, we immerse ourselves in the river as it passes through, leaving us with its past as we give it our future. This is not a critical look; no one is shamed, rather we simply take a moment to reflect on where we are in this place.

Bio

Clarke Condé is a photographer who believes the process of thinking in haiku guides his lens towards a vision of nature that is more ordered and reflective than it would be with a camera alone. A professional photographer for over 30 years, Condé has published and shown his photographs widely, as well as his haiku, but rarely together. He lives in Albuquerque.
Find more of his work at Condephotography.com.

Working predominantly with serigraphy (also known as silkscreen) since 1973, Gwen Entz Peterson has worked on image sizes up to 4 feet as well as very small pieces.  Her editions are small.  The body of her work is predominantly contemporary landscape, but sometimes also totally abstract.  The hard edges, brilliant colors and close color tones lend themselves well to a contemporary look with definite abstract aspects.  Design and color always play important roles in her work as she strives to show the diverse beauty of the Southwest with its large skies, mesas, mountains, and canyons.  Occasionally for a change of pace  a pastel finds its way into her output, as that can be completed in a short amount of time as compared to the lengthy process involved with a serigraph.