Must See Exhibits

Four really good exhibits in Albuquerque in April.  We saw them all today, tired.

2016 Insight Photography Show [web site here] April 2 - 24th, Fine Arts Bldg. Expo NM
The old Fine Arts building is in really fine shape, traditional adobe style, with many gallery rooms around a central exhibit space; the show is well lite and hung, and features may talented artists, some mundane, many exceptional.

18th Annual Masterworks of New Mexico Fine Art Show [here for on-line catalog, pdf].  Take a minute to look at the catalog and then you'll want to go.  April 2 - 30th.  Located at the Hispanic Arts Center, Expo NM [just down the street from the Fine Arts Bldg. parking is $5 for all areas].
A well juried showing, nothing to quibble about here on quality or quantity.

Next is numbers 3 and 4, are two, one person shows in the same gallery, New Grounds Print Workshop & Gallery - the Matrix Gallery [info here].

The two featured printmakers are in the front space, Takahiko Hayashi, trained for BFA Painting, Musashino Art University and MFA Printmaking at Tokyo National University.  See this link for a view of some of his works: Gallery; not the current show, one I think from an earlier show there?

Truly wonderful work, these detail etchings utilize colored inks, chine colle,  multiple plates and combining to create very intricate images, some like a kimono in textures, other organic and gestural.

Second, Ando Shinji, MFA Tokyo University of Fine Arts.  Again etchings, some quite large for a single plate [24x18 and larger], with a concentration on multi-plate color etchings. Also here for his past works at Matrix and again not the current showing but in both cases you get the idea.  I believe both are thru April, check with gallery for times and dates.


Much to lust after.


~tim