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Paige Pinnell: The Artist as Collector At Obscura Gallery

Paige Pinnell, Untitled, c.1980’s, 13.25 x 19.5”, Cibachrome print.
Paige Pinnell, Untitled, c.1980’s, 13.25 x 19.5”, Cibachrome print.

Obscura Gallery is presenting their first in an ongoing exhibition series of The Artist as Collector, debuting the series with the photographic collection and personal works of the late Santa Fean, Paige Pinnell. Pinnell, who passed away in 2017, embodied the passion for photography by being a photography dealer, artist, educator, and collector. Paige’s deep knowledge of and connection to photography on a national level had influence on many in the local Santa Fe community in the 1960-70’s and was integral to what would become the development of the photography market in Santa Fe at that time. Obscura Gallery is honored to present this exhibition of works for sale to pay tribute to Pinnell’s photographic legacy.

Paige Pinnell: The Artist as Collector
An Exhibition of the Photographic Collection and Personal Works by Paige Pinnell
Exhibition Dates: January 11 – February 23, 2019
Opening Reception: January 11, 2019

Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Donald Woodman At JFD Gallery

Donald Woodman
Donald Woodman

Donald Woodman’s photographic career spans nearly five decades. As an established large format photographer, Woodman’s unique combination of traditional and digital methods lends his work technical proficiency, formal refinement, and conceptual weight. His diverse subject matter, ranging from portraits and landscapes to probing examination of masculinity and personal identity, remains consistently intimate, characterized by a subversive perspective and eccentric wit.

HORIZONS: Photographs by Donald Woodman
Exhibition Dates: September 15 – November 30, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, October 5, 2018 from 5pm – 7pm

JFD Gallery at Justin’s Frame Designs
1221 Flagman Way, A2
Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Being Seen At Slate Contemporary

Barbara Kyne's, At the Museum 3
Barbara Kyne’s, At the Museum 3

SLATE contemporary is presenting Being Seen a three-person photography exhibition that explores themes of identity, anonymity, privacy, and space. Richard Koci Hernandez has been practicing street photography for decades, favoring low-tech media such as pin-hole cameras, Holgas, and, more recently, the iPhone to create mysterious images of the urban landscape and people on the move. Barbara Kyne‘s series At the Museum takes the subject of viewers looking at art as its own subject. Sherry Karver‘s work tackles themes of loneliness and alienation in our fast-paced society, the concept of personal identity and the loss of it, and the individual as part of the crowd.

Being Seen
Exhibition Dates: Through October 26, 2018

Slate Contemporary
473 25th St, Suite A
Oakland, CA

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Daniele Puppi At Nancy Toomey Fine Art

Daniele Puppi: alie(n)ation
Daniele Puppi: alie(n)ation

Defined by some critics as an artist outside the canon, and most of all outside the language and formula of contemporary art, since his debut in 1996 with Fatica no.1, a site-specific audiovisual installation, Daniele Puppi has been working to unhinge the idea of space that is still perceived and revolves around Euclidean parameters. With an emphasis on video installation, he has manifested a new attitude towards this medium, emphasizing and radically subverting the use of sound and visual-architectonic reconfigurations that always reinvents itself. A totally new, alien perspective.

Puppi conceives of his work as authentic “works in regress”, which come into being after a long period of gestation spent inside the spaces. The artist experiences the environment and establishes an almost carnal relationship with it, assessing its limits and its potential.

The technologies used – video projectors, synchronizers, amplifiers, sub woofers, speakers and microphones – serve to activate and amplify our powers of perception, especially our visual and auditory ones. An integral part of the work, the viewer is called upon to enter a new and de-familiarized spatial and sensory dimension.

Daniele Puppi: alie(n)ation
Exhibition Dates: September 8 to September 29, 2018
Artist Reception for Daniele Puppi: Saturday, September 8, 2018, 5pm to 8pm
Lecture by Valentino Catricalà: Energy, Frequency and Vibration: A Discourse on the Work of Daniele Puppi: September 8, 2018, 3:30pm to 5pm at Minnesota Street Project / the Lounge

Nancy Toomey Fine Art
Suite 211, 1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA

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Joel-Peter Witkin At El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe Gallery

Harvest, 1984 © Joel-Peter Witkin
Harvest, 1984 © Joel-Peter Witkin

Known for his controversial imagery, Joel-Peter Witkin has been an icon in the art world since the 1980s. Witkin is first and foremost a storyteller, with each of his images evoking a narrative that calls into question the ideals of beauty, exploitation vs. empowerment, and the role of death in contemporary Western culture.

Witkin’s work reaches beyond the fine art world to high fashion including Alexander McQueen’s runway and has inspired imagery for Nine Inch Nails videos. Drawing from a rich body of sources—literature, myth, and Renaissance and Baroque painting—he creates elaborate tableaux that explore perverse, erotic, and religious concerns. He considers morality as central to his work.

The image selection for Splendor and Misery: Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin will include some of his nearly sold-out works as well as lesser known images that will be on view for this special exhibit in his home state of New Mexico.

SPLENDOR AND MISERY: Exhibition of Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin
Exhibition Dates: October 5 – November 4, 2018
Opening Reception: October 5, 2018 from 6pm – 8pm

El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe Gallery
555 Camino de la Familia
Santa Fe, NM

Free and Open to public

An Evening with Joel-Peter Witkin

Enjoy an engaging evening with this esteemed artist, as well as the Review Santa Fe photographers, reviewers, and the Santa Fe community. The evening includes a reception, dinner, and talk by the writer, Eugenia Parry, as well as a presentation by Joel-Peter Witkin himself.

WHEN: October 20, 2018 // Reception 7:30pm // Dinner 8:30pm // Presentation 9:30pm
Tickets: $135 non-members; $121 Members and Festival Pass Holders – Purchase

The Drury Plaza Hotel
828 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM