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Maureen Burdock | Marta & the Missing
November 1 - 24, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 17, 4-6pm
spector ripps project space at CCA, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, 87505
Contact: Cyndi Conn, 505 982 1338 x 14, Cyndi@ccasantafe.org

For over a decade, women and girls have been disappearing from Ciudad Juárez. The body count is in the hundreds. Nobody knows who the murderers are, though it seems certain that there are numerous perpetrators. Young women’s bodies are found dumped in the desert, in fields, along roadsides, in the garbage. Maureen Burdock tells the story in painting and graphic-novella drawings, hoping to make a difference in public perception resulting so that this violence might end.

This exhibition includes painted portraits as well as graphic drawings. The portraits depict some of the victims, their images taken from small snapshots posted on the Internet—the women and girls before they became victims. Intimate and upbeat, these paintings act as cherished memories of the missing. Burdock’s drawings tell the story of Marta and her sidekick Pepito, a dog with a strong sense of ethics and humor. Marta herself is a young woman superhero, visited by the ghosts of the disappeared and led by them to where violence is about to occur. Marta learns that by standing together with the victims and their families, communally they can end this nightmare. These paintings and drawings were exhibited together at the MECENAS Gallery in Juárez in March of 2007.

Maureen Burdock was born in Germany and spent the first years of her life in Europe during the cold war era of the 1970s. Her father was a foreign-language correspondent from West Germany, her mother a foreign-language teacher whose family fled the Russian occupation of Eastern Germany in the 1940s. Burdock has always been a prolific artist, constructing large-scale multimedia exhibitions about themes of war and its effects on civilian populations. She has won awards for her surrealist work and had numerous solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally.


	DEBBIE LONG \| Forest May 24 - June 15 Reception Saturday, May 31, 5-7pm spector ripps project space download PDF \| view PDF Forest, a new installation by Debbie Long, is a forest of freestanding cast wax “trees” made from stacks of massive tree stumps, car parts, and other detritus the artist finds near her home. Part of the installation Forest will be created on-site at CCA.
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	Hair of the Dog April 11 – May 25, 2008 Reception Saturday, April 12, 5-7pm CCA Member's Preview Saturday, April 5 4-5pm Munoz Waxman Gallery download PDF \| view PDF The exhibition Hair of the Dog investigates the vocabulary, limitations, and mythology of the medium of painting through modern art history and into the 21st century. The artists and their works do not lend themselves to conclusions; rather, the aim is to provoke critical considerations of how painting functions as art in our culture. None of the artists in the exhibition will apply pigment to canvas in the traditional manner; some will not use paint at all. Portraiture, landscape, and narrative are some of the structures within the language of painting to be engaged. Featuring the work of AES+F, Polly Apfelbaum, Ann Gaziano, Rebecca Holland, Jason Manley, Philip Sanderson, & Brandon Soder; mediums include needlepoint, video, installation, photography, and cast sugar.
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	Oscar Muñoz Muñoz Waxman Gallery January 5, 2008 One of the Latin America's most significant artists working today, Colombian Oscar Muñoz explores the transitory and vulnerable condition of life in a culture overwhelmed by death. Through his art he pursues the tenuous possibilities of defying anonymity, oblivion, and death in a state of war. Muñoz's portraits, installations, and videos combine original techniques and distinctive materials with ephemeral and demanding content. His work is an ongoing exploration of the vulnerability of human life, especially within the violence that has permeated the Colombian landscape in recent years. Oscar Muñoz has exhibited his work worldwide in important exhibitions including Amnesia: New Art from South America, which traveled throughout the U.S.; and Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South America at the Miami Art Museum. He has participated in the Havana Biennial, the Kwangiu International Biennale, and the 2005 and 2007 Venice Biennales in Italy. The Disappeared Collaborative Project (DCP) is an unprecedented collaboration by nine regional arts organizations. DCP participants have joined forces with the support of the Lannan Foundation to demonstrate the power of artistic expression to evoke the materiality and humanness of real lives and to involve audiences in a process of active remembrance. For a full schedule of events visit www.thedisappearedsantafe.org . Línea Del Destino, video loop, 2006
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ All Roads Photography Program November 26 – December 26 The All Roads Photography Program recognizes and supports talented indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture photographers from around the globe who are documenting their changing worlds. The program provides a forum for photographers to showcase their work to a global audience through global festivals, exhibitions, panel discussions, and workshops. The All Roads Photography Program relies on an international advisory board composed of members from the photographic field, educators, photographers, and editors from numerous publications, including NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine. This year's photography program highlights the works of; Altaf Qadri (Kashmir), Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Oded Balilty (Israel), World Press Photo Award-winning photographer Akintunde Akinleye (Nigeria), and A Yin (China, Inner Mongolia).
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Maureen Burdock \| Marta & the Missing November 1 - 24, 2007 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 17, 4-6pm spector ripps project space at CCA, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, 87505 Contact: Cyndi Conn, 505 982 1338 x 14, Cyndi@ccasantafe.org For over a decade, women and girls have been disappearing from Ciudad Juárez. The body count is in the hundreds. Nobody knows who the murderers are, though it seems certain that there are numerous perpetrators. Young women’s bodies are found dumped in the desert, in fields, along roadsides, in the garbage. Maureen Burdock tells the story in painting and graphic-novella drawings, hoping to make a difference in public perception resulting so that this violence might end. This exhibition includes painted portraits as well as graphic drawings. The portraits depict some of the victims, their images taken from small snapshots posted on the Internet—the women and girls before they became victims. Intimate and upbeat, these paintings act as cherished memories of the missing. Burdock’s drawings tell the story of Marta and her sidekick Pepito, a dog with a strong sense of ethics and humor. Marta herself is a young woman superhero, visited by the ghosts of the disappeared and led by them to where violence is about to occur. Marta learns that by standing together with the victims and their families, communally they can end this nightmare. These paintings and drawings were exhibited together at the MECENAS Gallery in Juárez in March of 2007. Maureen Burdock was born in Germany and spent the first years of her life in Europe during the cold war era of the 1970s. Her father was a foreign-language correspondent from West Germany, her mother a foreign-language teacher whose family fled the Russian occupation of Eastern Germany in the 1940s. Burdock has always been a prolific artist, constructing large-scale multimedia exhibitions about themes of war and its effects on civilian populations. She has won awards for her surrealist work and had numerous solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally.
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Art Basel Miami Beach Travel as a VIP guest! December 5-9, 2007 Art Basel Miami Beach has become the leading art show of the Americas and is the sister event of Art Basel in Switzerland. Now in its fifth year, Art Basel Miami Beach is a new type of cultural event, combining contemporary art shows with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events including music, film, architecture, and design. We will be staying in the new Fontainebleau Suites, Miami Beach's most luxurious all-suite beachfront hotel. COST - $1500 per person double occupancy, $2000 single occupancy Includes 4 hotel nights, VIP status to Vernissage and Fair, transportation to group events & private tours of major contemporary collections. Please contact Cyndi Conn for additional information: cyndi@ccasantafe.org
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Chopped, Chromed, Customized Thru October 21 2007 CCA's Muñoz Waxman Gallery Chopped, Chromed, Customized considers the communal power, esthetic, and constructed masculinity inherent to the New Mexico- and Los Angeles-based lowrider tradition, and how it is disseminated and incorporated into new cultures, conversations, and contexts. With billboard scale photography, video, drawings, monumental sculpture, and installation, this exhibition explores a vibrant and lush visual esthetic as well as its social implications, which have reached far beyond traditional lowrider culture. Artists include: Liz Cohen, Alex Harris, Luis Jiménez, Carol Sarkisian, and Rubén Ortiz Torres.
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ RICHARDSON² - An Exhibition of Paintings by Father and Son October 9 - October 28, Reception: Saturday October 20, 4 - 6pm The Project Space at the Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, 87505 Contact: Cyndi Conn, 505 982 1338 x 14, Cyndi@ccasantafe.org Bob Richardson always had the tools and ideas of an artist. An unfinished sketchbook and his paintings from the 70's leaned on a wall next to a wood-burning stove. When his son Willy took the pursuit of painting seriously, it rekindled Bob's excitement for art and pushed him to reconsider how important it was to him. Painting facilitated a dialogue for abstract thinking and ideas between Bob and Willy Richardson and became a common ground for bonding. The wonderful by product of their art has been seeing each other, not just as father and son, but also as friends in the adult world (Although Bob insists, "he'll always be my son."). Richardson² is the celebration of this artistic relationship and the dialogue that permeates the work of this very special bond.
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ CCA’s 6th Annual Photography Auction Live & Silent Auctions Saturday, July 7, 2007, 6-9 PM The Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe $25 members \| $35 nonmembers This auction is a highly anticipated fundraising event and celebration offering artists an opportunity to exhibit as well as to have work acquired by supportive patrons. Complementary wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Advance tickets can be obtained by calling CCA at 982-1338 or may be purchased at the door the evening of the event.
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Larry Rinder Saturday, June 23 3:00 pm $15 non-members, $10 members Larry Rinder, contemporary art curator and educator who pushes the boundaries of cultural possibility, will speak at Center for Contemporary Art in conjunction with Gerry Snyder’s solo exhibition, American Idyll, at EVO Gallery. Rinder curated Snyder’s work in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and wrote the catalog essay for his current exhibition. Rinder is dean of graduate studies at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and an adjunct curator for the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was chief curator of the 2002 Whitney Biennial, served as an adviser on the 1991 and 1993 Biennials and was one of six curators of the 2000 Biennial. Generously sponsored by EVO Gallery For more information on the exhibition please visit www.evogallery.org
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Seventh Annual Collect: Inside 8 Art Drop Off: April 2-6 Show Runs: April 14-28 Reception: April 21 Art Pick Up: April 30-May 4 This annual event celebrates the diversity of the New Mexico arts community by inviting any and all image makers to create wall works that fit within an 8” cube. The work will hang salon-style in CCA’s lobby gallery from April 14 – 28, 2007. A reception will be held Saturday, April 21st, from 5pm to 7pm. Collect encourages audiences to ease the border between established & emerging artists, providing a broad overview of the Santa Fe arts community. THE RULES: • Each artist is invited to submit one piece. • Work must be 8” x 8” x 8” or smaller and ready to hang (no shelves, sculptures, pedestals, or electrical plugs). • The price of submission is $25. • The artist sets the retail price of work and receives the full amount in the event of a sale. • Work will ONLY be accepted from Monday, April 2 – Friday, April 6 between the hours of 10 – 5. • Unsold work MUST be claimed the week of April 30 – May 4, 2007. • CCA is not responsible for works that are not claimed. For more information, please contact Cyndi Conn at cyndi@ccasantafe.org, 982-1338 x14.
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Art Santa Fe Presents: Façade Design Winner Announcement & Cocktail Reception Wednesday, April 25 5-7pm In celebration of Santa Fe’s summer cultural season, an art installation will be erected at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe. The installation will transform the façade of the El Museo building throughout the months of July and August 2007. The winning entrant will be awarded a $5,000 cash prize, and will see her/his creative vision transform a portion of Santa Fe’s new contemporary arts district.
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ FEAST&flux February 10 - March 31 Reception Saturday, February 10 5-6pm members preview 6-7pm public reception China’s urban skylines are changing at a staggering pace, layering the effects of globalization and modernization upon ancient architecture, custom, and tradition. The result is a cultural landscape that is stark in its juxtaposition of the contemporary with the traditional, and unique to this specific moment in history. Colette Hosmer \| FEAST main gallery Santa Fe-based artist Colette Hosmer reproduces the traditional food markets of rural China in porcelain, stone, bronze, and car-painted fiberglass. FEAST was exhibited at the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen prior to traveling to the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe. Collaborating with skilled local craftspeople and artisans in the surrounding towns, Hosmer has created astonishing bodies of art in which traditional market foods are transformed into abstracted installations of intricate, spare, and vivid multiples. Wang Quingsong & Sze Tsung Leong \| flux lobby gallery Wang Qingsong’s oversized color photographs are suffused with detail, historic references, and the kitsch-y irony of today’s Chinese society in which the old world frequently mingles with the new. Sze Tsung Leong photographs the dramatic urban changes that have transformed the cities of China.
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Keep Adding Wrekage Join us for a discussion with the artists in Keep Adding, creators of the Wrekage installation and the exhibition curator Craig Anderson. Following the talk is a release party for Keep Adding’s innovative DVD/catalog. The catalog includes an introduction by curator Craig Anderson, an essay by art historian Mary Anne Redding, and a DVD co-produced by videographer Scott Pagano. The catalog documents both the creation of this installation and Keep Adding’s installation work over the past five years. The DVD also contains over 60 minutes of original 5.1 surround audio composed by Richard Devine exclusively for this project. There are also several fantastic musicians providing music for the documentary including Michael Fakesch, OOO, Geoff White, Christopher Willits, and others. For more information visit ccasantafe.org/visualarts or keepadding.com The first edition is limited to 1500 catalogs - the packaging is a 6 panel digipak with 24 page booklet and O card, designed by Keep Adding. Come see what all the talk is about: “Wrekage is a precarious balance of physical and concep-tual space, digital and analog sensibilities, and overt theatricality and subtle spiritual potential...The show, experienced amid the echoing sound design of Richard Devine, is fairly bitchin’.” - Zane Fischer, There is no Spoon, Santa Fe Reporter, September 27, 2006 “Wrekage consists of what looks like an abandoned adobe whose walls have been adorned with the swooshing, spray-paint patterns of fiery reds, oranges, and yellows swirling around deep black holes in space. Walls before meld into walls behind as the patterns merge and re-emerge in a confusion of depth. The graffiti-decorated hulk floats incongruously, and ingeniously, reflecting itself up to us in a pond of water, not unlike any number of actual tagged ruins you might find in a blighted neighborhood after a rainstorm...” - Tom Collins, Mystery Loves Company, Journal North, Friday, October 6, 2006 “‘In a period of history that may be best remembereed for its cultural and political numbness, Keep Adding presents a dynamic counterpoint. They exude an artistic tension, built on patience and balance, but pulsing with spontaneous energy, leaving viewers with an illusion of another place and an edgy sense of the other side.’” - Paul Weideman quoting Craig Anderson in Edifice Wreks, The New Mexican Pasatiempo, September 22, 2006
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Scenic Overlook Thru August 26 2006 The Santa Fe and New York based artists in Scenic Overlook—Amelia Bauer & Robert de Saint Phalle, Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, David Dunn, Nicola Lopez, Jennifer Joseph, and Jordan West explore place, home, memory, and imagination through a variety of media including installation, sound, painting, and sculpture.
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5th Annual Photo Auction Saturday, June 24 6-9pm Auction services by Denise Bethel, VP Sotheby's Inc.
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ LandMinds April 22 - June 1 Reception: Saturday, April 22 5pm - 6pm members preview 6pm - 7pm public reception Performance by La Junta 7pm - 9pm Cinematheque LandMinds will showcase the newest generation of land artist who have emerged from the UNM/UT Austin program Land Arts of the American West. Co-curated by Bill Gilbert, Lannan Chair in Land Arts of the American West, LandMinds represents the first survey of the program outside the academic environment. This show includes five years of photography, video, installation, sculpture, performance, and site-specific work and challenges the preconceptions and assumptions of traditional land art. Exhibiting Artists Julie Anand, Tori Arpad, Katherine Bash, Julie Brown, Ledia Carroll, Nina Dubois, William Fox, Veronica Giavedoni, Bill Gilbert, Gloria Haag, Yoshi Hayashi, Ryan Hennel, Mark Hensel, Liz Hunt, Claire Long, Jonathan Loth, Nick Pena, Gabriel Romero, Kyrsten Sanderson, Ryan Thompson
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Doing Documentary ll In conjunction with CCA, the College of Santa Fe Documentary Studies Brazil Program presents an exhibition of photography, slides, and film. In fall 2005, the Documentary Studies Brazil Program began its 2nd year with the Intensive Portuguese class at the College of Santa Fe and then finished in AimorÄs, Brazil at the Instituto Terra. 9 students enrolled: 6 from the Documentary Studies Program and 3 from the Conservation Science Department. Some students studied at the Instituto Terra in Brazil, others stayed in Santa Fe for the fall semester, and the remainder pursued an Independent Study following a similar curriculum in Costa Rica.
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................William Pope.L One-night Performance: Poor Piece Friday, March 3 6pm free members $5 nonmembers CCA WAREHOUSE Poor Piece is a time-based endurance performance by William Pope.L for the Center for Contemporary Arts Warehouse exhibition space. Forty-five gallons of ammonia-based latex paint in red, blue and white is poured from a 6-foot scaffold onto a well-dressed black performer surrounded by a tableaux of stuffed African and other endangered animals. William Pope.L's performances include eating the Wall Street Journal while sitting on an American flag, selling mayonnaise for $100 a dollop, and tying himself to an ATM machine with sausage links while giving out money. In The Great White Way, Pope.L crawled a 22-mile stretch of Broadway in New York City and garnered attention for the National Endowment of the Arts' failure to support his work. (The Great White Way was shown at the Center for Contemporary Arts in November 2005.) William Pope.L Solo exhibitions and performance venues include the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; The Project, New York; the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; and The Drawing Center in New York. Pope L's writing has been published in P-Form, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, and by Exit Art. Awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission, a Franklin Furnace Award, and a Mid-Atlantic Residency. This performance is a part of a weekend of Santa Fe events: Dialog 360: Artist Talk, Thursday, March 2, 6pm, Tipton Hall, College of Santa Fe Poor Piece: Site-specific Performance, Friday, March 3, 6pm, CCA Warehouse Gallery Public Crawl: SFAI Workshop, Saturday, March 4, 1pm, IAIA Museum
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Joanne Lefrak FEBRUARY 18-APRIL 1, 2006 RECEPTION: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 5-6PM MEMBERS PREVIEW 6-7PM PUBLIC RECEPTION Joanne Lefrak's paper and plastic installations utilize the process of elimination to examine space and depth as a negative entity. Shadows are an integral part of the language of the work itself, creating an allusion to the original image,and referencing the layers between the prototype and its subsequent forms to compose a meaningful whole.
	................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................The 6TH Annual Collect: Inside 8³ Lobby Gallery FEBRUARY 11-APRIL 1, 2006 RECEPTION: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 5-7PM This annual event celebrates the diversity of the New Mexico arts community by inviting any and all image makers to create wall works that fit within an 8" cube. The work is hung salon-style in CCA's lobby gallery from February 11 - April 1, 2006. Collect encourages audiences to ease the border between established & emerging artists, providing a broad overview of the Santa Fe arts community.