Rose B, Simpson Awarded a Joan Mitchell Fellowship

Congratulations Rose on receiving a 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship award! From https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/journal/announcing-2021-joan-mitchell-fellows “The selection of the 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellows was initiated by 88 nominators, 44% of whom are themselves artists, and nearly a quarter of whom were participating in the process for the first time. The nominators reflect broad geographic diversity—representing 47 states, Washington, … Read more

RENATE ALLER “The Space Between Memory and Expectation”

Exhibition Review, written by Trevor Bishai for Musée Magazine Plate 124, Patagonia, Chile, 2019. Archival pigment print The German-born visual artist Renate Aller has long been interested in the intersections between memory and landscape. Made up of large-scale images of remote natural forms such as Patagonian glaciers and the Himalayan mountains, her latest series, The Space … Read more

Polly Barton: Dare, Revel, Dive

Press Release                                                                                                            June 3, 2021   Polly Barton: Dare, Revel, Dive July 2 – 31, 2021 Public Reception, Friday, July 2, 5-7pm Santa Fe, NM – Chiaroscuro is pleased to present a solo exhibition for Polly Barton, Dare, Revel, Dive, opening Friday, July 2 with an artist reception from 5-7pm, and continuing through July 31st. While … Read more

Emmi Whitehorse: Depth of Field

Great article in The Santa Fe New Mexican’s weekly arts magazine, Pasatiempo, on Whitehorse’s current solo exhibition, Sanctum, on view through January. By Michael Abatemarco Emmi Whitehorse creates paintings you can inhabit. Consider one recent work in which marks and scrawls that resemble organic forms of nature float in atmospheric but nonspecific space, where linear … Read more

Emmi Whitehorse: Sanctum

November 20, 2020 – January 2, 2021 No public reception scheduled at this time Santa Fe, NM – As COVID-19 took hold of the world earlier this year, Emmi Whitehorse was starting a body of work for her upcoming solo show, “Sanctum,” on view November 20, 2020 – January 2, 2021 at Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art. … Read more

Tasha Ostrander in Pasatiempo

Blossoming forth with bright luminescence, local artist Tasha Ostrander’s Night Bluem XV is a light in the darkness, tempting you into many-petaled folds. The image is a light jet print from a series of similar floral images called Night Bluems available at Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art (558 Canyon Road, 505-992-0711, chiaroscurosantafe.com). The flower, a gerbera daisy, … Read more