Southwestern Allure: The Art of the Santa Fe Art Colony explores the artistic evolution of the city through artists such as Carlos Vierra, Gerald Cassidy, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, Leon Kroll, John Sloan, Stuart Davis, Andrew Dasburg, and Marsden Hartley, who helped establish it as an artistic center.
Over 50 works give a stunning pictorial history of the artists, the work they produced, and the prevailing artistic trends from Realism to Modernism which were applied to works of this Southwestern city’s landscape, customs, and lifestyle.
Experience the sights, sounds, smells, and spectacle of the rodeo in an exhibition devoted to an icon of American culture…the cowgirl.
Artist Nancy Davidson, known for site-specific installations about American icons and gender issues, presents an absurdist ode and critique of the American cowgirl through sculptures, photographs, videos and sounds. Her colorful conflations of boots, chaps, balloons, ropes, and sawdust evoke the grandeur of the rodeo as well as comments on the American fascinations with the overly large – the “super-sized.”
Davidson celebrates the glamour of the Rhinestone Cowgirl while acknowledging the hard-knock lives of real women in rodeo with a video capturing 62-year-old Jan Youren’s final bucking bronco ride after a 47-year career, and a sound piece with anecdotes from real life cowgirls.
What is a hero? What is a superhero? In a series of oversized photographs, Dulce Pinzón seeks to shine a light on the quiet heroes who make sacrifices for the good of others. For the artist, the countless Mexican and Latino immigrant workers in New York City, who every week send a portion of their modest income back to family members in Mexico, seemed like the perfect example of the unnoticed hero.
For the exhibition, Pinzón selected 20 workers, dressed them in costumes of popular American and Mexican superheroes that corresponded to their employment, and photographed them going about their usual work day. She identifies each by name along with their hometown, the number of years they have been working in New York City, and the amount of money they send back to their families each week.
Explore the exhibitions Southwestern Allure and – then get wild with mechanical bull-riding and line dancing. For additional information, call 561.392.2500, ext. 208.