The Stinks and Rapids: Is Art Important?
We need fewer artists doing the same thing and more artists pushing the boundaries stretched by artists from the past. We need independent voices willing to speak out and act as regulators of the marketplace—not regulators of the Art. We need critics willing to debate and stand up for what they believe. We need to recognize that there are artists all over the world quietly making interesting and challenging art, overlooked by the system and market.
Time for an upgrade
A blogger since July 2005 Leanne Goebel has moved her blog to wordpress. Her preferred subject matter continues to be contemporary art and culture based in or connected to the Rocky Mountain West and Southwest.
David Adjaye, Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco to create quintessential video biennial at SITE Santa Fe?
Another post at Adobe Airstream on the 2010 SITE Santa Fe Biennial. Read it by clicking on this link. Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.
Beyond Beauty, Durango Herald, March 17, 2009
SITE Santa Fe exhibit pushes boundaries of aesthetics “You are here, 2008″ Judith Schaechter Much contemporary art is highly intellectualized, sprouting from institutes of higher learning, embedded in a system that eschews beauty and prefers provocation. Art today is in-your-face, shocking, gigantic, but rarely is it pretty. At SITE Santa Fe, Laura Heon has curated … Read more
New Art & Culture Magazine Launches
Dear friends, For the past few months I have been working with Ellen Berkovitch on an exciting new media project. Adobe Airstream will be a state-of-the-art new media website providing unique content about art, culture and design in the West and Southwest. Independently, Ellen and I came up with very similar ideas and decided to … Read more
1,000 artworks to see before you die
1,000 artworks to see before you die. The Guardian writers pick the essential art of the world. Hint: O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, the nearest location to find one of these works. Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.
Infinity
William Metcalf’s Infinity Series was on display at Charlotte Jackson in July. Using fabric to bridge the world between painting and sculpture, these objects explore the basic elements of space and the play of light against and within that space. William MetcalfInfinity Series #44, 2008 28″x28″x2/38″ Acrylic, Polyester fabric, wood, DiBond 162WM The photographs do … Read more
Shift
Constance de Jong Press Release from Charlotte Jackson: “Shift” is the title that Constance DeJong has chosen for her upcoming exhibit at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art in Santa Fe. Shifting planes of sheet metal have long been an essential feature of her art, forming the basis of its austere beauty. This time, the installation will … Read more
Matt Magee at Eight Modern in Santa Fe
:Anagram: by Matt Magee From Eight Modern Gallery: New York artist Matt Magee creates graphic systems of language based on an internal, undefined lexicon of shapes and colors. His art is inspired by his Texas childhood, much of which was spent accompanying his geologist father to sites of Native American ruins and pictographs throughout the … Read more
