Harwood

February 6th through February 25th

Main Gallery

Derrick Montez
(Note: Siyoung Lee's exhibition has been postponed)

Derrick Montez began his car and rhino series in 1991.  He started exploring the unusual and unique juxtaposition of cars and rhinos after viewing a photo of a car that had accidentally crashed into a rhino at full speed, in Africa.  The rhino was killed in the accident and the car was totaled.  Derrick began to think about the complex relationship between man and nature.  For many years rhinos were hunted and killed for their horns and became an endangered species.  

Derrick’s series began with the  passive rhino, lying beside an automobile.  The car was the aggressive beast and the rhino was depicted as a domesticated pet.  As the series developed, both car and rhino fused into one, displaying high levels of energy.  In the final pieces produced for this exhibit you will see the rhino completely dominating and destroying the automobile with great force.    

Front Gallery

Karl Hofmann 

Karl Hofmann renders site-specific, multi-dimensional compositions using commonplace material such as scrap wood, chenille stems (pipe-cleaners), and house paint.  The sublime and epic are on view in Hofmann's work via a hybrid aesthetic that combines pop, funk assemblage, and expressionism with a geometric, viral-like logic. 

An ironic tension is generated in Hofmann's work by the combination of nontraditional materials used and the sprawling, quasi-natural forms they take.  Using the formal interplay of color, rhythm and movement that echoes long-held interests in natural and built environments, music and early Modernist aesthetics, Hofmann create work that is full of energy and a unique visual power.

Upstairs North Gallery: Love and Junk

Artstreet

An exhibition of art created at ArtStreet, a program of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless. Artstreet is a community-based project and collective open studio space where art is used as the connection for community-building for those without and those with homes.

Upstairs South Gallery: First Annual Art Show

Volcano Vista High

 
A Group Exhibition by Volcano Vista High School Fine Art students.
A show of current work including drawing, paintings, photographs, Computer
Graphics, Film, Ceramics and Sculpture.