Harwood

Shows: November 6 - 27

Main & Front: 12x12 Artists
Press Preview

Before we open our annual 12x12 Fundraiser to the public (see December’s 12x12 gallery description), we offer members of the press a sneak peak of the show. Starting November 11th, members of the press are encouraged to preview, review, photograph the upcoming fund raising exhibit. Please contact The Harwood staff to schedule a viewing.

North: Martin Brennan

More Than Meets the Eye - Art Requiring Cerebral Engagement

While much of my work is in pastels or paint, I have a great fondness for multiple image photography (no computer enhancement), a vehicle perfect for exploring my fascination with memory and dreams, the incubator of surrealism. In this format, anything goes from pure “nonsense”, visual/verbal puns etc. to “serious” examinations of daytime crises, impressions expressed from subconscious undercurrents taking hold in my magic theatre. Both major elements of surrealism clearly exist in this work, dream imagery and automatism. Also, as surrealism was rooted in literature as well as visual image, and word plays its part in the surrealistic circus of dreams, I include short passages associated with each image as my perspective.I simultaneously encourage each viewer to experience my work through the lens of their own independent experience.

The current images are from RAM©, a loose confederation of dancing recollections of past events, recalled musings about random persons, places, things or ideas and abstract visions and/or juxtaposed images remembered, artistic expression on film.  Hence, the project title “RAM©” (Randomly Accessed Memories).

South: Lenore Goodell

Images of North Central New Mexico....botanicals and landscapes

Since 2006 I’ve been studying native plants by taking photographs. Each ideal botanical photograph should capture identifying features, convey an idea of the experience of environment and have a beautiful image to live on a page. While hiking and searching for flowers I also photograph the greater landscape, thus completing a “site portrait.” I began this project on my home turf, the Sandia foothills and Bernalillo Watershed, canyons and washes. Eventually, thanks to a dry hot summer, my project began fanning outward and upward to Sandia, Manzano and Jemez Mountain trails. This exhibit will include a selection of site portraits from these areas.