Harwood

Shows: October 2 - 28, 2009

Main: Basia Irland

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Basia investigates the pathogens that find their way into our water systems and depicts waterborne diseases that kill a child every eight seconds somewhere in the world. A BBC reporter phrased it this way: “The number of deaths due to water-related disease is the same as twenty jumbo jets crashing each day.” The scrolls are made from hand-woven material bought at local markets or hospital bed sheets from specific communities around the world including Canada, Ethiopia, Egypt, Nepal. The scrolls roll up to fit into their own carrying cases with shoulder straps. Basia Irland has worked for the past three decades on international water projects that are contained in her book, Water Library, University of New Mexico Press, 2007. This exhibit is part of LAND/ART.

Front: Emma Lee Young

Bodyland II

Emma Lee Young is a two time veteran of the Land Arts of the American West program at the University of New Mexico where she is completing an Art Education Master’s degree and teaching license. Since Land Arts she has been building on the conceptual framework for which the program is based; time, place, space and artifact. In the exhibition, she will include digital photography and sculpture, for which this conceptual framework and LAND/ART have been a catalyst. The photography includes the capturing of projected landscape images onto the body. The sculpture is clay, figurative, and time based; the piece will erode over the course of the exhibition. Both mediums of work explore the consequences of patriarchy as they have been experienced and expressed through land and the body.

North & South: Luna Project

In Other Words

The Luna Project continues into its third group exhibition with “In Other Words.” This collaboration of thirteen New Mexico women artists explores different visions that pivot around the relationship between language and art. The artists play with the notion that words can inspire art works and art works can inspire words in a unique interplay of expressions. The resulting visions range from poetry and artwork that interact together as one complete work, to abstract symbols, to artwork in isolation from the written word. Artists: Anna Mafchir, Cate Eaves, Eleanor Trabaudo,  Joani Murphy, Kris Thacher, Lauri Dickinson, Marilyn Dillard, Marta Light, Mary Dornacker, Nance Elsinger, Pat Cohen, Pat Conway, Phyllis Benia Salazar.