EXHIBITION ARCHIVE

(be)loved by Southwest Black Arts Collective considers, in a world
marked by injustice, inequity, and pain, how do we embrace the (BE)LOVED? Centered in the experiences of artists of African
heritage, the works in this exhibition explore the abiding feelings, attachments, connections, and entanglements we have with individuals and families, places and spaces, and memories—real or imagined.

Recall: Sculptural Myth and Memory asks, “where does the earth end and my body begin? Where does your body begin and where does it end? How can we be both?

An annual celebration that is both a reflection of and an offering to Harwood’s community, Encompass features Open Studios, art-making activities, installations by student artists, and five invitational exhibitions.

Embodiments of Wonder features commissioned site specific installations by artists whose work is alive with mystery and magic, sparking both curiosity and joy. Participating artists include: Monika Guerra, Adrian Martin, Audrey Montoya, Adrian Pijoan, Sallie Scheufler, and Shawn Turung.

Ithacan Mythologies/Whose Home? by Harley Kirschner asks, “when nature is an afterthought, who gets to have a home?”

Cortney YellowHorse-Metzger, member of the Osage Nation, confronts the histories her people experienced during colonization and the removal of the Osage names through a combination of storytelling utilizing ceramic objects, performance, and the reclamation of her traditional name.

SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico is an annual juried exhibition, endowed awards and professional development program presented by Harwood Art Center, to support the creative and professional growth of emerging artists and to expand their visibility and viability in our community.

The 2023 SURFACE exhibition features Carrie Botto, Petra Brown, Monika Guerra, Allison Jones Hunt, Leviathan O’Neil, Leigh Oviatt, Louie Perea, Rocío Rodriguez, Row Särkelä and Zuyva Sevilla.

Susan Roden’s exhibition, Aging . . . A Female’s Perspective, is a multi-platform installation comprising fine art dresses, mixed media tondos and printed words culled from anonymous surveys, centralizing upon the female perspective on aging’s physical and emotional impacts.

Jamie Rose’s exhibition We Are the Gods consists of large-scale figurative drawings celebrating the beauty and power of those who have in any way lived the female
experience.

An annual celebration that is both a reflection of and an offering to Harwood’s community, Encompass features Open Studios, art making activites, installations by student artists, and five invitational exhibitions.

Lined up on shelves in an antiquated library, the Visual Journals and Sketchbooks of Albuquerque mixed media artist Juliana Coles are a collection of lost and fragmented memories due to a life of seizures.

Grief Movement is a meditation on creating interdependence through healing ritual, shared grief, carework and artmaking.

Harwood Art Center and ArtStreet of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless co-presents Blossoming, a visual representation of the renaissance taking place within the ArtStreet community and features a collection of works from individuals and a collaborative installation made
by the artists and representatives of ArtStreet. This marks the 26th anniversary of this annual exhibition partnership.

Main Event @ Harwood: Thursday, December 1 from 5:30p-7:30p Online Store Opens: Friday, December 2 at 6p Harwood Art Center is pleased to announce our 15th Annual 12x12 Fundraising Exhibition, one of Albuquerque’s most anticipated art events. Over 100 youth, emerging,...

Prelude, our featured exhibition, highlights the intersections of art, design and daily living. Prelude supports Harwood *and* our collaborating artists, who receive a percentage of sales. Participating artists include: Robyn A. Frank, Will Geusz, Jessica Gross, Malcolm King, Stephanie Lerma, Mika Maloney, Adrian Martin, Reyes Padilla, MB Ramos and Monique Rivera.

WE ARE HERE // HERE, WE ARE is a co-led, visual art project by a mother and adult-child
pair of artists. The project explores time and space through their relationship to one another,
an intergenerational conversation, as one rises and the other wanes on a land far from their
homeland. Simultaneously, it’s a critical engagement of the powers that has led to diaspora and
questioning of the Asian diaspora’s participation in the American empire on stolen land.

In Eyeshine, artist Adrian Pijoan tells a story about encountering the paranormal through an installation of videos, animations, and sculptures. In the space between the real and the unreal we encounter our hopes, fears, and dreams.

Holy Land explores mythologies surrounding the theme of the Holy Land and includes maps that transform New Mexico history into caropraphic fantasies, highlighting some of the major parallels between other historical lands and the sacred lalnd of Diego’s home state of New Mexico.

In Childlike Behavior, artist Thomas Bowers aims to highlight important
events growing up, the difficulties living in poverty and the resiliency to
overcome boundaries.

SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico is an annual juried exhibition, endowed awards and professional development program presented by Harwood Art Center, to support the creative and professional growth of emerging artists and to expand their visibility and viability in our community. SURFACE 2021 features Vanessa Alvarado, Abdiel Beltrán, Lauren Crowder, Eva Gabriella Flynn, Luke Graham, Cortney Metzger, Audrey Montoya, Jade Norris, Sam Snell, Alex Streeper, and Diego Villegas.

In Bodies of Evidence, artist Toni Gentilli amasses a collection of brightly colored textiles, weavings, and watercolor paintings incorporating discarded medical supplies with wildcrafted botanical pigments that are natural blood sugar regulators, respiratory tonics, and antimicrobials, to render visible the imperceptible connections between living beings, metabolic processes, matter, and time.

Relationship is an activity by Robyn A. Frank is a collection of work that explores relationships, emotional and physical, as a moment-to-moment activity of creation by transposing formal compositional elements into emotional allegory.

Community Celebration: Saturday, April 2nd from 4:30p - 6:00pExhibitions Run: March 7 - April 14, 2022 Harwood Art Center and Escuela del Sol Montessori are pleased to present Encompass, a unique all ages art celebration that takes place annually. This year Encompass...

An exhibition born out of a mutual affinity for the quiet stillness shared with oneself in a bath featuring Caitlin Carcerano and Charis Fleshner. There’s a tension with vulnerability in bathtubs; the bather is in a position where they are very exposed, but simultaneously feeling safe, calm, taken care of, and even healed. It is a brave thing to want to address and share this vulnerability. The artists make the private public and invite people into this space.

Exhibition Runs: March 7 - April 14, 2022 Community Celebration: Saturday April 2nd, 4:30pm - 6:30pm  Harwood Art Center and Escuela del Sol Montessori are pleased to present Encompass, a unique all ages art celebration that takes place annually. This year Encompass...

ArtStreet, a program of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, and Harwood Art Center join together to present ArtStreet Unmasked. ArtStreet Unmasked is a collection of work by the artists of ArtStreet that asks the question “what does it mean to be unmasked?”.

Artwork Preview + Exhibition Reception @ Harwood: Thursday, December 2 from 5:30p-7:30p Online Store Opens: Friday, December 3 at 6p Purchased a 12x12? All sold pieces will be available for pick up at Harwood on Wednesday December 15th and Thursday December 16th...

Harwood Art Center is pleased to announce our annual capstone program Bridge: Art & Social
Justice featuring an exhibition by our very first artist in residence, Martín Wannam. He has been in his residency and in a Harwood studio since May 2021, working towards this exhibition. His exhibition La Furia en contra de la Máquina features collaborative and individual works by himself and artist Marlene Tafoya.

A short, sequential, visual narrative of gentle man interrupted by two angry, constantly fighting men who live near him

Running free with their institutionalized misogyny, the series questions masculine traits and being excessively self-impressed.

A time forward and always a reflection from these moments.
Nate is the 2020 SURFACE: Emerging Artist of New Mexico Solo Exhibition Award recipient.

SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico is an annual juried exhibition, endowed awards and professional development program presented by Harwood Art Center, to support the creative and professional growth of emerging artists and to expand their visibility and viability in our community. SURFACE 2021 features Thomas Bowers, Jordan Caldwell, Bridey Caramagno, Harley Kirschner, Adrian Martin, Madison McClintock, Kate Overton Miller, H.E. Ramage, Lauren Dana Smith and Daisy Trudell-Mills

This installation of light, polycarbonate, paper, and mesh is meant to embody the transformation that occurs when we replace old ideas with new ones, and is deeply informed by my experience in the Antarctic.

Contrasting the methodic repetition of line and geometry with naturally occurring irregularities in fiber, Until the Mud Settles examines the duality between order and ubiquitous chance.

The Chimera Manifesto dreams of chimera as violence and kinship. The chimera, a mythological body that puts together different species, allows for new hybrids, intersections and contact points. The exhibition brings together scientific data, fabulative imagining and poetic writing on hybridization to rethink and connect with the more-than-human.

Encompass: A unique multigenerational art event that takes place annually. Featuring four outdoor installations, one indoor gallery exhibition, an Open Studios shop and online galleries. Our featured artists are Lynnette Haozous, Ade Cruz, Caitlin Carcerano, Viola Arduini, Escuela Del Sol Montessori students and Harwood studio artists.

12x12 Virtual Fundraising ExhibitionClick above to watch our YouTube Live Stream as we counted down until our online store opened on December 3! Artwork Preview Opens: Tuesday, December 1 Online Store Opens: Thursday, December 3 at 6pm Exhibition Runs:  December 3,...

SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico is an annual juried exhibition, endowed awards and professional development program presented by Harwood Art Center, to support the creative and professional growth of emerging artists and to expand their visibility and viability in our community. SURFACE 2020 features Robyn A. Frank, Celine Gordon, Nate Lemuel, MB Ramos, George Richardson, Amy Vensel, and Mark Weaver

Through his collection of garments inspired by the political state in 1942, Dante Betsch explores Americas complex past to converse about the cyclical nature within race relations in our country. Dante is the 2019 SURFACE: Emerging Artist of New Mexico Solo Exhibition Award.

Soft is a sculptural series by Helen Atkins that exalts an often depreciated part of the human body – the stomach. The pieces challenge societal notions of beauty while referencing classic sculpture in a contemporary context.

Umbrae, Latin for shadow, but also for shade, a ghost image. Spending time hiking amongst the aspens, with their interwoven root systems and interdependent destinies, Susie Protiva finds herself ruminating on what will become shade and shadow-memory in our heating up anthropocene.

Aryon’ Hopkin’s work is rooted in community building. He is interested in creating third place —the social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace.

WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW?! by André Ramos-Woodard, is a body of work that visually deciphers experiences to better understand and cope with them. With physical gallery spaces closed to the public, André is interested in working, making, and showing art within these unique constraints – a testament to how vital access to the arts and artistic expression is in our daily evolving new world.

Electric Desert immerses viewers in a florescent nighttime desert environment with glittering cacti and flitting ghosts. Guilds of cardboard piñon, cholla, and nopales invite visitors to work with simple robotic constructs that gently open complex questions about the land and peoples of our Southwestern borders.

ArtStreet, an outreach program of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, presents: Recycled Heart, an exhibition featuring recycled art by local artists with experience of poverty and homelessness.

Encompassing a breadth of creative voices and visions, Constellations showcases New Mexico’s artists Tytianna Harris, Stephanie Lerma, Jen Pack, Jackie Riccio, and Sophia Sanchez as they explore mythologies, marking time, and offer modes of navigation through the darkness.

Community Celebration: Saturday, March 7 from 5 - 8pm Exhibitions Run: March 7 - 26, 2020 Harwood Art Center and Escuela del Sol Montessori are pleased to present Encompass, a unique multi-generational art event that takes place annually. Featuring four gallery...

PRELUDE highlights the intersections of art, design and daily living. Participating artists include: Jill Christian, Colleen Davy, Staci Drangmeister, Jonathan Guiney, Danny Hart, Christine Hernandez, Jessica Kennedy, Jared Tso, and Chelsea Wrightson.

Exhibition Runs: September 6 – 26, 2019

Featuring Plates Against Patriarchy (Helen Atkins, Jordyn Bernicke, Monique Rivera), a female organized pottery project that celebrates the resilience of women and endeavors to give voice to their stories.

Exhibition Runs: August 2 – 29, 2019

Bollinger’s recent works on paper and canvas stem from a conscious appreciation of popular music (Devo, New Order, Sonic Youth, Autechre, Nirvana, Dinah Washington, John Coltrane, etc), and the unconscious collaborative role it plays in his visual experiments.

Exhibition Runs: August 2 – 29, 2019

Reyes Padilla explores the art form he was first exposed to as a child and incorporates that inspiration into his contemporary work today.

Exhibition Runs: June 7 – July 25, 2019

Harwood Art Center’s annual juried exhibition, professional development and endowed cash awards program for emerging artists currently living and working in New Mexico.

Exhibition Runs: May 3 – 30, 2019

People-Watching is an exhibit that attempts to bring to life what we all do as we watch people—we wonder about that person’s life. The subject of each portrait is a real person, but the biographical vignette comes from what the artist imagines about the person he paints.

Exhibitions Run: May 3 – 30, 2019

Four printmakers living in New Mexico whose work is connected by their love of making hand-pulled prints. Each artist utilizes a different approach to printmaking including low relief collagraphs, mokulito (lithography on wood), intaglio and polymer gravure.

Exhibition Runs: April 5 – 25, 2019

Sympoiesis brings together experiences and ecologies of two far off places with printmaking, biosculpture, and video to show our journey alongside two rivers.

Exhibition Runs: April 5 – 25, 2019

Rooted in the knowledge that the frequently separated roles of motherhood and artistic practice are co-creative forces, Rumold incorporates the unseen labor of domestic work into her art, thus deconstructing the conventions of painting, crossing over into large-scale collages and installation.

Exhibitions Run: March 2 – 28, 2019

Featuring four gallery exhibitions, open studios, hands-on art making projects, live music, food trucks, and activities for all ages, Encompass is both a reflection of and an offering to our community. Community Celebration: Saturday, March 2, 2019

March 2 – 28, 2019

Haley Greenfeather English, Lynnette Haozous, David Leigh, Madeline MacKenzie, and Jeremy Salazar explore the Future Perfect by projecting themselves forward and looking back on actions yet to be completed through site-specific, ephemeral installations and murals in the gallery.

Exhibition Runs: February 1 – 21, 2019

Bringing the injustice of poverty and homelessness together, Recycled Heart is an exhibit, like all ArtStreet shows, that captures the diverse, distinct, and highly individual response of our artists to community-chosen themes.

Exhibition Runs: October 4 – 24, 2019

Enwomb is a collection of works constructed of natural materials, and photographs of works in the landscape, offering different representations of nests, exploring them as symbols for the womb and which encourage the viewer to examine our personal relationships to mother, planet, home, and body.

Exhibition Runs: October 4 – 24, 2019

Layered and suggestive botanical abstractions come together in encaustic and mixed media paintings and installation. The symbiotic and poetic relationship between humans, plants and nature is explored in this exhibition.

Exhibition Runs: January 7 – 24, 2019

In her newest exhibition, Ecce Rat, Jessica Gross asks the viewer to reflect on the similarities between humans and rats, intelligent social creatures that live alongside us, to help us understand what we value and revile in one another.

Exhibition Runs: January 7 – 24, 2019

Rachel Rivera’s large-scale drawings and Lea Anderson’s innovative instillation converge in their duel exhibition Dark Lush: embracing growth and the ability to flourish in the face of darkness and personal turmoil.

Harwood Art Center presents 12×12 and PRELUDE, fundraising exhibitions that feature established, emerging and youth artists from New Mexico. The main event, our 12×12 exhibition, includes over 200 works that remain anonymous until sold – for the flat rate of $144 (12″x12″) or $36 (6″x6″).

January 2018

Zahra Marwan creates artwork based on stories and imagery found in her immediate environment. The works in “When Life Became Floral” reflect Marwan’s recent loss of her father and the devastation she felt afterwards.

January 2018

Using a combination of carved and painted wooden forms, aged metal, found objects and various bits, Bill Skrips seeks to convey narrative in his sculptural work.

February 2018

Recycled Heart is an exhibit, like all ArtStreet shows, that captures the diverse, distinct, and highly individual response of our artists to community-chosen themes.

March 2018

Featuring four gallery exhibitions, open studios, hands-on art making projects, live music, food trucks, and activities for all ages, Encompass is both a reflection of and an offering to our community.

April 2018

The Raw Miraculous draws from age-old traditions of looking to nature, and is inspired by those who dream to envision the heavens. Born out of an awe-stricken reveling at the unknowable qualities in the creation of life, it is a testament to the raw miraculous at work.

April 2018

Alexis Kaminsky stacks, strings, and piles hundreds of polygons for her site-specific installation, Outcroppings. In keeping with her other assemblage work, Outcroppings shows how many small things, when taken together, can have significant results. By reusing cardboard shipping packages to construct gem-like forms, Kaminsky pokes fun at preciousness and avarice.

May 2018

James Black draws digital caricatures, focusing on the people he sees daily in Albuquerque. His friends, family, and community. Random faces, memorable expressions, and unforgettable mugs. He is obsessed with creating a quick process for capturing likeness.

June & July 2018

MUSCLE MEMORY explores the phenomena of memory as embodied within place, experienced through sculpture, installation, and textile intervention into everyday objects. Cecilia received the SURFACE 2017 Solo Exhibition Award, presented annually for artistic excellence, originality of vision and dedication to practice.

June & July 2018

SURFACE is an annual juried exhibition, endowed awards and professional development program presented by Harwood Art Center, to support the creative and professional growth of emerging artists and to expand their visibility and viability in our community.

May 2018

Natalie Voelker’s exhibition, Fortitude: Portraits of the Perseverant, is a collection of large-scale portrait paintings depicting the complexity of human experience through the lens of the intimate, personal, and specific.

August 2018

Barbara and Alzheimer’s. The viewer knows the outcome of this story. In this exhibition, Vincent introduces one woman’s extraordinary struggle to live a decent life while facing down this murderous disease.

August 2018

Luanne Redeye’s exhibition, Frames, is a series of mixed media works and portrait paintings that weave together historical and personal narratives, familial relationships, and creativity as a way to heal.

September 2018

Inspired by political discourse on immigration policies in the United States, Kemely Gomez has created a mixed-media installation that displays the stories of immigrant families in her community.

October 2018

Beautiful Unwanted deals with harmful invasive species and the impact they have when introduced into foreign ecosystems, usually for reasons of human greed or naïve fascination with the unfamiliar or “exotic.” The works in this exhibition are intended to acknowledge the destructive force of these species, while simultaneously honoring their aesthetic beauty and inherent value as life forms.

October 2018

The view from above inspires. It’s a fresh and unexpected perspective relative to the landscape. It reveals the beauty and interconnectedness of things great and small. The view from above is about the vastness of the land outside our door and 20,000 feet up, but it is also about personal imaginings within us all.

December 2018

An exquisite evening of art and tasty treats from our favorite restaurants. Over 250 youth, emerging and established artists from New Mexico are contributing to this year’s 12×12 exhibitions. Fundraiser & Exhibition Opening: Saturday, December 1, 6 – 8pm

November & December 2018

Prelude, 12×12’s featured exhibition of original works by some of New Mexico’s most brilliant artists, highlights the intersections of art, design and daily living. Participating artists are Joshua Atlas, Jennifer DePaolo, Chela Gurnee, Annalea Hart, Karl Hofmann, Kenji Kondo, Zahra Marwan, Kevin Pierce, Valerie Roybal, and Pamela Wesolek.

August 2017

Far Places features paintings and woodblock prints of three far-flung and awe-inspiring places in the world: Cathedral Lake in the Maroon Wilderness of Colorado, Greenland, and the Shikoku Japan 88 Temple Trek.

June & July 2017

SURFACE is an annual juried exhibition, endowed awards and professional development program presented by Harwood Art Center, to support the creative and professional growth of emerging artists and to expand their visibility and viability in our community.

May 2017

Plantcraft investigates place, the human being’s relationship with flora and natural materials, the southwestern landscape’s interaction with architecture, as well as the mystique and the stories of plants that heal.

May 2017

Christian Gallegos’ vibrant paintings in TAXI! reflect his personal experience growing up at the intersection of the street life and art scene of New York City.

April 2017

Throughout his creative journey, Neufeld’s masterful skill and passion for aesthetics is evident. Whether painting commissioned portraits, commemorative works, or New Mexican and Californian landscapes in plein air.

March 2017

Encompass, a multi-generational art event features four exhibitions, open artist studios, hands-on art making projects, music, food, and the unveiling of our newest mural.

February 2017

Recycled Heart Exhibition by Artstreet features unique and collaborative art by artists who make art with less!

January 2017

The paintings in Margaret’s exhibition represent a process of channeling visceral imagery and ideas into the physical world. Margaret’s sculptures involve an exploration into the fragility and strength of nature.

January 2017

The Iron Pour in Tucumcari has been drawing artists from across the US since 1999. Hot Iron
introduces Albuquerque to a broad sample of the art that is produced each year in this amazing New Mexico setting.