Andrew Cimelli When Hard Questions Have Easy Answers, 2016 Acrylic on canvas, 40" x 40" Albuquerque Journal September 9, 2016 Jackie Jadrnak / Journal North Reporter Art collectives that have sprung up around Santa Fe out of frustration over trying to have their works seen by the public are getting a significant chance for exposure with a series of exhibitions planned at the David Richards Gallery. Called The Santa Fe Art Project, the series of two-week exhibitions, with

“Carnal Spoken Here Dalliance Blooms! Dawdle” is a 2008 rubber, steel and vinyl piece by Toadhouse, aka Allan Graham Words, says artist Allan Graham, are the way the mind works. “We use description to try to understand what we call reality,” the Pecos-based artist said in a recent telephone interview. His fascination with wordplay (Graham is also a published poet) shows in the intricate title he gave a show of his work at David Richard Gallery in the Railyard: “Any Position

Beatrice Mandelman traded Manhattan for Taos just as New York exploded into the center of modern art. But the political prints she produced as a Works Progress Administration artist would resonate throughout hercareer, surfacing again in the vibrant collages she produced in the 1960s. The Harwood Museum of Art is celebrating what would have been the Taos modernist’s 100th birthday with twin showings of “Bea Mandelman: The Social Realist Prints” and “Bea Mandelman: Collage” th

Bay Area Abstraction: 1945-1965” featuring paintings by Jack Jefferson, Frank Lobdell and Charles Strong is the best exhibition to date that I’ve seen at David Richard Contemporary. They always have some good work, but the space is usually so overhung and cluttered that it is impossible to see anything. This time, thankfully, there was no sculpture to back into or get in the way of the paintings. While New York is considered the center of Post-War American Art, abstract expr

For the second year in a row, David Richard Contemporary is acting like a big-city gallery or art museum by presenting a curated exhibition of the multifaceted and dynamic innovations of contemporary art after World War II. “Southern California Painting, 1970s: Painting Per Se” follows last year’s “1960s Revisited” show of paintings from both East and West coasts. But this year is 2011, and it is the year for Southern California art. Unless you have just emerged from five or