Current Events Sponsored By CAS
December: CAS Holiday Social at Exhibit 208
Our December event will be held at Exhibit 208. On view at 208 will be a group exhibition and several of the artists will be on hand to speak about their work. Exhibit 208 will also be hosting an informal holiday social, and this will be your opportunity to visit with other CAS members in a relaxed setting. Holiday refreshments will be provided. Artists in the group exhibition will include Jane Abrams, Kim Arthun, Angela Berkson, Bob Ellis, Russell Hamilton, Michael Hart, Aaron Karp, Dan Socha, Gary Wellman and Susan Wing and many more!
January: Studio visits with Harriette Tsosie and Pat Conway
Harriette Tsosie is an artist living and working in Albuquerque’s South Valley. Her media are acrylic and encaustic (pigmented wax), and she works both two dimensionally and three dimensionally. Her style is abstract, incorporating many themes from nature.
Pat Conway is an Albuquerque artist whose work includes acrylic paintings and mixed media works involving themes of nature. She received her Master of Arts from California State University and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Colorado. Her work has been exhibited at the Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Boulder Art Center, Denver Art Museum, and CSUS Union Gallery, in addition to many other locations.
February: Studio visits with Dan Peebles and Dan Socha
Dan Peebles is an Albuquerque photographer whose narrative work was initially influenced by the existentialist writings of the Dirty Realists, such as Charles Bukowski, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, and John Fante. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, including numerous permanent collections in the Los Angeles County Museum, Arizona State University Art Museum, Musee Nicephore Niepce in Paris, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. Peebles received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and attended graduate school at the University of New Mexico.
Artist Statement: “I direct and motivate my subjects in order to produce emotional expression and dramatic tension. The film-still quality of this work is intentional and adds a fictional quality to my personal investigation into the complicated relationships between human beings. In short, these manufactured realities are my own extrapolation of the many contradictions that make us human: our frailties, our strengths, our loneliness, our intimacies, and above all, our absurdities.”
Dan Socha is a mixed media artist currently working on a series entitled “Smoke Drawings.” These are works produced on vintage ledger sheets from the 19th and early 20th century. He uses a kerosene lamp to produce images with the flame and smoke on the sheets of ledger paper. Dan is a graduate of UNM and a Tamarind Master Printer. He taught art for over 30 years at the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana) and has retired back in New Mexico. Dan Socha had a one-person show at Exhibit/208 in 2011. His work is on display at the gallery.