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Cynthia West - “Seed Keepers” Poetry Reading & Book Signing: Sunday, April 7, 2024, 3 pm - 5 pm3/22/2024 Cynthia West, an iconic Santa Fe Poet and Artist, is well known for her visionary realist paintings and poetry. Cynthia is also skilled in photography, digital imaging, and book arts. Her home of fifty years, where she lives with her husband and family, is a healing center, as well as her studio and gallery. Many people travel great distances to be restored by her remarkable art and gardens.
This event marks the launch of Cynthia’s latest book of poems titled: “Seed Keepers”. About the book, Nina Simons, Co-founder of Bioneers and author of Nature, Culture and the Sacred writes: “Your book of poetry, Seed Keepers, is blessing my heart/mind/spirit wide open, and causing me to feel admiration of your courage, skill and eloquence as a poet. It is at once raw, real, lyrical, elegant, and profound, an offering of medicine that’s pure and beautiful as all your transmissions have been. Many thanks.” Cynthia West says, “Clouds, shadows, and branches drop clues, luring me to reach deeper than skin and bones, to touch the essence inside the appearance, the nothing that holds everything in its hands. Patience has years of seeking, one step after another in the dust, pathways that lead to water. My hand and eye never stop probing the changing shapes, now here, now gone, now flesh, now ghosts. Subtle hints flash in and out of form, quicker than loss or gain. Blown here and there, I coax the tree within to show its face. The view is turning, turning in and out of reach.” Santa Fe photographer Gabriella Marks landed in New Mexico nearly two decades ago on intuition, but knows why she stays: the high desert light, lenticular clouds, the humbling experience of growing plants in the dry clay soil and ancient pueblo pottery shards in the garden, and perhaps with most resonance: living in a community with a deep legacy that to this day values the creation and curation of art.
Gabriella’s work focuses primarily on editorial portraiture and food and has been featured on the covers and within countless regional and national publications, as well as in the permanent collection of the New Mexico History Museum. Gabriella serves as Chair of the National Board of Directors of ASMP. LEICAS & SCOTCH will present its monthly series of conversations, Sunday February 18, 2024, with photographer Eric McCollum, offering insights into his practice, projects, techniques, and inspiration.
Eric McCollum is a writer and fine art photographer who works in both digital and analog formats to produce primarily black and white images. An Iowa native who spent 26 years in the greater Washington, DC, area, he and his wife relocated to Santa Fe six years ago. McCollum has been making photographs since elementary school, in the early ‘70s took a course in the history of photography with Beaumont Newhall at the UNM, and became serious about fine art photography in 2004. His photographic work has been published in Lenswork, Adore Noir, Shadow & Light Magazine, PH Magazine, Digital Photographer (UK), Stern (Germany - online), Madame (Germany), Kinfolk (Denmark), Chip Foto Video (China), and elsewhere. He has exhibited in both solo and group shows for the past 15 years. McCollum has written a regular column for the past seven years for Shadow & Light Magazine, focused not on the technical aspects of photography, but on the experience of making photographs and on the issues that arise when doing so. He has also published nonfiction and is currently at work on projects that combine text and photographs. Space is limited, RSVP to ensure a spot. TONY BONANNO: HORSE OF THE SEA - THE WHITE HORSES OF THE CAMARGUE, Sunday, January 21, 20241/20/2024 BOOK SIGNING AND ARTIST TALK with LEICAS & SCOTCH HOST MARK BERNDT Edition ONE Gallery is pleased to partner with LEICAS & SCOTCH to present the first in a bi-monthly series of conversations with photographers offering insights into practice, projects, techniques, and inspiration. We begin this series with an afternoon interview between Mark Berndt and gallery artist, Tony Bonanno, about Tony’s career and commitment to his long term project on the White Horses of the Camargue, featured in Tony’s new book, Horse of the Sea.
Please join us for Tony's presentation and book signing, to learn more about Tony and his life in photography, and an opportunity to ask questions about the experience of making a fine art book from a body of work. Space is limited, RSVP to ensure a spot. Sunday, January 21, 3 - 5 pm P.S. If you can't join us in person and would like to receive a Zoom link, RSVP and we will send you one! Muralist Gilberto Guzman has established his deserved place in history with a replica of his "Multicultural" mural on display at Vladem Contemporary, but little is known about his works on canvas which he also painted throughout his life. This month a retrospective of his work can be found on display in three locations throughout the city with an opening reception on September 29 at 5:30 pm at Edition ONE Gallery, and through October 31 at the Santa Fe Community Gallery, and El Museo Cultural.
Guzman's paintings resemble the style of the Mexican Masters and were undoubtedly influenced by the work of Diego Rivera; having lived in San Francisco and LA. His paintings depict the rich multicultural and agricultural experiences of growing up in East LA and his childhood home in Cucamonga, San Bernardino Valley. Guzman says that his artistic passion was sparked when he was hired to clean a studio and encountered a painting. He was never offered art in school and couldn’t fathom this painting and how it had the ability to depict life as a 3D illusion! From that time on he was driven to become an artist. He pursued art and after military service took courses and was accepted to the San Francisco Academy of Art. He settled in Santa Fe in the 70s where he produced notable murals that still exist and worked quietly as an artist. He took dishwasher jobs to pay the bills, and when his work was done, he would build and paint canvases ultimately creating “The Guzman Paintings.” OPENING MAY 19, 5 PM - 7 PM
"DREAM ANIMALS" Black & White Paintings Presented in collaboration with the Women's International Study Center During the Canyon Road Spring Arts Festival, on May 12th & 13th, Stina will be painting a large mural of a Swedish moose, called King of the Forest, in front of the gallery from 10 am - 4 pm. Please stop by! Come to Edition ONE Gallery for an exclusive fundraising event.
We are supporting the GoFundMe campaign to support the filmmaking work and livelihood of Godfrey Reggio and his wife Marti. Over the last 40 years, Reggio’s films have mirrored the psyche of the modern world while revealing the beauty of the living world - Koyaanisqatsi, 1982, with a score by Philip Glass, exposed in a visceral way the effects of our culture on the world in image and music. The new film Once Within a Time, 2022, captures the current multiple crises in stunning visuals, accessing subconscious knowings. The new film is projected to come out in the Summer of 2023. During his lifetime, he has focused on his art. His films have all been created within a not-for-profit documentary status. Godfrey has put their art over financial gain. Godfrey's ongoing creativity rises in public speaking, writing, drawing, and mentoring. Currently, he needs support, especially at age 83, as he is in a somewhat fragile state. Funds will be used for his daily living expenses to get through this period where there is no current funding. We will be screening Koyaanisqatsi with an introduction by Godfrey himself. This extraordinary venue has 3100 sq. feet of open space all designed to create an experience that is uniquely Santa Fe to honor this long-time resident. To donate, scan the QR Code below. Sponsored by Edition ONE Gallery and the Santa Fe Art Experience. Location: 729 Canyon Road, Santa Fe. Parking is available onsite and next door for up to 50 cars. We will be serving light refreshments. MARCH 31, 7 PM $10 - $50 Sliding Scale Through hysterical comedy, storytelling, and original songs, Zappo Diddio reflects on his path to healing through loving kindness and service toward young people in crisis. Forgiveness and reconciliation are recurring themes as he makes efforts to reconnect with his dad and leans into his paternal Jewish ancestry. Exploring how life’s challenges call us into the healing of mind, body, emotion, and spirit, Zappo stumbles through the gauntlet of recovering health and his once joyful life after 12 years of ongoing negotiation with Lymes disease. Like life itself, this performance leads to deep meaning as it moves along a roller coaster of hilarious, heart-opening storytelling.
We've been busy making some big changes at Edition ONE. This year I had the opportunity to move into an extraordinary new gallery space on Canyon Road, across the street from our beloved location at the historic Irene Von Horvath House. That move has afforded the space to expand the gallery's offerings and host some fabulous events.
Please join us to celebrate with Jan Butchofsky, David Michael Kennedy and Kisa Kavass. We'll have appetizers, a bar and DJ Waefunky will be spinning - time to gather together! |
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