Southwest Reflections: In Between Shadows of the Land
Part of the MRM’s New Mexico Artists Series
Featuring artworks by: Matthew & Julie Chase-Daniel, Dora Dillistone, Juanita Lavadie, Lorraine Gala Lewis, Pola Lopez, Collette Marie, Brandon Adriano Ortiz, Will Wilson
October 8, 2022 - January 29, 2023
Galleries 9 & 10
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 8, 2022
4:30-5:30pm Members Hour
5:30-7:30pm Public Reception (Curatorial Walkthrough at 6pm)
Offering a common thread to life, everything that exists bears a shadow. As the second installment of the Millicent Rogers Museum’s “New Mexico Artists” series, this exhibition offers a diverse exploration of artists’ portrayals of environmental relationships and the ways these events become conveyed through shadows, reflections, and movements. It focuses on New Mexican artists’ direct reflections of Southwest lands through shadow-driven processes. These art forms include pottery, cyanotypes, acrylic paintings, dirt paintings, prints on paper, aerial photography, videography, and weaving, amongst other media. The featured artists—Matthew & Julie Chase-Daniel, Dora Dillistone, Juanita J. Lavadie, Lorraine Gala Lewis, Pola Lopez, Collette Marie, Brandon Adriano Ortiz, and Will Wilson—approach the land as a site of truth-telling from several cultural perspectives. In the Southwest region, an area known by many names, these artists create their work through strategies of regeneration, or acts of regrowing after experiences of loss, within the ever-shifting envelope of shadows in the land. They grapple with ongoing inscriptions on the land and drastic changes in climate and ecologies—all emerging out of the politics of resources, labor, survival, and love, within layered contexts of impermanence and permanence. They employ their art to investigate cultural impacts on the health and regeneration of the Southwest environment. Physical movements both among species and in between shadows reveal interdependent relationships with visible influences, particularly between art practices, cultural politics, and the environment of the land. As such, the concept of “in between shadows” references the contrast of light in the land as well as the decisive moments that shape the future of particular places in the Southwest region, including the artists’ practices as actions of intervention and change themselves.
Curated by Michelle Lanteri, MRM Curator of Collections & Exhibitions
Read about this exhibition in the press!
Native American Art Magazine(download)
Schedule of Events (All events at the Millicent Rogers Museum):
October 8, 2022-January 29, 2023, Exhibition on View
October 8, 2022, 4:30-5:30pm, MRM Members Hour; 5:30-7:30pm, Public Reception
October 9, 2022
11am-3pm, Kids Workshop: Serigraph: Exploring the Art of Screenprinting
1-2pm, “Mirrored Reflections: Ancestral Influences in Art” Roundtable, Lorraine Gala Lewis
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October 16, 2022
11am-3pm, Kids Workshop: Shadows
1-2pm, “Cultural Imprints: Light, Shadow, and Transformation in Art” Roundtable, Matthew Chase-Daniel and Brandon Adriano Ortiz
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October 23, 2022
11am-3pm, Kids Workshop: Bug Reflections: Exploring Color and Nature Patterns with guest artist, Dora Dillistone
1-2pm, “Locational Memories: Reflecting Time and Place in Art” Roundtable, Juanita J. Lavadie and Dora Dillistone
October 30, 2022
11am-3pm, Kids Workshop: Cyanotypes: Exploring Sun Prints
November 6, 2022
1-2pm, “Land: Reflection, Regeneration, and Art” Roundtable, Will Wilson and Pola Lopez
Matthew & Julie Chase-Daniel, Direct Exposure: Douglas, Arizona, 2020, cyanotype on cotton
Dora Dillistone, #116 Degrees SE, 2020, dirt driven by rain on paper
Juanita J. Lavadie (Chicana/Taoseña), 4 Elementos - Tierra, 2017, acrylic on canvas
Lorraine Gala Lewis (Laguna Pueblo/Hopi-Tewa/Taos Pueblo), Rattlesnake Effigy (Tularosa 950-1150 CE), 2010, clay, natural pigments/stains, acrylic paint
Pola Lopez (Chicana), Arbol Sagrada ~ Burning of the Ancestor, 2022, acrylic on canvas
Collette Marie (Mestiza/Chicana), Quail in Ojo de Dios, 2017, linoleum print on paper
Brandon Adriano Ortiz (Taos Pueblo), Two-Tone Amoeba Bowl, 2021, micaceous clay, photo credit/collection of Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research
Will Wilson (Diné [Navajo]), Connecting the Dots: Cameron Chapter Complex 1, Detail, Cameron, Arizona, Navajo Nation, 2020, archival pigment print, dimensions variable
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