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4 Restaurant Round-up: 5/6 Bar bands 13 Get the big picture at JULY 2008 Take our art, please and Lonely Boys Santa Fe photo galleries Photography contest wins and honors A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS VOL. 12 NO. 6 i n s i d e >>> 9 Editor’s Choice cover photo: “Metro Glamour” by Don Wolf 2 JULY 2008 albuquerqueARTS IN CONTEMPORARY RHYTHM BlumenscheinTHE ART OF ERNEST L. JUNE 8 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2008 19th and Mountain Road NW (In Old Town) 505-243-7255 or 311 • Relay NM or 711 • www.cabq.gov/museum DENVER ART MUSEUM: NOV. 8, 2008 - FEB. 8, 2009 PHOENIX ART MUSEUM: MARCH 15 - JUNE 14, 2009 The Albuquerque Museum is a Division of the Cultural Services Department of the City of Albuquerque. Martin J. Chávez, Mayor A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS ABQARTS.COM | VOL. 12 NO. 6 albuquerqueARTS JULY 2008 3 visual [] Restaurant Round-up: Th ey sell the art off their walls [] Let’s GO! Downtown festival adds photo exhibit [] Editor’s Choice Photo Contest winners and honors [] ARTWard Bound Santa Fe: Snap it up at photo galleries [] ARTisan: Roger Evans [] ARTisan: Lauren Tobey [] Gallery Finds 4 music on the cover: [] Th ese gigs save gas: local bar bands Here is what Don Wolf has to say about his [] Los Lonely Boys/Los Lobos striking photo “Metro Glamour” on this 9 month’s cover, taken by Panasonic digital [] World-class classical and camera with a Leica lens: opulent opera “I was in Paris visiting my son who [] ARTWard Bound Taos: lived there last year. Th at was what we call Joan Armatrading in photography a ‘grab shot.’ You shoot and [] Take with Shelley Morningsong run. You either get it or you don’t. None of [] Calendar Highlights: the photos in my repertoire are posed. Get jazzed at these venues “I was opposite her on the Metro. [] Love that Latin sound: Th ere was a very good juxtaposition Quetzal and Concepto Tambor between her and what I saw beyond her. I couldn’t tell exactly what it was going to be film like when I took the picture.” Wolf has been working in digital [] Art on Film series renewed for about two years. Th is photo won at Th e Guild Cinema an award at the State Fairgrounds last [] How fast can you fi lm? Try Hour(s) year. His work has appeared seven 14 times in “Photographer’s Forum Best of theater Photography Annual.” He has also won [] Take with Poofy du Vey awards in the Salmagundi Club National Photography Exhibition in New York and 16 [] A thousand cheers for this musical revue in Magnifi co at the Albuquerque Museum. He has exhibited in Santa Fe, Taos, Albuquerque, New York, Jerusalem and literary San Miguel de Allende. View more of his [] Collectors take note: work at www.acoupleofwolfs.com. new bible of Southwest jewelry COMING AUGUST ISSUE: tribute AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS [] O.K. Harris on the Web site [] Concert in memory of Utah Phillips This month, our Arts Calendar exploded with summer’s bounty, notably in music, theater and visual arts events. departments Which made us wonder – do we go to an unwieldy 50 [] Classifi ed ads pages in print, or make the Calendar more user friendly? [] Arts Alive! Access the Arts Calendar online at www.abqarts.com 17 [] ARTSpree: portable art now and in subsequent issues. [] OpEd: Public Art Program spirals outward Putting the Calendar on the Web site kicks off our 21 [] Scenario pledge to offer fresh online content to our readers. Look for these changes in upcoming months: • Arts news headlines and stories posted daily; • An interactive arts blog where readers can comment and post topics; • Original previews and reviews of Albuquerque arts events; On the Web • Interviews with interesting and infl uential people abqarts.com in the arts. Weekend arts events e-mailed directly to you every Friday morning...Sign up now at www.abqarts.com/e-list. Please let us know what content you'd like to see on our Web site at www.abqarts.com. 18 E-mail Stephanie Hainsfurther, [email protected]. 4 JULY 2008 albuquerqueARTS restaurant round-up Dinner and a view By Kelly Koepke Albuquerque’s restaurant scene overfl ows as ladies who lunch. Owners Terry and Pat with fabulous places in every price range Keene show fi ve or six diff erent artists at a Aand cuisine. Except Ethiopian. Too, the time, with this month’s selection including city’s galleries and museums to see and the photography, landscapes and abstracts buy abundant artistic bounty proliferate. of Robert Wirz, Jessica Kresse, and Eloise So what happens when you combine Rogers, among others. the two? You get some great meals in “Why do we do it?” asks Terry Keene. surroundings that also appeal to the visual “To fi ll up walls, of course, but also to give connoisseur. Of course, there are truly too lot of great local artists who don’t get hung many restaurants in town that off er an in galleries some exposure.” Artichoke interesting view of the art scene. Here is takes percent of the sale price to cover just a sample. expenses. This painting’s not for sale. But good food and wine are on offer, and there is plenty La Quiche Parisienne at Fourth and Rob O’Neill, owner of O’Neill’s Irish of artwork to buy at Vivace. Owner Joey Minarsich invites you in. Copper is a wonderful new breakfast Pub, takes his support of local artists so and lunch spot owned by genuine French seriously, the restaurant puts information People look forward to a new artist every and Th ird, likes to change its photography people: Bruno Barachin and Sabine about the month’s featured artist on the month.” or paintings monthly, and asks galleries Pasco. Th ey rotate local artists on their pub’s Web site. O’Neill’s also holds a Th e restaurant takes percent of any and arts organizations to off er their works walls and sell the works without taking reception for the public to meet the artist. sale. for display. a commission. Th rough August , you To hang at O’Neill’s, the artist must be able Other Albuquerque restaurants that Th ere are more, I know. And there are can see the enamel on board and canvas to supply about pieces, with to up feature aesthetic sustenance for their some, like the new Jennifer James , that paintings of the singularly named on the walls at any one time. customers include Java Joe’s, all locations have declared “No art on the walls!” Maybe MrC. Th is French artist now living in “We sell them right off the wall, so we of Dos Hermanos, Flying Star and Satellite, if diners speak up, all restaurateurs will Albuquerque loves modern lines and lots need to have some in reserve,” says O’Neill, and Café Voila, which works with Weyrich turn their places into venues for sculptors, of color in his works. who sees the venture as win-win. “It’s a Gallery to rotate the restaurant’s selection painters, photographers and multimedia “Each time you look at them you see community service. Most of the artists are of great artists like Sandra Humphries. artists, feeding the soul as well as the something diff erent,” says Bruno, who also patrons, and it’s great for them and for us. One Up, the Downtown lounge at Central palate. sells posters of MrC’s works. Th e Artichoke Café’s upscale venue is ideal for introducing local artists of all genres to city movers and shakers as well Expert on contemporary American Indian jewelry updates work for collectors By Larry W. Greenly When Dexter Cirillo drove to Laguna with detailed text “So when I look at Pueblo to interview Pat Pruitt, an artist and numerous jewelry, I look not who works with stainless steel, she photographs, only at the great experienced an unexpected juxtaposition including rare design, technical of the new and the old, not unlike the archival images. Th e achievement and art, jewelry she was writing about. After critically acclaimed but also the motifs driving through the old village, the “Southwestern the artists have author crested a hill and Pruitt’s jewelry Indian Jewelry,” her chosen – usually factory appeared, an enormous complex fi rst book (still in representations of of industrial buildings incongruous to print since ), the underpinnings of its location, complete with smoking introduced the world their culture.” chimneys. to contemporary All Cirillo’s new book, “Southwestern American Indian contemporary native Indian Jewelry: Crafting New Traditions,” jewelry and is considered by collectors and artists featured - most of them from New features jewelers from tribes, artists to be a standard on the subject. Mexico - were personally interviewed by What is contemporary Southwestern Cirillo. Sixty of the interviews are with Indian jewelry? It’s an amalgamation new jewelers who did not come onto of new styles, new stones, and new the scene until after her fi rst book was techniques and materials. American published. Indians once had to use materials available Cirillo says the most nerve-wracking only from traders. But gemstones, such as element of assembling her book was opals, and other materials from around photographing the jewelry. All of the the world are now used to create wearable interviewees agreed to use the Case sculptural art. Shapes have evolved Trading Post as a central drop-off point. from symmetrical rounds and ovals to Under tight security, the assembled jewelry asymmetrical designs. Uniformly sized was masterfully photographed by New inlaid stones have evolved to a mix of Mexico’s Addison Doty.