Mining a Legacy by Kathaleen Roberts
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THE SUNDAY JOURNAL ARTS ALBUQUERQUE, JUNE 9, 2019 B3 Quartet of artists had lasting impact on modernism From PAGE B1 when Paul was gone making acknowledged. “Even then, it a living,” Burke said. “This was quite risqué. However, he his fear that Stieglitz would didn’t help Paul and Arthur’s did overstep the bounds with be hurt if he made a move, as relationship, either.” Dorothy. They justified their well as O’Keeffe’s irritation But it was Salsbury, who relationship as if it was above with his worship of the great worshipped O’Keeffe to reproach.” photographer, blocked the the point of copying her O’Keeffe eventually spent triangle. unconventional black dress, most of the year at New Once O’Keeffe returned east who accompanied the artist Mexico’s Ghost Ranch, but from her Texas teaching post, on her maiden trip to New returned home Stieglitz she and Stieglitz launched the Mexico in 1929. She also taught annually until his 1946 death. scandalous nude portraits of O’Keeffe to drive, a skill critical She moved to New Mexico her that bound the foursome to the artist’s independence. permanently in 1949, where she together for at least a decade. Eventually Stieglitz would remade her life in its rugged While many assume O’Keeffe betray O’Keeffe with his and serene terrain. and Stieglitz climbed into affair with the young socialite Strand would move on to bed during these passionate Dorothy Norman (she was become a photographer and settings, it was only when seven years younger than his documentary filmmaker in Stieglitz’s wife caught them daughter). Norman largely Mexico and Italy. A 291 picnic at Mount Kisco, 1912. Left to right: Paul Haviland, during a (clothed) photo replaced O’Keeffe in running Salsbury planted herself Abraham Walkowitz, Katharine Rhoades, Emmy Stieglitz, Agnes session that they moved the gallery. This led to a in Taos, divorced Strand and Ernst, Alfred Stieglitz, J.B. Kerfoot and John Marin. into the same house. Still, a breakdown for which O’Keeffe married a man named William blanket hung between them was hospitalized. James who had operated the for a month. Once the nudes bristle. O’Keeffe. Stieglitz comes across as a Kit Carson Trading Post. She surfaced, public perception of After meeting Salsbury, “What a devil; Arthur dirty old man who happened to became known for her reverse O’Keeffe’s work was defined Strand eventually made decided at Lake George (his be a genius. glass paintings as well as for by these images of her body, a nudes of her in homage to family compound) that he “Lots of ladies were drinking the men under the simplification that made her the portraits Stieglitz took of would do nudes of Rebecca charmed,” Burke table. Galleries Mining a legacy ALBUQUERQUE Visual storyteller explores impact, devastation of industry on nature OPENINGS Tuesday BY KATHALEEN ROBERTS The Outpost Performance ASSISTANT ARTS EDITOR Space, Inpost Artspace Gallery, ina Elder’s work 210 Yale SE, opens “Artwork by spans geologic time Edgar Sorrells-Adewale from 2 and the impact to 5:30 p.m. There is an Artist Nof industry on Reception from 2-4 p.m. July 21. the environment using 268-0044. everything from pulverized meteorites to radioactive Friday charcoal. SITE Santa Fe is giving the Richard Levy Gallery, 514 Albuquerque artist/researcher Central SW, opens “SMILE” 11 a solo retrospective beginning a.m. to 4 p.m. 766-9888. Friday, June 14. The show will hang through Sept. 15. Elder is a magnet for mines, Saturday rubble and waste. A visual storyteller, Elder Harwood Art Center, 1114 locates active and abandoned Seventh NW, at Mountain Road, mines, Cold War military sites hosts an “Interactive Print and industrial landscapes to Project” with Paula Wilson from explore land use and natural noon to 4 p.m. Fees are $25 resources. She has backpacked general, $20 members, $10 into mines, traveled to Arctic students. Register at 242-1445. Cold War military sites and Weyrich Gallery, 2935 D earned government clearance Louisiana NE, hosts a meet the to tour the Nevada Test Site. artists opening for “Common In Alaska, she explored the Ground” from 1 to 3 p.m. old Kennecott pit mine. From COURTESY OF SITE SANTA FE 883-7410. 1911-1938, workers processed “Ahnighito (Cape York Meteorite in transit to America (1897)”, 2017 by Nina Elder. nearly $200 million worth of copper there. PLACITAS OPENING “I was trying to understand how multi-national IF YOU GO corporations came to be,” WHAT: “SITElab 12: Today Elder said in a phone interview Nina Elder: What on the road in Colorado. Endures” Wild Hearts Gallery, 221-B State “Seven percent of the copper Highway 165, east of I-25 exit 242, we use today came from that WHEN: Opening continues “Brilliance!” visions first mine in Alaska. Many of 5-7 p.m. Friday, in glass by Nancy Couch, Jon these sites are 20-50 mile pit June 14. 10 a.m.-5 Couch and Lisa Chernoff from 10 mines, just huge excavations.” p.m. Wednesday- a.m. to 3 p.m. 361-2710. In 1896, the Arctic explorer Thursday; 10 a.m.-7 Robert Peary discovered a p.m. Friday (free SANTA FE 31-ton meteorite guarded by admission), 10 a.m.- Greenland’s Inuit people. 5 p.m. Saturday OPENINGS The iron rock crashed into (free 10 a.m.-noon); the earth nearly 10,000 years noon-5 p.m. Sunday; Today earlier. The indigenous people through Sept. 15. worked its sacred metal for WHERE: SITE Santa Axle Contemporary Mobile Art tools. Fe, 1606 Paseo de Gallery, Railyard Farmers Market Peary took the meteorite and “Unprocessed Uranium, 2017” by Nina Elder. Peralta, Santa Fe Shade Structure, hosts opening sold it to New York’s American for “Nostos Fetish Machine” by HOW MUCH: Museum of Natural History. a photograph. what sat in their “uranium” Annika Berry from 2 to 7 p.m. $10; $5 students But he didn’t stop there. He “I came across these stories cases. 505-870-5854 or 505-670-7512. and seniors at also took six Native people for about how all meteorties are “I’d ask, ‘What is in this held sacred by indigenous case?’ and they’d say, ‘Ground- sitesantafe.org, display with him, five of whom 505-989-1199. Friday quickly died of tuberculosis. people,” she said. Peary “used up chalk’,” Elder said. “One Museum curators skinned a lot of technology used in of the museums said, ‘Oh, we Ellsworth Gallery, 215 E. Palace, the corpses and displayed the slave ships. To me, the image use Fruit Loops.’ They want hosts reception for “Anthology” skeletons. A little boy named speaks to all those stories of to show it to people, but they by abstract painter Michael Wright Minik survived to see the removal. There’s no protection can’t.” and sculptor Claire McArdle from exhibition, not realizing his of meteorites. It’s part of a Elder mixed soil from a New 5 to 7 p.m. 505-989-7900. large legacy.” Mexico uranium mine with father’s bones were part of the Meyer Gallery, 225 Canyon “Unprocessed Uranium,” yellow chalk. show. Road, hosts reception for 2017, is the only color drawing “I think I just have always “Ahnighito (Cape York “Resurrection” by David Dornan in the collection. In search of been a questioner,” she said. Meteorite) in transit to the from 5 to 7 p.m. 505-983-1434. American Museum of Natural government-controlled (and “Part of it is I do a lot of hiking History, 1897” is Elder’s illegal) yellow cake uranium, and backpacking. It’s really Sage Creek Gallery, 421 charcoal and pulverized Elder asked representatives clear that pristine nature Canyon Road, hosts a reception meteor dust drawing based on from small science museums doesn’t exist anymore.” for “Get Real” by Sarah Siltala and David Gray from 5 to 7 p.m. 505-988-3444. Thoma Foundation Art House, 231 Delgado St., hosts reception for “People of the Fly” an interactive art exhibition by SF concert expands into universe of possibilities Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau from 5 to 7 p.m. BY KATHALEEN ROBERTS Fugue from a vocal quartet and Night” and “The Astronomers” IF YOU GO 505-995-0231. ASSISTANT ARTS EDITOR an ensemble of nine chamber by American composer Richard A galaxy of stars, artworks orchestra musicians. Hundley. WHAT: “Music of Turner Carroll Gallery, 725 and music awaits visitors “In some ways, Bach’s Art The featured singers are the Spheres: At the Canyon Road, hosts reception for to Saturday’s “Music of the of the Fugue is considered Albuquerque soprano Cammy Intersection of the “Glitched” by Nina Tichava and Spheres” program in Santa Fe. his magnum opus,” society Cook, mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Arts and Astrophyics” Shawn Smith from 5 to 7 p.m. The New Mexico Performing president Linda Marianiello Zander-Wall, tenor André presented by New Mexico 505-986-9800. Arts Society will host University said. The composer took García-Nuthmann and baritone Bach Chorale of New Mexico astrophysicist elements of the fugue and Paul Bower. WHEN: 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday Patricia Henning, the New combined them in new and International Shakespeare Saturday, June 15 Mexico Bach Chorale and artist complex ways, much like the Guild founder John Andrews Museum of International Folk WHERE: Immaculate Tina Mion in this tribute to the ever-expanding universe, she will read excerpts from “The Art, 705 Camino Lejo, Museum Heart of Mary Auditorium, universe. said. Merchant of Venice” containing Hill, hosts a lecture titled 50 Mount Carmel Road, The singers will perform references to the universe and “Boundary Trouble: Outliers and Divided into a trio of Santa Fe Henning’s slide presentations an excerpt from the opera the planets, Marianiello said.