A new space
Alluvial is a collective project space in Rinconada, NM. Focusing on one day engagements with the occasional weeks-long event. Alluvial strives to provide a fertile substrate that supports both local programming and short term artist residencies.
BLACKSMITHING WorkSHoP
Stuart Hill
MAR 11 &12
Satellite in velarde, nm
Artist in Residency
Torreya Cummings
MAR 27 - April 3
Artist in Residency
Tara k daly
APR 24 - May 3
ARtists talk April 29, 6pm
exhibition
Chaite/ neymark
May 13 - May 28
Opening MAY 13, 1-5 pm
artist in residency
Jonathan barcan
2024
Artist in Residency
Jessie rose vala
Spring ‘24
Exhibition
APODACA DRAWING GROUP
AUG 26, 2023
opening AUg 26, 1-5PM
MARCH 11&12th
How to make Forging tongs
A Collaboration with
STUART HILL BLACKSMITHING
Our first workshop of the year will be March 11th and 12th.
Starting with a weekend of two — one day/ 4 hour workshops. Participants will learn basic forging techniques to build a tool every smith uses — a forging tong.
A strong craft background is required, applications will be open once we hammer down some dates. Students are encouraged to send images of their work and a brief summery of their experience and or art/ craft practice. All materials included, students will be responsible for their own safety PPE and non flammable clothing, this will be a satellite workshop held in Velarde, NM.
This course is full.
18+, 4 hr/ $125 session.
Since 1998, Stuart Hill has been a provider of custom forged and fabricated metalwork to architects, designers, and contractors throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Photographed examples of his work have been published in Art and Antiques, Luxe, Design and Architecture of the West, Natural Home, and Timber Home Living magazines.
Stuart Hill is a member of the Artist Blacksmiths Association of North America and the Rocky Mountain Smiths.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE-
Torreya Cummings
SCULPTURE
ARTIST TALK April 1st, 6PM
March 27TH- April 3 2023
Torreya Cummings is a project-based visual artist working with ideas of space, place, and time, particularly around unlearning dominant narratives of the American west. Their work ranges from photo and sculpture to installation, performance and video with a particular emphasis on making spaces for action. Cummings uses drag aesthetics, substitutions, hardware store materials, the unsettling relationship of history and fiction, landscape, research, ambivalence, theater tricks, bad illusions, props, sets, and interpretive sites.
They have exhibited solo projects at the Oakland Museum of California, Aggregate Space Gallery, and more, and have presented performances with Machine Project, Southern Exposure, and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, among others. Cummings received an MFA in sculpture from California College of the Arts and lives and works in Emeryville, CA.
images courtesy of Torreya Cummings, all rights reserved.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE -
TARA K DALY
APRIL 24TH- MAY 2023
PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE
ARtists Talk APRIL 29th, 6PM
My love of craft techniques and working with my hands drives me to work in varied materials. As a result I tend to create in multiple directions, and on several distinct bodies of work simultaneously. Expanding my practice through material experimentation is my way of embracing multiplicity and curiosity, understanding that diversity in all things makes for more abundant life and that learning can happen in diversity in all things makes for more abundant life and that learning can happen in bellies and fingers as much as in heart and mind.
I make clay sculptures, acrylic paintings and weave textiles. Fluctuating between bright punching colors and subdued monochromatic forms, I make both figurative and abstract art. Art making is my sense making through personal investigations of collapse, fragility and interdependence. My figurative works tend to serve as historical interpretations while abstract forms illustrate emotional states in this time of mass extinction, global degradation and the power imbalances that result in ecocide.
Tara K Daly is a multi-disciplinary artist based in California’s Bay Area. A graduate of the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture and the San Francisco Art Institute, Tara has been an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts, Penland School of Crafts, the Santa Fe Art Institute and has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship to be in residence at the Vermont Studio Center. She has exhibited work at the Museum of Craft and Design, Contemporary Craft Center, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Richmond Arts Center, among other non-profit galleries nationally.
images courtesy of Tara K Daly, all rights reserved.
exhibition
CANDACE CHAITE/
paintings
Shel neymark
interactive art
SATURDAY MAY 13 OPENING 1-5PM
MAY 13- MAY 28 2023
Candace Chaite
My paintings explore the underlying and basic space of mind from which the stories of life arise. Color is the critical element for expressing the felt, though fleeting, emotional response to the world and its radiant atmospherics.
The dots articulate the inherent activity found within the unbounded ground of awareness. Making the dots is a process of one dot following another, painted with a size #1 Winsor & Newton series 7 brush. Ultimately the work is about the dots, the relationship created through the placement of these dots. I began this practice in 1972 and continue to work with this focus of creating a visual catalyst to allow one simply to gaze at the very motility of mind.
Shel Neymark
Shel Neymark was born and raised near Oak Park, Illinois, where he was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wrights architecture in the area. He majored in ceramics at Washington University in St. Louis, traveled around the country playing violin, and taught pottery. After moving to New Mexico in 1976, he has focused on studio based work and public art, from sculpture and murals to functional ceramics. To reach his home in Embudo, NM, he traverses the river in his canoe. This daily engagement with the colors and patterns in the ripples on the water inspired Neymark to create Brain Waves, as well as other works incorporating flowing water.
Exhibition
Apodaca Drawing Group
RECEPTION 1-5PM
Opening AUGUST 26th, 2023
Dixons beloved life drawing group will return for their second exhibition of works. Each artist will be showing a few works, both life drawings and selections from their primary practice.
Come see the greatest hits and stay a spell, we love to chat!
Apodaca Drawing Group
Initiated and hosted by Christopher West in 2018, the main core of the group has remained constant and weathered the uncertainties of covid through starts and stops. The group is characterized by a jovial and lively bunch that likes to talk and prefers longer poses as opposed to the more common gestural snippits. We are blessed by great models that put up with our cantankery!
In 2023 we are:
Brian Barreto, Carolyn Duval, Anna Karin Höglund, Eli Levin, Abby Mattison, Kathleen Morris, Lisa Strum, Christopher West, and Harper Wood.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE-
Jessie rose vala
SCULPTURE
SPRING 2024
Jessie Rose Vala (born 1977, Madison, Wisconsin) is an artist working in drawing, ceramic, and video. She received an MFA from University of Oregon and a BFA in painting and ceramic sculpture from California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. Her work explores non-linear narratives and environments through an ongoing investigation of the shifting relationships to ourselves and our surroundings. Installation and multi-channel video allows Vala’s work to negate hierarchy, allowing for multiplicity of connections and realities.
Vala started Ungrund Collective, showcasing videos of five contemporary artists working within similar humanistic inquiries. Vala’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is currently a member of Well Well Projects in Portland Oregon and is career faculty at University of Oregon.
images courtesy of Jessie Rose Vala, all rights reserved.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE -
jonathan barcan
2024
Printmaking
Statement: Billions and Billions
This body of monoprints is inspired from a lecture by contemporary philosopher Alan Watts, titled, “The Wiggly World.” Watts describes the connection between human consciousness and the Big Bang, and discusses the challenge that society has to integrate ‘nature’ with ‘progress’. The concept has led to combining imagery ranging from the figurative to the abstract. Diagrammatic drawings sit alongside anatomical illustrations, textual elements, and references to medical scans. The prints, like Watts’ theories, explore the progression of humanity in relation to the evolution of the universe. It is as if without conscience, in the same way that a rock knows nothing of the hillside that it slides down or a molecule knows nothing of the biological current that it travels, our collective culture moves with a forward momentum that exists without memory.
To create, “Billions and Billions,” I employ a variety of printmaking techniques, including Drypoint, Line Etching, and Aquatint methods. The completed works utilize a multiple plate printing process wherein each image is made up of ten to seventy different etchings, run through the press together on a single sheet of paper. Each resulting piece has a stacked and quilted quality, referencing compiled information and presenting many parts as a whole. I find that arranging larger compositions from a collection of smaller pieces allows for a creative improvisation which helps to push even further how the idea of ‘drawing’ can be incorporated into today’s printmaking practice.
Jonathan Barcan is a Portland based mixed media artist and printmaker that exhibits nationally and internationally. Noteworthy exhibitions include the Florence Biennial, Florence, Italy, and the Today Museum Printmaking Center, Beijing, China, and residencies at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, and Druckwerk Print Studios in Basel, Switzerland. Barcan is active in the local arts community as a participant, educator, curator, and volunteer.
images courtesy of Jonathan Barcan, all rights reserved.
Past Alluvial engagements :
Pandemic and Political Paintings
Beginners Crochet Workshop
House of Needs
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The why
Making art can be a solitary endeavor, especially for stone sculptors. The aim is a forum for expression, a tabula rasa, a free space. Alluvial favors fostering paths for artistic inclusion and vision, the artist being integral to the curation and production of each event.
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Projects
Alluvial is: exhibitions, residencies, workshops, screenings, skillshares, and a project work space. Beyond our curatorial efforts, Alluvial may be available for your ideas and best intentions.
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Collective
Season 2023-2024 we are: Brian Barreto, Jennifer Goyette, Eli Levin, and Abby Mattison.
For our inaugural 2022-2023 season we were: Brian Barreto, Schuyler Blanchard, Alma De Luna, Ray McClellan, and Sam Sieger.