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| Thursday, January 6, 2005, 6 PM Carroll Dunham and Susan Rothenberg with Robert Storr: A Conversation Carroll Dunham draws from the traditions of early American Modernism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, and has added the varied influences of Philip Guston, Mayan art, and pup culture to his work. Often rendered in eye-popping color, his caricatures of men and women engage in a slapstick war of the sexes. Susan Rothenberg has mined the depths of painting to explore the relationship between subject matter and the painted ground of the canvas since the early 1970s. Recreating the life around her, Rothenberg's thickly textured oil paintings depict figures, nervous tension with one another on the picture plane. |
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| Thursday, February 24, 2005, 6 PM The Passionate Collector A Forum in Conjunction with ARTfeast SITE Santa Fe is pleased to present The Passionate Collector, a forum presented in conjunction with the Santa Fe Gallery Association’s ARTfeast benefit weekend This event will feature an eclectic mix of collectors who are devoted to a wide range of artists, movements, and genres. The evening is designed to explore the depth and diversity of the art collecting experience and the unique perspectives of the people who collect in this region. Participating collectors: Bobbie Foshay-Miller, Susan Foote, Lewis Pollock, and Toni & Leshek Zavistovski, with moderator Juliet Myers, SITE Santa Fe’s Director of Education and Public Programs. Tickets are $10 for this special charitable event, and are available by calling SITE Santa Fe at 505.989.1199 or online at www.artfeast.com. Proceeds from this event will benefit SITE Santa Fe’s education programs as well as ARTsmart, the Santa Fe Gallery Association’s charitable organization that raises funds for art programs and supplies for Santa Fe public school children. |
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| Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 6 PM A Conversation with Kiki Seror Linking art and technology, gender and identity, fantasy and desire, Kiki Seror’s work brings online chat rooms into the light of day—transforming the explicit language of cybersex into dazzling and disturbing digital images and animated projections. “Seror’s great talent is her ability to translate desire and imagination into textual sculpture whose topography invites the viewer to consider how connection can be distant, disembodied, and yet exciting,” says Rachel Greene, author of Internet Art published by Thames and Hudson, London. The works in Kiki Seror’s Ms. SURVEY, including videos and Duratrans lightboxes rendered in 3D graphics, explore fantasy and the feminine, desiring self. In her latest DVD, Make-up, Seror uses a micro surveillance camera to present a disorienting point of view on this ritualized “romantic” routine. Join Seror and others in a conversation about her thought-provoking and beautiful landscapes of words and images. |
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| Tuesday, March 29, 2005, 6 PM K.C. Cole and Murray Gell-Mann Creativity at the Crossroads of Art and Science: A Dialogue Creativity plays a critical role in the arts and sciences, and it is this intersection that interests both K.C. Cole and Murray Gell-Mann. Given their mutual interests in physics, and their passionate desire to make complex ideas decipherable and accessible to the general public, these two individuals will discuss how creative force plays itself out in the arts and in science. K.C. Cole is an award-winning science writer for The Los Angeles Times and a teacher at U.C.L.A. She writes about physics and mathematics for a wide variety of publications ranging from The New York Times Magazine and Newsweek to Esquire and Lear’s. Since 1994, she has covered physical science for The Los Angeles Times where she also writes the column, “Mind Over Matter.” Her writing has been described as coming from the crossroads of art and science, mind and matter, sense and soul. Though physics has long been a thing of mystery and complexity, K.C. Cole transforms it into the stuff of philosophy and poetry. K.C. Cole’sbooks include Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos, The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything, and The Universe and the Teacup. Murray Gell-Mann, who appears as one of the figures in James Drake’s City of Tells, is a Distinguished Fellow of the Santa Fe Institute. Although a theoretical physicist, Professor Gell-Mann’s interests extend to many other subjects including natural history, historical linguistics, archaeology, history, depth psychology, and creative thinking. His interests also encompass biological evolution, cultural evolution, and ideas about learning and thinking. His recent research at the Santa Fe Institute has focused on the subject of complex adaptive systems, and how knowledge and understanding are to be extracted from the welter of information that can now be transmitted and stored as a result of the digital revolution. Gell-Mann is the author of the popular science book The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. In 1969, Professor Gell-Mann received the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elemental particles. In addition to numerous other awards, he has received honorary doctoral degrees from Yale University, the University of Chicago, and Cambridge and Oxford Universities. |
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| Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 6 PM de Kooning: An American Master Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan: A Dialogue Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, authors of the recent best-seller de Kooning: An American Master published by Alfred A. Knopf, will appear at SITE Santa Fe and speak about their collaboration, the first major biography of de Kooning which captures both the life and work of this complex, romantic figure in American culture. Ten years in the making, and based on previously unseen letters and documents as well as hundreds of interviews, the book is an authoritative and brilliant exploration of the art, life, and world of an American master. Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of Abstract Expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s. Mark Stevens is the art critic for New York magazine. He has also been the art critic for The New Republic and Newsweek and has written for such publications as Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. He lives in New York City. Annalyn Swan has been a writer at Time and an award-winning music critic and senior arts editor at Newsweek. She has written for The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and New York magazine. She lives in New York City. |
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| SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 2005, 1–6PM Ed Mazria, Kim Sorvig, Dana Bourland, and Paul Fragua Presentations in conjunction with Santa Fe Design Week Mayor Larry Delgado officially opens Santa Fe Design Week at SITE Santa Fe with welcome remarks and an overview of Green Design. He will introduce special guests and the keynote speaker, architect Ed Mazria. ED MAZRIA New Mexico: Meeting Humanity’s Greatest Challenge KIM SORVIG Sustainability and Beauty: Re-integrating Nature and Culture Through Design DANA BOURLAND New Initiatives in Green Built Affordable Housing, with New Mexico Highlights. PAUL FRAGUA IAIA’s ‘Achein’ New Lifelong Learning Center—the Design Process |
 Ed Mazria  Kim Sorvig  Dana Bourland  Paul Fragua |
