Armond Lara
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3 Panel Folding Screen I$ 5,625.00
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Abstract Collage$ 12,000.00
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As Man Ray, 2013$ 12,600.00
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Black and Blue Buffalo, 1990Sold
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Collage #1$ 1,800.00
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Deer Dancer$ 18,000.00
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Drawing for Billy the Kid Marionette$ 18,000.00
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Drawing for Puppet Hand$ 675.00
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Fertility Fetish Figure l$ 2,250.00
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Fertility Fetish Figure lI$ 2,250.00
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Fertility Fetish Figure lll$ 2,250.00
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Flying Blue Buffalo (installation), 2018
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Flying Blue Buffalo I$ 7,500.00
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Flying Blue Buffalo II$ 10,500.00
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Guadalupe Lobato; Navajo - age 15 - year purchased 1864, 2018$ 3,750.00
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Juanita Alarid, 2018$ 4,750.00
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Large Painted Burnt Head$ 1,800.00
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Lionor Mes; Navajo - age 10 - year purchased 1861, 2018$ 4,000.00
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Margarita Martine; Navajo - age 18- year purchase 1864, 2018$ 3,750.00
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Miguel Montoya; Apache - age 4 - year purchased 1861, 2018Sold
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Small Flying Blue Buffalo, 2017$ 750.00
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Tiempo Grava I$ 10,500.00
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Tiempo Grava V$ 10,500.00
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Yellow Horse Dancer$ 13,500.00
Artist Armond Lara was born in 1939 in Denver, Colorado and raised in Walsenburg, a coal mining town in southeastern Colorado. His mother was of Navajo descent and his father was Mexican. He was educated at the Colorado Institute of Art and Glendale College in California and also attended the University of Washington in Seattle where he was influenced by Japanese master paper artist, Paul Horuechi.
He also worked with Mexican muralist Pablo O'Higgins, Richard Diebenkorn and Helen Frankenthaler. His paintings and drawings often incorporate handmade paper, found objects and mixed media including traditional Navajo beadwork that has been sewn on to the canvas. His carved marionettes of historical cultural figures such as Crazy Horse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Man Ray and Billy the Kid, among others, are created in the spirit of the Koshare, the sacred clown that participates in the religious dances of the Rio Grande Pueblo People.
After years of working in the aerospace industry in Seattle and then in arts administration, Lara helped to establish the 1% for the ARTS Program in Seattle, Washington in 1973, which was one of the first cities in the US to adopt funding for public art. When Lara relocated to Santa Fe in the 1980s, he participated in his first Indian Market where Georgia O'Keeffe purchased two of his works, one of which was gifted to the Smithsonian. In 1996 Lara founded the Santa Fe Artist Emergency Medical Fund which has been one of the many factors contributing to his reputation as a leader in the arts not only for Native Peoples but for all artists. Armond Lara is in museum collections worldwide.
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Summer Show 2020
26 Jun - 10 Oct 2020Every summer since its founding in 2016, form & concept has invited our dynamic array of represented artists to unite for a group exhibition of new works. Local and far-flung...Read more -
Summer Show
28 Jun - 12 Oct 2019It might be a little early in our gallery’s history,” says form & concept director Jordan Eddy. “But our summer exhibitions have become our favorite tradition.” Every summer since its...Read more -
Armond Lara | Flying Blue Buffalo Installation
17 Aug - 17 Nov 2018Santa Fe artist Armond Lara collaborated with form & concept on this monumental art installation, a flock of 77 winged buffalo that soars through gallery’s atrium. Inspired by his own...Read more -
form & concept Annual Exhibition 2018
27 Jul - 15 Sep 2018“ From the beginning, we were interested in reimagining what an art gallery could be,” says Frank Rose, Director of form & concept gallery. “The natural starting point was asking,...Read more -
Made in the Desert
27 May - 22 Aug 2016Made in the Desert, the inaugural exhibition at form & concept, opens Friday, May 27 from 5-7 pm. Made in the Desert is a group show featuring craft artists hailing...Read more
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Staff Interview: Brad Hart, Exhibitions Coordinator
May 28, 2020Interview with Brad Hart, Exhibitions Coordinator at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art and Form & Concept Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Read more -
A Little-Told Story, A Long-Held Dream.
The Flying Blue Buffalo Series August 8, 2018Later this month, when Armond Lara sends 75 winged buffalo sculptures into the stratosphere of form & concept’s atrium, he’ll fulfill a long-held dream. Lara...Read more