Exhibitions

Current

OBJECTS: REDUX—50 Years of Craft Evolution
31 Jan - 27 Mar 2020 In 1969, the Smithsonian American Art Museum debuted OBJECTS: USA, a sprawling exhibition featuring 308 craft artists and over 500 objects. The show would travel the United States and Europe, vaulting craft into the contemporary art milieu and forever changing the way we view material culture. Fifty years later, this... Read more

Match: Printmaking
31 Jan - 11 Apr 2020 Opening in conjunction with Zane Bennett Contemporary Art’s Winter/Spring Exhibition, form & concept presents a display of local, emerging printmakers for the first installment of the Match curatorial program. Match encourages collectors to invest in early career artists who are carrying forward revolutionary conversations started by the gallery’s roster of... Read more

Forthcoming

Wesley Anderegg | Critters
28 Feb - 16 May 2020 Wesley Anderegg has exhibited his peculiar ceramic figures in Santa Fe for over three decades, and one of his sculptures was recently acquired by the New Mexico Museum of Art. The California ceramicist celebrates this momentous occasion with a procession of fierce and fantastical creatures. The menagerie of wild eyes... Read more

Jacquelyn Royal | The New Police
Atrium Series 28 Feb - 16 May 2020 form & concept is delighted to announce the return of needlepoint artist Jacquelyn Royal in her first solo show at the gallery, following two group exhibitions in 2018 and 2019. Royal’s The New Police marks the first show in form & concept’s Atrium Series, an array of ambitious solo displays... Read more

Consilience
Curated by Brian Fleetwood 27 Mar - 13 Jun 2020 Consilience started as a solo exhibition for Brian Fleetwood (Mvskoke Creek), a Santa Fe jewelry artist who teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. The scope of the show quickly expanded, as Fleetwood’s transdisciplinary, highly collaborative philosophy guided the curatorial process. Fleetwood selected mentors who helped shape his artistic... Read more

Belt Buckle Expo
27 Mar - 13 Jun 2020 The World Champion Belt Buckle Competition returns to form & concept to challenge expectations of the buckle. Read more

Live Wire
Española Valley Fiber Arts Center Fiber Crawl 1 May - 13 Jun 2020 The Española Valley Fiber Arts Center welcomes you to participate in the 2020 New Mexico Fiber Crawl: this Call for Artists is for an invitational and juried show, titled Live Wire, organized in collaboration with form & concept gallery. OPEN CALL: NEW MEXICO FIBER ART CRAWL DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2020... Read more

Digital Craft
CURRENTS New Media Festival Satellite Show 1 May - 8 Jul 2020 Opening alongside Live Wire and presented as an official satellite show of the CURRENTS New Media Festival, this display of craft objects with digital elements literally electrifies studio craft disciplines. The featured artists utilize new media to illuminate the concepts or processes behind artworks in fiber, ceramic, glass and more.... Read more

Scout Dunbar
Atrium Series 15 May - 18 Jul 2020 Scout Dunbar grew up on a horse farm in Ithaca, New York, and her mother is an artist who makes quilts and stained glass. Dunbar draws from a rich pool of childhood memories for this solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures occupying multiple levels of the gallery’s atrium space.... Read more

Match: Book Art
May 30, 2020 Opening in conjunction with the Santa Fe Zine Fest (Saturday, May 30, 12-5 pm ), form & concept presents a display of book artists from across the nation for the second installment of the Match curatorial program. Read more

Summer Show
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art / form & concept 16 Jun - 15 Aug 2020 Collections collide in this summer display incorporating work from both form & concept and Zane Bennett Contemporary Art. For the first time ever, artworks by the represented artists of form & concept appear beside masterworks from Zane Bennett’s print collection. The pairings draw direct lines of influence from groundbreaking artists... Read more

Family Room
26 Jun - 15 Aug 2020 This functional and modular living room installation, designed by a national consortium of LGBTQ+ artists, is a stage for visual artworks and performances that examine queer domestic space and the chosen family. Read more

She Dances Like A Bomb
Curated by Debra Baxter & Dawn Cerny 31 Jul - 12 Sep 2020 Artists Debra Baxter and Dawn Cerny curate this national group show of sculptors who are all linked to Bard College’s legendary studio arts program. Baxter, who lives in Santa Fe, was one of form & concept’s first represented artists. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American... Read more

C. Alex Clark + Darcy Rosenberger
Atrium Series 31 Jul - 12 Sep 2020 Two artists who use light and shadow as primary materials meet in midair in this two-person show. Clark draws inspiration from Robert Fludd’s 17th century masterwork Utriusque Cosmi in a series of layered holographic sculptures, while Rosenberger evokes the densely detailed abstractions of Middle Eastern art in laser cut acrylic... Read more

We Are The Seeds
12 Aug - 17 Oct 2020 Now in its fourth year, We Are The Seeds is an arts festival that unites a community of Indigenous creatives in Santa Fe each August. For this companion exhibition, Seeds co-directors Tailinh Agoyo and Paula Mirabal build a dimensional biography of the project’s inception and growth through stories of the... Read more

Brett Kern
25 Sep - 14 Nov 2020 “Something has survived,” reads the tagline for the 1997 movie, Jurassic Park: The Lost World . Undeniably, something has survived: Brett Kern’s infatuation with the pop culture of his formative years. The 80s and 90s are still in full swing in this solo exhibition of ceramic sculptures by the Pittsburgh... Read more

Pascal Emmer
Atrium Series 25 Sep - 14 Nov 2020 Pascal Emmer conjuries allegories from the cracked textures, vibrant hues and organic or geologic forms of his ceramics, presented from the perspective of a speculative fiction writer. The Santa Fe artist’s new body of work, sub/terre/fuge, is a speculative tale about transgenic hybridity, mycoremediation, and queer love. It speaks in... Read more

In Camera: Craft in Photography
In Collaboration with CENTER 30 Oct - 23 Dec 2020 In Camera is the second in a series of form & concept exhibitions exploring intersections between craft media and photography. In the 2018 show Hand/Eye, artists from across the United States utilized photography at some point in their process to create highly dimensional, craft-based works. In Camera spotlights photographers who... Read more

Erin Mickelson
Atrium Series 27 Nov 2020 - 23 Jan 2021 Erin Mickelson’s work first appeared at form & concept in the 2019 book art exhibition Superscript. She often creates books that serve as initial containers for concepts that leap into other formats. Through installation, projection, and traditional book and print media, this solo exhibition touches on the meaning and mechanics... Read more

Past

Todd Ryan White
Rainbow Eater 29 Nov 2019 - 25 Jan 2020 Artist Todd Ryan White premieres an exciting new body of work in Rainbow Eater, the artist's first solo show at form & concept. The exhibition includes immersive installation, collage, watercolor, ink drawing and wood and glass sculpture. An opening reception with live music will be held on Friday, Nov. 29,... Read more

Homecoming
NMSA Alumni Exhibition 25 Oct - 16 Nov 2019 Homecoming celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the New Mexico School for the Arts by highlighting the creativity of Visual Arts Department alumni while also acknowledging the community of artists that helped them grow. This juried alumni exhibition features works from the graduating NMSA VA classes of 2012-19, as well as... Read more

Jewelry Edition V
A Traveling Show-In-A-Box 6 Sep - 5 Oct 2019 One box ⁠— eight American makers. Jewelers Kat Cole and Laura Wood bring their favorite emerging metalsmiths and jewelry artists to a national audience, starting with Santa Fe. Jewelry Edition was first organized in 2012 as a new type of opportunity for early career artists to gain national exposure. The... Read more

Heidi Brandow | New Works
16 Aug - 12 Oct 2019 After a banner year, Santa Fe artist Heidi Brandow debuts a new series of whimsical characters and monsters on a large scale. “I knew from an early age that our native identity is so rich that we shouldn’t just hold it to a specific ceremony or spiritual practice,” says... Read more

Belt Buckle Expo
Selections from the 2019 World Champion Belt Buckle Competition 26 Jul - 12 Oct 2019 Exhibition page for Belt Buckle Expo: Selections from the 2019 World Champion Belt Buckle Competition at Form and Concept Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This international group show of wearable artworks was organized by metalsmiths Bryan Petersen and Tom Muir, and presented in conjunction with Montana State University. Read more

Six Years Smitten
26 Jul - 12 Oct 2019 “It started with a community of makers who wanted to create in a radical new way,” says Marissa Saneholtz, one of the co-founders of the Smitten Forum. Every year since 2014, Marissa Saneholtz and Sara Brown have invited a new group of jewelers and metalsmiths to work side-by-side in a... Read more

Summer Show
28 Jun - 12 Oct 2019 It 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 founding in 2016, form & concept has invited its dynamic team of represented artists to come together for a group... Read more

Susan Beiner | Sugar Fields
31 May - 13 Jul 2019 “I have a new outlook,” says ceramicist Susan Beiner. “By utilizing repetition and multiplication, I create dense patterning–but with spaces to take a breath.” This May, Beiner returns to form & concept for a solo exhibition featuring a large-scale, modular installation. The wall sculptures will feature Beiner’s characteristic floral forms,... Read more

Beyond Punch Cards
31 May - 13 Jul 2019 The group exhibition Beyond Punch Cards was inspired by a woman who changed the world. Mathematician Ada Lovelace studied the complex engineering behind the Jacquard loom to invent the first computational algorithm in 1840. “ The analytical engine will weave algebraic patterns like Jacquard looms weave flowers and leaves,” Lovelace... Read more

Superscript
26 Apr - 13 Jul 2019 “The working title for Superscript was ‘Exploded Book,’” says Jordan Eddy, director of form & concept and curator of the gallery’s spring book art exhibition. “I spent the winter hunting for book artworks that quite literally project into the world around them.” The group show unites insurgent members of New... Read more

Ryan Singer | Childhood Mythologies
29 Mar - 25 May 2019 Albuquerque artist Ryan Singer unveils a solo exhibition of acrylic paintings of Navajo Nation landscapes populated by cultural icons. The artist’s vivid imagery showcases original narratives inspired by dreams and childhood memories while interweaving subtle socio-political commentary. My older sister was really into sci-fi. If she wanted to see a... Read more

Lisa Klakulak | Since Taos
22 Feb - 20 Apr 2019 “The works are really segmented into these different chapters of my life,” Lisa Klakulak says. Her new solo exhibition, Since Taos: Contraction of Mass, Concision of Thought , is an autobiography rolled into felt and shaped into 13 affecting sculptures. The collection reflects the artist’s life starting in 2001, when... Read more

Nika Feldman | Spirits in the Material World
25 Jan - 23 Mar 2019 Nika Feldman unveils a series of seven garment-like works along with accompanying objects of adornment, made from recycled t-shirt parts and salvaged aluminum can pull-tabs. Representing over 2,000 hours of handwork by the Nova Scotia artist, the intricate pieces are inspired by the coded language of clothing. 'It's an attempt... Read more

MICROCOSM 2018
30 Nov - 31 Dec 2018 form & concept presents the second annual MICROCOSM group exhibition. The gallery invited all-star artists and designers from its 2018 shows to make works measuring 8 x 10 inches or smaller. It's form & concept's final statement of the year, reflecting the variety of mediums and messages that graced the... Read more

Macrocosm: Large Works Show
30 Nov - 31 Dec 2018 While artists from our 2018 programming pare their work down to 8 x 10 inches in our MICROCOSM exhibition, our jewelry artists will undertake a more expansive challenge. For its first annual MACROCOSM group exhibition, form & concept invites jewelers to create oversized, wearable art to exhibit in our atrium,... Read more

Hand / Eye
26 Oct 2018 - 19 Jan 2019 Whether they’re gelatin silver prints or daguerreotypes, there’s one thing that most all photographs have in common: they’re flat. For a new group exhibition at form & concept, eleven artists from across the United States shatter this convention by applying craft media to photography—and vice versa. Hand/Eye presents images... Read more

Matthew Mullins: The Sun In Our Bones
28 Sep - 17 Nov 2018 Santa Fe artist Matthew Mullins presents a solo exhibition of paintings, photographs and sculptures, inspired by the intrinsic links between humans and the natural world. Known for his mixed-media paintings that visually connect landscapes with human-made, geometric patterns, Mullins broadens his practice to encompass photography and sculpture. With this expanded... Read more

SOUL OF NATIONS
17 Aug - 15 Sep 2018 It’s safe to say that the Brea Foley Art Program is one-of-a-kind. The initiative, by Washington, D.C. and Arizona-based nonprofit Soul of Nations , vaults teens from Southwestern Indigenous communities into the upper echelons of the art world. This year’s program had hundreds of applicants and 15 finalists, all between... Read more

Armond Lara | Flying Blue Buffalo Installation
17 Aug - 17 Nov 2018 Santa 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 family history, Lara dreamed up the Flying Blue Buffalo as a new symbol of Indigenous resilience. The installation tells the... 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, ‘What’s been exhibited, and what or who has been excluded?’” The gallery, located in Santa Fe’s Railyard Arts District, celebrated... Read more

Jaydan Moore: Dust
29 Jun - 25 Aug 2018 Jaydan Moore comes from a long line of California tombstone carvers, which might explain his obsession with the concept of commemoration. “The trade goes back four generations,” says the Virginia artist. “I grew up watching people make accommodations for loved ones, and turn their history into an object.” About six... Read more

Erika Lynne Hanson | Movement Choir: Landscape Scores
25 May - 23 Jun 2018 The White Sands Missile Range is a world-famous site of military bomb testing, but its recent history is tied to an isolated village 600 miles to the north. For ten years during the Cold War, Green River, Utah was the launch site for test missiles that detonated in White Sands.... Read more

Inner Orbit
25 May - 21 Jul 2018 form & concept presents Inner Orbit, an exhibition of contemporary artists from across the United States with deeply personal or cultural visions of outer space. The show appears in conjunction with Santa Fe Futurition , the Currents New Media Festival , and the Santa Fe Institute’s Interplanetary Festival . From... Read more

Debra Baxter: Tooth & Nail
27 Apr - 16 Jun 2018 Santa Fe sculptor Debra Baxter presents a new series of sculptural artworks in her solo exhibition Tooth & Nail. The exhibition opens on Friday, April 27 from 5 to 7 pm, coinciding with the opening reception for Matthew Szösz: Minimal Tension . “This thing could fail, and it could be... Read more

Matthew Szösz: Minimal Tension
27 Apr - 19 May 2018 Award-winning glass artist Matthew Szösz debuts new works from two of his ongoing series, Inflatables and Ropework, in his solo exhibition Minimal Tension . The show opens at form & concept on Friday, April 27 from 5 to 7 pm, coinciding with the opening reception for Debra Baxter: Tooth... Read more

Wesley Anderegg: ARIZONA
30 Mar - 15 Jun 2018 In a new series of diminutive ceramic tiles, California artist Wesley Anderegg flattens his tragicomic figures with a playful nod to Pop Art paintings and comic book panels. The painted compositions evoke Anderegg’s experience growing up in the sun-drenched and lawless Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Wesley Anderegg: ARIZONA debuts... Read more

MIRROR BOX | Strangers Collective
23 Feb - 14 Apr 2018 Opening Reception : Friday, 2/23, 5-8 pm | RSVP on Facebook Curator & Artist Talk : Saturday, 3/17, 2-3 pm | RSVP on Facebook Zine Reading : Saturday, 4/7, 3-4 pm | RSVP on Facebook Closing Performance by Emmaly Wiederholt :Saturday, 4/14, 7 pm | RSVP on Facebook $5-$25 suggested... Read more

Jodi Colella: Unidentified Women
25 Jan - 17 Mar 2018 It started somewhere among the vast archives of the Historic Northampton Museum in Northampton, Massachusetts. Fiber artist Jodi Colella was working on an art project inspired by the museum’s headwear collection, and she stumbled upon a series of daguerreotype portraits. “They were like little 19th century selfies,” Colella says. “I... Read more

Smitten Forum
24 Nov 2017 - 6 Jan 2018 Call it a mobile artist colony, a colorful social experiment or a crafty piece of performance art. Each year since 2014, Sara Brown and Marissa Saneholtz have invited a new group of pioneering jewelers and metalsmiths to work side-by-side in a communal studio for 7 days. The initiative is called... Read more

Thais Mather: Reckless Abandon
24 Nov 2017 - 10 Feb 2018 “I think people are getting these catastrophic feelings, that this is the end,” says Thais Mather. “I don’t believe in that. I think this is a beginning.” The feminist artist’s new exhibition, Reckless Abandon , comes at a time of cultural, political and environmental upheaval. It’s an ideal moment to... Read more

MICROCOSM: Small Works Invitational
24 Nov - 23 Dec 2017 “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together,” said Vincent Van Gogh. form & concept takes this thought to its logical conclusion in MICROCOSM, a holiday exhibition of small works by contributors to the gallery’s previous exhibitions. Over 20 artists, craftspeople and designers return with diminutive... Read more

Guns to Art Benefit Show
7 - 17 Nov 2017 Decommissioned firearms aren’t the most pliable artistic medium, but that hasn’t stopped faculty and students at Santa Fe Community College from reshaping them into stunning artworks. They’ve been hard at work bending, slicing, shredding and melting old guns into sculptures, jewelry and even apparel. This fall, the art will appear... Read more

Wookjae Maeng: BALANCE
27 Oct - 23 Dec 2017 It’s easy to forget that the world is experiencing a crisis in biodiversity, one that some scientists have called a “sixth extinction.” Humanity has grown ever more isolated from the rest of the animal kingdom, hiding away in climate controlled boxes and behind glowing screens. In his new solo exhibition... Read more

Broken Boxes
18 Aug - 21 Oct 2017 Broken Boxes features the art and ideas of over 40 visual artists, filmmakers, sound artists, activists, performance artists and community organizers from around the world who are effecting change through their work. The show is co-curated by Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger, and all invited artists have participated in... Read more

Rebecca Rutstein: Fault Lines
30 Jun - 12 Aug 2017 When your painting studio is set adrift on the open sea, things can get a little messy. Philadelphia-based painter Rebecca Rutstein spent her last three artist residencies in close quarters with oceanographic cartographers, examining never-before-seen images of the ocean floor and translating what she learned into undulating, semi-abstract paintings. She... Read more

Jared Weiss: He’s Either Dead Or It Was His Birthday
30 Jun - 12 Aug 2017 Jared Weiss has forgotten much of his subject matter. Or rather, the scenes that he paints are often buried somewhere deep in his unconscious. Reviving suppressed memories can be a dangerous game, but the Santa Fe artist has some heavy hitters on his side: Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Slavoj... Read more

NoiseFold New Media Installation
26 May - 22 Jul 2017 Move over, hammer and chisel. NoiseFold’s sculpture installation at form & concept was generated in the digital world, and forged in the legendary glass studio of Dale Chihuly. Transdisciplinary artists Cory Metcalf and David Stout, who collaborate under the name NoiseFold, are known for combining visual art, music and interactive... Read more

Mark Newport: Mending
24 Feb - 20 May 2017 Mark Newport returns to form & concept for a solo exhibition that cuts to the heart of the Michigan textile artist’s practice. Mending features torn muslin cloths with meticulously embroidered patches, a symbol of the scars that life etches on the body and psyche. “This series explores the idea of... Read more

Shifting Landscapes: 3rd International SDA Member Juried Exhibition
24 Feb - 10 Jun 2017 Artists from the Surface Design Association (SDA) reinvent the map using felt, cotton, silk, string and countless other fibrous materials in the 3rd International SDA Juried Exhibition at form & concept. The gallery is pleased to present Shifting Landscapes, an exhibition that explores traditional, non-traditional and contemporary interpretations of place... Read more

Radical Jewelry Makeover Artist Project
25 Nov 2016 - 19 Feb 2017 Radical Jewelry Makeover Artist Project draws attention to the creativity and skills of local jewelry designers, reveals the stories behind our personal collections and encourages re-consideration of our habits of consumption. Currently, materials used in jewelry production are sourced from some of the poorest countries in the world, sacred lands... Read more

Bunny Tobias: Elegance of Mutation
25 Nov 2016 - 19 Feb 2017 Bunny Tobias debuts new artwork made from reclaimed materials—and a fierce philosophy of recycled art—in Elegance of Mutation, a solo exhibition at form & concept. The longtime Santa Fe artist is known for charming, surreal artworks made from found objects and natural materials. For the first time, Tobias will distill... Read more

Native Realities: Superheroes of Past, Present, & Future
11 Nov - 31 Dec 2016 A groundbreaking new show, Native Realities: Superheroes of Past, Present, and Future opens at form & concept gallery in Santa Fe on November 11th 2016. The show is being held in conjunction with the world’s first Indigenous Comic Con, which launches in Albuquerque on November 18th at the National Hispanic... Read more

Residency
26 Aug - 21 Nov 2016 In the upcoming show at form & concept, Residency, fourteen artists from the US and Canada share their visions of the house – and all that goes in it – and its place in creating a sense of home. Opening Friday, August 26, Residency, features a” tiny house”, installed in... Read more

ReFashion
19 Aug - 30 Oct 2016 Opening August 19, 2016, form & concept presents ReFashion through October 30. “We’re basically playing with people’s expectations of what fashion or wearability is,” says Director and Curator, Frank Rose. “There’s an implicit exhibitionist quality in wearing any type of clothing and there are some fantastic artists that take this... Read more

Virtual Object
10 Jun - 11 Aug 2016 In conjunction with the Currents New Media Festival, Virtual Object opens in form & concept’s upstairs gallery on Friday, June 10 from 5-7 pm. Virtual Object will showcase objects made or influenced by the exciting new processes emerging from the realm of 3D printing. form & concept was founded to... Read more

Priscilla Dobler: La Cocina
10 Jun - 11 Aug 2016 In conjunction with the Currents New Media Festival, La Cocina, an installation by Seattle-based artist, Priscilla Dobler, opens in form & concept’s upstairs gallery on Friday, June 10 from 5-7 pm. Priscilla Dobler is a Seattle-based artist born in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Interested in the traditional methods of weaving and... Read more

Made in the Desert
27 May - 22 Aug 2016 Made 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 from New Mexico and Arizona, exhibiting an array of handmade media from ceramic to neon. “The Southwest has such a... Read more