form & concept gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Shop
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Events
  • About
  • Blog
Cart
0 items $
Checkout

Item added to cart

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu
Armond Lara
A Shifting Retrospective, 30 June - 30 September 2023

Armond Lara: A Shifting Retrospective

Past exhibition
  • Overview
  • Works
  • Installation Views
  • Events
Armond Lara at Form & Concept Gallery
View works

Due to popular demand, this exhibition has been extended through September 30, 2023. 

 

Armond Lara: A Shifting Retrospective presents selections from Armond Lara's rich and varied oeuvre, many of which have been hidden from public view for decades. A display of intricate marionette puppets comes alive as abstract sculptures and figurative paintings encircle them. Throughout the show, the artworks on view will cycle, allowing the public to experience the full arc of the artist's half-century career.

 

Armond Lara (b. 1939) was  born to Diné and Mexican parents in Walsenburg, Colorado, where he spent his formative years observing the ways that his mother and grandparents met their own needs through artistic endeavors. “I watched my grandparents make everything ney needed...from tombstones to cooking utensils, so I just fell into it naturally,” recounts Lara, “If I wanted something, I made it.” This seed of creativity that was planted in the young artist continued to grow through his early career in Seattle, where he worked in aviation technology and arts administration. He studied under from master paper artist Paul Horiuchi and came to count Helen Frankenthaler and Richard Diebenkorn as mentors.

 

“Armond Lara is a prolific artist whose ouvre poses complex questions about performance, identity and culture," says Gallery Director Jordan Eddy. "Lara’s playful sensibility and penchant for material innovation have set his practice apart for decades as his works remain challenging but accessible through the synthesis of craft aesthetics and popular culture.”

Related artist

  • Armond Lara

    Armond Lara

Share
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Back to exhibitions
 

435 S. Guadalupe St.
Santa Fe, NM 87501

info@formandconcept.center
(505) 780-8312

VISIT OUR Print COLLECTION

Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
View on Google Maps
Manage cookies
Copyright © ZANE BENNETT GALLERIES, LLC 2019
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences