FURIES to be Unleashed on ART Santa Fe: project space to feature eight women artists
SANTA FE - Snakes writhed through their hair. Their eyes dripped blood. They flew through the air wearing black robes, and sometimes wings, or the heads of dogs. No one who had committed acts of evil could escape them. Nor could anyone mistake them. These were the Furies of Roman mythology, the Erinyes of Greek mythology - three female goddesses of justice who avenged the righteous and punished criminals, especially those who had committed acts of familial violence. The Furies were powers to be reckoned with, effectively serving as the conscience of those tempted to mortal sin.
Looked at from another perspective, the Furies were powerful women of integrity, completely dedicated to their sometimes unpleasant work, who were generally unappreciated by the masses. In other words, they got a bad rap.
These avengers of justice are the namesake of a project space exhibition at the international annual art fair, ART Santa Fe, to be held this year at El Museo Cultural July 11-13.
The exhibit will include work by Beverley Ashe, Mary Bennett, Stacy Brown, Victoria Carlson, Susan Herdman, Sarah Hutt, Shirley Klinghoffer and Kim Russo.
ART Santa Fe
El Museo Cultural
1615 Paseo de Peralta (in new Railyard Art District, across the street from SITE Santa Fe)
Visit us at the CCA Project Booths #P8 & P9
For more info about the fair: www.artsantafe.com
Opening Night Vernissage: Thursday, July 10, 5-8PM . tickets $75
Fair Hours . admission $8
Fri. July 11: 11-7PM
Sat. July 12: 11-6PM
Sun. July 13: 11-6PM
For More Info & Images of Works in the Show:
Hollis Walker . 505.577.6763 . hwalker259@earthlink.net
Mary Bennett . 415.505.6118 . squiben@aol.com
Beverley Ashe 505.660.1431 . beverleyashe@gmail.com
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FURIES Artists
Beverley Ashe is currently working with found images collaged onto supports, and layered with text, drawing, painting. For FURIES, her series - The Art of War - focuses on troubling (occasionally absurd) territorial conflicts.
Mary Bennett is well known for her altered books and sculpture incorporating collage and found ephemera. Recently Bennett's attention has shifted to the conceptual. In FURIES, her pieces will include onetime feminine signifiers such as handkerchiefs and gloves.
Stacy Brown draws and paints the figure with sensitivity, humor and pathos. Her work for FURIES includes drawings and paintings which, irrespective of their subjects, examine the nature of humanity.
Victoria Carlson paints disturbing figures on paper with watercolor, gouache and rayon flocking. Her work for FURIES will distort stereotypical forms of watercolor as craft, gender as power, age as chronology and humor as an unworthy subject.
Susan Herdman has been working since 2000 on her series American Adolescents, in which she creates photo-based images of teens juxtaposed with their own words. For FURIES, Herdman continues this series in video, once again giving voice to otherwise disenfranchised youth.
Sarah Hutt makes deceptively simple, multilayered drawings embedded in wax, sometimes with the addition of string or gauze that incorporate repetition and compulsive mark-making. New drawings from this ongoing body of work will be exhibited in FURIES.
Shirley Klinghoffer addresses universal concerns in provocative sculpture executed in a variety of media, including tinted rubber, plaster, resins and vintage fabrics, often transforming what was once dismissed as Òwomen's workÓ into fine art. Her work for FURIES will continue to explore feminist and humanist themes.
Kim Russo creates pop-surrealist images in watercolor and graphite on paper. Using her signature combination of beauty, horror and humor, Russo's work in FURIES will continue to respond to the crises of modern life, and will shake a cautionary and critical finger at the housing market and the oil industry.____________________________________________________
The FURIES Team
Hollis Walker is an international arts writer and curator who has directed two contemporary galleries, teaches art marketing and career development to artists individually and in groups; and consults with arts organizations and galleries. She is the national award-winning author of Zink: The Language of Enchantment (New Mexico Magazine Artist Books, 2006), about Taos artist Melissa Zink. She writes a weekly critical column, ArtWalker, for the Albuquerque Journal North, and was a 1996-Ô97 fellow of the prestigious National Arts Journalism Program. For Furies, Hollis is in charge of all things curatorial: statement, artist/artwork selection, prospectus and press. She has excellent media contacts and plans to work them.
Mary Bennett is an artist and curator who first pursued a long and successful career as a banker before retiring at a young age to follow her heart as an artist. Currently Mary shows in six galleries nationwide. Her work is in many private and public collections including the Museum of New Mexico, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Boston Symphony Orchestra, City of Oakland, Seattle University, and the San Francisco Public Library. She was curator of the landmark "Insight/Out" exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Arts in 2003. Mary has participated in numerous art fairs across the country, as well as worked many gallery booths at art fairs. For Furies, Mary will be handling all of the financial details, and is our primary art fair liaison.
Beverley Ashe is a painter and curator, also known as the primary force behind Strange Weeds, an artists' consortium whose shows have been produced in and outside of Santa Fe. Last year, she headed up the effort to produce the group's booth at Bridge, a Chicago art fair. Her work is currently in galleries in San Francisco and New York. She's also a seasoned graphic designer, with 20+ years of experience producing web, print and marketing strategies for premier branding firms, galleries and artists. For Furies, she will be handling all of the extensive graphic requirements: application for entry, buttons, postcards, press releases, e-cards, signage, labels, etc.
Shared duties for all of three include weekly strategy meetings, booth design, hanging, sales, and other extensive minutiae.
