Dean’s Travel Grant Awards

The UNM Art Museum and the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts invite you to celebrate the opening of the exhibition: “Meridel Rubenstein, Eden Turned on Its Side”. The evening will feature music by Muni Kulasinghe and food by My Sweet Basil.

3pm: Conversation with Meridel Rubenstein and Curator Shawn Michelle Smith
4 pm: Book Signing with Artist Meridel Rubenstein, Center for the Arts Lobby

“Meridel Rubenstein, Eden Turned on Its Side” is a major photographic artwork comprised of three parts: “Photosynthesis”, “Volcano Cycle”, and “Eden in Iraq”. The work is about human relationships to the environment on the scales of human time, geological time, and mythical time. “Photosynthesis focuses on the natural cycle of the seasons and our interdependence on trees for our existence, including the very air we breathe. “Volcano Cycle” documents the active volcanoes of the Indonesian Ring of Fire to consider ecological change on the non-human scale of deep, geological time. “Eden in Iraq” explores environmental devastation and renewal at the site of Biblical Eden in Southern Iraq.

This will be the first showing of “Meridel Rubenstein, Eden Turned on Its Side” that includes selections from all three of its component series.

Meridel Rubenstein, who maintains her art studio in Santa Fe, NM, began her professional career in the early 1970s, evolving from a photographer of single photographic images to an artist of extended works and multi-media installations. She has exhibited widely including the Louvre in Paris and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin as well as in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in the United States.

Her works are in prominent collections including the National Museum of American Art in Washington DC; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; High Museum, Atlanta, Ga; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Texas; and San Francisco Museum of Art, California. Meridel Rubenstein is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and did special graduate studies at M.I.T. with the photographer Minor White. She received an M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1974 and 1977, where she studied with noted art and photography historians and museum directors Beaumont Newhall and Van Deren Coke.

Tamarind is hosting a weekend-long Wonder Cabinet with 20 participants who work in the “borderlands between art & science.” This unique AND FREE program is the brainchild of Lawrence Weschler, longtime writer for The New Yorker, who is curating the weekend event around the interactions of art & science. Weschler will be joined by Robert Krulwich from NPR’s Radiolab, and together they will moderate a weekend of presentations, panels, demonstrations, and astonishments of all sorts. Presentations will explore subjects ranging from artificial intelligence, optics, particle physics, Native American cosmology, big data, paper engineering, neurology, and more. Throughout the two days, the public is encouraged to enter the traveling Liminal Camera — a giant camera fashioned out of a shipping container and mounted on the back of a flatbed truck created by the Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio. Bookworks will be on site with a popup bookstore, selling books by the esteemed Wonder Cabinet presenters. Lunch will be available for purchase on Saturday from noon-1:30 at La Fonda or Pop Fizz at NHCC, or one of the food trucks scheduled to be on site.

Saturday sessions include:
A CELEBRATION OF FREDERICK HAMMERSLEY
OPTICAL MARVELS
FOLDINGS AND OTHER MATHEMATICAL AND TOPOLOGICAL SPLENDORS
BRAIN AND COSMOS, DENDRITES AND DECISION TREES

Complete schedule and speakers’ biographies available at tamarind.unm.edu/wondercabinet.

image : Matthew Shlian, Unholy 85 (Go Down Moses/ There’s Fire in the Woods) (detail), 2017. Three-dimensional lithograph, 48 x 40 x 5 inches.
Published by Tamarind Institute.

The UNM Art Museum invites you to celebrate the opening of the exhibition: ‘Patrick Nagatani: A Survey of Early Photographs’ (http://artmuseum.unm.edu/upcoming-exhibitions/patrick-nagatani-a-survey-of-early-photographs/). The reception will feature food by My Sweet Basil and a video remembrance booth for those that wish to share memories about Patrick.

Directly following the reception there will be the New Mexico debut of ‘Living in the Story’ (http://www.patricknagatanilivinginthestory.com/), a film that documents thirty-five years of art-making by photographer Patrick Nagatani. FREE tickets to Living in the Story can be picked up in person at the UNM Art Museum or at the UNM Ticket Office (at the Pit or the Bookstore location). They can also be picked up right before the screening at the Popejoy Will Call window.

Come celebrate with us!

4:00 – 6:30 pm: Opening Reception
6:30 – 8:00 pm: Film Screening and Q & A (in Popejoy Hall)

Join us for the New Mexico debut of the film ‘Living in the Story’ (http://www.patricknagatanilivinginthestory.com/). The film documents thirty-five years of art-making by photographer Patrick Nagatani. The film portrays an artist deeply concerned with world events, who uses imagery and storytelling to raise awareness about modern anxieties, with an emphasis on the threat of nuclear weapons. Despite the serious content of his subject matter, his innovative images are compelling and entertaining. An engaging raconteur and teacher, Nagatani talks in the film about his projects, his unorthodox photographic techniques, and his subtle weaving together of fiction and fact.

The film will be shown in Popejoy theater and will be followed with a Q & A with the filmmakers. FREE tickets to Living in the Story can be picked up in person at the UNM Art Museum or at the UNM Ticket Office (at the Pit or the Bookstore location). They can also be picked up right before the screening at the Popejoy Will Call window.

Right before the film screening the UNM Art Museum invites you to celebrate the opening of the new exhibition: ‘Patrick Nagatani: A Survey of Early Photographs’ (http://artmuseum.unm.edu/upcoming-exhibitions/patrick-nagatani-a-survey-of-early-photographs/). The reception will feature food by My Sweet Basil and a video remembrance booth for those that wish to share memories about Patrick.

Come celebrate with us!

4:00 – 6:30 pm: Opening Reception
6:30 – 8:00 pm: Film Screening and Q & A (in Popejoy Hall)