Ellsworth Gallery
215 E Palace Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Opening: Saturday April 10 – 10am-6pm – Artist in Attendance 3-6pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 17
Closing: Saturday, May 15

Songs of Tempestuous Rising and Falling is an embodiment of the monsters that we live among that shape our landscapes. It’s a mediation on our relationships to place, to violence, to harmony, and disharmony. Frequencies embedded into land leave an impression. In exploring the existing resonance of place as well as resonance imposed, this work offers moments to reflect on the consequence of technological and extractive projects. This exhibition of work by Dylan McLaughlin provides a space of reverence and reflection. A translation of phenomena we can experience directly.

Dylan McLaughlin is a sound/video artist currently working in forms of resilience to and deconstruction of tensions in relation to violence embedded inland. Looking to sites of extraction, his work explores sonic forms of witness and implication. In his multi-media installation, interactive, and performative works, McLaughlin looks to engage the poetics and politics of landscape formation and human effect. These works respond to place, using materials that speak from landscapes, incorporating technology that activates or provides a container from which to experience. He is born of the Diné (Navajo) people. McLaughlin received his BFA in New Media Art from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is currently completing his MFA in Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico.

Join us for the opening of Experimentation with the Void. This is a collaborative showcase featuring 11 advanced students from the University of New Mexico’s studio art program. These artists explore different perspectives, qualities, and arrangements of contemporary artwork, with a wide range of intentions: dismantling gender and celebrating queer culture, exploring the internal emotion life during COVID19, examining photographic vs personal memory and the relationship of identity to objects, re-rendering nature tactilely and reconsidering markers of progress through the lens of post-colonialism, creating contemplative spaces through still life, and expanding photography to portray the self. Each artist is presenting excerpts from a single semester-long exploration that is a culmination of their pursuits through the BA/BFA programs. The exhibit will open on May 7th, and run through May 29th. Join us for the opening reception on May 7th, 5-8 PM, at the Exhibit 208 Gallery 208 Broadway Blvd SE.

Artists: Julia Andreas, Bridey Caramgna, Mathew Duda, Wanashe Frank, Bob Macdonald, Briana Moreno, Vince Navarette, Jacob Nunez, Consuelo Ortiz, Claire Plymale, Elizabeth Wilkinson.