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Come experience a camera obscura in the Fine Arts & Design Library!

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A collaboration between FADL staff and the Department of Art’s photography area, the camera obscura installation has been an annual endeavor since 2017! It is located in Group Study Room #1, at the far east corner of the FADL. It will be up until Sept 24th.

Plan for about 5 minutes for your eyes to adjust to the darkness to see the images. You will experience the magic of light and see the world turned upside down and projected onto the interior walls of the room. We are only allowing 3 masked folks into the room at one time.

Jeffrey Gibson is a Mississippi Choctaw-Cherokee multi-disciplinary artist, working with subject matter which, by his own description, interfaces with the rubrics of fashion, gender and ethnicity. He has recently had solo exhibitions at museums such as the Seattle Art Museum, Madison Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, and Denver Art Museum. He has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, CO, Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, AK, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, and SITE Santa Fe, NM. Gibson who currently lives in Hudson, NY, will do his first residency at Tamarind Institute this fall.

This event will be online. RSVP to join via Eventbrite.

Alftan is the recipient of the 2021 Frederick Hammersley Artist in Residence at Tamarind. She is a Paris-based painter who generates narrative imagery based on a complex process of observation and deduction. Working in figuration but rejecting a narrative dimension, Alftan’s compositions use the tight framing of close range photography to explore the similarities between painting and image-making.

“I paint pictures,” Alftan says, and “painting and picture often imitate each other.”

Inviting viewers to consider the history, materiality, and objecthood of painting, Alftan’s vignettes represent a fragmented vision of the real and address pictorial issues such as color, surface, flatness, depth, pattern, texture, and framing devices.

Recent exhibitions include Karma, New York (2020); Studiolo, Milan (2019); TM-Galleria, Helsinki (2018); and Z Gallery Arts, Vancouver (2017).

This event is sponsored by Tamarind Institute but will be held at 516 ARTS.

516 ARTS is a non-collecting contemporary art museum in the center of Downtown Albuquerque that celebrates thought-provoking art in the here and now.

Support provided by Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at the Albuquerque Community Foundation.