Events

This exhibition presents student and faculty artworks from the community-engaged art studio class called Seeding Radicle Futures. This class is part of  Radicle Art ▽ Ecology Lab (RAVEL) programming which offers field-based courses supporting the intersection of art, ecological research, and cultural engagement. RAVEL is a creative community focused on regenerative practices and committed to situated biophilic and relational ecologies.

Saturday, December 13, 2024

Film Screening and Reception: 2:00-4:00 pm

Center for Southwest Research, Frank Waters Room

Featuring work by:

Elena Bunker Ruiz

daniela del mar

Simon Doane

Sachika Goel

Ellan Luna

Fin Martens

Lucy Osborn

Hannah Taylor

Jacob White

Ruiqi Xu

Special thanks to our partners for their support:

Institute for Applied Ecology

Mobile Abolition Library

Asha Canalos

Plants of the Southwest

Lannan Foundation Endowment Fund

UNM ARTSLab

UNM RAVEL

UNM Art & Ecology

Celebrate the opening of Push & Pull: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler and Her Contemporaries

UNM Art Museum latest exhibition celebrates abstraction in all print processes. Featuring Modern and contemporary abstract prints and drawings, the exhibition focuses on the works of Helen Frankenthaler and Elaine de Kooning. Displayed alongside prints by their contemporaries, the works in this exhibition demonstrate important collaborations with American publishers such as Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Tyler Graphics Ltd., and Tamarind Institute. Read more about Push and Pull.

We invite you to join us for an opening reception on Friday, January 31, from 4:00 – 7:00 pm, with opening remarks beginning at 4:45 pm from UNMAM Curators Mary Statzer and Angel Jiang, and Director Arif Khan.

This exhibition is made possible by a generous donation of twenty prints from Helen Frankenthaler as part of the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative. UNM students from the course Abstraction on Paper: Curating Postwar American Prints and Drawings (AHIS 429/529) played a key role in developing this exhibition, providing labels and sound pieces.

Kayliegh Begay
Hannah Cerne
Ava Marr
Logan Petersen
Marina Perez
Savannah Phelps
Sophie Rubeo
Michael Schultze
Brianna Tadeo
Yoma Wilson

In response to Frankenthaler’s work, students created original pieces featured in the exhibition. Adrian Ricca Lucci (BFA student in painting and drawing), Brianna Tadeo (third-year MFA student in photography), and Yoma Wilson (second-year MFA student in printmaking). whose works reflect a deep engagement with Frankenthaler’s artistic vision.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 7, 2025, 6:00-8:00 pm, Performance at 6:30 pm

Masquerade: Friday, February 14, 2025, 6:00-8:00 pm

Artist Talk: Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 4:00-6:00 pm, at George Pearl Hall, UNM School of Architecture and Planning

This exhibition is a non-traditional book about what it’s been like growing up mix-cultured in the 21st century United States and gabriel needed more than words and images to accomplish this, so they’ve dispersed their written words amongst sculptures including video, audio, and mixed media.

gabriel takes the literal cardboard boxes that enable our society to function, and the psychic, mental, metaphysical, socio-emotional, societally-constructed boxes that also shape individual people and communities, and made art from harvesting, ripping, shredding, soaking, pulping, blending, then re-sculpting these boxes.

gabriel found a sense of futuristic self-determination, present fulfillment, and a capacity to contribute to old-old efforts of social engagement by playing in the box, outside of the box, but most of all: with the box.

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Friday 7th – free exhibition, a night of masks, remixed photography, and video; bring $$ for food truck, and art with sliding scale pricing. Performance starts at. 6:30 pm.

Friday 14th – Free masquerade! Come ready for a semi-formal, fully-groovy night of dance and food to close out the show. Come with a mask (Halloween mask, health mask, or something of your own creation) and get ready to boogie. All ages, bodies, and dress welcome – come in that prom outfit that got canceled because of COVID, come in those snazzy sweats that make you feel so cozy – and enjoy a de-colonial valentines art-dance-party.

*email ghudson8@unm.edu to schedule a gallery visit or tour, classes and large groups welcomed.

Live performance piece by Luca Berkley, at the South Gym in the Johnson Center. 9:00 am until approx. 9:09 am in the free weights area. Will be repeated every first Wednesday, same time and place.

Spring Reception, Saturday, March 22, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm

Professor Meggan Gould, who teaches photography within the Department of Art at UNM and serves as the Associate Dean of Research, is a contemporary photographer whose work often explores the rhetorical, semiotic, and material ways in which photography and its tools—namely, cameras—have been socially constructed. She places under the lens facets of camera technology that usually reside comfortably outside the resultant image—the varying structures and functions of viewfinders, film frame counters, and camera icons—questioning the particular ways in which these seemingly natural and neutral attributes shape the photographer, and the medium itself.

During the creation of her series “7 Pictures Remaining,” the artist’s images of camera counters took on a surprising new dimension when she discovered that many of the cameras documented contained rolls of undeveloped film. Gould opened nearly all the cameras in the collection and discovered hundreds of never-before-seen images residing within. This yielded fascinating discoveries and intimate moments connecting cameras, and former camera owners, to their images, effectively operating as a “shadow archive” within the California Museum of Photography (CMP) technology collection. A selection of prints made from these anonymous images are presented alongside Gould’s own work, attributing personal histories and biographies to these otherwise mute objects.

Visual artist reception: Sunday: March 23, 2023, 2:00 pm
Then stay for the concert on that same day at 3:00 pm

Exhibiting artists this month are Dale Jenssen, Wall-hung Fibre and Mixed Media; Cherie Martin Irwin, Fiber and Mixed Media; Logan Ortwerth, Natural Pigment Oils, Watercolors and Acrylics; Mary Louise Skelton, Mixed Media Embellished Gourds.

Opening Reception: Friday, March 7, 2025, 6:00-8:30 pm

Artist Talk: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 4:00 pm
ARTSLab

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8, 2025, 6:00-9:00 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, March 22, 2025, 4:00-7:00 pm
Gallery Hours: 12:00-4:00 pm or by appointment
Artist Talk: March 13, 2025, 5:00 pm
UNM Art Museum

In her exhibition “Inquiétantes étrangetés: when we were all together”, Carla Lopez presents drawings of psychological spaces that blend family archives, dreams, hauntings, and memories to investigate and complicate narratives of healing and remembrance. Lopez uses the temporal power of spectrality to locate the entanglements of past and present and to draw a path forward, away from sentimental simplifications. Uncanny visual and material disturbances in the drawings fracture the illusion of a singular reality and help to materialize the sometimes invisible yet always charged experiences of trauma, grief, and yearning. The drawings thus become palimpsests, records of spectral passages that offer a possibility for transformation.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 15,2025, 6:00-8:00 pm

In this group exhibition curated by Daniel Ulibarri, “New Tableau: Experiments in Photography” explores how contemporary artists are returning to the photographic medium’s experimental beginnings within the context of modernity. From thermal cameras to alternative darkroom techniques, these artists embrace subtraction, abstraction, amalgamation, unorthodox imaging, and non-traditional practices to explore new frontiers.

“New Tableau” features nine local and international artists, including Roger Ballen, Stefan Jennings Batista, Ryan Dennison, Jesse Draxler, Derrell Lopez, Emily Margarit Mason, Zuyva Sevilla, Nick Tauro Jr., and Ramona Zordini.

Opening Reception: Friday, March 21, 2025, 6:00-9:00 pm
Closing Reception: Friday, March 28, 2025, 2:00-5:00 pm

Artist Talk: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 5:15 pm
ARTSLab

Opening Reception: Monday, March 24, 2025, 5:00-8:00 pm
Artist Talk: 5:45pm

Opening Reception: Friday, March 28, 2025, 5:00-7:00 pm

Opening Reception: Friday, March 28, 2025, 6:00-9:00 pm

Opening Reception: Friday, March 28, 2025, 5:30 pm

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm
Artist Talk: Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 5:00 pm, Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room

MFA Thesis exhibition by Emma Ressel ’25 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 2nd floor.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 4, 2025, 6:00-9:00 pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, April 10, 2025, 12:30 pm
George Pearl Hall, Room 104