Current
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The Poetics of Growth
by Jacks McNamara 27 Sep - 30 Nov 2024 New Mexico-based artist Jacks McNamara presents a new series of ink wash paintings on wood that explores the phenomena of change. Read more -
Valerie Rangel: Heroes | Villains
8 Oct - 30 Nov 2024 Paper cut artist Valerie Rangel presents new papel picado works that depict fictional and historical characters with morally ambiguous narratives. Read more
Forthcoming
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You Are A Star In My Sky
Featuring Jennifer Ling Datchuk 22 Nov 2024 - 1 Feb 2025 You Are a Star In My Sky is a group exhibition of ceramic works curated by and featuring Jennifer Ling Datchuk. Read more -
Rodeo Drive
Project Space: TinTin 22 Nov 2024 - 18 Jan 2025 Conceptual artist TinTin presents Rodeo Drive, an exhibition of cow skull sculptures inspired by luxury handbags. Read more
Past
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Character Development
Project Space: Paulina Ho 26 Jul - 15 Oct 2024 Multidisciplinary New-Mexico-based artist & graphic designer Paulina Ho presents new handbuilt ceramics, works on paper, and small and large-scale paintings in the gallery's project space. Read more -
Ebendorf & The Usual Suspects II
20 Jul - 28 Sep 2024 "Ebendorf & The Usual Suspects II" debuts the latest evolution of Robert Ebendorf's inventive use of found objects. One of the most celebrated artists in the studio jewelry movement, Ebendorf presents new curiosities alongside work by close confidants and long-term admirers. Read more -
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas: My Hair Story – from Brunette to Gray
28 Jun - 14 Sep 2024 Rosemary Meza-DesPlas' 22-year retrospective, "My Hair Story: from Brunette to Gray," confronts the sexualization of Latina bodies, gender-based burdens, & the relationship between sex, violence, and women in popular media. Read more -
We've Been Gathering Places: 2024 IAIA MFA in Studio Arts Thesis Exhibition
10 May - 15 Jun 2024 The Institute of American Indian Arts and form & concept present "We've Been Gathering Places," the 2024 IAIA MFA in studio arts thesis exhibition. Featured artists: Joely BigEagle-Kequahtooway, Leah Mata, Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich, Lozen Haozous, Mekko Harjo, Kéyah Henry, Graci Horne, & Daisy Trudell-Mills. Read more -
Querencia
29 Mar - 29 Jun 2024 Featuring artists Ekin Balcıoğlu, Sergio Sánchez Santamaria, and Darcy Lee Rose. Read more -
Jenny Day: A Feast to Remember
featuring prints by Nicky Nodjoumi, Nusra Qureshi, David Hare & more. 19 Mar - 26 Apr 2024 A Feast to Remember is a sprawling mixed media exhibition that features monumental paintings and fanciful ceramic creatures by Santa Fe-based interdisciplinary artist Jenny Day. Day’s immersive banquet installation, populated by a menagerie of mixed media animal, sets the stage for a roundtable discussion on humanity’s place in and culpability... Read more -
Bhakti Ziek: A Tenuous Thread
Featuring Tali Weinberg, Jovencio de la Paz, Anastatia Spicer, Susie Taylor & Ann Morton 23 Feb - 26 Apr 2024 A Tenuous Thread is a retrospective encompassing five decades of creative output by master weaver Bhakti Ziek. Arranged chronologically, the retrospective charts the evolution of Ziek's pioneering approach to weaving alongside a historical survey of textile craft that raises questions about cultural appropriation that can be traced back to the... Read more -
Print & Craft Showcase: Known Points
Featuring Calli Beck 26 Jan - 16 Mar 2024 'Known Points features literal landscapes, abstract evocations of place, and cultural landscapes,' says Director Jordan Eddy. 'My favorite artworks in the show blend all three approaches to placemaking.' In Known Points, Santa Fe-based artist and designer Calli Beck presents a series of mixed-media landscape compositions titled with specific coordinates that... Read more -
Salt Pillars
17 Nov 2023 - 10 Feb 2024 Salt Pillars is a group exhibition of photographs and sculptures by Eric Cousineau, Andrés Mario de Varona, Morgan Barnard and Michael Petry. The show features six series, each with a central motif that serves as a surreal container for human experience. Televisions, motel rooms, light boxes, glass forms and a... Read more -
Paper Trails
In collaboration with Zane Bennett Contemporary Art 27 Oct 2023 - 10 Feb 2024 Paper Trails is a mixed media exhibition that draws compelling links between printmaking icons and contemporary sculptors. The show is a collaboration between form & concept and our sister collection, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art. Legends of the Zane Bennett collection, including Ed Ruscha , Bruce Nauman , Helen Frankenthaler and... Read more -
Doreen Wittenbols: Happening
29 Sep 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 Doreen Wittenbols exhibits a new series of paintings and sculptures in faux kitchen installation to subvert Western stereotypes of femininity. Read more -
Andrew Alba: Lifted Labor
29 Sep 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 Andrew Alba riffs on neo-expressionist visual history with raw, unfiltered paintings that resist the intellectualization of art via frank depictions of labor. Read more -
Jamison Chās Banks: STORE Vol. II
18 Aug - 30 Sep 2023 In STORE Vol. II, Jamison Chās Banks recreates a 1980's convenience store with the help of four local colleagues. The installation draws from the Santa Fe-based artist's childhood experiences with material culture, transforming commercial objects such as Hostess fruit pies and cigarette cartons into layered simulacrums. Read more -
Do You Want to Bead Together?
18 Aug - 30 Nov 2023 Beadwork stands as a defining medium within the realm of contemporary Indigenous art. This showcase casts a warm spotlight on this intricate practice, offering essential critical recognition for its extensive scope and profound influence. Read more -
Angel Oloshove: Emotional Landscapes
28 Jul - 15 Sep 2023 Angel Oloshove debuts a new series of ceramic sculptures and works on paper that examine how we project our emotions and perceptions onto physical landscapes. Read more -
Chaw Ei Thein: WANTED
28 Jul - 30 Sep 2023 Burmese dissident artist Chaw Ei Thein dissects camouflage and hand-paints Buddhas to craft complex tales of exile and revolution. WANTED synthesizes Thein’s personal narrative and Myanmar’s tumultuous history with ferocity and humor. Read more -
Armond Lara
A Shifting Retrospective 30 Jun - 30 Sep 2023 Armond Lara: A Shifting Retrospective presents selections from Armond Lara's rich and varied oeuvre, many of which have been hidden from public view for decades. Throughout the show, the artworks on view will cycle, allowing the public to experience the full arc of the artist's half-century career. Read more -
Cory Feder & Diego Medina: Alight
16 Jun - 11 Aug 2023 In Alight, the prolific New Mexico-based artists Cory Feder and Diego Medina present a selection of illustrations and papercut works that explore the histories and implications of the obsidian mirror, an object that originated in Aztec-era Mexico before being brought across the Pacific where it entered the collection of Elizabethan... Read more -
Mira Burack: Sacred Bouquet
A Satellite Exhibition of CURRENTS 2023 26 May - 15 Jul 2023 Sacred Bouquet forges new ways to step back into a similar space of community care through ritual and rest, offering audiences a sensual, secular route to accessing the ritual framework of Sukkot. Sacred Bouquet is the New Mexico debut of the four-channel video installation and sound bath of the same... Read more -
Our Place: To the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome
Tom & Ravenna Osgood 28 Apr - 17 Jun 2023 In Our Place: to the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome, two new bodies of work from father-daughter duo Tom and Ravenna Osgood merge to transport viewers to a shared psychic space of creative connectivity and ultimate freedom. This exhibition celebrates the legacy of an incredible artist, father... Read more -
Lindsey Reddick: I Cried in Front of You
31 Mar - 9 Jun 2023 From Temecula to Santa Fe, Lindsey Reddick's recent ceramic sculptures examine familial relationships large and small. From chosen family to the bugs in the grass to foundational maternal connections, these formal explorations serve as little vehicles for big feelings. Read more -
Enrique Figueredo: Sigue Pasando Por Aquí
Presented in partnership with Zane Bennett Contemporary Art 25 Mar - 15 Jul 2023 Presented in partnership with Zane Bennett Contemporary, Sigue Pasando Por Aquí offers an overview of recent works by Austin-based printmaker and educator Enrique Figueredo. Born in Venezuela and raised in the United States, Figueredo explores complicated notions of alienation and belonging in an image-saturated culture through experiments in relief printmaking... Read more -
Arrivals 2023
24 Feb - 6 May 2023 This dynamic exhibition serves as a prelude to form & concept’s 2023 exhibition schedule, showcasing works that compress vast emotional and physical geographies and offer myriad approaches to our complicated contemporary moment. Read more -
Ebendorf & The Usual Suspects
24 Feb - 6 May 2023 This dimensional biography of renowned jeweler Robert Ebendorf features a selection of works from the artist alongside the students and mentors who helped to embolden his wildly original practice of transforming found and natural objects into incredible adornments. Comprised of wall pieces and wearables from some of Ebendorf’s closest confidants... Read more -
C Alex Clark: Inventory of Reflection
27 Jan - 1 Apr 2023 As the hologram developed as a creative medium, artists traditionally focused on the image isolated from the object, with the physical hologram being the focus of attention. In my practice, I’ve explored how to incorporate both the form and history of an object...to investigate the relationship between the hologram's material... Read more -
under a rock, along the shore
15 Nov 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 under a rock, along the shore explores the multifaceted legacy of the relationship between human, land and camera. The show’s photographs and objects evoke the experience of moving through and interacting with the high desert mesas and fertile valleys of the Desert Southwest, where most of the artists reside. Read more -
Megan Bent: Patient / Belongings
15 Oct 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 In Patient / Belongings, photo-based artist Megan Bent presents a selection of photographic meditations that center the artist’s experience as a disabled person throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Vivid reproductions of chlorophyll prints on leaves presented alongside their originals speak to exquisite and fleeting realities of human life. Read more -
R. Melinda Hoffman: Accoutrements of Domesticity
30 Sep - 5 Nov 2022 R. Melinda Hoffman harnesses the power of discarded domestic tools as "anthropological artifacts" in a large-scale installation that probes conventional ideas of womanhood and domesticity. Read more -
Jacks McNamara: Ancestral Imagination
17 Sep - 3 Dec 2022 Santa Fe-based artist Jacks McNamara develops their ancestral imagination in this immersive solo display. Mythical plants and transcendent abstractions swirl together, offering emotive portals into the past and future. Read more -
Wild Pigment Project
Curated by Tilke Elkins 17 Sep - 23 Dec 2022 Wild Pigment Project promotes ecological balance and regenerative economies through a passion for wild pigments, their places of origin, and their cultural histories. This group exhibition gathers pigments, artwork and stories from people who’ve engaged with the project since its inception in 2019. Read more -
Tilke Elkins: Records of Being Held
17 Sep - 23 Dec 2022 “Pigments are living collaborators. I paint on wild surfaces, with mineral and botanical pigments originating in the sites where I work,” writes Tilke Elkins. While the Oregon-based artist’s solo exhibition exists in a gallery space, it’s a visual and tactile conduit to the places where she hand-gathers materials and creates artwork. Read more -
Camille Hoffman: Motherlands
13 Aug - 23 Dec 2022 Although Camille Hoffman is formally trained as a painter, she applies the respective textures and stories of found materials as though they are colors from her palette. This solo exhibition transforms the gallery’s atrium into its own immersive landscape and "womb." Read more -
Natalie Rae Good: Night Loop
29 Jul - 3 Sep 2022 “Things often are not what they seem,” writes Natalie Rae Good. The artist explores illusions of power and vulnerability in her ongoing series of porcelain chain mail compositions, which rest on fur, beckoning touch. “They initiate a conversation surrounding denial in relationship to the body’s softness and vulnerability,” continues Good.... Read more -
Working with Kin
Curated by Heidi Brandow 16 Jul - 1 Oct 2022 Gallery mainstay Heidi Brandow curates and contributes to this group exhibition. The show is a dimensional biography of the Santa Fe-based artist’s life, uniting friends and mentors who have shaped her path. Read more -
Shomit Barua & Christine Cassano: Degrees of Granularity
CURRENTS New Media Festival Official Selection 17 Jun - 1 Oct 2022 In Degrees of Granularity, over 500 hand-formed pieces of paper-thin, translucent porcelain are delicately stacked on a mirror and on top of each other. They appear still, but motion reactive audio reveals subtle tectonics. Read more -
Holly Roberts: For Just A Moment
Extended 27 May - 30 Jul 2022 Holly Roberts shares over two years of creative output in For Just A Moment, the artist’s second solo exhibition at form & concept. Never-before-exhibited work featuring beloved motifs, including faces, horses and coyotes, mingle with new subjects and aesthetics. Stories from the artist’s blog detailing influences and process will appear beside key artworks. Read more -
Bigger Than This Room
29 Apr - 30 Jul 2022 Land art of the American West—think Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970), or Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field (1977)—has played an outsized role in shaping modern myths of the region. Bigger Than This Room is an exhibition of art and ephemera that reframes the picture, embedding monuments within larger cultural vistas. Read more -
Jami Porter Lara, Erin Mickelson & Kate Ruck: ***
(Asterisks) 29 Apr - 25 Jun 2022 In *** (a stylization of Asterisks), three artists confront the interlocking paradigms of art space as white space, and identity as fixed or nameable. Harnessing personal and cultural meanings, three artists usher the peripheral and parenthetical to the foreground. Read more -
Niomi "Moss" Fawn: FLOURISH
Romancing the Mysteries 15 Apr - 14 May 2022 Unfolding across five weeks, with the Pagan celebration of Beltane at its center, FLOURISH is a landscape for sacred ritual and tender interaction. Lush natural motifs abound, visual and tactile pleasures swirl, and narratives of queer celebration bloom. Read more -
Arrivals 2022
25 Feb - 28 May 2022 This group exhibition welcomes a dynamic new circle of creatives to form & concept. Filling two rooms and over 3,000 square feet, the show serves as a prelude for our 2022 exhibition schedule—and a crossroads for names that are sure to make their mark in Santa Fe. Read more -
JoeBob
A Collaborative Jewelry Series 12 Feb - 16 Apr 2022 Robert Ebendorf and Joe Price have been pen pals for quite a while, but in the midst of the pandemic, their correspondence leveled up. They went from swapping postcards and collages to trading packages full of in-process brooches and pendants. The result is a brand new jewelry collection, JoeBob, that’s a witty and colorful tribute to a 20-year friendship. Read more -
Metals Showcase
20 Nov 2021 - 22 Jan 2022 Metals are a timeless staple among jewelers for a reason: they possess a unique depth and versatility that melds the functional with the sculptural. Our selection of artists in this season’s Metals Showcase take inspiration from a variety of places, people, experiences, and aesthetic notions to fashion metals-based jewelry. Read more -
Debra Baxter: Love Tears
29 Oct 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 Debra Baxter’s solo exhibition Love Tears embodies the entanglement of love, mortality and the natural world. Taking cues from Victorian mourning jewelry, Baxter uses a vocabulary of crystals, minerals, glass and metal to talk about the ways we have adorned grief throughout history to memorialize and commemorate loss. Read more -
She Dances Like A Bomb
Curated by Debra Baxter & Dawn Cerny 29 Oct 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 Artists Debra Baxter and Dawn Cerny curate this national group show of sculptors who are all linked to Bard College’s legendary studio arts program. She Dances Like A Bomb unites a remarkable circle of women sculptors that challenges the legacies of minimalism and postminimalism from many angles. Read more -
Erin Mickelson: PAST PERFECT FUTURE
29 Oct 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 “I was always hoping for something gorgeous, or hopeful. But it was terrifying, and ultimately ominous,” says Erin Mickelson. The Santa Fe-based artist, interested in the labyrinthine meanings and Derridaean readings of language and symbols, embarked in early 2020 on a research-intensive journey into artificial intelligence, data-mining and how the... Read more -
We Are The Seeds
11 Aug - 15 Oct 2021 Now in its fifth year, We Are The Seeds is an arts festival that unites a community of Indigenous creatives in Santa Fe each August. For this companion exhibition at form & concept, Seeds Director Tailinh Agoyo and Co-Founder Paula Mirabal build a dimensional biography of the project’s inception and... Read more -
Thais Mather: Western Blue
11 Aug - 13 Nov 2021 The New Mexico artist is referring to the western bluebirds that live in her garden and the surrounding high desert terrain. They’re often preyed upon by fiercely territorial swallows, but they manage to thrive. Mather mirrors and magnifies the experience of spotting one in her new exhibition Western Blue, suspending... Read more -
UNSEEN
An International Exhibition of Book Arts 11 Aug - 20 Nov 2021 For this international exhibition of book arts, form & concept partners for the first time with 23 Sandy, an online book arts gallery run by owner/director Erin Mickelson. Eddy and Mickelson teamed up with two-time Fulbright recipient Barb Tetenbaum to select 76 works by 65 artists, ranging from traditional codexes... Read more -
The Sculpted Image: Landscapes 2019-2021
Martin Alexander Spatlen Etem 25 Jun - 16 Oct 2021 form & concept is proud to introduce the work of multidisciplinary artist Martin Alexander Spratlen Etem for his inaugural showing at form & concept. The California-based artist’s solo show The Sculpted Image: Landscapes 2019–2021 opens June 25, and features never-before-seen sculpture and photography work made in 2021 alongside selections from... Read more -
Carolyn Riman: Plant People
25 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 “I have gone to plants, looking for examples of how to be at home,' writes Carolyn Riman from her New Mexico studio. The artist's tender portraits of Southwestern plant life serve as an anchor for the gallery's Summer Show 2021 , now on view through the end of July. “Carolyn... Read more -
Model of Motions by Sama Alshaibi & Michael Fadel
A CURRENTS New Media Festival Satellite Show 18 Jun - 14 Aug 2021 Award-winning artists and collaborators Sama Alshaibi and Michael Fadel mount their multimedia installation Model of Motions at form & concept, opening June 18. An official satellite show of the CURRENTS New Media Festival 2021, the display features their collaborative piece Swell, a kinetic sculpture featuring a rocking wooden boat, gypsum... Read more -
Entangled Futurities: metaspores for queer trans/genic symbionts
Tigre Mashaal-Lively & Pascal Emmer 28 May - 31 Jul 2021 form & concept is delighted to present Entangled Futurities: metaspores for queer trans/genic symbionts, a new two-person exhibition featuring never-before-exhibited ink drawings, small sculptures and a sound installation by emerging New Mexico-based artists Tigre Mashaal-Lively and Pascal Emmer. Entangled Futurities is a collaborative intertwining of visionary fiction and material works... Read more -
Nikesha Breeze: Four Sites of Return
Ritual | Remembrance | Reparation | Reclamation 30 Apr - 15 Jun 2021 Four Sites of Return: Ritual | Remembrance | Reparation | Reclamation marks interdisciplinary artist Nikesha Breeze's premiere solo show at form & concept. Breeze’s multifaceted magnum opus distills decades of their creative output, and crystallizes deep truths of the Black experience through visual art and ritual performance. Its appearance at... Read more -
Hand Tools of Resilience
An International Juried Exhibition 30 Apr - 15 Jun 2021 Hand Tools of Resilience is an international juried exhibition that appears throughout Nikesha Breeze’s Four Sites of Return. The project invited African diasporic and Indigenous artists to examine the conscious and unconscious tools that Black and Indigenous people have created to survive, thrive and build within oppressive and abusive systems.... Read more -
Spectrum
Spring Print & Ceramics Showcase 9 Apr - 28 May 2021 Collections collide in this exhibition featuring selections from form & concept and our sister gallery, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art . The display of prints and ceramics is co-curated by Director Jordan Eddy and Print Curator Kylee Aragon Wallis. Learn more about the show in the Spectrum blog series, linked below.... Read more -
Family Room
29 Jan - 31 May 2021 Family Room is a group exhibition and immersive installation designed by a national consortium of LGBTQ+ artists and performers. This functional and modular living room, featuring art, craft and design objects that were made, altered or found by the featured artists, is a stage for visual artworks and performances that... Read more -
Unlock the Paradox
A Site-specific Art Installation by The Eyes of Time 30 Oct - 31 Dec 2020 The Eyes of Time, installation, augmented reality, interactive, Santa Fe, site-specific Read more -
Orlando Dugi
2020 Capsule Collection 15 Aug - 19 Sep 2020 form & concept is thrilled to present, in collaboration with Santa Fe Indian Market, the 2020 Capsule Collection of Diné designer Orlando Dugi. Read more -
Live Wire
Materials of a Revolution 31 Jul - 18 Oct 2020 Fiber is the material of revolution. Think of Betsy Ross stitching an early version of the American flag or Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty holding colors aloft to usher in the French Revolution. In recent decades, boundary-shattering artists from Judy Chicago to Faith Ringgold have provided potent kindling for social and political... Read more -
Summer Show 2020
26 Jun - 10 Oct 2020 Every summer since its founding in 2016, form & concept has invited our dynamic array of represented artists to unite for a group exhibition of new works. Local and far-flung creative voices come together for a conversation about art, craft and design. For this year's Summer Show, artworks created during... Read more -
Consilience
Curated by Brian Fleetwood 27 Mar - 18 Jul 2020 Consilience, a group exhibition featuring Brian Fleetwood, Chris Ramsay, Kenneth Johnson, Mark Herndon, Susie Ganch, Carly Feddersen, Tania Larsson, JQ Nightshade, Anangookwe Wolf Read more -
Belt Buckle Expo 2020
27 Mar - 18 Jul 2020 Belt Buckle Expo 2020, juried by artists and buckle enthusiasts Bryan Peterson and Robert Ebendorf, returns for its second year at form & concept gallery. Forty buckles, from copper blooming dahlias to drawn neo-chrome and enameled inhalers, showcase this year’s top entries to the World Champion Belt Buckle Competition. Since... Read more -
Wesley Anderegg | Critters
28 Feb - 16 May 2020 Wesley Anderegg has exhibited his peculiar ceramic figures in Santa Fe for over three decades, and one of his sculptures was recently acquired by the New Mexico Museum of Art. The California ceramicist celebrates this momentous occasion with a procession of fierce and fantastical creatures. The menagerie of wild eyes... Read more -
Jacquelyn Royal | The New Police
Atrium Series 28 Feb - 16 May 2020 form & concept is delighted to announce the return of needlepoint artist Jacquelyn Royal in her first solo show at the gallery, following two group exhibitions in 2018 and 2019. Royal’s The New Police marks the first show in form & concept’s Atrium Series, an array of ambitious solo displays... Read more -
OBJECTS: REDUX—50 Years of Craft Evolution
31 Jan - 30 Apr 2020 OBJECTS: REDUX has been extended through the month of April. In 1969, the Smithsonian American Art Museum debuted OBJECTS: USA, a sprawling exhibition featuring 308 craft artists and over 500 objects. The show would travel the United States and Europe, vaulting craft into the contemporary art milieu and forever changing... Read more -
Match: Printmaking
31 Jan - 11 Apr 2020 Opening in conjunction with Zane Bennett Contemporary Art’s Winter/Spring Exhibition, form & concept presents a display of local, emerging printmakers for the first installment of the Match curatorial program. Match encourages collectors to invest in early career artists who are carrying forward revolutionary conversations started by the gallery’s roster of... Read more -
Todd Ryan White
Rainbow Eater 29 Nov 2019 - 25 Jan 2020 Artist Todd Ryan White premieres an exciting new body of work in Rainbow Eater, the artist's first solo show at form & concept. The exhibition includes immersive installation, collage, watercolor, ink drawing and wood and glass sculpture. An opening reception with live music will be held on Friday, Nov. 29,... Read more -
Homecoming
NMSA Alumni Exhibition 25 Oct - 16 Nov 2019 Homecoming celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the New Mexico School for the Arts by highlighting the creativity of Visual Arts Department alumni while also acknowledging the community of artists that helped them grow. This juried alumni exhibition features works from the graduating NMSA VA classes of 2012-19, as well as... Read more -
Jewelry Edition V
A Traveling Show-In-A-Box 6 Sep - 5 Oct 2019 One box — eight American makers. Jewelers Kat Cole and Laura Wood bring their favorite emerging metalsmiths and jewelry artists to a national audience, starting with Santa Fe. Jewelry Edition was first organized in 2012 as a new type of opportunity for early career artists to gain national exposure. The... Read more -
Heidi Brandow | New Works
16 Aug - 12 Oct 2019 After a banner year, Santa Fe artist Heidi Brandow debuts a new series of whimsical characters and monsters on a large scale. “I knew from an early age that our native identity is so rich that we shouldn’t just hold it to a specific ceremony or spiritual practice,” says... Read more -
Belt Buckle Expo
Selections from the 2019 World Champion Belt Buckle Competition 26 Jul - 12 Oct 2019 Exhibition page for Belt Buckle Expo: Selections from the 2019 World Champion Belt Buckle Competition at Form and Concept Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This international group show of wearable artworks was organized by metalsmiths Bryan Petersen and Tom Muir, and presented in conjunction with Montana State University. Read more -
Six Years Smitten
26 Jul - 12 Oct 2019 “It started with a community of makers who wanted to create in a radical new way,” says Marissa Saneholtz, one of the co-founders of the Smitten Forum. Every year since 2014, Marissa Saneholtz and Sara Brown have invited a new group of jewelers and metalsmiths to work side-by-side in a... Read more -
Summer Show
28 Jun - 12 Oct 2019 It might be a little early in our gallery’s history,” says form & concept director Jordan Eddy. “But our summer exhibitions have become our favorite tradition.” Every summer since its founding in 2016, form & concept has invited its dynamic team of represented artists to come together for a group... Read more -
Susan Beiner | Sugar Fields
31 May - 13 Jul 2019 “I have a new outlook,” says ceramicist Susan Beiner. “By utilizing repetition and multiplication, I create dense patterning–but with spaces to take a breath.” This May, Beiner returns to form & concept for a solo exhibition featuring a large-scale, modular installation. The wall sculptures will feature Beiner’s characteristic floral forms,... Read more -
Beyond Punch Cards
31 May - 13 Jul 2019 The group exhibition Beyond Punch Cards was inspired by a woman who changed the world. Mathematician Ada Lovelace studied the complex engineering behind the Jacquard loom to invent the first computational algorithm in 1840. “ The analytical engine will weave algebraic patterns like Jacquard looms weave flowers and leaves,” Lovelace... Read more -
Superscript
26 Apr - 13 Jul 2019 “The working title for Superscript was ‘Exploded Book,’” says Jordan Eddy, director of form & concept and curator of the gallery’s spring book art exhibition. “I spent the winter hunting for book artworks that quite literally project into the world around them.” The group show unites insurgent members of New... Read more -
Ryan Singer | Childhood Mythologies
29 Mar - 25 May 2019 Albuquerque artist Ryan Singer unveils a solo exhibition of acrylic paintings of Navajo Nation landscapes populated by cultural icons. The artist’s vivid imagery showcases original narratives inspired by dreams and childhood memories while interweaving subtle socio-political commentary. My older sister was really into sci-fi. If she wanted to see a... Read more -
Lisa Klakulak | Since Taos
22 Feb - 20 Apr 2019 “The works are really segmented into these different chapters of my life,” Lisa Klakulak says. Her new solo exhibition, Since Taos: Contraction of Mass, Concision of Thought , is an autobiography rolled into felt and shaped into 13 affecting sculptures. The collection reflects the artist’s life starting in 2001, when... Read more -
Nika Feldman | Spirits in the Material World
25 Jan - 23 Mar 2019 Nika Feldman unveils a series of seven garment-like works along with accompanying objects of adornment, made from recycled t-shirt parts and salvaged aluminum can pull-tabs. Representing over 2,000 hours of handwork by the Nova Scotia artist, the intricate pieces are inspired by the coded language of clothing. 'It's an attempt... Read more -
MICROCOSM 2018
30 Nov - 31 Dec 2018 form & concept presents the second annual MICROCOSM group exhibition. The gallery invited all-star artists and designers from its 2018 shows to make works measuring 8 x 10 inches or smaller. It's form & concept's final statement of the year, reflecting the variety of mediums and messages that graced the... Read more
