Review: Native Realities, Superheroes of Past, Present, and Future

A recent exhibition at one of Santa Fe’s truly contemporary galleries conveyed a tenet of what makes an art space in Santa Fe “contemporary” in the first place. The word is largely misused—by myself and everyone else I know—because we haven’t yet come up with a more suitable term; “contemporary” has become shorthand for a phrase that indicates something “relevant to an up-and-coming sensibility based in emerging realities, as opposed to a more traditional mainstream culture.” That phrase, and other, longer ones, might more accurately describe what it is that, in my opinion, qualifies form & concept as a very good contemporary gallery. READ MORE.