In November, 2023, Joan Malkerson and Carol Nagan collaborated on different people’s portraits in Carrizozo . These are the photos of the portraits on easels when we enjoyed our dinner with the participants.
Malkerson Gallery 408 presents exhibitions throughout the year inviting the public to each of their openings.
It’s a Weekend of Art on Twelfth Street! Featuring the Paintings of Joel Becktell at Malkerson Gallery 408 and also Presenting the Winners of the New Mexico Photo Contest 2023 at Photozozo Gallery.
Enjoy a video of the day’s events including some of Joel’s cello performance.
LUCY’S UNIVERSE “Lucy is the three-million-year-old fossil and bone remains who anthropologists consider the first evidence of bipedal ancestors to our human race. I have installed nine footprints in clay depicting a walking biped. In my imagination, she and her daughter were looking up to the stars….heavens… and seeing the wonder of the universe, just as we do today. We and many other cultures also consider the cosmos an amazing vast place of many curiosities. Science is telling us more and more about it. The whole show is focusing on the universe….galaxies, the sun, the moon, the Hubble telescope images, and the mystery and magic of eclipses, falling stars etc.”
Malkerson Gallery 408 showed “The Rose”
Opening Reception Saturday, February 17, 2018
Exhibition through April 2, 2018
“A Rose is a Rose is a Rose” by Gertrude Stein
Notes on The Rose theme by Joan Malkerson
The title of this themed show, “A Rose is a Rose is a Rose” is a quote from a Gertrude Stein’s 1913 poem named “Sacred Emily”. This line in her poem epitomizes the infinite forms in a word, some of which are a rose as a color, a name, a flower and the past tense of rise. She said in a lecture, “When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.” This quote has been contrasted with the Shakespeare’s quote “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. Gertrude Stein was influenced at Radcliffe College by William James who studied the psychology of consciousness. Gertrude’s poem reads like a stream of consciousness. In the Gallery here, we too have a repetition of different interpretations of the Rose. In a sense, it is a collective visual stream of consciousness. These repetitions and interpretations of the Rose, injects a deeper and more expansive meaning.
Gertrude Stein was an intellectual and often surrounded herself on the Left Bank of Paris with other artists and thinkers of avant-garde culture and innovative perspectives. And here we are with our own Carrizozo community of artists and thinkers…. a group of very creative imaginative, and playful people. In this little desert town, we support and honor artists and their working practice.
Look around. Use your individual learning experiences and your whole body in an active visual perception of these artworks. These imaginary interpretations of a rose may find you in a secret garden, on a spiritual journey, reflecting, meditating, praying or feeling optimistic. Or, you might wonder about a mysterious window, imagine yourself on a magical, mystical journey, watch a vessel giving birth to a rose, or see generosity in continuously growing paper roses. You will see so many different styles and mediums of art making, so that you will want to see them again and again. Twenty-two artists have taken the time and consideration to participate and interpret The Rose. I am so grateful for all of you and enriched by their visions.
Wood, copper, brass, paper, oil, watercolor, ink, ceramic, acrylic, photography, found objects, music, words, textiles, glass printmaking, stones, linen, sewing, beads and ribbon and all the many different combinations and processes of those materials are all represented here. Amazing!!! This collection of visions of The Rose has great strength and depth.
Participating artists include:
Virginia Braden, Polly Chavez, Judy Pekelsma, Deborah Geary, Rick Geary, Steve Fortelny, Coe Kitten, Fran Alteri, Palla Hope de la Torre, Sherry Hayne, Mike Lagg, Paula Wilson, Pia Imas, Timothy o’Lear, Joan Malkerson, Mark Cohen, Suzanne Donazetti.
The Opening
The Red Door Gallery is the new “Pop-Up Gallery” that has been created in the downstairs part of the Tularosa Basin Gallery of Photography [better known as Photozozo] at 401 12th Street in the Arts District of Carrizozo. It is an extension of the Malkerson Gallery 408. To access it you simply walk in the front door of the Photo Gallery and go straight through to the back of the Gallery and enter the RED DOOR. Then go down the stairs, and you are there.
In 2017 Joan presented a large-scale exhibition called A Carrizozo Love Story that featured sculptures, paintings, video and multimedia art. It was a surround-sound style experience staged down the stairs in the old Lutz building also on Twelfth Street. Here is the card and some photos from the exhibit.
Joan wrote a beautiful poem she put to video for the show. Here it is.
MalkersonGallery 408 has featured dozens of artists and hosted many exhibitions. Four Artists came together to exhibit their views of people and portraits with the reception on March 21, 2014. Enjoy this short slide show of the event shown at 415 12 Street.
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