Conversation With Harmony Hammond, Johnnie Winona Ross, And Judy Tuwaletstiwa

Join Tamarind Institute in the gallery for To be continued, a two-part series of conversations with celebrated New Mexico artists about collaboration, creative momentum, and perseverance. The series takes its cue from the current exhibition Multiple Impressions: Artist Collaborations with Radius Books and Tamarind Institute as six of the exhibiting artists reside in New Mexico and are each experiencing a surge in national/international visibility and recognition. The conversations will cover the artists’ collaborations across media, and their ongoing commitment to exploring the relationships among form, material, concept, and experience.

Radius books/monographs of each artist will be for sale in the gallery.

Wednesday, July 10, 6pm
Conversation with Harmony Hammond, Johnnie Winona Ross, and Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Moderated by Nancy Zastudil, Tamarind Institute Gallery Director

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Harmony Hammond was a leading figure in the development of the feminist art movement in New York in the early 1970s. She was a co-founder of A.I.R., the first women’s cooperative art gallery in New York (1972) and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics (1976). Since 1984, she has lived and worked in northern New Mexico. Hammond’s earliest feminist work combined gender politics with post-minimal experimentation with materials and process, frequently occupying a space between painting and sculpture. Her near monochrome paintings of the last two decades continue these concerns. Often referred to as social abstraction, the paintings which include rough burlap, straps, grommets and rope along with Hammond’s signature layers of thick paint, engage formal strategies and material metaphors suggesting restraint, connection and agency. Her work is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in NY. Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art is currently on exhibit at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT until September 15, 2019. A solo exhibition of recent paintings at White Cube in London, opens September 12. On August 24, she and Holland Cotter, Pulitzer prize winning art critic for The New York Times will have a public conversation as part of the “My Life In Art” series at SITE Santa Fe.

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This year marks Johnnie Winona Ross’s 50th year working as a professional artist. In 1999, he resigned his post as chair of the art department at the Maine College of Art in Portland and moved to Taos, New Mexico, to devote himself to painting full time. He now exhibits regularly in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, and throughout Northern New Mexico. Ross has been the recipient of many grants and awards, including a Fulbright Artist in Residence and a Gottlieb Foundation Support Grant. His work has been covered in Art News, Art in America, Modern Painters and more, and can be found in public collections such as Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Harwood Museum of Art, Lannan Foundation and others.Ross is currently represented by Charlotte Jackson fine art, SantaFe and Brian Gross fine art, San Francisco. His Radius book was the first one published as Radius Books.

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Judy Tuwaletstiwa is a visual artist, writer and teacher. Her work resides in private and museum collections nationally and internationally.

After earning Degrees in English Literature from U.C. Berkeley and Harvard University, she discovered the power of visual art to connect us to the deepest part of ourselves. She has spent her life exploring and expressing this, using different media.

As a teacher, she helps people explore their unique creative vision.

She writes:

Art has taught me that walls and doorways are the same thing.
Art has taught me that an image can be a transformative gift of healing.
Art has taught me that what we see is only a fraction of what is there.
Art has taught me that the longer I make art, the greater the mystery.

Her solo show at the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico will run from June 7to September 15, 2019.

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Multiple Impressions, an exhibition featuring works by artists who have collaborated with Tamarind Institute and Radius Books to create lithographs and monographs, respectively. The spirit of the exhibition takes its cue from the multifaceted roles at play in the creation of collaborative, printed works while the overlap of projects between the two organizations speaks to a shared interest in the cultural value of the generative nature of the multiple. Featured artists include Charles Arnoldi, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Tony DeLap, James Drake, Harmony Hammond, Tom Joyce, Matt Magee, linn meyers, Johnnie Winona Ross, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, and Susan York.

In the gallery through September 7, 2019.