Tom Palmore
Tom Palmore:
Animal Farm
(Downtown Gallery) | August 6 – August 29
Palmore's witty and whimsical portraits take our human instinct toward personification of animals to an extreme. It has been said of the artist that he approaches each painting as though it were commissioned by the subject itself. This inversion of role between artist and subject is perhaps one of the predominant ways that Palmore achieves the illusionary quality intrinsic to his work. His paintings possess a compelling eloquence that elevates his subjects' status and depicts them in paint with a dignity, even personality, suggestive of his view of their full partnership on the earth with humans.

John Fincher
John Fincher:
Enduring Terrain
(Railyard Gallery) | July 30 – September 5
Honored as the official artist for the cover of The Santa Fe Opera's 2010 Season Program and its pair of Season Posters, John Fincher has for more than 40 years created art that memorializes - indeed celebrates - what the artist modestly terms "the trappings of the American West." Exercising a profound economy of means, his works derive startling emotional resonance from a combination of rigorously balanced composition, nuanced brushwork, dramatic shadowing, and the application of intense points of contrasting colors to punctuate significant visual elements. His images of towering poplars, pine limbs set against crystalline skies, richly hued desert hillsides, the array of colors within canopies of aspens turning, and aggressively cropped prickly pears unravel the manifold cultural meanings inscribed within representations of the mythic Western Frontier.

Sean Albert, Peter Bremers, Daniel Clayman, Steve Klein, Lucy Lyon, Charles Miner, Ethan Stern, Hiroshi Yamano
Luminous Forms:
Group Glass Exhibition
(Downtown Gallery) | July 2 – August 1
Luminous Forms presents new works by eight significant glass artists working both locally and internationally. Stronger than steel yet permeable by light, instrumental to both ancient rituals and modern sciences, offering both transparency and protection, and existing as a material uniquely capable of dematerializing space, glass?s manifold cultural associations and singular physical specificities continue to inform and extend the possibilities of contemporary art. Presenting works that range from meticulously rendered representations to sleek and light-suffused abstractions, the exhibition?s participating artists include: Sean Albert, Peter Bremers, Daniel Clayman, Steve Klein, Lucy Lyon, Charles Miner, Ethan Stern, and Hiroshi Yamano.

Forrest Moses
Forrest Moses:
Rock, Paper, Rivers
(Downtown Gallery) | July 2 – August 1
Establishing a dynamic tension between abstraction and representation, Moses's masterful depictions of serene woodlands and placid bodies of water emphasize both the tranquility of their subject matter and the eloquence of understated gestures. The artist's deeply meditative monotypes, which frequently depict the liminal spaces at the boundaries of land and water, communicate experiences of the natural world with unassuming beauty and zen-like restraint. To create these unique works on paper, Moses brushes or pours etching ink onto an acrylic plate, then wipes, pushes, scratches, thins or otherwise manipulates the ink before passing the plate through a press. The result is a unique, non-reproducible image with surface patterns and textures that call upon the full scope of the artist's extraordinarily painterly instincts to communicate the energy of spontaneous execution.