The summer Season in Santa Fe is over, the Fall is beautiful (more sun and warmth than is usual for this area...just moved some pepper and tomato plants back outside, on this late October day! Never happened before.

We've been back from Europe for just over 3 weeks. We spent a week as usual in Berlin, still discovering new areas.   I also took the train to Usedom where I will have a show of my (especially anti-war)  paintings in the Summer of '17, staying overnight in Zinnowitz, a resort we had lived in for some months after the bombing of Peenemuende.  Unfortunately for me and the seagulls,  all of the beaches in that section of the island had high wireless, and the seagulls were nowhere to be seen.   I swam twice anyway in the Baltic on that short trip.   In Basil I looked for the gallery I has originally found Friedrich Geier's work in (Brigitta Leupin); it had moved across town to the Muensterplatz.  She was happy to see me, and suggested we might do a collaboration.
   Stone Heng and Avebury were memorable Highlights;  unlike most viewers we do not own a 'smartphone'  and   enjoyed the  experience by just being as totally present as possible.   We hope to return there again.  My husband, Dan kept pointing out that no billboards marred the English country side.   Santa Fe's City Council however, wants to place interactive electronic billboards all over Santa Fe.  I hope the public comes in numbers to the Nov. 9th meeting to show their displeasure at this further Disneyland-izing   of our historical, art and culture fostering city.             

We had a wonderful celebration of my 75th Birthday (10/19)  last night     with several artist friends like Eli Levin, Jerry West, Sandra Place and Siegfried Halus  among them.   The raffle to which I donated 8 works was fun and humorous.

THE next event for A SEA Gallery will be my show of NEW work, including Berkeley and Das Niebelungenlied, as well as Diamond Sky (from/with Bob Dylan)   The Sky in Eden.  November 12, 3 -6 pm

  

David Rogers' Show

 

 

A SEA Gallery will feature artist, David Rogers acrylic and oil paintings (both “Faces” and Abstracts)  in a show “Embodied / Abstracted”  from August 6 to September 1st with an Opening Reception the afternoon of Saturday, August 6, from 3 to 6 pm.     836 A Canyon Rd.      988-9140

From the fourth generation of artists in the Wyeth-Hurd clan, David Rogers is the son of Peter Rogers and Carol Hurd, both well known Santa Fe painters;  all three have shown for years in the  Wyeth-Hurd Gallery.  David, who turned 50,   grandson of Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth and grand nephew of Andrew Wyeth, studied at the Chicago Art Institute and has a B.A. in Studio Arts and Art History from UNM.  While Rogers seems to express states of mind in his“Faces,”  which  are more contemporary than the  Hurd- Wyeth tradition, his  abstracts deviate completely from his family, exploring  further  some of the ideas and aesthetic of  the New Mexico Transcendentalists.

For more information call Monika Steinhoff at 988-9140.

                    Thank you.

Having had to upgrade my computer system, I am still working on understanding this new  (for me)system.   So this is my first Blog entry on this unfamiliar machine!

So, in 8 days is the Book Signing for  well known artist, Bruce Lowney:     Friday, June 17th from 5 -7 (in THE the time is given as 6 - 9!  but the 5 - 7 pm is  usual on Canyon  Rd.  If necessary we' ll be there beyond 7 pm.    

aSEAgallery will host a Reception,  Saturday, May 7th, from 3 - 6 pm  for artist Carol Hoy's new Encaustics

April 17 th Sunday - we're in one of those mid -Spring unseasonable (unreasonable?) cold spells...but that's pretty normal for April   ["April is the cruelest Month, bearing lilacs out of the deadlands, mixing memory with desire, stirring dull roots with Spring rains..."    from Prufrock,  ]*  we sure need the moisture so us locals are content with the week long cloud cover!   And despite the cold,  lots of people are out visiting galleries in Santa Fe,  and yesterday the gallery had not just one but two good sales:  the first,    2 Steinhoff etchings and the other, Friedrich Geier's Rickies 2nd Dream  to collectors from Pennsylvania.    Hardly anyone buys on [* In this rather bizarre polarized political climate poetry studied more than 50 years ago, creeps into mind. ]
After all this is a gallery of "politically engaged artists" and  my commentary on the ABSURDITY (the computer does this to me when I start typing too fast),  moral bankruptedness and downright insanity of Congress authorizing billions to upgrade our whole arsenal of nuclear weapons in this time of civilization being on a precipice ....global warming threatens survival, little expenditure on our crumbling infrastructure, education, etc.  was finally published by  the New Mexican under Opinions, My View. Empires always eventually crumble, and greed and power grabs don't steer the 'ship of state'  into a sustainable harbour.  (image borrowed from Leonard Cohen)  MS

This is a celebration of A SEA Gallery's    1st 6 months in this Canyon Road  location [hasn't been lucrative, but RENT has been paid, plus the more expensive utilities, as well as lots of building improvement/repair.]    Everyone who comes in likes the space, 'charming' is the  most frequent adjective.  I've even done a little painting of my own work outside, and look forward to more.

SO...      I'm going to present a Monthly Special:  one piece  that is discounted 35 %     March's painting will be   Calling my Camels    encaustic  13 1/2 x 10 1/2     normally 1200.     for    813.      (savings of 437.) It's a sweet little painting.  

Apologies to my wonderful artist, George Arntz,   my misspelling of his name on the October Blog was partially my dislecsia (sp? not in my dictionary!!!)   and my having to   rush as well as my discomfort with being on the computer too much  (we artists are not left brain enough for this technology,)  and not yet figured out how to edit a post (I will...have done it before ...just not often enough to remember, but it will happen,  and soon I will do a more complete post!      Now I must go outside!   Monika

Roseplasma   -   Drawing by Friedrich Geier whose show will feature a Closing Celebration Saturday
February   5th from 3-5 pm.    The 2nd image is Wurzelmaennchen   Call A SEA Gallery for more
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988-9140