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Inside FUSION’s 708, we host a slate of rotating visual art exhibits. Working in partnership with curators and art associations, the FUSION Gallery features an impressive slice of work from artists around New Mexico! Enjoy the art during any public event at FUSION, or or contact info@fusionabq.org to make an appointment to view.
Current Exhibits
New Mexico Veteran Arts Summer Exhibition: May 26–July 4
Opening: May 26, 5–8 PM; Also open: Friday, June 2, 5–9 PM (The ABQ Artwalk)
The New Mexico Veteran Arts organization invites you to view their summer exhibition. NMVA will be displaying a combination of wall art, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, and fiber art. The wall art will be a combination of oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings; photography; and mixed media. The subject matter will be quite varied including landscapes, florals, portraits, animals, buildings, Native American, and abstract. Several of our artists are award winning in competitions within and outside of NMVA.
To schedule a visit, email FUSION.
“Tracing the Female Line” Exhibit by Julianna Kirwin: May 26–July 4
Opening: May 26, 5–8 PM; Also open: Friday, June 2, 5–9 PM (The ABQ Artwalk)
Printmaker Julianna Kirwin invites you to an exhibit featuring pieces completed in the past year. This series of pieces are self-portraits and portraits of her Polish grandmother, also named Julianna, who has been a huge influence in her life. Even though they spoke different languages, they communicated through making things together. As a Polish immigrant, Julianna wanted to capture her grandmother's spirit and illustrate some of her favorite things in this show. The exhibit contains large woodblock prints, monoprints, and paintings. It will also feature a large colorful woodblock print that is based on a mural by Diego Rivera called “Pan American Unity.” His mural from 1940 had the Founding Fathers but Julianna’s has important women from across the Americas and is also called “Pan American Unity.”
To schedule a visit email FUSION.
Fronteras Micro-Film Festival Screening and Interactive Art Installation: June 2–4
Friday, June 2: 5–9 PM (ABQ Artwalk); Saturday, June 3: 10 AM–9 PM; Sunday, June 4: 12–5 PM
The Fronteras Micro-Film Festival Screening features films of three-minutes-or-less that address themes of borders, enforcement, and surveillance for a one-of-a-kind short film festival. Selected films will be exhibited within interactive art installations. The first goal of the Fronteras Micro-Film Festival is to re-imagine the short film festival. We will give filmmakers and audiences an experience that emerges from, and supports, short film. A strong theme and a decentralized viewing experience will make this possible. The second goal is to provoke public conversation about national borders. We will solicit thirty-second to three-minute-long films, from local and international filmmakers, that address themes of borders, enforcement, and crossings.
SCHEDULE: Friday, June 2: 5–9 PM; Saturday, June 3: 10 AM–9 PM; Sunday, June 4: 12–5 PM.
PAST EXHIBITS & GALLERY EVENTS
OffCenter Community Arts Project’s Little House Auction: May 5–May 20
Exhibit Preview: Friday, May 5, 5–9 PM
OffCenter Community Art Project's Little House Auction is back!! Featuring the work of over 150 local artists, this exhibit and benefit auction is full of funky mini-masterpieces created by established and emerging artists. Preview the exhibit during ABQ Artwalk on Friday, May 5 from 5-8 p.m. and then bid on your favorite Little Houses during the Little House Auction, on Friday, May 19, from 5-8 p.m. This free event is a family-friendly celebration of Albuquerque’s creativity. All proceeds benefit OffCenter and support our free community art studio!
Many artists paint, collage, and decorate on the wooden house blanks that we provide, but past events have also included ceramic houses, paper houses, and many amazing mixed media pieces!
In addition to the Little Houses, the exhibit includes paintings and 2D work by several artists represented by Lapis Room available for sale. The gallery and participating 2D artists are contributing 20% of exhibit sales to benefit OffCenter. Lapis Room artists include: Rachel Popowcer, Abdiel Beltrain, Thomas Christopher Haag, and Reyes Padilla.
Friends of the Orphan Sign Retrospective | April 7–30
Opening Reception Date: Friday, April 7, 5–9 p.m.
Friends of the Orphan Signs (FOS) invites you to come explore a retrospective exhibition. FOS is a public art and educational organization that revitalizes abandoned road signs along historic Route 66. Our purpose is to visually renew abandoned public spaces, explore neighborhood identity, and inject intimacy and surprise into Albuquerque’s built environment. This retrospective exhibition celebrates the organization’s work and collaborators since our origin in 2010. It will feature a compilation of photos and ephemera of the many projects done over the years including 8' vinyl banners; images of poetry on aluminum sign material; light box signs; as well as interactive components.
Martinart Studios Presents, “Mosaic & Mosaic-Like: A Contemporary Art Exhibit” part of the Two Moons Exhibit Series at FUSION in the 708.
Mosaic & Mosaic-Like: A Contemporary Art Exhibit
VISUAL ART | FEBRUARY 3-APRIL 2
This exhibit will feature New Mexico artists creating Mosaics with traditional materials as well as artists whose work is created in a Mosaic-Like style. Included in the exhibit are painting, sculpture, fiber art, bead work, glass, mixed media, as well as traditional examples of mosaics. The art of mosaics has a long history, starting in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BCE. A traditional Mosaic is a pattern or image made of small pieces of colored stone, glass, or ceramics, held in place by plaster or mortar, and covering a hard surface. Today, Mosaics are made by artists and craftspeople all around the world. Many materials other than the traditional are utilized by contemporary artists.
Rio Grande Art Association Presents ¡ENCANTADA!
visual arts | SEPTEMBER 1-OCTOBER 1 | OPENING RECEPTION, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 5:30-8:30 PM
The Rio Grande Art Association will hold its 2022 national juried ¡Encantada! Art Show at FUSION this September! ¡Encantada! has been the RGAA’s preeminent art show each year since its founding in 1998. This year’s juried show includes 107 paintings by 61 of the finest artists from New Mexico and outside the state. Exhibited paintings are all available for sale and include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and abstracts in a variety of mediums. View the exhibit brochure here.
Two Moons Art Exhibit: Fabric of New Mexico
JULY 1 - AUGUST 26, 2022
This exhibit stretches the limits of fiber art to celebrate the full range of innovative creativity in fabric, including quilting, macramé, embroidery, rug hooking, and work with plastics, paper, metal, and wire. Curated by artist Martin Terry, the show includes work by over twenty New Mexico artists! Workshops and demos with the Enchanted Lacemaker’s Guild, New Mexico Crochet Guild, plus individual weavers, basketmakers, and fiber artists! Enjoy the exhibit during any public event at FUSION or contact info@fusionabq.org to make an appointment to view.