monthly events

September 2–December 19 - Art from Fort Marion - The Silberman Collection
Arthur and Shifra Silberman’s collection of Fort Marion art is an important record of work created in St. Augustine, Florida, between mid-1875 and mid-1878, by southern Plains warriors and chiefs who were held there at the end of the southern Plains wars. The exhibition contains work by two Kiowa and four Southern Cheyenne prisoner-artists. The drawings demonstrate not only the different subjects explored but also the various styles in which they worked. >> more

Squint Eyes, Untitled, 1875-78. Arthur & Shifra Silberman Collection, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma.

August 26–December 19 - Having An Experience
This unique exhibition showcases a single work of art, Patrick Nagatani’s photograph, Contaminated Radioactive Sediment, Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, 1990. Two Japanese woodblock prints hang on the wall opposite and initiate a dialogue with the photograph across time and space. You begin your encounter in observation. Further explorations,including reflection, sketching, entering into the visual dialogue or writing a response, add an experiential dimension which may result in deeper understanding. Having an Experience invites museum visitors to experience art in a new way and provides a respite from the busy world. >> more

Patrick Nagatani, Contaminated Radioactive Sediment, Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, 1990. Chromogenic print.

September 2–December 19 - The Trickster: A Suite of Prints
In 1999 four artists from New Mexico pueblos and four artists from D’Kar, Botswana joined forces with master printers and senior interns at Tamarind Institute to create a suite of sixteen lithographs based on folk tales about the Trickster. These enchanting and playful images, made by artists from two very different cultures, share many characteristics in their portrayals of this universal and enigmatic creature. The exhibition includes the entire portfolio of prints along with the unique punched metal case designed to hold the suite. >> more

August 26–December 19 - Photography: New Mexico
To celebrate the release of Fresco Fine Art Publications Photography: New Mexico, the UNM Art Museum will present a selection of work from the book which recognizes some of New Mexico’s most accomplished photographers. Thomas Barrow selected the artists and the photographs for the book and contributed his curatorial thoughts; Stuart Ashman wrote the main catalogue essay. >> more

Joel-Peter Witkin, Fictional Storefronts, Camera Store, New Mexico, 2004. Toned gelatin silver print. Lent by the artist, © 2004 Joel-Peter Witkin. Courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

September 2 - November 9 - Spirits of the Underworld
The Mexican Paintings of Ary Stillman
An exhibition of thirty paintings done in Mexico by Ary Stillman, one of America’s most powerful though lesser known abstract expressionists. Stillman produced more than 100 gouaches in Mexico combining Abstract Expressionist technique with elements of pre-Columbian mythology. >> more

news

The College of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the appointment of Luanne McKinnon as the new Director of the UNM Art Museum, starting August 18, 2008. Hailing originally from West Texas, Luanne is intimately familiar with the Southwest, including New Mexico where she has been a frequent visitor for many years.

Well-versed in all aspects of modern and contemporary American and European art, theory, and criticism, she holds an MFA in Painting from Texas Christian University and is now completing her Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Virginia.

After earning her MFA in 1984, Luanne headed east for New York City to launch her career in the arts as a researcher for Robert Rauschenberg, Gallery Director of ACA Galleries, and owner of McKinnon Modern, a private gallery that specialized in modern masterworks of painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and drawing.

Her scholarship on Picasso and Mondrian was presented at several institutions including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, and in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. She most recently was the Bruce A. Beal Director of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, where she was brilliantly effective in developing both its collections and its sources of funding while organizing a stimulating series of exhibitions.

We all look forward to the energy and vision she will bring to the programs and collections at the UNM Art Museum.

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The University Art Museum is located on the main campus of UNM within the Center for the Arts building. There is paid parking at the Visitors Parking Lots east of the Center.
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The Jonson Gallery houses the most definitive collection of the works of Raymond Jonson (1891-1982), a modernist painter and member of the University faculty.

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The museum will not be open during Tuesday evenings during the Summer (May 20 - August 25). During that period, open hours will be:
Tuesday-Friday 9am-4pm, Saturday and Sunday 1-4pm.