Long Echo
Center for Contemporary Arts | October 2016
An echo is a fragment of the past, but also a new moment in the present. This fall, Strangers Collective orchestrates a chorus of contemporary reflections at Center for Contemporary Arts. The Santa Fe arts group is excited to announce Long Echo, an exhibition of emerging artists and writers that is designed to send ripples through Santa Fe’s creative landscape.
“Long Echo comes at a time when many of us are delving into past experiences,” says Strangers co-director Alex Gill. “These conceptual and aesthetic elements are ringing out again in clearer and stronger ways.” The exhibition will feature diverse artworks, including paintings, sculptures, drawings and new media works. Strangers Collective’s writers will present a fresh array of zines, along with Strangers Volume I, a journal of collected writings and images from the group’s past events. “It’s not about nostalgia, it's about ruthlessly hacking away at what you’ve done,” says Strangers co-founder and co-director Kyle Farrell. “How do you concentrate your creative power?”
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“The new show has something of a looking-back aspect. ‘Normally we give the artists a prompt in the show title, and they make works based on that,’ Farrell said during a visit to the CCA gallery on opening day. ‘This time we did studio visits first and built the show around them. Right away we were seeing work that was dealing with looking back, sometimes about longing or grief, and some were basing new works on things from their past work.’”
-Paul Weideman, Pasatiempo
This exhibition’s main program, a two-part panel discussion uniting leaders of Santa Fe’s DIY arts community, was featured as a calendar pick on the front page of the Santa Fe New Mexican.
My contributions: Curatorial (with Kyle Farrell and Alex Gill), press relations, book design, program moderator
Artwork: David O’Brien