Strangers
Art.i.fact | July 2015
Strangers Collective started in a Santa Fe living room. A small group of artists and writers, all without representation, came together for a secret pop-up show. Ten months and two exhibitions later, the collective expands out of residences and into Art.i.fact in the Baca District, debuting a powerful new vision for Santa Fe's art scene.
“We had two big revelations: that Santa Fe’s most dynamic young artists were one link away from us, and that they weren't exhibiting anywhere," says Strangers co-founder Jordan Eddy. “We were living in a town of like-minded strangers, and we had to bring them together.” In October 2014, Eddy teamed up with local artists Kyle Farrell and Erikka James to throw the first of several private art exhibitions. What began as a salon-style gathering of friends grew into a full-fledged collective with over twenty dynamic young artists and writers.
Press
“Personally, being at a gallery where we study historic works,” Eddy, who serves as communications director at Matthews Gallery, says, “and study movements like the Taos Moderns, made me look back and think, ‘Well, I’m in my 20s, I should be out there doing this with my friends.’”
-Enrique Limón, Santa Fe Reporter
This exhibition was featured on the Québécois travel show #TamyUSA, hosted by Tamy Emma Pepin for the Évasion network.
My contributions: Curatorial with Kyle Farrell, press relations
Artworks: Kyle Farrell, Dion Valdez