Ann Lundy says she repeats this story over and over again.
“When I first moved to Taos in the summer of 2011, I almost immediately set out to visit studios and check out local talent (I did a little preliminary research and found that there was an abundance here. I was particularly impressed by the number of talented draftsmen (and women!) who worked with both traditional media such as charcoal and graphite, and high-tech innovations such as vacuum-coating metal onto rag paper. .
I became close with Harwood Museum curator Gina Brenneman and suggested we work together on a show of drawings by Taos artists. She liked the idea, but was ultimately overruled by the director. Undaunted, I went to the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe but declined due to a previous show dedicated to one of the artists. “Nobody cares about Taos artists,” one adamant said at lunch one day.
“It got so bad it stuck in the corner of my head for 10 years.”
Randy is an art writer, curator, founder and editor of the website Vasari21.
A native of New York, Randy drew, drew, and wrote throughout high school. She enrolled as part of her first co-ed class at Princeton University. Although she started in the studio art department, she eventually switched to her art history.
After graduating in 1978, Randy worked for a book publisher for a year and earned a master’s degree in art history from Columbia University.
Randy’s focus was copyediting and commercial writing, so he worked for several publications, including GQ Magazine and Travel & Leisure, before moving to San Francisco with his ex-husband.
She soon returned to New York City, writing about culture for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Art News, and was a contributing editor for nearly two decades.
In 2013 she founded her own site Vasari21. The site is a subscription-based platform that offers essays, interviews, and a variety of practical information for working artists.
“Now that I am the director of Taos’ new Light Contemporary, I have the chance to put together my dream drawing show,” she says.
The show is scheduled to open on Friday, August 12th. Artists are:
Co-curator of the show, Michelle Cook, achieves minimalist-inspired landscapes through subtle gradations of charcoal, evoking vistas of sea, sand and sky.
Mark Bassman, master of miniature worlds that reminds the viewer of medieval manuscripts and Hieronymus Bosch.
Annell Livingston draws on both imagery of the natural world and Zen-inspired abstractions.
Larry Bell, a California-based light and space movement pioneer, has discovered how to vaporize metal onto paper using a vacuum process to create sculptures, installations and mobiles.
Prior to his untimely death three years ago, Gendron Jensen focused on the animal bones he found while hiking through the forests of northern Minnesota and vast tracts of land near his adopted home outside of Taos. rice field.
Christine Taylor Patten works with ink on paper using a crow’s quill to create images that measure 7 x 24 feet and measure 2.5 x 2.5 inches.
Taos Draws takes place at Wright Contemporary on Friday, August 12th and runs through September 18th.
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