Harwood

Exhibit Archives: October 1 –  24, 2007

1. Balancing Act: Sharon Schwartzmann

In an effort to come full circle, Sharon Schwartzmann confronts the reality of “what was” with the act of “what if”. Her work seeks to explore the childhood imprint of the female form, both as noun and verb on canvas.  In that process, she attempts a balancing act of the known with the ineffable, moving from old tapes into new images. 

Schwartzmann is a long-time working artist.  She earned a BA in Fine Arts from Mills College in 1973.  Over the years, and more specifically in the last fifteen, she has painted full time and has produced a substantial body of work. The result has been inclusion in several professional group shows, two one-person shows in Santa Fe, and gallery representation in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.  She was selected for inclusion in the New Mexico Women In The Arts museum exhibit of 2005.  She is currently represented by Deloney Newkirk Fine Art in Santa Fe.  Schwartzmann is represented in collections around the United States.  It is her intention to extend this intensive period of artistic focus into ever more emotional and professional growth.

2. Recent Work: Heidi Pollard

The October exhibit at the Harwood Art Center is the artist’s first career solo show, as well as a sort of home-coming: the artist is a former Albuquerque resident. This show will feature recent abstract paintings all done as improvisatory meditations.  The images combine broad, gestural marks and emblematic figures with high key color.

Heidi Pollard is a painter working in Brooklyn, New York.  She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; she has been an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Ucross Foundation and, in 2007 the CUE Foundation in New York. She has exhibited widely in the US, including PS122, New York, NY; Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ; the Garage and Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ; Tyler School of Art & Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; the Albuquerque Museum, Harwood Art Center (1999) and 516 Artspace, Albuquerque, NM.

3. “The Eclectic:” A group exhibition by the New Mexico African-American Artists Guild

 
Details from "The Recipe,"by Edna McIver)

 
4. The Tree Story: Tree Parts: by Pat Conway

Acrylic paintings by Pat Conway   

5. The Cradle Project Preview Exhibition

Main and Front Galleries
October 29- November 2
Reception: Friday, November 2, 5-8:30pm
For more information on the exhibit, click HERE.