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LINDA DURHAM CONTEMPORARY ART is excited to present "where have you been? (come to your senses)" an exhibition of new work by one of the foremost and most beloved artists of the region: ERIKA WANENMACHER. It will open on July 23 and run through August 21, 2010. The exhibition will open on Friday, July 23rd with a reception for Ms. Wanenmacher from 5 to 7 pm. It will run through Saturday, August 21st.
Erika Wanenmacher
Where Have You Been?, detail 2010
gouache on acrchival inkjet print on watercolor paper
40 x 60 inches
Erika Wanenmacher loves our new space on Second Street—especially the “Salon Gallery.” Recently, she wrote: “Okay, the first time I stepped into the new space; this show appeared in my head. After stirring it around for a while, I realized that this is an INTERIOR landscape - something I had not really manifested in a while, since my work has been (for about the last 30 years) my particular personal narratives out in the world. It occurred to me that my Witch Store (Ditch Witch - 926 Baca St. #6) IS my personal narrative out in the world, as well as a forum for me to collect OTHER people’s stories. Sooooo, this batch of work -- a sculptural installation of individual works, including audio, is very soft and very dreamy. It basically also comes from my walks along the Acequia Madre ditch, (like the Ditch Witch show), but it speaks more to the sensorial realm. It also refers to a biological state called Mutualism – one that is more beneficial than symbiotic in that it doesn’t have an aspect of parasitism to it—each entity benefits equally.”
Ms. Wanenmacher was born in Ohio in 1955. She has lived and worked in New Mexico for over twenty years. In 2008, Part One of a major project (The SCIENCE CLUB: The Boy’s Room, Now, Forever, Then) was presented at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colorado. GRIMOIRE, a major three room installation was exhibited at SITE Santa Fe in 2001.
Linda Durham said of Erika’s work, “As a curator, mentor and teacher to innumerable young artists in the Santa Fe community and as an extraordinarily accomplished artist in any and all media, Erika is a remarkable force of nature. I think every household should have some of her work---and I’ve never said that about any other artist in the world!”
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