Posts by Spencer Linford

Steven Campbell is a natural storyteller, but his works aren't as easygoing and open as he is. An artist, educator, and master printmaker, Campbell has dedicated his life to plucking, then refining, artistic visions from the collective subconscious. Whether he is working on a collage or painting, or helping his students understand what it means to think like an artist, Campbell approaches life with a creative intuition borne from a decades-long career in the arts. The characteristic immediacy of his process parallels the philosophical sentiment that underlies Kierkegaard's infamous maxim: "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Like living, creating art requires constant action and is an active process whose intent is easier understood with distance and the passage of time.
 
Track the inner workings of one of Santa Fe's most curious minds in this winding interview that outlines Campbell's artistic process and latest exhibition, The Tyranny of Small Things.

Learn more about Empire by Robert Cottingham, a serigraph of the historically significant Empire Theater where Rosa Parks sparked the Civil Rights Movement.

Nathan Budoff's first showcase with Zane Bennett Contemporary Art explores the relationships between flora, fauna, and space. Read statements about the showcase from Budoff and gallery communications director Spencer Linford. Budoff's showcase is on view at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art through 31 August 2024.

Nathan Budoff is a Puerto Rico-based painter, muralist, and printmaker from Massachusetts whose artworks frame the relationships between flora, fauna, and space in unexpected ways. His artist statement delves into the ethos behind his most recent body of work.

Recognized today as one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991) began his artistic career as an outcast. Tamayo's contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros ostracized Tamayo for his apolitical stance and preoccupation with aesthetics. But social isolation failed to deter Tamayo from his pursuit of developing a fundamental, universal, and distinctly Mexican visual aesthetic.

Enrique Figueredo is a Venezuelan-American artist whose work examines globalization, immigration, economics, and religion through the patterns, designs, motifs, and symbols associated with ancient civilizations, the colonization of the Americas, and mythology. Drawing on the disconnect between personal experience and established historical narratives, Figueredo cultivates a figurative space where communities may freely engage with history. His newest kinetic sculpture Viajes de la Gran Flota Blanca (Voyages of the Great White Fleet) 1899-  is an inquiry into the induction and visualization of circular time, the repetitions of history, and the mixing of the past, present, and future.