Top 10 things to SEE at SOFA WEST 2011 - August 4-7 at the Santa Fe Convention Center


	Ready, Partner? New Public Preview on Opening Night, Wednesday, August 3! For the third straight year, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation (MNMF) partners with SOFA WEST on an Opening Night FIRST LOOK preview for its major donors and business partners, sponsored by Reynolds Insurance. MNMF preview guests may enter at 5 pm, and SOFA WEST 2011 VIP cardholders at 6:30 pm. The *new!* Opening Night Public Preview begins at 7 pm. Tickets are $50 and will be available on sofaexpo.com or at the door beginning at 5 pm. Opening Night continues until 9 pm. Now everyone can be among the first to view and acquire top artwork at the fair!

Martin Ramirez Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago IL	Outsiders In! SOFA WEST and Chicago’s respected Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art team up for a ‘spotlight presentation’ of The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art at SOFA WEST. Leading the way are seminal dealers Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Carl Hammer Gallery and Judy A Saslow Gallery, all of Chicago, and The Ames Gallery (Berkeley, CA). Other new Intuit dealers: Galerie Bonheur (St. Louis, MO); Garde Rail Gallery (Austin, TX); Packer Schopf Gallery (Chicago); and Yard Dog Art Gallery (Austin, TX). A private welcome reception for The Intuit Show is planned on Museum Hill by the Museum of International Folk Art, Intuit Center and SOFA WEST.

Queen Mothers Pipe Bamun, Cameroon, 20th Century Douglas Dawson Gallery, Chicago IL	Bigger IS Better! Up 25%,SOFA WEST grows to 35 dealers! New galleries include two from London, Flow Gallery and Zest Gallery, expanding UK and Scandinavian artworks on offer; Darrell Bell Gallery of Saskatoon, Canada presents masters of the Regina Clay movement Joe Fafard and Victor Cicansky; Chicago’s Douglas Dawson Gallery adds historic, antique and contemporary Non-Western art; Landfall Press (Santa Fe) represents limited edition prints by renowned artists; Jerry Szor Contemporary Jewelry (Dallas) brings more contemporary jewelry to the mix; and fine art galleries 222 Shelby Street Gallery and Eight Modern (both of Santa Fe) round out contemporary offerings.

Nino Caruso 222 Shelby Street Gallery, Santa Fe NM	Light, Air: Design at the Fair Modernism lives on in Bodil Manz’s delicate vessels at CLARK + DEL VECCHIO (Santa Fe), and Nino Caruso’s terracotta sculpture at 222 Shelby Street Gallery (Santa Fe). Don’t miss David Ebner’s sleek furniture at William Zimmer Gallery (Mendocino, CA). And new at the fair! An invitation-only Design Reception and panel discussion sponsored by Trend Magazine. Moderated by Robert Reck, Robert Reck Photography, panelists Paul Fehlau and Karole Mazeika (Antoine Predock Architect PC); Kris Lajeskie (Kris Lajeskie Design Group); Victoria Price (Victoria Price Art and Design); and Beverley Spears (Spears Architects) discuss Southwestern Dreamin’: High Desert Aesthetic in Contemporary Architecture and Design.

James Drake Courtesy NM Museum of Art	Go Long Lecture Series expands to 4 days! Thursday-Sunday, August 4-7, featuring James Baker, Executive Director, Pilchuck Glass School (Portland, OR) with artists James Drake and John Torreano; Laura Addison, Curator, NM Museum of Art with collector Lee Dirks and Manhattan Asian art dealer Joan B. Mirviss; outsider art collector Eugenie Johnson and Cleo F. Wilson, Executive Director, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago; Non-Western art dealer Douglas Dawson (Chicago); sculptor Ted Larsen (Eight Modern, Santa Fe) with John O'Hern, former director Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; also noted artists Rick Beck (Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cleveland, OH); and Tammy Garcia and Shelley Muzylowski Allen (Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe).

Carlo Zinelli Judy A Saslow Gallery, Chicago	Way Out(sider) Peek inside elaborate fantasy worlds and extreme mental states in Intuit Show works by Henry Darger and Martin Ramirez (Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago); Carlo Zinelli (Judy A Saslow Gallery and Russell Bowman Art Advisory, both of Chicago); Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (Carl Hammer and Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago); Lee Godie (Carl Hammer and Packer Schopf); A. G. Rizzoli (The Ames Gallery, Berkeley, CA); James Castle (Russell Bowman); and Harry Young (Packer Schopf). Also, seminal African-American folk art by Bill Traylor (Judy A Saslow and Russell Bowman); Joseph Yoakum (Carl Hammer, Russell Bowman and Judy A Saslow); and Mose Tolliver (Yard Dog Art Gallery, Austin, TX).

Tammy Garcia Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe	Contemporary (Native) Art Leroy and Tammy Garcia of Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe discuss its evolution (along with their artists!) from Contemporary Native to Contemporary Art branding. More proof positive of this trend: Navajo potter/contemporary sculptor Christine McHorse and satiric ceramicist Diego Romero at CLARK + DEL VECCHIO, Santa Fe). Also Marcus Amerman's beadwork/object art at ElliottArts West (Santa Fe). Don't miss 9 metalsmiths on the cutting-edge at SWAIA@SOFA: Contemporary Metal (Santa Fe). Bruce Bernstein, Director of SWAIA (Southwest Association of Indian Arts) says,"First and foremost these are supremely talented artists whose work is aesthetically stunning and emancipating."

Kent Townsend Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe	Material Wealth Unusual materials include tin in Monica Cecchi’s art jewelry (Charon Kransen Arts, New York); rare Kilawa and Amboyna woods in Kent Townsend’s furniture (Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe); Joanne Teasdale’s fusion of photography and kiln-formed glass (Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR); granite and glass sculpture of Thomas Scoon (David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe); Davide Salvatore’s blown/carved glass with metal and beads (Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI); porcelain on steel sculpture by Leigh Taylor Mickelson (Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH); and Hans-Henning Pederson’s paper-thin vessels of beech and ash from Denmark’s Bornholm Island (Flow Gallery, London).

Sakiyama Takayuki Joan B. Mirviss. Ltd., New York	Spotlight: Asian Arts The New Mexico Museum of Art presents a SOFA WEST special exhibit previewing the Museum’s upcoming show, *Kimono: Karen LaMonte and Prints of the Floating World, with an accompanying Lecture Series presentation. Joan B. Mirviss Ltd* (New York) presents masters of contemporary Japanese ceramic sculpture including Sakiyama Takayuki; TAI Gallery (Santa Fe) showcases Japanese bamboo artistry and photography; new dealer Mindy Solomon Gallery (St. Petersburg, FL) offers paintings by Sungyee Kim and ceramics by Kang-Hyo Lee, both of Korea; also new! Dai Ichi Arts (New York) represents Chinese and Japanese ceramics including Shoji Hamada, the ‘father’ of studio pottery in the West.

A.G. Rizzoli The Ames Gallery, Berkeley, CA	Keep the Faith? With visionary artists Rev. Howard Finster and Edgar Tolson at Russell Bowman Art Advisory (Chicago); Sister Gertrude Morgan at Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago) and Bahamian Amos Ferguson (Galerie Bonheur, St. Louis, MO). Behold Bruce New’s apocalyptic collages of wings, faces, horses, skulls and other images at Yard Dog Art Gallery (Austin, TX); and A. G. Rizzoli’s fantasy ‘expeau’—of ‘Superior Beauty and Permanency,’ inspired by the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, which Rizzoli called Y.T.T.E. for 'Yield To Total Elation' (The Ames Gallery, Berkeley, CA). Then sail away on acclaimed self-taught John Taylor’s model ships made from found objects at Garde Rail Gallery, Austin, TX,

BUY SOFA TICKETS ONLINE REGISTER FOR SOFA WEST SPECIAL EVENTS Acoma Pueblo excursion, exclusive backstage tour of the Santa Fe Opera with David Zimmer, Wig/Makeup Department Head!

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