Culture is on the calendar this week with the opening of the Fall Group Show, at Albuquerque’s Lapis Room.

the teacher sees what shes made of by Thomas Christopher Haag

This year the annual show through October 19 draws together 12 local artists. The exhibition name of the exhibition, Found + Foraged, is also the theme. The idea is for artists including Rebecca Elise Cook, Thomas Christopher Haag,Kristin Diener, Marcelle Bowman, Lana Scholtz, and Chad Cleveland to see the potential in the discarded and outdated. These 12 talents show that there is beauty in the mundane.  

Blue Frontier by Rebecca Elise Cook

Cook uses hand-formed sheet metal and car parts, while Diener creates a hand-fabricated piece from treasures she’s collected over the year. Diener’s piece includes parrot feathers, butterfly wings, a hummingbird eggshell and even an olive pit and lingerie fragments.

Pollen Collector Talisman in the Golden Age of the Predator by Kristin Diener

Bowman’s piece speaks to the Southwest in a work formed from rocks found and foraged in New Mexico and arranged on salvaged barn wood.

Nightfall by Marcelle Bowman

And recent MFA grad from UNM, Lana Scholtz creates a work that draws on botanical imagery with a beautifully ethereal quality. 

Eternal Necklace by Lana Scholtz

Story by Julia Platt Leonard
Photos Courtesy of the Artists

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