Matthews Gallery

Matthews Gallery offers an inside look at art collecting for this special Art Matters event. The workshop is for anyone who’s ever considered buying, selling or caring for fine art and has questions about the inner workings of the art world. Get an in-depth perspective on every step of the process from one of Santa Fe’s top galleries. This workshop features special guest Matt Horowitz, head of conservation at Goldleaf Framemakers.

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“Building your collection means refining your “eye”, that is, seeing what makes great art great...” Reflections on art collecting.

We just added bigger, brighter images of our John McHugh collection to the website! Check it out here. 

Are you coming to our SPRING OF MODERNISM opening tonight? From Pasatiempo:

Works by more than 15 New Mexico modernists are on exhibit in Spring of Modernism, a show covering 50 years of 20th-century art. Included are pieces by Andrew Dasburg, Beatrice Mandelman, and other Taos Moderns; Emil Bisttram and other members of the Transcendental Painting Group; and art from additional movements that developed in New Mexico, as well as from Santa Fe modernists Janet Lippincott and Alfred Morang. The 5 p.m. reception is on Friday, March 6.

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So many great artworks at special prices! Check out our annual 20 x 72 Collector's Event to learn more.

Today's resolution: look at art with LASER FOCUS! 

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Wall to wall. Panoramic views of an art gallery. More behind-the-scenes art world shots here. 

Lisa Barrow of Albuquerque's Weekly Alibi did an amazing write-up on our MORANG AND FRIENDS show! An excerpt: 

"His work reflects a distinctive City Different of the 1940s and ‘50s—the color-drenched vistas of northern New Mexico, scenes of nightlife, plazas and adobes. His pen-and-ink compositions shiver with energy, even when depicting something so mundane as his own studio, but his canvases positively bristle with morasses of color and line. Layered with thick wads of oil paint, they’re sometimes abstract, reminiscent of Kandinsky, and other times figurative—underlining that neither Morang’s biography nor his output can be enclosed by simple descriptors. His life, which could have continued in so many directions, was cut short when his studio caught fire in the middle of the night on Jan. 29, 1958. A new exhibit at Matthews Gallery (669 Canyon Rd., Santa Fe), which sits just across from the former studio, reassembles the long-scattered artifacts of Morang’s artistic existence and places them in context..."

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Alfred Morang painted gorgeous impressionistic views of Santa Fe in the 1930's, 40's and 50's. "He taught half of us how to paint; the other half how to see," remarked one City Different artist after his tragic death. 

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Up close and personal art watching candids. 

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