VITAL SPACES MIDTOWN ANNEX
1600 Saint Michael’s Drive - SW Annex, Midtown Campus Santa Fe, NM 87505

April 15 – May 28, 2022
Opening Reception Saturday, April 16, 3-6pm
Open to the public every Friday and Saturday from 1-4PM until May 28th

Beneath the Surface

In this exhibition and series of public conversations, the SciArt Santa Fe community attempts to peel back the layers of art research that lay beneath the artworks on display.  The Santa Fe-based artists represented in this exhibition have long standing, deep practices in diverse disciplines that connect art and science, including physics, mathematics, engineering, biology and consciousness.  Through this exhibition and related conversations, SciArt Santa Fe aims to reveal the magic behind the curtain, what drives an art/science practitioner to create, how do  abstract scientific concepts drive the development of material and form, how can art/science engage the public and raise awareness of overlooked interconnections that expand our vision of what might be possible?

Artists:

Morgan Barnard

Paul Biaggi

Shirley Crow

Susan Latham

Amy Pilling

Andrea Polli

Frances Whitehead

Under the Hood LASERs

Under the Hood is a series of short, casual LASER Santa Fe conversations between the exhibiting artists, curators and gallery visitors about the processes and scientific research behind the creation of the artworks.  

Conversations take place between 3-4PM in the gallery.

Friday April 22nd: Roundtable on Consciousness with Artists Paul Biagi, Susan Latham, Tom Greenbaum and Julie Treagle

Saturday, April 30: Roundtable on Sensing with Artists Andrea Polli, Frances Whitehead, Richard Lowenberg and Ana MacArthur

Saturday, May 21: Conversation with Artist Shirley Crow and curator Patricia Watts

SciArt Santa Fe creates opportunities for the powerful exchange of ideas among practitioners in the arts, sciences and technology. Through public forums, we facilitate cross-disciplinary research in these fields, seeking to catalyze fruitful solutions for the challenges of the 21st century. Among the challenges requiring cross-disciplinary approaches are establishing sustainable environmental practices, spreading global scientific and artistic literacy, creating technological equity and encouraging freedom of thought and imagination. We support artists and other practitioners whose practices do not always fit within a traditional gallery framework. Many of the practitioners we work with tackle pressing issues that disproportionately affect people of under-represented races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, citizenship statuses, and ages including climate change, species extinction and migration. sciartsantafe.org