Icee Bomb A.I.

Adam Jonas Horowitz

March 13- April 19, 2026

Opening reception
Friday, March 13, 5-7pm
on the street, in front of the Santa Fe Farmers Market
1607 Paseo de Peralta

Check axleart.com for daily updates for locations of the mobile artspace through April 19.
 

 

Adam Jonas Horowitz doesn’t sit still. By all appearances he’s in a constant swirl of thought and critique and deep engagement with the materials of our world. He’s frequently scrounging through the detritus of our machine age, and compiling this source material in poignant works of art that both stun and awaken our own reflections on the world around us.

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In 1999, his monumental Fridgehenge installation appeared by the city of Santa Fe’s dump. Using pulleys and tripods of tipi poles he hoisted abandoned refrigerators into a replica of the ancient Neolithic Stonehenge site.

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In Nuclear Savage, a 2011 film, he travelled to the Marshall Islands and to DOE hearings around the country to interview and confront the players that created and continue to perpetuate a massive humanitarian catastrophe, where nuclear bomb tests destroyed entire islands, displaced whole communities, and destroyed indigenous lifeways.

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In 2024, he drew attention to our dysfunctional waste stream right here in Santa Fe, installing enormous bales of mixed waste trash and “recyclables” in the Railyard Park.

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In recent years, Horowitz has been collecting old machine parts and outboard motors and assembling these into human figures. These motor heads are poetic, beautiful, and disturbing, as we see parallels between these figures and our own lives, where Artificial Intelligence, social media addiction, and anonymized paramilitary bands of thugs roaming our streets dominate our thoughts.

For this installation at Axle, Horowitz brings his motorheads out of the studio and into our mobile artspace where they are sure to compel us to think, to laugh, to grieve, and wonder who we are, what we have done, and where our society is heading.

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