Axle Contemporary
a mobile artspace based in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Drawing & Driving
Steven J. Yazzie
July 26 - August 18
Join us for a discussion at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts:
Drawing and Driving: Matthew Chase-Daniel in Conversation with Steven Yazzie
Saturday, August 17th, 10:30–11:30 am |IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts | Allan Houser Art Park | 108 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe, NM
In February, 2019, as part of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts’ Art for New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950’s to Now exhibition, artist Steven Yazzie led a group of artists in a MoCNA/Axle Contemporary art-making workshop, using his custom-built Drawing and Driving recumbent tricycle/studio-vehicle. Participants included IAIA art students and local artists invited by Santa Fe’s Axle Contemporary.
The goal was to to engage and connect both students and the Santa Fe art community with the exhibition and Yazzie's art practice. Under Yazzie’s direction, each artist draws or paints while driving the vehicle, adding a performative and community-based element to Yazzie’s project. After the artworks were completed by the group, The vehicle was installed in the exhibition during its run at MoCNA.
Axle Contemporary and Yazzie have now taken the project a step further by inviting more local artists to draw and drive for the project this week. The collection of resulting small drawings and paintings will be the exhibited in the Axle Contemporary mobile exhibition space from July 26 through Aug 18, 2019. After the opening in the Santa Fe Railyard, the mobile gallery will locate around Santa Fe during the run of the exhibition. Axle Contemporary will be located at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts' Allan Houser Art Park during Indian Market week, from August 14 – 18.
Artists include: Gregory Ballenger, Rita Bard, Jeff Benham, Heidi Brandow, Nani Chacon, Aquila Chase-Daniel, Matthew Chase-Daniel, David Sloan, Nina Elder, Andrew Fearnside, Jason Garcia, Nicola Heindl, Chaz John*, Shakti Kroopkin, Ian Kuali’i, Stephanie Lenchard-Warren, Nina Mastrangelo, Eliza Naranjo Morse, Timothy Nero, Rose Simpson, Robyn Tsinnajinnie, Andrea Isabel Vargas, Erika Wanenmacher, Marion Claire Wasserman, Jerry Wellman, Steven J. Yazzie, and Susan York.
Join us for a discussion at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts:
Drawing and Driving: Axle Contemporary in Conversation with Steven Yazzie
Saturday, August 17th, 10:30–11:30 am |IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts | Allan Houser Art Park | 108 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe, NM
Matthew Chase-Daniel from Axle Contemporary will interview artist Steven Yazzie about his Drawing and Driving performances and project and exhibition organized by Axle.The conversation will include a discussion on the development of this body of work, Yazzie’s customized recumbent drawing and driving vehicle, and his project with local artists and IAIA art students.
Yazzie describes the project: "Drawing and Driving was conceived while on an artist residency at the famed Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006. The experimental project became a way for me to redefine my relationship to landscape by essentially drawing what I was seeing, while simultaneously attempting to control a descending gravity powered vehicle. The drawing vehicle became a simulated version of how I often experience the outdoors (from a perspective of a moving vehicle), which touches on the notion of technology and the speed of a contemporary life. While there are references to absurdist movements of the past, the act of drawing and driving ultimately became a true point of contact between the natural world and the man-made one; the drawings could in a sense be created by both myself and the moving ground below me."
* Chaz John work courtesy of Ellsworth Gallery
project support by IAIA-Museum of Contemporary Native Arts & Art Bridges
Stephen YazzieWindmill Ridge 1 $500 SOLD | Stephen YazzieWindmill Ridge 2 $500 |
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Erika WanenmacherDrive/Draw $400 | NeroOver Ground 1 $500 |
NeroOver Ground 3 $500 | NeroOver Ground 2 |
NeroOver Ground 5 $500 | NeroOver Ground 4 $500 |
Nina MastrangeloUntitled 1 $50 | Nina MastrangeloUntitled 2 $50 |
Jason_Garcia/Okuu PínK'uu Seng-Rock Men Mountain $50 | Jason_Garcia/Okuu PínOga Pogeh Owingeh $50 SOLD |
Jason_Garcia/Okuu PínOkhuwa $50 SOLD | Jason_Garcia/Okuu_PínOkuu_Pín- Turtle Mountain #1 $50 SOLD |
Ian Kuali'iDamn You Steven Yazzie 1 $75 | Ian Kuali'iDamn You Stephen Yazzie 2 $75 SOLD |
Ian Kuali'iDamn You Steven Yazzie 3 $75 | Stephanie Lenchard-WarrenLand Vibes 1 $60 |
Stephanie Lenchard-WarrenLand Vibes 2 $60 | Stephanie Lenchard-WarrenLand Vibes 3 $60 |
Stephanie Lenchard-WarrenLand Vibes 4 $60 | Heidi Brandowuntitled 1 $80 |
Heidi Brandowuntitled 2 $80 | Heidi Brandowuntitled 3 $80 |
Heidi Brandowuntitled 4 $80 | Susan YorkDrawing & Driving, no 1 $400 |
Susan YorkDrawing & Driving, no 2 $1500 | Susan YorkDrawing & Driving, no 3 $1500 |
Susan YorkDrawing & Driving, no 4 $1800 | David SloanLandscape #1 $20 |
David SloanLandscape #2 $20 | David SloanLandscape #3 $20 |
David SloanLandscape #4 $20 SOLD | David SloanLandscape #5 $20 |
Chaz JohnYippee Kiyay MF $390 | Chaz JohnTrees Y'all $390 |
Chaz JohnWhat Dat? $390 | Chaz JohnSquirrel on the Road $390 |
Chaz JohnWellman on the Road $390 | Andrew FearnsideFalling Down Hills |
Andrew FearnsideFable Othello Fu | Andrew FearnsideRolling Thunder |
Robyn TsinajinnieThe Bench $50 | Robyn TsinajinnieSculpture Forest $50 |
Robyn TsinajinnieOff Road Smoke $50 | Robyn TsinajinnieHogan $50 |
Gregory BallengerIAIA Sweatlodge 1 | Gregory BallengerIAIA Sweatlodge 2 |
Gregory BallengerIAIA Campus | Gregory BallengerSangre de Cristo |
Nicola Heindluntitled (Redondo Pk Rd) $60 | Nicola Heindluntitled 2 $60 |
Nicola Heindluntitled 3 $60 | Jerry Wellmanuntitled $80 |
Jerry WellmanWindmill Ridge 3 $80 SOLD | Jerry WellmanWindmill Ridge 2 $80 |
Jerry WellmanWindmill Ridge 1 $80 | Matthew Chase-DanielRichards Ave $40 |
Matthew Chase-DanielFast and Crash SOLD | Matthew Chase-DanielBike Path Near IAIA $40 |
Matthew Chase-DanielSangre de Cristos $40 | Jeff BenhamRio Grande Overlook $100 |
Marion Claire WassermanBuckman #1 | Marion Claire WassermanBuckman #2 |
Marion Claire WassermanBuckman #3 | Marion Claire WassermanBuckman #4 |
Miranda GraySweet (Dog Prayer 2) $150 | Miranda GrayHappy (Dog Prayer 1) $150 |
Miranda GrayThis is not Toast $150 | Shakti KroopkinMesa Vortex $100 |
Shakti KroopkinOn the Road $100 | Shakti KroopkinWild Ride $100 |
Nani ChaconEl Diablo 1 $100 | Nani ChaconEl Diablo 2 $100 |
Nani ChaconEl Diablo 3 $100 | Eliza Naranjo MorseWonderful Day $150 SOLD |
Eliza Naranjo MorsePrecious Land $150 SOLD | Andrea Isabel VargasAmarillo y Pasaje $80 |
Andrea Isabel VargasClouds Towards the East $80 SOLD | Andrea Isabel VargasOrtiz Mountains $80 |
Andrea Isabel VargasRojo y Disastre $80 | Aquila Chase-DanielThat's Hard! $20 SOLD |
Nina ElderInverted Landscape with Speculative Holes1-5 $100 | Nina ElderInverted Landscape with Speculative Holes 6 $100 |
Nina ElderInverted Landscape with Speculative Holes 7-18 $100 | Nina ElderInverted Landscape with Speculative Holes 19 $100 |
Nina ElderInverted Landscape with Speculative Holes 20-22 $100 | Rita BardW1 $45 |
Rita BardW2 $45 | Rose SimpsonThey Think I'm Crazy $150 SOLD |
Rose SimpsonLonely Bug $150 |
Wilderness Acts 2018
Art-in-Nature
Cannupa Hanska Luger & Ian Kuali’i
Frederick Spaulding
Dana Chodzko
Munson Hunt
Rick Yoshimoto & Chrissie Orr
Susan Bruneni
Susannah Abbey
Paula Castillo
Brian Fleetwood
Gina Telcocci
Kathleen McCloud
with The Santa Fe Botanical Garden's
Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve
September 1 – 23 in Axle
All of September and October at the wetlands preserve
Opening for both shows: at the wetlands preserve, Saturday, Sept.1 , 1- 4 pm
BouquetFrederick Spaulding | AnemopsisBrian Fleetwood |
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AnemopsisBrian Fleetwood | Susannah AbbeyMigrations: A Query |
Susannah AbbeyMigrations: A Query | Kathleen McCloudLeave it to Beavers |
Kathleen McCloudLeave it to Beavers | Tethered 2018Site Specific Land Acknowledgement, Healing Action and Indigenous Seed Dispersal, Cannupa Hanska Luger in Collaboration with Ian Kuali'i. |
Tethered 2018Site Specific Land Acknowledgement, Healing Action and Indigenous Seed Dispersal, Cannupa Hanska Luger in Collaboration with Ian Kuali'i. | Tethered 2018Site Specific Land Acknowledgement, Healing Action and Indigenous Seed Dispersal, Cannupa Hanska Luger in Collaboration with Ian Kuali'i. Image credit: Dylan McLaughlin |
Tethered 2018Site Specific Land Acknowledgement, Healing Action and Indigenous Seed Dispersal, Cannupa Hanska Luger in Collaboration with Ian Kuali'i. Image credit: Dylan McLaughlin | Tethered 2018Site Specific Land Acknowledgement, Healing Action and Indigenous Seed Dispersal, Cannupa Hanska Luger in Collaboration with Ian Kuali'i. Image credit: Dylan McLaughlin |
Tethered 2018artists on site, June, 2018 | Tethered 2018unfired clay and seed offerings |
UP/ROOTEDRick Yoshimoto and Chrissie Orr | UP/ROOTEDRick Yoshimoto and Chrissie Orr |
UP/ROOTEDRick Yoshimoto and Chrissie Orr | UP/ROOTEDRick Yoshimoto at work |
Lovers and FriendsDana Chodzko | Lovers and FriendsDana Chodzko |
Lovers and FriendsDana Chodzko | Lovers and FriendsDana Chodzko |
MudmaGina Telcocci | MudmaGina Telcocci |
MudmaGina Telcocci | MudmaGina Telcocci |
MudmaGina Telcocci | Reclamation (small) 1, 2 & 3Munson Hunt |
Reclamation (small) 1, 2 & 3Munson Hunt |
This pair of exhibitions explores the relationship between art and nature, creates awareness of our local natural resources, and promotes wetland and ecological conservation. The artists will create ephemeral sculptural artworks using natural materials in sites in the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve in La Cienega. Works will be on view at the preserve throughout the months of September and October. A companion exhibition of related works by the same artists will open in the Axle Contemporary mobile gallery on September 1 and continue through September 23. This is the third iteration of the Wilderness Acts Biennial, which began in 2014. Works in this exhibition include a small shelter constructed from "invasive" saplings, a day-long performance ritual of seed distribution, and beavers sculpted from mud.
The Santa Fe Botanical Garden's Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve is a 35-acre nature preserve and home to a rare natural cienega (marsh) and hosts a bountiful diversity of plants and wildlife.
presented by Axle Contemporary and the Santa Fe Botanical Garden
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DIRECTIONS: The preserve is located on the I-25 West Frontage Road south of Santa Fe. From I-25 take Exit 271 for “La Cienega” and turn right onto West Frontage Road heading north. The parking lot entrance is 1½ miles north after turning onto West Frontage Road. From New Mexico State Road 599 (NM-599), turn south onto West Frontage Road heading toward the Downs at Santa Fe Race Track. The parking lot entrance is two miles south of the Downs at Santa Fe Race Track.