April 7, 2025

Drawn at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:

APRIL 2025 -- Exhibitions

2025 broke open in April with all kinds of art exhibitions in Albuquerque.  I finally met IVA MORRIS at her opening, though I did not post any photos here.  The most significant being the opening of the LIGHT, SPACE AND THE SHAPE OF TIME exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum on April 5, 2025:

LIGHT, SPACE and the SHAPE of TIME

LIGHT, SPACE AND THE SHAPE OF TIME

AUGUST MUTH

AUGUST MUTH was showing his holograms in this exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum:

Last year I went to August Muth's talk at the UNM ARTSlab on November 14, 2024, where he showed his holograms and explained the process of making them:

 

The hologram photobooths are cushioned

to prevent even the slightess wiggling

August Muth was also featured in the talk during opening day:

LARRY BELL

LARRY BELL is a prominent LIGHT AND SPACE artist, and was prominently featured with his large glass sculpture in the gallery.  He lives in Taos and is one of the five living artists on the cover of the Sgt Peppers album:

Larry Bell's large glass sculpture

Kumi Yamashita

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ROBIN BROWN

ROBIN BROWN had an opening of her paintings at Ancora Cafe in Albuquerque.  She paints with us at the Edith Bunker on Thursdays:

The Rail Yards in Albuquerque

Denver skyline

Across the street from the Ancora Cafe

was this mural by StJame/ David Santiago

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ABQ ARTWALK

The downtown Albuquerque First Friday Artwalk happened on March 4, 2025:

ABQ ARTWALK

516 ARTS was opening during the Artwalk,

and I walked into a performance piece

AMY MAESTAS

Amy Maestas was showing prints

 at El Chante Casa de Cultura in Albuquerque

Amy Maestas' print

Amy Maestas

I bought Zimmy's print

at OffCenter Arts

Mystery Collage packages

at OffCenter Arts

BEN HARRISON

Ben Harrison showing his mural paintings

at 5th and Central during Artwalk

Flamenco Works

was having a live performance

Richard Barnes and son at The Groove Art Space,

selling his son's jewelry 

Ken Romig's drawings

at The Groove Art Space

FUN-A-DAY 2025 exhibition

at FOURTEENFIFTEEN/ALPACA gallery

YAUDI

Yaudi, Malcolm King,

made 31 shirts for the FUN-A-DAY exhibition

Amy Maestas also had an insect print

hanging in the  FUN-A-DAY exhibition

Amy Maestas

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BRADLEY PEARSON

BRADLEY PEARSON had an opening for his drawings and painting at Differential Brewery in Albuquerque on Saturday, April 5, 2025:

Bradley Pearson in front of his paintings

at his opening at Differential Brewing

Abstract into AI FIGURES

Note how overwhelming the AI model is, as it can push ambiguity into a concrete figure.  The AI figures on the right were generated in KREA from the abstract figures on the left -- using the Entangled Knots model (sometimes mixed with other models). 

The abstract figures are on the left were also generated with AI, but in 2020 in Runway ML using StyleGAN 2. The abstract source figures can be found at THIS LINK.

More abstract inputs do not generate figures so quickly with the Entangled Knots model, unless the input image has been dialed down to smaller percentages:

Abstracts

Abstracts