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EVOKE CONTEMPORARY PAST EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS


Below is a list of past Exhibitions and Events held at the EVOKE Contemporary from 2010 to present.

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Kent Williams installation image
Jeremy Mann installation image
Francis Di Fronzo installation image
Louisa McElwain installation image
Shoot Portraits Not Peolple installation image
Lee Price installation image
Alice Leora Briggs installation image
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Lynn Bogges installation image
Kristine Poole installation image

NICHOLAS HERRERA | Pasión
Herrera’s Pasión explores the finality of death and the brutality and heartbreak of war and oppression, with a good dose of current politics. That’s what’s on his mind right now.
September 27th - October 19th

IRENE HARDWICKE OLIVIERI | Honey in the Desert
Irene will be showing three dimensional animals and people created from cholla cactus skeletons, ponderosa pine and juniper.
August 30th - September 21st

ARTIST DEMONSTRATION | Kristine Poole
Kristine Poole will be doing an exclusive demonstration at Evoke in which she’ll show techniques for designing and sculpting the elaborate hairstyles that are a hallmark of her fired clay sculptures. As the hair design often relates to the words, she’ll also demonstrate how she chooses and inscribes patterns and text on her figures.
1pm Saturday, August 24

ARTIST TALK | Esha Chiocchio
Esha Chiocchio is a photographer, filmmaker, and artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She uses her combined knowledge of visual storytelling, anthropology, and sustainable communities to weave narratives about land, culture, and climate solutions.
1pm Saturday, August 17

ARTIST DEMONSTRATION | Thomas Vigil
Thomas Vigil’s unique technique uses discarded street signs, aerosols and stencils combined with the Catholic religious iconography that permeates Hispanic culture and is no less ingrained in the artist’s identity.
1pm Saturday, August 3

SUMMER SALON, PART I
EVOKE Contemporary opens its two-part Summer Salon exhibit with an emphasis on the artwork of Patrick McGrath Muñiz. A symbolist painter who has re-contextualized the Roman Catholic retablo as an armature for commentary on neoliberal globalization, capitalism, colonialism and neocolonialism, consumerism, and climate change. With a visual literacy that uses not only religious iconography, but Mesoamerican mythology, Greek and Roman mythology, the tarot, and his own set of personal symbols, Muñiz creates densely layered paintings meant to confront the historic amnesia that affects us all.
June 28th - July 20th

ALICE LEORA BRIGGS | The Fate of Poetry
Alice Leora Briggs is known for works that comprise provocative amalgams of classical and contemporary imagery that illuminate the narcotic trade-driven violence of Ciudad Juárez. In addition to her traditional subject matter, this new exhibition includes images that “are an examination of my own history and that, hopefully, manifest some larger meaning.”
June 28th - July 20th

ARTIST TALK | Irene Hardwicke Olivieri
Irene will be giving a talk on her creative process; what sparks ideas and the life experiences that feed her imagination. She grew up in the borderlands of south Texas and Tamaulipas Mexico; her childhood years were spent along the Rio Grande River. These early experiences in the natural world surrounded by rich diversity of cultures lit the way for the rest of her life.
1pm Saturday, July 6th

ARTIST TALK | Alice Leora Briggs
History is rife with endings. In The Fate of Poetry, a combination of acrylic painting and sgraffito, Briggs suggests that the foundation of art, like that of poetry, continues despite death, despite endings. And while everyone who walks above the world’s cemeteries inevitably meets the same fate, still they persist in their attempts to indelibly imprint themselves on history.
1pm Saturday, June 29th

MAKING WAVES | Spring Group Exhibition
As metaphor, to make waves is to take action, to step out of one’s comfort zone and embrace the unknown. An artist with vision is one who “makes waves”, is one who watches as closely as the poet for the meaning in the everyday. Visionary art can show us the extraordinary in the ordinary. And by it, we are suddenly caught surprised by a new experience of what we think we know.
May 31st - June 22nd, 2024

MICHAEL SCOTT | Preternatural Water
Michael Scott continues his decade long conversation with the the four elements of the landscape: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. The upcoming exhibition, Preternatural Water examines the properties and power of water to destroy or renew.
May 31st - June 22nd, 2024

JULYAN DAVIS | American Ghosts
Julyan Davis tells stories in paint. For the past 35 years he has painted America’s lost histories and vanishing landscape. From Appalachian ballads to the life of a Bonapartist exile in the Deep South, his touring museum shows (in collaboration with musicians, poets and historians) have focused on forgotten stories from across America: stories that simultaneously bring the past to life and remind us how much the past speaks to the present.
April 26th - May 25th, 2024

HARRIET YALE RUSSELL | For One Left Dreaming
A Tribute honoring the life and art of Harriet Yale Russell
1939-2023

March 29th - trough April 20th

The innate desire to create, to explore intangible feelings through tangible means, and to realize complex visions and dreams in two dimensions are the guideposts that loosely delineated Harriet Yale Russell’s work as an artist.
March 29th - April 20th, 2024

LOUISA MCELWAIN | Distant Thunder
More than a window onto the world, McElwain’s paintings endure as a window into the artist’s mind and soul. Emblems of the sanctity generated from artistic expression found deep within oneself, they carry her legacy of passion, energy, and an abiding love for the land—forever preserved in the paint she heralded as a conduit for the sublime.
January 26th - April 20th, 2024

JAY BAILEY | East of the Sierras
Inspired by memory and fragmentation, Jay Bailey makes paintings which create a fabric of images unique to his time and place in the American West.
February 23rd - March 23rd

PATRICK MCGRATH MUÑIZ | Retablos
Patrick McGrath Muñiz' solo exhibition using Spanish retablos as the platform for his contemporary reflection on social and environmental injustice and indifference.
November 24th through January 20th

ARON WIESENFELD | Past Lives
Aron’s narrative paintings and etchings illustrating the freedom and loneliness of youth.
November 24th through January 20th

Autumn Glow | Group Exhibition
Group exhibition savoring the turning leaves, cooling temperatures and darkening nights.
October 27th through November 18th

Thomas Vigil | Lost Prophets
Thomas Vigil explores the idea that every individual, well-recognized or not, has a powerful voice within them in this solo exhibition.
September 29th through October 21st

David T. Alexander | Speaking of Land and Water
Alexander, whose paintings and drawings explore earth (Dry Series) and water (Wet Series), finds the marriage of both subjects in the landscape of the desert southwest.
September 29th through October 21st

Lynn Boggess | Nature's Go-Between
An exhibition of the artist’s ongoing tribute to our majestic wooded landscapes.
August 25th through September 23rd

Esha Chiocchio | Restoring Earth's Canvas
Her work celebrates committed individuals who collaborate to protect and restore the land.
August 25th through September 23rd

Art in the Making | Exhibition
Showcasing a wide diversity of art and craft from sixty artists, Art in the Making is an exhibition based on the conviction that there is no right or best or most important way to make art.
June 30th through August 19th

Slow Magic | Soey Milk
Soey Milk presents new paintings in this highly anticipated figurative exhibition.
May 26th through June 24th

Flora & Fauna | Group Exhibition
A spring immersion in nature takes over the gallery with this verdant display of Mother Nature’s abundant splendor and regeneration.
April 28th through May 20th

Harriet Yale Russell | Listen to the Paint
Harriet Yale Russell’s vivid response to world events is revealed in this exhibition.
March 31st through April 22nd

Francis DiFronzo | Proof of Life, Part 3
Francis DiFronzo releases recent paintings romancing the beauty and solitude of the American West.
February 24th through March 25th

Present | group Exhibition
a group art exhibition of works great and small by Evoke Contemporary artists and invited guest artists revealing the immense impact that can be delivered in a small package.
December 30th 2022 through February 18th 2023

Present | group Exhibition
a group art exhibition of works great and small by Evoke Contemporary artists and invited guest artists revealing the immense impact that can be delivered in a small package.
December 30th 2022 through February 18th 2023

Andrew Shears | I'll Get Back to You
Andrew Shears presents imagery taken from memories, dreams and experience; his inscape revealed in subtle, intimately-sized landscape paintings.
November 25th through December 18th

Nicholas Herrera: El Día de los Muertos
Nicholas Herrera celebrates life and death in this provocative exhibition, contemplating human mortality with the reverence, humor, and love of lives lost that have long been part of the time-honored tradition of Day of the Dead.
October 28th through November 19th

David T. Alexander: Infinite to Infinitesimal
David Alexander emerges in Santa Fe with large-scale works from his series Wet—paintings that capture reflective pools
September 30th through October 22nd

oil of Joy:
Louisa McElwain’s (1953 - 2013) paintings are testimony to this artist’s passionate dialogue with nature; she often described her process as a joyous exploration of the sensuous potential of oil paint.
August 26th through September 24th

Transitional Moments:
Lynn Boggess annual solo exhibition of this artist’s distinctive and heavily textured oil paintings, created outdoors in lush wooded landscapes.
July 29th through August 20th

Los Tres Modernos:
Nicholas Herrera, Patrick McGrath Muñiz and Thomas Vigil share their latest creations in a distinctively spirited group exhibition.
July 29th through August 20th

eduction by Centipede: Irene Hardwicke OlivieriMay 27th through July 23rd

Abecedario de Juárez: Alice Leora Briggs June 24th through July 23rd

Gravitas: an art exhibition of the nude
April 29th through May 21st

Medium Rare: Mariella Bisson, B. Shawn Cox, Kay Khan, Gugger Petter
February 25th through April 23rd

Preternatural: a book launch + signing with Michael Scott with a feature of the artist’s work
March 25th through April 23rd

Crossroads Part 2:
December 31st through February 19th

Christopher Benson: The Middle Place
November 26th through January 22nd

CORAZÓN Y ORGULLO: Solo Exhibition
featuring Nicholas Herrera, Patrick McGrath Muñiz and Thomas Vigil
September 24th through November 20th

Autumn Highlights: Group Exhibition
October 29th through November 20th

Lynn Boggess: Solo Exhibition
July 30th through September 18th

Ester Curini: Artist's Spotlight
July 30th through September 18th

Louisa McElwain: A Dialogue with Nature and Harriet Yale Russell: Dark to Light
May 28th through July 24th

Michael Scott:Fire and Ice
December 26th through February 20th 2021

Andrew Shears: Still
May 1st through July 3rd

Winter Group Exhibition
February 27th through April 24th

Seth Armstrong: Solo Exhibition
December 4th through December 19th

Aron Wiesenfeld + Gugger Petter
Virtual Tour - October 30th through November 21st

IMUGI: Soey Milk + Kent Williams
Virtual Tour - September 25th through October 24th

Louisa McElwain: Solo exhibition
A Dance to the Tempo of the Evolving Day

Virtual Tour - August 28th through September 19th

Summer Exhibition: Group Exhibition
Virtual Tour - August 22nd

Contemporáneos Hispanos: Group Exhibition
Virtual Tour - July 25th

HERE AND THERE: Spring Group Exhibition
Virtual Tour - May 2020

Lee Price:Repose and Christopher Benson:Grand Gestures
Virtual Tour - April 2020

Revelry - Holiday Group Exhibition
Opening Friday, DECEMBER 27th 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Exhibition on display through JANUARY 25th, 2020