Ramona Sakiestewa: Vortex of Color
August 15th – September 21st

Ramona Sakiestewa’s exquisite tapestries and works on paper have long been celebrated for their seamless synthesis of abstraction with ritual imagery and traditional techniques. Sakiestewa is noted for layering and blending color, giving her weavings a painterly quality.

A central figure in the Native American arts community, Sakiestewa has won numerous
awards, including multiple first-place prizes at the Santa Fe Indian Market. She has also consulted on numerous public design projects, including the National Mall facility of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. The artist’s work is in numerous public collections, including those of the Smithsonian Institution, the Heard Museum, the Denver Art Museum and the New Mexico Museum of Art.

Ming Fay: Jungle Tango
August 8th – September 21st

Born in Shanghai but based in New York, Ming Fay creates mythical folk gardens from wire, foam, papier mâché and paint. Evoking a utopian vision of the jungle, the artist explores the contentious and sometimes collaborative relationship between humankind and nature. Fay has described Jungle Tango as “a piece about movements, connections and mysterious shapes and forms.” He draws on extensive research in botany to create colorful, fantastical, mock-organic eco-systems.

Fay has had solo exhibitions at MOCA Shanghai and the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris and has received commissions for numerous public works, including the Delancey/Essex subway station in New York. He is a professor of sculpture at William Paterson University.

Built: Constructed Objects by Ted Larsen
June 13th – July 20th

Larsen's evolving exploration of the detritus of consumer culture and minimal sculpture reaches a remarkable culmination in his first solo exhibition at Eight Modern. Larsen transforms salvage material into intimate, evocative forms that he calls constructed objects. Larsen, a longtime resident of Santa Fe, was awarded a grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation earlier this year.

Threads of Memory: Recent Work by Nancy Youdelman
April 11th – May 18th

Nancy Youdelman has been transforming vintage clothing with found objects - photographs, letters, jewelry, buttons and even plant material - for close to 40 years, ever since her involvement with the CalArts Feminist Art Program and Womanhouse in the 1970s. Youdelman's mixed-media sculptures and reliefs explore the threads that connect memory and objects, interweaving broader themes such as love, death, history and femininity.

Artist Reception: Friday, April 11, 5:30-7:30

3D/CG Ronald Davis: Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics, 2004-2007
December 16th – January 31st

Efren Candelaria: Hardly Smooth
November 12th – December 11th

This solo exhibition of works by Efren Candelaria features an array of minimalist graphite drawings on wood veneer and paper as well as a multi-media installation. The artist eschews geometric perfection for the inevitable curves and bumps of freehand drawing, and takes inspiration from ideas about numbers, time, space and seriality.

Once There Was, Once There Wasn't: Fairy Tales Retold
October 14th – November 6th

With works by a number of artists, including Jim Dine, David Hockney, Peregrine Honig, Fay Ku, Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton, Adela Leibowitz, David Levinthal, Paula Rego, Kiki Smith, and Richard Tuttle the exhibition illuminates and challenges the traditional interpretations of fairy tales. Stories heard in childhood exert a powerful pull on the artists participating in Once There Was, who take on the powerful role of storyteller and the task of mythopoesis, of creating and renewing meaning. Their modern reworkings of old tales draw upon familiar narratives and imagery for their cultural resonance.

East Meets West: Ramona Sakiestewa & G. Peter Jemison
August 17th – September 16th

Featuring works by Ramona Sakiestewa and G. Peter Jemison, two of the United States' most celebrated Native American artists, this exhibition specifically confronts issues of cross-cultural communications and interdisciplinary practice.

Artists' Reception on August 17, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Carlos Pérez Vidal: Time As Metaphor
August 20th – August 16th

Carlos Pérez Vidal, founder of the independent art group La Campana, is a central figure of the Cuban Renaissance. Addressing the issues of personal identity, historical memory, and cultural stereotyping, Pérez Vidal communicates his sociopolitical observations in a visual language that surreally compounds parodic, tragic, and uncanny elements. The artist is known for creating confrontational dialogues between diverse iconographies and the specific framework of the Spanish Colonial altar. Drawing upon the cultural diversity of the Americas, "Time as Metaphor" reveals unexpected connections between seemingly disparate religious, political, and art-historical icons.

Modern Dimensions: Contemporary American Sculpture
June 4th – August 15th

Eight Modern will celebrate its grand opening with the inaugural exhibit, Modern Dimensions: Contemporary American Sculpture. The exhibition brings together works by seven American sculptors: Walter Dusenbery, Ming Fay, Robert Lobe, Robert Mangold, Celeste Roberge, John Ruppert, and Nancy Youdelman. Each of these highly-acclaimed artists explores diverse facets of contemporary sculpture and integrates conceptual and aesthetic ideas in bold, new terms.