The Studio, An Immersive Exhibition by Allan Packer
Closing Reception: Saturday, March 23, 1-3 PM in the Fechin Studio RSVP
Allan Packer has been working hard to create new paintings during his immersive exhibition, The Studio. We invite you to the closing reception to celebrate Allan and see the new paintings he created during the show's run.
"Breathe" by Olga Nazarova, 18" x 30"
I am mute, but you can hear me: The visual poetry of Olga Nazarova
On View: April 2 - May 19, 2024, in the Fechin Studio
Exhibition Reception: Saturday, April 6, 2024, 1-3 PM in the Fechin Studio
An ode to the power of the unspoken language, the experiences revealed in Nazarova’s photographs, though not personally lived, are deeply felt by the viewer. Each image resonates as a silent melody, reaching out to touch your soul, transporting you to moments where you can simply dream, breathe, and be.
Nazarova’s photographs capture the mystery and gentleness of moments in life. She seeks to find the soul of her subjects, whether it is a child, landscape, bird, or concrete building. Within her, emotions are evoked as she captures moments of significance, and the camera paints with shadows and light what the eye sees as fleeting.
Her images cause the viewer to be emotionally moved, perhaps even spiritually, as they find the “hidden consciousness and heartbeats that resonate and dance with the deep self within us.”
A Soviet Union-born artist like Nicolai Fechin, Nazarova roots her artistic inspiration to her early years.
“During my childhood in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, I spent many quiet moments pondering the forests, listening to all their sounds, drifting into daydreams. I have been chasing the ability to explain those feelings ever since. These images are the closest attempt to transcribe them.“ “I understand and have it ingrained in me the essence of the unspoken language. It is expressed through movement; movement of a body in a ballet, a hand gesture, a leaf fluttering in the wind, or the wind on a rock.”
Many of Nazarova’s works capture movement, and we can see the passage of time coalesce into a single poetic breath as if the past and the future exist in the here and now.
Nazarova is a professional photographer and creative director living and working in Taos, New Mexico. From fashion photography to magazine design and layout, she has worked for companies such as THVM and David Michael, and locally for Maison Le Fawnhawk. She hopes this exhibition will encourage you to slow down, breathe, and remember your best quiet moments.
Stella Maria Baer, "The Appaloosa, Baby Pinto, and the Bluebird"
Moon, Horse, and Sky Earth Pigment Oil Paintings by Stella Maria Baer On View: June 4-July 21, 2024, in the Fechin Studio
Exhibition Reception: Saturday, June 8, 1-3 PM in the Fechin Studio. RSVP
Moon, Horse, and Sky, an exhibition of oil paintings by Stella Maria Baer, is a collection of earth and mineral pigment oil paintings that embody the relationships between human beings and horses, the land, flora and fauna, moon and sky. Made from the dusts of earth, minerals, and stone, these Western mystic oil paintings weave together memory, dreams, longing, and visions. The show will include an Earth Pigment Oil Painting Workshop in the garden at Taos Art Museum on June 29th and 30th. These paintings are prayers, long seeded dreams that seek to hold our interwoven relationships with the land, horses, moon, and sky.
Stella is a painter and photographer from Santa Fe, New Mexico. In her work, she explores her memory of growing up in the desert, tracing her origins back to the dusts of canyons where her mother took her camping when she was little. For the past nine years, she has worked to create a body of work with three veins: paintings of moons and planets, photographs of desert landscapes, and surrealist portraits of women and children riding animals under the western sky. Her practice looks at the relationship between how we see women and how we treat land, between memory and cosmology, in paintings made from dirt and rock, in photographs of nudes in desert canyons, in the earth pigment bodies of women and children riding birds and horses at sunrise. Stella's paintings and photographs have been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Time Magazine, Scientific American, Architectural Digest, Sunset Magazine, Westword, and ArtNews. Her pieces are in public, private, and museum collections worldwide.
Stella lives on a little ranch south of Santa Fe with her husband Seth and their three children, Wyeth, Whitman, and Winona, an appaloosa horse named Moon, and a flock of wooly goats.
Image: Stella Maria Baer, The Appaloosa, Baby Pinto, and the Bluebird, a painting of the two horses Stella, her husband Seth, and their family rescued from kill pens. Moon and Stars, the Appaloosa, and Sky, the baby pinto, stand at sunrise with a bluebird flying in the Belt of Venus. The bluebird was one of Stella's mother Eliza's favorite birds, and Eliza had both an appaloosa and a pinto when Stella was a child. Eliza's joy lives on in Stella's relationship with these two horses and in this painting made from the dusts of the earth.
Interested in submitting a proposal to exhibit in the Fechin Studio? Learn more here!