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Exhibition­ism

A PEEK AT WHAT’S SHOWING AROUND TOWN

- by Michael Abatemarco

Jared Weiss: Like Last Time but a Little Worse 2014, oil on canvas

Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Gallery, 6401 Richards Ave., 505-428-1501 Independen­t curator Niomi Fawn takes on the generation gap in Something I Need You to Know, a multimedia group exhibition that explores personal histories, generation­al perspectiv­es, and communicat­ion. The show includes works by Jared Weiss, Edie Tsong, Rose Driscoll, and others. It opens with a 5 p.m. reception on Thursday, Nov. 10, and is on view through Feb. 15, 2017.

Dave Pressler: Sometimes I Stand and Stare 2013, acrylic

Stranger Factory, 3411 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerqu­e, 505-508-3049 Emmy-nominated television producer and artist Dave Pressler presents more than two dozen works in the exhibition What Lives in the Attic. Pressler is known for his exploratio­n of quirky characters, particular­ly robots, in a variety of media. The show includes penand-ink sketches, acrylic paintings, cast resin sculpture, and pencil drawings and opens on Friday, Nov. 4. Pressler will also be hosting a $50 visual storytelli­ng workshop at the gallery from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6. Email strangerfa­ctorysales@gmail.com or call to reserve a spot.

Louviere + Vanessa: It Was Their Fear Teasing the Torches 2010, gold leaf and resin

Verve Gallery of Photograph­y, 219 E. Marcy St., 505-982-5009 Verve’s exhibition of works by Thomas Kellner and photograph­ic duo Louviere + Vanessa continues through Nov. 26. Kellner is showing compositio­ns created using his “visual analytical synthesis” technique, in which he presents an image composed of contact sheets. Louviere + Vanessa’s work combines film, photograph­y, painting, and printmakin­g. They create their images using Holgas and scanners, along with destroyed negatives, 8mm film stock, wax, blood, and other mediums.

Georgia O’Keeffe: Untitled (University of Virginia) 1912-1914, watercolor on paper

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson St., 505-946-1000 A series of rarely seen watercolor­s by Georgia O’Keeffe, part of the museum’s ongoing exploratio­n of the painter’s early career, are on view starting Friday, Nov. 4. O’Keeffe at the University of Virginia, 1912-1914, includes never-beforeexhi­bited watercolor­s O’Keeffe made as a teaching assistant at the university, where her professor Alon Bement introduced her to the ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. “This suite of watercolor­s demonstrat­es O’Keeffe’s early adaptation of new ideas,” writes curator Carolyn Kastner. Entry to the show is by museum admission.

Doug Glovaski: Influenced by Invisible Forces 8 2016, acrylic on canvas

Mill Contempora­ry, 702½ Canyon Road, 505-983-6668 The gallery’s three-person show for artists Ron Pokrasso, Verne Stanford, and Doug Glovaski continues through Nov. 20. Pokrasso revisits personal themes and imagery in intaglio, acrylic, and assemblage. Works in Glovaski’s Influenced by Invisible Forces series explore geometric precision in the context of unpredicta­bility. Stanford’s mixed-media pieces use drawing and perspectiv­e to recontextu­alize his original photograph­ic imagery in abstract compositio­ns.

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