Hangin’ here with the art
Santa Fe claims that it is the only city in the world with more than 200 art galleries within a 2-square-mile area. Most are in three neighborhoods: Canyon Road, the Downtown Arts District and the Railyard Arts District. Here are some of the best.
Canyon Road
Hunter Kirkland Contemporary, 200-B Canyon Road, www.hunterkirklandcontemporary.com. Contemporary art, including sculpture both miniature and monumental.
Ventana Fine Art, 400
Canyon Road, www.ventanafineart.com. Contemporary Native American and Southwestern art; be sure to see paintings by Native American artist John Nieto.
Wiford Gallery, 403 Canyon Road, www.wifordgallery.com. Interesting-looking gallery with a large outdoor sculpture garden containing kinetic sculptures. A fun place to photograph.
Carole LaRoche Gallery, 415 Canyon Road, www.laroche-gallery.com. Artist-owned gallery with Southwest-themed art. Known for wolf and shaman figures.
Morning Star Gallery,
513 Canyon Road, www.morningstargallery.com. Museum-quality Native American art and New Mexican antiques.
Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, 558 Canyon Road, www.chiaroscurosantafe.com. Contemporary abstraction, including Native American, Australian Aboriginal and American Southwestern. Zaplin Lampert Gallery, 651 Canyon Road, www.za
plinlampert.com. Museumquality historic Western and New Mexico art.
Silver Sun, 656 Canyon Road, www.silversun-sf
.com. Authentic Indian jewelry, with turquoise a specialty. Nüart Gallery, 670 Canyon Road, www.nuartgallery.com. Contemporary gallery featuring U.S., European and Latin American artists.
Nedra Matteucci Galleries, 1075 Paseo de Peralta (two blocks east of Canyon Road), www.matteucci.com. Historic American/Southwestern art with a lovely, large sculpture garden.
Downtown Blue Rain Gallery, 130
Lincoln Ave., Suite C,
www.blueraingallery.com. Large contemporary art gallery concentrating on Indian and Hispanic art but representing an eclectic mix of artists. Owings Gallery, 120 E.
Marcy St., www.owingsgallery.com. Historic and contemporary Southwestern art and American Modernism. Andrew Smith Gallery,
122 Grant Ave., www.an drewsmithgallery.com. One of the top photography galleries in the country; Ansel Adams expert.
Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery, 100 W. San Francisco St., www.andreafisherpottery.com. One of the largest Indian pottery galleries in the nation. Railyard Arts District Evoke Contemporary,
550 S. Guadalupe St., www .evokecontemporary.com. Contemporary figurative art. William Siegal Gallery, 540 S. Guadalupe St., www
.williamsiegal.com. Ancient and contemporary art. LewAllen Galleries, 1613
Paseo de Peralta, www.lew allencontemporary.com.
Large contemporary gallery.