{"id":917,"date":"2015-08-05T12:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T18:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/FOM\/?p=917"},"modified":"2015-08-20T13:41:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T19:41:24","slug":"matthews-gallery-the-modernist-impulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/news\/event-press-releases\/matthews-gallery-the-modernist-impulse","title":{"rendered":"Matthews Gallery \u2013 <em>The Modernist Impulse<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Fe, NM\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 August 5, 2015<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Matthews Gallery<br \/>669 Canyon Road<br \/>Santa Fe, NM 87501<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thematthewsgallery.com\">www.thematthewsgallery.com<\/a><br \/><a href=\"mailto:jordan@thematthewsgallery.com\">jordan@thematthewsgallery.com<\/a><br \/>505.992.2882<\/p>\n<p>THE MODERNIST IMPULSE<br \/>New Mexico&#8217;s 20th Century Avant-Garde<br \/>September 1 \u2013 October 31, 2015<br \/>Opening reception: Friday, September 4, 5-7 pm<\/p>\n<h5>MATTHEWS GALLERY TELLS MODERNIST HISTORY<br \/>THROUGH EVER-EVOLVING EXHIBITION<\/h5>\n<p>Santa Fe, NM \u2014 \u201cWonderful place. You must come. Am sending ticket. Bring me a cook.\u201d Mabel Dodge Lujan\u2019s telegram to artist Andrew Dasburg is a seminal moment in New Mexico art history. Lujan, a prominent arts champion from New York, had fallen in love with the Taos art colony and was determined to summon artists there from the East. The efforts of Lujan and her counterparts in Santa Fe and Albuquerque sparked a great influx of modernist artists to the region, eclipsing the traditional styles that had reigned there in the late 19th century. Matthews Gallery\u2019s exhibition THE MODERNIST IMPULSE: New Mexico\u2019s 20th Century Avant-Garde, will tell stories of revolutionary artists throughout the previous century in a special rolling exhibition from September through October, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working in concert with Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Museum\u2019s \u2018Fall of Modernism\u2019 event series to trace the grand arc of New Mexico&#8217;s modernist history,&#8221; says gallery owner Lawrence Matthews. \u201cStarting with Lujan\u2019s circle, which arrived in the 1920s, and moving forward through the decades, we\u2019ll examine the strong impulse of modernist artists to settle in New Mexico and revolutionize the art colonies out here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the two-month show, Matthews Gallery\u2019s walls will shift through time. Early Taos modernists will give way for the Taos Moderns movement, Santa Fe artist and art teacher Alfred Morang will pass the baton to students such as Janet Lippincott and William Vincent, and rays of influence from the revolutionary Transcendental Painting Group will stretch far beyond its short existence. Contemporary artist Eli Levin, who came to New Mexico in the 1960\u2019s and knew many notable modernists, will round out the group.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Fe, NM\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 August 5, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-press-releases"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 19:22:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artdoorlabs.com\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}