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Up In The Air
In Up in the Air, four artists approach the queasy dread of our current moment with both levity and melancholy, creating an experience that asks viewers questions about how we cooperate with a complicated legacy in modern America, and what we leave behind by ignoring our agency in the present.
Simultaneously, the exhibition recounts and accounts for the curator, Alex Rockelmann鈥檚, five years spent in New Mexico, far from her home in Berlin. Up in the Air marks the final show at birds + Richard before Rockelmann, and the gallery鈥檚 co-owner, Michael Kuhn, return to Germany and the Albuquerque gallery closes. While it is a public-spirited look at the way things are and an ode to the moments of faint but rising hope, imagining the way they could be, it is also a personal bookend for Rockelmann and Kuhn.
A few months after their arrival in New Mexico in 2018, the pair made their way to Santa Fe for the opening of 2019鈥檚 12 New Mexico Artists to Know exhibition, marking their entre茅 into the local art scene. At that time they were introduced to Jennifer Vasher, who is featured in Up in the Air. They also connected with Southwest Contemporary, the host of the 2019 exhibition and now sponsors of Up In the Air鈥檚 collectors鈥� dinner. And so, this exhibition is both a nod to birds + Richard beginnings, as well as a goodbye.
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In Up in the Air, four artists approach the queasy dread of our current moment with both levity and melancholy, creating an experience that asks viewers questions about how we cooperate with a complicated legacy in modern America, and what we leave behind by ignoring our agency in the present.
Simultaneously, the exhibition recounts and accounts for the curator, Alex Rockelmann鈥檚, five years spent in New Mexico, far from her home in Berlin. Up in the Air marks the final show at birds + Richard before Rockelmann, and the gallery鈥檚 co-owner, Michael Kuhn, return to Germany and the Albuquerque gallery closes. While it is a public-spirited look at the way things are and an ode to the moments of faint but rising hope, imagining the way they could be, it is also a personal bookend for Rockelmann and Kuhn.
A few months after their arrival in New Mexico in 2018, the pair made their way to Santa Fe for the opening of 2019鈥檚 12 New Mexico Artists to Know exhibition, marking their entre茅 into the local art scene. At that time they were introduced to Jennifer Vasher, who is featured in Up in the Air. They also connected with Southwest Contemporary, the host of the 2019 exhibition and now sponsors of Up In the Air鈥檚 collectors鈥� dinner. And so, this exhibition is both a nod to birds + Richard beginnings, as well as a goodbye.
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