Rio Bravo Fine Art
101 N Broadway
Truth or Consequences, NM 87901
Presents:
Deborah Klezmer
Incorporating glass, found objects and text, Deborah Klezmer’s sculptural assemblages evoke modern illuminated manuscripts, documenting the history of women who have loved other women. The exhibition’s title “Fictions” directs the viewer to look at specific moments in history and the incomparable spirit of dignity with which women have moved forward through the decades despite continual opposition. "My earliest training was in the theatre and I love that feeling of being transported to another world, a sort of parallel reality. It is the goal of these works to present a visual window into someplace else, someone else. We are nothing if not our fictions."Klezmer’s early history began at NYU where she received a BFA in dramatic writing in 1988. She went on to serve as an editor of women’s historical biography, most notably as Associate Editor of the 17-volume Women in World History, which received the prestigious Dartmouth Award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2001. All the while, however, there were glass shards all over her kitchen counter. As time passed other found objects appeared and her work developed into what she terms mixed-media glasswork. After a stint in a dark NY basement studio, a trip to Santa Fe in 2004 brought the realization that “Santa Fe had apparently sucked the light out of the rest of the world.” Her subsequent move the next year was the obvious conclusion.
Although built with her usual technical rigor, Klezmer’s new work at RioBravoFineArt in Truth or Consequences represents a marked departure from her earlier body of work. Given the unique opportunity to design and oversee the entire installation in RioBravo’s spacious galleries she has made a total commitment to feminist and gay rights issues. Klezmer will present large and smaller scale works using steel, glass, transparencies reminiscent of early photographic techniques, antique hardware, antique glass vaults and Klezmer’s signature ornate keyhole escutcheons. Klezmer is perhaps the only glass artist in the country who works routinely with actual L.C. Tiffany glass jewels in contemporary glass work. Acquired in 2004 from Andy Warhol’s one-time assistant Vito Gallo, her collection is rare. Either suspended in space, supported by a specifically designed framework, or built in three dimensions, the works are impressive. In addition to her sculptural works, she will also present a collection of her glass jewelry. __________________________________________________
Noël Hudson Reception:
Saturday, October 8, 6- 9 PM. Salon discussion with the artist at 5 PM Noël Hudson’s concentration in the arts began in southern California in the 1960’s when she commenced a fifteen-year commitment to developing her knowledge, skills and expressive creativity in clay under the tutelage of recently deceased, master ceramic artist Paul Soldner at Scripps College in Claremont, CA.Giving up clay for painting when she moved to Taos, NM from Los Angeles in 1980, Hudson has pursued, alternatively, gestural abstraction and abstract representation inspired by the natural New Mexico environment in her paintings and works on paper for the past thirty years.
“Abstraction” will include twenty-five pieces drawn from her bold, color-saturated, gestural, abstract series of paintings and works on paper from the late 1980’s in Taos to her most recent linear, patterned, abstract works inspired by the vegetation of the Bosque del Apache. An interchangeable warp and weft of abstraction and representation permeates each piece which includes an emphasis on expressive use of color, bold design with a strength of underlying form, pattern and mark making and a spirit of movement.
Hudson’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group gallery and museum exhibitions in New Mexico and throughout the country for over forty years and can be found in more than one hundred and twenty five public and private collections in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.
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