Your Invite: Last Chance to See The Long Horizon
You're invited. Two final open viewing dates remain for The Long Horizon at Gallery 215, Taos:
Saturday, August 29th | 1–3pm
Sunday, September 6th | 1–3pm
The Long Horizon is an exhibition of paintings, pastels and watercolors inspired by the intertwining of Robbi Firestone's life
Honored: Artist Talk for The National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, New Mexico Chapter, asked for me. Specifically. Privately….Not a public event on the gallery calendar. A private viewing
What’s strong enough to hold this light, these clouds?
Interior Designer Heather Hilton and I stand inside a cathedral of gold leaf, walls stacked floor to ceiling with edges and ornament, for our client, collector Roxane Rose…
Robbi Firestone Welcomes the National Museum of Women in the Arts to Her Solo Show
Robbi Firestone welcomes the National Museum of Women in the Arts to The Long Horizon: Solo Exhibition for and artist talk and gallery visit
Agnes Martin & NMWA Artist Talk
Into That Light
There is a front hall at Gallery 215 in Taos.
Thick adobe walls. Ancient wooden floors. Carvings.
Space holding silence the way only very old walls do.
Home to Untitled Orange and Yellow, 1994. Agnes Martin. Acrylic and graphite on canvas. Sixty inches by sixty inches. A grid painting from the final decade of her life, having already re-rooted in New Mexico. She stripped everything unnecessary from her practice. She became one of the most consequential painters of the twentieth century.
Humbly, on July 18, my work steps into that hall.
Two Artists. Two Cities. Same Sky.
Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the first women in New York City to live in a skyscraper.
She took an elevator eleven floors to her studio. Painted the skyline. Painted the sunset from above the New York street. Fierce. Visionary. Completely herself.
I learned this yesterday from Cody Hartley, Executive Director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Standing in the Sheldon.
The Sheldon is one of O'Keeffe's most famous painted buildings. She lived there…