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We have not been updating this blog much these days. However Axle Contemporary remains very active. Please visit our website homepage to find out what we are doing, where we are, and see images and information.
http://www.axleart.com

We are happy to show Eve’s work at Axle Contemporary.. Check out her lecture and workshop at SFAI.
The Santa Fe Art Institute Presents:  Eve Andree Laramee
Lecture Friday, April 29 6pm Tipton Hall Workshop Invisible Fire: Mapping our Atomic Legacy Saturday & Sunday, April 30 & May 1
Exhibition April 22 – May 31 Mon – Fri, 9am – [...]

Celebrate the arrival of Spring with a new installation in our mobile gallery. Woody Vasulka, Steina, and Rob Shaw Järmärk Opening: Friday, April 15, 5-7 pm in front of SITE, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM
Axle Contemporary is pleased to present a collaborative installation by internationally renowned video pioneers Steina and Woody [...]

We have sent out the Call for Entries and launched a fundraising campaign for our Haiku Roadsign Project.
Already getting Poetry and Pledges flowing in.  Thanks, keep it all coming.  See more here:
Call For Entries
Kickstarter
AxleArt Haiku Roadsign Project
Interested in other public space poetry projects?  We’ve just learned of a couple of [...]

Detail of Structure of Dynaflxian Exuberance by Nina Mastrangelo an installation of 400 paintings in Axle's 10X6 space
You could own the work of any artist to help you…to remember who you are
you could own the work of any artist to help you…heal
you could own the work of any artist to [...]

It seems to me that building wonder is never far away, but it takes discipline. The same sort of discipline it takes to have a sense of gratitude, even praise.
unremitting complaining doesn’t generate much emotional currency (unless it’s humorous) make the complaint creative, constructive, and fresh. Try to reveal a [...]

New in the New York Times!
Mini shelters on the cheap
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/24/garden/20110224-TINY-11.html

Oyvind Fahlstrom's Dr. Schweitzer's last mission
“The most striking impression I had ….enterprise! That one could get something going oneself, instead of waiting to be taken up by the theatre.”
Oyvind Fahlstrom

Axle Contemporary artist Eve Andrée Laramée is raising funds for a new video project.
Her work is compelling, beautiful, and important.  See more about her project at:
http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/project/slouching_towards_yucca_mountain_a_video_installation
Visit USA Projects and support this artist's work
See Eve’s wonderful Map series on our website.  Newly uploaded there!
http://axleart.com/index/Eve_Laramee.html

seize the movement
Some keys to running a gallery and/or being an artist and just plain being productive: Seize the moment, say yes whenever and as often as possible. Okay maybe this seems too axiomatic, too simple. As in what choice do we really have anyways. Movement surrounds us, constantly.
To seize the movement [...]

When John Davis was doing lighting for theater and dance in Paris, he used this same dark blue color so often that the color is now named after him: “Bleu Davis”. I think Yves Klein patented his blue in France as well. The French do love their [...]

A beautiful day in Santa Fe to meet Eliza Naranjo Morse, a great up and coming artist and a lovely person with noted artist, gallerist, and bon vivant Jerry Wellman.