AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
pop-up exhibition l november 1-18, 2023
at F O M A, Guadalupe Center, 333 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe
Juried by Toby Jurovics
The exhibition takes the phrase As Above, So Below, as its point of departure, a paraphrase of the second verse of the Emerald Tablet. This phrase was often used by occultists such as Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, and included interpretations that suggested correspondences between the macrocosm and microcosm. These different planes of existence included illusions, some half-real, of minerals, plants, animals and humans.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 4, 3-5pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, November 18, 3-5pm
Hours: 11am-5pm MDT, Tuesdays through Saturday, Closed Sunday
“Selecting work for As Above, So Below, what became clear was an overarching concern for the land from its most vulnerable to its most rugged, no matter the perspective. At a time when hope is easy to misplace, these eighteen artists convey the tenacity of the natural world, its inherent beauty, and the certainty it will outlast whatever we might throw at it.” Toby Jurovics
S E L E C T E D P H O T O G R A P H E R S
SE Bachinger
Kaya & Blank
Christine Cassano
Paula Castillo
Esha Chiocchio
Hayden Lilly Daiber
Jimmy Fike
Stephen Galloway
Bia Gayotto
Alexander Heilner
Katie Kehoe
Andrea Pinheiro
Linda-Marlena Ross
Meridel Rubenstein
Amy Scofield
Martina Shenal
Adam Thorman
Terri Warpinski
JUROR: Toby Jurovics
Toby Jurovics is founding director of the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment. He was chief curator and curator of American Western art at Joslyn Art Museum from 2011 to 2020; prior to this, he was a curator of photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Princeton University Art Museum. An expert on nineteenth and twentieth century American landscape photography, he has curated over fifty monographic and group exhibitions of photography, painting, works on paper, and new media. In 2010, he organized Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan in conjunction with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library of Congress, and he has also published essays on Thomas Joshua Cooper; Steve Fitch; John Gossage; Andrew Moore; William Sutton; and the New Topographics. Jurovics holds a B.A. in art history and English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in art history from the University of Delaware. barrylopezfoundation.org
Header image: Hayden Lilly Daiber, North Creek, 6/29/23, digital photography, 32 x17.5 inches
Checklist: top to bottom, left to right (price list upon request)
Sarah Bachinger
1. Anti-Glacier No. 5, 2023, 18 x 24 inches
2. Anti-Glacier No. 6, 2023, 18 x 24 inches
Christine Cassano
3. TerraStrata Series, 2017-2021 [Grid of 9] C-print on archival paper, 14 x 14 inches each
Paula Castillo
4. Lillie and Friends Tithing to the Rio Grande (from Reverse the Mal de Ojo Curse on the Rio Grande series), 2023, cinemagraph, 18 x 12.5 x 13 inches
Esha Chiocchio
5. First Tracks, 2021, archival inkjet print, 26.7 x 40 inches
Hayden Daiber
6. North Creek, 6.29.23, photographic inkjet print on canvas, 36.5 x 21 inches
Jimmy Fike
7. A Fierce Wind Blew Through Camp at Dawn, 2023, chromogenic print, 16 x 22 inches, framed (print 12 x 18 inches)
8. Something Slept Here, Something is Following Us, 2023, chromogentic print, 16 x 22 inches (framed, print 12 x 18 inches)
Stephen Galloway
9. Abyss, 2022, digital pigment print, 42 x 42 inches
Bia Gayatto
10. Uprooted (Highway 1), 2023, archival pigment print, 24 x 34 inches
11. Uprooted (Timber Ridge 2), 2023, archival pigment print, 24 x 34 inches
Alexander Heilner
12. Floreo, Arizona, 2023, archival digital print, 15 x 22 inches
13. Las Vegas, Nevada, 2016, archival digital print, 15 x 22 inches
Isik Kaya and Thomas Georg Blank
14. Crude Aesthetics, 2021, single channel video (14:09 mins/secs)
Katie Kehoe
15. Portable Wildfire Shelter, 35.70642°N, 105.40669°W, Santa Fe, Santa Fe National Forest, NM, 2023, photographic documentation of site-specific installation, 16 x 24 inches
Andrea Pinheiro
16. Hot Dam Black Veil, Stanrock Tailings, Elliot Lake, 2018, inkjet print from 4 x 5 film, 36 x 42 inches, framed 36.75 x 42.75 x 2 inches, ed 1/3
Linda-Marlena Ross
17. Urban Billboard Forest Fire, 2021/22, digital photograph mounted on Di-Bond, 18 x 25 inches
Meridel Rubenstein
18. Between Heaven and Earth, Mt. Bromo Volcano, E. Java, 2011, dye-sublimation print in white gold leaf frame, 43 x 21 inches
Amy Scofield
19. FutureFossil, 2021, digital print, 24 x 24 inches
Adam Thorman
20. SunMoon 2, 2015, archival pigment print, 24 x 30 inches
Martina Shenal
21. Devil’s Chain (rhyodacite flow 00), Oregon, 2020, archival pigment print, 22.25 x 28.5 inches, framed
Terri Warpinski
22. PatternRepeatReverse, 2023, archival pigment print, shredded paper, vinyl wall letters, thread, wall mounted shelf, 24 x 72 x 36 inches